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Since the 2,500,000 Govern- ment hides are in cold storage and can be safely carried over, confi- dence is expressed that the Gov- ernment will not release any of its stocks this year. On the other hand, other ob- servers felt that any further in- crease in prices will result in a curtailment of tanners’ buying. Shoe production has latterly, it is pointed out. More- declined. over, the heaviest demand now is for cheaper shoes, and an advance in hide prices would encourage substitution of cheaper grades of leather, or even rubber, in shoe manufacture, it is held. Imports of hides have also in- creased latterly, the total to date this year being 388,472, as com- pared with 367,589 during the same period last year. A heavier movement is feared if prices should advance materially. ——_+-2—___ Canned Fruit Prices Reduced Further unsteadiness developed in the primary canned goods market, fol- lowing the announcement by large pro- ducers of advertised brands in reduc- tions in quotations on spot supplies of canned fruits, Holding substantial stocks, canners of well-known brands cut prices of pears 20 cents per dozen cans, while peaches were reduced 15 cents on the popular types. Independ- Reg. U.S, Pat Off. Products 3 ents were forced to meet the lower quotations, and, in some instances, made deeper cuts than those put into effect on the branded lines. Two of the large California packers announced prices on the 1935 asparagus packs which show slight increases over last year’s figures. Prices on branded lines of spinach opened some time ago were advanced 10 cents by producers. ooo The man who does things makes many mistakes but he never makes the biggest mistake of all—doing nothing. 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All of which means greater Consumer Satisfaction — and greater Profit and Turnover for you. RED STAR YEAST & PRODUCTS CO., MILWAUKEE, WIS. Members by Invitation of the Rice Leaders of the World Association INDEPENDENT Se oe | Gi“ CANDIES SPRING AND SUMMER Also Bar and Penny Goods Specialties ORDER FROM YOUR JOBBER NATIONAL CANDY CO., Inc. Putnam F actory GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. the only well known yeast grown Extra rich in . . Dependable Minty Mints Licomints Summer Bon Bons Cherry Ices Orange Ices Lemon Drops Jelly Beans FRESH COMPRESSED RED STAR VEAST & Sa MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS. Moline—The Moline State Bank has increased its capital stock from $20,000 to $25,000. Grand Rapids—Charles M. Brostrom succeeds Charles Booker at manager of Wilson & Co. Ionia—The State Savings Bank of Ionia has increased its capital stock from $100,000 to $125,000. Grand Rapids—W. F. Hunter suc- ceeds Joe Catalano in the grocery busi; ness at 156 Indiana avenue, N.W. Holly—The First State & Savings Bank of Holly has decreased its cap- ital stock from $100,000 to $60,000. Detroit—The Eastern Box Co., 3379 Gratiot avenue, has increased its cap- ital stock from $100,000 to $150,000. Wellston—Thomas Snyder has sold his garage and repair shop to Floyd Crooks, who has taken possession. Detoit—The Century Fireproof Con- struction Co., 16327 Harper avenue, has a capital stock of $1,000, all paid in. Detroit—Boulder Mill, Inc., 1802 Buhl Bldg., mining, milling, etc., is cap- italized at $10,000, $1,000 being paid in. Detroit—The Union Appliance Co., 1912 Union Guardian Bldg, has a capital stock of $4,000, $1,000 being paid in. Detroit—The Electric Brake Sales Corporation, 1102 Penobscot Bldg., has changed its name to the Warner Sales Co. Detroit—The Clippert Brick Co., Box 3, 31st street Postoffice, has de- creased its capital stock from $700,000 to $350,000. ; Muskegon—Walter J. Madigan suc- ceeds Don Harris as manager of the Muskegon store of the Harris Sample Furniture Co. Mason—Gus Kean has purchased the Mack building adjacent to his variety store and will remodel the two build- ings into a fine store. Detroit—Bonninghausen, Inc., 1307 Griswold street, has increased its cap- ital stock from 100 shares no par value to 500 shares at $10 