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Fifty-second Year . GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1935

 

 

 

 

DANIEL WEBSTER ON
CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTY

“If disastrous war should sweep our commerce
from the ocean another generation may renew it;
if it exhaust our treasury further industry may
replenish it; if it desolate and lay waste our fields,
still under a new cultivation they will grow green
again and ripen to future harvests. It were but
a trifle even if the walls of yonder capitol were to
crumble, if its lofty pillars should fall, and _ its
gorgeous decorations be all covered by the dust of
the valley. All these might be rebuilt. But who
shall reconstruct the fabric of demolished govern-
ment? Who shall rear again the well proportioned
column of constitutional liberty? Who shall frame
together the skilful architecture which unites na-
tional sovereignty with state rights, individual se-
curity and public prosperity? No, if these columns
fall they will be raised not again. Like the Coli-
seum and the Parthenon, they will be destined to
a mournful, a melancholy immortality. Bitterer
tears, however, will flow over them than were
ever shed over the monuments of Roman or Gre-
cian art, for they will be the remnants of a more
glorious edifice than Greece or Rome ever saw,
the edifice of constitutional American liberty.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    
     
 
    

  

  
  

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Fifty-second Year

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1935

Number 2676

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
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Have You a Garden?

One of the weaknesses of both our
secular and religious education and life
is that somewhere or. other it seems to
fail to provide resting places for the
weary or disturbed. The obituaries of
to-night’s paper call our attention to
the passing of notable men and women
of our State, and in only two in-
stances were they above sixty-five
years of age. The average would be
nearer fifty. The prodigality of human
living which ends such careers at so
useful an age is certainly a subject for
consideration. As the little lady of the
family said—‘Life begins at forty and
then you have ten years to go.!”

The reason, or perhaps the chief rea-
son for such tragedies is to be found
in the intensity with which persons in
positions of trust and leadership con-
tinue to grind at the task until they
break down physically or mentally.
Our institutions for those suffering
from nervous and mental disorders are
filled with intelligent persons who have
cracked under the strain of modern
leadership. Life was never meant to
be taken that seriously and it should
be possible for one to accomplish much
and still preserve body and mind by
the regular application of such hobbies
as gardening. Those who are suffi-
ciently endowed with this world’s
goods have their gardens, but some-
one else does the work. The way to
health through gardening is not by
smelling roses but in raising them,
which requires some digging as well
as the exercise of the proboscis.

A gardener soaks in the sunshine. He
succeeds in getting dirty without be-
coming filthy. He stoops to the level
of Mother Earth, then straightens up
again, repeating the process until the
muscles crack. He goes to bed at
night to sleep from physical exhaustion
and his brain forgets the problems of
the everyday world, Above it all he
learns lessons of man’s success at im-

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proving over the original work of the
Creator.

Next year the gardener will find
many new varieties of flowers which
will grace his table, bring happiness
to his friends, and cause many to in-
quire the names of the new flowers.
The California Sunshine Asters are
easily grown and are unique. The
dwarf marigold or Tagetes, hails from
Mexico. It was seen in the borders of
the beds in our Public Square last sum-
mer and caused much comment. The
snapdragon, an ancient flower which
looked a wreck after every storm, has
been improved so that it is now a com-
pact sturdy plant with long strong
flower stems. The common aster,
which of late years has had the habit
of dying from wilt just as it had begun
to enjoy life, now is available in strains
free from wilt. There is a beautiful
French Marigold of rich mahogany
color, and the comparatively new
orange marigold is not only more beau-
tiful but has lost its offensive foliage
odor. Those who last season raised
the double vellow nasturtium, will re-
call how beautiful and fragrant it was
when used as a table center.

Roses this year have suffered from
the intense cold and at least half of
them failed to come through the win-
ter. It will mean much replanting
and some sorrow, but the newer varie-
ties will more than remove the sorrow
when the new bloom appears. Climb-
ing roses which were gorgeous for a
few days and a mess for the balance
of the season, are being replaced with
varieties which continue to bloom all
summer. All of these are within reach
of the average purse and cost far less
than a few calls from the family phy-
sician.

Nor should we forget the weeds.
How they love to grow in gardens.
And the bugs, those creatures which
defy poisons and sprays and never ad-
mit defeat. But they teach their les-
sons too. There is nothing in life which
is worthwhile which can merely be
picked up. Human progress and floral
progress is only made at the sacrifice
of some energy and much perspira-
tion. These are the things of which
eternity is composed. We recently
heard a chaplain misquote during a
funeral service: ‘May we make the
necessary ‘perspirations’ for the life
which is eternal.” He was nearer the
truth than he intended. ©

If you have no garden, or if the back
yard contains a tree and some feeble
grass, get busy and turn it into a thing
of beauty. Its life will be short but its
memory will be long and it will pro-
vide just the kind of relaxation you
need from other toil and care.

Walter H. Stark,
Associate Pastor Pilgrim Church,
Cleveland.

Vitamins Can be Cooked to Death

Loss of vitamins during cooking
takes place in several ways. They may
be destroyed by heat and oxidation, and
they may dissolve out in the cooking
water which is later discarded.

The exact extent of these losses de-
pends upon the length of time of cook-
ing, upon the presence of air, and upon
the solubilities of the vitamins con-
cerned, says the Bureau of Home Eco-
nomics, United States Department of
Agriculture.

Vitamins B, C and Gare readily sol-
uble in water. Vitamin C is easily de-
stroyed by heat and oxidation. Vitamin
B is destroyed by long-continued heat-
ing but little destruction
when heated at the boiling point of
water for as long as 1 hour. Both vita-
min B and vitamin C are more rapidly

undergoes

destroyed in an alkaline medium than
in an acid medium.

Vitamin A is only slightly soluble in
water and is not readily affected at the
ordinary temperatures of boiling and
baking. It is destroyed, however, at
higher temperatures such as those thai
obtain in frying. It is also destroyed
when heated in the presence of oxygen.
Vitamins D, G and E are fairly stable
to heat and are not destroyed at or-
dinary cooking temperatures.

In general, the destruction of vita-
mins is less when foods are heated at
high temperatures for short periods,
than when they are heated at low tem-
peratures for long periods. There is
also less loss when a small quantity of
water or no water at all is used. For
this reason it is recommended that
foods be cooked as short a time and in
as little water as is practical.
cooking water is left it should be used
for gravies or soups unless it is so
strongly flavored that this is out of the
question. Steaming is one of the pre-
ferred methods for cooking since the
time required is short and the amount
of water used is small.

If any

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Wage Exemptions to Be Limited

The fact that a unit of industry is “in
the red” will not be sufficient to secure
exemption from wage and hour provi-
sions of the code of fair competition
to which it may be bound.

The National Industrial Recovery
Board will not sanction exemptions
where the evidence presented, osten-
sibly-in support of an application for
wage relief, does not indicate that
losses sustained are attributable to the
maintenance of the code wage scale.

This decision more praticularly will
stand where it is found that competi-
tors of such an applicant are getting
along pretty well under code provi-
sions, and the board will have the sup-
port of the Industrial Appeals Board
in such instances, it is indicated in offi-
cial circles.

NRA Setbacks in the Courts

The increasing number of de-
cisions unfavorable to the NRA
and code authorities in lower Fed-
eral courts emphasizes the need
for an early ruling from the Su-
preme Court upon the validity of
the Recovery Act. Unless a de-
cision can be obtained in the near
future, code officials fear that en-
forcement activities will break
down, and that the task of Con-
gress in drafting a new act likely
to hold up in the courts would be
made very difficult.

While considerable success has
attended enforcement efforts un-
der state laws, Federal courts have
handed down many unfavorable
rulings.

Two more decisions have just
been issued to swell the total. In
Kansas City, a Federai District
Court ruled that price fixing in the
codes, even affecting interstate
commerce, was unconstitutional.
This decision tends further to
weaken the codes which still re-
tain such provisions.

In New York, a Federal judge
refused to eliminate from a pre-
vious order a statement of the de-
fendant that it did not admit the
validity of the code and the NRA
in general.

Judicial enforcement is regard-
ed by many qualified observers as
a necessary requisite to success of
the code system. For this reason,
an early ruling by the Supreme
Court should indicate whether the
NRA structure can be made last-
ing.

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RFC Loans to Pay Debts

A number of middle-sized and
smaller enterprises plan to take
immediate advantage of the re-
ported decision of the Reconstruc-
tion Finance Corporation to grant
five-year loans to pay existing
debts. Such a change in policy on
industrial loans will result in more
active utilization of the RFC by
small business concerns, partic-
ularly.

The disappointingly small vol-
ume of loans made by the RFC
and the Federal Reserve banks
under the powers delegated to
them by Congress last summer,
has been due principally to the
fact that such loans could not be
used to repay existing indebted-
ness. Such refunding,, it has been
contended, would have encour-
aged these enterprises to make
commitments for the future more
confidently, and thus expand their
activities.

Also they might proceed to bor-
row new funds for plant rehabili-
tation and similar purposes.

 

 

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RETAIL GROCER

Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers Associa-
tion of Michigan.
President—Rudolf Eckert, Flint.
Vice-President—O. A. Sabrowski, Lan-

sing.

Secretary — Herman Hansen, Grand
Rapids.

Treasurer—O, H. Bailey, Sr., Lansing.

Directors—Holger Jorgenson, Muske-
gon; L. V. Eberhard, Grand Rapids; Paul

Gezon, Grand Rapids; Lee Lillie, Coopers-
ville; Martin Block, Charlevoix.

 

Camping by the Eel River amid the
Redwoods.

One pleasing item I forgot to report,
an experience that took me back thirty
years to my first visit to Birmingham,
Alabama in 1904. Arriving there at the
end of a hot day’s train ride with a
hard toothache, the hotel clerk sent me
to a dentist who treated the tooth, but
declined to make a charge; said that
Was a courtesy dentists extended to
each other. No other treatment since
has apparently come under the cour-
tesy category until this trip.

This time it was a plate adjustment
and a Seattle dentist handled it. He
gave me all benefits of his complete
otitfit and blandly said the charge was
“nothing.” I do not give his name,
not wishing to overrun him with pa-
tients on any CWA, CCC, AAA or
other currently popular basis.

In one of those cities I caught up
wth an old-time grocer friend who now
operates a strictly fine grocery store
in circumscribed quarters. He has to
move goods in and out with virtually
no chance for storage, and he sells
$750,000 worth of groceries a year.

“Believe me, it is quite some job,”
he said, “to handle single day’s sales of
$6900, $5600, $3900 and keep stock
coming fast enough without having it
pile up on the sidewalk.” He had a
record of a straight car of Heinz’s
soups as part of his rapidly turned vol-
ume; and it may be noted that such
iterns do not fall into the price class.

He’s great on demonstrations and
gives demonstrators the fullest co-
operation with the finest results. One
woman came to show cheese. Results
were so good that she could not get
away at the week-end. It was same at
the end of second week. She had been
on the job eleven months when I was
there and her sales record was 46,000
pounds. Did price sell that cheese?
No, the cheese, plus salesmanship,
commanded the needful price.

This is a vacation story, so I cut
short the merchandising, but I can say
that this basic condition has not alter-
ed from the dawn of merchandising
and will not essentially alter hereafter.
Real merchants will take practical no-
tice of this. Others do not matter.

Lane’s Redwood Flat is planned
essentially on our American notions:
To bring to the alleged country so
‘much of city conveniences and handi-
caps that truly there is no real outing
flavor. Most accommodations are on
the “cottage” order: small houses, set
as close together as in a crowded city:
equipped with electric light and heat;
with cylinder gas for cooking, running
hot and cold water; plenty garage
space—and radios blaring on every
hand.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

The cost is around $24 per week for
three persons, which is not high, con-
sidering that garbage is gathered up,
linen furnished and collateral services
liberally afforded; but why go to the
country for such things? The atmos-
phere, except for the surrounding red-
wood forests, is simply what most trav-
elers have left behind them. The «
ception is, of course, important; but it
would be enhanced a thousand times in
value if—well, if most folks did what
we did.

We chose two tents, set way up on
a bluff by themselves, far enough re-
moved from the Flat proper to be out
of earshot of most radio sounds and
dance music. It was a climb, but that
we enjoyed and our time was not val-
uable. Concession was made to a priv-
ate toilet and shower, though this
writer confined his washings to the
Eel river; and we had a convenient
water tap.

The tents were dry, with elevated
wooden floors and a truly splendid
double bed in each; and the nights
were, characteristically, so cool that a
liberal extra supply of blankets had to
be supplemented by newspaper’ inter-
lining to keep the old limbs sufficiently
supplied with age-thinning blood, The
ten-year-old girlie suffered not at all in
that way.

Our own trees, around our tents,
were oaks, and I think beeches or
birches—not being very scientific on
all that, sycamores and giant firs. It
was sheer joy to sit on our porches,
each tent being thus provided, and gaze
up through the branches to the sky.
A purling brook ran through a gorge
below us.

On a level space between the tents
was our table, shelves for dishes and
supplies, the table provided with at-
tached benches. Our wood burning
stove was conveniently placed and
prodigal supplies of hard oak with
plenty of kindling was provided.

I give these details because to me
the central fun in camping is the fire
building and keeping it going vigor-
ously, and I never want anyone to in-
terfere with my getting breakfast. That
is my Own special job. I get my fire
going early and have my set routine
about providing the grape fruit, por-
ridge—observe that I do not say oat-
meal—my heavy coffee, which, in camp,
must be boiled with egg settling,
though at home it is French drip; my
meticulously slow-fried bacon, served
on hot plates and hot, crisp toast.

That’s my standard breakfast menu,
but if you ever happen in on me, I shall
not deny you a goodly portion of fried
eggs for yours in addition. Indeed, I
have been known to add one or two for
myself. The point is that I believe in
starting the day right on the Josh Bill-
ings plan. You recall that he insisted:

“Never work before breakfast—never
work before breakfast. And if it should
so happen that you are obliged to work
before breakfast—why, eat your break-
fast first.”

Thus I feel that having set before my
folks the breakfast as described, served
piping hot off the stove, the “wimmen”
never being called until all is ready to
serve, I am imposing no undue hard-

Es SS Sa

ship when I “let them” do the cleaning
up afterwards; though I can take a
hand in that, too, at a pinch, especially
in camp. '

It is in the doing of the simple tasks
of life—“the world forgetting, by the
world forgot’”—sending the little spry-
legged granddaughter to the brook for
the cream, milk and butter, eating
leisurely in the clear morning sunshine
of the woods with the sky for canopy,
then going for the mail and morning
paper, on which occasion one gossips
with anybody who will partake in that
intriquing pastime; after that per-
haps moving the table to a supposed
better location, and moving it back
when the change is not approved; the
disrobing and’ going for the little swim
in the river at 10:45—a time exactly
kept for said ritual—then a little nap
before the mid-day dinner: thus is the
day filled out with a routine that never
taxes brain or brawn.

The absence of many conveniences—
we had no teakettle, for instance—
lends zest to the experience. Why go
to camp, as I say, if you are to take
with you all the impedimenta of civil-
ization? It is fun to make-shift with
what one finds at hand or to improvise
what one finds not. So long as one has
good beds—and we had those—the re-
mainder does not cut important ice.
Supplies, too, in this camp were priced
moderately and there was plenty of
assortment.

With the redwoods for close com-

pany and the incomparable atmosphere
of California, one must indeed be a

January 2, 1935

difficult customer who could not fee{
Paul Findlay.
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Consolidation of Wholesale Codes
While the NRA is reported al-

ready actively contemplating the
consolidation of some of the over-
lapping retail codes, wholesales
state that a definite trend exists
toward elimination of some of
their codes upon their own initia-
tive, without waiting for the NRA
to act.

Wholesalers believe that code
consolidation in their field should
involve elimination only of those
specialized codes which have
practically no members coming
exclusively under their jurisdic-
tion. These would be absorbed
by closely related major codes.

It is not believed practical to
undertake the type of fusions con-
templated for the retail trade by
which the number of codes sched-
uled to remain after consolidations
would be only a fraction of the
present number.

content.

Trade practice rules in the
wholesaling field are so complex
and peculiar to specialized lines of
business, it is maintained, that
eliminating too many might cause
confusion and sharply increase
code violations.

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A determined soul will do more with
a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer
will accomplish with all the tools in a
machine shop.

 

“See it in Glass
Buy it in Tin”

tizing goodness,

petition because .

Dept. F-1,

 

 

  
 

Wherever This New Monarch Idea is
Put to Work

Nothing builds food sales faster than to show their own appe-
The novel Monarch plan of—

sé ° °
See it in Glass
: A A555
Buy it in Tin
tempts the appetite, invites closer inspection, suggests a broader
selection for the family use, promotes sales at higher average

profits, and particularly lifts the Monarch Store above all com-
. .. this service is

Available only to
Independent Grocers

Sales by Monarch dealers have gone up and up until today
Monarch Finer Foods enjoy the greatest demand experienced
in our 81 years in business.

Plans are Free. Display Brackets are loaned. Why
not arrange to put the ‘Monarch Way of Food
Display” at work for you?

Write us. Address

REID, MURDOCH & CO.
Drawer RM
“Quality for 81 years”

Chicago, Ill. Sd

 

 

 

January 2, 1935

MEAT DEALER

Bad Outlook for 1935 Meat Trade

More meat was consumed in the
United States in 1934 than ever before
in history. Altogether, the aggregate
volume of meat products eaten prob-
ably exceeded 20 billion pounds. Al-
though this set a record for the amount
consumed in any year, the average con-
sumption per capita of meat and lard—
approximately 162 pounds, on the basis
of preliminary estimates—was some-
what below the all-time record of ap-
proximately 168 pounds set a number
of years ago when the country’s popu-
lation was smaller.

But 1935 offers a much different out-
look. From a year when the consump-
tion of meat set a record, the live stock
and meat industry seems destined to
turn rather abruptly to a year when

 

supplies of meat will be relatively
small.
Three factors encountered during

the past year are chiefly responsible
for the prospect of reduced meat sup-
plies in 1935.

One of these factors was the pro-
longed mid-summer drought which
sharply curtailed the feed crops over a
considerable portion of the Middle
West. Because of the shortage of food
and the relatively high prices of corn,
many farmers sent their cattle, calves,
and hogs to market at weights consid-
erably under the average of other
years. Because of the feed situation, a
considerable amount of stock was mar-
keted in 1934 which otherwise would
have been held over untif 1935 when it
had been more fully matured.

Another important factor operating
to reduce meat supplies next year was
the Government’s production-control
program by which corn acreage and
the number of hogs on farms were both
considerably reduced. This program
was undertaken as a means of increas-
ing the farmers’ purchasing power
through bringing about a better bal-
ance between the prices he was obtain-
ing for his products and the prices he
was paying for the things he was buy-
ing.

When the effects of the drought
were added to the curtailed corn acre-
age, the feed situation became genu-
inely acute and made it impractical in
many cases for farmers to continue
feeding high priced corn to their hogs.
This resulted in the marketing of many
hogs at an earlier date than otherwise
would have been the case.

The third factor leading to reduced
meat supplies was the Government’s
emergency drought relief program of
buying live stock in the drought area
and of having it processed for distrib-
ution through relief agencies. In or-
der to save many of the cattle, calves,
and sheep from starvation, the Gov-
ernment bought the stock, and the
meat from those animals has been—
or is being—canned or prepared in
other ways for distribution by the
Government to those on relief. Nearly
8,500,000 head of cattle and calves,
and about 3,600,000 head of sheep have
been, or are to be, bought by the Gov-
ernment in this program.

In 1934, the industry incurred an
expense of approximately $200,000,000

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

in processing taxes. This tax now is
$2.25 per cwt. on hogs dressed for
commercial purposes. Proceeds from
this processing tax are being returned
to the farmers in the form of benefit
payments to those who are co-operat-
ing in the corn-hog reduction program
and also are being used by the Govern-
ment in other ways designed to im-
prove hog values.

Another highlight of 1934 in the
packing industry was the phenomenal
rise in hog prices last August when for
25 consecutive days hog prices ad-
vanced. The upward trend was due
primarily to the fact that consumer de-
mand for pork products remained good
while for the time being fewer hogs
were being sent to market. Following
the rise in prices, consumption de-
creased materially, and, illustrating the
way in which the !aw of supply and de-
mand atfects the meat industry, it be-
came necessary, because of the perish-
ability of the product, to reduce prices
in order that existing supplies might be
moved into consumption.

Largely as a result of the Govern-
ment’s emergency drought relief pro-
gram, new records for numbers of
bhecf cattle dressed were set during
several consecutive months — notably
August, September, and October.

It was only natural, in view of the
foregoing developments, that excep-
tionally high employment levels were
maintained throughout the meat pack-
ing industry during most of the year.
In each month of 1934, in fact, employ-
ment was higher than in the corre-
sponding month of the previous year.

For example, the most recent figures
released by the Bureau of Labor Sta-
tistics on employment and payroll to-
tals in the meat packing industry are
for October, 1934. These figures dis-
close that 16 per cent. more men were
working for the industry in October
of this year than were employed at the
same time in 1933. Payroll totals were
38 per cent, greater in October this
year than they were a year earlier. The
number of wage earners employed by
the packing industry in September and
October this year was the largest ever
employed during any two months for
which the Government has records.

Some improvement occurred in the
export demand for American pork
products during 1934, but the volume
remained relatively low. Total net ex-
ports of pork in the 12-month period
ending September 30, 1934, the latest
period for which official figures are
available, amounted to approximately
156,000,000 pounds, an increase of 21
per cent. over the similar period a year
earlier, and an increase of 36 per cent.
over two years ago. The figure was
about 24 per cent. lower than a five-
year average for the same period.

The export trade in American lard
continued to decline, due largely to
German quotas and exchange restric-
tions. Total shipments of lard abroad
in the past hog marketing year, which
amounted to approximately 525,000,,000
pounds, were 8 per cent. smaller than
exports in the previous hog year, 6
per cent. less than two years ago, and
20 per cent. smaller than the five-year
average lard shipments for this same
period. It is believed by some ob-
servers that the reciprocal trade agree-

ments effected during the year offer
some opportunity for improvement in
future lard exports. For example,
more lard was exported to Cuba in the
last four months than in the entire year
1933. Pork exports to Cuba also in-
creased.

Of special interest to live stock pro-
ducers was the upward trend in the
value of all live stock except lambs
during 1934. Average hog prices at
Chicago advanced from $3.38 during
the first week of 1934 to $5.70 in mid-
ecember. (Neither the processing tax,
which the packer incurs on every hog
slaughtered, nor the benefit payments
which co-operating producers receive,
is included in either figure.) The aver-
age price of beef steers advanced from
$5.25 to $7.15; veal calves advanced
from $5.42 to $6.25; and lambs declined
from $7.64 to $7.25.

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Hay Shortage May Be Offset
Hay shortage can be made up with
silage or corn stover, says the Ohio
experiment station. It is better to feed
a little hay each day along with the
silage or stover than to feed up the

hay and then shift to substitutes.
With little or no hay, grain mixtures
should contain more protein and min-
With a half ration of hay, grain
18 per cent.

erals.
mixture should contain
protein, 24 per cent. when hay is not
fed. Equal weights of ground lime-
stone, bone meal and salt make a good
mixture.

