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Trees Need Not Walk The Earth

Trees need not walk the earth

For beauty or for bread;

Beauty will come to them where they stand!

Here in these quiet groves

Is no pride of ancestry;

A birch may wear no less the morning than the oak;
Here are no heirlooms save those of loveliness,

In which all trees are kingly in their heritage of grace;
Here is but beauty’s wisdom

In which all trees are wise.

Trees need not walk the earth

For beauty will come to them

In the sunlight,

In the rainbow,

In the llac-haunted rain;

And bread will come to them as beauty came:

In the sunlight,

In the rainbow,

In the rain.
DAVID ROSS.

Judged By The Company One Keeps

One evening in October

When I was far from sober

And dragging home a load with manly pride,
My feet began to stutter,

So I laid down in the gutter

And a pig came up and parked right by my side.
Then I warbled: “‘It’s fair weather

When good fellows get together.”’

Till a lady passing by was heard to say:
“You can tell a man who boozes

By the playmates that he chooses,”’

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Number 2680

 

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NEW APPROACH to EDUCATION

 

Advanced Plan in Operation at Olivet
College

Some twenty-five or thirty years ago
it began to apnear to our shrewder ob-
servers that all was not well with high-
er education in America. The work of
Montessori and Froebel in the kinder-
garten was having far-reaching effects
on our educational thinking and men
like Abraham Flexner in this country
began ito see clearly what was amiss
with our colleges and to say in no un-
certain terms just what should be done
about them. But the mills of the edu-
cational Gods grind exceeding slow
and it is only in the last few years
that niuch has actually been done along
the lines then advocated. For in the
meantime the technique of psycholog-
ical testing had been developing and
the academic world had been trying
out what was thought to be a Scientific
approach to Education. Statistical
methods and analyses were employed
wholesale through our educational sys-
tem with many valuable and interest-
ing results. But somehow students con-
tinued to come out of our universities
and colleges as badly educated as ever.
Gradually it began to occur to a few
people in authority that we had been
busy applying quantitative standards
and methods ‘to a process in which
qualitative values are the ones of real
importance, for we have in education
to deal more with an art than with a
science.

Since the war many experiments
have been made in American higher
education and gradually we are devel-
oping what is for us a new approach
to education and one whose results
seem definitely to be superior to what
we knew formerly. Not that American
college education has always been bad
or that there have not always been
good results from it. Before the great
development of the experimental
sciences in the last century, some of

our institutions and the men in them
could have been compared favorably
with almost any in the world. And at
all times some men amongst us have
managed to learn and to know a very
great deal in spite and even sometimes
because of the system. But colleges
have to change like everything else and
our education has been going through
definite doldrums from which it is only
now emerging.

Just as, during the period in the last
century when the experimental sciences
were developing so rapidly, the meth-
ods and procedures of the German
Schools and universities had profound-
ly influenced our ways of doing things
in this countrv, so now in these new
developments, the attitudes and meth-
ods in operation in the Englsh univer-
sities of Oxford and Cambridge have
had a very great deal to do with the
changes which we have been making.
But just why skould we have been so
impressed with the methods employed
by these universities? Because we have
been impressed by the kind of knowl-
edge and the quality of mind possessed
by the men who have come out of these
institutions. Educational institutions
are to be judged by their graduates and
it has been clear that by and large in
late years the graduates of American
universities and colleges have not had
beneath them an adequate foundation
of that broad cultural knowledge on
which all special knowledges and tech-
niques must rest and from which they
derive their significance. They have
not seemed to know enough about the
various aspects of the world in which
we live to be aware of and to under-
stand the implications of their own
acts. They have not been able to act
intelligently in ithe widest sense and
such special skills as they have pos-
sessed have seldom been of the highest
order. It has seemed fairly clear, on
the other hand, that the graduates of
the English universities in general have
had a solider basis of operations and
have made customarily a more critical
use of their intelligence than could
be said to have been done by our coun-
trymen. It has seemed therefore that
there must be some virtue in the edu-
cational process through which they
have come, or at least in the psycho-
logical bases of that process, for there
is no reason to suppose that the Eng-
lish have inherently any better minds
than ours. We therefore began to in-
vestigate. And now we have begun to
act.

Behind the changes which are being
made there are in general two or three
basic concepts. First, we have discov-
ered that the important thing in edu-
cation is the student, and that the fun-
damenal unit with which we have to
deal is a unique, individual human per-
sonality, a personality existing in so-
ciety to be sure and inseparable from

it, but none the less a unique individ-
ual. To deal with education in terms
of groups and averages is to deal with
unreal situations, with things that do
not exist. Any educational method or
system to be realistic and of true value
must therefore come to grips with the
problems of the different needs, capac-
ities and desires of individuals. More-
over, we have found out that an edu-
cation built up of bits and pieces by
the system of credits, hours, etc. can
never make a consistent whole which
will function organically for the indi-
vidual. We have also come to realize
that education essentially is not a proc-
ess of teaching, but one of learning. It
is not something which is done to
people, it is something which happens
inside of them; it is a process of
growth and consists not of the memori-
zation of facts and the recitations of
passages out of a lecture or textbooks,
but of the use of intelligence. Ulti-
mately it is probably impossible to
teach anybody anything. The most a
teacher can do is to make it either more
or less difficult for somebody else to
learn something. The good teacher is
obviously the one who makes it less
difficult. True education is to be got
therefore only where there is freedom
for the individual to learn amongst the
materials of learning.

But what practical changes have
been n:ade to put these principles into
effect and where have they been made?
In the course of experimentation, the
colleges have been aping the universi-
ties and have been trying to be all
things to all men, but now they are
beginning to realize that they have a
different and special function to per-
form in the realm of general education
which they can do better than the uni-
versities. The fundamental importance
for our civilization of the type of lib-
eral education for which the colleges
have traditionally stood is being re-
asserted in no uncertain terms. Even
such institutions as Harvard and Yale
in order to :naintain collegiate values
for their undergraduate education are
having to break up their large num-
bers physically with special groups of
buildings in order to meet the require-
ments of an individualized educational
process. One of the early signs of the
changing ideas and ideals was the in-
troduction by Dr. Aydelotte of so-
called Honors Work into Swarthmore
College in 1922. This work provides
for the more gifted students of the
colleges an opportunity to do advanced
work independently of the ordinary
class routine, in small groups or indi-
vidually under the direction of spe-
cial members cf the faculty. Variations
of this process have by now been in-
troduced into probably the greater
number of our colleges. As members
of faculties see the advantages accruing
from these methods of working and

are learning that intellectual freedom
is not really dangerous, opportunities
for more independent work are gradu-
ally being extended to whole student
bodies. Rollins College, The Univer-
sity of Chicago, in its undergraduate
department and Colgate University
have probably gone as far as any insti-
tution in the country in this direction.
Antioch College and the Experimental
Colleze of the University of Wisconsin
have contributed much in divergent
ways to the whole movement. The Cur-
ricula of the colleges have been under-
going tremendous changes in the direc-
tion of integration and methods in gen-
eral have been tending towards greater
flexibility.

The changes which Olivet College
has introduced this autumn, are indica-
tive of a general tendency throughout
the country. The four years of the nor-
mal college course are divided between
the Junior Division and the Senior Di-
vision of the College. In the two years
of the Junior Division, general educa-
tion is being undertaken in five major
fields of knowledge, The Physical
Sciences, The Biological Sciences, The
Social Sciences, The Arts and Litera-
ture, and Philosophy and Religion,
with advanced, continuation work in
one of these fields. Normally, work in
three of these fields is undertaken in
the first year and in the remaining two.
the second year with advanced work
in one of the first year fields. At the
end of the two years, a comprehensive
examination is held for admission into
the Senior Division. In the Senior
Division advanced and specialized work
is being undertaken in one of Seven
Schools: The Physical and Natural
Sciences, The Social Sciences, The
Languages and Literature, The Fine
Arts, Education, Music, and Philoso-
phy, Psychology and Religion. At the
end of two years, a comprehensive ex-
amination will be set for graduation.
A reading knowledge of two foreign
languages is also required for gradua-
tion. The work throughout is being
conducted by a combination of lectures,
small discussion groups and individ-
ual tutorial conferences. As the stu-
dent progresses through the College
and as he shows himself capable of it,
his work will be done more and more
independently until in the end he will,
it is hoped, be standing solidly on his
own feet. Each student is assigned to a
special member of the Faculty who
acts as his particular guide and tutor,
with whom he plans out all his work,
to whom he is responsible and who in
turn is responsible for him. The whole
process is being kept so flexible that
each student can work out a program
of study which best fits his needs, ca-
pacities and desires and wherein he can
be free to discover and work at his
own best pace, whatever that may be.
The quick student is not held back by

 

 

 

 

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the average of a class nor is the slow
student pressed beyond his capacity to
absorb. The emphasis throughout is
on the mastery of subject matter.

In the actual working out of the
plan the daily schedules have been. or-
ganized in such a way that nearly all
of the academic work is done in the
morning. In the early afternoon when
it is stili light in the winter and when it
makes a valuable break in the day,
the program of intra-mural sports and
games-playing is carried out. Students
then go back to such academic and
other work as remains in the late af-
ternoon. In the Junior Division, there
are usvzlly one or two lectures and one
conference a week in each field, with
laboratory work, etc., in addition. In
the Senior Division there are in general
fewer lectures and one conference a
week. For the conferences, a great deal
of reading is expected and written re-
ports are prepared as bases for dis-
cussion.

While the College itself is making no
use of the system of accumulating
credits, it has worked out with the
help cf authorities of the University
of Michigan a technique for evaluat-
ing work done at Olivet in terms of
the credit system for purposes of trans-
fer, admission to graduate schools, etc.,
and it has made definite arrangements
with the University for the acceptance
of credits under the new plan.

Of course it is too soon yet to know
much about the effectiveness of the
new plan for the objectives the College
has in mind. Readjustments of various
kinds will be 4s necessary as they will
be inevitable. Some requirements in
this respect «re already becoming ap-
parent. But in general there has been
less co1fusion in putting it into opera-
tion than had been anticipated.

The studenis were recently asked to
fill out an elabkorite questionnaire on
various phases of the plan as now op-
erating. The answers which they made
very conscientiously and frankly are
not orly significant of the results so
far but are being used as the basis for
future readjustments. The most gen-
eral conclusion to be drawn from the
questionnaire and one which is borne
out by the opinions of the. Faculty, is
that the students as well as the Facul-
ty, are workinz much harder than ever
before but that the extra effort is de-
cidedly worth while since all are find-
ing a greatly increased interest in their
work as a result of the new way of
approaching it. A supporting indication
of increased effort is the objective fact
that the library is being used as it has
never been used before and its facilities
taxed tc the vimost.

In the change to the new ways the
students have encountered principally
two difliculties, both of which were an-
ticipated and which are gradually dis-
appearing. Both were welcomed by
the Faculty as signs of growth in the
students. One is the inevitable prob-
lem which we must all face at one time
or another of learning how to organize
our own lives, how to budget our time
efficiently. This is essentially a prob-
lem in self-discipline and the increasing
wise use of time being made by the
students on the whole, is most grati-
fying. The second difficulty is more

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

arduous and wil] take longer to adjust.
That is the problem which most stu-
dents have not had to face up to now
of discevering for themselves and per-
fecting a method of learning best suited
to themselves as individuals. This has
produced a certain sense of flounder-
ing, of being lost, on the part of some
students, one which we all experience
when faced with some new situation,
but one which tends to disappear with
experience. This, too, was expected
and while the Faculty is doing its best
to minimize the effects of this, it con-
siders it a salutary process for by it,
and perhaps by it alone, do individuals
find themselves and achieve some
measure of intellectual independence.

 

If ultimately, through our re-organi-
zation of the College, we can make of
learning a co-operative venture in
whicn students and teachers are jointly
engaged, where there are no artificial
barriers between teacher and taught,
where the activities and procedures of
the group, since they spring from social
needs are social in their methods, and
where the group is governed by a sin-
gle objective, learning, and that learn-
ing is always related to the present,
we shali feel that we have become not
just a simulacrum of a civilized com-
munity, but a functioning part of the
world of our time and have justified our
existence. Joseph ‘Brewer, Jr.,

President Olivet College.

Joseph Brewer, Jr.

Usually students have to wait until
after their school or college days to
make this discovery, often at excessive
cost. It is considered therefore not
only a valuable indication of growth
that it has appeared now, but a fortu-
nate one in that it is taking place where
help and guidance is at hand.

These difficulties will be less notice-
able and less arduous when the new
plan has been longer in operation. It
is new now to all concerned, and the
wonder is that it has proceeded so
smoothly as it has. For it is definitely
working and working well. But it is
of the essence of the plan that it should
be kest flexible and in the best sense
experimental, that is, in the sense that
all life should be experimental, a con-
stant seeking for true values, for the
best, not the newest.

liberty and breadth to
thought to learn to judge our own
epoch from the point of view of uni-
versal history, history from the point
of view of geological periods, geology
from the point of view of astronomy.
When the duration of a man’s fife or
of a people’s life appears to us as
microscopic a sthat of a fly, and in-
versely the life of a gnat as infinite as
that of a celestial body, with all irs
dust of nations, we feel ourselves at
once very small and very great; and
we are able, as it were, to survey from
the height of spheres our own exist-
ence and the little whirlwinds which
agitate our little world,

It gives

—_+2-_
Treasure your mother. Never again
will you find a woman who can’t see
how ornery you are.

January 30, 1935

IN THE REALM OF RASCALITY

 

Questionable Schemes Which Are

Under Suspicion

Hastings, Jan. 25—Do you know
anything about an extract company
which apparently does business as the
Bedford Co., New London, Ohio? One
of their representatives is in our city,
undertaking to induce several churches
and lodges to buy their extracts to sell
for the profit to the organizations. In
their contract they agree to take back
and refund the purchase price of all
goods not sold, but the purchaser has
to pay for goods upon receipt of same.
A bottle of extract that costs 35c is to
sell for 65c. This looks good to many,
but to me it looks like something to be
investigated.

I will thank you for your opinion of
the mztter. W Hinman.

Grand Rapids, Jan. 26—My opinion
is that the concern is a good one to
stay away from. Its rating by the mer-
cantile agency is so slim that no one
with any degree of caution would con-
sider doing any business with it on the
theory that he might be compelled to
ask for the return of his money. Any-
one who makes a business connection
with such a corcern will, in all proba-
bility, wish he had never heard of the
house. E. A. Stowe.

 

Trade representations held to be un-
fair to competitors will be abandoned
by several organizations entering into
stipulation agreements with the Fed-
eral Trade Commission to cease and
desist from such practices. Details of
the cases are as follows:

False and defamatory statements
purporting to describe the manufac-
ture, sale or composition of oleomarga-
rine, are not to be published by the
Farmers Union Co-operative Produce
Association, of Wakeeney and Colony,
Kans., manufacturer and distributor of
butter, according to its stipulation
agreement with the Commission.
Neither is this association to distribute
information stating directly or by im-
plication that oleomargarine, in the
usual process of manufacture, or the
cocoanut oil contained therein is un-
sanitary, or otherwise unfit for human
consumption, The company is not to
make such statements as oleomarga-
tine is a “poor man’s butter,” or cir-
culate false information concerning the
cost of materials used in manufactur-
ing oleomargarine.

George Pauker and Morris Pauker,
co-partners, of 1225 Broadway, New
York City, dealers in men’s and boys’
Sweaters, agree to cease using the
words and fioures “100 per cent spun
yarn,” as a brand or label with which
to mark any of their products not com-
posed: entirely of wool yarn; also to
stop using these words and figures in
any way having a capacity to deceive
buyers into ithe belief that goods so
marked are composed wholly of wool
yarn when such is not the fact.

The American Polish Co., 220 North
Desplaines Street, Chicago, jobber of
shoe and automobile polishes and
leather findings, agrees to discontinue
employing the word “Neatsfoot” as a
brand or label for its products, in a way
tending to deceive buyers into believing
them to be composed wholly of neats-
foot oil, when this is not a fact.

Trustlow Poultry Farm, Inc., of
Chestertown, Md., is to discontinue
using in its advertising matter the fol-
lowing phrases: “Toxite, the disease

 

 

 

 

January 30, 1935

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

3

 

killer,” or “Toxite disease controlling
spray,” or other representations of
equivalent meaning which imply that
the product will put an end to all poul-
try diseases or is effective in the con-
trol of all diseases common to poultry,
or possesses a value for controlling
poultry diseases in excess of what is
actually the fact.

Conducting correspondence courses
in secretarial work and accounting, the
Standard Extension University, 130
Wells St., Chicago, agrees to omit from
its corporate name the words “Exten-
sion University,” so as not to imply
that the corporation is a university ex-
tension organized for teaching and
study in the higher branches of learn-
ing.

American Sponge & Chamois Co.,
Inc,, 47 Ann street, New York City,
dealer in sponges and chamois, agrees
to cease using in advertising the word
“manufacturers” when it does not own
or contro! a factory wherein its prod-
ucts are made.

Use of the words “Swedish Bread”
and “Genuine Knackerbrod (Scandina-
vian Bread)”, on labels affixed to con-
tainers of a health bread in a manner
tending to deceive buyers into believing
the product to be imported from Swe-
den, when this is not true, is to be dis-
continued by the Skoal Baking Co.,
Inc., of 23-17 Thirty-Seventh Avenue,
Long Island City, N.Y. However, ac-
cording to the stipulation, if the prod-
uct is of the same type of bread as that
produced in Sweden or Scandinavian
countries, and the descriptions above
mentioned are employed, they are to be
accompanied by other words in equally
conspicuous display so as to indicate
clearly that the bread is of domestic
origin and that the descriptions refer
to the type of product and not the
country of origin.

Climax Manufacturing Co., 2334-36
South Michigan avenue, Chicago, mak-
er of portable oil refiners for use on
automobiles, agrees to stop using the
words, “The Climax Staff of Lubricat-
ing Engineers,’ or any similar or
equivalent phrase which may tend to
deceive purchasers into believing er-
roneously that Climax Manufacturing
Co. maintains such a staff.

 

Lines of Interest to Grand Rapids
Council

The ladies of the Council will serve
a Chinese dinner in the Council cham-
bers Saturday evening, Feb, 2, from
5:30 to 7. This dinner will b: served
to anyone who will make his reserva-
tion not later than Friday, Feb. 1. The
charge will be the small sum of 35c per
plate. The dinner will be served under
the direction of Mrs. Harry Nash and
she requests that reservations be made
with the following ladies: Mrs. Nasa,
9-5085: Mrs. Groom, 3-5019; Mrs.
Lozier, 5-4998; Mrs. Westfeldt, 9-6469:
and Mrs. Colegrove, 8-0682.

The old mill has started to gr.nd out
the program for the annuai hoine com-
ing party and ball to be given by Grand

Rapids Council Saturday evening.
March 2. This event will be the thirty-
third annual party to be sponsored by
the Council. The party in the evening
will conclude the activities of the an-
nual meeting and election of officers.
Page Tom Fishleigh, chairman of the
entertainment committee, announces
that plans are well along and that the
evening will be large and entertaining
for those who attend. He states that
one of the best musical organizations
of the city will furnish music for dan-
cing from 9 to 1 a. m. During the
evening a public installation of the
newly elected officers of the Council
will be held. Bridge and five hundred
will be furnished for those who do not
care to dance and a very appetizing
luncheon will be served just to keep
everyone good natured. He also an-
nounced that a valuable door prize will
be awarded to the holder of the lucky
number. From what we can learn, this
is expected to be one of the biggest
and best parties ever given by the
Council. Better mark your calender
right now for this event, so that you
will not overlook a good time. Non
members who are vouched for by Coun-
cil members will be admitted by ticket
only. The cost of the entire program
will be but 40c per person. Three hun-
dred tickets will be issued, so it will be
necessary to get yours quickly.

“Uncle, don’t you think it would be
rather foolish for me to marry a girl
who was intellectually my inferior?”

“Worse than foolish, Thomas,” was
the reply. “Worse than foolish—im-
possible!”

Don’t forget to be ready Saturday
afternoon, Feb. 9, when the gang starts
for Kalamazoo to attend the intersec-
tional meeting of Muskegon, Grand
Rapids, Battle Creek and Kalamazoo
councils. Battle Creek’s degree team is
going to put on the ritualistic work
and we understand they know their
stuff, The ladies are invited to meet
with the Kalamazoo ladies, so having
to leave the wife home will be no ex-
cuse. Round up as many of your
friends, who are members, as you can
and let us go down to the Celery City
with a real crowd.

Two pints make one cavort.

Word has been received that Clar-
ence J. Meyers and family have moved
to Stevens Point, Wis. Counselor
Meyers is an officer of the Hardware
Mutual Insurance Co. and is locating
in Stevens Point to better supervise
the company’s interests in that divi-
sion. Clarence has made rapid prog-
ress in the insurance business since
entering it about three years ago. The
Council extends its best wishes for his
further progress.

Milton Smith is making temporary
headquarters at the Ferris Institute in
Big Rapids. He is engaged in making
a Government survey of welfare con-
ditions in that district. He expects to
be located there for at least sixty days.

From the many reports that are com
ing in from Western Michigan, busi-
ness interests have decided it is time
to go forward through their own ini-
tiative rather than wait for further help
from the administration. The recent

gain in business has been sharp and
there is plenty of optimism to carry on
at a greater rate.

Some cause happiness wherever they
go; others whenever they go.

Do not forget the Council meeting
Saturday evening, nor the Chinese din-
ner which will preceed it.

Gilbert Stover has been assigned the
territory formerly covered by Frank
Holman. Frank has been working with
Mr. Stover for the past several days in
order to acquaint him with the terri-
tory. Frank is now located in Detroit,
where he handles the jobbing trade
only for the Atlantis Sales Corp.

The grand old man of Grand Rapids
Council, D. E. Keyes, will reach his
eighty-fifth birthday on Jan. 30. He is
a charter member of the Council and
one of the first members to merit the
honor of Past Counselor. Although
well past three score and ten, he is still
quite active and is present at our Coun-
cil meetings when the weather permits.
The Council extends congratulations
and wishes him many happy returns of
the day.

Plans are now being made for mem-
bers of Grand Rapids Council to attend
a meeting of Muskegon Council, which
will be held Friday evening, Feb, 15.
This is another meeting to which
neighboring councis are invited. It is
desired by the Grand Counselor that
as many as can will attend this meet-
ing. It is hoped that a good represen-
tative number be on hand to make the
trip.

Jimmy Malloy, who was severely
burned in the Kerns Hotel disaster, is
back on the job again. He is still suf-
fering from the burns on his feet, but
the skin is rapidly healing and he ex-
pects to be 100 per cent. in a short
time.

It is a great kindness to trust people
with a secret. They feel so important
Notgniklip.

while telling it.

 

Some Activities of Detroit Council,
No. 9

As time rolis along the pages of in-
terest increase in National Buyers week
for the first two weeks in March. Every
mail brings the endorsement of an-
other mayor or governor. Every day
and every hour some newspaper or
journal carries another chapter in the
story. As you sit in National head-
quarters office in the evening the hum
of the typewriter and the ringing ot
the telephone are the indices of in-
creased activity. And if you peeked
into the office you would find A. H.
Wilford with that same smile that he
wears so characteristicly and you would

watch him go out with the firm step
of success.

Al Guimond spoke at a luncheon in
the Hotel Bancroft, Saginaw to an en-
thusiastic group of Saginaw and Bay
City members of the United Commer-
cial talked Na-
tional buyers week and all the boys
were glad to know how trongly the

Travelers. He about

members themselves are getting be-
hind the greatest opportunity to ad-
vertise the order. He was accompanied
by Bill Allard, who is his executive
secretary in charge of the safety pro-
gram for the state of Michigan. Bii!
gave the word that we are all ready to
go and that every council will receive
the first step in a definite plan the
first of this week.

We should not tell it, but it is so.
Al Guimond went to Saginaw for an-
other reason. He made a trip to cali
on his customers with his line of play
suits. Just how to get them to sell
fast he discussed with Comptailer.
Comptailer thought it over very care-
fully and is now on the way to Egypt
to secure some mummies. And what a
display these old boys and ladies will
make in the Saginaw stores all dressed
up in this fine line of merchandise.

Our monthly meeting was the most
enjoyed event of the season. The sociai
hour which preceded the dinner at the
Detroit-Leland made everybody bet-
ter friends. Cards, prizes and a snappy
meeting following made everybody feel
that membership in this order has a
great value.

Put a check on your February cal-
endar. Tell your friends. A big din-
ner dance to wind up the season at a
reasonable price. Watch for the date.

Wigstaff.
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Preference for Bank Leans

Large corporations which con-
template refunding existing obli-
gations to take advantage of cur-
rent low interest rates continue in
several cases to prefer to borrow
from the banks, despite simplifi-
cation of registration under the
Securities Act.

One reason for this is the fact
that the expenses and liabilities
imposed by the Securities Act can
thus be avoided. Another is the
willingness of banks ‘to arrange
three and four-year advances for
the strongest industrial enter-
prises.

As a result, where corporations
expect to pay off such debts en-
tirely during the next few years,
bank loans possess several advan-
tages over public flotations.

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Business Confidence Gains

Uncertainty as to the outcome
of the gold clause cases has ceased
to have as much effect on business
sentiment as confidence in the
outlook for the first quarter grows.

The high rate of consumer sales
is forcing automobile makers to in-
crease February production sched-
ules. Emploment increases in this
industry are stimulating retail dis-
tribution in industrial areas. Evi-
dence of some broadening in the
demand for steel has also
strengthened confidence.

 

 

 

 

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MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS.

Covert—The Covert State Bank has
increased its capitalization from $40,009
to $60,000.

Yale—The Yale State Bank has de-
creased its capital stock from $36,006
to $25,000.

Brooklyn—The Brooklyn State Bank
has decreased its capital stock from
$50,000 to $30,000.

Beulah—The Central State Bank of
Benzonia has changed its name to the
Central State Bank.

Elsie—The State Savings Bank of
Elsie has decreased its capital stock
from $35,000 to $30,000.

Niles—The Niles Community Fin-
ance Co. has changed its name to the
Community Finance Co.

Menominee — The Haskin-Morain-
ville Paper Co., has changed its name
to the Haskin Paper Co.

Sturgis—The Citizens State Dank
has been incorporated with a capital
stock of $200,000, all paid in.

Belleville—The Peoples State Bank
of Belleville has increased its capitai
stock from $25,000 to $40,000.

Detroit—The Lumber Store, Inc.,
9300 Hubbel avenue, has changed its
name to the Litvin Lumber Co.

Detroit—The B. Gainsburg Co.,,
Farmer and Monroe streets, has
changed it name to Vision, Inc.

Eureka—Thieves entered the gen-
eral merchandise store of J. C. Hay and
carried away considerable stock.

Detroit—The Triangle Electric Co.,
40 Custer street, has increased its cap-
ital stock from $5,000 to $25,000.

Pontiac—Mack’s Pharmacy, Inc.,
Oakland Theatre Bidg., has decreased
its capital stock from $10,000 to $7,000.

Zeeland—The Black River Lumber
Co. has been incorporated with a cap-
ital stock of $5,000, $1,000 being paid in.

Westphalia — Mathias Belen, meat
dealer, died at his home following a
stroke of apoplexy. He was 68 years
of age.

New Boston—The Peoples State
Bank of New Boston has increased
its capital stock from $20,000 to
$25,000.

Belding—Lester E, Trimble, veteran
local baker, died at his home following
a brief illness. Mr. Trimble was born
Dec. 12, 1867.

Detroit—The Frost Railway Supply
Co., 2061 Union Guardian Bldg., has
decreased its capital stock from $150,-
000 to $76,000. :

Bay City—The Bay City Bank, Cen-
ter street and Washington avenue, has
decreased its capital stock from 3400,-
000 to $300,000.

Lincoln Park—The Supreme Malt &
Feed Co., Inc., has been organized to
deal in malt and hops and feed for dogs
and other animals.

Cadillac—The Cadiilac Eectric Co.
will remove from its present location
in the Marcus building to the Western
Union building February 1.

Detroit—Drake, Inc., 924 Capita!
Park Blidg., millinery, with’ branch at
Royal ‘Oak, has increased its capital
stock from $5,000 to $25,000.

Detroit — McKesson-Farrand-Wiilli-
ams Co., wholesale drugs, 515 West

MICHIGAN

Jefferson avenue, has changed its name
to the Farrand-Williams Co.

Muskegon—The Lake Shore Pro-
duce Co., located at The Mart, has
been incorporated with a capital stock
of $10,000, $3,000 being paid in.

Whitehall—J. P. Jacobson has sold
his grocery stock and building to
Leonard Bloomdahl. Jacobson, in poor
health for several years, will retire.

Detroit—Marlaine Paris of Mich-
igan, Inc., 1410 Washington Blvd.,
dealer in cosmetics, perfumes, etc., has
been incorporated at $1,000, all paid in.

Stanwood—J. W. Denslow of Weid-
man has opened a new general store
in the store building formerly owned
and operated by Fred Lyons at Altona.

Battle Creek—The Central Electric
Co. has decided to expand its business
by entering the wholesale as well as
retail trade, C. W. Finley, president,
announces.

Lansing—Thomas Young, recently
of Detroit and A. C. Lux have organ-
ized the Lansing Lithographers, Inc.,
opening for business at 124 North
Larch street.

Grand Rapids—The Grand Rapids
Hi-Speed Co., 1619 Chicago Drive, has
been incorporated with a capital stock
of 500 shares at $20 a share, $2,000
being paid in.