each. Grand Rapids—The annual meeting of the Red and White Stores connected with the local house of Lee & Cady will be held here next Thursday. Charlevoix—Heise & Schantz, plumb- ers, have removed to their new loca- tion on Mason street, the store building having been thoroughly remodeled. Charlotte — W. B. Fulton, 68, presi- dent of the Colburn Fulton Lumber Co. for the past 27 years, died May 9, following an illness of several years. Carson City—A. S. Burnham, Inc., dealer in gasoline, refine and blend petroleum products, has a capital stock of $25,000 preferred with $5,000 paid in. Wyandotte—The Fit-Rite Shoe Co., 3336 Biddle avenue, retail dealer in shoes and clothing, is capitalized at 100 shares at $40 a share, $4,000 being paid in. Detroit—The Aluminum & Archi- tectural Metals Corporation, 1974 Franklin street, has a capital stock of 500 shares at $10 each, $2,000 being paid in. Harbor Springs — Lacy Sergent has taken over by purchase, the. Bursian Buick Sales Co. and will continue the MICHIGAN business under the style of the Sergent Auto Co, Muskegon—The Old Dutch Refin- ing Co, has merged its business into a stock company under the same style with a capital stock of $1,000,000, $1,000 being paid in. Detroit—The Connors Creek Coal Co., Inc., 2619 Connors avenue, whole- sale and retail dealer fuel of all kinds, has a capital stock of $50,000, $2,000 being paid in. Highland Park—The Park Furniture Sales, -Inc., 14 West Davison avenue, dealer in furniture and _ household equipment, has a capital stock of $3,- 000, all paid in. Muskegon—The Be-No Sales Corp- oration has leased a store on the Third street side of the Occidental hotel building and will occupy it with a stock of special drugs. ‘Highland Park—The Highland Park Furnace Co., 13320 Hamilton avenue, has been organized to deal in warm air furnaces, with a capital stock of $5,000, $1,000 being paid in. Bear Lake—Mrs. Gustav Schrader, dealer in general merchandise, has sold her stock to Orlin Keillor, who will add a line of cold meats as well as greatly increase all of the stock, Grand Rapids—C. F. Bettendge has purchased the grocery and meat stock of J. McCleary, 1357 Alpine avenue and will continue the business under the style of the Bettendge Food Shop. Muskegon—E, R. Swett, manager of the Oiccidental hotel, has installed six modern booths in the Western avenue section of the hotel cafeteria for pa- tron wishing greater privacy during meals, Grand Rapids—The Americar Auto- Felt Corporation, 617 Crosby street, N. W., has changed its capitalization from 70,000 shares no par value to $120,080 and 10,000 shares no par value, Detroit—The Flex-Flo Co., Inc., 2231 Dalzelle street, has been organ- ized to deal in auto trailer couplings, with a capital stock of $5,000 common and $5,000 preferred, $4,250 being paid in. Detroit—The D. C. Goudie Sales Co., 2832 East Grand Blvd., has in- creased its capital stock from 1,000 shares no par value to $5,000 and changed its name to the Jones Fors Company. Muskegon—Ralph Clark, who has been connected with the shoe: business here for the past 15 years, has engaged in business under the style of Clark's Boot Shop, in the Michigan Theatre building. Galesburg—4H:"'H. Snyder, recently of Kalamazoo, has purchased the build- ing recently occuppied by a creamery, remodeled it and installed machinery preparatory to manufacturing Snyder trailers and coaches. Cadillac—John Maxbauer, of Trav- erse City, has purchased the loca! Freeman Dairy plant and will con- tinue the business under the style of the Maxbauer Creamery, with Charles Sigafoose-as manager. _ Kent City—L. E. Gillam, of Kent City, has purchased the Stout meat market at Trufant and will take pos- TRADESMAN session May 15. Gillam has had charge of the meat department in the A. H. Saur & Sons general store. Detroit—The Magnador Manufac- turing Co., 14848 Wyoming avenue, tools, parts and apparatus, has a cap- ital stock of 12,000 shares of A stock at 50c each and 13,000 shares of B at 50c each, $6,700 being paid in. Muskegon Heights—Edward J. Lor- enz, hardware dealer, was recently re- elected mayor of this