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Frankfurters and Hamburgers Popular
Foods at World’s Fair

Patrons of the world’s fair consumed
4,600,000 hamburger sandwiches, 2,000,-
000 hot dogs, 2,000,000 gallons of cof-
fee, 775,000 bowls of chili con carne,
100,000 corn beef hash sandwiches,
7,000 hot tamales and 900,000 ham
sandwiches. In addition, at one restau-
rant operated by a packing company
34,980,000 slices of bacon were served
over the counter and 159,000 steak din-
ners were provided.

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Frankfurters Made With Wine
Frankfurters made with wine is an-
nounced by a Boston manufacturer.
Made appetizing by ingredients per-
mitted since repeal, this new product
is blended from fresh meats, spices and
native wines in such a way that not
only is the food value enhanced, but a
new, delicious flavor is created, it is
explained.
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Proceedings of the Grand Rapids
Bankruptcy Court

In the matter of Benjamin H. Krause,
bankrupt No. 5509. The final meeting of
creditors has been called for Dec. é1. The
trustee’s final report will be approved at
such meeting. There may be a small
dividend for creditors.

In the matter of Ben Krause Co., bank-
rupt No. 5512. The final meeting of cred-
itors has been called for Dec. 31. The
trustee’s final report will be approved at
such meeting. There will be a dividend
for general creditors.

In the matter of Young-Johnson Fur-
niture Co., bankrupt No. 5353. The final
meeting of creditors has been called for
Dec. 29. The trustee’s final report will be
approved at such meeting. There will ke
a final dividend for creditors.

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Dec. 18. On this day the reference, and
adjudication in the matter of Kenneth
Suits, as administrator of the estate of C.
Berlin Suits, deceased, bankrupt No. 5873,
were received. The schedules have been
ordered filed. Upon receipt of same the
assets and liabilities will be made known.

In the matter of Otis Bigelow, bank-
rupt No, 5976, first meeting of creditors
was held Dec. 17. The bankrupt was pres-
ent and represented by Carl D, Mosier,
attorney; one creditor was present in per-
son and M. N. Kennedy, custodian, was
present. The bankrupt was sworn and
examined without a reporter. Claims
were filed only. M. N. Kennedy, of Kal-
amazeo, was appointed trustee, with bond
of $100. The meeting adjourned without
date.

In the matter of Motor Rebuilding &
Parts Co., debtor, in proceedings for re-
organizaton of corporation No. 5847, first
meeting of creditors was held Dec. 17.
Debtor was present by Paul F. Bergman,
its secretary, and represented by Par-
menter & Van Eenenaam, attorneys, Ed-
ward DeGroot, trustee, was present and
represented by William H, Messinger, at-
torney. One creditor was present in per-
son and Hilding & Baker, A. W. Penny,
Robert S. Tubbs and Fred P. Geib, attor-
neys, were also present on behalf of cred-
itors. Paul F. Bergman was sworn and
examined before a reporter, The hearing
their adjourned without date.

In the matter of Wolverine Bumper &
Specialty Co., bankrupt No. 5982, first
meeting of creditors was held Dec. 18.
Fred G.Timmer, receiver, was present and
represented by Knappen, Uhl, Bryant &
Snow, attorneys. The bankrupt was rep-
resented by Gillard & Gillard, attorneys.
Certain creditors were present in person
and Kahn & Pylkas, McAllister & McAI-
lister, Hilding & Baker, Starr & Starr,
G. R. Association of Credit Men and But-
terfield, Keeney & Amberg were present
on behalf of creditors. The referee stated
that petition to set aside the adjudication
was now pending and until final deter-
mination of such matter, no further pro-
ceedings will be had; that Fred G. Tim-
mer, present operating receiver, would
continue in Such capacity. Meeting there-
upon adjourned to Jan, 2, 1935.

In the matter of John H, Teusink,
bankrupt No. 5694, final meeting of cred-
itors was held under date of Dec, 10.
Fred G. Timmer, trustee, was present in
person. No others present. Trustee’s
final report and account was approved
and allowed. Balance bills, notes and ac-
counts receivable was sold to Donald Gos-
sett for the sum of $1. Order was made
for the payment of expenses of admin-
istration as far as funds on hand will

permit. No objection to discharge. Final
meeting adjourned without date.
Dec. 20. On this day the reference, in

the matter of Fredricks Lumber Co., a
Michigan corporation, debtor No. 5876 in
bankruptcy, was received. The sched-
ules have been ordered filed. Upon re-
ceipt of same the assets and liabilities
will be made known.

Dec. 20. On this day the reference,
in the matter of Heights Lumber Co., a
corporation, debtor No. 5877 in bank-
ruptcy, for liquidation, was received. The
schedules have been ordered filed, Upon
receipt of Same the assets and liabilities
will be made known.

In the matter of Richard H. Russell,
bankrupt No. 5449. The final meeting of
creditors has been called for Dee. 381.
There will be no dividend for creditors.

Dec, 21. On this day the schedules,
reference, aad adjudication in the matter
of Bastian Van Ry, bankrupt No. 6009,
were received. The bankrupt is a pur-
chasing agent of Grand Rapids, The
schedules show total assets of $5,486.77,
(of which $1,713 is claimed exempt), and
total liabilities of $54,542.75, listing the
following creditors:

G. RK. Savings Bamile so Oo e $ 602.45

 
 
 
 

G. R. National Bank____ 15,300.00
Old Kent Bank, G. R.___ --14,192.96
Meyering Land Co., G. R._. -. 3,100.00

American Home Sec. Bank, GR. 295.00

 
  

G. RK. Savings Bank, G. Ri. 208.33
Golden & Boter Co., G. R.___- 344.50
G. R. Gas Light Co., G. H. -- 1,162.42
@, RA Savings Bank =): —-11, 773.39
Old Kent Bank, G. Rio. 7,543.40

 

Oysters and Fish

Fresh Shipments Daily.
Ask your Dealer for Reader Fish.
They are better.
Lake and Ocean Fish. Wholesale.

G. B. READER, Grand Rapids.

GRAND RAPIDS PAPER Box Co.

Manufacturers of SET UP and FOLDING PAPER BOXES
SPECIAL DIE CUTTING AND MOUNTING

    

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MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS.
Litchfield—The E.-C. Lindsay Co.,

Inc., has changed its capital stock from

$50,000 to 5,000 shares no par value.

Detroit—Wood-Sparks, Inc., 1407
Washington Blvd., building, has chang-
ed its name to Ezra A. Wood, Inc.

Saginaw—The Bressler Lumber Co.,
1420 Ames street, has changed its name
to the West Side Lumber Co.

Lapeer—The Bostick Stove Co., 21
Court street, has changed its name to
the Bostick Foundry Co.

Spring Lake—The Spring Lake State
Bank has increased its capital stock
from $25,000 to $50,000.

Utica—The Utica Milling Co. has
decreased its capital stock from $50,-
000 to $25,000.

Battle Creek—The Hunter-Prell Co.,
311 Elm street, plumbers and builders
supply contractors, has decreased its
capital stock from $40,000 to $25,000.

Kalamazoo—Lillian M. Powers has
engaged in business at 913 South Bur-
dick street under the style of the
Powers Beauty Shop. ;

Lansing—The Linn Camera Shop,
Inc., 109 South Washington avenue,
has decreased its capital stock from
$25,000 to $15,000.

River Rouge—The Detroit Wax
Paper Co., 1721 Pleasant avenue, has
increased its capital stock from $500,-
000 to $1,500,000.

Detroit—The Saint Anthony Oil &
Gas Corporation, 4479 14th avenue,
has increased its capital stock from
$1,000 to $16,000.

Detroit—The Gaille Motor Co., 6210
Second Blvd., has changed its capital
stock from 50,000 shares no par value
to $50,000.

Grosse Pointe—The Grosse Pointe
Bank has increased its capital stock
from $40,000 to $140,000 and com-
pleted a consolidation agreement with
the Grosse Pointe Savings Bank.

Detroit—Stetson’s Men’s Wear, Inc.,
1416 Woodward avenue, retail dealer,
has been incorporated with a capital
stock of $10,000, $5,000 of which has
been. subscribed.

Detroit—J. W. Allen & Co., Chicago
confectioners and bakery supplies fac-
tors, have opened an office here at 1429
Third avenue, under the management
of Paul Caldwell.

Detroit—Kay Cooley, Inc.,
dealer in women’s wearing apparel, at
1457 Griswold street, has been incor-
porated with a capital stock of $12,000,
all paid in.

Watervliet—The H. Pierce & Son
hardware store has been in contin-
uous business in Watervliet for 61
years. The firm was established by
the Late Hiram Pierce, father of the
present owner, Byron L. Pierce.

Muskegon—Sam Dangelis, proprietor
of the Corner Food Market, Terrace
street and Walton avenue, has admitted
to partnership, Peter Dangelis and the
business will be continued under the
same style. :

Grand Rapids—The election of Percy
Owen, . President. of the Michigan
Bakeries, Inc., as a director of the
National Bank of Grand Rapids is a
happy action for both parties con-
cerned.

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Detroit—The American Paper & Bag
Co., inc, °2741. Humboldt. avenue,
wholesale dealer in paper, twine,
tobacco, candy, etc., has merged the
business into a stock company under
the same style with a capital stock of
$6,000, $4,000 being paid in.

Kalamazoo—Erwin Doerschler and
Thomas Veld have engaged in business
in the former Henderson-Ames build-
ing, under the style of the United
States Brass & Aluminum Foundry
and will specialize in brass and alumi-
num work,

Traverse City—The Traverse City
Milling Co. has gained permission of
Judge Fred M. Raymond of the U. S.
district court to submit a plan for re-
organization. An involuntary bank-
ruptcy petition is pending against the
company.

Allegan—C. N. Menold, an experi-
enced druggist of more than 25 years,
and who conducted a drug store -in
Hamilton for the past eighteen menths
has removed his stock and stoie fix-
tures here and will continue the busi-

1

ness,

Detroit—Louis E. Beal has merged
his drug business into a stock company
under the style of the Beal Drug Co..
12553 Gratiot avenue, with a capital
stock of $10,000, $5,000 being paid in.

Holly—The Sunset Fisheries & Sup-
ply Corporation, fish hatchery, has
been incorporated with a capital stock
of $35,000, $20,000 being paid in.

Evart—Mrs. G. N.
drug business here with her husband
for 50 years, died Monday. A native
of New York, Mrs. Bruce was edu-
cated at Starkey Seminary. She be-
came a registered pharmacist in 1904.
Her husband and two sons, Harry, of
Evart, and Capt. Baxter H. Bruce,
U. S. N., survive. Funeral services
were held Wednesday afternoon.

Detroit—Funeral services for George
W. Willard, for many years a Detroit
merchant and bank executive and the
one responsible for the introduction of
paper patterns in the Middle West,
were held Thursday in St. Luke’s Epis-
copal church, Ypsilanti. Additional
services were held at the grave in Ever-
green cemetery. Mr. Willard died at
his home in Ypsilanti Monday. He
was born in Hartford, N. Y., Nov. 24,
1845. In 1870 he became associated
with a firm that later became the But-
trick Publishing Co. In 1875 he open-
ed a pattern store here. In 1905 after
carrying on his business here for
twenty years, he retired and moved to
Ypsilanti.

Monroe—An operator of a modest
combined grocery and gas station who
has spent forty-seven days ia jail be-
cause he refused to file state sales tax
return, Saturday was released and
placed on two years’ probation by Cir-
cuit Judge Clayton C. Golden. The
businessman, Stanley Zaleski, 43 years
old, ran a small store in Bedford towr-
ship. Last August, when questicned by
State officials, he flatly refused either to
pay over the $90 the State claimed he
owed it, or even to admit the validity
of the tax by filing so much. as a re-
turn, A warrant. was sworn for him, he
was arrested; tried and convicted of
evading the tax laws by a Circuit jury

Bruce, in the

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on Nov. 14. Since that time he has
been held in the Monroe county jail,
unable to raise bond. Judge Golden,
in releasing the man to probation Sat-
urday, ordered him to pay the State
the $90 and also to pay the $50 costs of
the case within nine months.

Grand Rapids—Ray Barnes, artist,
and Carleton Cady, writer, produced a
very acceptable historical presentation
of Grand Rapids for the Herald news-
boys’ greeting for 1935. Abcut the
only worthwhile historical relic which
was overlooked is the frame house lo-
cated on the Southwest corner of Front
avenue and Fourth street, which was
the first frame house erected on the
West side of the river and is now the
oldest frame house in Grand Rapids.
The house was erected by Silas Hail
in 1842 and was occupied by him and
his famly as a residence as long as he
lived. It has since been occupied by
other people as tenants or owners. Mr.
Hall died about 1875. He was twice
married. I think he had four children
by his first wife, Irving, Nettic, Mary
and Elias, all buried in Fulton street
cemetery except Nettie, who married
a man named Charles Patterson, lived
many years on Fourth street, bur mov-
ed Portland about forty years ago. The
other daughter, Mary, married Chase
Phillips, well known fruit gower, both
now dead. They were the parents of
Mrs. Alvah W. Brown.

Battle Creek—Fred A. Whalen, 54,
proprietor of the Thos. F. Whalen
Grocery Co., since the death of his
brother, Thomas F. Whalen last spring,
and one of the last members of a prom-
inent pioneer family here, died very
suddenly last week at his home, 273
Main. Mr. Whalen was supposedly in
good health. He had complained of not
feeling well Sunday, but this morning
arose and went to the store as usual.
He did not feel well and about 11
o’clock went home. Dr. A. E. Mac-
Gregor was called, but Mr. Whalen
died within forty-five minutes. Heart
trouble was the cause of his death.
Fred A, Whalen was one of the eleven
children of John and Anna Dunn
Whalen. He was next to the youngest
of the eight sons, and was born here
May 30, 1880. The father came to this
country from Ireland, and migrated to
Battle Creek about 1840. He was one
of the founders of the Catholic church
in this city, at a time when there were
only six Catholic families in the town.
Known to all of the patrons and friends
of the store for his cheery genial mood,
he occupied a unique place among the
city’s business men. He is survived by
his widow, Nellie Reagan, and one son,
Robert T., a teller at the Central Na-
tional Bank and Trust Co.; one broth-
er, James W. Whalen, 36 South Jay,
and several nieces and nephews. An-
other brother, George, died this year.

 

Manufacturing Matters

Detroit—The Dell Manufacturing
Co., 6432 Cass avenue has changed its
name to the Argo Steel Corporation.

Hillsdale—The Hillsdale Manufac-
turing Co., maker of boys pants and

jackets, has increased its capital stock
from $360,000 to $425,000.

January 2, 1935

Detroit—The Biltmore Dress Co.,
206 East Grand River, manufacturer
and dealer in clothing, has been incor-
porated with a capital stock of $23,-
600, $10,000 being paid in.

Detroit—Detroit Bent Wood, Inc.,
12934 Evergreen Road, manufacturer
and dealer in bent wood products, has
a capital stock of 10,000 shares at $1
each, $1,000 being paid in.

Otsego—Improvements are being
made in paper mill No. 1, recently
acquired by the Otsego Falls Paper
Mall, Inc., and the plant will begin
operation Jan. 15.

Detroit—The Buckeye Wood-Work
Corporation, 1320 Fourth street, man-
ufacturer and dealer in wooden prod-
ucts, toys and novelties, has been in-
corporated with a capital stock of $10,-
000, $1,000 being paid in.

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In My Old Room

Live I can a round of years
In my old room
Memory so much endears
The gifts that loom
Higher than their shelf or cove
That this little world I love
Brings to me a joy above
Things which mark our grown-up years
Dear Old Room! How it endears. ;

Everythng is here to bless
In my old room;
Driving out the lonesomeness
To find its doom;
Baby scribblings on the wall
Scenes afield—Spring, Summer, Fall;
Mama's picture more than all
Life-like, and forbids the tears,
Dear Old Room! How it endears.
Comfort ever welcomes me
In my old room;
Here forget-me-nots I see
Of rarer bloom
‘I han the fairest June can bring
fo the fields where sky-larks sing
Melodies for comforting;
Still far lovelier appears
My Old Room! How it endears.
Charles A. Heath.
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Seek Writing Paper for Sales
Stationery buyers in the New York
market to purchase sales merchandise
for delivery next month, ignored new
lines of regular goods put on display
by a number of sales agents last week.
Phe exceptionally active holiday sea-
son left stores with little writing paper
for coming promotions and buyers are
anxious to replenish stocks before
looking over spring goods. Sales in the
industry this season ran 12 to 15 per
cent. ahead of last year. Notable ad-
vances were made in the South and
Southwest where some stationery de-
partments reported increases of 25 to
;
30 per cent. in volume.

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Apparel Linens Bought Heavily

While holiday activity on linen do-
mestics, such as napkins, towels, table-
cloths, etc., was disappointing, import-
ers insist that demand for apparel linens
Was exceptionally good. Importers
have contracted for goods for three
months in advance and some have
orders on their books from domestic
manufacturers for three to five months
ahead. Threats of further price ad-
vances, on top of the 10 to 15 per cent.
imcrease during the year, have spurred
the advance bookings, and importers
look forward to an excellent year.

—_>+.—___
Four New Readers of the Tradesman
The following new subscribers have

been received during the past week:
Joseph Quist, Grand Rapids
Peter F. Wendel, Newark, N. J.
Alton J. Hager, Lansing
Jones Hardware, Otsego

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January 2, 1935

MICHIGAN

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Essential Features of the
Staples

Grocery

Sugar—Jobbers now hold cane gran-
ulated at 4.85 and beet sugar at 4.60.

Canned Fruits—Canned fruits will be
pretty well controlled, particularly the
most important one, cling peaches. It
is understood that the peach situation
abroad is in good shape and will con-
tinue so for the next few years, as pro-
duction: will be held pretty well to an-
ticipated demand, Hawaiian pineapples
have moved very well and prices have
been well maintained. Stocks of canned

fruits are limited, except in pears,
which are plentiful enough,
Canned Vegetables — The canned

vegetable market will enter the new
year firmer and higher. What now de-
velops as a short tomato pack last sea-
son completes the work of the most
freakish of all packing years, so far as
the weather was concerned. When the
drought laid waste a substantial part
of the acreage planted to peas and corn
it was thought that at least tomatoes
would escape the vagaries of weather,
and sitrice there was a large acreage
planted it had been expected earlier in
the fall that here at least would be a
good sized pack. What happened is
now history. Instead of a good sized
pack, it will, according to the latest in-
dications, be under 13,000,000 cases.
Thus, two short packs in succession
and substantial sales of tomatoes, have
first hands with only a little more than
one quarter of their goods left unsold.
Canned Fish—Salmon has moved
well throughout the country, but has
not been particularly active in New
York, although a good routine business
has been in progress on some grades,
among them fancy salmon. Curtail-
ment and possible labor trouble in the
next packing season tend to make the
future position of salmon look much
stronger.
Corn Sugar.
ing little business at the
Nothing is expected of the market for
another two weeks. Prices show no

 

Corn sugar is also do-
moment.

change.

Corn Syrup—Deliveries of corn syr-
up running light. Prices firm, however,
reflecting the corn market.

Honey—Temperature contrasts have
been very wide during the period. Dur-
ing the first week temperatures were
among the highest on record in the
Eastern half of the country but abnor-
mally low in the Central and South
Central States. Recent temperatures
have been low, however, almost every-
where except through the eastern in-
termountain area and on the Pacific
Coast, and with freezing weather ex-
tending to South Florida. Snow cover
is general over the upper half of the
country west of the Plains States and
in scattered portions of the mountain
area. Already the amount of snowfall
in Idaho, northern Utah and western
Oregon will assure irrigation water.
In the white clover area the substan-
tial snowfall is proving especially help-
ful to clover plants in the North Cen-
tral States, where it was generally pre-
ceded by heavy rains in November.

“The condition of the colonies contin-

ues satisfactory, with stores generally
ample. Demand for honey is slacken-
ing somewhat, as is natural at this

season of the year, but stocks are now
so light that there appears to be an
upward trend to the market in spite of
the lessened demand. Carlots of honey
are scarce and are generally being held
for higher prices. Comb honey is rap-
idly being cleaned up. Demand for ex-
port from California is principally con-
fined to small lots of comb honey.

Nuts—The market is, of course, rela-
tively quiet here. Supplies of nuts are
pretty well scattered and jobbers sold
out pretty well in advance of the holi-
days. There has been a little reselling,
with values being well maintained.
Supplies were pretty short this season
in moderate priced pecans, Brazils and
some of the grades of almonds. Wal-
nuts enjoyed a good active holiday de-
mand, stimulated by the shortage of
some other nuts. The shelled nut mar-
ket was fairly active for the holidays
and stocks here are moderate, with
values steady.

Olive Oil—The olive market contin-
ues firm abroad, with additional
strength being shown in Italy. Prices
in Spain are steady. Some business is
being placed for nearby shipment to
this market because stocks here are
pretty well depleted. Holiday business
was very good and spot prices were
well maintained.

Rice—The market is rather dull at
the moment for spot business, but
there has been an encouraging im-
provement in the new business for de-
ferred shipment... Stocks in the hands
of the trade are known to be very light,
and a revival of future interest would
be a bullish development. The princi-
pal strength in rice, of course, has been
shown by the long grains of top grades
which are in short supply, and also
such varieties as Rexoras and Japans,
of which there is only a small unsold
supply. Blue Rose rice, being plentiful,
has not attracted trade attention like
the other varieties, but there has been
some fair business done in it when of-
fered at attractive prices for shipment.
Prolifics are strong, with Arkansas
holding for high prices.

Sugar Syrup—There is nothing new
to be said about sugar syrup. Consum-
ers are currently covering very lightly.
However, there is no excess supply to
put pressure on prices.

Vinegar—Sweet cider remains very
firm, Although the holiday demand is
over, distillers of apple brandy are still
in the market. There promises to be a
shortage of cider throughout the coun-
try for conversion into vinegar.

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Review of the Produce Market

Apples—Jonathans, $1.50; No. 1
Spys, $1.50 and $2.

Artichokes—$1 per doz.

Avocados—$2.75 per case from Calif.

Bananas---5c per Ib.

3russels’ Sprouts—18c per qt.

 

Butter—Creamery, 32c for cartons,

and 31%c for extra in tubs and 30%c
for firsts.
Cabbage—40c per bu. for white, 50c

_ for red.

Carrot—Calif., 60c per doz. bunches
or $3.25 per crate of 6 doz.
Cauliflower—$1.50 per crate for Calif.
Celery—20@40c per dozen bunches.
Celery Cabbage—60c per dozen.
Cranberries—$5 per 25 Ib. box.

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

@ HP. tromitarmer. =. $2.45
Light Red Kidney from farmer__ 4.25
Dark Red Kidney from farmer__ 5.50
Eicht: Cranberry 20. 2-5. 415
Dark @ranbermy = $3.15

Eggs—Jobbers pay 18c per Ib. for all

clean receipts. They sell as follows:

Laroe white, extra fancy._________.33e
Standard fancy select, cartons_____ 29c
Medium: 92203 ore 28¢
Candied. Larce pullets- 9 | 26c
Checks, 5 24c

Storage eggs are being offered as
follows:

Ox Np 256
April ee ee 23c
(Checko 22uu ee 22c

Garlic—I5c per Ib.

Grape Iruit—Florida, $3 for all sizes.

Grapes—Tokays—$2.50 per box.

Green
hamper.

Green Onions—Chalots, 60c per doz.

Green Peas—$4.50 per hamper for
California and Washington.