Jackson—The Turnmilling Corpora-
tion, 1801 Union & Peoples Nat’l, Bank
Blidg., metal working machinery and
tools, has a capital stock of $50,000,
$6,000 being paid in.

Morley—The Morley State bank,
closed since 1933, will reopen under a
reorganization plan. Upon reopening
there will be released 50 per cent. of
deposits, or approximately $71,000.

Jackson—Charles G. Munn and John
H. Merreti, who recently purchased a
controlling interest in the Reynolds
Spring Co. are preparing to add about
500 people to the payroll in February.

Saginaw—J. George Fischer & Sons,
Inc., 622 Lapeer avenue, dealer in
radios, refrigerators and other appii-
ances, has a capital stock of 3,000
shares at $13 a share, $24,700 being
paid in.

Detroit—The Diamond Oil Co.,
14920 Faust street, has been incorpor-
ated to deal in gasoline and oil at
wholesale and retail with a capital stock
of $25,000, $3,000 of which has been
paid in.

Detroit—The LaSalle Dairy Co.,
8004 Tireman avenue, has been incor-
porated to deal in and distribute milk
and cream and deal in dairy products
with a capital stock of $50,000, $1,000
being paid in.

Wyandotte—Allen’s Fashion Shoppe,
Inc., 3150 Biddle avenue, dealer in
general merchandise, dry goods and
wearing apparel for women, has a cap-
ital stock of $25,000, $15,000 of which
has been paid in.

Detroit—The Square Deal Bargain
House, Inc., 9230 Jos. Campau, dry
goods, general merchandise and ready-
to-wear apparel for women, has a cap-
ital stock of 2,000 shares at $25 a share,
$1,000 being paid in.

Detroit—The Western Rosin & Tur-
pentine Corp. succeeds the Western
Rosin & Turpentine Co., 6512 East

TRADESMAN

Palmer street with a capital stock of
$75,000 common and $50,000 preferred,
$80,000 being paid in.

Detroit—The Chill Foam Corpora-
tion of America has been organized to
sell a product to be added to beer to
maintain clarity, with business offices
at 738 Maccabees Bldg. It is capitalized
at $10,000, $1,000 of which has been
paid in.

Hamtramck—The Bell Furniture
Co., 10000 Jos. Campau, retail dealer
in furniture, radios and musical instru-
ments, has merged the business into a
stock company under the same style
with a capital stock of $25,000, all
paid in.

Mt. Clemens—Gustave Teck, dealer
in furnishings for men and boys, at 46
Cass avenue, has merged the business
into a stock company under the style of
Teck Toggery, Inc., with a capital
stock of $10,000, $6,500 of which has
been paid in.

Battle Creek—Fire damaged the
warehouse and stock of the Southern
Michigan Grocery Co. entailing a loss
of several thousand dollars, Jan. 25.
The grocery company is owned in
Coldwater, the local branch being man-
aged by Harry Brooks.

Holland—Charles Dykstra, 66, prom-
inent local druggist for teh past 30
years, died at University hospital, Ann
Arbor. He had submitted to a major
operation about a week ago. For the
past ten years Mr, Dykstra conducted
his drug store at 564 College avenue.

Detroit—Herman’s Cut Rate Hard-
ware, 11400 East Jefferson avenue, has
merged its wholesale and retail hard-
ware and builders’ supplies business
into a stock company under the style
of Herman’s Cut Rate Hardware, Inc.,
capitalized at $50,000, $10,000 being
paid in.

Battle Creek—The Battle Creek Bar-
gain Store has closed its doors and
moved the remaining stock out of the
city after operating here for fifteen
months. Store fixtures have already
been sold. She store room which wil!
be vacated is at 50-52 East Michigan.
Before tue Bargain store occupied it,
the Blick departmert store was in bus-
mess there.

Muskegon—Lahey’s, Inc., 232 W.
Western avenue, has opened a metro-
politan shoe department, featuring
moderate priced shoes. William P.
Lahey is president of the company.
Robert Jolman, formerly of Muskegon,
but until recently manager of a similar
store in Kalamazoo, is returning to
Muskegon to be manager of the new
department.

Grand Rapids—William D. Mathew,
well-known West sider with eighteen
years experience in the drug business,
has purchasd the drug stock formerly
conducted by Ralph DeVries at 1232
Bridge street, corner of Valley avenue.
The new store will be known as Math-
ew’s Drug Store. Mr. Mathew is re-
stocking and re-decorating his store,
and will stage an opening within a few
weeks.

Coldwater—The Pratt Manufactur-
ing Co., which has been in receiver
ship for two and one-half years has
been sold to the bondholders in a

 

January 30, 1935

chancery sale. The Branch county
court will decide whether piecemeal
bids totalling $9,000 or a lump sum
bid of $8,800 will be accepted. The
bond holders expect to continue the
business, which is manufacturing sleds,
camp and lawn furniture.

Battle Creek — A new decorating
store will be opened at 11 East Mich-
igan avenue, Feb. 15, by Douma &
Son, a grand Rapids firm. The same
name will be used locally and the store
will be managed by Cornelius Douma,
partner in the Grand Rapids firm. The
store will wholesale and retail paint,
wallpaper and artists’ supplies. Thomas
F. Hassett will be in charge of the art
supply department. George Douma, of
the Grand Rapids firm, will divide his
time between the two stores.

Battle Creek—Frederal Judge John
P, Nields, in the district court of the
United States for the District of Dela-
ware, has dismissed the suit in equity
of the National Biscuit Co. against the
Kellogg Co. and ruled that the Kellogg
Co. had not competed unfairly with the
National Biscuit Co. in the manufac-
ture and distribution of shredded
wheat. The National Biscuit Co.
brought suit in 1932, asking the court
to enjoin the Kellogg Co. against mak-
ing whole wheat biscuits in “imitation
and simulation of the biscuits” of the
National Biscuit Co. Judge Nields held
that the Nation Biscuit Co. was com-
plaining not of unfair competition but
of effective competition. Regarding
“shredded wheat” he said, “when the
name is the only name by which the
article can be described, and is the only
name by which it was described during
the existence of the patent that name
becomes public property on expiration
of the patent. Here the ‘patent biscuit’
was known as ‘shredded wheat’ or
‘shredded wheat |biscuit. Upon the
expiration of the patent that name be-
comes public property.” Judge Nields
ruled that the National Biscuit Co. has
no trade mark right in the word
“shredded,” or in the words “shredded
wheat,” or in the form of “shredded
wheat biscuits.” Testimony showed
that the packages of the two companies
were not confusing. “Unless there is
deception,” Judge Nields said, “or the
probability of it, there is no unfair com-
petition.”

 

Manufacturing Matters

Detroit—The Reliance Steel Corp-
Oration, 1205 Beaufait avenue, manu-
facturer and dealer in steel, has been
capitalized at $60,000, all paid in.

Detroit—Milton D. Rumpel,, Inc.,
202 Stephenson Bldg., has been incor-
porated to manufacture and sell artists’
materials, with a capital stock of $10,-
000, $6,000 being paid in.

Detroit—The Willard H. Jones Co.,
15 East Grand River avenue, has been
incorporated to act as manufacturers’
agent for the sale of merchandise with
a Capital stock of $5,000, all paid in.

Detroit—The Sumerian Csi poration
succeeds the Sumerian Co., 3125 David
Stott Bldg., manufacturer of barber
shop and beauty shop supplies with a
capital stock of $10,000, $1,500 being
Paid in,

January 30, 1935

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

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Essential Features of the Grocery
Staples

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

Tea— The first hands tea business
has been fair during the last week, bet-
ter than it was, but nowhere near as
good as it will be later. Prices remain
unchanged in this country. Consump-
tive demand for tea is about normal.

Coffee—The market for future Rio
and Santos, green and in a large way,
showed fluctuations both up and down
during the week, but most of them
were down. Business has been very
quiet. The undertone at present seems
to be quite weak with further declines
in prospect unless something comes in
to support the market. Spot Rio and
Santos, green and in a large way, has
not been quite as weak as futures and
prices are about unchanged from a
week ago. Milds unchanged. The job-
bing market on roasted coffee is show-
ing to some extent the effect of the re-
cent weekness in green. Consumptive
demand for coffee is good.

Canned Fruit — The demand for
canned fruit is still quiet, but the un-
dertone is still steady to firm. Florida
grapefruit still continues rather firm on
account of crop damage. California
fruits are about marking time, as fu-
ture uncertain Government regulations
are still figuring. Prices show no par-
ticular change for the week.

Canned Vegetables—AlIl of the sta-
ples on spot remain about unchanged.
Some packers are offering future peas,
but business is negligible. The opening
is expected to be about like last year.
Corn and tomatoes are also unchanged
with a quiet demand. Trade are await-
ing future prices on the general line,
but the whole situation is very uncer-
tain, not only as to acreage and costs
of production, but as to what part the
Government is going to play and so on.

Canned Fish—The pack of canned
shrimp is doing better than was ex-
pected. Salmon is unchanged and in
fair demand. Prices well maintained.

Dried Fruit—Jobbers report a fair
accumulation of orders. Out-of-town
business continues to make progress
and there is a little more life to the
market here also. The character of the
buying on the whole continues con-
servative but some fair sized lots are
moving. There has been a fairly good
demand for Santa Clara prunes and
Royal apricots are going out in better
fashion. Blenheims are reported some-
what more active also, and supplies on
the spot are cleaning up well. Califor-
nia reports that first hands continue to
hold most itemis unchanged and feel
that in spite of the quietness of the
market for shipment here in recent
weeks, there will be a cumulative de-
mand for fruits soon which will lift
prices. There is very little desire ap-
parent among first hands to force the
issues at this time and shipments to
other distributing centers appear to be
holding up very well.

Beans and Peas—Demand for dried
beans has been quite poor during the
week. Early in the week prices were
steady with red kidneys rather firm.
Later in the week weakness developed
in red kidneys and limas slumped a

.

little. Green split peas are also a little
lower,

Confectionery — Sales of confection-
ery and competitive chocolate prod-
ucts in the United States during 1934
by 321 manufacturers reporting to the
Department of Commerce were valued
at $202,892,000 as against $177,508,000
during 1933, an increase of 14.3 per
cent.

Freeze Affects Food Markets—Ma-
terial changes especially in fresh pro-
duce and canned vegetables will be
evident in the course of the food mat-
kets during the next six weeks, accord-
ing to the American Institute of Food
Distribution, following the most dis-
astrous freeze in the crop history of
Texas which last week swept produc-

ing areas from Arizona to northern:

Florida. Conflicting reports and un-
willingness of observers and produce
experts to expres judgment until fields
have been closeiy examined have made
an appraisal difficult, but an immediate
telephone-telekraph survey shows that
the winter crop of highly perishable
vegetables in Texas has practically
been destroyed. The freeze appeared
in Arizona, where temperatures close
to zero put ice cristals in the grape-
fruit and hit the last of the lettuce
crop. Last Monday and Tuesday nights
it spread across Texas, with the tem-
perature Tuesday night dropping down
to 26 degrees above in the lower Rio
Grande Valley and 20 at San Antonio.
Low temperatures spread across Loui-
siana, Alabama and Mississippi and
Wednesday and Thursday nights
turned North through Georgia and
South Carolina. Some of the fields will
come back but a satisfactory volume
wll be difficult to obtain. Later vege-
tables have been set back and will be
in short supply. The season is so far
advanced there probably will be little
replanting, the institute finds. Grow-
ers will be reluctant to come into com-
petition during March and April with
more northern sections of the South.
There will be a distinct shortage of
fresh produce during February and
probably much of March. All fresh
vegetables will rise in price. This gain
will affect consumption of all foods.
Canned vegetables, canned fruits and
many grocery specialties will benefit,
possibly with canned vegetables mak-
ing greatest gains.

Nuts—The market continues fairly
active, with business showing a tend-
ency to expand as the month goes by.
There has been definite improvement
in the movement of imported shelled
nuts from Europe where prices have
been revised to a competitive relation-
ship with domestic goods. California
interests report that their goods con-
tinue to move in good volume and al-
monds show a stronger undertone, be-
cause of last season’s short crop. Bra-
zils are still in a good demand and stif-
fening up all the time.

Olives—There is still a fair demand
for olives. Prices hold steady at the
levels recently reduced to. Stuffed
queens of various sizes remain in light
supply on the spot, with little in the
way of new arrivals due before the
latter part of next month.

Pickles—A_ definite
marks the pickle situation.

improvement
Demand

has picked up considerably. Currently
there is an active movement. Conse-
quently prices have turnd much firm-
er, there being no tendency now to
shade the market.

Rice—The market continues steady
here, with some improvement in busi-
ness, but buying still confined to near-
by requirements. Prices on the vari-
ous grains are pretty much unchanged,
and the only tendency toward easi-
ness is in Blue Rose. Distribution, it
is understood, is running ahead of last
year, indicating that stocks in the
hands of the trade continue light. The
long grains, particularly of top grades,
are very firm.

Salt Fish—A better demand is re-
ported for mackerel and other salt fish.
Everybody is still expecting a decided
improvement in the very near future.
Stocks are not large and prices are
firm.

Syrup and Molasses—Sugar syrup is
selling every day, but in somewhat
routine way. Even this demand, how-
ever, uses up the entire production and
prices are steady to firm. Compound
syrup has been dull during the week
with a little weakness due to declines
in corn. Better grades of molasses are
unchanged and in their usual demand.

———_>--->___
Review of the Produce Market
Apples—Jonathans, $1.50; No. 1
Spys, $1.50 and $2; Baldwins, $1.50.
Artichokes—$1 per doz.
Bananas---5Sc per lb.
Brussels’ Sprouts—22c per qt.
Butter—Creamery, 35'4c for cartons,
and 35c for extra in tubs and 34¢ for
choice in tubs.
Cabbage—45c per bu. for white, 60c
for red; new, 8C Ib. crate, $3.50.
Calavos—$2.25 per case from Calif.
Carrots—Calif. 60c per doz. bunches
or $3.35 per crate of 6 oz.
Cauliflower—$2 per crate for Calif.
Celery—20@40c per dozen bunches;
Calif., $3.75 per crate.
Celery Cabbage—60c per dozen.
Cranberries—$4.50 per 25 Ib. box.
Dried Beans — Michigan Jobbers
pay as follows for hand picked at ship-
ping stations:
© Et from farmer == =. = $2.50
Light Red Kidney from farmer__ 4.40
Dark Red Kidney from farmer-- 5.50
Wight Granberny ----.- =. 4.65
Darl Cranberry = 2552222 3.65
Eggs—Jobbers pay 17c per Ib. for all
clean receipts. They sell as follows:

Large white, extra fancy---------- 31c
Standard fancy select, cartons-_--- 28c
Meditin er 27c
@recks 20 25c

Storage eggs are all cleaned up in
this market.

Garlic—15c per Ib.

Grape Fruit—Florida, $2.50 for all
sizes; Texas, $3.25.

Grapes—Tokays—$2.50 per box.

Green Onions—Chalots, 60c per doz.

Green Peas—$4 per hamper for
California and Texas.

Green Peppers—75c per dozen for

Florida.
Honey Dew Melons-—$2.50 per case.

Kumquats—l6c per qt.
Lemons—The price is as follows:

S00) Sunkist se es $4.50
300) Sunkist. ee 5.00
$60 Red Bali 4.50
300 Red Balle se 4.00

Lettuce — In good demand on the
following basis:
California, 4s and 5s, crate. - $3.50
eat hot house. 220 | 2 aie 9c

Limes—19c per dozen.
Mushrooms—32c per box.
Onions—Home grown, 90c for yel-
low and $1.25 for white.
Oranges—Fancy Sunkist California
Navels are now sold as follows:

126 ee $3.50
190) 2 3.50
M6 2 3.75
200) eee 4.25
216 ee ee 4.25
252 ee 4.50
2880 0 eee 4.50
yO ee 4.50

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

a. ee $1.75
2G. Oe ee ee eee 1.75
Ms 1.75
2Q80 ie as oa ee 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:

Ereavy Springs 02 es 17c
Efeavy Bowls 9221025) oe ee 15c
Wight, Bowls: 025 208s 12c
Aiarkeys) 202 Je cs ee ee 17c
Geese 220 1c

Radishes—Hot house, 35c per dozen
bunches.

Spinach—31.50 per bushel for Texas
grown.

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

Sweet Potatoes—$1.40 per hamper.

Tomatoes—Hot house, $1.50 for 8
Ib. basket; Florida repacked, $1.40 per
10 Ib. boxes.

Veal Calves — Wilson & Company
pay as follows:
Baney (200 11c
Good 20 ibs 9%

eee
Seeks to Learn Bonus Strength

The Senate is being polled
privately to determine sentiment
for immediate cash payment of
the soldier bonus.

While the surveys are far from
conclusive for the simple reason
that many Senators are disinclined
to commit themselves in advance
of a roll call vote, there are evi-
dences that some sort of a bill
could be put through.

For instance, it is said that the
Patman bill, with what are de-
clared to be inflationary provi-
sions, would not get very far in
the Senate, whereas the Vinson
bill, which has the backing of the
American Legion, will command
a great deal of support.

The Administration is keeping
a close watch on developments,
seemingly looking for opportunity
to prevent enactment of any such
legislation.

ee
If nobody in the family makes catty
remarks about her beau, all of the other
girls are married.

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Concentrate—the sun’s rays do not
burn till brought to a focus,

Se
If you have knowledge, let others
light their candles by it.

 

 

 

MUTUAL
INSURANCE
(Fire and Life)

Annual Meeting

The twenty-fifth annual meeting of
the Grand Rapids Merchants Mutual
Fire Insurance Co. was held Friday,
Jan, 18, and was attended by a majority
of the Board of Directors and about
twenty of the members. Three of the
directors were unable to attend the
meeting on account of the icy condition
of the highways.

The Directors and members present
at this meeting expressed their satis-
faction with the growth of the com-
pany and showed their appreciation by
unanimously re-electing the officers and
directors whose term of office expired
this year for another term.

The officers of the company are: L.
H. Baker, of Lansing, President; J. N.
Trompen, Grand Rapids, Vice-Presi-
dent; J. DeHoog, Grand Rapids, Sec-
retary-Treasurer; W. DeHoog, Grand
Rapids, Assistant Secretary-Treasurer;
J. E. Hammond, of Lansing, Associate
Secetary. With the directors H. N.
Bush, of Fint, H. Holtvluwer of Grand
Rapids, W. O. Jones, of Kalamazoo;
E. P. Lillie, of Coopersville; H. Mc-
Cormack, of Ithaca; F. E. Mills, of
Lansing; and C. R. Sperry, of Port
Huron; they are the governing body
of the Company.

The annual report presented by the
Secretary showed an increase of abo:1t
10 per cent. in business in force, in
assets and in surplus.

The net assets of the company, after
elimination of bonds in default and
proper depreciation on real estate held,
is $2,432 for every $1,000 of liability, in-
cluding a reserve for unearned premi-
ums amounting from one-half to five-
sixths of all premiums in force.

The adoption of certain amendments
to the articles of association was oie
of the main items on the program of
this meeting. After careful considera-
tion, the amendments proposed by the
Board of
ously. f

After the meeting the members pres-
ent were invited to a luncheon at the
Morton Hotel. The invitation was ac-
cepted by all. The accommodation,
food and service furnished by the hotel
and the fraternal spirit prevailing
throughout the entire meeting, as well
as during this luncheon, made this an-
nual affair a pleasant event for all who
had the privilege of being present.

 

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Garden Clubs Sponsor “Stop Useless
Fires” Campaign

Saginaw, Jan. 20—I am enclosing
the first of a series of news articles,
which will contain informative mate-
rial concerning a Stop Useless Fires
campaign of the Federated Garden
Clubs of Michigan.

The University of Michigan, Michi-
gan State College, the Department of
Conservation and the Federal Forest
Service are furnishing us with material
for these stories and your readers will
surely be interested in them.

The pledge card plan is explained in
the attached release and I should like
to ask your thoughtful consideration of
this and other releases which are to
follow. Our efforts will be a contribu-

 

Directors carried unanim-

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

tion to a larger campaign of the Fed-
eral Government against forest fires,
but we are also keenly interested in
maintaining beauty and living re-
sources through reducing roadside,
field and marsh fires.

We shall appreciate your co-opera-
tion and fee] that we may count upon
it for the good of Michigan.

Elizabeth Symons,
Conservation Chairman of Fed-
erated Garden Clubs of Mich.

 

Two hundred thousand Michigan cit-
izens will be asked to. pledge them-
selves individually to Stop Useless
Fires through a campaign planned by
the Federated Garden Club of Mich-
igan, according to Mrs. J. S. Symons
of Saginaw, chairman of the Conserva-
tion Committee.

The necessity for such an effort was
decided upon by the Garden Clubs at a
conference held with the State Depart-
ment of Conservation at Lansing in
October, and plans have been worked
out with the Department, representa-
tives of the U.S. Forest Service in the
state, the University of Michigan at
Ann Arbor, and Michigan State Col-
lege.

It was pointed out to the Garden
Clubs by state officials that 93 per cent.
of all forest fires in Michigan are man-
caused and that while slow but steady
progress in prevention is made through
warnings, law enforcement, and indi-

rect appeals, the individual is diffi-
cult to reach, some sort of com-
mitment was suggested with the

feeling that a promise would be hon-
ored by persons who might be careless
otherwise.

But the Garden Clubs, while keenly
interested in the fire problems of the
Department of Conservation, wanted
to know about fires that burn all over
the state along the roadsides. in open
fields, and in the marshes and woodlots
of Southern Michigan. These fires

_were destroying wild flowers, bitter-

sweet, Michigan holly, birds’ eggs, and
the charm of the countryside. Couldn’t
such fires be included in the campaign?
They could, thought the Department.

“So if your boy or girl brings home
a pledge card for you to sign,” says
Mrs. Symons, “it is your opportunity
to enlist in the spring drive against
4,000 forest fires and the countless
other outdoor fires nearer to your own
home which rob you, and these are the
promises you wili be asked to make:

1. I will see that no act of mine
causes a useless outdoor fire.

2. I will personally take responsi-
bility for extinguishing all cooking and
other camp fires and of urging care in
the use of tobacco and matches on any
outing which I may attend.

3. I will give every possible co-oper-
ation to municipal, county, state and
Federal officers in reporting and con-
trolling useless outdoor fires.

The help of other clubs and organi-
zations will be neede din the campaign,
particularly in cities and villages where
there are no Garden Clubs and in
Upper Peninsula communities. Corre-
spondence is therefore invited from
groups interested in the work. Re-
quests for instructions and cards may
be sent to the Federated Garden Clubs,
Lane Hall, Ann Arbor, Michigan; to
the Department of Conservation at
Lansing; or to the School of Forestry

and Conservation, University of Mich-
igan, Ann Arbor.

The campaign committee of the Gar-
den Clubs includes besides Mrs. Sy-
mons, Mrs. H. B. Earhart, of Ann Ar-
bor; Mrs. Paul S. Moon, of Muskegon;
Mrs. E. W. DeLand, of Allegan, Mrs.
Wm. P. Stevens, of Gross Pointe, Miss
E. Genevieve Gillette, of Detroit.

Six Million Property Owners Carry
Mutual Insurance

Six million property owners are pro-
tected against fire in mutual companies
to the extent of 37 billion dollars.

This record represents a growth of
182 years—a pretty sound test for any
business.

The essence of the mutual plan is to
reduce the cost of insurance by redu-
cing the losses. There are definite and
traditional ways of doing this. One is
the selection of risks—using judgment
about what type of property to insure
Another is to prevent fires as far as
possible. Mutual companies devote
time and thought and money to these
measures—and they work.

Millions of dollars are saved annually
and are returned to their policyholders
by mutual fire insurance companies. To
the individual policyholder the saving
effected represents a substantial part
of the premium—and it is a net sav-
ing since the premium rates charged
by mutual companies are no higher
than those charged by other companies.

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Building should soon begin to rise.
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Japan persists in riding for a fall.

 

January 30, 1935

Strike Menace Overhanging the Busi-
ness Picture

The bright spot to-day is the man-
ufacturing business. Current reports
show that retail buying during the hol-
iday period gave an additional support
to general business. This increased ac-
tivity in many primary lines is also
shown in electric power production
which continues to show advances, the
total for the previous week showing
9.4 per cent. increase over 1933 for the
same period. This also reflected the
largest percentage gain since May oi
1934.

In the steel industry production is
still rising. Operations last week
reached a peak of 52 per cent. rate
which is estimated will put all the lead-
ing companies in the industry at a
satisfactory point. This also was the
fifteenth consecutive weekly advance.

In the automobile industry produc-
tion is still gaining with January sales
to dealers very heavy. The volume is
practically double the output for the
same period of last year. Car loadings
during the week increased slightly over
the corresponding week in the previous
year,

Bank clearings were considerably
higher than a year ago, the total being
15.8 per cent, above the corresponding
week of last year. This is the third
week in which clearings have been
above last year’s volume. There still
is the strike menace overhanging the
business picture, but, as a whole, first
quarter expectations continue  satis-
factory. J. H. Petter.

 

 

 

 

 

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the mutual plan of fire insurance — safety, service and sav-
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

THE BEST STORE IN TOWN

Owner Has No Fear of the Chains

Few of our cities, large or small,
have escaped the advent of the chain
stores. If unable to eliminate a com-
petitor by the usual cut-price method
they hold out the bait of a high price
for the individual‘s (business. Many
merchants accept this bribe and retire
from trade, rather than face an extend-
ed price war.

No successful independent merchant
of to-day can ignore the methods of
the chains. By studying them we can
learn their good and bad points. No
successful merchant can ignore the
methods of any of his competitors,
chain or independent. We_ should
watch them all for new ideas and bet-
ter methods.

We see home-owned stores in all
stages of decay, we see them with vir-
tually no stock at all; the shelves of
others are filled to over-flowing; others
are just “getting by” while the long
rows of empty shelves and the longer
faces of the owners attest to a lack
of ability or ambition. But for every
up-to-date chain store you can find
one or more up-to-date independent
store. Talk with their owners and
you will find little fear of the chians.
You will hear tales of hard work and
small beginnings; you will see stores
bright and clean. You will see well
stocked shelves and fresh, attractive
dispays. You will find them where the
chain stores are the thickest, often side
by side. You will find their owners
agressive and unafraid. Their success
is individual success as other’s failures
are individual failures. Failure is easy
to blame on the chains.

In one of the smaller towns of West-
ern Michigan we walked into a grocery
and market worthy of the largest city
of our state. It was a surprise to find
so fine a store in so small a town. It
reflected the efforts and character of its
owner, who was delighted to tell us
about his work and to show us about
the place.

Needless to say that this store was
spotless from front door to back alley.
The fixtures were modern without
drawing attention from the goods dis-
played. The shelves were well stocked
with well known quality merchandise.

An added note of pride was noticed
in the owner’s voice as he took us into
the big meat cooler, where hung row on
row of different meat cuts, quarters and
halves of beef and pork. I ventured the
remark that he had enough stock to last
the entire little city for a week, he re-
plied that he found it well to have
enough on hand so as never to lose a
single sale. He had set himself the task
of keeping enough on hand to take
care of all contingencies. The canned
goods store room was equally weil
filled and I am sure that very few sales
were lost on account of being “just
out.’ This man seemed to put great
emphasis on having what the people
want when they want it.

“We have two large chain stores
here and a couple of other fine grocery
stores, but I believe I have the best
store in town,” he said. “We are not

afraid of the chains. We do not make
a practice of cut prices, as we handle
a fine quality of groceries and only the
best of meats. Many of our customers
started trading with us on our opening
day, many years ago. New ones often
come here unsolicited, having been di-
rected here by one of our regular cus-
tomers.”

As I contrastd this store with some
of the others in this same town, which
were so run down and hopelessly out
of date, I mentally agreed with Paul
Findlay that it was “the survival of
the fittest.” Here was individual suc-
cess, based on a knowledge of merchan
dising and a willingness to work. No
slovenly methods here; no fear of the
chains, no putting off until to-morrow
what should be done to-day; but an
earnest effort and joy and pride in his
store being “the best store in town.”

No doubt about it if this man had
simply given up hope at the challenge
of the chains he would to-day be in
that class of merchants who are slowly
allowing their business to drift away.
The drift is not always to the chains,
but to wide awake independents. The
independent who works hard and in-
telligently and keeps everlastingly at
it will succeed. If, on the other hand,
we simpy throw up our hands and say,
“What's the use?”
fate awaiting us—empty shelves and

there is only one

an empty purse.

We must fit ourselves to survive if
we want to match wits with the chain
store gang. If we give service we must
give good service which will bring cus-
tomers back for more. If we give cred-
it we want to be very careful to whom
and how much. Albove all, we must
give satisfaction and a ready smile and
a Whank You to every customer.
Customers come back for those things,
as well as for the actual foods they
need.

If before starting for work in the
morning we don our cap of determina-
tion, put on our coat of hard work,
draw on our gloves of ability and load
our pipe with contentment for our job
we need have no fear of the chains.

Sam Sugarsax.
——__2 22. —____
One Born Every Minute

The greatest advertising medium in
all the world is the show window. It is
the only, absolutely the one and only,
medium which, arousing the desire to
buy, offers immediate opportunity to
satisfy this desire.