city, being the first mayor in the history of the city to serve two terms. He was given 61 per cent, of the total votes cast. Portland—Thieves entered the drug store of Carl Bywater, the bakery of Roy Pouch and the clothing store o Roy Daudy and carried away the con- tents of the cash registers. The stores were entered from the basement. Allegan—Charles A. Sheffer has re- signed his position as manager of the Otsego Kroger grocery and meat store and purchased the local Steketee Red & White grocery stock and will con- duct the business as an AG store. Detroit— The Frederick Newton Chemical Co., organized to manufac- ture and deal in chemicals and pharm- aceuticals, has a capital stock of 50,000 shares of A stock at $1 a share and 35,000 ‘shares of B stock at $1 a share, $29,800 being paid in. Ionia—Don Givoux, of Pontiac is the new manager of the Shinner Mar- ket. Mr. Givoux succeeds Harvey An- drews, of Flint, manager of the mar- ket since it opened in Ionia last No- vember. Mr. Andrews returned to his home in Flint and plans to take a position in Ohio. Grand Rapids—Miner J. Seven, 61, a resident here most of his life, has gone to his reward, A native of the Nether- lands, Mr, Seven came here at an early age. He was engaged in the grocery business for many years, and for the past thirty years had a store at 500 West Leonard street. Detroit—Carson, Pirie Scott & Co., announce the opening of Detroit head- quarters for the firm’s wholesale busi- ness. Invitations are being sent to dry goods merchants in the Detroit trade area to attend the formal opening Monday, May 15, in the Merchants ‘building at 206 Grand River avenue East. H. J. Iding will be charge and ten experienced Michigan men will make up the Detroit headquarters staff. Detroit—Word has been received here of the death in Winter Park, Fla., Tuesday, of Fred W. Matheson, for many years associated with the Acme Whte Lead Co. here. He died at the winter home of his cousin, Frank M. Matheson, of Wilkes Barre, Pa., where he had gone three months ago to re- gain his health. Mr. Matheson was born in London, Ont., 59 years ago. For twenty-nine years he was in the sales department of the Acme White Lead Co. Kalamazoo—The Peter Pan Bakery Co., of this city, carried away the blue ribbon as first prize for the best dis- play of wholesale baked goods at the annual convention of Michigan Bakers at Grand Rapids. The bakers, who had been in session for three days, closed their meetings Wednesday eve- May 15, 1935 ning, at which time the awards were made, Selection of the 1936 conven- tion city will be made later by the as- sociation’s board of governors. Grand Rapids, Detroit, Lansing, and Traverse City have extended invitations for th, 1936 meetings. Petoskey—William C. Wykes, and son, Richard Wykes, of Grand Rapids, have purchased the Bathke Economy Food market, one of the city’s prom- inent grocery and meat markets. They took possession Monday and will oc- cupy their summer villa at Walloon lake, ten miles South of the city, until autumn, Theodore Bathke will enter the wholesale meat business in Pe- toskey. He had conducted the store ten years and is a former vice presiden; of the Michigan Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers association and a well known buyer in the Grand Rapids mar- kets. Detroit—The Detroit Retail Shoe Dealers Association is holding its first night business meeting in about 10 years this week at the Fort Shelby Hotel. Banquets, shows and entertain- ments have gone on at nigat, but local shoemen have favored the noonday business session, With Nathan Hack in the president’s chair, the move for an evening session is taking definite, if experimental shape. These will be held monthly hereafter, according to present plans. “The swift noonday luncheon meeting is fine for a get together,” Hack said. “But the time is woefully limited. As a result, we just get into a good discussion, when it is time to adjourn and get back to business. We can have longer meetings in the eve- ning, and get more work accom- plished.” Detroit—Robert McClellan Hull, of 3737 Gladstone avenue, who played