Green Peppers—30@40c per doz. for
Ilorida.

Beans — Louisiana, $6 per

Iloney Dew Melons—$2.50 per case.
Lemons—The price is as follows:
360) Sunkich) oe $5.75
S00 Sunkist 6.50
S00) ede Balle Shi 5 00
SOO) Wed) Wale S00
Lettuce — In good demand on the

following basis:
California, 4s and 5s, crate. $4.75
Heat hot house) 2 8%c

Limes—25c per dozen.
Mushrooms—29c per box.
Onions—Home grown, $1 for yel-
low and $125 for white.
Oranges—Fancy Sunkist California
Navels are now sold as follows:

AG ee $3.50
150) 3.50
176 Ee 3.75
200) 1 4.50
QNG) HC ee 4.50
250) ee 4.50
288) CCU 4.50
SOA Ae 4.50

Red Ball, 50c per hox less.
Florida oranges in half box sacks
are sold as follows:

200 222 ee ee $1.75
216 ee eee 1.75
250) Geos eet 1.75
O80) 1.75

Parsley—35c per doz. for hot house.

 

Potatoes—Home grown, 35c per bu.;
Idaho, $2.50 per 100 Ib. sack.

Poultry—Wilson & Company pay as
follows:

eavy Springs. 2 17c
Hleavy, Bowls 2 25 2 ee 13c
Pieht Bowls 22250 10c
Dyer hsce ee aa le 13c
‘Purkeys 220 2 19¢c
Geese i besa oe ee Ile

Radishes—Hot house, 40c per doz.
bunches.

Spinach —90c per bushel for Ken-
tucky grown.

Squash — 1%c per Ib. for Red or
Green Hubbard.

Sweet Potatoes—$150 per bbl.
bbl. :

Tomatoes—Hot house, $1.30 for 8
Ib. basket.

Turnips—S0c per bu.

Veal Calves — Wilson & Company
pay as follows:

Fancy 22 ee 8c
GOOd) 22a eee 7c
Wax Beans—$6 per hamper for
llorida. 2
ee A
Items From the Cloverland of
Michigan

Sault Ste. Marie, Jan. 1—Drum-
mond Island still holds the record for
being the best deer hunting grounds in
the Upper Peninsula. Of 758 deer hunt-
ers counted at DeTour on their return
from Drummond Island during the
past deer hunting season, 344 or nearly
50 per cent. had shot a buck. Of the
344 successful hunters 302 had antlered
bucks and forty-two had spikehorn
bucks. -In addition, two hunters had
bagged coyotes and one had shot a
black bear. On the basis of these fig-
ures alone, Drummond Island may be
said to have provided excellent hunt-
ing. The total kill, however, would
probably mount if the number of deer
shot by local residents or transported
by outside hunters to to the mainland
by other means than the ferry to De-
‘our were known. With all things con-
sidered, it is estimated that the deer
kiil on the Island averaged probably
three deer per square mile. Drummond
Tsland has an area of 130 square miles.

Jacob Schopp, the well-known mer-
chant at DeTour, paid the Sault a visit
last week, doing some Christmas shop-
ping.

While a man may get mad at you
for refusing to loan, he cannot but re-
spect your good judgment.

The many friends of Dr. Carl H.
Borgmeier, 55, were shocked to hear of
his death, which occurred at San Beni-
to, Texas, Monday, Dec. 24. The Doc-
tor was a practicing dentist at the
Sault twenty-four years, but had to
give up his practice here about four
years ago on account of eye trouble.
He conducted a fruit farm at San
Benito after leaving here. He was born
in Petersburg, Mich., Jan. 29, 1880, and
lived there during his early life. He
attended and graduated from the Uni-
versity of Michigan dental college and
after a few years practice at Peters-
burg, came to the Sault. Four years
ago he went to Texas, spending the
winters there and the summers in the
Sault. A number of his Sault friends
left here to attend the funeral.

Peter Wydra, of the Sault sausage
works, has made a Frankforter which
he says is the largest in the world. It
is now on exhibition in his display
window at the works, on the corner of
Magazine and Spruce streets. Mr.
Wydra has offered three prizes to the
person guessing nearest to the weight.
After the contest Mr. Wydra will pre-
sent the sausage to the salvation army
for the community house.

Opportunities come to all, and the
limitations placed upon them by indi-
viduals establishes their worth.

Word has been received of the death:
last week of Louis J. Desenberg, who
formerly made his home in the Sault.
Mr. Desebnerg died in Buchanan,
where he has been associated in busi-
ness with his brother since leaving the
Sault. He was buried in Lawton. Mr.
Desenberg was connected with the
Prenzlauer Frothers store when he was
in the Sault.

We wish all a Happy and Prosper-
ous New Year. William G. Tapert.
——_+~-.—__—
Everybody knows “blue’’ Monday.
Some times we see “red.” “Black” looks
are disconcerting. Often the weak-
hearted show the “white” feather or a
“vellow” streak. And that “dark
brown’ taste is not unknown. But if
you want to keep in the “pink” of men-
tal conditicn you mustn’t let disturbing
riots of color mess up your environ-

ment,

 

 

MUTUAL
INSURANCE

(Fire and Life)

The Lesson of the Dead Line

I had called to interview one of
America’s great generals of industry.
He was a big, genial, friendly man—
chief of a fifty-million dollar manufac-

 

turing group with thousands of sales-
men in the army he commanded. He
was a genius for organization; had a
reputation for getting results. Men en-
vied him the name he had built.

‘When we were through there came a
twinkle in his eye and he remarked:—

“I began as a reporter on a daily

ewspaper. What I learned in those
days has helped me much each day,
through all my life.”

“What was it you learned?” I ask-
ed. “Dead Lines,” he replied. The
great industrialist put match to cigar
and leaned back.

“I learned, early in those days, to
respect the Dead Line. I learned that
at. a certain moment each day all my
work had to be done. At that un-
changeable fraction of time the job
must be over. It could not be missed.

“At a certain minute the copy had
to be in. At a certain minute the type
had to be set, the proof ready, the
forms locked up. At a certain minute
the presses had to start. Trains never
waited. The papers had to go out.

“When I got into business life I
found that few men understood the
meaning of the Dead Line. It was not
a thing in their consciousness. They
did not finish. Tasks piled up. Cor-
respondence and mass of details were
left over to the next day. Tomorrow
was always a good day, or the next.
“Tt came to me that I possessed some-
thing that these other men did not
thave—an intimate knowledge of what
the Dead Line meant.

“So all my life I have mapped each
day’s course, worked to the Dead Line,
swept my desk clean.

“Every day, all my life, the Dead
Line has been the policeman that has
regulated my conduct. He has paid me
big dividends. He has cost me noth-
ing for salary. The Dead Line has
ben my truest friend, my great bene-
factor.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

“Without my sense of the Dead
Line, I often think, I might have been
just another private in the ranks.

“If any man should come to me and
ask me for my most prized secret, this
one thing ‘ would say to him:—

“It is the Dead Line. Make it your
whip, your spur, your goal; make it a
part of your daily conduct and find a
place for it somewhere along with your
religion. Never forget the Dead
Line.’” :

——_» +> —__
Ten Commandments

A thirteen-yvar-old boy in 1745 wrote
the following ten commandments in his
notebook, setting forth a few principles
of human conduct worth repeating:

1. Keep your nails clean and short,
also your hands and teeth clean, yet
without showing any great concern for
them.

2. Be no flatterer—neither play with
any that delights not to be played
withal.

3. Let your countenance be pleas-
ant, but in serious matters somewhat
grave.

4. The gestures of the body must be
suited to the discourse you are upon.

5. Show not yourself glad at the
misfortune of another, though he were
your enemy.

6. Let your discourse with men of
business be short and comprehensive.

7. Strive not with your superiors in
argument, but always submit your
judgment to others with modesty.

8. Speak not evil of the absent, for
it is unjust.

9, Let your recreations be manful,
not sinful.

10. Labor to keep alive in your breast
that little spark of celestial fire called
Conscience.

The author was George Washington.

— 2.2 >

Enforcement Drive Ahead

The meat dealers have secured
their code and the question now
remains what they can do with it.
In New York State, 90 per cent.
of the meat trade remains in the
hands of the food and grocery
code administrators.

An intensified drive for en-
forcement will begin within a short
time in every division of the field.
For the sake of economy and har-
mony, it seems possible that in
this part of the country at least,
the meat retailers will be content

January 2, 1935

 

to remain within the food domain

in preference to setting up expen-

sive new machinery of their own.
—_~+++>—__

Many high-ups are low in spirit.

Personality will always outweigh its
opposite; capacity will always outstrip
incapacity; intelligence will outweigh

igiorance.

 

ately low.

ety

  

 

LONG DISTANCE
RATES ARE

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35

or
for less
during the NIGHT hours

(between 8:30 p.m. and 4:30 a.m.) you can call the
following points and talk for three minutes for the
rates shown. Rates to other points are proportion

 

From GRAND RAPIDS to:

BENTON HARBOR 35c

CADILLAC 35c
FLINT 35c
JACKSON 35c
LANSING 35¢

SOUTH BEND, IND. 35c

The rates quoted above are Night Station-to-Statior
rates, effective from 8:30 p. m. to 4:30 a. m. In mosi
cases, Night Station-to-Station rates are approximatel)
40% less than Day Station-to-Station rates.

For fastest service, give the operator the tele-
phone number of the person you are calling

MICHIGAN BELL

TELEPHONE CO.

 

LOW

Night
Station-to-Station
ates

 

 

 

 

 

CAUUMET . lw hl tll

 

Finnish Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Calumet, Mich.,
has paid losses promptly and fully — have led the way in
fire prevention — have consistently returned annual savings
to policyholders. There is available to you through Finnish
Mutual Fire Insurance Co., all the traditional advantages of
the mutual plan of fire insurance — safety, service and sav-
ings. Get the facts. They speak for themselves.

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Finnish Mutual Fire Insurance Company

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for

FIRE or WIND
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MICHIGAN BANKERS & MERCHANTS

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Fremont,

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SERVICE

Michigan

AND EFFICIENCY

 

 

 

 

 

January 2, 1935 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 7

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

To our customers in Grand Rapids and Kent County we express our sincere

 

appreciation for their good will and patronage through 1934.

IT is our hope that GAS will play an increasingly helpful part during 1935 in improving the working conditions
in every home where this tried and tested fuel of economy is available.

WE. ask the co-operation of users in our efforts to maintain the highest type of SERVICE available to gas users
anywhere in this country. This co-operation we can explain and even demonstrate, but only you can put it into

, practice. IT CONSISTS OF WATCHFULNESS AND ORDINARY MAINTENANCE.

WATCHFULNESS will cut down waste and save

you money.

IT means using only the amount of heat needed to
properly do any job.

MAINTENANCE means ordinary care and advising
us promptly, after due allowance for age and condi-
tion, when any gas appliance does not operate to your
satisfaction.

; GAS APPLIANCES have been vastly improved in recent years and new models for 1935 which will shortly appear,
will show even greater modernization.

PRACTICALLY all modern gas appliances are automatic. This means they save your money because they are
watchful for you, they operate economically for you, and their mechanics are so greatly improved that even simple
maintenance is but rarely necessary.

IF you are using older style gas appliances—particularly ranges and water heaters—co-operate with us as suggested
above to get the best you can from them. However, if at all possible give thought to REPLACEMENT. You will
find it pays—not alone in money but in Service and Satisfaction.

TODAY'S: Gas Range—finished throughout in gleaming, colorful porcelain; heavily insulated against heat loss;
automatic in its lighting and control of oven temperature—does everything but think for you. It is the most eco-
nomical, practical cooking machine man has produced.

AMONG many fine lines available in the Grand Rapids market is the GARLAND line at VanDenBerg Bros. Fur-
niture Company on Grandville Avenue; the DETROIT STAR line at the Herpolsheimer Company and the Young
& Chaffee Furniture Company; the ROPER and CHAMBERS lines at Wurzburg’s; the MAGIC CHEF line at
Columbian Warehouse Furniture Company and at Laban’s on West Leonard. DETROIT JEWELS and MAGIC
CHEFS are displayed at the Gas Company salesrooms

When the New Gas Ranges for 1935 are announced we are sure you will find it a

pleasurable venture to inspect the displays on the floors of progressive merchants’

stores.

Gas ComMmPANY

 

 

 

 

 

EXPECTATIONS NOT SEEN

While the outlook for the capital
goods industries during 1935 is defi-
nitely brighter, the poor prospects for
private building, particularly residen-
tial construction, -will hold down the
percentage increase over the 1934 vol-
ume, according to opinions expressed

by executivés in.the heavy goods fields.

Attempting to weed out definite facts
from the mass of optimistic predictions
coming from both governmental and
business sources, these executives made
estimates of an increase of 35 to 40
per cent. in the volume of business to
be done in producers’ capital goods.
Such an increase, which in several
quarters was regarded as high, would
bring the 1935 volume to approxi-
mately $8,000,000,000 as against about
$5,800,000,000 this year.

The estimate for 1935 is just about
double the 1933 figure of $4,000,000,000.
In 1932, the total was $4,600,000,000,
and in 1931, $9,500,000,000. The all-
time high was reached in 1929 when
the amount hit $19,600,000,000. The
following year it dropped to $15,300,-
000,000.

The outlook for individual lines va-
ries, according to executives. Most
promising are machinery and machine
tools, with plant construction also ex-
pected to register fairly substantial
gains. Electrical machinery, trucks and
railroad equipment appear headed for
a better year. Road-building and pub-
lic works are problematical, depending
mainly on state and government activ-
ities. The gloomiest prospects are in
the private residential field.

Machinery and machine tool builders
have received a steady flow of re-
quests for bids in the last month and
indications are that the volume of or-
ders will spurt sharply after the first
of the year. While some hesitation
among business men still remains,
enough confidence has been restored
in their minds to warrant expenditures
for needed rehabilitation, it was said.

Considerable emphasis has ~ been
placed on the announced intention of
various large companies to spend huge
sums for new equipment and plants,
but those companies closely. acquainted
with architects, construction compa-
nies, etc., report that, so far, little of
this proposed building has materialized.
On the other hand, several industrial
engineering companies indicated that
they had many orders on their books
and that 1935 would be a very active
one for them. 5

The current agitation over public
utilities may force them into a re-
trenchment program, it was feared, and
thereby cut down any plant or equip-
ment extension they would normally
undertake. Such retrenchment may
possibly be offset by the building of
publicly owned power plants, but the
entire question is clouded.

Private building this year has not
exceeded the sum of $650,000,000, ac-
cording to authorities in that field, and

the prospects of betterment next year -

are vague. For the first six months at
least, they felt, the total of residential
construction will be under last year’s
figures. There is a normal twenty-year
-eycle in residential building, it was
pointed out, and at the present time
we are about half-way through that

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

cycle, private construction having
reached its peak in 1925. The Govern-
ment, through various means, may
have a cerain influence on the cycle,
but it will not be of sufficient propor-
tions to-affect appreciably the total vol-
ume of building. At one time, residen-

- tial construction provided about 75 per

cent.-of all building, while now the
figure does not exceed 20 per cent.

Producers of building supplies and
equipment were fairly optimistic, how-
ever, contending that the home mod-
ernization drive will net them a con-
siderably larger volume of business in
the coming year.

The financing of capital goods pur-
chases still remains a weighty prob-
lem, despite the efforts made by both
Government and banks to ease the flow
of credit. Credit extension has been
liberalized to some extent in the last
few months, but the economic situa-
tion continues in such a state that man-
ufacturers are chary of seeking funds
for plant equipment and rehabilitation,
it was said.

It was agreed in several quarters,
however, that the consumer goods in-
dustries will move steadily ahead next
year, barring unforeseen developments,
and that the larger volume of business
will encourage capital goods purchases.
All the Government campaigns and as-
sistance will have little effect, it was in-
sisted, if mianufacturers do not be-
lieve the volume of business they are
doing justifies added expenses.

TRADE PROSPECT CHEERFUL

Forecasts of the business outlook for
1935 are optimistic as a rule but cau-
tious. The caution proceeds from sev-
eral important considerations, chief of
which may be set down as the lagging
progress in the so-called capital goods
industries. High unemployment totals
are traced almost entirely to this con-
dition.

The chief contribution of 1934 to re-
covery has been the remarkable up-
turn in trade. The year will probably
show that the gain over 1933 in retail
distribution was around 15 per cent.,
with the percentage climbing toward
the close of the period. The holiday
season just over indicated that the pub-
lic was in the first real “buying mood”
since the depression started. An en-
larged demand for luxury goods was
remarked.

For the new year, merchants confi-
dently predict that sales should run
better than in 1934 by at least 10 per
cent. Since price levels now show little
change over the year, this means that
more merchandise units will be sold.
The price outlook is for steadiness, al-
though the elimination of price fixing
may mean an intensified competition
among producers pointing to lower
quotations.

On the other hand, it is probable
that labor regulation and more ade-
quate efforts to enforce compliance
with standard working conditions
should tend to, hold up or increase

 

-costs. In this event, there would be an

offset to any lowering of price levels
otherwise in prospect.

It is remarked that toward the end
of this year sound merchandising prac-
tice once more began to yield its cus-
tomary returns in contrast with the

failures recorded during the bottom of

the depression when cheap tactics

seemed the only recourse.
—

DRY GOODS CONDITION

In contrast with a year ago probably
the most significant feature of the pres-
ent business picture is the more realis-
tic attitude which has been adopted by
industrial and trade interests and in
part by the. Government. From this
new viewpoint which emphasizes indi-
vidual initiative springs the cheerful
comment upon the state of business
and the outlook for the new year—a
comment which is seasoned, however,
with caution.

Twelve months ago devaluation of
the dollar looked very much like the
beginning of a highly hazardous mone-
tary experiment out of which a demor-
alizing inflation might be expected to
result. In industry there was a similar
experimentation with artificial controls
which could do little but aggravate the
evils of an unprecedented depression.

Both experiments are now discred-
ited in most minds. The administration
as well as conservative financial and
business opinion seems to have stead-
ied its monetary policy and to be seek-
ing stabilization. The twin problem of
relief costs and international co-opera-
tion remains to be met before such
stabilization can be accomplished, but
at least the principal effort is in that
direction.

Where artificial restraints in industry
are concerned enough experience has
been gained over the year to prove the
fallacy of an approach of this kind to
the difficulties which must be. sur-
mounted. The benefits of certain basic
strictures are recognized. They em-
brace wage and hour regulations, child
labor and definitely unfair trade prac-
tices. Beyond these restraints, it is
more generally felt that price fixing
and production control reduce that ini-
tiative from which the American sys-
tem has achieved its most outstanding
results.

 

LABOR ANXIETY FELT

From the standpoint of employment
gains last year closed with figures that
do not create much satisfaction. The
increase over twelve months ago does
not come to much better than 3 or 4
per cent. in manufacturing industries,
despite shortened hour schedules.

But here, as upon other phases of
business, the attitude is again more
realistic. Analyses have indicated that
the country has a much larger percen-
tage of unemployables than was imag-
ined. The population is growing older,
for one thing, and, for another, the
employable age limits have been de-
clining as mechanization of industry
has expanded.

Certain social measures are planned
to take care of these conditions. They
are receiving, for the most part, the
earnest study of business leaders who
wish to see. systems adopted that will

-preserve the American spirit of enter-

prise and not act as a deterrent to in-
dividual - initiative.

Statistics now missing are urgently
required upon the many important
phases of the labor situation. A great
deal of surmise upon the effects of the
various recovery measures has been

January 2, 1935

indulged in for the simple reason that
the real facts have not been available.

While many industrial groups have
bitterly criticized Section 7a of the
NIRA and the ruling of the labor
boards, concessions have been made in
other quarters which would not have
been conjectured several years ago.
Greater clarification of the labor pro-
visions of the Recovery act is needed,
according to the more liberal views
held in industry, since the prospect of
labor tangles next year is one of the
principal anxieties.

 

FOREIGN TRADE AHEAD

In the field of international relations
the new attitude of realism is also ob-
served. Theories that have held sway
for a long period of time are gradually
giving place to more practical meth-
ods of re-establishing the comity of
nations. A serious war scare seems, in
fact, to be subsiding on various
troubled fronts.

The step taken by this country to
encourage reciprocal tariff arrange-
ments has proved of great benefit in
the first treaty with Cuba. Subsidies,
quotas and other forms of nationalistic
activity may subside before such prac-
tical examples of how two countries
may each gain from enlarging their
mutual purchases and sales. In this
country the reciprocal treaties might
very well prove the forerunner of a
still more enlightened tariff policy.

Since foreign trade is accepted as
the foremost barometer of international
business conditions, the gains made in
recent months testify to a moderate
recovery at least from depression lev-
els. Such increases have come not
from currency tampering but from a
relative degree of steadiness in the
principal moneys. The conclusion
reached is that real results do not fol-
low from monetary jockeying.

eee eee

HEAVIER INDUSTRIES GAIN
The upward swing in the consumers’
goods lines is an augury of some im-
provement at least in the heavier in-
dustries. The former are customers to
a degree of the latter. But aside from
the stimulation to be gained from this
source, there seems to be agreement in
the year-end predictions that the dur-
able goods producers should find an
enlarged demand in the coming
months. :
Thus, employment of labor in the
construction lines has shown the first
monthly increase since the figures were
started in 1928. Hopes are held out
that the Federal housing campaign
will soon begin to make real progress.
In various industries plans to replace
obsolete machinery are uppermost.
Retarding factors against the effort
to push ahead these lagging lines of
activity come chiefly under two heads.
There is the problem of adjusting pres-
ent indebtedness so that distressed
properties may not press on the market
and jeopardize new interprise, and
there is the question of stable money
which is required for any real encour-
agement of long-term investment.
Both of these disturbing influences
are gradually being moderated. Meth-
ods have been adopted for the relief of
debtors and, as indicated, the fear of
inflation is considerably less than it was.

January 2, 1935

MICHIGAN

 

TRADESMAN

9

 

OUT AROUND

 

Things Seen and Heard on a Week
End Trip

Some of us—perhaps all of us—have
been misled from childhood days into
the belief that when the American
Republic was set up, liberty was en-
shrined for all time in the constitution
of the United States. We have com-
placently fallen into the habit of re-
garding liberty as the permanent herit-
age of every citizen.

 

Well, it was our heritage, but we
have been letting it slip through our
fingers. The liberty our fathers be-
queathed to us has been whittled and

worn away by the grinding and grow-.

ing stream of laws, regulations and
bureaucratic rules and court decisions
until there is little that we have or do
that is not affected in some degree by
a super-imposed authority.

 

We locked our doors and barred our
windows against despotism, yet invited
despotism and tyranny into our homes
by accepting the bait government held
out; bait in the form of advice and aid.
From telling us how and what to do,
and aiding us in various ways to do it,
it was only a short step to tell us what
we could not do, until now, government
is blandly taking over much of the
work we do to gain a livlihood to earn
the money to pay the government’s
upkeep.

—_——

Call it what you will—despotism or
dictatorship, monarchy or a democracy;
government is the very opposite of
freedom. Government and liberty are
essentially in a relation of antagonism.