The article advertised needs no
lengthy, intricate and artistic descrip-
tion or pictorial reproduction. No sir,
there it is, in person, so to speak, ready
to be wrapped and tucked under the
arm of a happy, smiling customer,
backed by the reputation of the store in
whose window it is displayed, vouched
for by the man ‘behind the counter.

If the store displaying the merchan-
dise is a drug store, the palpable en-
dorsement of the druggist means more,
much more, than that of any other
dealer, particularly so if the merchan-
dise displayed represents medicine.

A series of such windows in a given
community, a multitude of such drug
store windows simultaneously display-
ed throughout the country is worth

more to any manufacturer than full
pages in the various magazines which
represent the elite, the kings, queens,
dictators and generally ruling class of
the advertising kingdom.

Such frolicking among the highly
colored pages of national magazines
devoted to eloquent persuasion by ad-
vertising artists costs money, and then
some—barrels of it. So, taking all this
into consideration, I am impressed by
the fact that so many manufacturers
are able to get hundreds and hundreds
of windows by the offer of a paltry
$50.00 to the prize winner. That is not
all; to add insult to injury, just as often
as not the victimized druggist is re-
quested to place an order, in return for
which he will be furnished with the
necessary display material “as the ma-
terial is expensive and we cannot fur-
nish same unless we are sure of its be-
ing used.”

Think it over. Thousands of dollars
worth of advertising, the stamp of ap-
proval from hundreds, if not a few
thousand, druggists; sufficent orders to
pay for all the window materal and all
the prize money and still leave a profit
over and above... then bethink your-
self of Mr. Barnum whose above-men-
tioned remark will probably hold true
from the beginning to the end of our
ittle world.

We are afraid that in many, many
instances, the druggist is “selling his
birthright for a mess of pottage.”

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Failure of E. A. Solomon at Richland

Richland, Jan. 14—We beg to advise
you that E. A. Solomon, of Richland,
Michigan, has executed a Bill of Sale
of all his merchandise and fixtures of
his store premises in the Village, to
the undersigned as trustee.

The consideration for this transfer 1s
the foilowing:

That the undersigned will take pos-
session of such property and sell the
same.

From the proceeds thereof pay the
expenses of such sale, etc.

Pay any and all taxes, including
sales tax, oleo-margarine tax, village
and township taxes, etc.

: as

Pay to the Farmers State Bank $250
and interest on its claim (which ciaim is
secured by chattel mortgage upon cer-
tain of the fixtures in the business).

The overplus to be distributed rat-
ably among all the other creditors, in-
cluding the Farmers State Savings
Bank on the balance of their claim.

Mr. Solomon has furnished us with
a sworn list of creditors, and the
amounts of their claims, and their
addresses, to whom we are addressing
a copy of this letter. i :

He has made a full detailed inventory
showing the quantity, and so far as
possible, with reasonable diligence, the
cost price to him of each article in-
cluded in the sae, which he has sworn
to. ay Le

I am unable to furnish a detailed list
of the assets, but according to Solomon
the cost to him of fixtures and stock
(only about $10 worth oi stock) was
about $2825. A conservative appraisal
of the assets is $1200.

B. W. Mason,
Cashier Farmers State Sav. Bk.

The list of creditor is as follows:
Blodgett Beckley Co., Toledo__--$ 13.80
Barker Candy Co., Battle Creek_- 3.00
Best Cap Co.. St. Louis. Mo.---- unknown
Consumers Power Co.., Kalamazoo 29.22
Delton Co-Operative Creamery Co..

Delton oan 2
Perry Morse Seed Co., Detroit__-__ 11.05
Peter Ackrich & Sons. Kalamazoo 37.89
Goodrich Candy Ug ce Sonal ao
General Cigar Co., Chicago---~—— :
Heckman Bscuit Co.. Grand Rapids 20.00
Johnson Paper & Supply Co.. 20.30

Kalamazoo -------------- -------
H. Clare Kewley, Battle Creek- 8.15

 

H. Cc. King & Sons. Battle Creek 2.40

 

  
  
 

Karavan Coffee Co.. Toledo______ 8.00
Loose Wiles Biscut Co.. Kalamazoo 3.00
Lee & Cady, Kalamazoo___-_____- 50.26
Mandeville & King Co.. Rochester 3.55
Mich. Bell Tel. Co.. Kalamazoo__ 2.90
Northrup, King & Co.. Minneapolis 4.84
National Bscuit Co.. Kalamazoo__ 3.19
Pure Food Service. Kalamazoo____ 10.35
Upjohn Richland Farms, Richland 11.60
Star Paper Co.. Kalamazoo_-__-_-_- 8.00
Swift & Co... Chicazo ___ 25.3
Standard Oil Co. .G. R.- about 6.00
Frank Spalla, Kalamazoo__ 16.27
Taylor Produce. Kalamazoo______ 71.00
O. J. Wright. Kalamazoo_.______ 4.9
A, W. Walsh Co.. Kalamazoo____ 584.09
Mich. State Tax Commission.

amsimgy, 20s ca ae 168.94

Collector of Internal Revenue, Detroit 6.00
BP. & A, M. Lodge. Richiand._____ 485.00
Farmers State Savings Bank,
Richland, chattel mortgage. and
premium paid on _ insurance,
$23 and, interest. 703.00
Car] Johnson, Kalamazoo a
J. Hofert, Tos Angeles. 2 2. 3.05
——

 

Excessive Tax to Be Contested

The validity of the bank de-
posit tax to be levied under the
proposed revision of the bank de-
posit insurance law may be ques-
tioned in the courts if the amount
exceeds very materally the rela-
tive value of the protection to be
derived by individual banks, it is
learned.

Senators are interesting them-
selves in this matter on the sug-
gestion of bankers who hold that
a limit hould be placed on the to-
tal amount of premium to be paid
so that it will bear some relation-
ship to the volume of insurance.

The application of a reduced
premium to all deposits would be
helpful in the case of small banks,
but, it is pointed out, that it would
be discriminatory as to large
banks because the number of their
accounts falling under the pro-
posed $5,000 maximum to be in-
sured would be relatively few.

A flat limitation upon the total
of premiums to be paid by any
one bank is said to be not feasible,
so a sliding scale of maximum
payments may have to be worked
out to be equitable.

The Food Show Racket

Manufacturers who have been
liberal in their expenditures for
displays at food shows through-
out the country in recent years are
beginning to show an inclination
to tighten the pursestrings, insofar
as food shows are concerned and
it would not be surprising to
see some of these events fall by
the wayside.

Expositions staged by legiti-
mate grocers’ organizations which
are officered by honest men and
not by grafters have been steadily
growing in favor with both the
trade and consumers, and no fault
is found by the exhibitors with
events of this character.

The industry is beginning to
show a disposition to sift the
wheat from the chaff, however,
and food expositions sponsored
by promoters purely as commer-
cial enterprises are likely to en-
counter rough sledding in the fu-
ture.

Assured that continued support
will be forthcoming for legitimate
display ventures, grocery distrib-
uting interests are viewing with
pleasure the indicated elimination
of the interlopers into the food
chow field.

 

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LITTLE CHANGE IN PRICES

With buying budgets showing an
average increase of 5 to 8 per cent.,
and with gains in some lines, such as
furniture, ranging up to 25 per cent.
over the same period last year, the
progress of Spring purchasing by re-
tailers this month has occasioned con-
siderable satisfaction in most of the
wholesale markets.

While sentiment in the East is not
particularly buoyant, retailers in al-
most all other sections of the country
continue confident of appreciable gains
in both unit and dollar sales during the
Spring season. So far, the lines which
have figured most prominently in the
buying include dresses, suits, sports
wear, accessories, blouses, furniture,
draperies and curtains, china and glass-
ware, home electrical appliances and
kitchen utensils.

As the month ends, the price situa-
tion generally shows little change from
earlier anticipation. For the most part
quotations are steady. Rising tenden-
cies are noted in furniture, china and
glasswear and kitchen tools. Where
weakness has cropped out it has been
especially evident in silk and acetate
piece goods. Buyers, however, are
watching price developments very
closely and are credited with being in
good strategical position to adjust buy-
ing plans speedily, should a major
price swing, either up or down, de-
velop.

At the moment, the healthy condition
in many department store lines is indi-
cated by the fact that spot goods are
almost impossible to obtain. Most of
the current orders are being placed for
two to three weeks’ delivery, although
in the case of the better-grade types of
women’s apparel five weeks constitute
the minimum delivery time.

The fact that average budgets are
running from 5 to 8 per cent higher
has overcome the slight reduction in
the number of buyers here during the
first three weeks of January as com-
pared with the same period in 1934.
Buyers’ arrivals in this period this
year totaled 3,648 against 3,712 in the
corresponding part of 1934. The
weekly average thus far this year is
1,216, compared with 1,237 n 1934. It
is expected that the figures for the last
of the month and the initial week of
February will show a rise above last
year.

In the women’s apparel field, the
outstanding feature has been the re-
markable amount of attention given
to suits. Almost all production divi-
sions of the women’s wear field, not
to speak of men’s clothing manufac-
turers, are turning out suits this season,
leading to major code questions, as well
as the possibility of overproduction
later on. Retailers, however, show
marked confidence in suits and will be
aided in their promotional efforts by
the longer selling period afforded by the
late date, April 21, of Easter this year.
Blouses, too, are riding the crest of the
popularity, current indications pointing
to the best business in a decade in this
merchandise. :

So far, little attention has been given
coats. Estimates indicate that to date
retailers’ orders are about 80 per cent.
suits and 20 per cent. coats, against 40
per cent. suits and 60 per cent. coats

MICHIGAN

last year. However, the belief is that
the coat demand will revive later in the
season.

Orders for dresses have been notably
good throughout the market, the im-
provement being shared by the better
grade as well as the medium and pop-
ular price ranges. Volume is estimated
at about 10 per cent. ahead of the same
period a year ago. The costume suit
style in dressing is outstanding.

One of the hest accessory seasons in
recent years seems to be in the making.
The vogue for suits, and favor for
sports wear has increased variety of
styles in millinery, handbags, shoes,
costume jewelry and neckwear. Con-
siderable trading up has been done by
many retailers in their accessory pur-
chases as well as in major apparel
items. ;

Largely because of the fact that
Spring buying of furniture last year
was well under par, owing to the ne-
cessity of moving stocks on hand, or-
ders in this field show pronounced in-
creases. Attendance and sales at the
local furniture show were notably
heavy. Stocks currently held by the
stores are low. A heathy stock situa-
tion has also spurred buying of such
lines as china and glassware, draperies
and curtains and kitchen utensils.

 

AN ENGINE OF DELAY

Sveral points which might well be
considered seriously by legislators and
industry in framing any temporary or
permanent extension of the National
Industrial Recovery Act were brought
out during the meetings of the Whole-
sale Dry Goods Institute and the Code
Authority last week. The discussions
were well balanced in the sense that
the jobbers were frank enough to
admit the gains made under the act,
favored continued codification, and at
the same time made no bones about
their disillusionment with certain as-
pects.

On the favorable side, as cited by
Dr. R. S. Alexander, of Columbia, and
administration member of the Author-
itv, were the achievement of trade sol-
idarity, the discouragement of certain
abuses and of uneconomic price cut-
ting and ‘the establishment of continu-
ing machinery for elimination of other
unfair practices. Dr. Alexander made
a telling point when, after admitting
that the various regulations of the
NRA will never be enforced 100 per
cent., he asked if 50 or even 25 per
cent., enforcement would not be bet-
ter than nothing. Most of the NRA
opponents have seized at some time or
another upon the impossibility of ob-
taining complete enforcement as a
reason for abandoning the act.

The run-around which the trade has
been given on the differentials question,
without arguing the merits of the pro-
vision itself, is only one of a hundred
examples which justify Dr. Alexander's
characterization of the NRA as a
“magnificent engine of delay.”” Whether
governmental red tape can ever be
eliminated is a question, but possibly
a simplified NRA with a permanent per-
sonnel will reduce the aggravating de-
lays. The battle over the converters’
sample charges indicates that co-oper-
ation between sellers and buyers in

TRADESMAN

formulating code provisions is essen-
tial to avoid continued wrangling.

 

TRUTH-IN-FABRIC ISSUE

A revival of the “truth-in-fabric”
movement that may attain considerable
significance under the code conditions
prevailing in industry featured a meet-
ing here last week under the auspices
of the fair trade practice division of the
Dress Code Authority. Deciding to
act now, rather than deal with a heavy
flood of returns later on, the Code
Authority sought to see what could be
done about the issue which has been
raised regarding the serviceability of
fabrics being used in current garment
production.

The conference, as was to be expect-
ed, disclosed a variety of viewpoints.
Decision, however, was made to go into
the subject further, with consideration
given to recommendations to be made
by a subcommittee which will be ap-
pointed this week. Retailers were unit-
ed in their views that manufacturers
can do much in the way of setting up
standards and giving merchandise in-
formation, seeing no major technical
obstacles to this procedure. Manufac-
turers argued they shold not be placed
in the position of holding the bag.

In view of what has already been
accomplished in some lines in making
trustworthy merchandise information
available to the consumer, there ap-
pears little ground for questioning the
basic wisdom of the retailers’ stand.
However, determination of the issue
is by no means a simple one so far as
style merchandise is concerned, for
the style factor often outweighs the
appeal of serviceability in consumer
purchasing.

The questions involved, however,
should stand by themselves and the
drive for fabric information should not
be a smoke screen for undermining
the fair trade practice provisions of
the Dress Code, a fear expressed by
manufacturers in that industry.

 

GOLD UNEASINESS LINGERS

The forward movement in industry
was retarded somewhat last week by
the lingering uncertainty over the gold
clause decision. While no longer a
nightmare to the speculative commod-
ity markets, which drifted listlessly, the
gold clause situation cut down ad-
vance buying in a number of lines,
failing to affect, however, the upward
surge in steel and motors production.

Congress, on which all business eyes
are now focused, went through the
week without creating any serious
threats to industry. The $4,880,000,000
work relief bill was passed, but at-
tracted little comment. The administra-
tion decided to advance the date on
which legislation to extend the NRA
would be aired. The Senate passed a
law forbidding interstate shipments of
“hot oil,” replacing the  oil-control
clause which the Supreme Court held
unconstitutional. The first major fight
by industry against imposition of a
shorter work week was lost when the
District of Columbia Supreme Court
ruled against the ninety-one cotton
garment manufacturers who had
sought an injunction. Some progress,
at any rate, is being made, through

January 30, 1935

court decisions, in clearing up moot
points of the recovery legislation.

The weekly business index has more
than recovered its losses of the previ-
ous week and again stands at the high-
est level since late August, 1933. The
electric power, car-loadings and steel
figures, all important indicators, ad-
vanced, The losses in the auto, cotton
cloth and lumber series were negligi-
ble. While this week may continue
to reflect the gold clause uncertainty,
the decision, due a week from to-mor-
row, will end it, one way or the other.

 

DRY GOODS CONDITIONS

Adverse weather took toll of retail
trade throughout a good part of the
country last week. Locally, the bliz-
zard caused trade figures to fall fur-
ther behind the sales figures for this
month a year ago. Elsewhere the ef-
fect was to reduce the scope of pre-
vious increases for the month. Gen-
erally speaking, however, the week af-
forded an opportunity for the clearance
of remaining stocks of cold weather
merchandise and did not affect con-
fidence in the Spring outlook.

For the first time since last Summer,
the mid-month report of the New York
Federal Reserve Bank showed sales
of department stores in the metropol-
itan area fell below the figures for the
previous year. For the twelve shop-
ping days ended Jan. 15, sales of these
stores registered a decline of 1.1 per
cent. The sales of New York and
Brooklyn stores were off 0.6 per cent.
Store executives reiterated their be-
lief that the local sales tax was a ma-
jor factor in the showing.

The storms had comparatively little
effect on activity in the major whole-
sale markets. Peak arrivals of buyers
from all sections of the country con-
tinued. Many have completed their in-
itial Suring purchases and are return-
ing to their stores. The average vol-
ume of orders placed is easily running
5 to 8 per cent. larger than a year
ago.

All indications are that the current
activity will be sustained for several
weeks to come. Reports from well-
posted sources indicate no change in
the tendency of consumers to spend
somewhat more freely.

 

things and opportunities
so abound in American life that, in-
stead of nurturing the true source of
happiness, we tend to make it a direct
aim. So we end in looking for hap-
piness in possession of the external—
in money, a good time, somebody to
lean on, and so on. We are impatient,
hurried and fretful because we do not
find happiness where we look for it.

External

 

 

If you listen to David’s harp, you shail
hear as many hearselike airs as carols;
and the pencil of the Holy Ghost has
labored more in describing the afflic-
tions of Job than the felicities of Sol-
omon. Prosperity is not without many
fears and distastes; and Adversity is
not without comforts and hopes.—
Bacon.

 

 

Everyone wastes enough time to en-
able him to master that which he most
desires to know, if it were not wasted.

 

Tt

January 30, 1935

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

OUT AROUND

Things Seen and Heard on a Week
End Trip

It is now definitely known and offi-
cially announced that E. J. Parr will
succeed himself as Director of Drugs
and Drug Stores, which is a high trib-
ute to the ability of Mr. Parr and the
fairness of our new governor in ignor-
ing party politics and appointing a
man solely on the basis of his being
the most capable man in Michigan to
perform the duties pertaining to the
office. I have always insisted that the
Board of Pharmacy should be con-
ducted on a strictly non-partisan basis,
because the functions of that body have
nothing in common with politics and
should not be dragged into the mire
of partisanship Unfortunately, my
ideas along this line have not been in
accordance with the facts until Mr.
Parr was appointed two years ago,
since which time we have had the best
administration of the office it has ever
had. While he has never been very
strongly regarded as a Democrat, his
appointment by a Democratic governor
naturally caused him to be classed as a
Democrat and he has accepted the
classification without protest. I be-
lieve him to be about as near to a non-
partisan as a man can be in this day
and age and I also believe that his
second term in the office he is to fill
for the next two years will still further
commend him to the approval and ad-
miration of all fair-minded men in the
pharmaceutical profession.

A county food inspector in Eastern
Michigan was recently instructed to go
to a near-by town and check up on the
meat department in an A. & P. store
which was selling hamburg steak wh'ch
was much brighter in appearance than
the product sold by the independent
stores. He obtained an official sam-
ple and sent it on to Lansing for anal-
ysis, which disclosed the presence of a
large percentage of tomatoes, includ-
ing seeds and the outer skin. A second
visit was paid the manager of the meat
department, who was informed that he
could arrange for a bondsman, because
the authorities at Lansing had de-
cided that he should be arrested on a
charge of violating the food laws. He
pleaded poverty and showed letters
from the supervisor of his district, in-
structing him to use a certain percen-
tage of tomatoes during the time that
vegetables were low in price. As he
would be unable to pay a fine and his
absence from the store while he was
serving a jail sentence would cause him
to lose his job and throw his family on
the welfare fund, it was deemed the
part of wisdom to permit the transac-
tion to go unpunished on the promise
of the meat cutter to refrain from *e
use of any foreign matter in his ham-
burg steak hereafter.

In the death of Dexter G. Look, of
Lowell, Michigan loses a man whose
integrity was never questioned, whose
citizenship was never referred to
lightly, whose religion was never
doubted.

The most remarkable quality of Dex-
ter Look was his ability to maintain

a high level of spiritual power. Most of
us are partly good and partly bad. We
are perhaps capable of some fine hero-
isms in high moments and we fall into
pitiful meannesses in the low moments.
We have our generosities and our self-
ishnesses. No one, we hope, is en-
tirely bad and few men are continu-
ously good. M1. Look achieved a rare
unity of life. He kept an unusual level
of nobility. He was the same man at
home, in business, in play and in wor-
ship.

We have had in these last sad days
the most touching expressions of ap-
preciation from very humble people to
whom he had given himself and from
men in the highest stations in the land.
The unity of his life grew out of his
sense of the personal worth of each
individual. We all talk about democ-
racy and abont the spiritual worth of
personality. Mr. Look went far to-
ward realizing it. He never used peo-
ple as tools as means to his ends. They
were men as he was, and he treated

 

The Late Dexter G. Look

them as he felt that men should be
treated. That is the very essence of
the religious life that is the spirit of
Jesus.

Mr. Look lived a continuous reli-
gious life because he kept foremost in
his mind his duty to his fellow men,
all of whom to him were the children
of God. That is what made him a great
citizen. He had an exalted conception
of the meaning of this human enter-
prise trying to live together and to
bring out the best in one another. The
pharmaceutical profession was not just
a means of making a living—it was an
opportunity for the right adjustment of
human affairs. National politics were
not a clash of partisanship. It was a
way to promote the best living of a
great people. And this noble spirit was
associated with the highest executive
ability. And what he wanted for
America, he wanted for all men. His
notable thought after the war was a
plea for America to be the Good Sa-
maritan—ready to thelp bind up the
wounds of the nations. He had a high
religious hope that mankind could go

forward to an achievement of nobler
living than had ever yet been seen upon
the earth. And he had a radiant faith
in immortality. He believed in men
because he believed that each one
would live forever. We share his glo-
rious faith. This is not a mere edito-
rial eulogy. It is a farewell service to
a great spirit who has been promoted
to.a higher life. :

Does the wide spread between the
price a department store pays for an
article and the price it charges the con-
sumer mean that the store is taking
an excessive prcfit? J. P. Friedman, of
the New York accounting firm of
Touche, Niven & Co., thinks that this
spread is due rather to the high cost of
department store retailing and lays the
ultimate blame on the “style-conscious”
public.

The possibility that this spread be-
tween purchase price and sales price
may be due to the store’s taking an
excessive profit may be dismissed
quickly, Mr. Friedman says. “Reports
issued by Harvard University in co-
operation with the National Retail Dry
Goods Association show that the re-
porting stores in 1930 showed a profit
of 2.6 per cent. of net sales, for 1931
a profit of 1.0 per cent., for 1932 a loss
of 2.4 per cent., and for 1933 a profit of
1.8 per cent. Certainly, these percen-
tages do not indicate an excessive
profit. The criticism must therefore
be directed as high costs. Before the
war the percentage of operating ex-
penses was probably less than 25 per
cent. and, as already indicated, by 1923
this had risen to 28.4, by 1929 to 32.3
per cent and by 1933 to 38.1 per cent.
Leaving out of account the period of
the depression, when the fall in volume
was so large a factor, we find an in-
crease in operating expense of from
less than 25 per cent. before the war
to 32.3 per cent by 1929. What is the
cause of the continuously rising ex-
pense percentage? Obviously there are
many reasons, but I believe the most
important one is style. Over a period
of years, the public has become increas-
ingly style-conscious. For the depart-
ment store buyer this means buying in
smaller lots, buying more often and
buying more carefully. For the store,
it means a larger investment in furni-
ture and fixtures in order to display
the merchandise properly. For the sales
people it means a longer time required
for each sale in helping a customer
make selections. For the customer it
means more time in making purchases
and more frequent returns and deliv-
eries. Each of these elements is costly,
and the more the field of style mer-
chandise is extended the more it will
tend to increase operating expenses.
It is probable that there can be no im-
portant reduction in the department
store’s cost of distribution so long as
we wish to retain our present method
of living.”

If small business men would fall in
step with the times and organize, they
would find themselves better fitted to
survive the present economic situation
than their chain-store and large inde-
pendent competitors, according to Rob-

ert B. Hawthorn, who writes in the
February issue of the Journal of Ac-
countancy, official publication of the
American Institute of Accountants.

“Nearly all the large department
stores and many of the smaller ones,”
says Mr. Hawthorn, “are affiliated
with the National Retail Dry Goods
Association and the bureau of business
research of Harvard for the mutual ex-
change of information beneficial to the
trade as a whole. If small business
men were to organize themselves in a
similar way, study the methods of their
successful colleagues and make a seri-
ous attempt to analyze and eliminate
their own individual deficiencies, they
would have little to fear from their
imaginary enemies, the ‘chains’ and the
large independents.

“Tt is conceded that the National
Recovery act has been rather disap-
pointing to the new dealers generally
in its failure to bring about a large
measure of recovery. The inequities of
the NRA, so far as they concern the
small business man, have been brought
to our attention may times during the
past year. Regardless of what we may
say about it, it has at least stimulated
the tendency of business generally to
organize. Independent wholesalers and
retailers are forming buying pools,
which are nothing more than unions.
The National Retailers Council is call-
ing to arms retailers in all lines for
the purpose of organizing to promote
co-operative buying. As this move-
ment gains momentum, the large na-
tional ‘chains’ will have a powerful
foe with which to reckon.

“As for the chains, the depression
has made it difficult for many of them
to keep up the pace at which they
traveled a few years ago. Obviously
in times like these it becomes neces-
sary for executives, both large and
small, to pursue a policy of retrench-
ment. And it is here that the small
business has a decided advantage. It is
more flexible; it can effect economies
much quicker than the average big
business and thus enhance its chances
of survival.

“Contrary to the belief of many, I
see little evidence to support the theory
that the small business will eventually
be obliterated.”

Sixty years ago the country news-
paper business was at a low ebb. Local
merchants had not yet learned what a

mine of wealth there was in using local

newspapers in an advertising way and
subscribers undertook to pay their ac-
counts with cordwood, potatoes and
cabbages. The town carpenter expect-
ed to shingle the house when it needed
shingling to balance his subscription
arrearage. Of course, there were occa-
sional exceptions to this condition, but
they were few and far between. Since
that time a great change has taken
place in the country newspaper busi-
ness. Where there were two struggling
newspapers —and frequently three —
amalgamtion by purchase or otherwise
has reduced the number to one news-

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Cong. Mapes. Introduces Amendment
ae To Clayton Act

Washington, Jan. 22—A few days
ago I called in a representative of the
legislative drafting service and asked
him to prepare a bill along the line of
your suggestion. He has done so and
at the same time he comes back with
a memorandum on the general subject.
I am enclosing a copy of the bill which
he has drafted for me to introduce and
also a copy of his memorandum.

About the same time, I talked with
the chairman of the Federal Trade
Commission. The Commission has re-
cently made a report recommending
some amendments to the Clayton act.
I am also enclosing a copy of the press
release of that report.

I wish you would look them over and

let me know what you think should be ©

done.

I had intended to introduce a bill on
the sulsject Monday or Tuesday, but I
may wait until I have a chance to hear
from you further.

I wonder if it would not be advisa-
ble to introduce a bill proposing an
amendment to Section 2 of the Clayton
act, as recommended by the Federal
Trade Commission, rather than a bill
just striking cut the word “quantity,”
as we discussed? I may decide to have
a bill prepared incorporating all the
suggestions of the Federal Trade Com-
mission. If i do, it will be on my
own initiative and not as a spokesman
for the Federal Trade Commission. I
suppose the Commission will want to
get some member of the dominant par-
ty to introduce its recommendations.

After you have had a chance to look
over these matters, let me know what
you think about them.

Carl E. Mapes.

Mr. Mapes has introduced the fol-
lowing bill to amend Section 2 of the
Clayton act:

Be it enacted, by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress Assem-
bled, That section 2 of the act entitled
“An Act to supplement existing laws
against unlawful restraints and monop-
olies, and for other purposes,” approved
October 15, 1914 (U.S.C. title 15, sec.
13), is amended by striking out in the
first proviso thereof the following: “on
account of differences in the grade,
quality or quantity of the commodity
sold” and inserting in lieu thereof “on
account of differences in the grade or
quality of the commodity sold.”

 

Memorandum for Mr. Mapes: This
note relates to the bill carrying out
Mr. Stow’s proposal that the word
“quantity” be stricken from section 2
of the Clayton act. In doing the pure-
ly mechanical job of putting that sug-
gestion into formal legislative language,
I couldn’t avoid being aware of the
possibility that such a bill may fail to
do what Mr. Stowe desires to accom-
plish, ard I also observed that the pro-
posal( if fully effective, might bring
about some consequences he would not
intend had he been advised of them. I
subm:t this memorandum so that you
may have my observations in writing
should you desire to bring them to
Mr. Stowe’s attention.

(1) Merely striking out “quantity”
still leaves enough in section 2 of the
Clayton act to permit the construction
that some forms of price discrimination
based on quantity sold are permitted,

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

for the penalties apply only “where the
effect of such discrimination may be to

substantially lessen competition or tend

to. create a monopoly in any line of
commerce.” Jf the discrimination has
neither of these results, it is still not
prohibited.

(2) Even with “quntity” stricken out
the section does not prevent “discrim-
inations in price, that makes only due
allowance for difference in cost of sel-
ling.” There might still be any num-
ber of cases in which selling costs of
a large number of units were lower
per unit than selling costs per unit of a
smaller number of units of a com-
modity.

(3) Under section 5 of the National
Industria] Recovery act, codes, agree-
ments, licenses, and actions taken in
compliance therewith, which are ap-
proved under that Act are (subject to
the limitations contained in section 3
(a)) exempt from the anti-trust laws,
including the Clayton act. To the ex-
tent that such exemption could apply
under section 5 to the practices pro-
posed to be prohibited by Mr. Stowe’s
proposal, his object could be defeated
by businesses under codes.

(4) Assuming that the bill, if enacted
into law, wouid be entirely effective to
eliminate all price discriminations
based upon quantity of goods sold, the
question at once arises as to the con-
stitutionality cf such legislation. It is,
in effect, price fixing on each unit in
excess of one unit of the commodity
sold. Price fixing has never been up-
held except ‘n the public utilities field
or other similar “businesses affected
with the public interest.” A statute
which prohibited a bona fide reduc-
tion in the price of a single article.
which reduction was made possible be-
cause of cheaper selling costs, might
be open to question because such re-
duction did not result in unlawful less-
ening or competition or achieving mon-
opoly, even though the effect of the
reduction would be to drive others out
of business. It is hard to distinguish
such a case from cases which might
arise under the proposed legislation.
Without any extended inquiry into
the constitutional phases of such legis-
lation, it seems to me there is grave
enough question of its validity to war-
rant serious study.