amateur baseball here from his youth through his seventy-eighth year, died Saturday in Providence Hospital at the age of 79. He had been ill 10 weeks. Mr. Hull was born at Washing- ton boulevard and Grand River avenue. While in his early teens he played baseball on fields that now are includ- ed in the downtown business district. In the 1870’s he played on the old Sweepstakes team, an amateur nine in those days. Among the players he was associated with was Addison Lyons. who later went to Chicago and became a famed pitcher. Despite his advanced age Mr. Hull maintained his active interest in the game through last sum- mer, playing with the Belle Isle Tigers on the Island. For many years he and his brothers, only one of whom, George L., survives, conducted the Hull Bros. grocery on the Campus Martius, near where the Temple theater stood. Later they owned a meat market at Park Place and Grand River avenue. Manufacturing Matters Detroit—The Aero-Cycle Co., 827 Lakepointe avenue, acquire patents and manufacture, has a capital stock of $20,000, $3,000 being paid in. Detroit—The Joint-Seal Corpora- tion, 3690 Trumbull avenue, manufac- turer of piston rings, has a capital Stock of $10,000, $1,000 being paid in. { _ May 15, 1935 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Essential Features of the Grocery Staples Sugar—Refined has been advanced 10 points, Jobbers now hold cane gran- ulated at $5.40 and beet sugar at $5.20. Tea—The first hands demand for tea during the past week has been some- what better than during the week be- fore, Prices are about unchanged in this country and practically so in pri- mary markets. Javas are perhaps a little firmer on account of reduced sup- plies. Consumptive demand for tea is moderate, Coffee—The market for future Rio and Santos coffee green and in a large way started the week with a slight gain, due to firmer news from Brazil and a better general demand. This con- dition lasted a few days and then heav- ier selling developed and prices dropped again. The demand declined somewhat and more weakness resulted. However, about the middle of the week, some little firmness developed but not suf- ficient to change the fundamental situ- ation. Eearly in the week actual Rio and Santos green and in a large way advanced slightly and most of this ad- vance was held during the week with- out material change from last week. Mild coffee*4re perhaps a slight shade easier. Jobbing market on roasted cof- fee continues more or less easy on ac- count of the green market. Consump- tive demand for coffee is good. Canned Fruits—With the future so unsettled as to new packs, distributors are not taking a definite position, Acre- ages have been large, and weather so far seems favorable enough. There has been so much talk about the probability of unusually large packs this year that this is not hard to understand. After all, there is little incentive to cover future requirements when the prospects are for plenty of merchandise in the various packing centers, Canned Vegetables — The nearby outlook for canned vegetables seems to be for a steady clean-up of such spots as are now close to that stage anyway. Prices show a little irregu- larity, as may be expected in a market such as this. With so many small lots available, there is a desire to clean up, even at a shading of prices here and there. Sometimes, it happens, however, that merchandise quoted at low prices could never be sold at anything else That is to say, some of it would fail to measure up to the quality of strictly standard stuff. Some lots of peas from the Middle West have fallen into this class. Canned Fish—Canned salmon and other kinds‘of fish will be coming into greater prominence now that the warm weather is here. The outlook for the new packing season is still very ob- scure and prices On spots have shown a tendency to hold or work higher. Reds, pinks, chums and fancy varieties are in good position and strongly held. Canned Fish—Some sellers advanced red Alaska salmon 5 cents per dozen. The prospects of Columbia River sal- mon seem to be pretty fair, Other tinned fish unchanged