The framers of our constitution
knew this fact well because the old
world was subjected to governmental
despotism. The setting up of the
American Republic, the government of
the United States, marked a turning
point in the long and rough road to
political freedom. Our government was
not to be allowed to roam where it
pleased at the whim of rulers or even
majorities. It was hobbled by the
Constition and harnessed by it to the
task of protecting the individual citizen
and his rights. The Federal charter
was made to say that “The powers not
delegated to the U. S. by the Constitu-
tion nor prohibited to it by the states
are reserved to the state respectively,
or to the people.” And then those wise
men, fearful lest the power of the cen-
tral government should be too great,
appended a bill of rights in the form
of the first ten amendments, carefully
specifying that the enumeration of
these rights should not be construed to
deny or disparage other rights retained
by the people, but in spite of all the
safe-guards thrown around the people
by the famous document, many polit-
ical leaders of the time were still afraid
that the central government would, in
some unforeseen manner, encroach
upon the rights of the states and of the
people themselves, and the Constitu-
tion remained for nine years in the
throes of bitter, though. brilliant con-

troversy before its ratification was ac-
complished.

 

For the first century, Congress suc-
ceeded in keeping the Government on
its chartered course, but the storms it
encountered were too many and grad-
ually the old ship of state began to
veer from its course to answer the
clamorous demands made upon _ it.
Little by little its authority was
stretched, but those valiant men who
created the rules by which we were to
travel had passed on. They knew, as
I have already said, the dangers tnai
they might face from government,
knew from old world experience. They
built so well, however, that the suc-
ceeding generations—coming and pass-
ing in full security—took for granted
that we were immune from the dangers
that befell other people, and thus we
have been led or misled into the be-
lief that liberty was enshrined for all
time. So gradual has been the digres-
sion from the charted course that we
did not realize the danger until we
crashed upon the rocks of economic
disaster and now we can see, thouga
we still do not fully appreciate, that
our liberty is only a matter of history.

 

Now it is time to fight. But to fight
effectively, we must fight intelligently,
and that requires a working knowledge,
at least of our historic institutions. The
American people need to be shaken out
of thei rsmug complacency and to this
end to be reminded of the unfavorable,
rather than the favorable developments
of our governmental system. And here
we begin to tread strange ground, for
already freedom of speech and freedom
of the press are being endangered by
thunder and lightning from Washing-
ton. It was a wise man who said
“Eternal vigilance is the price of lib-
erty,” and never was a warning more
needed than to-day.

Let us consider just one phase of the
assault on our guarantee of freedom
and the long trend toward the social-
istic state. Little by little, the tether
which held Congress in check was
stretched by the doctrine of “implied
powers,” and a new and more liberal
interpretation of the ‘General welfare
clause” of the Constitution. Very ob-
viously the framers of the Constitution
intended the “General welfare clause”
to prevent Congress from spending
public money for specific purposes or
particular localities or classes, but Con-
gress has long since broken from these
moorings and successfully accomplished
the change, not by doing things to us,
but by doing things for us.

 

Every departure from the straight
and narrow constitutional path has
been made in the name of a larger
humanitarinism and thus have we
come to believe what has proved to be
the greatest fallacy on earth—that
when we get something from govern-
ment, we can get it for nothing, for
since 1913 our tax bill has climbed
from two billion dollars to sixteen bil-
lion, or from 6 per cent. of our entire
income to more than 40 per cent. of
our income. No wonder buying power

disappeared and depression came

upon us.

 

The first step in this new and strange
policy was in 1889, when the Federal
Department of Agriculture was estab-
lished. It marked the first departure
from the logical arrangement of the
business of government by adding to
the job of governing the job of promot-
ing, which had nothing whatever to do
with government as it was understood
up to that time. The Agricultural De-
partment actually dates back to 1839
when it was organized to collect agri-
cultural statistics for which it was given
an appropriation of $1,000, but in 1889
it started on its real bureaucratic road,
increasing its activities in the name of
benefit to the farmers until in 1932 its
appropriation was 300 millions of dol-
lars, and even that staggering figure
not enough to support the hundreds of
subsidiary

bureaus and commissions

to it.

 

The value of many of these attend-
ant bureaus can be arrived at by an
example or two. For instance, the
Bureau of Home Economics. Here it
is a case of Auntie—not Uncle Sam—
who exercises a vicarious and expen-
sive motherhood. In one year it is-
sued over 160 pamphlets to tell the
American public how to live. For ex-
ample, Bulletin 52 on suits for the
small boy says: “The trousers worn by
the little boy in the picture can be but-
toned to an underwaist, as shown, with
a matching or contrasting blouse over
it; or when the weather becomes warm,
and the days invitingly sunshiny, the
underwaist may be replaced by an
open-mesh sun suit, top of cable net.”
Sounds like a department store adv.
but it’s done at the expense of the
American taxpayer.

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A further statement in the
leaflet advises us that these trousers
were designed by the Bureau of Home
Economics of the U. S. Department of
Agriculture, for the very small child
who is just learning to dress himself,
It is suggested that, until the child has
become thoroughly familiar with the
intricacies of buttons and buttonholes,
all his trousers be made from the same
pattern with fastenings in the same
place.”

same

 

It requires no ghost of a Federal
Bureau to give the American mother
that information. Is it possible that the
American boy cannot button his
trousers without government aid? To
what pass are we coming? Is it pos-
sible that such an activity is maintained
at taxpayers’ expense of over $250,000
a year by the same government whose
president, only a few decades back,
vetoed an internal improvement bill oa
the ground that it was unconstitutional.
That bureau not only discusses clothes
for the small boy, but devotes consid-
erable time and money to determining
the amount of water, carbohydrates,
proteins, fats, ash, etc. of many
articles of food, testing the cooking
time of meats, and then after exhausted
study, tells us that the length of the

bone in ribs of beef has no relation to
the time required for cooking the meat.

 

It is all very amusing, isn’t it? But
when you learn that another bureau of
the Department of Agriculture spent
$50,000 of your tax money in a survey
and booklet on the “Love Life of a
Bull Frog,’ amusement turns to be-
wilderment.

 

Government taking care of the minds
and morals of the people of the states,
caring for their bodies, teaching us
sewing, cooking, how to act in a public
dance hall, how to get the calcium out
of spinach, how to stop the child from
lying, how to get him to school on
time, and how to overcome his stub-
bornness and determination, how to be
boss in your own home—the same ad-
vice to both husband and wife. It is
not possible in a short time to enum-
erate the myriad activities of this one
But this we know, no
foolish or absurd—it all
takes money, our money, and provides

department.
matter how
more patronage in political jobs.

The climax of all the futile attempts
of government to lend a helping hand
was reached in the creation of the Fed-
eral Farm Board, costing the tax-
payers $650,000,000 in three years and
costing the farmers most of the gains
they had made in the last twenty-five
years. The salaries paid to this group
was the peak of governmental au-
dacity. Had the original idea of the
Federal Farm Board been carried out,
the objective might have been reached,
but $650,000,000 was too much of a
plum for the bureaucracy to ignore, so
the Agricultural Marketing act was
passed. This plunged the Government
further into competition with private
business and resulted in twenty-two
more boards being created as subsid-
iaries to the Farm Board, viz: The
Farmers National Grain Corporation,
the National Live Stock Corporation,
the National Cotton Co-operative
Association, and so on, these three be-
ing the most powerful and, incidentally,
the most expensive.

Coming back to the question of sal-
aries—James Stone, as chairman of the
Farm Board, was given a salary of
$75,000 a year—as much as the Presi-
dent of the U. S. is allowed. George
Milner and Clarence Huff, and one
other whose name I do not now recall,
had te content themselves with a mere
$50,000 a year, all supplied out of pub-
lic funds. Each salary represented the
yearly labors of a thousand farmers.
The great abortion of the whole plan
was that the Federal Farm Board was
given the authority, unconstitutionally,
to spend every penny of the 650 mil-
lion dollars without any accounting to
the people, or even to Congress,

 

The major concept of government
finally led us to the thought that
Uncle Sam was a fairy godfather, and
he was quick then to take advantage,
until we now find our Government in
competition with more than 200 dif-
ferent lines of business.

(Continued on page 23)

 

 

FINANCIAL

Why Our Present Educational System
Fails

There are two schools of political
economics. One is the profit system
and the other is the socialistic or co-
operative system. One teaches the ac-
individual,
that

 

quiring of wealth by the
while the other school teaches
wealth is for the benefit of all. There is
good in both of these systems and the
question is whether the good features
more than overbalance the bad ones.
The conditions that prevail to-day are
exact reflections of our past educational
and business training. It shows that
something is wrong, to bring about
the economic situation that we now
have. Individual initiative is the dom-
inating force that has made this na-
tion a world leader in wealth in the
short period of one hundred and fiity
seven years. While we have acquired
great wealth it has brought with it a
social and economic problem that has
seriously affected the welfare and hap-
piness of the people. These conditions
have grown up under the profit system,
although, to a considerable extent we
have adopted certain socialistic prin-
ciples, such as those of our postal and
educational systems, also in municipal
utilities. Both of these economic sys-
tems have merit, but it is the abuse
that has grown up within them that
presents the chief objections. It mat-
ters not how good a system we have,
it is the human element that admin-
isters the system, that counts for the
happiness, prosperity or failure in serv-
ing the people.

It is evident that before we can ex-
pect the ideal in government the
viewpoint of many who are chosen to
administer and make new laws must be
changed to a higher plane. We do not
need a change in the form of our Con-
stitution and Government, but we do
need honest men and women in office,
who will not be bribed or influenced
by greedy wealth. We also need a new
viewpoint in life. While we, as a na-
tion, have achieved great wealth for a
few, it is not altogether to our credit.
Wealth should not be the symbol of
success, but greed has largely made it
so. As a nation, we have been taught
to measure men and women by their
success in acquiring wealth. This
faulty training has set up a selfish
ideal, instead of one that places hu-
man welfare first. In this we have
failed, for instead of happiness and
prosperity we have poverty and dis-
tress. We have created the billionaire
and the vast army of unemployed.

We must have a change in the ideals
of society, which calls for a change
in our educational system. We must
embody more moral and spiritual train-
ing. When we analyze society as it is
to-day, we find it weak and of small
inflence in building character and sta-
bility in the individual. Our present
system of education is largely com-
mercialized: for it teaches ways and
means of acquiring wealth, but has
little to say as to the means used or
not to be used. These weaknesses are
largely responsible for the increase in
crime in high places as well as low.

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

“Get the money,’ has become the
motto of crime and greed. The Golden
Rule is considered but an ideal, not to
be respected.

We

system and devote more time and at-

should amend our educational

tention to teaching youth to be honest,
to respect themselves and others. This
would be worth more to them in life
than all the higher learning they might
acquire in college and university. The
time to teach these fundamentals is
when they are young and the mind is
plastic and most receptive. They should
be taught the wonders of the universe
and the fundamental laws of the Cre-
ator and their relation to Him. These
simple truth should be imparted to
every child, but not sectarianism in any
A child is both a spiritual and
being and both. of these
developed in its
will have an

form.
intellectual
should be
otherwise it
In no other way can

instincts
education,
unbalanced life.
greed be brought under control, Each
child should be taught to respect the
rights of others, for in no other way
can the welfare of society be assured.
Thrift and industry must be empha-
sized, that no one may become a bur-
den upon society, and if able bodied
must be self supporting. A careful
drilling of youth in the necessary du-
ties would largely banish poverty and
greatly increase buying power: for with
the control of greedy wealth, employ-
ment for everyone would be assured.
This Nation
pared with the age of many other na-
tions. Only a few years ago we read of
foreign

is but a youth com-

the bandits and robbers in
lands and we did not think such a sit-
uation would ever be possible here in
this land of liberty and freedom, but
we now know it is here. Crime has
become organized and made a profes-
sion, and none are safe, even in their
own homes. The time is here for serious
thought and action, as criminality is
like a cancer upon the body politic,
which eats deeper until it becomes
fatal. If we are to save our national
democracy and restore its former glory
and individual freedom, we must broad-
en our educational system and teach
the fundamental principles of moral
and spiritual truth. No nation can long
that fails to recognize the

side of life and the

endure
spiritual
precepts of a benevolent Creator.

moral

Man is a biological being. He has
two legs, two arms, two eyes, two ears,
two lungs, two kidneys, two lobes to
the brain, two instincts, the spiritual
and intellectual. The members of the
body grow until maturity, but there is
no limit to the development of the
spiritual and intellectual instincts. Our
present educational system is planned
to develop the intellectual instinct, but
not the spiritual, which is supposed to
be developed by the parents and
church. The members of the body and
the intellectual instinct develop by ex-
ercise and training. Bind the arm of a
child to its side for a year, and the
arm would become helpless. This is
true with the spiritual instinct unless
it is developed by proper training. This
account for the unbalanced training of
many members of society, especially
those engaged in crime.

Our present educational system fails
because it supplies but a partial train-
ing to meet the responsibilities of life.
The present era of and
crime is evidence of weakness in the
character building of youth. Most par-
ents are not qualified or neglect to im-
part spiritual instruction to the child,

depression

while the church schools are able to
but a few, and even then the
training is meager. This matter of
thorough spiritual training is so im-
portant to character building, it should
be recognized by leading educators and
government and should not be dodged

reach

or cast aside for any sectarian preju-
dice. Reform that is vital to the per-
petuation of our democracy should be-
gin in the schoolroom, where attend-
ance is required by law. A child is a
bundle of energy, a human power unit.
The spiritual instinct was placed in the
child for a governor over its life. Every
mechanical power unit made by man,
requires a governor, to regulate its
speed and efficiency. When the Cre-
ator made man and gave him a spiritual
instinct, it was for the purpose of a
governor to his life, that he may be-
come a useful citizen and member of
E. B. Stebbins.

—_» +
Corporations Wound Up

society.

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

Coulter, Inc., Port Huron.

Fourteen Twenty Six Corp., Detroit.

Paul Co., Lansing.

Dairy Products Container Co., De-
troit.

 

SAFE EXPERT
Safes opened and Combinations Changed
Wm. 0. Slocum
Phone 7-3845 128 Ann St., N. E.
Grand Rapids, Mich,

 

January 2, 1955

Forsyth Lumber & Coal Co., Bliss-
field.

Greenwood Lumber Co., Ontonagon.

Reisman Drug Co., Detroit.

Cornell Department Store,
Milan.

J J. Drey Co., Iron River.

Klinger Lake Light & Power Co.,
Sturgis.

Taylor Optical Co., Inc., Detroit.

—__o-o-
Novel Jewelry Outlook Good

Following an excellent holiday sea-

Inc

Cay

son, manufacturers and importers of
novelty jewelry are rounding out ini-
tial Spring lines to be shown buyers
during the first half of January. “Be-
cause of the strong Paris sponsorship
of gold effects, as shown in the fashion
cables from abroad, it is expected that
gold finishes will again dominate the
trend. A somewhat smaller degree of
interest is foreseen for silver items, al-
though the rising price trend of this
metal has resulted in a stronger de-
mand as compared with the last few
While the trade is hopeful of
necklaces, the volume

years.
some gain in
busines is expected to be done in pins,
clips, bracelets and earrings.
2
pressed, and heap affliction on the
afflicted, is the
triumph of a dastard soul.

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TRADESMAN . il

Important Code Amendments.

The following retail food and grocery code amendments are ap-
proved and are now law. Correct your copy of code accordingly:

Article 4—-General Labor Provisions

Sec. 3. Wages’shall be exempt from fines and rebates and from
charges or deductions, except charges and deductions for employes’
contributions voluntarily made by employes, or required by law, for
pensions, insurance, benefit funds. No employer shall withhold wages
except upon services of legal process or other papers lawfully requiring
such withholding. Deductions for other purposes not heretofore stated
may be made only when the contract is in writing and is kept on file by
the employer for six (6) months after the termination of the contract
open for inspection of government representatives.

Sec. 4. Employers shall make payment of all wages and salaries in
lawful currency or negotiable checks, payable on demand. All con-
tracts of employment shall provide that wages shall be paid at least
twice a month, except that individual written contracts of employment
of executives shall provide for payment at least as often as once a month.

Sec. 5. The time of employment shall include all time during which
the employe is on duty including time after summons when the em-
ploye is subject to the employer's orders, provided that when such
employe is required to hold his time subject to instant call, he shall
be compensated for all time required to be so held.

Sec. 6. No employer shall, to defeat the purpose of the act or the
provisions of this code change the method of payment of compensation
or duties of occupations performed by employes, or reclassify em-
ployes, or discharge employes to re-employ them at lower rates or
engage in any other subterfuge, which tends to or will defeat said pur-
poses or said provisions.

Sec. 7. Each employer shall post and keep posted in each estab-
lishment in a conspicuous place, readily acceszible to employes the
clauses dealing with hours of labor, wages, and general labor safe-
guarding provisions of this code.

Article 5—-Store Hours and Hours of Labor

Sec. 3. Exception to Maximum Hours of Labor—(a) Outside
Salesmen. The maximum periods of labor prescribed in Section 2 of
this Article shall not apply to outside salesmen, but in no case shal!
such employes be permitted to work more than six (6) days in any
seven (7) day period.

Watchmen. The maximum periods of labor prescribed in section 2
of this article shall not apply to watchmen but in no case shall watch-
men be permitted to work more than fifty-six (56) hours in any week
nor more than six (6) days in any seven (7) day period.

(b) Outside Service and Maintenance Employes. The maximum
periods of labor prescribed in Section 2 of this article chall not apply
to outside service employes, but for all hours worked in excess of the
basic hours of labor prescribed in Section 2, said employes shall be
compensated at least at the rate of one and one-half (11/4) times the
normal hourly rate.

(c) Executives. (The following paragraph is added as the last
paragraph to Div. (c) of Section 3.)

It is provided, however, that in no case shall executives be permitted
to work in excess of one-half (14) hour per day for six days out of
any calendar week in addition to the daily period during which the
establishment is open for business during such six days, provided that
these one-half hour daily periods may be cumulative in any one week,
and provided further that any time taken off during the regular daily
store operating hours may not be use to extend the half hour period
granted, nor shall any executive be permitted to work more than six
(6) days in any seven (7) day period.

Article 8—Loss Limitation Provisions

Sec. 1, paragraph 3. As an element of cost to the merchant as
defined in Paragraph 2 of this Section there shall be included transpor-
tation charges not less than the minimum schedules given below to the
point of sale when paid by the seller or the equivalent cost when such
transportation is performed by the retailer, and such transportation
charges shall be not less than:

Zone A. | per cent. of cost as provided in Paragraph 2 of this
Section when point of delivery for retail sale is located within a radius
of twenty miles from the zero point (such zero points to be fixed bv
the American Automobile Association Maps, and where maps do not

designate such zero points, to be fixed by the Local Code Authority )
of any city or incorporated town or village, or the metropolitan area
of any city as defined in the last Census, in which sellers’ or distrib-
utors’ warehouse is located, when such area extends more than 20
miles from such zero point.

Zone B. 11% per cent. of cost as provided in Paragraph 2 of this
Section when point of delivery for retail sale is up to 20 miles beyond
the areas or boundaries as fixed in the preceding paragraph (Zone A).

Zone C. 2 per cent. of cost as provided in Paragraph 2 of this Sec-
tion when point of delivery for retail sale is beyond the areas or boun-
daries fixed in the preceding paragraph (Zone B), provided, however,
that where, because of special circumstances, the provisions for Zone
C work exceptional hardship, the State Code Authority, together with
the Local Code Authorities concerned, may make regional recom-
mendations to the National Code Authority which, upon approval by
the National Code Authority and the National Industrial Recovery
Board, shall be operative in said territory or territories.

If the point of delivery under above schedules is to a point within
the limits of a city, incorporated town or village, or metropolitan dis-
trict, parts of which, by distances mentioned are within any two of the
above zones, when all of limits of said town or city shall be considered
as within the lower rate zone.

4. Provided, however, that any merchant may sell any article of
merchandise at a price as low as the price set by any competitor in
his trade area, on merchandise which is the same as to comparable
competitive factors, such as weight, quantity, quality, pack and/or
brand or packaging, if such competitor's price is set in conformity with
the Code of Fair Competition governing the sale of said product by
such competitor.

A merchant who thus reduces a price to meet a competitor's price,
as above defined, shall not be deemed to have violated the provisions
of this Section if such merchant immediately notifies the nearest Local
Food and Grocery Distributors’ Code Authority of such action and ail
facts pertinent thereto.

Article 9—Trade Practices

Section |—-Advertising and selling methods, paragraph (k). No
food and grocery retailer shall offer or give prizes, premiums or any-
thing of value, (a) which is in any way designed or effective to nullify
or alter the effect of the provisions of Article VII of this Code; (b) in
ways which involve lottery in any form (the term “‘lottery’’ as used
herein includes but without limitation, any scheme or plan for the dis-
tribution of prizes by lot or chance and/or where prizes distributed
differ substantially and inequitably in value from buyer to buyer of
the same quantity): (c) in ways which involve misrepresentation or
fraud or deception in any form, including, but without limitation, the
words “‘free,” “‘gift,” “‘gratuity,”” or language of similar import in con-
nection with the giving of premiums for the purpose or with the effect
of misleading or deceiving buyers; (d) if such premiums are not offer-
ed to all customers of the same class in the same trade area.

(1) No food and grocery retailer shall practice locality or sec-
tional price discrimination which is designed and/or effective to un-
duly injure competitors.

(m) No food and grocery retailer shall permit any demonstrator
or other employe, whose salary or compensation is wholly or partially
paid by others than himself or his establishment, to work in his or her
establishment, unless such worker or workers are clearly and openly
identifed as the representative or agents of party or firms by whom or
which they are employed and paid.

Article 10—Administration

Section 1, Paragraph (f) provides for the National Food and Gro-
ccery Distributors Code Authority to assess trade members for expense
of administering code after budget is approved by NRA and gives
authority to institute legal collection proceedings if necessary.

Section 5 exempts code authorities from legal responsibility in their
work and section 6 provides authority for code authorities to incor-
porate. Both sections are lengthy and need not be reproduced here.

Complete copies of the Retail and Wholesale Food and Grocery
Codes, with amendments, may be obtained from local code author-
ities, State N. R. A. Compliance offices, or from the U. S. Department
of Commerce, Washington, D. C. Price 5 cents per copy. Ignorance
is no excuse at law.

 

12 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN January 2, 1935

 

 

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Lines of Interest to Grand Rapids
Council

The fresh little imp with the narrow
sash and moon face has chased away
old whiskers with the scythe and we
are now supposed to be cleansed from
our 1934 sins and errors and ready to
put up a rousing scrap for greater
achievements for 1935. We have made
our resolutions and broken some of
them, we have made plans which most
of us won't follow and we have made
a flock of predictions which won't
come true. Nevertheless, we are going
to try to go forward regardless of the
many things which have been hung
around our necks which will sink us if
we get into deep water. We just gotta
keep shakin’ a leg or down will go our
meat houses and grass will grow in
the streets. Only one thing made 1934
better than 1933 and that was hustle.
Only one thing will make 1935 as good
or better than 1934 and that is a lot
more hustle. We are awaking with the
dawning of a new era and the wider
we keep our eyes open the more we are
going to see Too many blinks and one
is going to miss something which may
be vital to our progress. We will have
no time to sit by wishing wells, neither
will we be able to chase fantasies and
still produce bread and butter. Some
believe in zombies but there aren’t any
such things so the dead era of 1929
will not return to be our slave in 1935.
The wide world of opportunity is be-
fore us as ever in the past and the
closer the application of industry, the
greater the store of substantial happi-
ness. The progressive future depends
upon the team work of all commer-
cial units. If there is a lack of co-
operation between manufacturer,
wholesaler, retailer and salesman, a
whirlwind of cyclonic proportions will
tear apart the business structure and
back we will go to the dog house to
start all over again, Confidence, the
foundation of sound business, is re-
turning and so long as it is cultured,
so long may we expect progress. This
same confidence is the keystone in the
structure of co-operation or team work
among the maker and the seller. To
keep this confidence inviolate, every-
one must go forward with every effort
possbile and when we gaze back over
our trail at the end of 1935 we are
going to be surprised at the length of
the road we have traveled and at the
results of our efforts. If everyone will
memorize the following creed there is
no need to be fearful for our biggest
year in the history of business.