(5) If fully effective to prohibit all
quantity discounts, Mr. Stow’s propo-
sal would prohibit such discounts in all
interstate sales to independent mer-
chants, co-operative purchasing agen-
cies of independent merchants, and
wholesalers who sold only to independ-
ent merchants. All I point out here is
that the proposal is not limited to chain
store buying. John O’Brien.

 

Federal Trade Commission Legis-
lative Recommendations:

Three amendments to the Clayton
act and one to the Federal Trade Com-
missio1 Act arc recommended by the
Federal Trade Commission in the final
installment of its chain store investiga-
tion, report, transmitted to the Senate
Jan. 2, pursuant to Senate Resolution
224, 70th Congress, First Session.

The proposed amendments are in-
tended to extend and clarify the juris-
diction of the Commission in dealing

with monopolistic and unfair trade
practices in interstate commerce.

That portion of the Commission’s
report containing the legislative rec-
ommeudations says:

“1. That the first two paragraphs of
Section 7 be amended to read:

‘That no corporation engaged in com-
merce shall acquire, directly or indi-
rectly, the whole of, or a controlling
interest in the voting stock or other
share capital c1 the whole of, or a
major part o* the assets of another
corporation engaged also in commerce
and in competition with the acquiring
corporation.

‘No corporation engaged in com-
merce shall acquire, directly or indi-
rectly, any part of the stock or other
share capital or any part of the assets
of another coporation engaged also in
commerce where the effect of such ac-
quisition may be to substantially lessen
competition between the corporation
whose stock or assets is so acquired
and the corporation making the acqui-
sition, or to restrain such commerce
in anv section or community or tend
to create a monopoly of any line of
commerce.

‘No corporation shall acquire, by
merger, consolidation or otherwise, di-
rectly or indirectly, the whole of, or a
controlling interest in the voting stock
or other share capital, or the whole of,
or a-major part of the assets of two or
more corporations engaged also in
commerce and in competition with each
other.

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of sucn stock by the voting or granting
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such corporations, or any of them,
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or tend to create a monopoly of any
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“2. That “here be inserted as the
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“In the discussion of the legal status
of special prices to chain stores by
manufecturers (Chapter IV, Section 4)
the uncertainties and difficulties of en-
forcing Section 2 of the Clayton Act
were pointed out at some length. The
conclusion was reached that most of
those uncertainties and difficulties grew
out cf various provisos which nar-
rowed the scope of the original prohi-
bition to an indeterminate degree. A
simple solution for the uncertainties
and difficulties of enforcement would
be to prohibit unfair and unjust dis-
crimination in price and leave it to the
enforcement agency, subject to review
by the courts, to apply that principle
to particular cases and situations. The
soundness of end extent to which the
present provisos would constitute valid
defenses would thus become a judicial
and not a legislative matter.

“The Commission therefore recom-
mends that Section 2 of the Clayton
act be amended to read as follows:

‘It shall be unlawful for any person
engaged in commerce in any transac-
tion in or affecting such commerce,
either directly or indirectly to discrim-
inate unfairly o1 unjustly in price be-
tween different purchasers of commod-
ities, which commodities are sold for
use, consumption, or resale within the
United States or any Territory thereof
or the District of Columbia or any in-
sular possession or other place under
the jurisdiction of the United States.’

“In the discussion of the legal status
of special prices to chain stores by
manufacturers (Chapter IV, Section 4)
it was also stated that unless the price
discrimination permitted ‘on account of’
quantity shall make ‘only due allow-
ance’ therefor, Section 2 of the Clay-
ton Act may be readily evaded by
making a small difference in quantity
the occasion for a large difference in
price. If the section ‘s to have any
vitality it must either be interepreted
and and enforced to that effect or it
should be amended to that effect.

“The Commission further recom-
mends that at the end of Section 11 a
new paragraph be added to read as
follows

‘If any clause, sentence, paragraph or
part ci the amendments herein con-
tained, to Sections 2, 7, or 11 of this
Act shell, for any reason, be adjudged
by any court of competent jurisdic-
tion to be invalid, such judgment shall
not affect, impair or invalidate the re-
mainder of said separate and several
amendments to said sections, but shall
be confined in its operation to the
clause, sentence, paragraph or part of
said separate and several amendments
to said sections directly involved in
the controversy in which such judg-
ment shall have been rendered.’

“A recommendation for amendment
of the Federal Trade Commission Act
seems essential as shown by the re-
sults of the chain store investigation;
namely, first, that the prohibition of
unfair methods of competition in sec-
tion 5 of the Act be broadened so as
to include unfair or deceptive acts and
practices in interstate commerce, and,
second, so that unfair methods, acts
and practices may be reached when
they unfairly affect interstate com-
merce, regardless of whether the of-

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

fender is engaged in commerce or the
acts are done in the course of com-
merce.

“Wherefore, we respectfully recom-
mend that the first two paragraphs of
Section 5 of the Federal Trade Com-
mission Act be amended so as to read
as follows:

‘Unfair methods of competition in
or affecting commerce and unfair or
deceptive acts and practices in or af-
fecting commerce are declared unlaw-
ful.

‘The Commission is empowered and
directed to prevent persons, partner-
ships, or corporations, except banks
and ccmmon carriers subject to the
Acts to regulate commerce, from using
unfair methods of competition in or
affecting commerce and unfair or de-
ceptive acts and practices in or affect-
ing commerce.’ ”

The purpose of the proposed amend-
ment to Section 2 of the Clayton Act
is to preserve the element of equality
among buyers so as to prevent sellers
from discriminating in price without
limit whenever there is a difference
in the quantity or quantities sold. It
would prohibit concerns which make
different prices to different buyers
from asserting a right to do so merely
on account of the difference in the
quantity or quantities sold. The prac-
tice of giving a large buyer proportion-
ately large discounts has been recog-
nized as a powerful instrument in
building up monopoly. Different
prices are justified only on actual dif-
ference in costs. Under the proposed
amendment, the prices charged would
have to be reasonably related to the dif-
ferences in cost, and could not be so
great as to produce an unfair or un-
just discrimination.

The purpose of the proposed amend-
ment to Section 7 of the Clayton act is
two-fold. First, to make effective the
policy of the law as now written and,
second, to make it a more effective ob-
stacle tc the steady trend toward mo-
nopoly. The elimination of competi-
tion between corporations brought
about solely by the purchase of assets
is not now illegal unless the corpora-
tions involved unreasonably restrain
commerce in the whole industry. The
proposed amendments are not only in-
tended to make clear that competition
between individual units is to be main-
tained, but also to dispense with the
necessity of having to prove a substan-
tial lessening of competition between
competing corporations in instances
where all, or a controlling stock inter-
est, or all or a major part of the assets
have been acquired.

The proposed amendment to Section
11 merely confers on the Commission
the power to order a divestiture of
physical property in cases where such
property has been secured through a
violation of Section 7. The Supreme
Court has held that under the present
law the Commission lacks power to
compel a divestiture of physical prop-
perty even though such property had
been acquired by means of stock un-
lawfully purchased. Four judges dis-
sented and the effect of the amend-
ments to this section will be to give the
Commission the power that this minor-
ity considered the act originally con-

firred upon it. Where acquisition of
stock or assets is purely for purposes
of investment, if is not made illegal.
The proposed amendment to Section
5 of the Federal Trade Commission
Act is for the purpose of broadening
the Commission’s jurisdiction so as to
include unfair methods of competition
affecting commerce and unfair or de-
ceptive acts and practices in or affect-
ing commerce. In many of its investi-
gations the Commission has found
numerous unfair methods of competi-
tion and numerous deceptive acts and
practices which, although done in in-
trastate commerce, seriously affect hon-
est competitors engaged in interstate
commerce. The Commission’s juris-
diction, if any, under Section 5 as it
now stands, over these acts and prac-
tices is doubtful. The proposed amend-
ment expressly extends its jurisdiction
so as to prohibit them. Moreover un-
der the preseit act it has been inti-
mated in court decisions that the Com-
mission may lose jurisdiction of a case
of deceptive and similar unfair prac-
tices if it should develop in the pro-
ceeding that all competitors in the in-
dustry practiced the same unfair meth-
ods, and the Commission may be oust-
ed of its jurisdiction no matter how
badly the public may be in need of
protection from said deceptive andi un-
fair acts. Under the amendment to this
section the Commission would have
jurisdiction to stop the exploitation or
deception of the public even though
the competitors of the respondent were
themselves entitled to no protection
because of their engaging in similar

practices.
——— +2 o>

Proceedings of the Grand Rapids
Bankruptcy Court

In the matter of Holland Hitch Co., a
Michigan corporation, bankrupt No. 5576.
The final meeting of creditors has been
called for Feb. 1. The trustee’s amended
final report will be approved at such
meeting.

Pirst wescting of creditors in the follow-
ing cases were held: : :

Jan, 14—In the matter of Fred Seadin,
bankrupt No, 5887, the bankrupt was
present and represented by Willis B. Per-
kins, Jr., attorney, Mortgagees were
present and represented by Charles B.
Rarden, attorney. The bankrupt was
sworn and examined before a reporter.
Fred G. Timmer, of Grand Rapids, was
appointed trustee, with bond of $100.
Bankrupt was directed to file petition for
appointment of appraisers, etc., where-
upon administration of the estate would
proceed in the normal way. he meet-
ing adjourned without date.

Jan. 14—In the matter of William
McMichael, bankrupt No. 5896. The
bankrupt was present and represented by
David Anderson, Jr., attorney. Land
eontract holder was present and repre-
sented by Earl W. Chamberlain, ‘Bank-
rupt was sworn and examined before a
reporter, M. N. Kennedy, of Kalamazoo,
was appointed trustee; bond $100. Bank-
rupt directed to file petition for appoint-
ment of appraisers. The meeting ad-
journed without date.

Jan, 14-Cesare and Emma Federighi,
bankrupts No. 5832. The bankrupts were
each present and represented by Nicholas
J. Whelan on behalf of Thomas N, Rob-
inson, attorney. Mortgagee was repre-
sented by A. E. Leckner, attorney.
Cesare and Emma Federighi were each
sworn and examined before a _ reporter,
Cesare Federighi, Jr., having been duly
sworn as their interpreter. M. N. Ken-
nedy, of Kalamazoo, appointed trustee:
bond $100. The bankrupts were directed
to file petition for appointment of ap-
p orriialeaes The meeting adjourned without

ate,

Jan. 14—-In the matter of Oscar Carl-
son, bankrupt No. 5851. The bankrupt
was present but not represented by at-
torney. The bankrupt was sworn and ex-
amined before a reporter. M. N, Ken-
nedy, Kalamazoo, was appointed trustee;
bond $100. The bankrupt was directed to
file petition for appointment of appraisers.
The meeting then adjourned without
date.

Jan, 15—In the matter of Robert Camp
and Alta B. Camp, bankrupts No. 5829.
Robert Camp was present but not rep-

ll

resented by attorney. Mortgagee was
present and represented by Stuart B.
White; attorney. Robert Camp was sworn
and examined before a reporter. M. N.
Kennedy, Kalamazoo, trustee; bond $100.
Referee directed bankrupts to file peti-
tion for appointment of appraisers, The
meeting then adjourned without date.

Jan. 15—In the matter of Wilson S.
Martin, bankrupt No. 5872. Bankrupt
was present and represented by Fred R.
Everett, attorney, Several mortgagees
present in person and one represented by
Richard C. Annis, attorney. Fred G.
Timmer, of Grand Rapids, was appointed
trustee, with bond of $100. The bank-
rupt was sworn and examined before a
reporter. Bankrupt directed to file peti-
tion for appointment of appraisers. The
meeting then adjourned without date.

Jan, 16—In the matter of Hermie F.
Warren, bankrupt No. 5800. The bank-
rupt was present and represented by
Harry D. Reber, attorney. Mortgagee
present in person. The bankrupt was
sworn and examined before a reporter.
Fred G. Timmer, of Grand Rapids was
appointed trustee, with bond of $100. The
meeting then adjourned without date.

Jan. 15—In the matter of Mathilda
Carlson, bankrupt No. 5856. Bankrupt
present but not represented by attorney.
Lien claimant was present in person. The
bankrupt was Sworn and examined be-
fore a reporter. M, N. Kennedy, of Kal-
amazoo, appointed trustee, with bond of
$100. Bankrupt was directed to file pe-
tition for appointment of appraisers. The
meeting then adjourned without date.

Jan. 16—In the matter of Arthur Ha-
bel, bankrupt No. 5840. The bankrupt
was present and represented by Elden
W. Butzbaugh, attorney. Mortgagee was
present and represented by Rolland E.
Barr, attorney. Bankrupt was sworn and
examined before a reporter. Bankrupt
was directed to file petition for appoint-
ment of appraisers. M. N. Kennedy, of
Kalamazoo, was appointed trustee, with
bond of $100. The meeting then adjourned
without date.

Jan. 18. On this day the schedules, ref-
erence and adjudeation in the matter of
Herman Bartels, bankrupt No. 6041, were
receved, Bankrupt is a dealer in lumber
and real estate, of Muskegon. The sched-
ules show total assets of $211 (all of which
is claimed exempt), and total liabilities of
$66,995.95, listing the following creditors:
Hilke Huizenga, and wife, Mus-

heeon 2" $1,200.00
First State Savings Bank,

Muskeron Heiehts = 2 4,127.20
Nat'l Lumberman’s Bk., Muskegon 475.00

1,000.00

Louise M. Reed, Muskegon__--__

3enj. F. Reed, decd., Geo. Reed,

Adimr., Muskegon ——~--- 1,326.00
Florence Baribeau, Geo. Reed,

Agent, Muskegon ——— = 2,801.00

Yeo. Reed and wife, Muskegon__ 6,867.00
Katherine Kost, Muskegon Hts.__ 1,000.00

Geo. P. Zimmerman, Muskegon_. 800.00
Philip Boller, Muskegon__-----~ 1,000.00
Adolph Timmick and wife, Anna,
Ravenna 0 1,700.00
Lawrence A, Smith, Muskegon__ 4,288.00
Muskegon Savings Bank _----~-~-- 2,800.00
Reinerd F. Cooper, Muskegon____ 702.00

Coopersville State Bank__--______ 1,700.00

 

Fredricks Lumber Co., Muskegon 385.00
Lee Hardware Co., Muskgeon Hts, 100.00
W. J. Carl, Est., Muskegon Hts.__ 100.00
Wm. D. Hardy Co., Muskegon__-_ 200.00
Consumers Dairy, Muskegon Hts. 100.00
Hackley Hospital, Muskegon___-__ 46.00
Vanderwerp & Schrier, Muskegon 100,00
Reid &Graff, Muskegon Heights__ 10.00
Square Clothing, Muskegon_____~- 13.00
M. Friend, Muskegon__-__.______ 19.00
Irwin Storage Battery Co.,

Muskecom)) 2 8.00
Mrs. Emily McBride, Holland____ 200.00

Henry Naberhuis and wife, Holland 300.00

Pine Street Furn. Co., Muskegon 150.00
Geo. D. Vanderwerp, MuskegonN 150.00
J. PB Oosting, Hollands: o ete 250.09

Ben Jacobsen, and wife, West

Olive 22 ee 4,200.00
c. P. Zwemer, and wife, Holland 750.00
Frank D. Nay, and wife, Musk.__unknown

Dr. M. H. Rosie, Muskegon Hts._. 15.00
Neil & Alwynse Company_-_--__-- 7.15
First State Savings Bank,

Muskegon Heights ___._________ 26,180.00
Wm. Koopman and wife, Hud-

SOnVille 22222 1,926.00

In the matter of Herman Bartels, bank-
rupt No. 6041. The first,meeting of cred-
itors has been called for Feb. 6.

In the matter of Merkle Dairy Co., bank-
rupt No, 6020. The first meeting of cred-
itors has been called for Feb. 5.

In the matter of Kline Mitre Lock &
Art Co., bankrupt No. 6036. The first
ectne of creditors has been called for
Heb. 5.

In the matter of Charles James Foster,
doing business as The Cadillac Storage
and Transfer Co., bankrupt No. 6024.
The first meeting of creditors has been
called for Feb. 4.

In the matter of Harvey C. Deater,
bankrupt No. 5998. The first meeting of
creditors has been called for Feb. 4.

In the matter of Orville E. Crowley,
bankrupt No. 5795. Th first meeting of
creditors has been called for Feb. 4,

——_22->—___-

Getting rich is easy. You just print

some worthless stock and then call on

widows and professional men.

 

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12

RETAIL GROCER

Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers Associa-
tion of Michigan.

President—Rudolf Eckert, Flint.

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

Secretary — Herman 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.

 

Be Sure and Safeguard Your Family
Credit Trade

To last week’s discussion, I want to
add a most impressive caution that
grocers who run service stores should
be more careful to retain, conserve and
extend their family credit trade than
ever. This because, as conditions re-
turn to the new cycle of stability, reli-
able customers turn more and more
toward trading on account.

To see the force of this, let me re-
view the statistics. In thoroughly
“good times” grocery trade runs about
55 per cent. credit and 45 per cent.
cash. When things tighten up, folks
trade more for cash, pick up bargains
more attentively, often withdraw their
accounts under the conviction that they
can save something that way. This
goes on until the ratio becomes 55
per cent. cash and 45 per cent. credit.

Now, from no standpoint can it be
doubted that family credit trade is
more desirable, more profitable, for
almost any individual grocer able to
handle credit than is cash trade. That,
in fact, is the only important limita-
tion—the ability or lack of it, to han-
dle credit; and I write this without be-
ing forgetful that there are grocers—
and big, able ones at that—who prefer
to operate for cash.

Recall question No. 3 of last week:
“Is it your belief that competition is
forcing credit-service grocers to at-
tempt performance of credit-service
functions on cash cary prices?”

This is a hangover from the late ob-
session that “loss leaders” were ruin-
ing everybody when, in fact, chain op-
erators were steadily abandoning loss
leaders and had been doing that for
two years or more; when also, the right
kind of family grocers never had suf-
fered from loss leaders because they
never used them to speak of.

Those grocers, like all live traders,
offered specials from time to time, both
to retain keen interest among their
present customers—which is about the
soundest thing any merchant can do—
and to attract new trade; but such
specials were items of their own choos-
ing, not the brand of Oompah & Sons,
found in every store, and mostly such
items returned more than cost, gener-
ally full profit.

It is a hangover from another con-
dition, characteristic, always, of hard
times: That weaker grocers feel that
credit handling is beyond them—as it
often is—and therefore cash is their
refuge. But such tradesmen need to
realize that cash selling requires as de-
termined a character as credit adminis-
tration ever required. If you cannot
put a definite limit on credit service—
if you are a victim of “the creeping
balance”—you may be mighty sure

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

that you will not succeed as a cash
seller.

The impression is common that the
ability to say no is the corner store of
credit granting success. It is quite true
that definite limts, both as to time
and size of account, must be put on
ever customer—and rigidly adhered to.
There can be no hope for the credit
merchant who cannot or does not do
this.

It is nothing short of a joke to hear
a grocer say he is “troubled” by the
creeping balance; for no balance can
creep on the man who stops an account
the instant it is not settled in full ex-
actly according to the terms agreed
upon. The laws of the Medes and Per-
sians had nothing on the truly success-
ful credit administrator, for his rules
must “alter not.”

The next corner stone, second in im-
portance only to the one noted, is the
sound judgment not only to say yes at
the right time to a credit applicant, but
to anticipate the application. That is,
to solicit the accounts of desirable cus-
tomers who drop in occasionally and
buy for cash. Typical of this angle is
one high grade, full service market, of
which the proprietor is ever watchful
to extend trade among desirable credit
buyers.

He is alert to see new faces—tries to
wait on newcomers himself, get
acquainted with them, size them up.
His first move is to offer delivery if
that be not asked for; and that gives
opportunity to learn where the buyer
lives. Then he starts an investigation
through the credit bureau and other-
wise, by references to department and
other stores, so he gets complete in-
formation. If all shows up well, the
next time the lady comes in, he asks
whether she would not like to have an
account—“convenient, you know, to
telephone when you are not down
town, and pay the bill when sent out
monthly.”

This forcing of the issue flatters the
customer and it is then easy to lay out
the terms, how “good credit—credit
of folks who pay promptly and in full
each month—is always welcome.” Here
the emphasis is quietly but pointedly
laid on what is expected. Thus are
good prospects turned into steady feed-
ers of this man’s profit account.

That sort of handling is what lends
the greatest value to cash offerings,
“specials,” in the family full service
grocery store. It is a plan any wake-
ful, intelligent grocer can. follow out,
and right now is one of the preferred
times to follow it diligently, for better
times and freer use of money are right
ahead.

Finally, let the service grocer realize
the great truth that so far this full half
of the grocery business is cinched to
him. All he needs is to grasp the op-
portunity right before him. All he
needs is, of course, ability to handle the
chance. I realize that this is some
task—a task for the chosen few. But
that is all the better for that few who
can awaken to their best bets. It is
quite safe, too, to write thus; because
only wakeful grocers read trade papers.

Therefore, these hints will fall on fal-
low ground and my object in setting
forth the above is to provide greater
stability for the best segment of indi-
vidual trade.

But a final thought is this: That
opportunity not taken by one is apt to
find other takers. The demand for
credit in perfectly reliable quarters is
steady, insistent and perennial. There-
fore, it will find takers in the present
trade set up, or uncover new takers.

Business is ever in flux, It does not
stay put. What was impossible yes-
terday is done all around us to-da)
and organizing ability never long
wants for takers.

What am I This:
Though some of you will misunder

driving at?

stand me—plenty of you will say that
in what follows, I am “boosting the
chains’—let this fact stand out:

That chain grocers are organizers,
men of peculiar ability. Yesterday they
“could not handle perishables.” To-
day they handle more perishables on
the average by far than individual gro-
cers. While the modern store was in-
cipient in California thirty years ago,
it was pounced upon and developed
widely by chain grocers. Individual
grocers have profited in exact propor-
tion as they have followed this lead.

It is dangerous to prophesy; but I
feel quite safe in predicting that a
chain grocer development of the near
future is credit service. So wakeful
grocers will get after this fine business
and beat chains to it.

Paul Findlay.
—— ++ >—_
Questions and Answers for Merchants
and Cerks

Q. What percentage of profit does
the public think we make?

A. Far too much,

Q. What percentage of profit do we
think we make?

A. Far too little.

Q. In what State are the most
merchants?

A. In the State of Insolvency.

Q. What is the best procedure ‘in
making out a processing tax return?

A. Cross your fingers, close your
eyes, splatter ink al over the form and
swear that it is the whole truth and
nothing but the truth.

Q. How can one tell quickly his net
gain or loss for the year?

January 30, 1935

A. Ask the wife, she knows. An-
other method is to take an inventory
of the gas remaining in the tank of
your car. More or less than a year ago
denotes gain or loss.

Q. To what extent should credit be
given?

A. Give till it hurts.

Q. How should one go about col-
lecting past due accounts?

A. Make out statements once a year
and then trow them in the waste bas-
Ket:

Q. What are the three “R’s of mer-
chandising?

A. The customer is always right
(even if wrong); keep store neat and
tidy (in other words sweep once a
week at least); sell everything at cut
prices; who wants to make a profit?

Q. If out of an article wanted by a
customer, what would you sugges
doing?

A. Suggest that the customer go
some other place to get it.

Q. What percentage of gross sales
should ‘be spent for advertising?

A. None. Advertising is a useless
waste of money invented by the print-
ers for their own gain. If a customer
needs an article it will sell anyway and
advertising brings business just when
one wants to go fishing or golfing. Ad-
vertising should tbe pigeonholed along
with sweeping, dusting, bright lights,
bookkeeping, friendliness and any form
of effort. Sam Sugarsax.

2
Just Children Then
There came a little living Spring

A thrill within the heart
Youth never knew the welling thing

Nor dreamed what it would start
Yet on a time in Cupid’s June
When Nature rang with happy tune
Caught I a smile but just to say:—

“Oh pardon. please’’:—It happed that
way.

School days wore on nor less indeed—

i At recreation hour—

This happening seemed more a need
And conscious of its power

I often crossed her path, for then

Hoped [ tc catch a smile again;

Quite rude behaviour I surmise

On playgrcunds grouped for exercise.

Full three score years have passed today
As white as mine her har;
Our dearest ones long passed away
But paths had duties where :
Last summertime crossed they ounce more
We lisped that school-day story o‘er
We bowed the head, we blessed our years
There was no smile—but tears—just tears.
Charles A. Heath.
——_22____

Troubles never “drives a man _ to
drink” unless he’s more ashamed of it

than he is of being drunk.

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

13

 

MEAT DEALER

 

Air, Walls and Floor May Cause Meat
Taint

Spoilage of meat may take one of
two forms, according as bacteria or
moulds predominate. “Wet 7 or slimy
meat is caused by the growth of bac-
teria, and is accompanied by a charac-
teristic smell. On the other hand, the
posi growth of mould may lead
condition of the surface,
to the formation of

to a “sticky”
and eventually
“whiskers.” Of the two types
age, bacterial slime is the more often

of spoil

encountered.

Both types of organism may be prop-
agated by air-borne cells or by direct
transference from growing colonies to
fresh, uninfected surfaces. The sur-
face of meat may therefore become in-
fected at all stages of handling: for the
air of the premises, the walls and floor,
and the persons handling the meat all
carry infection and can inoculate fresh
surfaces with the “disease.”

Now the actual weight of infection to
which it is subjected is the most seri-
ous factor in the keeping of meat.
Therefore, cleanliness in handling meat
is the most important means of avoid-
To a certain

ing undue deterioration.

extent, however, infection of the sur-
face of meat is unavoidable, but means
are available for controlling subsequent
growth, namely, reduction of temper-
ature, drying of the surface, and the use
of chemical inhibitors.

It will be suficient here to say that
cold is the most generally serviceable
agent in the preservation of meat. Dry-
ing is only really effective when the
surface of the meat is covered with a
layer of fat or connective tissue. A
certain degree of dryness in the air ot
the store is, however, valuable in that
it prevents colonies or organisms devel-
oping on the walls and floor. Chemical
inhibitors are the least serviceable;
they are, for the most part, prohibited
by law. Certain gaseous or volatile in-
hibitors, particaularly carbon dioxide,
are, however, receiving a good deal
of attention at the moment.

Bacterial spoilage is much more
prone to occur on the moist lean sur-
faces of cut joints than on the uncut
It first becomes evident with

small,

carcass.
the appearance of glistening.
brown droplets, but these eventually
coalesce to form a uniform brownisa
slime, and at the same time a charac-
teristic odor appears, often described as
“cour? or “cold-store” taint. On whole
stored too
condi-

carcasses which have been
long or under unsatisfactory
tions of temperature and drying, slime
may appear on the neck and other parts
of exposed lean, and to a less serious
extent on the connective tissue where
moisture has been allowed to accum-
in any fold of the surface,
and breast

ulate, e.g.,
such as between the legs
or beneath the kidney-fat.

Given an adequate nutrient medium
such as is provided by the moist sur-
face of lean meat, the most important

single factor affecting the rate of

growth of micro-organisms is temper-
ature, /
Another point not always appreci-
ated by the butcher is that, whereas
slime appears at the end of two days
at a temperature of 10 degrees C.,
takes ten days to appear at 0 degree C.
Therefore, if after cutting up the car-
cass the joints are allowed to hang for,
Say, a day in the shop-window,
although no visible change has. occur-
red, vet the meat is now half-way to-
wards the slimy condition. It follows
that, if it is now placed in the refrig-
C., the meat will
half its stor-

erator at 0 degrees
have approximately only
age life still to go., i.e., it is in danger
of becoming siimy in about five days
instead of the full ten days

E. €. Smith.

——_ +2
Recipes to Sell More Lard

Tthirteen cake and cookie recipes
prepared by the Department of Scien-
tific Research of the Institute of Amer-
ican Meat Packers advancing the use
of lard as a shortening agent are being
offered to members in order to promote
the consumption of lard.

It has been the opinion of many
housewives that lard, although
shortening for pie

very
satisfactory as a
cruets, was not suitable as an agent for
producing certain types of tasty and
delicious cakes and cookies. Diligent
research on the part of the institute
has completely exploded this idea. Lab-
oratory tests have shown that lard is
97 per cent. digestible, and has superior
shortening qualities which make it ideal
for cookies and cakes. The question,
however, is how to convince the aver-
age housewife of this fact.

It is believed that by advancing lard
as a shortening agent a field has been
opened for this product which has in
the past been considered by very few.
Retailers will probably find that a little
effort directed toward lard will help
very materially in increasing sales of
this product. The thirteen recipes pre-
pared by the Institute, attractively
printed and arranged on a card of con-
venient size for filing purposes, should
be valuable as a means of influencing
and educating the housewife on the
merits of lard.

—_—_+ +> —
Government Finds Better Way to
Retail Cheese
Cheese-makers are showing keen in-
terest in a method of canning cheese
developed and introduced recently to
the cheese industry by the Bureau of
Dairy U. S. Department of

Agriculture.