and quiet. Dried Fruits—The dried fruit market last week showed little change from previous weeks. The character of the market is steady rather than spectac- ular, Buyers are taking their require- ments in a small lot way, but these small orders in the aggregate amount to sizable business. Prices showed lit- tle or no change last week. The better brands or prunes have held firm, and any recent easing here has been con- fined to “popular brands.” Raisins, too, have shown a lot of stability in recent weeks, with hardly any quotabie change in the regulars or seeded vari- eties at all. Top grades of Blenheim apricots have been unchanged and evaporated apples have shown a little better tone. The Coast reports the market out there quiet, but prices on the major items have resisted any tend- ency to ease. First hands report a little ‘better feeling as regards exports, with a smaller surplus of exportable Yugo- slav prunes. Apricots are practically all cleared, and there are no figs left in the primary market. Imported figs and dates have moved well here and hold- ers have kept prices at a level to en- courage business, rather than attempt- ing to take full advantage of the pres- ent statistical situation. Beans and Peas—The market for dried beans and dried peas shows no change from a week ago. No appreci- able decline has occurred, but the trade is very dull. Cheese—Cheese sales are improving. The opening of a cheese futures mar- ket by the Chicago Mercantile Ex- change is regarded as an advance step and will tend to stabilize the cheese business, according to a leading au- thority. Nuts—The nut market continues to move along without anything partic- ular developing. There has been some seasonal expansion in demand for shell- ed nuts affected this way by the coming of warmer weather. Foreign almonds are said to be moving somewhat better, with domestic goods about cleaned up. There is a fairly good business being done in cashews from day to day, and Brizils are moving in a steady if not large volume. Olive Oil—The olive oil market re- mained generally steady last week. There was a little fluctuation, but not enough to make any particular differ- ence, as far as buying for shipment to this country is concerned. First hands continue to buy for nearby needs and business here is reported as fairly ac- tive. Rice—The rice market has been gen- erally active in a routine way here, with stiffening prices on spot giving buyers some incentive to cover their require- ments a little further ahead, before higher replacement costs become gen- eral. Stocks in the hands of the trade, however, continue light and the gen- eral feeling seems to be that when bet- ter prices are made, buyers will pay them, but they will only buy as fast as they can sell. The situation in the South is very strong, and while there has ben some letup in export business Porto Rico continues active. Salt Fish—Mackerel and other salt fish are very quiet and if stocks were better there would undoubtedly be de- clines, As it is, prices continue firm in spite of the poor demand. Syrup and Molasses — Demand for sugar syrup continues unchanged and regular. Prices are firm on account of limited production. Compound syrup is in fair demand without change since the advance due to advancing freight rates. The better grades of molasses are unchanged and selling normally. ——_+->____ Review of the Produce Market Apples—No, 1 Spys, $1.50 and $1.75, Artichokes—80c per dozen. Asparagus—2 doz. section from IIli- nois, $1.20; Fancy Alton from Illinois, $1.20 per doz. Bananas—4%4c per Ib, Butter—Cartons, 28c; tubs, 27%c. Cabbage—80 Ib. crate from Tenn., $2.25, Calavos—$2.25 per case from Calif. Carrots—Calif., 50c per doz. bunches or $2.60 per crate of 6 doz. Cauliflower — $2 per crate for Cali- fornia. Celery — Florida, $3.75 per crate; 12 stalks to bunch, 50c. Cucumbers—Home grown hot house, 50c per doz. Dried Beans—Michigan jobbers pay as follows for hand picked at shipping stations: C. Hi. BP: trom farmer_---..--._- = $2.70 Light Red Kidney from farmer_- 4.75 Dark Red Kidney from farmer-_- 5.75 Light Cranberry ~...