“T felieve in the goods I am selling,
in the concern I am selling for and in
my ability to get results. I believe that
honest goods can be sold to honest
men by honest methods. I believe in
the joy and thrill of working, not wait-
ing; in laughing not weeping, in boost-
ing, not knocking, and in the dignity
and pride of selling. I believe that a
man gets out of life what he goes after,
and no man is down and out until he
has lost faith in himself. I believe in

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Today and the work I am doing, in
Tomorrow and the work I confidently
expect to do, and in the sure rewards
which the future holds if I do my best.
I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in
generosity, in good cheer, in friend-
ship and in honest competition, I be-
lieve there is a sale somewhere for
every man who is ready to go after it
—and I’m ready and ready right now.

White Friend (to old negro from the
country): Uncle, what do you think
about the depression?

Old Negro: Depression ain’t nuthin’
but a golf game. All dat it takes to
overcome de depression am three putts
—putt yer faith in God, putt yer car
in de shed an’ putt yer folks in de
field.

Harvey Gish, an old time member
of Grand Rapids Council, is located at
Pioneer, Ohio, where he conducts an
elevator and flour mill. Harvey trav-
eled many years for the Dr. Hess
Stock Food Co. and during this con-
nection he invested in the elevator and
mill. A few years ago he gave up
traveling and took over the manage-
ment of the mill. Under his direction
the concern has prospered and its many
brands are now widely distributed. His
son, Russell, assists him in the man-
agement and a staff of eight people
help in the operation of the business.
Despite the depression, crop shortages,
etc., the plant has added to its brands
and increased the volume of business.
They manufacture flour, pancake prep-
arations, breakfast foods, bran, etc.,
which are shipped to distant parts of
the country. One of the largest truck
scales in that part of the country was
installed this year and other extensive
improvements have been made. The
many friends of Harvey will be glad
to learn of his success as a manufac-
turer and will no doubt wish him many
more prosperous years in his venture.

Customer: Your dog seems
fond of watching you cut hair.

very

Barber: It isn’t that; sometimes I
snip off a bit of the customer’s ear.

Charles Ghysels attended a
convention of his firm in Detroit last
week. The entire sales force of Mich-
igan for the Salada Tea Co. were in
attendance. The boys were all given
a good feed, a slap on the back and told
to go out and repeat 1934 and they
would be satisfied, but expected them
to do much better because the depres-
sion flew out the door when 1935 blew
in.

Mr. and Mrs. A. Rockwell spent
Xmas with Mrs. Rockwell’s mother in
Howell.

Counselor James Malloy is recover-
ing at his home in Detroit from an at-
tack of pneumonia which resulted from
exposure during his escape from the
Kerns hotel fire.

Most of the news hounds that gather
items for these columns have been con-
fined to cells of real industry for the
past week. They have been under the
surveillance of their keen eyed bosses
in the annual task of taking inventory.
We understand that very little red ink
will mar the pages of most of the led-
gers and that the boys have heard
some real kind words from the direc-
tors of their various companies.

sales

It is hoped that the commercial man
will be blamed entirely for the expect-
ed prosperity of 1935. He deserves a
place in the sun after so many years of
shadow and if they will step out and do
a thorough job for the New Year we
will gladly excuse them for their lack
of news this week.

“Papa, what makes a man always
give a woman a diamond engagement
ring?”

“The woman.”

S. S. Teacher:: “Johnny, who were
the three wise men?”

Johnny:: “Stop, Look and Listen.”

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Events in Detroit Council, No. 9,
United Commercial Travelers

Who’s Who in the American Indus-
trial Parade Association I asked of A.
H. Wilford, National Director. In his
office on the twenty-first floor of the
Detroit-Leland Hotel in Detroit he in-
troduced me to a man opposite in stat-
ure, so to speak, This man’s thin frame
was but an outline against that of the
big chief. His height was like the dot
of an interrogation mark against that
of the genius which so masterly directs
Buy Merchandise—Give Men Work.
An eye of high intelligence met mine.
A welcome handshake made me ac-
quainted with Dr. Galen Starr Ross.

Dr. Galen Starr Ross—economist,
sociologist and psychologist—is a very
necessary factor in the set-up and for-
mation of so wide sweeping a move-
ment. This wiry frame carries above
it marked understanding of present
and past conditions. Dr. Ross’ power
to analyze and depict the results of his
analysis are among his greatest assets.
His word picture ability holds his lis-
tener spell-bound. They are anxious
to catch every word and sit with riv-
eted attention. His pointedness of de-
scriptive expression makes him an out-
standing figure.

Once claimed by the college pro-
fessor’s chair Dr. Ross is now claimed
by an eager public; a public whose
pulse beat and throb is stimulated and
emulated by his altruistic influence.
Now as Educational Director for the
W. J. Kennedy Dairy Co., Detroit, he
makes you feel more willing to receive
facts and face the future. Crisp in his
expressions, emphatic in his thrusts,
easy to hear and easy for the inten-
tive listener to follow, his popularity
as a speaker is ever ascending. Great
is his demand, The American Indus-
trial Parade Association and A. H.
Willard are to be congratulated in
having such a pillar of powerful in-
tellectual influence as a helping and
guiding hand in National Buyers’

January 2, 1935

Week for the first two weeks in Febru-
ary.

“Vou can’t create wealth,’ says Dr.
Galen Starr destroying
goods.” And so National Buyers’
week is designed to put men to work
making goods. And thus through the
very latest of up-to-date merchandis-
ing create wealth. We turn the wheel
and build for the future. We have con-
structed in the last twenty-five years in
this country the greatest dynamic
thrust for development. Take out this
bug-a-boo of fear—the poorhouse com-
plex—which has gripped us for the
last five years, use that thrust through

Ross, “by

adequate methods of manufacture and
merchandising and out of this business
despondency we go. The American
Educational machinery is the most
complete of any, despite its frills, for
the greatest development of society
and the individual. Then why not use
the greatest force of all time to make
people live better and understand bet-
more people

intelligent
every man

ter. To-day we have
following an

Then, too,

capable of
leadership.
should be well informed of the job be-
forehand. Thus this movement. will
make a great appeal to the stagnant
wealth of the country. “The conscious
use of conscious power is,” said Dr.
Ross, in conclusion, “the greatest force
to turn our wheel.”

Senior Councillor Floyd Burch has
some important committee

He rightly believes that a

made

changes.
committee
worth in order to hold the respect of
the Council, This is a significant step

chairman must prove his

in the right direction and should bring
the desired progressive function of this
organization. E. J. Drouillard becomes
the new chairman of the Membership
Committee and Bill Allard the new
chairman of the Safety Committee.

Our last meeting brought us a pleas-
ant visitor. Dave Mercier, of Ashland
Council, Ashland, Wis., has a mighty
pleasing personality. He is the well
liked representative in this territory of
the National Enameling and Stamping
Co., of Milwaukee, Wis. Now that he
lives in Detroit he is transferring to
Detroit No. 9, The Ladies Auxiliary
is getting a fine addition to its mem-
bership in the graceful personality of
Mrs. Mercier.
certainly
knows how to help the men of the
Council. Mrs. Allen B. Shields has ap-
pointed a Women’s Safety Committee,
consisting of Mrs. Floyd Burch, Mrs.
Harry E. Annett, and Mrs. E. J.
Drouillard. These ladies will cut im-
portant~clippings from daily newspa-

Our Ladies Auxiliary

pers and magazines which may have an
important bearing upon our safety pro-
gram, They will listen to radio safety
talks and watch public sentiment. Mrs.
Shields is to be congratulated on her
selection of efficient workers for so
important a task.

Safety Committee is
right on the job and sends this impor-
tant clipping from the Detroit Free
Press: The total of American sol-
diers killed in battle in the war of in-
dependence, war of 1812, war with Mex-
ico, civil war, Spanish--American war
and kaiser’s war was less than 300,000.

(Continued on page 22)

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DRY GOODS

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

Harbor Beach.

Second Vice-President—Clare R. Sperry,

Port Huron.
Secretary-Treasurer—Leon

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

F, Rosa-

Annual Meeting of Edson, Moore &
Co.

Joe Quist, G. R. Boene and Wm.
Zoet, Western Michigan representa-
tives of Edson, Moore & Co., of De-
troit, have returned from the annual
sales meeting

They report the company had a sub-
stantial increase in business over 1933
and that the prospects for 1935 are
very promising.

Several new lines have been added.

The ladies ready-to-wear department
has been increasing from year to year
under the management of R. L, Med-
eugh, so it was necessary to add addi-
tional floor space.

The banquet was held on Dec. 20 in
the fourth floor cafeteria. Vice-Presi-
dent W. B. Hazelton acted as toast-
master. President R. W. Gillis was
the first speaker.
teresting talk about the business of the

He gave a very in-

past year and outlined the work for
the new year. The next speaker was
Frederick Stockwell, formerly an of-
ficer of the company. The department
managers also gave interesting talks, as
well as some of the salesmen. Among
the salesmen H. H. Whitbeck, city
salesman, made a very interesting
speech, as follows:

The year 1934 is past and gone but
I am sure you will all agree that 1:
has been much better than severai
years preceding it. Times are better,
the manufacturers have done better,
the wholesalers have done better, the
retailers have done better and, conse-
cuently, we have all done better. But
the whole thing has been accomplished
enly by hard work on the part of every-
body concerned.

This store has done better the past
year, but it has been done by hard work
and careful thought and planning. You
know there is an old saying “that
goods well bought are half sold” and I
am sure that the department managers
have done their part and their half by
buying the goods, buying them right,
selecting them right and pricing them
right and they were well bought. 1
am equally sure that the salesmen have
done their part and the#r-half by sell-
ing the goods and making the whol
programme successful. But the whole
thing has been put over by those two
words, hard work.

You may have read at some time the
history of the life of Hercules, the
strong man. Even when he was an
infant his mother put him to sleep im
the shield of a soldier, which formed
his cradle, and as he slept, two ven-
omous serpents crawled up, one on
each side, and just as they were about
to strike, he woke up and taking them
to be some kind of a new top, he grab-
bed each one of them by the neck.
His mother, hearing the disturbance,
came in and was struck dumb with hor-
ror at the predicament he was in. But
when he was rescued from the snakes,
they found that he had choked them
to death.

He grew up to be a strong young
man and one day as he slept, he
dreamed that, in going down the high-
way, he came to a fork in the road.
On the one side was a beautiful woman,
beautifully dressed and she beckoned
to him, saying, “Ccme2 with me to

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Pleasant City, where ali is joy and
gladness, no véork, no worry, only
enjoyment and pleasure.’ He looked
on the other side and saw a woman,
not quite so beautiful, not quite so
beautifully dressed; she beckoned to
him and said, “Come with me. This is
the road of endeavor, of hard work and
hard labor; it has many pitfalls and
discouragements, but if you take it and
you are successful, you will have the
satisfaction of knowing that you have
accomplished something worth while
by your own work and your own ef-
forts.” He took that road and he found
many tasks to perform, many obstacles
to overcome, but he fought on and
won and arrived at last at the goal ot
victory and success.

In our work here, as we go down
the highway of business, we come to
the fork in the road. On the one side
is the road of the least resistance, the
least work, the least worry—to take
what comes to us easily and be satis-
fied; on the other side is the road of
endeavor, of hard work, of hard labor;
it has many ‘tasks to perform, it re-
quires close application to business
with a knowledge of the merchandise
we are showing, but if we take that
road and we are successful, then we
have the satisfaction of knowing that
we have accomplished something worth
while with our own work and our own
resourcefulness.

Some one asked Chas. M. Schwab,
the great steel magnate, at one time,
how it was that he was so successful
and had amassed such a fortune, and
he, not wishing to brag about himself,
said he guessed it was just plain good
luck. But if we knew of the days,
months and years of hard work, the
careful thought and planning, the busi-
ness ability and understanding he put
into it, we would know what he meant
when he said it was just plain good
luck. Good luck might help sometimes.
but it takes good hard work to put it
over successfully.

And so, as we face the year 1935 with
all its opportunities and_ possibilities,
let us take advantage of every oppor-
tunity as it presents itself. Let us work
hard and do our best and if at the end
we succeed, then everybody connected
with the store, in whatever capacity
they may be, will be happy and. con-
tented. What is it that makes men
happy? To lean hard on the plow-
share and the spade; to watch the corn,
grow and the blossoms set; to mingle
amid the whirl of business activity; to
read, to think, to work. These are the
things that make men happy.

O, Men beware of the easy chair,
It’s bad for brain and muscle;

Don’t be a lout and loll about,
Get up and hump and hustle.

3e quick and alive if you would thrive
And uy the ladder mount;

To win a name, renown and fame
You must the minutes count.

Tf you would rise and win the prize
Avoid the sitting habit.

To win the cup keep standing up
For you must run to grab it.

If you would compete stand on your feet
To get most anywhere.

He never shines who long reciines
Upon the easy chair.

At the close of the meeting the sales-
men were each presented with a sub-
stantial Christmas gift.

Edson, Moore & Co. cover the entire
state of Michigan and parts of Ohio
and Indiana.

No changes have been made in the
sales force, which comprises forty-nine
men.

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Live wires need no charging.

Sterling Flatware in Demand

Calls for low price silverware for
early delivery are continuing to
reach the wholesale market as retailers
seek to cover requirements against im-
pending price advances, In contrast
to the purchasing of last month, or
ders center on flatware, which can be
promoted in house furnishings sales
scheduled for the coming two months.
Hollow ware in sterling and plated sil-
ver is wanted in limited quantities for
the post-holiday events. Some of the
major companies announced that 1935
lines of sterling silver have been com-
pleted. No prices on the new goods
will be made, however, until around the
middle of this month.

—_»+ +
Extension Vital to Mortgage Mar-

ket
Acknowledgement by the
American Bankers’ Association

that the lack of a mortgage market
is one of the chief obstacles to
home construction will be used as
a defense of the proposal for in-
creased authority for the Home
Owners’ Loan Corporation to pro-
vide mortgage money for existing
homes.

The bankers had in mind re-
vival of the heavy goods and
building activities, but the argu-
ment will be that if there is not
money for new homes present
home owners with mortgages be-
coming due will face the possibil-
ity of foreclosure because of be-
ing unable to secure renewal oi
their notes or arrears for interest.

The Home Owners Loan Cor-
poration recently announced it
would not consider further appli-
cations for refinancing of home
mortgages because of approaching
exhaustion of its funds, its direct-
orate indicating it would not seek
further authorizations. This led
to a storm of protest and there
will be a real move in Congress
for a further authorization oi

$1,000,000,000.

=—
Agriculture’s Suggestions for New
Legislation

The legislative program that
will be sponsored by the Depart-
ment of Agriculture will contem-
plate the following pieces of legis-
lation:

Federal control over commodi-
ties exchanges much after the

fashion proposed last session and
which failed of acceptance by
Congre:s; broadening of authority
of the Agricultural Adjustment
Administration for land purchase;
clarification of the licensing pow-
ers and the widening of the scope
of marketing agreements of that
agency; adoption of the ever
normal granary idea empowering
the AAA to pay contracting farm-
ers benefits in kind instead of in
cash, and the separation of the
Commodity Credit Corporation
from the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation.

—_» 2+ >
Milk Prices Held Unlikely to Rise
Despite unusually high feed
prices which are drastically rais-
ing producers’ cost:, milk prices
are held unlikely to advance fur-
cher within the near future.
Contrary to expectations of
many, milk production has shown
no tendency latterly to decline
beyond normal seasonal propor-
tions. Concurrently, consumption
has contracted, and over the holi-
day period the contraction is ex-
pected to become more severe.
The liberal supply situation re-
strains prices from going higher.
On the other hand, after the
holidays there is some expecta-
tion that consumption may in-
crease. If this develops and
weather conditions are severe, the
supply of milk may diminish sufh-
ciently to permit firmer prices in
the early spring.

We hear much of controlled inflation,
but because inflation is so much a mat-
ter of mass psychology and of power-
ful political claptrap in the winning of
votes, controlling inflation is like con-
troling the opium habit. The supply
of money and circulating credit which
must be controlled is even more a mat-
ter of the velocities of their circulation
than of the number of units in circula-
tion, and these velocities are largely
matters of public confidence — con-
fidence in the business situation and
prospects on the one hand, and con-
fidence in the currency on the other
hand— and confidence in times of
stress and strain is to a great extent a
matter of volatile mass emotions which
it is extremely difficult to control.

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HOTEL
DEPARTMENT

More About the New Mojave Gold
Fields

Los Angeles, Dec. 22—Last week’s
Tradesman brings me information to
the effect that Charley Renner, so well-
known in Michigan hotel circles, has
been transplanted from Hotel Whit-
comb, St. Joseph, to the Indiatlantic
Hotel (By the Sea), a 125 room insti-
tution at Melbourne, Florida. Un-
doubtedly Charley had a good and
substantial reason for making the
change, which I trust was a matter of
compensation for services to be ren-
dered, but I do not believe there is a
single soul in the entire state of Michi-
gan—and I might include bordering
states as well—who will not feel poig-
nant regret at his leaving his older
field, where he has served so long and
faithfully and treasured up so many
warm friendships. His capabilities as
a host and business manager are un-
questioned and his friendships are a
marvelous asset to any institution with
which he may be connected. Since my
advent in California, I have run across
many of his old acquaintances, who,
during his connection with the Fred
Harvey system, had dealings with him.
These acquaintances were by no means
confined to the profession, but included
rail men, a former governor of New
Mexico, who mentions his name fre-
quently, and a whole range of com-
mercial travelers. Out here his con-
nection with Roosevelt's Rough Rid-
ers, during the Spanish- American war,
is a matter of history. But it is not as
a warrior that I am singing his praises.
I have known him ever since he came
to Michigan, many years ago, to enter
upon hotel affairs, have always admired
him, and have taken occasion to sound
justifiable praise of his efficiency. The
Floridians are to be congratulated upon
his accession to their ranks. Mr. Ren-
ner also has a most charming wife and
a most wonderful family, all brought
up in hotel service, who will be fully
appreciated in his new field. The
Tradesman well says: “Every guest
of the house will be thankful he was so
fortunate as to fall into the hands of so
genial and capable a landlord as Char-
ley Renner.” :

 

 

That lady in Boston who so far has
lived in one hotel for forty-sexen years
is a good recommendation for the hotel
business generally. Doubtless, in the
course of half a century, she had op-
portunity to make comparisons be-
tween hotel life and life in a private
home—in fact, having been forty-four
years of age when she took up her
abode in the hotel where she now re-
sides, she may have tried housekeep-
ing of the old-fashioned sort—but her
preference for hotel living remained
firm. And, of course, the desirability
of the mode of living she chose has in-
creased manyfold in five decades.

 

Maynard D. Smith, proprietor of
Hotel Fort Shelby, Detroit, and Wil-
liam M. Walker, former managing di-
rector and receiver of Hotel Tuller,
were appointed trustees for the Fort
Shelby, at a Federal court hearing, a
few days since. Mr. Smith and the De-
troit Trust Company have acted as
joint receivers for the property since
April, 1932. A permanent reorganiza-
tion of the company will be attempted
January Ist. The original Fort Shelby
was a success from the time of its
establishment. It was especially popu-
lar with the commercial contingent,
but in an unguarded moment its owner
was influenced to add a considerable
number of rooms at a great outlay,
completing same coincidental with the
coming of the present depression. Un-
doubtedly the proposed reorganization
will be on a basis whereby they can
continue serving the public at a profit
to the institution.

John R. Dignan, who was, I believe,
one of the early operators of Hotel
Vincent, Benton Harbor, has been ap-
pointed manager of the well known AlI-
lerton Hotel, in Chicago.

The Buffalo Hotel Association has
unanimously decided to abolish indi-
vidual highway display advertising
signs. This action followed acceptance
of a proposition which provides for the
erection of a large number of metal
hanging signs, directing tourist travel
into Buffalo, and its information bu-
reaus, who will supply necessary liter-
ature and information. This is certain-
ly organization to some purpose.

 

Greeters Charters all over the coun-
try are reporting large increases in
membership, indicating, naturally, that
hotel business is improving. And the
Greeter contingent is one of the most
necessary accessories when the hotel
needs efficient assistance.

 

Andy Weisburg, long associated
with Hotel Oliver, South Bend, Indi-
ana, and numerous Chicago hotel and
kindred enterprises, has filed a volun-
tary petition in bankruptcy. His many
friends in the Michigan Hotel Associa-
tion, will learn, with much regret, of
his financial troubles, for “Andy” was
sure a go-getter, and extremely popu-
lar and conscientious.

 

It was brought out at an investiga-
tion by the Detroit Hotel Association
that the State Tax Adminisration has
ruled that hotels must pay the sales
tax on employes’ meals although they
constitute a part of the compensation
and are consequently not truly retail
sales. The managers and auditors who.
were present at a recent meeting of the
organization agreed to uphold the
claim that they should not be so taxed,
and are planning to resist same.

 

Fred G. Miner, representing Rock-
wood Bros., and well-known to most
hotel men throughout the Middle
West, through his attendance at hotel
conventions, was married to Myra A.
Howes, Elsinor, California, a short
time since, and is spending the honey-
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The other week I told you about the
interesting trip to the new Mojave gold
fields as the guest of Doctor Moore,
but who should come along the other
day but my old friend W. B. (Billy)
Sheldon, and give me a great “song
and dance” about my prestige as an
“adventurer” and “explorer,” insisting
I should start him on the road to riches
via the gold route. So I went over
there again the other day, and got an-
other slant on the whole thing. It
seems it was an old prospector by the
name of Holmes who uncovered the
Silver Queen mine, which is .so much
talked about just now. Nature’s part
was establishing the ledge of gold and
silver ore and man’s error was in leav-
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up as much interest as Holmes’ find
of the Silver Queen. But I want all of
my readers to fully understand that
they are all shut out from participating,
because the district is all appropriated;
there is no way in for investors or
speculators unless you have capital by
the million. There is still the rush for
locations, but the situation reminds
me of conditions at Los Vegas, Neva-
da, several years ago, where I discov-
ered hundreds of broken-down flivvers,
parked on the desert, which were the
habitations—some of them—of large
families, with everything eatable, in-
cluding the jack-rabbits, and sanitary
conditions intolerable. I am not going
to say so much about the Silver Queen
mine, but a son of the discoverer in-
formed me that the daily output of
same runs from $8,000 to $10,000 per
day, but it requires a large fleet of
trucks to tote the ore to the railroad
and it has to be sent away to Denver,
or some other remote place to be ex-
tracted, which method precludes any
“tramp” prospector from realizing any-
thing on his efforts unless he has cap-
ital to carry on the development. It is
an interesting motor trip out to the
desert, but for the individual who is
not schooled in mining, and has no re-
serve forces, it means utter calamity.
No doubt millions will be made out
there, but only those who have re-
sources in a financial way, can hope to
accomplish a great deal. However, if
you are out here with your car, don’t
fail to go over and: see the “elephant.”
It is only 85 miies away from the
Angelic City, with good roads. But be
sure and carry provender with you.