Industry,

Natural American cheddar cheese is
ordinarily blocks or
loaves weighing from 10 to 70 or more
pounds each. By the bureau’s method
this type of cheese can be made ist
prints as small as 12 ounces and can

made in large

be packaged and cured in cans.
Methods of packaging various kinds
of cheese, which require melting of the
natural cheese, have been successful
from a merchandising standpoint but
the process destroys some of the nat-
ural characteristics of the cheese. In
the bureau’s canning method the green
cheese or curd from the press is sealed

in the tin container in which it is to

be sold, and normal ripening is made
possible by a valve in the container
which permits the escape of gases that
result from ripening but prevents the
Cheddar cheese ripen-
all the excellent

entrance of air.
ed in this way has
characteristics of that made in the old
way.

natural cheddar cheese is
efforts to
inexpensive and at-

Canned
the result of the bureau’s
develop a small,
tractive package more suitable to mod-
ern merchandising methods than the
large block or loaf customarily dis-
played in retail stores.

In making canned cheddar cheese
the manufacturing process, up to the
time the curd is put in the hoops for
pressing, is the same as in making a
high-grade low-moisture curd of this
type, for ripening in the curing room.
After the curd has been pressed in suit-
able hoops overnight it is taken out and
cut into prints of the desired weight or
size to fit the container. The prints of
green curd are then wrapped in cello-
phane and immediately placed in the
valve-vented sanitary cans, sealed, and
packed in shipping cartons. The car-
tons of cheese are then held in a cool,
ry room fer several months or until

d
the ripening process is completed, when
the product is ready for use in the
home just as any other canned food.
Making cheddar cheese in this way
not only ‘fills the need for a package
suitable for direct sale to the customer,
but it provides certain economic advan-
tages to the manufacturer. Since the
cheese ripens in the cans, there is no
expense invoved for labor in the cur-
ing room, there is no paraffining to be
done, and there are no losses due to
shrinkage or the formation of rind. The
increased cost of canning is largely
offset by eliminating these losses and
the labor in the curing room,
rhe method appeals to the retail
merchant because of its sanitary feat-
ures, which are particularly important
from an advertising standpoint, because
the canned product is easy to handle
and because there is no loss or waste
from cutting portions for each cus-
tomer.
————»+ +>
Why Grocers Get Gray
Grocers get gray:
Waiting for their pay for welfare
orders,
Giving long term credit,
Tieing their money up in “deals,”
Overbuying,
Under-selling (price cutting)
Listening to specialty men,
Listening to their
troubles—and what difficulties they
can fabricate when trying to put off

customer's

paying a bill,

Making out tax returns,

Paying for licenses,

Selling merchandise that is “just
as good,”
what Mrs.
Brown got while he was busy wait-
(Mrs. Brown is

Trying to remember

ing on someone else.
always in a hurry, having a cake in
left Junior to his
own devices while she hurries to the
store),

Selling penny candy to small chil-
dren during the 5 o’clock rush.

the oven or having

Watching slow pay customers
drive new cars,
Donating,
Matching pennies with the chain
stores,
Reading columns like this.
Sam Sugarsax.

——_>+ >

Chinaware Prices to Advance
Buying in the wholesale chinaware
market took a sharp upturn last week
on reports of impending price advances
on low and medium price dinner sets.
According to word from pottery cen-
ters, quotations will be advanced an
average of 10 per cent. within the com-
ing four weeks. Manufacturers are en-
couraged by the heavy buying of the
last few weeks and tbelieve that the
market will absorb the higher prices
without difficulty.

—_»>+>—___

Trade is a companion of peace, and
flourishes only in her presence, Yet
trade, seen through eyes prejudiced by
a too selfish nationalism, becomes an
excuse for war. Peoples are too easily
led by leaders into thinking that the

stimulating rivalries of the market
place are summons to war.
—_—_+-»—__—_

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deserves it.

 

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14

HARDWARE

Michigan Retail Hardware Association.

President — Henry A. Schantz, Grand
Rapids.

Secretary—Harold W, Bervig, Lansing.
Treasurer—William Moore, Detroit.

 

Field Secretary—L. S. -Swinehart,
Tansing.
Prelminary Announcement of the

Hardware Conventon

Your officers and all the committees
have been working hard to make our
coming convention one that you will
never forget. The heart of the conven-
tion is, of course, its program. We
think we have built the strongest pro-
gram ever presented to a Michigan
hardware group. It is dynamic, force-
ful and cutspoken. The hardware asso-
ciation is in a position to speak with
authority because of the confidence ex-
hibited in the association by its mem-
bership.

We want every hardware dealer in
the state of Michigan to see the sound
movie “Forward America” on the
opening day of our convention Tues-
day, Feb. 12. We have brought this
film to you direct from New York City,
the first showing in the state of Mich-
igan. Chain organizations have made
determined efforts to censor this film
through NRA, the Federal Trade Com-
mission, the Film Code Authority and
other places. People who have seen
this film have talked about it for
months afterwards.

I expect not less than 600 guests
for the openng luncheon at noon on
Tuesday. I suggest you come early so
you will get a seat in the main room.
Those coming late need not go away
hungry, as we will provide for them
elsewhere in the hotel.

Lou Cortenhof and his Entertain-
ment Committee start the week’s fun
with a reception dance Tuesday eve-
ning. Special entertainment is provid-
ed for the ladies on Wednesday and
Thursday afternoon. We will expect
them at open house at the exhibit Wed-
nesday evening. On Thursday evening
the entertainment committee has se-
lected Kolkowski as master of cere-
monies, assisted by his orchestra. Kol-
kowski knows how to provide fun and
laughter. We think he’s the best mas-
ter of ceremonies in the country.

Art Hunt and his Exhibit Commit-
tee say there’s 30,000 square feet of
wonderful exhibits at the civic audito-
rium. There will be 124 booths full of
merchandise that you need for the
spring season. Pring your want list and
inventories of seasonal merchandise so
you can buy right.

I want to compliment the Detroit
boys for their co-operation in making
this convention an outstanding success.
They are arranging for a hardware
special, using two or more railroad
coaches, leaving Detroit Tuesday
morning, arriving at Grand Rapids for
the President’s luncheon. George Lee,
president of the Detroit Retail Hard-
ware Dealers Association, is in direct
charge of arrangements.

Henry A. Schantz, Pres.

 

Official Programme
Tuesday
President’s Luncheon at noon.
“Look at the Record,” H. A. Schantz,

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

President of the Association.
He'll tell what the association is doing.
“Sales Opportunities in Home Build-
ing,” Geo. A. Zinky, Detroit, Fed-
eral Housing Administration.
How to get your share of the business.
“Forward America,” Nationally famous
sound movie. First showing in Mich.
The chains tried to stop this film.
Exhibit in Civic Auditorium
Opens at 9 a.n:. Come early and do
your buying before the rush.
Closed from 12 m. to 3 p.m.
Open 3 p.m. to 9 p.m.

124 booths. New lines. New ideas.
Entertainment

9 p.m., Reception and dance at ball
room, Pantlind Hotel.

Kolkowski orchestra.

Wednesday

Session opens at 9 a.m.

“Taxation and Business,” Senator An-
drew L. Moore, Pontiac.

“Conservation,’ P. J. Hoffmaster, Di-
rector Conservation Commission.

Questions by Chas. Taepke, Detroit.

“Michigan Federation of Retail Mer-
chants,” A. J. Hager, President.

Questions by J. Chas. Ross, Kalama-
ZOO,

“The Business Man and NRA,” A. E.
Larned, NRA Director of Compli-
ance. Questions by Chas. H. Sut-
ton, Howell.

Retail salesmen’s meeting, 7:45 p.m.
Chas. I. Crawford, “Selling Hard-

ware.”

I, E. Douglas, “Self-Education.”
Exhibit open from 1 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Entertainment
2:00 p.m.—Ladies (see later program)
7:30 p.m.—‘Open House” at exhibit.

Thursday

Session opens at 9.

“The Manufacturer — His
and Policies.”
and Policies,’ H. M. Swain, Irwin
Auger Bit Company.

Questions by W. C. Judson, Big Rap-
ids.

“The Wholesaler — and Where He
Stands,” A. J. Gaehr, Geo. Worth-
ington Co.

Questions by Nelson J. Waters, Paw
Paw.

“The Retailer—and What He’ll Do
About It,” L A. Straffon, Crosswell.

Questions by Thomas Burns, Detroit.

“The Association in Action,” Irwin E.
Douglas, N. R. H. A.

Exhibit open from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.
2:00 p.m.—Ladies (see later program)
8:30 p.m.—Carnival and dance.

Kolkowski, Master of Ceremonies.

The evening you’ve been waiting for.

Black and Silver Room, Auditorium.

Friday

Breakfast session, 8:30 a.m.

Get your tickets early. Only 50c.
Program starts at 9:30.

“The Plan for 1935”—Resolutions com-
mittee outlining the year’s work.

“Retailers Buying Program.”

Trade Relations Committee.
Reports:

Constitution and by-laws.

Financial report.

Legislative committee.

Next place of meeting committee.

Nominations committee.

Installation of officers for 1935.

“Hardware Insurance,” R. D. Austin,
Secretary United Hardware and Im-
plements Mutuals,

Problems

“Step out in 1935 and sell,’ A. A.
Uhalt, General Electric Co.

A dynamic sales executive tells what
to de to build sales this year.

Exhibit open from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Place your last orders.

 

H. W. Hirth, manager NRHA Mer-
chandising Service, will be at Grand
Rapids the entire convention week. He
is the man who makes the Monthly
Merchandising Plan for the Hardware
Retailer. He will have models of a
new design in hardware store shelving.
Bring your store arrangement prob-
lems.

Irwin E. Douglas, Manager Account-
ting Service Department of the Na-
tional Retail Hardware Association.
He will be remembered by those who
attended group meetings in 1933 at
which Douglas was a speaker. See
the simple and complete accounting
records especially devised for hard-
ware dealers.

Arthur N. Borden, E. J. Cliggett and
J. R. Kutchin—the Association insur-
ance service men, will be there to talk
over your insurance problems. They
will also assist with the general serv-
ice work. The boys have a nice souve-
nir for you—drop around for one.

Hunting License Fee. By a vote of
4 to 3 the Conservation Commissioners,
at their January meeting agreed not to
pass a resolution favoring the payment
of a small fee for selling game licenses.
Some rather peculiar press notices ap-
peared in the papers of a chain group
of publications giving what purported
to be the suggested schedule of fees to
be asked for by the Hardware Asso-
ciation. Whoever wrote these articles
apparently knew much more about
what the Hardware Association would
be doing than its own officers. It is
to be sincerely hoped that later com-
ment in these papers will be more ac-
curate. The Association has invited
Mr. Hoffmaster, Director of Conser-
vation, to talk on Conservation at the
Wednesday convention session, We
welcome Mr. Hoffmaster as an able,
conscientious public official.

Legislation. Among the important
pieces of legislation which will prob-
ably be considered at the state legisla-
ture sometime during the session is
that on unemployment insurance. There
are three types of unemployment in-
surance plans in use (1) the “Great
Britain” plan in which assessments
are levied against the state, the em-
ployer and the workman; (2) the
“Ohio” plan in which the employer
and the employe contribute, but not the
state, and (3) the “Wisconsin” plan in
which the employer only, contributes.
This latter plan has been in operation
since last July. The important part of
the “Wisconsin” plan is that costs are
levied on each unit according to the
degree of unemployment that exists in
that particular business. If a business

can keep its own unemployment low it .

will consequently have an extremely
low expense for unemployment insur-
ance. The Association office is mak-
ing a study of unemployment insur-
ance and, if and when the matter comes
before the legislature, we will be in a
position to offer constructive sugges-
tions.

‘January 30, 1935

The sales tax will be up for amend-
ment if not fot greater change. The
numercus exemptions which will be
necessary. if the Boyer--Campbell Case
(being argued before the Supreme
Court January 25), the Farm Bureau
Case, which will go before the Supreme
Court later and the proposed exemp-
tion of food stuffs as suggested by
Governor Fitzgerald, may precipitate
the Sales Tax into the Legislature for
more far reaching changes, if upheld.

Candidates for Legislature. R. A.
Turrell, of Crosswell, a druggist and
former Secretary of the Pharmaceutical
Association, is candidate for state rep-
resentative in the Sanilac county pri-
maries, February 4th.

Reduced Fares. Use the attached
certificate if traveling by rail. Pay 1%
fare for round trip at point of depar-
ture. No validation at convention. No
red tape. Detroit area dealers will not
need the certificates if traveling in the
“Detroit Pere Marquette Special,”
leaving Detroit Tuesday morning, Feb.
12. See special announcement.

Single Code Assessment Adopted.
Administrative Order No. X-131,
dated January 7, definitely establishes
the “single assessment” principle. The
pertinent paragraphs in the ruling
read as follows:

“3. The principle that a single retail
establishment is so far as it is engaged
in retail distribution shall pay a single
assessment upon its total retail busi-
ness for the expenses of code admini-
stration is hereby recognized and estab-
lished as follows: (a) Every retail
establishment shall, except as other-
wise hereinafter provided, contribute
a single assessment to the expense of
administration of its principal line code
based upon its total retail business
either (1) at the rate of assessment ap-
proved for such principle lines code, or
(2) upon its principal line at the rate
of assessment approve for the princi-
pal line code, and upon each minor line
at the rate approved for each minor
line code.

4. In order to effect the foregoing
single assessment principle, it is fur-
ther ordered: (a) Any retail establish-
ment which makes payment to the ex-
penses of administration of its prin-
cipal line code authority as provided in
paragraph 3 hereof, and duly certifies
such fact shall thereby be exempt from
any obligation to contribute to any
minor line code authority for the pe-
riod for which such payment has been
made. Such certification shall be made
to any retail code authority requesting
contribution, and shall state the date
and amount of and the period covered
by such payment. (b) An establish-
ment, in computing such payment to
the principal line code authority, may
deduct, and shall receive credit, for
that portion of its retail business and
for that period (to the extent that such
period is within the period of the
current assessment) for which payment
has been made to the expenses of ad-
ministration of any other code author-
ity; provided that it shall certify to
the principal line code authority the
name of each code as to which credit
is claimed, the date and amount of
payment made and the period covered
thereby.

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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 FF. Rosa-

crans, Tecumseh.

Manager—Jason &. Hammond, Lansing.

 

Shirt Prices Again Discussed
Establishment of the 36 hour week
in the cotton garment industry again
brings up the question of increased
prices on shirts, pajamas and other
lines affected. Manufacturers feel that
shirt quotations, for instance, should
go up 25 to 50 cents per dozen, but
doubted that jobbers or retailers would
stand for any increase at this time.
The shirt business has not been par-
ticularly active in recent weeks, and a3
a matter of fact buyers are seekirg
lower prices than they did a few
months ago. Consequently, some pro-
ducers, at any rate, may feel it neces-
sary to absorb the increased labor
charges.
—_+->—___
Linen Prices Advance Sharply
Stiff price advances on all types of
linen cloth in the Belgian and Irish
markets cause considerable concern to
importers and clothing manufacturers.
Cable quotations received from Belfast
quoted prices on certain types of linens
at 24 per cent. above the levels obtain-
ing three to four weeks ago. Manu
facturers of Summer clothing, wh»
have linens on order called for immc-
diate delivery of their goods. Many
also moved to place orders for late
Spring and early Summer needs. Im-
porters regard the steady increase in
quotations with misgivings, fearng
that the rise will have an adverse effect
upon the sale of linens.
—»++ >
Millinery Sales Up 11.4 Per Cent.
in 1934
Dollar sales of millinery increased
11.4 per cent., unit turnover 4.2 per
cent, and wages 17.2 per cent. for the
first ten months of last year, according
to the annual report of operations un-
der the Millinery Code. During the
period employment rose 5.7 per cent.
Label sales indicated that 53.6 per cent.
of millinery sales are in the price range
of $4.01 to $12 per dozen, with the
price range of $12.01 to $24 per dozen
coming next with 29.2 per cent. of sales.
The report estimated that standardiza-
tion on a 7 per cent. discount has saved
manufacturers $2,500,000.
—~+2>——_
To Raise Tinware Prices Feb. 1
Price advances amounting to 15 per
cent. in some cases will go into effect
Feb, 1 on a wide range of tinwares and
kitchen tools. A number of manufac-
turers yesterday completed notices of
the rise which will be sent to customers
before the end of the week. The price
advances range from 1 per cent. on
some typs of measuring spoons and
other kitchen tools to 10 and 15 per
cent. on egg beaters and all tin baking
tins and other cooking utensils. Ex-
planing the change in quotations, pro-
ducers contend that since the NRA
went into effect items affected by the
proposed increases rose only 5 per

*

cent. in price while production costs
went up 37 per cent.
——_>--—___

New Collars to Aid Men’s Items

An active Spring season in men’s
furnishings accessories is in the mak-
ing. Shirts featuring the new chem-
ically treated collars to prevent
wrinkling are expected to be a major
factor spurring the sale of lines of col-
lar and cravat holders now being
shown, A new collar clip features a
middle link to insure flexibility while
preserving the appearance of the col-
lar. Another thas a double-ball effect,
with an “invisibe” back that shields the
fastening-pin from view. Indications
were said to forecast an expanded de-
mand for the cravat chain, whicn met
widespread favor last Fall.

———_»-+—__

To Act on Garment Overlapping

With competition between differert
divisions of the women’s garment 1n-
dustry already the keenest in years
because of the suit and ensemble vegue,
an immediate attack on the issues in-
volved will be made by Edward L.
Mayer, impartial chairman of the dress
and coat inter-code agency. The coat
and suit industry mainta:ns thai the
dress industry thas been making coats
under the Dress Code and that this
constitutes unfair competition because
of the difference in code requirements.
Other overlapping competition is noted
on rainwear, blouses and skirts and
from men’s clothing producers.

—_»++>—__
Re-order Sales Stationery
Re-orders for sales stationery con-
tinued to supply the bulk of business
to the wholesale market here this
week. Buyers from New England and
the Midwest, here to replenish stocks
placed orders larger in many cases
than their original purchases of three
weeks ago. Stationery sales, they said
are enjoying an exceptionally good re-
sponse from consumers this year with
pound papers retailing around 50 cents
and boxed paper selling at a unit price
of $1 for three boxes, outstanding from
a volume standpoint. So far the stores
have shown little interest in regular
Spring goods.

—_2+>—__—_
Bleuse Demand Notably Active
The demand for blouses has con-
tinued notably active, with production
showing steady increases. The volume
of business already placed by retailers
indicates that Spring blouse trade is
likely to exceed that of any similar
period in the last five years. Orders
are ‘being placed on a one to three
weeks’ delivery basis. The variety of
styles being shown is extremely large,
with plain taffetas, matelasses and nov-
elty materials outstanding. In many
cases, retailers will expand their blouse
sections during the coming season,
tying them in more closely with their
suit departments.

—_~++2s—_—_
Novel Jewelry Orders Gain

Orders for novelty jewelry for Feb-
ruary delivery have been good, with
volume running ahead of last year at
this time. Both gold and silver effects
are being bought, the demand being
spread about equally between the two

types. The items receiving the bulk

of attention are bracelets, clips and
pins and ear-rings. Stores are locking
for an active seller in earrings that will
meet the volume demand last Spring
for clip-earrings, and leading pro-
ducers here have brought out new
types to meet this call. Interest in neck-
laces is still restricted.
—_—_o + -—__
Garment Prices Raised

Faced by increased costs on the one
hand and opposition by buyers to
higher prices on the other, the cotton
garment industry, which started upon
a thirty-si-hour basis last week, is en-
tering a trying period. Many of the
lines have been experiencing a slow
demand at retail, with the result that
buying by jobbers and stores has slack-
ened.

The first effort to raise prices devel-
oped last week, when some producers
of work and flannel shirts posted ad-
vanices of approximately 5 per cent., or
25 to 37% cents a dozen. Others are
scheduled to follow this example
shortly. The overall industry is also
anxious to move up quotations, but in
its case the prospect is less favorable.
It is likely, however, that an effori wali
be made to advance the current levels,
which it is caimed are below cost.
Buyers are not very sanguine of such
advances going through, they said.

—— + 22—___
Specialty Stores Disappointed

Disappointment was expressed in
some quarters last week that the re-
cent annual convention of the Nation
Retail Dry Goods Association “over-
looked the problems of the approx-
imately 18,006 women’s speciaity stores
of the country, of which 10,000 are ia
the well-rated clas and which collec-
tively did a ready to-wear business ap-
proximating $750,000,000 annually.” It
is understood, however, that in the
test of previous experience the associ-
ation found the specialty stores’ prob-
lems essentially the same as those of
the larger stores. At the same time
officials are giving study to what may
be done along this particular line.

Pluck brings luck.

Shoe Quotations on Uptrend

Shoe prices are definitely on an up-
ward trend, although the rate of in-
crease is small, manufacturers assert.
Since the start of the year a minor
stiffening of quotations has taken place
on lowend styles and, based on the
trend of raw materials, further rises
can be expected to take place in the
next few months. Manufacturers are
moving cautiously as far as prices are
concerned, because they do not wish
to upset the market by a too rapid ad-
vance. Demand since the start of the
year has been good, they said, and is
improving steadily,

———_»+2.—__-
Reports Gains in Glassware
Continued improvement in produc-

tion schedules in the glass industry is
indicated by reports from the various
manufacturing centers. Output of most
forms of glass as the month draws to a
‘close is considerably greater than the
volume being produced early in the
month, Flat glass, and especially plate
glass, has felt to a noticeable degree
the improved demand for safety glass
for automobiles. In pressed and blown
glassware, the Pittsburgh exhibit pro-
vided a stimulating effect. In the bottle
and container field also, improved con-
ditions are noted.

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Curtains and Drapes Sell Freely

Orders for curtains and draperies
continue to reach the wholesale market
in volume this week from buyers in all
yarts of the country. Many of these
who attended the trade showing the
week before and ordered sample quan-
tities re-ordered freely on the items
selected. In addition, there was a
heavy ‘call for goods for immediate
shipment from retailers now holding
special home furnishings promotions.
Both the low and medium price goods
are ordered in volume.

————_++--

You wonder how the bride can love
him, but she doesn’t see him as he is
but as she intends to make him.

——

A scientist says man loses the power
of concentration in middle life. Not if
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HOTEL
DEPARTMENT

An Eating Establishment Which Is
Different

Los Angeles, Jan. 28—One of the
many protests against the showing of
a foreign movie called “Ecstasy” came
direct to the White House from a fel-
low named Alfred E. Smith. He wanted
the Government to prevent its exhi-
bition on the grounds of indecency,
since the heroine is said to appear in
the film with no more clothes on than
she wore the day she was born. Now
this Alfred E. Smith is the same Alfred
E. Smith who a few years ago was
very much steamed up because the
Government had _ prohibited people
from drinking what they chose to
drink, “Al” was against prohibition
then. But he has no objections, it is
clear, to the Government prohibiting
people from seeing the movies they
choose to see. All of which proves
that when it comes to prohibition, it all
depends on whose toes are stepped on,
and which toes.

 

 

The Michigan retail sales tax of
three per cent. on all retail sales will
have tc be paid by hotel operators on
employes’ meals, whether counted as
a part of their compensation or not,
effective December Ist, 1934, Ralph T.
Lee, president of the Michigan Hotel
Association, told the members of the
Detroit Hotel Association. While the
state cfficials could not be made to
to adopt the hotel men’s viewpoint
that employes’ meals are truly a part of
their compensation ‘and are by no
means retail sales, the committee did
succeed in getting the officials to can-
cel back taxes and start collecting the
tax as of December first.

This present week the Michigan Ho-
tel Association will, on Saturday, hold
its mid-winter meeting at Grand Rap-
ids. A local committee of arrange-
ments consisting of W. R. Duffy, man-
ager, Hotel Pantlind, chairman; J. B.
Morris, Hotel Rowe; Phil. Jordan,
Hotel Morton, and C. M. Luce, Hotel
Mertens, will have the affair in charge.

 

Earl Schill has resigned from the
front office force of the Book-Cadil-
lac, Detroit, and has departed for the
Pacific Coast. Joseph Lehr, former
mail clerk, has been advanced to room
clerk in Mr. Schill’s place.

 

Milner Hotels, Inc., Detroit, have
added two more hotels to their list to
be known hereafter by the corporat-
tion name—the Wheatland, 110-rooms,
Lancaster, Pennsylvania and the 300-
room Bartram, Philadelphia. This
gives the organization a score of ho-
tels under one management.

 

Bear Creek Lodge, Blaney Park,
which has been operated the year
round in the past, has been closed for
the remainder of the season to permit
complete decoration and remodeling.
Improvements are also under way in
the Blaney Park Hotel, and cottages
adjoining thereto are being fitted with
closed-in porches, new roofs and gen-
eral repairs. The Blaney Park group
represents one of the most extensive
summer resort developments in the
Upper Peninsula.

‘The Tahquamenon Hotel, at Hulbert,
has completed an extensive improve-
ment program including the addition
of a number o¢ bath rooms with tub
and shower facilities, runing water in
all rooms, bed lamps and other con-
veniences. A large sun porch has
been constructed across the whole
length of the building facing the forest.
John C. Hunter is the enterprising pro-
prietor thereof.

 

H. L. Ashworth, business manager
of the Wisconsin and Milwaukee Ho-

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

tel Associations, has been elected a di-
rector of the Milwaukee Press Club.
An energetic. and affable individual
well placed.

 

The Hotel World-Review, well says
that “cone of the worst mistakes a hotel
in a smaller city can make is to at-
tempt to conduct a night club along
metropolitan lines. The number of com-
munities of non-metropolitan size and
tone which can make a success of this
sort of thing is exceedingly limited.
And even in the big cities this has
been found to be an effective method
of losing a Jot of money in a short
time, A night club will not make a
cosmopolitan city out of a village.”

 

And now I am going to talk a bit
about one of the eating establishments
in Los Angeles, which I patronize fre-
quently because it is “different” from
most of the other places I am familiar
with. I am referring to the Clifton
Cafeteria, which is directed by Mr.
Clifford E. Clinton, an individual of
wide experience. Physically beautiful,
with its arched ceilings, delightfully
decorated, a magnificent fountain, and

furnishings in keeping with its other
attractions. For the particular infor-

mation of my catering friends who as-
pire, however, to do something “dif-
ferent” from the other fellow, my de-
sign is to instruct them in the way this
establishment serves the public under
the slogan: “Satisfactory service, or no

charge.” Here is a regular dinner
served for 25 cents:
Choice of Soup or Salad
Choice of the following entres:

Small Steaks Swiss Steaks
Meat Loaves, Croquettes
1€ Potted Chops
« Se Beef and Cabbage
and Kraut Rolled Roasts
Asparagus on Toast
Stuffed Squashes Italian Delight
Ham and Lima Beans
Sausage and Potatoes

The 35 cent offering consists of both
soup and salad, with choice of the fol-
lowing, in addition to the above.

Roast Prime Ribs of Beef Baked Ham
Roast Pork, Veal, Lamb
Potted Rabbit Chicken Pie

A full assortment of desserts and
ices served with either meal, and lime-
ade 1s well as dainty ices are a com-
plimentary offering, served by com-
petent waiters, together with bever-
ages of every description. At the check-
er’s stand, you are relieved of your
tray, and conducted to a table of your
own selection. The Clifton specializes
on service for banquets, being equipped
with auxiliary dining rooms. At the
luncheon and dinner hours, a pipe or-
gan, orchestra and soloists entertain
diners. Here you have all the advan-
tages of an attractive club, at a service
charge which is surely nominal. From
his store of ideas I am sure Mr. Clin-
ton wil! be pleased to have any of my
friends communicate with him for in-
formation which would be useful in
conducting their own establishments.
He can be reached at 618 S. Olive St.

Liver and Bacon
Fish, several v a
Ha

 
 
 
 

C
Spare-ribs

 

The score card for a perfect husband
as codified by some of the women’s
clubs contains no less than 143 items,
as demonstrated in recent divorce pro-
ceedings here. In the face of this the
conclusion must naturally be that there
“ain’t no such animal.” The perfect
husband must not only be a good pro-
vider, but a plumber, carpenter and pa-
per hanger. He must yield to his wife’s
wishes without argument and he must
even be polite and hospitable to her
relatives. He should be able to not
only fix the furnace but patch his own
trousers. It seems to me that the man
who can do all this would be foolish
to get married and expose his sweet
disposition to such a strain.

 

The convention guest is undoubtedly
a good thing to have at your hotel oc-
casionally, but so much more valuable
is the fellow who comes along several
times every-year and leaves a few dol-
lars in your collection plate. You may
crowd him out at convention time, but
he is gritty enough to come back for

more punishment, especially if you give
him the glad hand as if you really
meant it.

 

One would hardly suspect it, but the
rather harmless and inoffensive rabbit
really masquerades for more than a
dozen different mammals — some of
them of most terrifying aspect. But it
is only for their pelts. It is after they
have been skinned. Any honest furrier
will tell you that in fact the fur of the
rabbit has nearly fifty uses in trade.
Most of the near-seal coats with which
the fair sex are wont to decorate their
shoulders are made from the pelts of
the meek and lowly rabbit. With the
co-operation of the dyer certain long-
haired Belgian hares are able to supply
the market with some of the choicest
fox furs. It is even possible to dupli-
cate the spots of the leopard. The cov-
ering of a bunny may be used in al-
most anything from a fur lid to a tiger-
skin rug. For its fur alone there are
thousands out here who are thriving

 

Hotel and Restaurant Equipment
Glassware, China, Silverware

H. LEONARD & SONS

38-44 Fulton St., W.