------------ 5.10 Dark Cranberry 22... 02 4.10 Eggs —Jobbers pay 23c per dozen for all clean receipts. ‘They sell as follows: Large white, extra fancy--------- 27c Standard fancy select, cartons----26c Current receipts: 2.-9 2 25 Median: {oes 24c @xacks) | 2 pune oe 23c Egg Plant—$1.50 per doz. from Fla. Garlic—15c per Ib. Grape Fruit — Florida, $3.50 for all sizes, Green Beans — $1.50 per hamper for Florida. Green Onions—Home grown, silver skin, 20c per dozen. Green Peas—$1.85 per hamper for Miss. Green Peppers — 50c per dozen for Florida. Honey Dew Melons—$2.50 per case. Limes—2lc per dozen. Lemons—The price is as follows: 360, Sunksis@ 25) 02 $4.00 300 ‘Sunkist= 222525050020. 4.00 560 Red Ballin 22 oo 3.50 300 Red Ballo 3.50 Lettuce — In good demand on the following basis: California’s, 4s and 5s, crate----$3.85 Teat hot house{- 222.0. 9c Mushrooms—33c per box, Onions — Texas Bemuda in 50 Ib. sacks, $2.50 for white or yellow. Oranges — Fancy Sunkist California Navels are now sold as follows: 6 $4.00 190 ee 4.50 7 4.50 200 4.50 216) ee 4.50 252) ee eee 4.50 258) see ee 4.00 (7. 3.50 Red Ball, 50c per box less. Florida oranges in boxes are sold as follows: 200 $4.00 5 216 oe ee ee ee 4.00 ZOO 4.00 286) ee ee 4.00 Parsley—30c per doz. for hot house. Pineapples—24s and 30s Cuban, $4.25 per box. Potatoes—Home grown, 35c per bu. Idaho, $2.50 per 100 Ib. sack. Poultry—Local jobbers pay as fol- lows: Eleavy: Howls: 2302s 20c Eight Powls 22.042 17c Warkeys 22250) ee 20c Geese: 20 oi Ducks, 2222) ee 15c Radishes—Hot house 30c per dozen bunches. Rhubarb—Home grown, 50c per bu. of about 30 pounds, Spinach—Home grown, 60c per bu. Strawberries—24 qt. case from Tenn., $3.25, Sweet Potatoes—$1.75 per bushel for Jerseys. Tomatoes — Florida repacked, $1.15 per 10 Ib. box, Veal Calves—Local jobbers pay as follows ; Bancy oso ee 11y% Good 2225500 a8 ee S ¢ Wax Beans—La., $1.40 per hamper. —_+-+.—____ Sixteen New Readers of the Trades- man The following new subscribers have been received during the past week: W. D. Guidotti, Grand Rapids Ellery Rutherford, Grand Rapids Ray Powers, Grand Rapids C. De Young, Grand Rapids Leon C. Borchi, Grand Rapids Louis De Witt, Grand Rapids Franks Market, Grand Rapids T. C. Lappinga, Grand Rapids The Hobart Co., Inc., Grand Rapids Rason & Dows, Grand Rapids Robert Ellis, Grand Rapids Bonnema & Vredevoogd, Kalamazoo Henry Alkema, Grandville Oscar Poel, Coopersville Square Deal Hardware, Coopersville C. F, Bettendge, Grand Rapids Detroit—The F. L. Jacobs Co., 6901 East Lafayette avenue, plating and manufacturer of automotive parts, has decreased its capital stock from $50,000 to $30,300. ——_>+ + —___ White Pigeon—The Gugley Incu- bator Co., organized to manufacture and sell incubators, has a capital stock of 300 shares at $100 a share, $15,000 being paid in. Detroit—The Simplex Cabinet Cor- poration, 804 Hammond Bldg., has been organized to manufacture and sell toweling cabinets, with a capital stock of $1,000, all paid in. Detroit—The Great Lakes Bottle Cap Co., 14471 Livernois avenue, man- ufacturer of paper products, bottle caps, etc., has a capital stock of $50,000, $28,000 being paid in. Errors due to friction are said to be eliminated, pulsating flows more ac- curately measured by a new type of flow meter which utilizes a variable orifice principle of operation. — ~+>___ All happy families resemble one an- other; every unhappy family is un- happy in its own way.—Tolstoi. MUTUAL INSURANCE (Fire and Life) Life Insurance Week Monday morning life underwriters throughout the -United States opened the observance of “Life Insurance Week.” In many cities the start will be made at a breakfast at an early hour. This week the people will not be permitted to forget the importance of life insurance. It will be impressed upon them over the radio, in the news- papers, by posters and window dis- plays and by the thousands of life in- surance salesmen who will visit great numbers of them. Undoubtedly an unusually large weekly production of new life insur- ance will result from this extraordinary effort and the public will be benefited