A lot of hotels, particularly in Cali-
fornia, are advertising ‘‘one-room
suites.” Investigation develops the fact
that they comprise a folding bed which
disappears in the daytime and leaves a
“parlor” in its wake. Unless the beds
supplied are vastly improved over some
on which I have “reposed” in the past
I would be inclined to call them “non-
suites.”

I am not disparaging the so-called
hotel schools. Such criticisms as I have
made heretofore apply only to such as
knowingly take contracts to make real-
honest-to-goodness landlords out of
clods. There can be no possible ob-
jection to enrolling students from the
ranks of such as show aptness in the
right direction. A little brush-up will,
in such cases, prove advantageous.

It developed in a Los Angeles di-
vorce court that when a husband lost
his teeth he required his wife to feed
him with a spoon. The woman de-
clared this was cruelty, hence the de-
mand for legal separation. Women
may feed their husbands in theory but
not in fact. They may prepare the
meal, but when it comes to stoking
the male machine with fork or spoon
it simply isn’t done ethical. The man
simply must do his own wrestling.
Childish lovers may swap their spoons
of ice cream, but a full-grown man
must engineer his own manipulating.
That is the way the judge looked at it
and so informed the defendant.

Los Angeles hotel men have been
entertaining a delegation of their col-
leagues from Japan, during the past
few days. According to their state-
ments Japan investors in hotel prop-
erty are just as much worried over
lack of dividends as we are. Too many
hotels for the business obtainable, and
mostly caused by the mannpulations
of American capitalists. In Japan the
operator depends mostly on the tour-
ist trade which is more or less limited.

 

I usually take an interest in the lit-
erary offerings of home economics €x-
perts, because I have always been in-
terested in the introduction of domes-
tic science in the school curriculum,
‘but I have no sympathy whatsoever
in a movement under foot by certain

social leaders to do away with what
they are pleased to call “domestic
drudgery.” According to their notions
a community kitchen will do away with
what they define as “drudgery,” and
the dishes will be carted away and
burned. Why not go just a step far-
ther and do away with the necessity
of having a home at all? The meals
can be procured at a near-by drug store
and the individual may woo slumber
in some Turkish bath emporium. There
is a trend in this direction at about the
same ratio as juvenile criminals are
turned out of law courts. But thank
goodness, there are still intelligent
women who look upon cooking, not as
drudgery, but as an art, as it most as-
wrcaui is, minimized by electrical m7-
chinery, easily provided on the install-
ment plan. If all these so-called “ex-
perts’” would devote themselves to
make homes more interesting, instead
of looking for ways to abolish them,
there would probably be fewer divorces
and less criminal tendencies on the
part of human products of same.

Los Angeles, Dec. 29—Whatever its
final outcome, the drive for a National
system of old-age pensions, originated
here in California by Dr. Townsend, of
Long Beach, has already attained an
amazing growth, even considering the
temper of the times in which we live.
Launched less than a year ago, the
Townsend program has attracted mil-
lions of adherents. And when Con-
gress meets, its Washington lobby,
headed by the elderly doctor who orig-
inated the movement, will undoubted-
ly be one of the most potent political
forces in the National capital. With
12 million persons over the age of 60
all over the country, and new followers
being added daily, ready to shower
Congress with petitions and telegrams
at an instant’s notice, the Townsend
pension plan promises to become, for
a time at least, the biggest issue be-
fore the administration. Some of my
Eastern friends have asked me to tell
them all about it, and while I cannot
say I am in accord with the movement
I have attended various meetings and
listened to many intriguing talks on
the subject. The almost complete una-
nimity with which congressional can-
didates in Southern California and
other western states pledged them-
selves to support the plan in return for
the votes of older citizens in the re-
cent campaign is evidence of the tre-
mendous political power wielded by
the mild-mannered Long Beach phy-
sician. And undoubtedly the success
of the Plan’s supporters in the congres-
sional elections on the coast has raised
high hopes among hundreds of thou-
sands for national legislation granting
pensions of $200 a month to all per-
sons over the age of 60. A chief argu-
ment made by the Townsend plan ad-
voates is that it would make room for
several millions of the younger gen-
eration in business and _ industry,
through the retirement from gainful
work of all over 60, It is not so much
a pension plan, say its proponents, as
a plan to make money circulate faster.
Naturally there are objections offered
to the scheme by the President’s com-
mittee on economic security, the claim
being advanced that it would require an
expenditure of 19 to 24 billions . per
year. This it is claimed is ten times
the cost of the present federal relief
program. That to raise this enormous
sum would require a sales tax ap-
proaching 50 per cent. or thereabouts.
The ten per cent. tax proposed by Dr.
Townsend would not produce more
than five billions. And such a tax would
simply mean transferring that much
buying power from the entire public
to less than nine per cent. of the peo-
ple. But regardless of its merits, the
Long Beach doctor’s scheme has taken
a strong hold on millions, most of
whom have little idea of the enormous-
ness of the program. Its enactment by
Congress doesn’t seem possible, but it

will be a big issue at the coming se-
sion.

The daily newspapers announce that
William G. Kerns, owner of Hotel
Kerns, Lansing, is contemplating the
construction of an eight-story 100 room
hotel on the site of the hostelry which
recentiy burned, and that R. E. Olds
announces that he has under consider-
ation the’ construction of a 130 room
addition to Hotel Olds. Now, no
doubt, there is justification for. Mr.
Kerns’ plans, as his hotel was extreme-
ly popular among commercial men and
other travelers, but from my own view
of the program I should say that, for
the present, at least, and under the
existing conditions, further additions
to. Lansing’s hotel capacity would be
somewhat problematical, though there
is to be considered the fact that hotel
constructiom is much more economical
to-day than it has been for some time
in the past. But, of course, the Olds
financial status is of such a character
that any additions to its capacity need
not, for lack of patronage, be embar-
rassing to that public spirited indi-
viduai. he hotel of the future, espe-
cially in the larger cities, must be erect-
ed with a due regard to the safety of
its patrons, and no doubt Mr. Kerns
will pay especial attention to that fea-
ture. After an establishment has been
built is no time to depend on hotel in-
spectors. There are many _ hotels
everywhere that can safely be conceded
as fire traps, but I doubt if any way
will be devised for fire-proofiing them.
May be there is no such an institution
as a strictly fire-proof building, but to
create one which is slow-burning and
amply provided with avenues for es-
cape from a holocaust, is surely within
the bounds of reason, and with alert
hotel inspection the latter features can
be systematically applied. Lansing is
provided with several exceptional ho-
tels, but it is a city of reasonable and
healthy growth, which must be reck-
oned with in the future, but at present
there is very little to jusify an exten-
sive building program.

Speaking of showers! Here I am
surrounded by a maze of _ holiday
greetings to the number of over two
hundred, mostly from Michigan, but
with scattering ones from other states,
the Hawaiian Islands, and a lone, but
truly welcome one from my friends,
Mr. and Mrs. George Harlow, who
conduct a hotel of some importance in
the kingdom of Siam. I trust this will
act as a partial acknowledgment of
these many evidences of friendship
from my hotel friends and others, not
of the cult.

So far this winter—if you may call it
such—the daily temperature has kept
up to the record of 54 to 74, at each
reaching, and the announcement has
been broadcasted to the effect that the
Rose Carnival to be held at Pasadena,
New Year’s Day, will be resplendent
with these attractive blooms for which
it is named.

Visited Franklin Pierce, at his cozy
home in Hollywood, a couple of days
since, and I have great satisfaction in
telling his host of Michigan friends
that at 78 he is still “going strong,”
straight as an arrow, and _ wishing
everybody a Happy Holiday. While he
cannot keep up with the writer in
pedestrianizing stunts, he still. enjoys
his auto trips with friends, of whom
he has a bushel out here.

Quite frequently I receive letters
from Michigan friends who tell me
they keep in touch with my activities
through the medium of the Tradesman,
which they find on file in many hotels.
Of course it is quite gratifying to know
of this kindly interest, but it goes far
to prove that the journal which very
charitably publishes my stuff is read
by commercial men quite copiously,

which ought to make it a valuable
means of communication between Jand-
lords and their possible patrons. I
have noticed that its oldest advertisers
among the hotel fraternity are still
using it as an advertising medium,
which is “enough said.”

A Los Angeles woman told the
judge the other day, in a divorce case,
that her husband nagged her so per-
sistently that she became as “thin as a
rail.” Here is something that might
appeal to other women who are in de-
spair over their efforts to reduce. Get
a nagging husband and then when the
result is achieved, apply for a divorce
and draw alimony—thus killing two
birds with one marital experience.

Cigarette manufacturers are not
making any particular hit with hotel
and restaurant operators by publiciy
advocating the use of their products in
lieu of real food. Whatever may be
the joy of smoking, there is still a very
potent reason for “keeping the home
fires burning” when it comes to the
encouragement of food production.
There will probably always be a few
who cannot subsist altogether on nico-
tine, and their side of the story is yet
another thing.

There is a rather universal complaint
among hotel keepers to the effect that
there is little or no profit in the feed-
ing game, and yet I daily discover out-
standing evidences of success by oper-
ators of exclusive feeding establish-
ments. One of the largest here, a
chain affair, recently changed hands at
a sale price of many millions, and yet
the principals started here in a small
way less than twenty years ago. There
are restaurants and restaurants, but
there is also a discriminating public,
and the success of any such institu-
tion depends almost altogether on the
latter contingent. If they are treated
with fairness both as to quality of food
and charges made therefor, the public
will surely discover it.

Raymond E. Hood, recently man-
ager of the Union Park Hotel, Chi-
cago, and a former assistant manager
of Hotel Durant, Flint, has been ap-
pointed to an executive position with
the Frigidaire Corporation.

The Hotel World-Review in its men-
tion of the recent convention of the
Kentucky Hotel Association, has this
to say of a former Detroit hotel man-
ager, with whom the most of us are
well acquainted: ‘The large Michigan
delegation was due to two reasons:
First, the fame of Kentucky hospital-
ity, and second, the fact that Harold
Sage, manager of the Seelbach Hotel,
Louisville, is a former Detroit hotel
man, and the Michigan folks were at-
tending the convention as his guests.”

Two hundred former employes of
the Los Angeles street railway, who
failed completely in a tie-up of the
organization, now threaten to boycott
the company. It is to laugh!

Every Sunday throughout the entire
year the largest trolley system on the
entire globe—the Pacific Electric rail-
way, of Los Angeles—has on sale a
pass which covers almost their entire
holdings, which enables you to visit
75 cities, stopping off at your pleasure,
and sold for one simoleon. It is cheap-
er than gasoline, combines absolute
safety with pleasure, and good for the
entire 24 hours. The best record I
know of was by a friend of mine who
negotiated 374 miles one Sabbath day.

Frank S. Verbeck.

—___o +o.

Nobody has any right to find life
uninteresting or unrewarding who sees
within the sphere of his own activity a
wrong he can help to remedy, or with-
in himself an evil he can hope to over-
come.—Charles W. Eliot.

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

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Director—E. J. Parr, Lansing.
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Colds and Coughs Sure to Come in
Winter

Colds. A cold is a general term ap-
plied to a multitude of disorders affect-
ing the upper respiratory system. It
is usually called a common cold or an
ordinary cold and affects more people
than any other single ailment. While
a cold, in the majority of cases, is a
mild or trivial disease, the sum total in
suffering, inconvenience, complications
and economic loss resulting from it,
makes this apparently mild disease a
serious problem in prevention and
treatment. The number of days chil-
dren are kept out of school because of
colds is considerable. Although people
may have colds or as it is commonly
stated “catch colds” at any time dur-
ing the year, it is mostly prevalent
when winter comes. The disease is
caused by some still unknown bacteria
or virus. The principal predisposing
causes to colds are lack of sunshine,
insufficient fresh air, overheated apart-
ments, draughts, sudden changes of
temperature, exposure to cold and
damp weather, too much clothing,
scanty clothing and general lowered
vitality. The symptoms of a cold may
range from a mild indisposition, chill-
ness, heaviness in the head or chest to
a feeling of being ill with general
aches and pains, severe discomfort in
the head, throat and chest. When the
condition is mild, it is designated as
a common cold; when it is severe, it is
usually called the grippe:

General treatment consists of rest in
bed in a warm, well-ventilated room,
warm undergarments, a light diet with
plenty of warm drinks. Medicinally, all
the patient needs is a mild laxative and
an occasional dose of aspirin or sodium
salicylate with codeine or camphorated
tincture of opium. The large number
or drugs for colds with which every
drug store is overstocked is either use-
less, worthless or harmful. All oils,
ointment and liniments with or without
fancy names which are being used to
rub into the chest or any other part of
the body are to be condemned. They
all reek with a pungent, irritating and
sickening smell. The common practice
or applying cups to the chest to draw
out or chase out a cold belongs to the
middle ages.

Coughs. A cough is not a disease but
a sign or a signal that something is

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

irritating the mucous lining of the
respiratory system. It is a protective
mechanism aimed to keep the respira-
tory tract clear of anything that does
not belong there. When the cough is
prolonged, constant or severe, it points
to some serious ailment. A careful ex-
amination should be made to determine
the underlying condition that is causing
the cough. Cough in children may be
due to enlarged tonsils, bronchitis, in-
halation of a foreign body, pleurisy,
pneumonia, the onset of measles, tu-
berculosis and whooping cough. A
persistent, prolonged cough which is
not accompanied by any fever or very
slight fever is usually due to tubercu-
losis or whooping cough.

The treatment of a cough is that of
the underlying condition. The indis-
criminate use of cough medicines,
cough mixtures, cough syrups and the
multitude of remedies recommended
as sure cures are not only worthless
but, in some cases, distinctly harmful.
In each and every case the cause of
the cough should be found and if pos-
sible, removed. To relieve the cough,
mild opiates or the bromides may be
given, The only cough that in itself
needs treatment is whooping cough.

Whooping Cough. Whooping cough
is contagious and widespread through-
out the world. It is the most persis-
tent of all coughs and generally comes
in violent spasms which leave the child
sore and tired. The fact that until
recently there was no reliable remedy
for the treatment of whooping cough,
created the impression that no medi-
cine will help and that the child must
cough it out or fight it through. This
neglect of the proper treatment of
whooping cough has caused the death
of thousands of children annually.
Gold, as gold tribomide, has been found
most valuable in the treatment of
whooping cough. The therapeutic ef-
fect of gold tribomide is based on defi-
nite pharmacologic action. When taken
into the body in the proper dosage it is
broken up into gold ions which are
antibacterial and tribomine ions which
are neurosedative and antispasmodic.
No other bromide or, in fact, any other
drug has the same pharmacologic ac-
tion and therapeutic effect. Gold tribo-
mide is now being dispensed and used
exclusively in the form of a standard,
assayed and palatable preparation
which is known as Elixir Gold Tribo-
mide (Elixir Bromaurate). The dosage
is a teaspoonful 3 or 4 times a day after
meals or more often when necessary.
Elixir Bromaurate shotrtens the period
of the illness from months to weeks,
reduces the severity and the frequency
of the coughing spasms and gives the
child rest and sleep.

Other Cough Disorders. While
Elixir Bromaurate is essentially and
chiefly an anti-whooping cough remedy
for which it is being extensively used,
it has also been found valuable in other
spasmodic coughs and in any cough
which is chronic and persistent. Expe-
rience has shown that the elixir is also
giving good results in bronchitis,
bronchial asthma, and such nervous
disorders as chorea and petit mal.

J. Epstein, M.D.
— 22>
We weaken when we exaggerate.

November Dawn on Lake Michigan

Can pen describe November’s sun

As once his course has he begun
Arising slowly o’er the lake

Of Michigan, as combers break

Along its bleak and dankish shore
Ebbing again to break the more

In white-caps dotting knots of green
Triumphantly; although unseen

By ship or sail, there hungry gull
Finds breakfast over bountiful.

What mighty awe the sun imparts
When o’er a threshold-lake he starts
The introduction of a day.
Wtih radiance to drive away
Both dark and doubt. His light is Faith
Eternal, and to mortals saith:—
“Behold what wonder-thing is done
That unto man is sent a sun
To guide his feet, his life sustain
As long as ever I remain.”

Old Sol! Great benefactor thou

With treasury which can endcw

All lands and seas, around the Earth
Yet greater grows in wondrous worth!
Would man return his debt to you
The span of life would never do

To ever calculate the sum

Of what we owe; nor time to coine
However long the years should run
Could ever say—‘‘We’ve paid the sun.”

Charles A. Heath.
2-2.
The future always holds something

for the man who keeps his faith in it.

January 2, 1935

Chinaware Market Active

With stocks reduced to the smallest
levels in years, buyers of chinaware
crowd the wholesale market to arrange
for immediate replacements. The call
is entirely for sales merchandise but
few producers are in a position to offer
less than four weeks’ delivery.
Throughout the market selling agents
quoted only regular Fall prices on
goods ordered. Purchases included din-
ner sets selling at $6.95 to $12. Accord-
ing to some buyers, holiday business in
chinaware would have been 10 per
cent. greater in volume if stores had
been prepared for the heavy consumer
demand which developed early last
month,

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Happy is the man who can endure
the highest and lowest fortune. He
who has endured such vicissitudes with
equanimity has deprived misfortune of
its power.

———_+ > >—__.
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ARTHUR E. WELLS, First Vice-President

JOHN LARSON, Cashier

THE NATIONAL BANK OF GRAND RAPIDS
is pleased to make the following report of progress:

DEPOSITS

January 2 1994 ....._ =e $3,836,027.63
Mien 31,1994 === _____- 4,584,826.76
dunce 30, fe —isi“‘é (lélsa#w_(#C__L-- 5,957,466.57
September 30, 1934_________----- 6,171,064.81
December 31, 1934_______-------- $6,459,030.82

 

This is an increase of over 68 per cent in the
twelve months.

Our loans to individuals and industries have been
limited only by sound banking practice. It is our
desire to increase these loans daily in pace with
the needs of the community.

All deposits in amounts up to $5,000 are fully
insured under the amended Banking Act of 1933.

The Officers and Directors of the Bank appreciate
the co-operation of their customers and pledge their
support to the up-building of the commercial activ-
ities of Grand Rapids and Western Michigan .. .
always.

OFFICERS

JOSEPH H. BREWER, President

HARRY C. LUNDBERG, Assistant Cashier RUSSELL FAIRLES, Auditor

HOLLIS BAKER, President Baker Furniture Factories
MELVILLE R. BISSELL, JR., President Bissell Carpet Sweeper Company

JOSEPH H. BREWER, President

WALLACE E. BROWN, President Grand Rapids Varnish Company
THERON H. GOODSPEED, President Kent Storage Company

WILLIAM A. HYLAND, Surgeon

DIRECTORS

ARTHUR E. WELLS, Vice-President

‘The National Bank

of

Grand Rapids

 

 

JAMES VICTOR STUART, Vice-President
ARCHIBALD K. GIBSON, Assistant Cashier

EARLE S. IRWIN, President Irwin Seatirig Company
LEWIS A. JARVIS, President W. B. Jarvis Company
ALBERT B. KLISE, President Blackmer Pump Company
BOYCE K. MUIR, President Muir Company

PERCY OWEN, President Michigan Bakeries

 

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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. Each week we list items advancing and declining

upon the market.

By comparing the base price on these items with the base price
the week before, it shows the cash advance or decline in the 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 DECLINED
Spring Lamb—2c Pork Neckbones—ic
Good Lamb—ic Pork Trimmings—3c
Medium Lamb—ic Barrelled Pork, clear
Good Mutton—2/c back—$8
Medium Mutton—2c Barrelled Pork, short
Pork Loins—3c ccut
Pork Butts—3c Pure lard in tierces—tc
Pork Shoulders—2c Beef, Boneless rump—
Pork Spareribs—3c Be $1 a barrel
AMMONIA BREAKFAST FOODS Blackberries
Premio, No. 19... 6 00
Little Bo Peep, med... 1 35 Kellogg’s Brands Quaker No, 2---__--- 1 co
Little Bo Peep, lige.--. 2 25 Corn Flakes, No. 136— 2 65
Quaker, 32 oz._..____- 210 Corn Flakes, No. 124— 2 65 Blue Berries
Pep, No. 224.-.....___ 2 26 Eagle, No. 10----_--- 8 50
Pep No. 250 ~----.---- 1 05
Krumbles, No. 412_-_. 1 55 Cherries
Bran Flakes, No. 624.. 1 90 Hart, No, 10__-_-____ 5 70

APPLE BUTTER

a 12-28 oz.,
pe ee 1 55

BAKING POWDERS

Royal, 2 0z., doz _____ 80
Royal, 6 oz., doz...._.. 2 00
Royal, 12 oz., doz.____ 3 85
Royai, 5 lbs., doz.__._. 20 00

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S ea Saat

4doz.in case__ 3 35
150z., 2doz.in case__ 2 45
25 0z., 2 doz.in case__ 4 12
5 Ib., 1 doz, in case__ 5 90
10 Ib., % doz. in case__ 5 75

10 0z.,

BLEACHER CLEANSER

Lizzie, 16 oz., 12s_-__-
Linco Wash, 32 oz. 128 2 oo

BLUING

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

BEANS and PEAS

Dry Lima Beans, 25 Ib. 2 25
White H’d P. Beans__ 4 05
Split Peas, yell.,
Split Peas, gr’n, 60 Ib. 4 75
Scotch Peas, 100 1b... 6 90

BURNERS
Queen Ann, No.1 -__-.- 1 15
Queen Ann, No. 2 _.--_ 1 25
White Flame, No. 1
and 2, doz.__-------- 2 25

BOTTLE CAPS

Single Lacquor, 24 gross
case, per case-._._. 4 10

Bran Flakes. No, 650__ 1 00
Rice Krispies, 6 oz... 2 .