 

GRAND RAPIDS - MICHIGAN

 

 

Warm Friend Tavern
Holland, Mich.

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

JAMES HOEKSEMA, Manager

January 30, 1935

 

Store, Office and Restaurant
Equipment
G.R.STORE FIXTURE CO.

7 lonia Ave., N.W. Phone 8-6027

 

 

 

WESTERN HOTEL

BIG RAPIDS, MICH.
Modern Rates Reasonable

Rooms Now Well
Heated

“BACK ON THE JOB”

Will F. Jenkins

Owner and Operator

 

THE ROWE

GRAND RAPIDS

The Most Popular Hotel
in Western Michigan

300 ROOMS — SHOWERS
SERVIDOR

Direction of American Hotels Corp.
J. Leslie Kincaid, President

 

MORTON

400 ROOMS EACH
WITH BATH

$1.50 up

Grand Rapids’ Friendly Hotel
Phil Jordan, Manager

 

 

 

An Entire City
Block of

Hospitality

 

Have You Seen Our New

®@ Cocktail lounge — Popular
afternoon and evening rendez-
vous,

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

“Dantlin

GRAND RAPIDS
750 ROOMS $2 UP

 

oe

CODY HOTEL

GRAND RAPIDS

RATES—$1 up without bath,
$2.00 up with bath.
CAFETERIA IN CONNECTION

 

ALL GOOD ROADS LEAD TO
IONIA AND

THE REED INN

Excellent Dining nem
Rooms $1.50 and up
MRS. GEO. SNOW, lchonar

 

Park Place Hotel

Traverse City
Rates Reasonable—Service Superb
Location Admirable

GEO. ANDERSON, Mg
ALBERT J. ROKOS, Asst Mor.

 

New Hotel Elliott
STURGIS, MICH.
50 Baths 50 Running Water
European
D. J. GEROW, Prop.

 

 

¢

Occidental Hotel

FIRE PROOF
CENTRALLY LOCATED
Rates $2.00 and up
EDWARD R. SWETT, Mgr.
Muskegon ete Michigan

 

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January 30, 1935

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

17

 

on the industry, and then think of the
choice cutlets which contribute toward
the construction of Chicken a-la-king.

 

The American Medical Association,,
in its annual convention last week, cer-
tainly came into the open and dis-
cussed the matter of medical and sur-
gical charges without mincing matters.
A majority of the delegates took the
position that the present custom is rot-
ten to the core, and if persisted in
would bring forth regulatory govern-
ment’ control of fees. Of course, this
would be going pretty far. The custom
of making the richer patients pay a por-
tion cf the cost of operating on the
poor, offers extenuation for certain
phases of this custom, but when the
surgeon claims. he is entitled to extra
compensation on account of the re-
sponsibility he assumes, he is not really
beside the facts. The patient alone
assumes the responsibility. The doctor
gets his fee in any event, even if the
patient’s executors have to pay them.
Chicago during the past year has been
the center of a heated controversy
over low-cost mass treatment of the
sick, particularly in some of its ethical
relationships, and only recently the
Chicago. Medical Society announced a
plan for meeting the expenses of illness
on a cost basis, the patient to pay on
the installment plan. The undertaker
has already the installment field on the
rather questionable security offered and
the physician would not be going a
great deal farther. One of these days
the citizen will be required to carry
health insurance just the same as the
employer does indemnity insurance
nowadays. In certain foreign countries
this practice is in successful operation.
The physicians, as a rule, are not over-
paid, but there are exceptions in this,
as well as in the legal and some other
professions.

 

Some years ago a hotel manager
conceived the idea of issuing credit
cards to those who desired to,establish
a credit with his hotel, but some other
hotel men who adopted this idea are
having their troubles. For instance,
some of them thought it would make
a hit if they would send out a bunch of
these cards to prospective customers,
resulting in the filing of them, in many
cases, by irresponsibles, and a conse-
quent shower of bad checks. These
with the regulars who occasionally go
wrong, proved to be no joke, The
moment the hotel man decides that he
will cash personal checks for nobody,
and require those with other forms of
remittances to identify themselves, he
may have it said of him that he has ar-
rived mentally.

 

The idea of making up a census of
so-called ghost hotels, is, to say the
least, original. It ought to be worth
something to know just what cities are
over-hoteled, but the trouble seems to
be, that while the operators themselves
know all about it, the fool investors
gain the impression that just because a
few institutions which are favorably
located and intelligently operated, are
making a reasonable profit, there ought
to be big returns from similar invest-
ments almost anywhere. The result is
an epidemic of headaches.

 

Public lands that might possibly
prove irrigable when the Colorado
River improvement has been com-
pleted, have been withdrawn from set-
tlement, by the Department of Inte-
rior. It may be ten years before much
of anything is known concerning them
and the valuation at best will be neg-
ligible. Any exploitation will be purely
on chance, and the vicinity of same will
stand no chance.

 

I note that the Michigan legislature
is laying plans for a more rigid inspec-
tion of hotels. There is already plenty
of legislation on the subject but the
real trouble is that in the past, so far
as I have personally observed, inspec-

tion kas been purely perfunctory, and
very often the hotel man has had no
knowledge of just what was going on.
Not only should fire hazards be cor-
rected, but the hotel should not have
a clean bill of health until these re-
quirements are fully met with.
Frank S. Verbeck.
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Stebbins Undertakes to Defend
Huey Long

A good criterion of the character of
anyone is the opinions of those who
know him best. No member of the
U, S. Congress has a stronger backing
of the people of his state, than Huey
P. Long, senator from the state of
Louisiana, Also, there is no member
of congress more maligned and mis-
represented by leading newspapers and
magazines of the Nation. Huey P.
Long has been pictured by the press as
an ignorant bully, who has been able
to browbeat the electors of his state
and thus has acquired many high offi-
ces, including that of governor and
U.S. senator. All this he has accom-
plished in his own state where he is
best known. So well satisfied are the
people with his services that they have
re-elected him term after term. If
what the newspapers and magazines
have been telling the people of the
Nation for the past several years is
true about this unusual man, then his
retention in public office is a dark re-
flection upon the character of the citi-
zens of this great state. But who in
fairness to the good people of Louisi-
ana would believe this serious indict-
ment of the capitalistic presss

Senator Long is the son of a poor
cotton farmer and in his boyhood he
had little opportunity to secure an edu-
cation. However, he was gifted with
high intelligence and a studious desire
for knowledge. He was naturally ag-
gressive and forged his way ahead and
reached public life early in his career.
He quickly saw corruption in politics
and in his campaigns for better and
more economic government, he was
able to help in cleaning up much of
this corruption, which made him a
marked man by dishonest politicians.
Under his leadership many reforms
were brought about in the state, in
which was included a modern high-
way prosram, the erection of a new
state capitol building, the removal of
taxes upon property, up to a valuation
of $2,009, which was made up by taxes
levied upon incomes and corporations.
In a recent report of the Babson Sta-
tistical \gencv as to the financial af-
fairs of this state, it was listed in a
highly satisfactory condition financi-
ally.

Since Senator Long came to Wash-
ington, he has been made a special
target for attacks by agents of finan-
cial greed, as he had often denounced
the rapid concentration of wealth and
deplored the conditions which were in-
creasing the ranks of unemployed. Dur-
ing the Democratic convention of 1932
he was active in securing the nomina-
tion of Franklin D. Roosevelt, at Chi-
cago, who advocated a more just dis-
tribution of wealth among those who
created it. He said he was greatly en-
courag:d, as were millions of others,
with the indictment the President pro-
nounced against the “money chang-
ers” as “destroyers of civilization.” He

commends a part of “the new deal,”
esecially the relief extended to the des-
titute. As to monetary reform and the
restriction of the onward march of
gigantic monopolies of money and
wealth and the reduction of the unem-
ployed, he has lost faith in the prom-
ises of the President. He says as long
as the President is hobnobbing with
the Rockefellers, Astors and Morgans
and others of great wealth, he will do
nothing + ward a more just and honest
re-distriduvion of wealth to provide op-
portunitizs to the masses to earn their
own living.

In order that the reader may better
judge the principles of this man, I
urge you to read two of his recent
speeches before the Senate, which you
will find in the Congressional Records
of Jan. 7 and 14, 1935. Although Huey
P. Long is a democrat, he outlines in
his first speech various attacks made
against him by those selected to dis-
pense administration patronage in the
state of Louisiana. Recent acts of the
legislature of that state have been sub-
ject to censure by the President, al-
though receiving the endorsement of
Senator Long. It was stated in a let-
ter from the President to the governor
of the state, that unless these acts were
rescinded or changed so as to be satis-
factory to the administration, Federal
relief aid would be withdrawn. Pro-
gressive legislation touching the
pockets of the rich had not only got
him in wrong with the opposite politi-
cal party, but the leaders of his own
party as well. In the above speeches
the Senator gives an extended review
of the economic conditions during the
Hoover administration down to the
present time During this period he
shows that the financial position of the
great middle class of people has con-
stantly grown worse, that savings grad-
ually are becoming exhausted and those
formerly able to live and pay their
way were being compelled to seek
government aid or starve; that distress
and suffering were on the increase and
that the Federal relief program to help
make the destitute self-supporting
could not keep pace with increasing
distress.

Huey P. Long may not be what is
called a good party man, a member
who will act as a rubber stamp for
party leaders. No doubt his political
pathway would be strewn with more
flowers if he would fall in line and
lockstep with the majority. He is not
built that way. The Senator says he
makes mistakes, but who has not? No
member of Congress has been scourg-
ed more than he and his righteous in-
dignation must have boiled over at
times. However, the people of Loui-
siana have not lost faith in him, but
they feel honored for being able to
supply a statesman of high intellec-
tual ability, who is leading in a gallant
fight to preserve democracy in our
National Government and restore it to
the common people. To do this Sena-
tor Long has ‘outlined a plan of action,
after a long study of the problem. De-
tails will be found in his addresses to
the Senate Jan. 7 and 14, both of which
are highly interesting and instructive

news, but are suppressed by the capi-
talistic newspapers and magazines.

The Senator says the unlimited ac-
quirement of wealth has proved a seri-
ous menace to the Government and the
people, it being the major cause of
this long-continued depression. It has
permitted the National wealth to be
largely acquired by a few, thus leav-
ing the great mass of the people des-
titute of the necessities and comforts
of life. That no one should be al-
lowed to own property and other
wealth far beyond his needs and that
of his family. The Senator says he
has no objection to citizens owning
one or several millions of dollars in
wealth, but he favors a special Federal
tax upon wealth to restrict it from be-
coming a menace. On the first mil-
lion dollars this tax would not apply,
but on the second million there would
be levied one per cent. On three mil-
lion a tax rate of two per cent., which
rates would rapidly increase to a maxi-
mum of one hundred per cent. on
estates above eight to ten million dol-
lars. The financing of the larger proj-
ects could be done by a larger num-
ber of small investors. His plan is
entirely practical and will work no
hardship upon anyone, and it will cer-
tainly increase the opportunities for
the mass of the people and especially
to young men and women who desire
to start in business or professional life.
Tt also will increase the chances for
success to small merchants and manu-
facturers, all of which will create new
jobs so that everyone can have a
chance to earn a comfortable living.
It is evident the American people
have long been trained to beleive the
dollar is supreme. That one with money

-can do much as he likes, regardless of

the effect it may have upon others.
Human rights have been subordinated
to those having large sums of money.
This has permitted the giant monopo-
lies to invade villages, towns and’ cities
and drive out thousands of smaller
merchants and manufacturers. These
greedy invaders come to exploit the
community, as they have no interest in
it but to get the profit on trade, which
they at once send to the large finan-
cial centers. Senator Long is also
fighting this injustice over the radio
and is asking the citizens of the Na-
tion to write him at Washington, D.C.,
for full particulars of his plan, which
is one among others, that are showing
the people of this Nation are waking
up and will no longer stand for a sys-
tem forced upon them by greedy
wealth, and which has prostrated in-
dustry and time after time has brought
distress and suffering to the people.
The time is here to fight.
E. B. Stebbins.
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Stores Re-order on Glassware

Re-orders for low price glassware
continue to reach the wholesate mar-
ket in volume. Most or the buyers
want goods for immediate delivery and
confine purchases to extreme low end
goods. There is a fair demand for sales
merchandise for late February ship-
ment. Liquor glass of all types, table
stemware and gass dinnerware sets are
included in the buying. Regular price
goods to retail at 25 cents and up are
neglected by most of the stores.

—_2++ >
Push others ahead, but not aside.

 

  
  

 

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DRUGS

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

Weess, Evart; Frank T. Gillespie, St.

Joseph; Victor C. Piaskowski, Detroit.
Director—E,. J. Parr, Lansing.
Examination Sessions — Three sessions

are held each year, one in Detroit, one in

the Upper Peninsula and one at Ferris

Institute, Big Rapids.

 

Michigan State Pharmaceutical
Association.

President—J. E. Mahar, Pontiac.

Ex-President—Duncan Weaver, Fenn-
ville,

First Vice-President—Ben Peck, Kala-
mazoo,

Second Vice-President—Joseph Maltas,
Sault Ste. Marie.

Treasurer—Henry Hadley, Benton Har-
oor,

Secretary—Clare F. Allan, Wyandotte.

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

 

Tannic Acid Treatment For Burns

Ten years ago, forty per cent. of all
the patients burned severely enough to
be taken to a hospital never came out
of it alive. What killed them? Not
shock, for those who died of shock
usually did ‘so before the hospital could
be reached. The puzzling part of the
terrific loss of life through burning was
that in many cases it seemed as if th
life of the patient had been saved by
desperate first aid methods. For a day
or two after the accident, marked im-
provement was noted in almost all
cases. Then something began to hap-
pen. Temperature began to rise. The
victim’s color slowly turned a dusky
blue. Nausea and delirium followed,
then a merciful unconsciousness from
which the patient never awakened.

And in the face of this fatal progres-
sion no doctor in the world was any-
thing but helpless.

But one day in May, in 1924, an event
occurred which made medical history.
Seven men were terribly burned in an
explosion in a Detroit factory. A clang-
ing ambulance carried them screaming
in pain, to the Henry ford Hospital
The physician on duty was a young
Mr. Davidson, only thirty years old.
Orthodox first aid treatment was ap-
plied to all seven. But in the case of
one, whose chances to live were little
more than microscopic, Mr. Davidson
decided to try an experiment. He had
decided to appy to a human being, for
the first time, a principle learned in
countless laboratory experiments on
animals.

On one of the patient’s two badly
burned arms Dr. Davidson placed the
usual boric acid dreessing. On the
other he spread first a layer of soft
cotton, Then, gently, he soaked the
cotton with a five per cent. solution of
tannic acid. For two days he waited.
Then, on May 7, 1924, the time came
to remove the first tannic acid dressing
ever used in an American hospital for
burns. :

Dr. Davidson touched the bandage,
then lifted it. It came off smoothly and
easily. There was no pain. And, won-
ders of wonders, instead of the raw
flesh which usually underlies a: dress-
ing, thre was an arm, hardly swollen,
covered with a black, leathery sub-
stance. Dr. Davidson pressed it with

  

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

his finges. The patient did not scream.
He did not wince. He felt no pain.

Quickly the same treatment was ap-
plied to the other arm and to the burns
of the six other victims of the same
accident. Within a sort time all pain
had stopped. The ‘black, leathery life-
saving covering had formed over all
the burns, but, strangely enough, the
tannic acid had not affected areas of
healthy skin. Within a short time the
disfiguring film had peeled off, expos-
ing firm, healthy, unscarred skin be-
neath.

And subsequent cases have proved
that today thirty out of those forty
hospital cases who, ten years ago, were
inflexibly doomed to die will live.

The process is simple, if an
pensive botte of tannc acid, procurable
at every drug store, is on hand in the
medicine chest. To-day, physicians
everywhere are teaching people to lay
clean cloths of ‘bandages over the
burns. Then they advise, add from
four to eight teaspoonfuls of tannic
acid to a glassful of water, and soak-
ing the cloths or bandages with it until
the burn turns a deep, rich brown. This
will stop pain magically. And in severe
cases, by starting treatment before the
doctor can arrive, it will give the vic-
tim an added chance for complete re-
covery.

Even if tannic acid powder is not in
its place in the medicine chest when
disaster arrives, there is still hope. Tea,
brewed as strong as possible, and used
to soak the bandages, will have almost
the same effect. Very strong tea con-
tains a sufficient amount of tannic acid
to start the job at least.

Now that science has gone so far
in conquering the terrible after-pain of
burns and its dangers, the next step, of
course, is to instruct the public in the
wonder-working powers of tannic acid.

inex-

——»+->—___
Tribute To Mr. Look From Mr. Parr

Lansing, Jan. 26 — We cannot say
that we are surprised because this end-
ing of Dexter’s suffering thas been ex-
pected for many months, nevertheless
the information that Dexter had left
us, for ever, came as a shock to all who
have ever had the privilege of calling
him ‘‘my friend.”

The evil that men do lives after
them and the good is often interred
with their bones.” So says the poet,
but he had never had the opportunity
of being closely associated with Dexter.
His memory will be one of sweet as-
sociations and helpfulness toward
everyone.

How wonderfully appropriate was
the meeting a few years ago which was
a testimonial to recognize the fact that
he had spent fifty years in the practice
of his profession, There will be plen-
ty of flowers upon his bier at this oc-
casion but how much nicer it is that
we had the opportunity of showing our
love and friendship to him during the
time when he was in full vigor and
with the normal expectation of years
ahead.

Here in Lansing, in the bitter partisan
fights which occasionally arise in the
Legislature, Dexter was universally
loved and respected. He could make
his fight for a principle without being
offensive and I yet have to hear any
man speak harshly of him. Political
friend and political foe, alike, all were
proud to be classed as his friends and
respected his convictions. This is un-
usual and only goes to show the caliber
of the man. He was a

The druggists of Michigan have lost
one cf their old wheel horses. We shall

miss his counsel and advice. I know,
in speaking for myself that I am speak-
ing for all of us when I say that, al-
though the has left us, his influence
will be with us for years and as long
as any of his druggist contemporaries
live there will be an empty chair at
our gatherings.

Dexter Look took for his creed, “If
you do your best, no consequences can
appall you,” and he lived that creed.
What more could he do to merit the
confidence of his fellow men? I am
proud to have had the privilege of
knowing Dexter Look and I am truly
grateful that I am able to say, “He
was iny friend.”

The records in the office show that
in 1885, when Michigan first began to
register pharmacists, D. G. Look was
registered without examination as one
of the original registrants. He was
number 1642 anid it is with a feeling of
sadness and also of great personal loss
that I take town the book and write
across the name of Dexter G. Look
the word “Deceased.”

In that greater home to which Dex-
ter has gone we know that again he
will b2 admitted ‘without examina-
tion.’ In that part of Heaven, re-
served for pharmacists Dexter will
have a preferred claim as he had in
our hearts and affections here on earth.

B. J. Parr.
——_>- .____
Death of Mr. Look — Mr, Parr to Be

Returned

Lowell, Jan. 24—Our good friend
and citizen, Dexter G. Look, passed
away at 2 a.m. this morning after three
years of illness. I have seen him nearly
every week since he has been confined
to the house. He always looked on the
bright side of life and kept up his in-
terest in his friends and public affairs
until the last. Lowell and the state of
Michigan have lost one of its best citi-
zens and only regrets can be expressed
that his practical and useful life has
ended. No one ever left a larger legion
of friends than Dexter G. Look. He
will be missed over the entire state.

I was in Lansing this week and
everything regarding the Director of
Drugs and Drug Stores has been fixed
up in a satisfactory manner. Governor
Fitzgerald refused to do anyhing that
would be contrary to the wishes of the
druggists of the state and left the Di-

 

January 30, 1935

rectorship entirely up to the Board of
Pharmacy, with a request that Mr.
Parr be retained. We will meet next
week, when the Board election will be
held and Mr. Parr given his new con-
tract. I think we have a Governor who
can be depended on to do what he
thinks is to the best interests of all
concerned, regardless of politics. Mr.
Parr is still working on our new drug
bill and it will be ready for printing
soon.

We kold os next examination at De-
troit, D. S. College, beginning Tues-
day, Feb. i: and continuing three days.

: M. N. Henry.

Corporations Wound Up
The following Michigan corporations
have recently filed notices of dissolu-
tion with the Secretary of State:
General Citrus Products, Inc., De-

troit.
Kinnear Theatre Corp., Detroit.
Slatkin’s Jewelry, Inc., Detroit.

Weston Dodson & Co., Inc., Detroit.

Houston Electric-Steam Iron and
Specialty Co., Detroit.

Hughes Oil & Gas Co., Owosso.

Hyde Construction Co., Detroit.

Michigan Farm and Industrial Fair,
Detroit.

Midwestern Dug Products, Inc., De-
troit.

W. F. Williamson Adv.
Michigan, Detroit.

Animated Advertising Displays, Inc.,
Detroit.

Gates Cartage Co., Detroit.

Penber Corp., Detroit.

Herman Schultz
Heating Co., Roseville.

Wabash Coal & Coke Co., Inc., De-
troit.

Wolverine Potato Chip Co., Inc.,
Detroit. «

Service of

Plumbing and

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habit of resolving to start doing better
tomorrow morning.

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HAZELTINE & PERKINS DRUG CO.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

January 30, 1935

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

ACID
Acetic, No. 8, lb.------------ 06 10
Boric, Powd., or Xtal., lb._- mee 20
Carbolic, Xtal., i 36 ea 6S
Citric, ib ee 33 @ 4
Muriatic, Com’l., Ib. --.--—-- 03%@ 10
Nitric, lb. ---------------—- 1o @ 16
Oxalic, bo, Cl ee
Sulphuric, lb. --...---- w--- 03%@ 10
Tartaric, lb. ~.-----—------ 33 @ 40
ALCOHOL
Denatured, No. 5, gal,------ 88 @ _ 650
Vood cal =r] SO
ALUM-POTASH, USP
lump) lb 5 @ 15
Powd. on Gra, Ibo. ss. 05%@ 16
AMMONIA
_oncentrated, Ib. .---.... 06 @ 18
Ee 1b —-~-- 8%4@ 18
2 ee
Carhonate. 1D, _-___ 23° @ 30
Muriate, Lp., lb.....-._.-- 18 @ 2
Murtate, Gra., Ib... 07%@ 18
Muriate, Po,, Ib.-..-----.- — 22 °@
ARSENIC
Pound _....... aes = 60T @ = 20
BALSAMS
Copaiba, lb. @ 1 20
Fir, Cana., @240
Kir Oreg., ib @100
Revue Ib) @ 4 60
Tolu. Ibo 2 @ 1 80
BARKS
Cassia
Ordinary, Ib: 22). =“ s- @ 3
Ordinary, Po., lb.....___ 20 @ 30
Saigon, 1b: <_- a @ 40
Saigon, Po., Ib.-..-.---- 50 @ 60
Ha 40 @ 45
Elm, Powd., lb. _-------- 38 @ 45
Elm, G'd, Ib. ee ee eae 38 @ 46
Sassafras (Pd Ib. 60)-——- eo 6
Goaptree, cut, Ib. 2 - 20 @ 30
Seaptree, Po., bee 3 @ 40
BERRIES
GCubeb: ib: 2. @ 65
Cubeb, Po., Ib... @ &
Juniper, Ib ee 0 a
BLUE VITRIOL
Pound 0 @ 16
BORAX
P’d or Xtal, lb.----.-._--- 6 @ 18
BRIMSTONE
Pound 04 @ 10
CAMPHOR
Poute 12 @ %
CANTHARIDES
Russian, Powd, —.-.---—. ae @ 4 50
Chinese, Powd. ~-.___.----- @ 200
CHALK
Crayons
White, dozen —_-------- @ 8 60
Dustless, dozen —_-- @ 6 0
French Powder, Coml . 10
Precipitated, 12 16
Prepared, lb. 14 g 16
White, lump, Ib..--_------_ 03 10
CAPSICUM
Bods tb) 60 g 70
Powder) ib. 222 62 %
CLOVES
Whole, ib. 2 80 a OO
Powdered. Ib, ___...._______ 3 @ «45
COCAINE
Ounce 2 ei ee 13 75@15 40
COPPERAS
Xtal ib, 2) 10
Powdered, Ib. 15
CREAM TARTAR
Pouus 25 38
CUTTLEBONE
Pound: 23 40 @ 50
DEXTRINE
Yellow Corn, Ib.---.-------- 06%@ 15
White Corn: tb. ---__- 07 @ 15
EXTRACT
Witch Hazel, Yellow Lab.,
Pale ee 95 @1 65
Licorice, a, 50 @ 60

FLOWER
Ammical lb. | 2s eee
Chamomile
German, lb.
Roman, Ib.
Saffron
American, lb.
Spanish, ozs.

FORMALDEHYDE, ova 6

POun@ oe eee

FULLER'S EARTH
Powder, lb. 05

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POU GG ee ee ee

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Aloes, Barbadoes,

so eared. lb. gourds__-.

Pow 1D. ee eee =
Aloes, ie bh.

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Arabic,
Arabic,
Arabic,
Arabic,
Arabic, b,
Asafoetida, Ib.
Asafoetida, Po.,
Guaiac. 1b,
Guaiac, powd.
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Myrrh, Pow.,
Shellac, Orange,

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Shellac, white (bone ar’d) Ib.
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No. 2, lbs.
Pow., lb
Found! 20s o)2..2) Sean
HOPS
%4s Loose, Pressed, 1b.------
HYDROGEN PEROXIDE
Pound. gross _..... 27
14 Ib., S6Oss 222. et S
% Ye, gross 11
INDIGO
Madras, lb) 0
INSECT POWDER
Pure) ib oo ee 8a
LEAD ACETATE
Stal 1D) ee
Powd. and Gran..._.--_.--. 6
LICORICE
Extracts, sticks, per box. 1 60
Lozenges, Ib, 40
Wafers, (248) box
LEAVES
Buchu, lb., short ~---~-.. —
Buchu, Ib., long-._—.......
Buchu, Pid. Ih: ----
Sage, bullk Ib, =... ab
Sage, loose pressed, %s, Ib.
Sage, ounces -.-..........-~
Sage, P’d and Grd.__-.....
Senna
Alexandria, lb. -.--.-—-- 35
Tinnevella, Ib. -_----- 26
Powd:, tb, 2 2
Uva Urst ib. 222-0 ce
Uva Urst, Prd, tb: <.----
LIME
Chloride, med., dz. --------
Chloride, large, dz..----—-
LYCOPODIUM
Pound 2) ee 45
MAGNESIA
Carb; 368) bi
Carb, we, ie
Garb.) Powd:, Ibo 3... 16
Oxide, Heals Ibe
Oxide, light, | es
MENTHOL
Pound 4 93
MERCURY
Pound 2 1 75

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Sel ect, Ib. --...—-------
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Balls, 1b.
Flake, Ib.

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Almond
Bit., true, ozS. ~—-_----
Bit., art., oZS, ~-----—-
Sweet, true, Ib.._-_<-.- 1 40
Sweet, art., lbs..-.----- %
Amber, crude, Ibe 1
Amber, rect,, lb...-----—---- 1 30
Anise, ib. ________________ 110
Bay, Ib. <--.-.-____________. 400
Bergamot, 3 20
Cajeput, lb. .. 1 &
Caraway S’d, lb......-—. ~- 3 50
Cassia. USe Ibe 215
Cedar Leaf, lb.-—... — 170
Cedar Leaf, Caml., 1
Citronella, Ib. -.-.-.---
Cloves, lb. ~--
Croton, lbs.
Cubeb, lb. ..

Erigeron, lb. ~
Eucalytus, Ib, -—

Fennel. -..--________
Hemlock, Pu.,
Hemlock Com.,
Juniper Ber.,

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Origanum, art., Ib.----... 1 00
Pennyroyeal, ib. —-_---.—.-... 1%
Peppermint, Ib. _.___.____. 5 50
Rose, ee ee
Rose, Geran,, 02S.-------~--
Rosemary Flowers, !b..-.--- 1 00
Sandalwood
E. L, Ib.
W. L, Ib.
Sassafras
True, Ib.
Syn., lb
Spearmint
EO  ———E
Thyme, Red, Ib......___-...
Thyme, Whi., lb..___---------
Wintergreen
Leaf, — bh 5 60
Birch, Ib. -- 400
SV cone, = 1e
Wormseed, Ib. - 3 50
Wormwood, Ib. ~----.------ 5& 50
OILS HEAVY
Castor, gal. _._...._. 146 @ I 60
Cocoanut, ib ae = 8G
Cod Liver, Norwegian, gal. 1 20 @ 1 50
Cot. Seed. gal. 120 @1 30
Lard, ex., gal 155 @1 65
Lard: No. 1) gal. ___ 125 @1 40
linseed. raw. sal. i @ 390
Eainseed: boil, gal. _-____ as @ 93
Neatsfoot, extra, gal._.---- 80 @ 1 00
Olive
Malaga, gal. @ 2 50
Pure, gal —._.. — @ 5 00
Sperm gal fo 13 1 60
Tanner, gal, 15 90
Tar, gal, -- 50 65
Whale, gal. @ 2 00
Gum. ozs, 212222) 1 20
Powder, ozs. “ 1 30
Gran?) 07S. Uicess a ee 1 30
PARAFFINE
Pound) (2 eee 06%@ 15
PEPPER
Black gerd. ib... 8 35
Red, grd., lb. 45 55
White, erd., 1 40 55
PITCH BURGUNDY
Pound | {2.3 20 @ 26
EeaoLetue
Amber, Plain, Ib 122 @ 1
Amber, Carb., Ib 14@ 19
Cream’ Whi., ib.__ 17 @ 22
Lily White, Hip 20 @ 2
Snow White, bh 22 @ 27
PLASTER PARIS DENTAL
Barrele: - 2s @ & 7
Mesa. ips oe 03%@ 08
POTASSA
Caustic, st ks, Ib... _ 69 1 04
Liquor, th. 2 40

 

 

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Bicarbonate, Ib. ~—------. 2 3
Acetate ih. 69
Bichromate, Ib. 16
Bromide, |b. - 64
Carkonate, 1b. 48
Chlorate

Xtal.

Powd., lb

Grane Ip. 2
lodide, i 5
Permanganate, lb. ~.------. 30
Prussiate

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Vaellow, Ih, _....... 60

QUASSIA CHIPS
Pound a2. «3S
Powe, ib. 22 ee 35
QUININE
5 OZ. Cans, OZS.........-
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bound 04
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Aconite, Powd., lb.......--
Alkanet, Ib, 2 Se
Alkanet, Powd., ib..--.. a

Belladonna, Powd., lb...
Blood, Powd.,
Burdock, Powd., lb.

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Calamus, i @
Calamus, Powd., lb @
Elecampane, Ib. ...---.--- 25 @
Gentian, Powd., lb..._----- 17%@
Ginger, African, Powd., lb 16 @
Ginger, Jamaica, Limed, lb. 38 @
Ginger, Jamaica, Powd., 1b. 30 @
Goldenseal, Powd., Ib.......175 @
Hellebore, White, ‘Powd.. lb. 20 @
Indian Turnip, Powd., 1b... @
Ipecac, Powd., 1b...--. w---- 300 @
Wicorice, Ib. 2 a= @ @
Licorice, Powd., lb... 15 @
Mandrake, Powd., {a @
Marshmallow, Cut. ib @
Marshmallow, Powd., lb...- @
Orvise ibs eee @
Orris. Powd:. Ib-=) cS e
Orris, Fingers, lb..-..-...-
Pink, Powd:, 1b..._____..___ 160 @
Poke, Powd., Ib....___- coe @
Rhubarb, lb, ....----- eee g
Rhubarb, Powd ih...
Sarsaparilla (Honduras, cut) 120 @
Sarsaparilla, Med., Cut, Ib. @
Squilis, Powd., lb... 42 @
Tumeric, Powd., lb...------ 15 g
Valerian, Powd., lb..—.....
SAL
Epsom), Ib, 2-2. 3u%@
Glaubers
Lump,
Gran., lb
Nitre
Xtal
Gran.,
Rochelle,
Soda, lb.
SEED
Anise, lb, __.._... Ce eee 40
Canary, Recleaned, Ib.-..... 10
Cardamon, Bleached, 1.
Caraway, "Dutch, ib 6 as SS
Celery, Ib: 2202 @
Colchicum, Powd. @
Coriander, lb. 1 @
Fennel, lb. -.. 30 @
Flax. Whole. 1lb.----_ 064%4.@
Flax, Ground, Ib.__.. 064%2@
Hemp, Recleaned, lL oe @
Lobelia, Powd., Ib.-...._-- g
Mustard, Black, lb.--.--. 17%
Mustard, White, Ib..----..- 165 @
Poppy, Blue, lb..----------. 20 @
Quince, Ib. --.----- 100 @
Hape ib. 2... 10 @
Sabadilla, Powd., 45 @
Sunflower, Ib. 222 on @
Worm, Levant, 1b.-_-_-_--_- @
Worm, Levant. Powd.._____ @
SOAP
a Conti, White
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50 g
Ash) oes 03 @
Bicarbonate, Ib. 03%@
Caustic, Co’l., 1b... 08
Hyposulphite, lb. 05
Phosphate. Ib: oo 5 2 23
Sulphite
Stak tb. oo 15 @
By, Powd., Ib.c2.- 12%@
Silicate, Sol, gal.__.._...__. 400 @
SULPHUR
Light Ib. 2 2 «ee
SYRUP
Rock Candy, Gals... __. - 0 @
TAR
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Pints. dozen oo @
Quarts. dozen ._...._.._ ae @
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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. A careful merchant watches the market and

takes advantage from it.

 

 

ADVANCED

Pork Shoulders—lc
Quaker Catsup—80c

DECLINED

Pork Loins—2c
Pork Butts—ic

 

 

Hart Diced Beats—10c Matches—40c
Rice—10c
BREAKFAST FOODS Blackberries
— Premio, No. 10. 6 25
Little Bo Peep, med.-. 1 35 Kellogg’s Brands Quaker, No, 2----~--- 1 70
Little Bo Peep, lge.--- 2 25 Corn Flakes, No, 136— 2 65 :
Quaker, 32 0z..-_---- 210 Corn Flakes, No. 124— 2 66 Blue Berries
, Peo, No. 224 231 Waele, No. 10... 3 50
Fev No: 25) 1 05
Krumbles, No. 412--.. 1 55 Cherries
Bran Flakes, No. 624_- : = Hart, No. 10... . Hed
Bran Flakes. No. 650__ Hart, No, 2 in syrup--
ee eee Rice Krispies, 6 oz..- 240 Hart Special, 2... 1 25

Quaker, 12-28 oz.; .
Doz.

 

 

100z., 4doz.in case_. 3 36
150z., 2doz.in case_. 2 45
25 oz:, 2 doz. in case__ 4 12

5 Ib., 1 doz, in case__ 5 90
10 ms “16 doz. in case__ 5 75

BLEACHER CLEANSER

Lizzie, 16 0z., 12s--_~-
Linco Wash, 32 ox. 128 3 oo

BLUING

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

BEANS and PEAS

Dry Lima Beans, 25 lb. 2 20
White H’d P. Beans__ 4 05
Split Peas, yell., 60 lb. 3 35
Split Peas, gr’n, 60 Ib. 4 75
Scotch Peas. 100 Ib._- 6 64

BURNERS

Queen Ann, No.1 -_--- 1 15
Queen Ann, No. 2 -_-=- 1 25
White Flame, No. 1

and 2, doz..--------- 2 25

* BOTTLE CAPS

Rice Krispies, 1 0z.---- 1 10
All Bran, 16 oz. ---_ 2 80
All Bran, 10 oz. -----. 2 7

All Bran, Oz. 4 8
Whole Wheat Fia., 24s 2 40
Whole Wheat Bjs., 248 2 31

Wheat Krispies, hae 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 66
Post Toasties, 24s_.__ 2 65
Post Bran, PBF 24____ 3 48
Post Bran, PBF 36---. 3 48

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 50
Warehouse -—----—. 7 75

Winner, 5 sewed...__- 5 75
Mea 4 50

BRUSHES

Scrub
New Deal, dozen... 85

Stove
Shaker, dozen ..-.-...

Shoe
Topcen, dozen

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

CANDLES
Electric Light, 40 lbs..
Plumber, 40 Ibs

12.1
12.8

CANNED FRUITS

Apples
Per
Doz.
Imperial, No. 10------ 5 00
Apple Sauce
Hart, No. 2-----.---- 1 20
Hart. No. 19.____-____ 5 75
Apricots
Forest, No. 10---—- 9 00
Quaker, No. 10_----. 9 75
Gibralter, No. 10-... 9 25
Gibralter, No, 2%--.. 2 40
Superior, No. 2%--. 80

Supreme, No.

  

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Single Lacquor, 24 gross fo. es
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syru 2 25
Hart Epacial. No. 2.. 1 35

Cherries—Royal Ann
Supreme, No. 2%--- : _
Supreme, No. 2_-_-_--
Gibralter, No. 10------ 9 25
Gibralter, No. 24%---. 2 75

 

Figs
Beckwith Breakfast,
MO. 10 12 00
Carpenter Preserved,

5: oz. glass oo 1 35
Supreme Kodota, No. 11 90
Fruit Salad
Supreme, No. 10__-__ 12 00
Quaker, No. 10. ____ 11 75
Supreme, No. 24%__--_ 3 60
Supreme, No. 2--__--- 2 70

Supreme, No. 1

Quaker, No. 2% -_--. 3 16
Goosberries

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

Zeneda No, 2-__----_-- 1 35

Grape Fruit Juice
Florida Gold, No. 1-- ae
Quaker, No
Florida Gold, No. 5_- i 3

4--——----~—

Loganberries
Premio, No. 19 _...._ 6 75
Peaches

Forest, solid pack,
No. 10.22 7 30

Nile, sliced, No. 10-._ 6 50
Premio, halves, No. 10 6 50
Quaker, sliced or

halves, No. 10_----. 8 20
Gibralter, No. 2%--.. 2 00
Supreme, sliced No.

Oe ee 2 15
Supreme, halves,
No. 214) 2 25
Quaker, sliced or
halves, No, 2%------ 215
Quaker ‘sliced or
halves, No. 2-.---- 1 70
Pears
Quaker, No. 10------ 8 59
Quaker, Bartlett, No. a
a Bartlett, No.

Pineapple Juice
Doles, Diamond Head,
Mois 1 45
Doles, a Dew,
No.

ee 6 75
Pineapple, Crushed
Imperial, No. 10--~_-- 7 50
Honey Dew, No. 2%-. 2 40
Honey Dew, No. 2-. 1 90
Quaker, No. ‘ 35
Quaker, No. 2_....--- 1 80
Quaker, No. 1------ 110

TRADESMAN

Pineapple, Sliced
oe” Dew, ced,

o. 10
Honey Dew, tid bits,
No. 10

Se eS 9 100:
Honey Dew, 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
ae Tid Bits, No. ag
Mahon No. 19... 8 26
Quaker, No. 24%... 2 35
Quaker, No, 2------.. 1 90
Quaker, No. 1..-...-. 1 05
Plums
Ulikit, No. 10, 30%
wp 6 50

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

SYTEY ee a. 1°00

Prepared Prunes

Supreme, No. 244-----_ 2 45
Supreme, No. 10,
eaten 6 50

Raspberries, Black
Imperial, No. 10-.-_. 7 00

  

Premio, ‘No. 10. - 8 50
Hart, 8-ounce -...--_ 80
Raspberries, Red
Premio, No. 10............ 75
Strawberries
Jordan, No, 2.00.) 2 50
Dagectt, No. 2... 2 25
Quaker, No. 222.0 2 35

CANNED FISH

Clam Ch’der, 10% oz._

Clam Chowéer, No. 2.

Clams, Steamed No, 1
Clams, Minced, No. %
Finnan Haddie, 10 oz._
Clam Bouillon, 7 oz.--
Chicken Haddie, No. 1
Fish Flakes, small____
Cod Fish Cake, 10 oz.
Cove Oysters, 5 oz._.
Lobster, No. é ce
Shrimp, 1, we
Sard’s, a Oil, aa

Mo
; S
a

Salmon, Pink, Alaska 1 38
Sardines, Im. %, or
Sardines, Cal.
> % Van Camps, ae
Tuna, %s, Van 1 ( Cam D: S,

Tuna, 1s, “Van C a

OZ. oe 170
Tuna, % Bonita... 1 25

CANNED MEAT

Bacon, med, Beechnut 2 50
Bacon, lge., Beechnut 3 75
Beef, lge., Beechnut__ 3 26
Beef, med., Beechnut_ 1 95
Beef, No. ie Corned_. 1 90

‘

Beef, No. 1, Roast -__. 1 95
Beef, 2% oz., Qua., Sli. 1 30
Corn Beef Hash, doz. 85
Be>fsteak & Onions, s. 2 70
Chili Con Car., 1s_..-- 1 05
Deviled Ham, %8----- 1 85
Deviled Ham, %s---. 2 20
Potted Meat, % Libby 48
Potted Meat, % Libby_ 75
Potted Meat, % Qua... 65
Potted Ham, Gen. %-. 1 36
Vienna. Saus. No. %_-- 90

Baked Beans
Campbells 48s

CANNED VEGETABLES

Hart Brand
Asparagus
Quaker, No; 2..---_-. 2 20
ant Picnic 1 80

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

Green) 2 2 80
Baked Beans

1 Ib. Sace, 36s, cS.___-_ 1 80

No. 2% Size, doz.__-_._ 1 10

No. 30 Sauce. - 4 00
Lima Beans

Baby. No. 2... 1 60

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

Scott Co. Soaked. 90

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

Red Kidney Beans

a. 4 75
NO oe ee 1 00

String Beans
Choice, —_— No, 2-- : 70
Cut,, No. 72
Cut, No. - 1
Marcellus Cut, No. 10_ 6 00
Quaker Cut No. 2--.. 1 20

Wax Beans
Choice, Whole, No. 2-. 1 70
Cut, No. 10 a

“Out. NO. gs 1 35

Marcellus Cut. No. 10_ 5 50
Quaker Cut No. 2--_. 1 20

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

Hart Diced, No. 2... 1 00
Quaker Cut No. 2%-- 1 20

Carrots
Diced, Nos2 2) 96
Diced, No. 10 __.-_-. 4 20
Corn
Golden Ban.. No. 2____ 1 54
Marcellus, No. 2..-__. 1 25
Fancy Crosby, No. 2. 1 40
Whole Grain, 6 Ban-
ton, NG. Ze 1 65
Quaker No. 10 8 00
Peas
Little Dot, No. 2_.-. 2 35
Sifted E. June, No.10 _ 9 50
Sifted E. June, No. 2__ 2 00
Marcel., Sw. W No. 21 55
Marcel., E. June, No. 2 1 46

Quaker, EB. Ju., No. 10 8 00

Pumpkir.

 

 
 
  

No. 10
No. 2% Quaker_
No. 2 Quaker:

Spinach
Supreme No. 2% ______ 1 75
Supreme No. 2______ 1 37%
Quality. No, 2000) P10
Quality. 2}

Succotash
Golden ear aie No. 2_ 1 75
Hart, 2 1
Pride of. ‘Michigan____ 1 25

Tomatoes
No. 10) 8 50
No. 24%. 1 85
ING, 2) 1 40
Quaker, No. See 110
CATSUP
Quaker, 10 0z._._.doz. 1 10
Quaker, 14 oz.-__doz. 1 48
Quaker gallon glass,
dozen 220 ae 11 00
CHILI SAUCE
Sniders. 8 oz. - - 1 65
Shiders. 1407, __...-. 2 25

  

OYSTER COCKTAIL
Spiders, 11 of... 2 00

CHEESE
moquaor,
Wisconsin Daisy ~--_-- ine
Wisconsin Twin 7
New York June, 1933____ ee

    

Michigan Daisies _______ 16
Wisconsin Longhorn ___ 18
Imported Leyten ______ 27
1 lb, Limberger —~___~-__ 20

 

Kraft, Pmento Loaf____ 25

Kraft, American Loaf__ 23
Kraft, Brick Loaf_______ 23
Kraft, Swiss Loaf_______ 25
Kraft, Old End, Loaf___ 33

Kraft, Pimento, % Ib. 1 50
Kraft, American, % Ib. 1 50
Kraft, Brick, % Ib.____ 1 50
Kraft, Limbur., % Ib._ 1 50

January 30, 1935

CHEWING GUM

Adams Black Jack.----- 68
Adams Dentyne -------- 65
Beeman’s Pepsin’ ---- 66

Beechnut Be ecial 65
Doublemint es
Peppermint, Wrigleys-- 66
Spearmint, Wrrigleys__ 65
Juicy Fruit-.-—-------- 65
Wrigley’s P-K.---—------ 65
Teaberry 65

CHOCOLATE
Baker, Prem., 6 lb. % 2 45
Baker, Pre., 6 lb. 3 oz. 2 60
German Sweet, 61b.%s 1 86
Little Dot Sweet

6 1D: 4s 2 ee 2 60
CIGARS
Hemt. Champions ... 38 50
Webster Plaza —-.-... 75 00

Webster Golden Wed. 75 00
Websterettes --.--.. 37 17
Cincos; 23 8 5
Garcia Grand Babies. 40 00
tai 38

Odin,

RG Cae Boquet___- 75 00
Perfect Garcia Subl._ 95 00
Kenwav 20 00
Budwiser
Isabella

Cocoanut
Banner, 25 lb, tins__.. 20%
Snowdrift, 20 lb. tins. 20%

CLOTHES LINE
Household, 50 ft.---__- 1 176
Cuppies Cord ._._.._ 2 90

COFFEE ROASTED

  

Lee & Cady
1 Ib. Package
Ryeo, oe 23
Boston Breakfast ____ 20
Breakfast .Cup. =22.._ 191%
oe Perel et Sai 17%
Yo aoe B26
Majestic 30
Morton House _______. 32
Nearow = 27
uaker, in cartons.___ 24%
Quaker, in glass jars_ 29

Coffee oe
M. Y., per 100...
Frank’s 50 pkgs.
Hummel’s 50, 1 1

  

CONDENSED MILK
Eagle, 2 0z., per case__ 4 60

Cough Drops
Smith Brog....--.... 1 45

Ibuden’a = ee
Viek's, 0/l0e... -- 3 40

 

COUPON BOOKS

50 Economic grade_. 2 50
100 Economic grade_. 4 50
500 Economic grade__20 00
1000 Eeonomic grade__37 50

Where 1,000 books are
ordered at a time, s
ly printed front cover is
furnished without charge.

CRACKERS
Hekman Biscuit Company

Saltine Soda Crackers,

pkgs.__________" 2.68
seltine Soda Crackers,
8% oz,

Butter Crackers,
Butter Crackers,
Graham, Crackers, pulk 13
Graham C’s, 1 Ib.-_-__ 1 49
Graham C’s, 2: ib. 2177
Graham C’s, 6% 02... 93
Junior Oyster C’s, blk. 13
Oyster C’s, shell, 1 Ib. 1 71
Club Crackers 16

CREAM OF TARTAR
6 Ib. boxes. 2. one ae

ORIED FRUITS

Apricots
Choice. 22%
Standard: 2. se 21

Citron
10. 1b Dox 25

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January 30, 1935

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

21

 

Currants
Packages, 11 0z.---.---- 13

Dates
Quaker, 12s, pitted_-... 1
Quaker, 12s, regular__ 1
Quaker, 12s, 1% Ib... 2
Quaker, 12s; 1 lb._--. 1

Figs

Calif., 24-8 oz, case. 1 80

Peaches
Evap, Choice ~-------- 14%
va. ancy —..------ 16%

Peel

Lemon, Torelli,
fon, (6... 90

ber ee Torelli,
0Z., dozen________ 90

eta Torelli,
OZ., dozen_____-__ 90

Raisins
Seeded, bulk ~_....-... T%
Thompson’s S’dless blk. 744
mare s'dless bik

8
ones Seeded, 15 0z.-. 8

California Prunes

60@ 70, 25 lb. boxes __

0@ 60, 26 lb. boxes __@08%
40@ 50, 25 lb. boxes -_-@09%
30@ 40, 25 Ib. boxes __@11
20@ 30, 26 lb. boxes _.@13
18@ 24, 25 lb. boxes -_-@14

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

Bulk Goods
Elb.Macaroni, 20 lb.bx. 1 35
Egg Noodle, 10 Ib. box 1 26

Pearl Barley
Chester

Lentils
on 10

Tapioca
Pearl, 100 Ib. sacks... 7%
Minute, 8 oz., 3 doz. 4 05
Dromedary Instant ... 3 50

Jiffy Punch
3 doz. Carton
Assorted flavors.

EVAPORATED MILK
Quaker, Tall, 10% oz._ 2 92
Quaker, Baby, 4 doz... 1 48
Quaker, Galon, % dz. 2 9
Carnation, Tall, 4 doz. 3 05
Carnation, Baby, 4 dz. 1 53
Oatman’s. D’dee, Tall_ 3 05
Oatman’s D’dee, Baby 1 53
met, Wall oo ee 3 05
Pet, Baby, 4 dozen____ 1 53
Borden’s, Tall, 4 doz. 3 05
Borden’s, Baby, 4 doz. 1 53

wo

FRUIT CANS
Ball Mason
F. O. B. Grand Rapids
One pint,
One quart __.________ 9 00
Half gallon _.._.__._ 12 00

Mason Can Tops, gro. 2 55

FRUIT CAN RUBBERS
ee Red Lip, 2 gro.

GELATINE
Jell-o, on. 2 10
Minute, 3 doz.__.-----. 05
Knox’s, 1 dozen..... 2 25
Jelsert, 3 doz...._--.-- 40

HONEY
Lake Shore 1 Ib. doz-. 1 90

JELLY AND Paeee ce
Pure. 30 lb. pails_____ 2 3

Imitation. 30 Ib. nails. 1 3p
Pure Pres., 16 0z., a 00
12 oz. Apple Jelly, dz. 95
18 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
Oleo
ONE ee oe ai 13
MATCHES

Diamond, No. 5, 144___ 5 80

Searchlight, 144 box__ 5 80
Swan, 1440 G2 5 25
Diamond, No. 0-...-. 5 00

Safety Matches
Red Top, 5 gross case 4 80
Congress, 5 gro. cs... 6 25
Standard, 5 gro. cs... 4 00

MUELLER’S enouvers
Macaroni, 9 0z.________ 10

Spaghetti, 9 Om ; 10
Elbow Macaroni, 9 oz.. 2 10
Noodles, 6 oz. -_-. 2 10
Egg Vermicelli, 6 oz... 2 10
Egg Alphabets, 6 oz... 2 10
oe Spaghetti, 24c,
A, Of6 2 2 20
NUTS
Whole
Almonds, Peerless ____ me
Brazil, large - ------ 13%
Fancy Mixed. CG
Filberts, Naples ~_-___ 16

Peanuts, vir. Roasted ae

Walnuts, Cal. -.17% to 3

eae Peanuts
Fancy Wo i.
12—1 Ib. Cellop’ e case_ 1 bo

Shelled
S

 

ecans, salted 9 66
Walnut, California __._ 56

MINCE MEAT
None Such, 4 doz._.-__ 6 20
Quaker, 1 doz, case... 96
Yo Ho, Kegs, wet, Ib... 16%

OLIVES—Plain
Quaker, 24 3% oz. cs. 1 87
Quaker, 24 734 oz. cs. 3 55
Quaker, 12, 12 oz..... 2 40
High Life, ‘12 22 oz. cs. 3 45
1 gal. glass, each____ 1 55

OLIVES—Stuffed
Quaker, 24 2% oz. cs. 1 87
Quaker, 24 4 oz. cs... 2 75
Quaker, 24 6 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

 

1s
as ena Gf... 30

PICKLES

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

Dill Pict.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. ‘ 50
Bicycle, per doz...---- 70
Caravan, per doz._--- 2 25

POP CORN ic
Sure Pop, 25 lb. bags 2 55
Yellow, 24 1-Ib. bags... 2 50

FRESH MEATS

 

Beef
Top Steers & Heif._-___ 16
Good Steers & Heif.__.
Med. Steers & Heif.____ i

Com. Steers & Heif.__ 09

 

Veal
ROp) 2 See ee 13
Good =
Medium

Lamb
Spring) Lambie 19

 

 

ee By
Butts — ui

Shoulders
Spareribs

  

Trimmings oo os ee 15

PROVISIONS

Barreled Pork
Clear Back ____28 00@34 00
Short Cut, Clear__._ 30 00

Dry Salt Meats
D S Belles 20-25 18

Lard
Pure in tlerces!_.- 144%
601b. tubs —_._-: advance
00 ib. tubs _____ advance %4
20 Ib. pails _--_~ advance %

 

Compound, tierces _____ 13
Compound, tubs ~_-_-- 13%
Sausages
Bologna -------_-___-___ 12

 

Smoked Meats

Hams. Cert.. 14-16 Ib._
Hams, Cert., Skinned

$6-E8 Ip. see @21
Ham, dried beef

Knuckles Ce ees
California Hams __....@14

Picnic Boiled Hams__--@18
Boiled Hames -
Minced Hams — 4 13
Bacon 4/6 Cert..._...._ @27

  

 

Beef
Boneless, rump --.-.@25 00

Liver

 

RICE
Fancy Blue Rose__---- 4 75
Maney Head 6 00
RUSKS
Postma Biscui: Co.
18 rolls, per case ____-- 2 10
12 rolls, per case ____-- 1 39
18 cartons, per case ___ 2 35
12 cartons, per case _-_ 1 57
SALERATUS

Arm and Hammer 24s_ 1 50

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

packages. 2. 110

COD FISH

Bob White, 1 Ib. pure 25

HERRING

Holland Herring
Mixed, kegs 2..--
Milkers, kegs ~~------ 95
Boneless Herring, 10 Ib. 15
Cut Lunch, 8 lb. pails 1 26

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--- 19 50
$ Ib) pails. 1 40
Cut Tunch 1 50
Boned, 10 lb. boxes_._ 16

SHOE BLACKENING

2in 1, Paste, doz.._._.. 1 30
E. Z. Combination, dz. 1 30
Dri-Foot, doz. --.-._ 2 00
Bizhys dos ..._____ 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 dcz._
Radium, per doz.__-___
Rising Sun, per doz.
654 Stove Enamel, dz.

 

Ph ND Pet et bet et pk et pet et
eo é
°

Vulcanol, No. 10, doz._ 1 30
Stovoil, per doz._-_--__ 3 00
SALT

F.O. B. Grand Rapids
Quaker, 24, 2 Ib._..._ 95
Quaker, 36-14% -----. 1 20
Quaker, Iodized, 24-2. 1 35
Med. No.1, bbis. 3 15
Med. No. 1, 100 1b. bk.
Chippewa Flake, 70 1b.
Packers Meat, 50 lb.___—s—s- 70
Crushed Rock for ice,
cream, 100 lb., each 95
Butter Salt, 280 1b. bbl. 4 00

RR
rm)
>

Block, 50 Ib... 40
Baker Salt, 280 lb. bbl 3 80
6, 10 lb., per bale_____ 1 03
20. 3lbe. per pale a. 1 08
25 Ib. bogs, table-___£. 45

   

hy
lODIZED

 
   
      
 

Ray
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Re

\on:

Free Run’g, 32, 26 oz. 2 40

Five case lots..-__.... 2 3)

Iodized, 32, 26 oz.--_-. 2H)

Five case lots__..___-- 2 30
Colonial

Kitteen 46 0 1 00

Twenty $8 22 OG

 

1 20
Log Cabin Plain, 24, 2s 1 35

BORAX
Twenty Mule Team
24,1 Ib. packages —____ 3 35

48,10 oz. packages__._. 4 40
96, % lb. packages__.. 4 00

WASHING POWDERS
Bon Ami Pd., 18s, box. 1 90
Bon Ami Cake, 18s... 1 e
Brillo 2220
Big 4 Soap Chips 8/5_. 2 rr
Chipso, large —_._--_.. 4 05
Climaline, 4 doz.__--__ 60
Grandma, 100, 5c_---__ 5 50
Grandmm, 24 ‘large____ 3 50
Gold Dust, 12 large__ 1 95
La France Laun 4 dz. 3 65
Lux Flakes, 50 small.. 4 80
es, 20 large... 4 55

 

spore Cleanser, 48,

20 68 2 3 85
Sani Flush, 1 doz.._.___ 2 25
Sapolio, 3 dog e 3 15
Super Suds, 48 ~.-._- 3 90
Sunbrite, 50s_._----_-- 2 10

Wyandot. Cleaner, 248 1 60

B.,

Fels Naptha, 100 box__ 4 és
Flake White, 10 box. 3 10
Ivory, 100 Gee ee ‘ “
Hairy, 100 box. *

Palm Olive, 144 = $ 20
Lava, 50 box____ - 2 55
Camay, 72 box_...____ 8 05
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. 48
Lux Toilet, 50 05

 

SPICES
Whole Spices
a Jamaica____._ @24

    

oe 5e pkg., doz.