Rice Krispies, 1 0z.---- 1
All Bran, 16 oz. ---— a 30
All Bran, 10 - ae

  

All Bran, % 0

Whole Wheat ia, 243 2 40
Whole Wheat Bjs., 24s 2 31
Wheat Krispies, 24s.. 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 65
Post Toasties, 24s____
Post Brank, PBF 24__
Post Bran, PBF 36-- 3 15

we

  

Amsterdam Brands
Gold Bond Par., No.5% 7 50
Prize, Parlor, No. 6_-. 8 00
White Swan Par., No.6 8 50

BROOMS
Quaker, 5 sewed__-__._ 7 26
Warehouse -_-----. 7 75
Winner, 5 sewed_-__-- 5 75
Rarer ee eee ee 4 50
BRUSHES
Scrub
New Deal, dozen-... 85
Stove
Shaker, dozen ........ 90
Shoe
Topcen, dozen ------ 90

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

  

CANDLES
Electric Light, 40 lbs._ 12.1
Plumber, 40 Ibs.....--. 2.8
Paraffine, 6s --_-- - 14%
Paraffine, 12s _------.. 14%
Wicking —_------__--.- 40

Tudor, 6s, per box___. 30

CANNED FRUITS

Apples
Per
gen
Imperial, No. 10--_--- 5 00

Sweet Peas, No. 10_. 4 75

Apple Sauce
2

Hart, No... 2... 20
Hart, Nos10. 5 75
Apricots
Forest, No. 10------ 960 |
Quaker, No. 10_----- 9 75
Gibralter, No. a

 

Gibralter, No, 2%4-
Superior, No. 2%--

_ 2 80
Supreme, No. 2%____ 3 10°

Hart, No. 2 in syrup__ : 95
Hart Special, 2------ 25

Supreme, No. 2 in
Te 26
Hart Special, No. 2.. 1 35

Cherries—Royal Ann

Supreme, No. 2%--_. 3 20
Supreme, No. 2 _ ---- 25
Gibralter, No. 10.2... 9 25

Gibralter, No. 2%... 2 75

Figs
Beckwith Breakfast,
NO. 48 2 12 00
Carpenter Preserved,
b OZ. Giese
Supreme a No. 11 90

Fruit Salad

Supreme, No. 10__.-_ 12 00
Quaker, No. 10_-__-- 11 50
Supreme, No. 2%---- 3 45
Supreme, No. 2-- --- 2 60
Supreme, No. 1.----- 1 90
Quaker, No. 2%----. 3 15
Goosberries
Michigan, No. 10--_-- 5 35
Grape Fruit
Zeneda No. 2. 1 35

Grape Fruit Juice
Florida Gold, No. 1--

Quaker, No. 1_.---... 90
Quaker, No, 5--__---- 4 50
Loganberries

Premio, No. 10 ------ 6 75

Peaches
Forest, solid pack,

Noi iO oe 7 30
Nile, sliced, No. 10--_ 6 50
Premio, halves, No. 10 6 50
Quaker, sliced or

Gibralter, No, 2%---. 2 00
Supreme, sliced No,
oe se ee 2 15
Supreme, halves,
No. 236 2 25
Quaker, sliced or
halves, No. 2%4----- 2 10
Quaker sliced or
halves, No. 2_.----. 1 70
Pears
Quaker, No. 10------ 8 59
eee Bartlett, No. a
Quaker, Bartlett, No. =

Pineapple Juice
Doles, Diamond Head,
NO. eo 2 1 45

Pineapple, Crushed
Imperial, No. 10. 7 50
Honey Dew, No. 2%-- 2 40
Honey Dew, No. 2-.. 1 90

 

Supreme, No. 2--.-.. 2 26- Quaker, No. 2%------
Quaker, No. 2_-----.. 210 Quaker, No. 2_.-.---- 1 80
Quaker, No, 2%----.. 2 85 Quaker, No. 1----.. 110

 

TRADESMAN

Pineapple, Sliced
Honey Dew, sliced,
No. 10

aoney Der No. 2%_. 2 45
Honey Dew, No. 2____ 2 00
Honey Dew, No. 1___. 1 10
Ukelele Broken, No. 10 7 90

 

Ukelele Broken, 2% . 2 25
Ukelele Broken, No. 2 1 85
Quaker, Tid Bits, No.

2. 8
Quaker, 8
Quaker, 2
Quaker, 1
Quaker,

Plums

Ulikit, No. 10, 30%

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

SVCD. ee 1 00
Prepared Prunes
Supreme, No. 21%4______ 2 45

Supreme, No. 10,
ee 6 50

Raspberries, Black

Imperial, No. 10__.—_ 7 00
Premio, No. 10.----__. 8 50
Hart, 8-ounce —_---__ 80
Raspberries, Red
Premio, No. 10..._.._ : 75
Daggett, NO; (220 a 2 20

St peernersipe
sotrcan, No, 2.00 2 50

CANNED FISH

Clam Ch’der, 10% oz._ 1 35
Clam Chowder, No. 2__ 2 75
Clams, Steamed No, 1 2 75
Clams, Minced, No. \% 2 40
Finnan Haddie, 10 oz._ 3 30
Clam Bouillon, 7 oz.-_ 2 50
Chicken Haddie, No. 1 2 75
Fish Flakes, small____ 1 25
Cod Fish Cake, 10 oz..1 54
Cove Oysters, 5 oz._-. 1 35
Lobster, No. 4 ----_. 2 25
Shrimp, 1, wet__----_. 1 45
Sard’s, 4 Oil, k’less_. 3 75

Sardines, 4 Oil, k’less 3 35
Salmon, Red Alaska__ 2 20
Salmon, Med. Alaska_ 1 75
Salmon, Pink, Alaska 1 38
Sardines, Im. %, meets
Sardines, Cal.

doz.
Tuna, 4s, Van Camps,
Oh
Tuna, Is, Van Camps,
Gon, 8
Tuna, %s, Chicken Sea,
oom 1 70
Tuna, % Bonita__.._. 1 25

CANNED MEAT

Bacon, med, Beechnut 2 50
Bacon, lge., Beechnut 3 75
Beef, lge., Beechnut__ 3 25
Beef, med., Beechnut_ 1 95
Beef, No. 1, Corned__ 1 90
Beef, No. 1, Roast eee 186
Beef, 2% oz., Qua., Sli. i 30
Corn Beef Hash, doz. 85
Bexfsteak & Onions, s. 2 70
Chiii Con Car., 1s_._-. 1 05
Deviled Ham, %4s----- 1 85
Deviled Ham, %s---. 2 #@
Potted Meat, % Libby 48
Potted Meat, % Libby_ 75
Potted Meat, % Qua... 65
Potted Ham, Gen. %-- 1 35
Vienna. Saus. No. %-- 90

; Baked Beans
Campbells 48s __--.___ 2 36

CANNED VEGETABLES

Hart Brand
Asparagus
Quaker, No, 2_-----_. 2 10
mont Picnic 1 80

Hunt No. 1, Med. Green 3 00
Hunt No. 1 Med. White 3 15
Hunt No, 1 Small

 
 

Green 25 en 2 80
Baked Beans

1 Ib. Sace, 36s, cs... 1 75

No. 2% Size, doz._--. 110

No. 10 Sauce_...-.-.. 4 00
Lima Beans

Baby... No. 22.2. -. 1 60

Marcellus, No, 2---..- 1 25

Scott Co. Soaked-... 90

Marcellus, No. 10_--_-- 5 90

Red Kidney Beans
INORG OD: ho ie a 4 75

MG 8 1 00

 

String Beans
Choice, Whole, No, 2-- : e

Marcellus Cut, No. 10_
Quaker Cut No. 2---- 1 20

Wax Beans
Choice, Whole, No. 2.- , 70
Gkt No gs
Marcellus Cut, No. 10_
Quaker Cut No. 2_--. 1 20

Beets
Extra Small, No. 2---- 1 75
Hart Cut, No. 10_----- 4 50
Hant Cut, No, 2... - 95
Hart Diced, No. 2... 90

Quaker Cut No. 2%-- 1 20

Carrots
Diced, No. 2) .-2 95
Diced, No. 10 ~------ 4 #0
Corn
Golden Ban., No. 2__-- 1 50
Golden Ban., No.10  _. " e
Marcellus, No. 2------
Fancy Crosby, No. 2-. i #0

Fancy Crosby, No. 10-. 6 4%

Whole Grain, 6 Ban-
inn. No. 2... 1 55
Peas
Little Dot, No, 2_---- 2 25

sifted E. June, No.10 _ 9 50
Sifted E. June, No. 2.. 1 90
Marcel., Sw. W No. 2 1 55
Marcel., E. June, No. 2 1 45
Quaker, B. Ju., No. 10 8 00

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Sauerkraut
NOS 10 cs es 5 25
No. 2% Quaker____._ 1 10
No. 2 Quaker_________ 95
Spinach
Supreme No. 24-_____ 1 75
Supreme No. 2______ 1 3732

Maryland Chief No. 2 1 10

Succotash
Golden Bantam, No. 2. 1 75
Ha No. 1 55

rt, oes
Pride of Michigan____ 1 25

Tomatoes

  

2
Gaaer NO. Sock ed

CATSUP
Quaker, 10 0z._...doz. 1 10
Quaker, 14 oz.....doz. 1 4@
Quaker gallon glass,
dozen

CHILI SAUCE
Sniders. 8 oz.

Sniders. 14 0g. ________ 2 25

OYSTER er.
Sniders, 11 oz

CHEESE
Ronvefort es re a
Wisconsn Daisy _
Wisconsin Twin

 

   

New York June, 1933___ 22
Sap Sago 2 52
ee 19
Michiven Wats 15.
Michigan Daisies ______ 15
Wisconsin Longhorn ___ 17
Imported Leyten ______ 27
1 lb. Limberger___._____ 19
Imported Swiss -_.... 56
Kraft, Pimento Loaf____ 24
Kraft, American Loaf__ 22
Kraft, Brick Loaf______ 22
Kraft, Swiss Loaf______ 24
Kraft, Old End, Loaf __ 31

t, Pimento, % Ib._1 70
Kraft, American, % Ib. 1 70
Kraft, Brick, % Ib.__ 1 70
Kraft, Limbur., % Ib._1 70

January 2, 1935

CHEWING GUM
Adams Black Jack.-.... 68
Adams Dentyne ~_----.. 66
Beeman’s Pepsin Soo 6S
Beechnut Peppermint___ 65
Doublemint 6
Peppermint, Wrigleys_. 66
Spearmint, Wrigleys__. 65

 

duicy Fru c. 65
Wrigley’s P-K_-.--..-- 65
SADGIEY. 2.3 65
CHOCOLATE
Baker, Prem., 6 lb. % 2 45
3aker, Pre., 6 lb. 3 oz. 2 60

German Sweet, 6 1b.4s 1 86
Little Dot Sweet
Goo tesa er ee 2 60

CIGARS

Hemt. Champions __. 38 50
Webster Plaza __.-_- 75 00
Webster Golden Wed. 75 06
Websterettes -_-.--_. 37 60
Cintog. 20 oe a 3
Garcia Grand Babies. 40 00
Bradstreets

me =
R G Dun Boquet_ ee,
Perfect Garcia Subl._ . 0
Kenwav 00
Budwiser
Isabella

 
 

Cocoanut

Banner, 25 ib, tins____ 20%
Snowdrift, 20 lb. tins. 20%

CLOTHES LINE
Household, 50 ft.._.__. 1 75
Cupples Cord ~__-... 2 90

COFFEE ROASTED

Lee & Cady

1 Ib. Package
Ryco. 222
Boston Breakfast
Breakfast Cup ___
Competition: 225 17%
Majestic oe 30
Morton House —_______ 32
Nedrow 2. 27
Quaker, in cartons____ 24%
Quaker, in glass jars_ 29

Coffee Extracts

M: Y., per 100-2002. 2
Frank’s 50 pkgs._.-__ 4
Hummel’s 50, 1 1b.____ 10%

CONDENSED MILK

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

Bxs.

Smith’ Brog.- 22022 52 1 45

Duden’g 252 a2 1046
Vick's, 40/10c__-_.__.. 3 40

COUPON BOOKS
50 Economic grade_. 2 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

Saltine Soda Crackers,

8% oz, pkgs.________.
Butter Crackers, bulk 13
Butter Crackers, 1 Ib. 1.66
Butter Crackers, 2 Ib. 3.12
Graham Crackers, bulk 13

Graham C’s, 1 lb.-____ 1 49
Graham C’s, 2 1p 277
Graham C’s, 6% oz... 93

Junior Oyster C’s, blk. 13
Oyster C’s, shell, 1 Yb. 1 71
Club Crackers ________ 1 76

CREAM OF TARTAR
6 Ib: boxes. 35

ORIED FRUITS

Apricots
Choice: 22 a 221%
Standard: 0 21
Citron
100 Ib. Dex. 2s 25

 

 

 

 

 

 

    
    
  
   
  
  
    
  
  
   
  
   
 
  
 
 
   
  
    
 
  
  
     
 
  
  
   
 

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Currants
Packages, 11 0z.-----.-- 13
Dates
Quaker, 12s, pitted__.. 1 40
Quaker, 12s, regular__ 1 10
Quaker, 12s, 1% Ib.-- 2 30
Quaker, 12s, PE ibe 1 45

Figs
24-8 oz, case_. 1 80

Calif.,
Peaches
Evap, Choice _.------- 14%
Eva: Hancy —2- 16%
Peel
Lemon, Torelli,
402), Got 90
Orange, Torelli,
4 0z., dozen___._-_ 90
Citron, Torelli,
4 of, doxen. 90
Raisins
Seeded, bulk ~_---.-_. 1%
Thompson’s S’dless blk. 7%
married s'dless bik.__--

8
Guise Seeded, 15 oz._- 8

California Prunes
90@100, 25 lb. bo:

40@ 50, 25 Ib. boxes __@09%
30@ 40, 25 lb. boxes __@11
@ 30, 25 lb. boxes -_.@13

20
18@ 24, 25 lb. boxes --@14

Hominy
Pearl, 100 Ib, sacks... 3 50

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

Pearl Barley
Chester

Lentiis
Sil Se 10

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

Jiffy Punch
3 doz. Carton_._--___-- % 25
Assorted flavors.

EVAPORATED MILK

Quaker, Tall, 10% oz.- 2 85
Quaker, Baby, 4 doz... 1 43
Quaker, Gallon, % az._ 2 85
Carnation, Tall, 4 doz. 2 95

Carnation, Babs 4 dz. 1 45
Oatman’s D’dee, Tall _ 2 95
Oatman’s D’dee, Baby 1 48
Pet; Pall 2560 2 95
Pet, Baby, 4 dozen__- 1 45
Borden’s, Tall, 4 doz.. 2 95
Borden’s, Baby, 4 doz. 1 45

FRUIT CANS

Ball Mason
F. O. B. Grand Rapids
One pint =... 7 6
One quart ______-~- 9 00
Half gallon _._-___-___ 12 00
n Can Tops, gro. 2 55

FRUIT CAN RUBBERS
Quaker Red Lip, 2 gro.
ton

car ee 85
GELATINE

Jell-o, 3 doz.-------- 2 10

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

Knox’s, 1 dozen__--- 2 25

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

HONEY
Lake Shore 1 Ib. doz_- 1 90

JELLY AND PRESERVES
Pure, 30 Ib. 1 ea 2 60
Imitation, 30 1b. pails_1 85
Pure Pres., 16 0z., dz. 2 00
12 oz. Apple Jelly, dz. 95
13 oz. Mint Jelly, dz. 1 60
7 oz. Cranberry Jelly, dz 90

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

  

  

   

JUNKET GOODS
Junket Powder - ---- 1 20
Junket Tablets __._._ 1 35

MARGARINE
Wilson & Co.’s Brands
Ol

eo
oe ie uy
fons Animal Fat
Olea 2
MATCHES
Diamond, No. 5, 144. 6 25

Searchlight, 144 box_- 6 25
Swan, 144 5
Diamond, No. 0------. 5 00

Safety Matches
Red Top, 5 gross case 4 80
Congress, 5 gro. cs... 5 25
Standard, 5 gro. cs.__ 4 00

MUELLER’S Pec
Macaroni, 9 oz._______- 2 10
Spaghetti, Son. 2 10
Elbow Macaroni, 9 oz._ 5 10
Ege Noodles, 6 oz. _--- 2 10
Egg Vermicelli, 6 oz. 2 10

Egg Alphabets, 6 oz.__ 2 10
Cooked Spaghetti, 24c,
Eh (Of .s ee 2 20
NUTS
Whole
Almonds, Peerless -___ a
Brazil, large —2-- 13%
Fancy Mixed 22 2 16
Filberts, Naples —_-_._ 16
Peanuts, vir. Roasted 14
Pecans, 3, star --.--.--_- ;
Pecans, Jumbo _.-._-... a
Pecans, Mammoth __---- 50
Walnuts, Cal, -.17% to 22
Salted Peanuts
waney No ft. 12

12—1 hp. Cellop’e case_ 1 50

Shelled
Aymonds 39
Peanuts, Spanish, 125

lb. bags
Filberts
Pecans, salted
Walnut, California ____ 55

 

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

OLIVES—Plain
Quaker, 24 3% oz. cs.
Quaker, 24 7% oz. cs.
Quaker, 12, 12 0z._-__ 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. es.-. 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
a 34
ie oe eee 32
2— ‘and 682.20 2022 30

PICKLES

Sweet Small

L and C, 7 0z., doz.__ 92%4-

Paw Paw, quarts, doz. 2 80

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 20

PLAYING CARDS
Blue Ribbon, per doz. 4 50

Bicycle, per doz.__---- 4 70
Caravan, per doz... 2 25
POP CORN

Sure Pop, 25 lb. bags 2 55
Yellow, 24 1-Ib. bags__ 2 50

  

MICHIGAN

FRESH MEATS

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

  

 

   

 

 

 

Veal
Op, eee 11
pee - 10%
Medium: 2c) as 9%
Lamb
Spring Lamp 22 17
Good
Medium
oor
Mutton
GOOd) S220 eee ees 08
Medium
OO eee
Pork
Eons 23 ee 18
Birtts 2520s 16
Shoulders 2805 io 131%
Srarcribps 220 he 13
Neck Bones — eon OD)
‘Primmingig 58 he
PROVISIONS
Barreled Pork
Clear Back ____28 00@34 00
short, Cut, C re ee On00
Ory Salt Meats
D S Belles _.. 20-25 17
Lard
Pure in tierces: 05 14
vv Ib. tubs
5U lb. tubs
2U Ib. pails ____— advance %
10 lb. pails _._._-.advance %
5 lb. pails -_--_-advance 1
$ 1b. pails _-___: advance 1
Compound, tierces ____ 12%
Compound. tubs = 222-2 te
Sausages
Bologna —----___________ 12

 

Smoked Meats

Hams, Cert., 14-16 Ib.__ 19
Hams, Cert., Skinned

16-3 th oo @i9
Ham, dried beef

knuekles, (2 @22
California Hams  _.---- @14
Picnic Boiled tee oe

 

 

Boiled Hames --------@34

Minced Hams  -_---_--@13

Bacon 4/6 Cert.--__---- @27
Beef

Boneless, rump _...@25 00
Liver

Beet 2 9

Pork 22 ee 08
RICE

Fancy Blue Rose_----- 5 00

Baney Head __.___. 6 10
RUSKS

Postma Biscu): Go.

18 rolls, per case ____-- 2 10

12 rolls, per case ____-- 1 39

18 cartons, per case ___ 2 35

12 cartons, per case __- 1 57

SALERATUS
Arm and Hammer 24s_ 1 50

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

packages —-—------- 110

COD FISH
Bob White, 1 Ib. pure 25

TRADESMAN

 

 

HERRING

Holland Herring
Mixed, kegs ~__ _ S85
Milkers, REGS) es 95
Boneless Herring 10 tb. 14
Cut Lunch, 8 lb. pails 1 25

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

White Fish
Med, Fancy, 100 Ib... 13 00
Milkers, bbls. ____-_-- 18 50
K K K K Norway-_-__ # 50
8 Ib. spatlasee 1 40
Cut Bunecko 1 50
Boned, 10 lb. boxes__.__™ 16

SHOE BLACKENING
2in 1, Paste, doz.____- 1 30
E. Z. ‘Combination, dz. i 30

 

Dri-Foot, doz. --.----- 2 00
Bixbys, doz. __-_ 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._

Pah Obed be Det et pd ee pt
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oS

Vulcanol, No. 10, doz._ 1 30
Stovoil, per doz.___--__ 3 00
SALT
F. O. B. eas Rapids
Quaker, 24, 2 Ib._.--_ 95
Quaker, 36- ae oS 1 20
Quaker, Jodized, 24-2. 1 35
Med. No. 1, bbis.--____ 3 00
Med. No.1, 100 lb. bk.__ 1 00
Farmer Spec., /0 lb._- 1 00

Packers Meat, 50 Ib... 65
Crushed Rock for ice,
cream, 100 lb., each 83

Butter Salt, 280 1b. bbl. 4 00
Block. 50 Ips 40
Baker Salt, 280 Ib. bbl 3 80
6, 10 Ib., per bale______ 96
20, 3 Ib., per bale ____ 1 02
25 Jb. ‘bogs, table__.. 45

   

Lag Gtstratean
A ee }

Free Run’g, 32, 26 oz.. 2 7*

Five case lotac 3 80

Todized, 32, 26 oz.--_-- 2 4)

Five case lots___------ 2 30
Colonial

Hifteen 48) 05 1 00

  
   

Todine, 24, 2s_.__._--_- -

Iodine, 36, 1----%---. 1 20
Plain, 36, 1%
Log Cabin Plain, 24, 2s 1 35

BORAX
Twenty Mule Team
24,1 lb. packages _____ 3 35
48,10 oz, packages... 4 40
96,14 lb. packages____ 4 00

WASHING POWDERS

Bon Ami I’d., 18s, box_ 1 90
Bon Ami Cake, 18s__-. 1 65
FSriio) 2 cece ee 85
Big 4 Soap Chips 8/5__ 2 40
Ghipso, ‘large =.= 4 05

 

Climaline, 4 doz.__--_-
Grandma, 100, 5¢c_---__ 3
Grandmm, 24 large-_.. 3
Gold Dust, 12 large_. 1
La France Laun 4 dz. 3
Lux Flakes, 50 small__ 4 80

4

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Lux Flakes, 20 large. 4 55
Old Dutch Clean., 4 dz. 40
Octagon, 966 _- 3 90
Rinso, 24s 80
Rinso, 40s 95
Spotless Cleanser, 48,

20° Of oo 3 85
Sani Flush, 1 doz.___-- 2 25
Sapolio, 3 doz.__ 273.19
Super Suds, 48 ~----- : .
Sunbrite, 50s____-_-__-

Wyandot. cieanek 24s 1 60

SOAP
Am, Family, 100 box 5 20
BB Wen ee 2 3
Fels Naptha, 100 box__ 4 65
Flake White, 10 box__ 3 10

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Ivory, 100 Gee 495
Fairy, 100 box_________ 3 25
Palm Olive, 144 box... 6 20
Lava, 50 box... 2 55

Camay, 72 box_....... 3 95

P&G Nap Soap, 100@3 10

Sweetheart, 100 box.-_ 5 70

Grandpa Tar, 50 sm. __ 2 10

Williams Barber Bar, 9s 50

Williams Mug, per doz. -
3

Lux Toilet, 50..--.-._
SPICES
Whole Spices
Allspice Jamaica______ 4
Cloves, Zanzibar__.__- @36

Cassia, Canton .______ @24
Cassia, 5¢ pkg., doz.__ @40
Ginger, Africa —_=____ 19
Mixed; No. Tie 2

Mixed, 10c pkgs.,
"Yutmegs, 70@90 __-___

Tutinegs, 105-110 _._.. @48
2epper, Rilack _.._____ @23

Pure Ground in Bulk
Allspice, Jamaica __.. @18
Cloves, Zanzbar ___.-- @28

“assia, Canton______-_ @22
Ginger, Corkin ._.-__.. @17
Mustard: oo @21
Mace Penang ________ 6)
Pepper, Black See @23
Nutmegs 92 2 M25

Pepper, White __.____ @45
Pepper, Cayenne ____. @26
Paprika, Spanish ___-~ @36

Seasoning

Chili Powder, 1% 2... 62
Celery Salt, 1% oz... 80

 

Ponelty, 3% oz._______ 3 25
Kitchen Bouquet_____ 4 35
Laurel Leaves _______ 26
Marjoram, 1 oz._._____ $0
Savory-) 0g.) 2 e153 65
Rhyme -F 07.00 90
Tumeric, 13%6 oz ______ 35
STARCH

Corn
Kingsford. 24/1. 2 2 35
Powd., bags, per 100__ 3 95

Argo, 24, 1 lb. pkgs__ 1 66
Cream, 24-1) 225 oo) 2 20
Gloss
Argo, 24, 1 lb. pkgs.__ 1 66
Argo, 12, 3 lb. pkgs.__ 2 26
Argo, & 5 lb. pkgs.-___ 2 «6
Silver Gloss, 48, Is__.__ 11%
Elastic, 16 pkgs.______ 1 33
Wiger: SQ: Ibaic 2) oo 2 82
SYRUP
Corn

Blue Karo, No. 1% __ 2 65
Blue Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 3 58
Blue Karo, No. 10____ 3 40
Red Karo, No. 5
Red Karo, No.
Red Karo, No. 1

Imit. Maple Flavor
Orange, No. 1%, 2 dz. 2 &7
Orange, No. 3, 20 cans 4 34

Maple and Cane
Kanuck, per gal._____- 1 25
Kanuck, 5 gal. can____ 5 30
Kanuck, 24/12 Glass__ 4 00
Kanuck, 12/26 Glass 4 15

Grape June

Welch, 12 quart case__ 3 90
Welch, 12 pint case___ 2 00

COOKING OIL

Mazola
Pints, 2 doz., case__.. 5 10
Quarts, fF doz 4 70

5 gallons, 2 per caSe__ 1) 15

TABLE SAUCES
Lee & Perrin, large__. 5 75
Lee & Perrin, small___ 3 35

Pepper. hii 1 60

Royal Mint. 23 2 40

Tobasco, small______-- 3 75

Sho You, 9 0z., doz.___ 2 00
4

 

      
  

Japan
Medium 2 19
Cnolea _.. 22@30
Bancy oe 30@36
No. 1 Nibbsa. = ae
Gunpowder
Choi ee 34
Ceylon

Pekoe, medium _.___-_. 63

English Breakfast

Congou, medium  _______ 8
Congou, eheice 35@36
Congou, fancy ______ 42@43
Oolong
Medium, 39

 

TWINE
Cotton, 3 ply cone._____ 40
Cotton, 3 ply balls______ 40
VINEGAR

F. O. B. Grand Rapids
Cider, 40 pa
White Wine, 40 grain 193%
White Wine, 80 grain 24%

 
 

WICKING
No. 9, per gross _______ 80
No. 1, per gross _______ 1 25
No. 2, per gross _______ 1 60

No. 3, per gross 2

Peerless Rolls, per doz. 90
Rochester, No. 2, doz... 50
Rochester, No. 3, doz. 2 00

Rayo, per doz.________ 15
WOODENWARE
Baskets

Bushels, Wide Band,
wood handles_______ 2 00

Market, drop handle. 90
Market, single handle_ 95
Market, xtra 1 60
Splint, large: 2 se 8 60
Splint, medium

Se 7 50

Splint, smal 9 222 322 6 50
Churns

Barrel, 5 gal., each____ 2 40

Barrel, 10 gal., each___ 2 55

3 to 6 gal., per gal.____ 16
Pails

10 qt. Galvanzed ______ 2 60

12 qt. Galvanized 2

14 qt. Galvanized _____

12 qt. Flaring Gal. Jr._ 6 00
4

10 qt. Tin Dairy_. _____ 4 00
Traps

Mouse, wood, 4 holes____ 60

Mouse, wood, 6 holes__ 70

Mouse, tin, 5 holes... 65

Rat, wood = 1 00

Rat, springs @0 00023 t 1 00

Mouse, Spring a, 20
Tubs

Large Galvanized_____ 8 75

Medium Galvanized___ 7 75

 

Small Galvanized _____ 6 75
Washboards
Banner, Giobe________ 5 50
Brass, single. 2 = 6 25
Glass, single___ 6 00
Double Peerless__ 8 50
Single Peerless________ 7 50
Northern Queen______ 5 50
MWnkversal 22092 re 73

Paper Food Dishes
¥% |b. size, per M____ 2 70

1 Ib. size, per M______ 2 90
2 Ib. size, per M______ 3 40
3 Ib. size, per Mee =: 415
5 Ib. size, per M______ 5 60

WRAPPING PAPER

 

Butchers D F 05%
Krate: 2S -- 05%
Kratt Stripe... 09%

YEAST CAKE

  

Magic: 3 doz 2 = 2 70
Sunlight, 3 doz. 70
Sunlight, 1% doz. --___ 1 35
Yeast Foam, 3 doz.__-_ 2 70
Yeast Foam, 1% doz.__ 1 35

YEAST—COMPRESSED
Fleischmann, per doz._-_ 30
Red Star, per doz._----- 24

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22

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

January 2, 1936

 

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 Venting, Saginaw.
“ Se ton -Bicherd Schmidt, Hills-
ale.

Vice-President—Bdward Stocker, De-
troit.

Vice-President—B, C. Olsee,
Rapids.

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

Field Sec’y—O. R. Jenkins, Portland.

Yearly dues $1 per person,

Grand

 

Other People’s Ideas in Shoe Selling

“What is the use of having a big cir-
cus if no money comes in? It is the
cash in the till that counts.” This is
the way Marcus Rice, shoe merchan-
diser at the great Famous Barr store
in St. Louis, sizes up the proposition
of carrying permanent “loss leaders.”

In these times of grading up and
changing prices, here is a good tip
from this well-known buyer on how to
keep one’s finger on immediate trends.
A daily record of retail prices is kept,
then this is broken down into percen-
tages for a monthly recapitulation. The
stock on hand and on order is then
checked in a similar manner to see that
the right proportion is being main-
tained. The object is a properly price-
balanced stock which, in the opinion of
this astute buyer, is fully as important
as a well balanced stock from the style
angle.

One other big thing in merchandis-
ing is to find the exact price at which
an article will sell best. Sometimes a
5c variation will kill the sale. Then
he illustrated how a slipper priced at
$1.65 did not show the right amount
of action, but when it was repriced at
$1.59, the sales showed an almost in-
credible jump.

That energetic manager of Brown’s
Booterie in Chattanooga—F. M. Fu-
trelle—has worked out his own plan of
action. In fact he had it typed out
and was keeping it in his desk until
by chance I saw it. It reads:

“Get the facts back of the merchan-
dise you are selling; get this story over
to the salespeople; let them learn all
there is to know about every item in
the store, for they are in direct con-
tact with the trade; keep up sizes, espe-
cially on those shoes which are being
spot lighted; go after extra business
that is to be had by doing something a
little different from the usual run; de-
velop originality and not copy; be a few
steps ahead of the others; be sure all
business getting ideas are simple so
everyone understands them; be certain
they are in keeping with good taste.”

Louis Friedman, who manages the
Reed Shoe Store in South Bend, Ind.,
manages to pick up quite a little extra
business by meeting the salespeople in
those ready-to-wear stores in town
which do not have shoe departments.
When he goes around on these visiting
trips, he always carries a supply of
business cards. His message is that he
can match up the gowns carried in the
store which he is visiting.

Now the proof is what is accom-
plished. Friedman tells me that a
couple of weeks ago he outfitted two

bridal parties to shoes, selling 18 pairs
in all to girls who had never been in
his store before. Seven of these girls
came in later and bought more shoes
for street wear. Stores sending in trade
like this are repaid by the boys in the
Reed store reciprocating. Many tran-
sients come to South Bend, not only
for the foodball games but trade from
nearby towns and the regular run of
tourists. Many of these people ask to
be recommended to a good place to
buy dresses, so the rest is easy.

A foot health club has been organ-
ized by S, J. Cunningham, manager of
the Lane Bryant Shoe Department, St.
Louis, which functions wholly within
the store itself. The idea is to get all
the sales girls to wear and to recom-
mend the kind and type of shoes sold
in this store.

Going back to the old adage of a
satisfied customer being a store’s best
advertisement, Cunningham set out to
make satisfied customers of the entire
selling force of his store. The method
used was both simple and unique. All
girls who signed a slip saying that they
would co-operate were immeditely fit-
ted to a pair of shoes of their own
choice. These shoes were to be their
own property without any cost to them
whatever, if they introduced ten new
buying customers to the shoe depart-
ment within the next 30 days. In addi-
tion to the free shoes, the shoe depart-
ment guaranteed to pay the regular
store introductory commission of 50c
on $8.50 grades and 25c on $7.50 shoes
which were sold on recommendation
of salesgirls.

Real action developed from the start,
with the shoe department averaging
to sell several extra pairs of shoes daily.
A chart posted in the girls’ locker room
kept them informed as to the daily
progress of the contest. Cunningham
finds the chart is a very good way of
sustaining interest and of keeping the
idea in front of the girls all the time —
Harry R. Terhune in Boot and Shoe
Recorder.

—_- + >__

Men’s Sales Goods Bought Freely

Although stores have already placed
a substantial volume of business for
January sales events, additional large
amounts are expected next week. Indi-
cations are that this month’s retail vol-
ume should run about 15 per cent.
ahead of January, 1934. Retail stocks
have been cleaned up thoroughly and,
on a number of items, manufacturers’
shelves are also quite bare, it was said.
Suits up to $20, shirts in the 79-cent to
$1 range and neckwear up to 50 cents
will be among the items promoted
strongly.

— 2+ +>

Our rulers will best promote the im-
provements of the nation by strictly
confining themselves to their ow: legit-
imate duties, by leaving capital to find
its most lucrative course, commodities
their fair price, industry and_ intelli-

gerce their natural reward, idleness

and folly their natural punishment, by
ma‘ntaining peace, by defending prop-
er‘v and by observing strict economy
in every department of the state. Let
the Government do this—the people
will assuredly do the rest—-Thomas
Babington Macaulay

 

Events in Detroit Council, No. 9,
United Commercial Travelers
(Continued from page 14)

The number of American civilians
killed on the highways of the United
States during the last fifteen years was

close to 325,000.

Stanley Ecclestone and his family
enjoyed a happy Christmas with his
folks. They struck a bad snow storm
and had difficulty in proceeding. So
Stanley decided to have the motor in
his car changed. But now he doesn’t
know what to do, because his car con-
tinues to run backward all the while.
And just because he got an “O. V.
motor in his exchange—too much
Christmas cheer.

Floyd Burch entertained a group of
friends on Christmas eve. His folding
chairs had been at Evernest, the Allard
summer home on the Canadian shores
of Lake Erie, for sometime. The snow
was so deep, no one could drive back
to the lake. And so the Cleveland air-
plane which flies over here stopped
and picked them up and brought them
to Floyd in ample time for his party.
He is naturally glad, but wishes it
brought a little of the very popular
Evernest Special to add a wee bit of
cheer to the party.

Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Drouillard en-

tertained their friends and relatives
Christmas. “E. J.” generally makes
the coffee. Now he has invented a

new method for French drip coffee.
So clever is the device which is at-
tached to your automobile that the
coffee is all made while Droillard
drives his car about town to make his
business calls. Now boys, watch for
this as standard equipment on the new
1935 ford which he is selling.

Bill Allard has returned. He spent
the holidays with his father-in-law,
Otto Bullis, who for over fifty years
has been the druggist at Maple Rapids.
Bill is wearing a red checkered tie such
as actors do. Well, isn’t he actor
enough, anyway?

Comptailor made Christmas weather
observations. He went to the Ridg-
field-Elms Inn at Ridgefield, Conn.
This fine New England Inn is con-
ducted by Andrew B. Wallace, former
vice-president of the Leland Hotel
Hotel Corporation and at one time
managing director of the Detroit-
Leland Hotel. Not a sign of snow
here—grass green and temperature 36
above. Sun by day, and full moon by

MUTUAL

 

OUNDNESS
TABILITY

are symbolized by

THE MICHIGAN SHOE DEALERS
MUTUAL FIRE

MUTUAL BUILDING LANSING MICHIGAN

night with a clear, beautiful sky just
twinkling with bright, lovely stars.
Comtailor was delighted to find Dr.
Harold I. Wallace and wife stopping
here. These two charming personali-
ties, blended with marked graciousness
of manner, have won the hearts of
many members of Detroit Council No.
9, together with hundreds of other De-

“troiters, He bade them a Merry Christ-

mas and then journeyed quickly back
into Michigan. Snow—plenty of it—
greeted him. Blow, blow and how it
did blow. Four degrees above zero,
an overhanging sky; typical Christmas
weather. So cold did our traveler find
it that he dropped into Harry A.
Northway’s gas and oil station, 601
East Main street, Owosso, to get
thawed out. Harry, real fellow, pop-
ular with the trade, was glad to see
him. But he was so busy with custom-
ers that it took one whole hour to have
a ten minute chat. So Comptailor de-
cided to quit traveling. He wishes you
the happiest of New Years and wants
you to join hand in hand with the new
U. C. T. Safety Program of the Busi-
ness Relations Committee of the Mich-
igan Grand Council. Their slogan is
Save Lives—Help the Living.
Wigstaff.

>>

If man loves war, why does it take
so much effort and money, such lies
and atrocity stories, such displays of
bands and flags to rouse him to hate
and fight? Why, despite all this effort,
do so few men volunteer that a com-
pulsory draft is is absolutely necessary?

 

Cash paid for stocks of merchandise
of every description including ma-
chinery, plants and equipment.
Write or wire

M. GOLDSMITH

935 Gratiot Ave. CAdillac 8738
DETROIT, MICHIGAN

 

 

Complete modern Drug Store fixtures for sale at
a great sacrifice, consisting of plate glass sliding
door wall case, show cases, cash registers, count-
ers, back bar soda fountain and utensils, etc.
ABE DEMBINSKY, Liquidator
171 Ottawa Ave., N. W.

Grand Rapids Michigan

 

 

Phone 89574

John P. Lynch Sales Co.
SPECIAL SALE EXPERTS
Expert Advertising
Expert Merchandising
209-210-211 Murray Bldg.
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January 2, 1935

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

23

 

OUT AROUND
(Continued from page 9)

Washington — Hamilton — Frank-
lin — Adams and Jefferson, could they
return, would not recognize their own
handiwork. They never contemplated,
even remotely, that the Government
would one day be operating cafeterias,
hotels, railroads, bakeries, laundries,
dairy farms and selling perfumes, paint,
wheat, lumber and soft drinks, making
awnings, brick, brooms, bronze cast-
ings and forgings, gasoline engines,
furniture, garbage cans, glue, ham-
mocks, ink, mattresses, optical glass,
overalls, rope, sausage and shoes.

(The above paragraphs are predi-
cated on a speech recently made by C.
A. MacDonald, of Detroit.)

 

Mr. and Mrs Edward Bartholomew,
of Ravenna, were honored at their
sixtieth wedding anniversary last Mon-
day evening. They were married at
Nunica in 1874 and resided at Muske-
gon five years before going to Ravenna.
Mr. Bartholomew has been engaged in
the hardware business at Ravenna for
many years and is well regarded by all
who know him. He has been an eager
reader of the Tradesman many years.
I wonder if any other patron of the
Tradesman can equal Mr. Bartholo-
mew’s record?

Jesse Rainsford Sprague is a most
interesting writer on business subjects
and his articles often appear in the
“Saturday Evening Post.” He had an
article in that paper of the issue of
Noy. 24, headed “Business in the
Wheat Country,” but in it he reported
on chain store conditions, and the prob-
able future of chains in various sections
of the country. It is interesting reading
for individual grocers and some of his
observations are here reproduced:

In St. Paul I met an official of a
large chain store organization who was
starting on a trip through the wheat
country to inspect his concern’s stores.
He said:

“The chain store industry as it exists
to-day has never gone through a major
depression. We take it for granted that
this depression will bring some chang-
es. We want to know more about it
before we open any new stores. I am
making this trip to try and figure out
what the changes will be.”

I asked him if he cared to prophesy.

“I believe,” he answered, “that we
are going to face stronger competition
from independent merchants. Every in-
telligent chain store executive realizes
that in the past we have had an easier
time than we were entitled to. When
a chain store came to town about half
the merchants threw up their hands
and quit trying. But now, here in the
Northwest especially, the weaklings
have been pretty well weeded out. The
good merchants are left. They are go-
ing to put up a fight.”

The most constructive remark on
storekéeping that I heard in the North-
west came from the chain store official
I met in St. Paul. He told me that his
store managers frequently quit their
jobs and start stores of their own. I
asked him if that might not eventually
make hard competition.

“These store managers you have
trained,” I said, “are far more skillful
than the ordinary merchant. When

enough of these trained men start in
business, won’t it be bad for the
chains?”

The executive’s reply was shockingly
cynical, I beg any indignant reader to
remember that the words I set down
are not my own. The executive said:

“The chains aren’t superhuman. We
may be able to train a young man to be
a good store manager, but we can’t
make a merchant out of him. We can’t
put the qualities into him that make
him competent to run successfully a
store of his own. Either he has got
those qualities, or he hasn’t. All that
the officers of a chain organization
can do is to invent rules and_ insist
that the store managers carry them
out. Every store manager knows that
if he doesn’t carry out the rules he
will lose his job. But when a man
quits and starts a store of his own,
it’s different. Probably he knows what
he ought to do to make his store profit-
able, but there isn’t anyone to make
him do it. A good energetic wife may
help, but she can’t fire him if he doesn’t
obey.”

A St. Paul business man who has
interests throughout the Dakotas and
Eastern Montana talked about the
chains and independents:

“T do not like to see chain stores
monopolizing the main streets of our
good American towns. No matter how
much you may like to buy at a chain
store, you must admit that it consti-
tutes a sort of absentee landlordism.
Years ago I ran the weekly newspa-
per in a South Dakota community.
When I went from my house to my
office I might stop to talk with a dozen
merchants. Some of them wore whis-
kers and perhaps were not exactly up-
to-the minute merchandisers, but they
were useful citizens. They took an in-
terest in the town. They were willing
to make sacrifices for it. Now, when I
go back there to visit, there is scarcely
anyone on Main Street for me to talk
to. I am not interested in the young
chain store managers, nor they in me.
They come and go. Their main inter-
est is to be promoted to a bigger store
in Sioux Falls, or Fargo, or Duluth.
Sociologically, I am all against the
chains.

The down-and-out soap box orator
has a panacea for all ills; the brilliant
writer for the agricultural journals
doesn’t know succotash seed; and the
bespectacled dame who tells us how to
rear our offspring never had any.

 

Nobody asked me for it. Perhaps
nobody will heed it. Maybe I am class-
ed with those above enumerated, but
my advice to every merchant every-
where is this: Get as much money out
of your business as the traffic will bear.
Profits are not measured by the size
of your store building or stock, but by
the cash you carry home to your wife
or deposit to your personal account in
the bank. Convert your profits into
something else—real estate, Govern-
ment bonds, good stocks, anything
wholly reliable—but prythee, my good
masters, don’t devote a lifetime to
building up a mercantile establishment
which may died with you unless you
have sons or understudies whom you
have educated to carry on the business.

Establish an estate, be it ever so
small. Get something tangible, some-
thing real, something you can sell or
realize upon when the evil days come
or as the sun sinks in the Western
horizon and the shadows of life

lengthen.

Get not necessarily great wealth—I
hate money grubbers—but enough to
assure a calm and peaceful old age. En-

joy life while it is yours. Spend money
if it produces real happiness, but save
sanely, avoiding any approach to miser-
liness; for “What doth it profit a man
though he gain the whole world’—
and leave a rich widow?

 

Last week the Michigan Tradesman
issued its fifty-first anniversary edition,
all of the fifty-one years this journal
being under the ownership and man-
agement of one man—Ernest A. Stowe
—who is still vigorous and active and
perhaps the greatest single force in
Michigan mercantile circles. The
Tradesman had 108 pages last week
brim full of interesting articles and
timely advertising. Congratulations,
Editor Stowe, glad you are able to
continue to be “up and at ’em!”—How-
ard City Record.

 

Saint Johns, Dec. 28—I congratulate
you cordially upon the fifty-first anni-
versary of the Michigan Tradesman,
marking, as it does, the fifty-first an-
niversary of service to the best interest
of business men. Subscribers instinc-
tively recognize the extra measure of
service beyond the dollar and cents
service the Tradesman willingly gives
the merchants.

I wish you success in continuing
scriptural measure of service to high
ideals and public good and that you
will be allowed by the Great Master
above to be our guiding spirit for years
to come. C. B. Mansfield.

Harry C. Moon, dealer in general
merchandise at DeWitt and a long-
time subscriber to the Michigan
Tradesman, renews his subscription for
another year and says: “I never like
to renew my subscription without a
word of appreciation for your wonder-
ful paper and the good it is doing for
the independent merchant. May you
live long and happily.”

J. D. Erskine, general dealer at Al-
lenville, who has read the Tradesman
thirty-five of the thirty-six years he has
been in business, writes me as follows,
concerning the cheese factory in Allen-
ville:

“We have one of the best equipped
cheese factories in the Upper Penin-
sula, all run by electricity. We are not
making cheese for the past two months.
We have a $1,000 pasteurizer and we
pasteurize all the milk and sell it to
the CCC camps in one-half pint bot-
tles. We get 5c per quart for it, so
I think we are doing well. I am pleased
to see you are handed so many com-
If I could

write I would send you one, too. I

pliments by your readers.

have taken your paper thirty-five years
and it has helped me in many ways,
especially to guard against crooks and
given me a lot of other things too
numerous to mention. I am going on
thirty-six years in this store and I have
customers dealing with me to-day who
dealt with me the first day I opened
up. I was in your office some years
ago, but you were away, and the last
time I was a delegate to a state con-
vention in Grand Rapids I did not
have time to call on you. Now next
summer, old boy, you have got to make
a trip thrugh the Upper Peninsula and
give it a good write-up. Let me know

a few days ahead when you are coming,
so I will be at home.”

Adolph G. Krause leaves this week
for St. Petersburg, Florida, where he
will be located for the next three or
four months. It is seldom that a man
well along in years as Mr. Krause
gets so much enjoyment
among strangers.

genuine

Traverse City, Dec. 24.—I want to
take this opportunity of congratulating
you on the splendid edition of the
Michigan Tradesman, celebrating the
fifty-first anniversary. This is a very
well gotten up issue and filled with
worth while reading matter. I think
the Park Place should have some claim
to being one of the oldest subscribers
and advertising patrons of your fine
magazine.

The Michigan Tradesman has always
been in the foreground with worth
while and commendable issues that
have always been for the improvement
of the independent merchant, as weil
as our Own particular industry.

Geo. C. Anderson,
Manager Park Place Hotel.

The desire of the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation to assist industry
along the line of supplying working
capital through loans to qualified bor-
rowers was indicated in an interview
to-day with Ira A. Moore, President
of the Peoples National Bank and for-
merly Manager of the Chicago office of
the Reconstruction Finance Corpora-
tion. Mr, Moore pointed out that the
Corporation is offering full cooperation
in this direction by placing at the dis-
posal of prospective industrial borrow-
ers the services of its local field men for
the purpose of aiding such borrowers
in the preparation and presentation of
preliminary applications and supporting
information. The local representatives
are V. A. Snell and E. G. McGugan
at the office of the receiver of the
Grand Rapids Savings Bank, and A. B.
Anderson at the office of the receiver
of the American Home Security Bank.

E. A. Stowe.
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Since there is nothing but the new,
we must dream dreams and see visions.
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COMPANY is an organization
of persons trained in the adminis-
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Many persons, not realizing the in-
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