 

Ginger, Africa .____ @19
Mixed: No. Pio) @30
Mixed, 10c pkgs., doz... @65
Nutmegs, 70@90 __-___ @5

Jutinegs, 105-110 _____ o
?epper. Black @23

Pure Ground in Bulk

  

 

Allspice, Jamaica __.. @18
Cloves, Zanzbar ____.. @28
Jassia, Canton________ @22
Ginger, Corkin ..-_._ @11
Mustard
Mace Penan
Pepper, Vacate Cou @23
Nu
Bence
Pepper, eueac =
Paprika, Spanish _____ @36
Seasoning
Chili Powder, 1%»... 62
Celery Salt, 1% oz._... 86
e, 2 02. 80
Onion Sal aR so
Gasiic (oe 1 35
Ponelty, 3% oz._______ 3 25
Kitchen Bouquet_____ 437
Laurel Leaves _______ 26:
j i 90
65
90
90
STARCH
Corn
Kingsford, 24/1 __.__. 2 35

Powd., bags, per Ib 4%
Argo, "24, 1 Ib. pkgs__ 1 66
Cream, 24-1 2 20

Gloss
Argo, 24, 1 lb. pkgs.__ 1 66
Argo, 12, 3 Ib. pkgs... 3 26

Argo, 8, 5 lb. pkgs.____ 2 46
Silver Gloss, 48, 1s__.. 11%
Elastic, 16 pkgs.______ : 38
Staley 24—1 Ib.________ 1 70
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. 1%____ 2 85
Red Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 3 88
Red Karo, No. 10_____ 3 74

Imit. Maple Flavor
Orange, No. 1%, 2 dz.. 2 87
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 Juice

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

COOKING OIL

Mazola
Pints, 2 doz., case... 5 10
Quarts) FE dom 4 70

5 gallons, 2 per case__ 1] 15

TABLE SAUCES

Lee & Perrin, large__. 5 75
Lee & Perrin, small___ 8
Peneer os 60
Royal Mint_-..___- 40

 

Tobasco, small_______.
Sho You, 9 0z.,

bom YOR CO OT
4
a

 

AGE Jarre; 2220 ees 75
A-l, email ..___ Ro 2 8a
Caner. 2 om... 3 30

 

Gunpowder
Choice: (ee
Ceylon
Pekoe, medium ________ 63
English Breakfast
Congou, medium _______
Congou, choice _____ 35:1@ 36
Congou, fancy __.._. 42@43

TWINE
Cotton, 3 ply pn ga 40
Cotton, 3 ply balls______ 40

VINEGAR
F. O. B. Grand vane
Cider. 40 erain
White Wine, 40 grain 13%
White Wine, 80 grain 24%

WICKING
No. 9, per gross
No. 1, per grosg __-
No. 2, per gross

   

No. 3, per gross _______ 2 30
Peerless Rolls, per doz. 90
Rochester, No. 2, doz.. 50
Rochester, No. 3, doz.. 2 00
Rayo, per doz.________ vi
WOODENWARE
Baskets

Bushels, Wide Band,

wood handles_______ 2 00

Market, drop handle_. 90
Market, single handle. 95
Market, extra ___

 

0
Splint, large __ 3 0
Splint, medium 7 50
Splin€, smaly 22.2 2 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 85
14 qt. Galvanized _____ 3 10
12 qt. Flaring Gal. Jr._ 6 00
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, spring _____ 1 00
Mouse, spring___ 20
Tubs
Large Galvanized_____ 8 75
Medium Galvanized 7%
Smal] Galvanized _____ 6 75
Washboards
Banner, Globe________ 5 50
Brass, single____ 6 25
Glass) singie | 6 00
Double Peerless. 8 50
Single Peerless________ 7 50
Northern Queen______ 5 50
Universal 22522 7 25

 

Paper Food Dishes
% Ib. size, per M___. 2 70

2 Ib. size, per M______ 3 40
3 Ib. size, per M______ 415
5 Ib. size, per M______ 5 60

WRAPPING PAPER
Butchers D F 05
Kraft

 

a %
Krate Stripe = 2 77: ~ 0916

YEAST CAKE
Magic, 3 doz.__.
Sunlight, 3 doz. ae
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

 

SHOE MARKET

Michigan Retail Shoe Dealers Association.
President—Clyde K. Taylor.
Executive Vice-President—M, A. Mittel-

man.

Vice-Presidents—J. A. Burton, Lan-
sing; A. Allen, Grand Rapids; Edward
Dittmann, Mt. Pleasant; R. H. Hainstock,
Niles; E. T. Nunneley, Mt. Clemens; Fred
Nentwig, Saginaw; E. C. Masters, Alpena;
A. G. Pone, Jackson.

Secretary-Treasurer — Robert Murray,
Charlotte.

Field Secretary—O. R. Jenkins, Port-
land.

Membership Committee—R. H. Hain-
stock, chairman; entire board to act as
committee.

Board of Directors—E. T. Nunneley,
Mt, Clemens; M. A. Mittelman, Detroit;
Edw. Dittmann, Mt. Pleasant; Steven J.
Jay, Detroit; Clyde K. Taylor, Detroit;
John Mann, Port Huron; Max Harryman,
Lansing; Wm. Van Dis, Kalamazoo; Rich-
ard Schmidt, Hillsdale; Arthur Jochen,
Saginaw; B. C. Olsee, Grand Rapids;
Fred Elliott, Flint; P. B. Appeldoorn,
Kalamazoo Fred Murray, Charlotte; Ralph
Meanwell, Ann Arbor; John Och, Che-
boygan.

 

Public Ultimately Pays for Style
Shows

While the iron is hot we had better
hammer on the subject of style shows
to see to it that we don’t have a recur-
rence of two national show events,
when one would suffice. It’s a sorry
spectacle to see internecine conflict be-
tween Siamese twins. As a matter of
fact, the manufacturer can’t do without
the retailer and vice versa. Both seem
to get along pretty well for 51 weeks
in the year and then harmony gces
haywire in the most important week
of the year.

Perhaps this is the time to put a little
humor into the situation and boil the
two shows down to a paragraph: The
manufacturers buy space in St. Louis,
from themselves, to sell goods to mer-
chants who are in New York—and
make a profit. The retailers give space
in New York to manufacturers, to sell
shoes to merchants, and take their re-
wards in prestige. What a paradox.

The common purpose of expositions
is to sell more and better shoes. Its
function should be that of intelligent
selfishness in behalf of the ultimate
public. Now that the shows are over,
let’s look at the record.

The retailers promoted, publicized
and presented the finest convention and
exposition in their entire association
history. The retailers know how to do
these things. They have had a back-
ground of experience—fully 20 years
of association They
know that it is necessary to sell: ideas
and ideals—to put plenty of publicity
back of it. They have become zealots
in behalf of their convention and with
or without money in the purse, they go
the whole distance.

The manufacturers’ association, on
the other hand. tried to link their ex~-
position up with the normal factory
and store routine of buying and selling
goods and, perhaps, made the fatal mis-
take this year of doing a minimum of
promoting and planning other activites
to capture the imagination of the mer-
chant. The result is on. the records.

The manufacturers’ association made
its greatest mistake in early October,
1934, when it did not harmonize the
financial differences between the two
associations, which might have been
done at that time with a comparatively
few thousand dollars. The manufac-

management.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

turers’ association had the revenue in
sight but they lacked the foresight of
the consequence of competitive shows,
staged the same week, in two distant
cities and the possibilities of compari-
son in the show-down. The psycho
logeal moment for harmony was in
early October and we did our best to
bring accord, but it wasn’t enough.
There had to be a test by fire.

Now that the battle is over, the pres-
tige obtained by the retailers’ associ-
ation over-balances the profit obtained
by the manufacturers’ association. The
codes have but six months to run in
their present form and the best inform-
ed authorities believe that the trade
practice provision applying to the style
show will be discontinued and with it
will go the monopoly given to the man-
ufacturers’ association in the style show
clause provision. So now the retailers
sit in the favored seat in the negotia-
tions, We would like to see them open-
ed up immediately to bring about the
unification of shows.

The management in operation of the
N. S. R. A. during the past year has
been most commendable. The rebirth
of enthusiasm for a strong retail asso-
ciation has brought into that body
young and active men from every state
of the Union. These young men are
going to be heard from for they repre-
sent the voice of retailing at its best.
They want to see the retail association
articulate for every improvement at re-
tailing that is promotionally possible
and every safeguard—tlegislative and in-
dustrial—needed to protect the retailer
in his business of public service.

Sane manufacturers and sane re
tailers will not tolerate separate na-
tional shows again. Duplication of
costs, samples and travel-delays, dis-
appointments and everything unneces-
sary add to the cost of shows in some
way or another. In the last analysis,
the public pays for all this and there
is no sense in it—when one showing
suffices.—Boot and Shoe Recorder.

————>+->—___.
Organization of Michigan Shoe Exhib-
itors Association

A meting of all shoe travelers of
Michigan was called at 7:30 p. m. Jan.
19, in the Pantlind Hotel, about 50
travelers attending.

The meeting was called to order by
Lloyd R. Armstrong, who introduced
Eric W. Dahl, of the Grand Rapids
Convention Bureau, who addressed the
meeting on the value of organization
and the co-operation which couid be
expected from Grand Rapids, the hotel,
the newspapers and the retailers.

At the conclusion of Mr. Dahl’s re-
marks Mr. Armstrong introduced
Charles Drummond as acting chair-
man. Mr. Drummond explained the
pupose of the meeting, namely to form
a permanent organization of shoe
travelers in Michigan to be known as
the Michigan Shoe Exhibitors Asseci-
ation to further their interests and to
have an annual exhibit in Grand Rap-
ids, which place was conceded as the
only logical location in Michigan for
said annual exhibit.

At this time, Curtis Johns, of the
Grove Shoe Co., was called upon for a

few remarks and he stated that after
talking with a number of salesmen he
felt that it was the concensus of opin-
ion that such an organization as pro-
posed should be formed at once. Mo-
tion was made and seconded to this
effect, which carried unanimously.-

Mr. Drummond then stated that the
present acting committee thought that
the organziation could be run to the
best advantage of all concerned by a
committee of twelve, representing dif-
ferent lines of shoes and located in
different parts of the state and further
that there would be no officers, Each
man on the committee would have an
equal vote and matters affecting the
association would be referred to the

entire committee,

January 30, 1935

H. K. Harner gave a short talk, con-
gratulating the acting committees of
1934 and 1935 conventions on their
economical program and efficiency and
made the motion that they be included
with the newly-elected committee for
1936.

A list of twelve names were read to
the Assembly for their approval as fol-
lows:

Geo. Gorman, R. L. Clement, Chas.
Drummond, C. H. Bloom, L. R. Arm-
strong, R. O. Crosley, Jesse Wyckoff,
Curtis Johns, Geo. Hampson, H. K.
Harner, Jack Shaw, Rodney Schopps.
These names met with the approval of
all present.

At this time Mr. Drummond related
to the members that we had two op-
portunities to affiliate ourselves with

 

We Were Pleased to Make a Display of
FOOT-FASHION & RED GOOSE SHOES
at the Retail Shoe Dealers Ass’n ;

JANUARY 20, 21, 22
Pantlind Hotel, Grand Rapids

   
 

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If any dealer failed to look in on our
display or any dealer who was unable
to attend the convention would like to
inspect our line, we shall be pleased to
hear from him.

WALTER SEIDEL
FRIEDMAN-SHELBY, Branch

in attendance 7
International Shoe Co., St. Louis

  

 

 

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proof

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BEFORE IHE DEPRESSION
— WE MAVE MAINTAINED
OUR DIWIDEND RAIE OF

NOK KESS THAN 33%

MICHIGAN SHOE DEALERS

MUTUAL FIRE INSURRAACE COMPRRY
BANSING MUTUAL BUILDING
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

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other organizations and a vote of the
entire membership was against any
affiliation with outside organizations.

Motion was made and seconded that
the next convention of the Association
be held in Grand Rapids in January,
1936, following the National exposition,
which carried unanimously.

No further business appearing, the
meeting was adjourned.

Rodney D. Schopps,

Sec’y. Michigan Shoe Exhibitors
Association.

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Prelminary Announcement of the

Hardware Conventon
(‘Continued from page 14)

Any retail establishment refusing to
recognize the single assessment prin-
ciple may refrain from contributing to
the principal line code authority on its
minor line business, only as to such
minor line business as to which it cer-
tifies to its principle line code author-
ity (a) the amount of such business
by dollar volume (b) the portions of
such business goverened by each minor
line code, (c) that payment has been
or will be duly made to all code author-
ities for such minor line codes, and
(d) the amount and date of payments
made and for what periods under each
code. Such certification shall be made
within fifteen (15) days after receipt
of notice to contribution due from the
principal line code authority.”

Stores in towns in which local retail
code authority (LRCA, in charge of
the retail code to which hardware
stores belong) are organized, and to
which they are paying the assessments
of $1 per year per worker, have com-
plete protection under this ruling.

Stores in towns of over 2,500 popu-
lation where LRCAs are not organized
can secure protection by remittance di-
rect to the National Retail Code Au-
thority (NRCA), 1028 Munsey build-
ing, Washington, at the pro-rata pay-
ment of 7c per worker (including own-
ers). This pays the national assess-
ment up to June 15.

Until and unless a general order is
received exempting towns under 2,500,
stores in such towns desiring protection
of X-i31 should also remit to NRCA
at the rate of 7c per worker.

Investigate Before Investing: United
Tableware Co., Detroit; American Se-
curity Credit Co., St. Louis; World
Wide Service, St. Louis; Affiliated
Underwriters Loan and Fin. Co., St.
Louis; Powers Collection Service, Chi-
cago; Flower City Rose Company,
Manchester, Connecticut.

Harold W. Bervig,
Sec’y Mich. Retail Hdwe. Ass'n.

—_+~-+—__—_
OUT AROUND
(Continued from page 9)

paper in many cases, to the manifest
advantage of publisher, reader and ad-
vertiser. The publisher is no longer
an object of charity, but in most cases
he has become a man of affairs, with a
decidedly high standing as a property
owner, citizen and advisor. When a

new idea is suggested in a community
about the first remark made is “Will
our editor support the plan.” In many
cases his support is equivalent to the
adoption of the measure.

Sixty years ago few local editors

maintained regular editorial depart-
ments. I recall the Grand Traverse
Herald publishing ringing editorials

from the pen of D. C. Leach, who was
one of the strongest men of the coun-
try press in those days. The editorials
in the Lansing Republican were mar-
vels. I am told they were written by
W. S. George, who was state printer
in those days and whose semi-weekly
publication was probably the best
printed paper in the state at that time.
George Willard, of the Battle Creek
Journal, John N. Ingersoll, of the Cor-
unna American, Thomas S. Applegate,
of the Adrian Times and Don Hender-
son and Edw. C. Reid, of the leading
Allegan papers of that day, maintained
strong editorial departments.

Since those early days the editorial
departments of the country press have
been permitted to dwindle. In their
places are now found ‘n most cases
personal departments written by the
editors in the highest style of the art
and intensely interesting to newspaper
readers because they deal in live topics
in a most entertaining manner. I per-
sonally subscribe to many local news-
papers—not as many as I wish I could
—and am frank to say that these de-
partments are the first features I read
when looking over papers containing
same.

William G. Tapert, our long-time
contributor at the Soo, writes me as
follows from West Palm Beach: “We
are spending the balance of the winter
here, so you will miss the Items from
the Cloverland of Michigan until about
April. This is the first time we have
been able to get away for the winter
from the Sault in thirty-five years, so
we are improving the opportunity as a
vacation.” A man who has taken no
winter vacation for thirty-five years is
certainly entitled to a respite from
business cares and responsibilities.

I do not know of a more important
crisis during peace time than the period
through which we are now passing.
The conference recently held in Wash-
ington, made up of many organiza-
tions demanding monetary reform, is
evidence that Congress must withdraw
the powers it has conferred upon the
banks in the matter of coining money
and regulating its value. It also will
be compelled to assume the responsi-
bility conferred upon it by the Fed-
eral constitution, instead of delegating
it to the President or anyone else. This
delegating of constitutional powers is
what has weakened the Government
and shorn the people of many of their
constitutional rights.

On the pending decision of the Su-
preme Court relative to the gold clause
in securities and contracts, it does not
look as though they will nullify the
acts already passed by Congress. With
over sixty billion dollars of these
agreements payable in gold, and with
only eleven billions of gold in the
world, it is evident on the face of
things that these contracts were en-
tered into with no knowledge of the
amount made. It is just as unreason-

able to believe these gold obligations
can be paid as it is to believe the two
hundred and fifty-two billion dollars
of debt in this Nation will be paid. We
are as badly bankrupt as any of our
European creditors, who backed down
on paying their war debt to us. Pos-
sibly the old Jewish custom of can-
celling debts every fifty vears is a good
practice. This seems to be the only
way we can balance the budget when
it comes to large amounts.

Readers of the Tradesman who are
anxious to see such amendment made
to the Clayton law as will enable the
Government to put a damper on the
practice some manufacturers have of
according discriminatory prices to pur-
chasers of large quantities of merchan-
dise at one time are invited to read
the article on that subject on pages
10 and 11 in this week’s paper. It is
no small problem Congressman Mapes
has undertaken to settle in order to
accomplish the desired result, but those
who know how thorough he is in all
his legislative work believe he will
give his constituents something worth
while.

Another Muskegon man has made a
remarkable record in the bankruptcy
line. Herman Bartels enters the por-
tals of the insolvency court with lia-
bilities of $66,995.95 and assets of $211,
all of which is claimed as exempt.
Creditors of Mr. Bartels will not have
to lie awake nights planning what they
will do with the dividends they receive
from this estate.

I received a call yesterday from a
Rockford merchant. Referring to the
$100,000 cash bonus the Wolverine
Shoe and Tanning Co. will hand out to
its employes this week, I asked my
caller where this large sum will mostly
go. “To the automobile dealers,” he
replied.

I was recently told by a stockholder
of the above named corporation that
the holders of common stock were
made happy in December by the dis-
tribution of a 20 per cent. stock divi-
dend. I am glad the organization is so
prosperous—elad for the stockholders,
glad for the business men of Rockford
who share in the bountiful dividends
the company hands out to all who are
connected with the organization in any
capacity.

Referring to the complaint lodged
against the Diamond Match Co. last
week by a former associate of the
Tradesman, I am in receipt of the fol-
lowing letter:

New York, Jan. 24—We acknowl-
edge receipt of your letter of Jan. 19,
enclosing letter written to you under
date of the 18th by Roy H. Randall.

We were, to say the least, much
surprised to note the statements con-
tained in both letters with reference to
the quality of some Diamond matches
which Mr. Randall brought to your
attention. The Diamond Match Co.
maintains thoroughly equipped chemi-
cal, engineering and research depart-
ments, which carefully test and inspect
all ingredients entering into the pro-
duction of matches to insure the use
of only such materials as are required
to produce the best quality matches

possible. In addition to its own testing
and inspection system, the company
employs the services of an outside
testing company, which company sys-
tematically inspects and tests the
matches produced at all Diamond fac-
tories. As this would indicate, every
precaution is taken to insure only
matches that can be considered safe,
reliable and uniform going to the trade.

However, we are sure that you can
appreciate when taking into considera-
tion the enormous number of boxes
of matches the Diamond Match Co.
distributes, and also realizing the hu-
man element that must be considered
in the production of merchandise of
this kind, it is possible that, regardless
of all these safeguards, an occasional
box of matches may get out on the
trade that does not come up to the
standard se.

In order to replace the unsatsfac-
tory matches purchased by Mr. Ran-
dall, we are asking our factory at Bar-
berton, Ohio, to ship you a carton of
Diamond brand strike-anywhere match-
es, and will greatly appreciate your
handing them to your former business
associate.

Thanking you for having brought
the matter to our attention, we remain,

' Diamond Match Co.,
By E. A. Peters.

 

I heartily commend the action of the
shoe salesman of Michigan in forming

an organzation to make an annual ex-
hibit of their lines at the Pantlind Ho-
tel regularly every year hereafter. This
will naturally result in the state organ-
ization of shoe dealers holding its an-
nual convention at the same time and
place each year, The men composing
the new organization naturally feel that
Grand Rapids is the most available lo-
cation to hold an annual round up and
reunion, because of its central position
in the state and the advantages the
Pantlind has to offer for a meeting of
that kind. E. A. Stowe.

 

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Phone 89574

John P. Lynch Sales Co.
SPECIAL SALE EXPERTS
Expert Advertising
Expert Merchandising
209-210-211 Murray Bldg.
Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

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

 

 

 

BUSINESS WANTS
DEPARTMENT

Advertisements inserted under this head
for five cents a word the first insertion
and four cents a word for each subse-
quent continuous insertion. If set in
capital letters, double price. No charge
less than 50 cents. Small display adver-
tisements in this department, $4 per
inch. Payment with order is required, as
amounts are too small to open accounts.

Wanted—A Grand Rapids Wholesale
Grocery membership stock. State price in
your letter. Address No. 701 c/o Michigan
Tradesman. 701

 

 

 

Convention of Michigan Retail Lum-
ber Dealers Association

February 6, 7, 8, the Pantlind Hotel
and civic auditorium, Grand Rapids,
will be the scene of possibly the largest
convention the Michigan Retail Lum-
ber Dealers Association has ever held.

This will be the forty-sixth annual
of the Association and comes at a par-
ticularly opportune time this year
when dealers are looking forward to
a new year with mixed emotions.

What will 1935 bring forth? The big
question is, “Will business be better?”
“Will the housing program bring re-
newed vigor to the retail lumber and
building industries?” “Will prices re-
main firm, go up or come down?”
“Will the code hold?” “Will NRA be
made permanent and if so, under what
form?” “What about code compli-
ance?”

These are some of the big question
marks in the minds of the retail lum-
ber dealers to-day and, as ever, the
Michigan Retail Lumber Dealers Asso-
ciation will attempt to answer them
directly by having outstanding speak-
ers and discussions that will center
on these important. problems. Among
some of the prominent speakers al-
ready engaged are:

James A. Moffett, Administrator of
the Federal Housing Administration,
Washington.

Raymond M. Foley, State Director,
Federal Housing Administration, De-
troit.

Spencer Baldwin, President National
Retail Lumber Dealers Association,
Washington.

Abner E. Larned, State NRA Com-
pliance Director, Detroit.

Don Critchfield, Forest Products
Certified Paints Campaign, Washing-
ton.
Arthur A. Hood, Johns-Manville,
New York.

Fred H. Ludwig, Member Retail
Lumber & Building Material Code
Authority, Inc., Washington.

F. E. Cislak, Organic Research, In-
dianapolis.

W. W. Woodbridge,
Shingle Bureau, Seattle.

In addition to both James A. Mof-
fett and Raymond Foley, of the Fed-
eral Housing Administration, who will
speak on the National Housing Act,
the FHA will have an official infor-
mation booth with a man in attendance.
Literature on the FHA, necessary
forms, etc., will be available for those
desiring same—also questions pertain-
ing to the FHA will be answered by
the man in charge of the booth.
Unusually Fine Exhibits Promised at

Red Cedar

Convention

All of our exhibits will be held in the
new beautiful civic auditorium. A won-
derful response has been made by the
manufacturers in signing up for dis-
play space. This truly reflects the
optimism held by the manufacturers
for better busines in 1935. These man-
ufacturers are to be commended and
are deserving of your most loyal sup-
port:

Amalgamated Roofing Company

Barber Asphalt Company

The Barrett Company

Bird & Son, Inc.

E. L. Bruce Company

MICHIGAN

Buhl Sons Company

The Celotex Company

Certain-Teed Products Corporation

E. I. DuPont DeNemours & Co., Inc.

The Flinkote Corporation

Forest Products—Better Paint Cam-

paign

Grand Rapids Sash & Door Co.

Heatilator Company

Johns-Manville Sales Corporation

Keasbey & Mattison Company

Nichols & Cox Lumber Company

The Lehon Company

Masonite Corporation

Morgan Sash & Door Company

National Gypsum Company

National Plan Service, Inc.

The Philip Carey Company

Pittsburgh Steel Company

Red Cedar Shingle Bureau

The Ruberoid Company

The Sisalkraft Company

United States Gypsum Company

Weaver-Wall Company

Weyerhaeuser Sales Company

Wood Conversion Company.

Other features:

Old guard dinner, Wednesday, Feb.
6, 6:30 p.m.

Lumber & Sash & Door Salesmen’s
Midnight Frolic, Wednesday, February
6, 11 p.m.

Annual banquet and dance, Thurs-
day, Feb. 7, 7 p.m.

A wonderful program of entertain-
ment has been provided for the ladies
and all who come will be assured a
most enjoyable time.

Lumbermen, be sure to bring your
wives and sweethearts.

Hunter M. Gaines,
Sec’y Michigan Retail Lumber
Dealers Ass’n.

ee
Cotton Garment Order Confuses

The cotton garment industry is
afflicted with uncertainty akin to
that prevailing at the time of the
adoption of the NRA due to the
decision upholding the President's
order imposing a wage increase
and a 36-hour week upon the in-
dustry.

Buying is likely to be disturbed
for several weeks until the indus-
trv has had a chance to become
adjusted to the new order. Re-
tailers are stocked with goods
purchased at prices which will
probably prove low compared
with those to be quoted as a re-
sult of higher costs. Few wish to
make new commitments for the
future, since the size of the pros-
pective price advances has yet to
be determined.

While mark-ups in prices are
expected to re:ult from the order,
the trade generally fears that such
advances, added to those alreadv
necessitated by New Deal poli-
cies, will curtail buying.

Holland— The Sanitary Poultry
Equipment Co. has been organized for
the manufacture of healthy accommo-
dations for chickens beyond the stage
of chicks. It has taken over the build-
ing on North Shore Road formerly
occupied by the Vac-A-Tap concern.
Arthur A. Visscher is its president.

— 72s >___
Nature is kind, and where people
are sewed in their winter underwear,
every nose is stopped with a cold.

Sihbcencnttiieniunane maison

TRADESMAN

DETROIT DOINGS

 

Late Business News From Michigan’s
Metropolis

The Women’s Apparel Club of
Michigan is sponsoring one of the big-
gest women’s and children’s apparel
markets in the history of that organi-
zation. Beginning Sunday, Feb. 10,
two solid floors of the Hotel Statler
will include nearly 200 manufacturers’
lines, and will be displayed for four
days. On Monday evening, a dinner
and Grand Fashion Revue, inter-
spersed with entertainment and music,
will be staged, and will, according to
the president, Milton Aronheim, be
the biggest event of its kind ever at-
tempted in Michigan. More than 1,000
apparel retailers are expected to at-
tend this market.

Funeral services for Robert Bourke,
assistant buyer for the J. L. Hudson
Co., were held last Wednesday at the
home, 1961 Sturtevant avenue. A na-
tive Detroiter, Mr. Bourke died in
Grace Hospital. He had been em-
ployed by the J. L. Hudson Co. since
1915. His widow, Julia Adami Bourke;
a son, James; two brothers, Harold R.,
and John, and three sisters, Mrs. Vern
Tappan, Mrs. James Smith, and Mrs.
B. Braun, survive.

Spring promotions on shoes should
be started early this year according to
William Adams, manager of the wom-
en’s departments of R. H. Fyfe & Co.
The Detroit store has usually started
Spring items about Feb. 15, but the
date is being advanced this year to Jan.
15. An advance shipment of a large
quantity of Spring shoes was received
recently and placed in stock.

Word was received here Sunday of
the death in Los Angeles, Saturday, of
John J. Faltis, one-time widely known
business man here. He had been ill
for weeks. Born in Detroit, seventy-
four years ago, Mr. Faltis was the son
of the late Patrick and Julia Faltis.
His parents founded the Faltis Mar-
ket Co., the first of the numerous mar-
kets to start operations in the old Cen-
tral Market building which once stood
on Cadillac Square. Educated here,
Mr. Faltis entered business with his
father. When the Central Market
building was torn down about twenty-
five years ago the Faltis market was
moved to Woodward avenue, where
the State Theater now stands. When
the latter was built the market was
moved to 54 W. Elizabeth St., where
it now is operated as MclInerney’s,
Inc., by the sons of Mr. Faltis’ sister,
Mrs. Thomas W. McInerney. When
Mr. Faltis’ mother died in 1923 he
moved to California. He was a life
member of the Detroit Yacht Club.

——_--.
NRA Delays Annoy
Local code officials regard

Washington statements that dere-
lictions of duty upon the part of
officials would be punished as an
attempt to divert the mounting
volume of criticism of delays in
Washington.

Should the administration fol-
low up its threat to di-cipline code
officials who have fathered ‘‘mo-

nopolistic practices,” one official

predicted a wholesale surrender
of codes.

  

January 30, 1935

Code administrators report an
increasing amount of dissatisfac-
tion among business men with the
functioning of various divisions
of the NRA. It was stated that un-
less more aggressive action were
taken within the next two months,
the NRA in its present form may
be considered dead for most in-
dustries.

Delays in important cases are
reported to have increased rather
than decreased latterly. Requests
by code officials for more prompt
action on such relatively simple
matters as approval of budgets
are often met with arbitrary re-
plies from NRA headquarters.

——__ ¢os
Commodity Prices at Recovery

Although commodity prices
made a new recovery peak dur-
ing the past week, a growing
number of observers doubt that
prices are likely to move material-
ly higher in the near future.

Sharp gains were scored by
food prices, due largely to weath-
er conditions. As present higher
prices are reported meeting con-
siderable consumer resistance, it .
is doubted that they will long
hold at present levels, unless un-
favorable weather predominates
for some time.

Prices of manufactured prod-
ucts are likely to remain firm ow-
ing to higher costs in prospect due
to social insurance and_ other
causes. Large supplies on hand,
on the other hand, threatens
weakness in wheat and other in-
ternational staples.

——_~7-<-__
Preparations for a Gold Decision

A decision by ithe United
States Supreme Court in the gold
clause cases is generally expected
next Monday.

In the meanwhile, as is well
known, serious thought has been
given to the likely results of a de-
cision against the Government.
Within Congress, it seems cer-
tain, a strong movement would
be started immediately to take
steps to neutralize the effects of
such a decree. The administration
would doubtless aid such a move.

Under such circumstances, the
financial markets are not expected
to react in any spectacular fash-
ion. If they do, ameliorative
measures such as a closing down
of trading for a short period to
permit security holders to get a
full view of the situation are prob-

able.
mE a

Detroit—Rips Bifocal Co., 717 Fran-
cis Palms Bldg., manufacturer of spec-
tacles and other optical goods, has
merged the business into a stock coim-
pany under the style of Rips Optical
Co., with a capital stock of $5,000, all
paid in.

—_++>___

Battle Creek—A special stockholders
meeting of the George Weston, Ltd.,
biscuit manufacturer about to open a
new plant here has been called for Fed.
1 to authorize splitting the 200,000
shares of authorized no par common
stock two for one.

 

 

 

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a “TOTAL LOSS”

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MUTUAL BUILDING, LANSING, MICHIGAN
DETROIT, GRAND RAPIDS, SAGINAW

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