accordingly. However, the benefits will not cease there. Thousands who have life insurance and have found it diffi- cult to keep the premiums paid will become the more determined not to let it lapse and not to “cash in” on it. This is of the utmost importance, not alone to those for whose protection it was purchased originally but for the life insurance companies. One of the heavi- est drains upon them arises from the loss of business for which they have paid and which must be replaced at high cost in order to maintain the broad average on which the security of life insurance largely rests. Frank Carroll, Famous Commuter and Adjuster Frank C. Carroll of Clevéland, highly regarded independent adjuster of fire losses, has become illustrious—not to say “illustrated’”—as a commuter, The Painesville (Ohio) Telegraph last week published his picture in connection with a statement that in half a century of commuting Mr. Carroll has traveled by train nearly 500,000 miles, the equiv- alent of twenty trips around the world at the equator. Frank Carroll, though seventy-nine years old, is still active in business. Born in Munson, Geauga County, Ohio, December 14, 1855, he studied law in the office of Judge Delos Can- field at Chardon (a town which prob- ably turned out:more special agents of fire -comapnies than any other of its size in the country) and was admitted to the bar in 1878, After practicing law at Willoughby till 1883, he entered the service of fire insurance com- panies and in 1885, opened his own office as an independent adjuster at Cleveland. He commuted from Wil- loughby to Cleveland fifteen years, then from his farm for twenty-one years and since 1921 from Painesville. In spite of changes in transportation he has “stuck to the railroad” and still takes the 7:03 A.M. train from Painesville. Union Mutual Life of Iowa Takes Over Competition The Union Mutual Life Co. of Des Moines, Iowa, last week reinsured the outstanding business of the Mutual Old Line Life Insurance Co., also of Des Moines, amounting to $938,500, as- MICHIGAN. TRADESMAN sumed all its liabilities and took over its assets. The Iowa Insurance De- partment has approved the transaction. C. G. Schulz, secretary of the Union Mutual Life, stated that every Mutual Old Line policy will be continued in force on the same basis, as issued orig- inally, at the same premium and with- out lien or charge of any kind against policybenefits or reserves. All field representatives of the Mutual Old Line who desire to continue with the Union Mutual Life will be permitted to do so. The Mutual Old Line Life started business in the summer of 1929 as a mutual company with $22,245 surplus paid in by the directors. It had not made much headway until the depres- sion came. By the end of 1933 its sur- plus was almost exhausted. Oppose Carrying Its Own Insurance Opposition to the City of Richmond, Va., carrying its own fire insurance on city buildings was registered beiore the city council finance committee when the question of self-insurance Was revived in a new ordinance given a_ public hearing. The ordinance pro- vides a $300,000 insurance fund, of which $175,000 is now in the treasury and the balance would be provided by bond issue. Insurance men declared the proposed sum to be inadequate and declared the city now pays annual insurance pre- miums of between $6,000 and $7,000 and the city school board pays between 37,000 and $8,000 in premiums on schoolhouse insurance. It was pointed out that city buildings are not insured to 30 per cent. of their insurable value, and the City Hall, valued at $1,000,000, is not covered by any fire insurance. Donald C. Hancock of Elam & Dun- sten led those who opposed the meas- ure, ——_+- Origin and Development of the Gideon Movement In the autumn of 1898 John H. Nich- olson, of Janesville, Wis., came to the Central Hotel at Boscobe!, Wis., for the night. The hotel being crowded, he was requested to take a bed in a double room: with S. E. Hill, of Beloit, Wis., where each discovered the other to be a Christian. They had their evening devotions together and on their knees before God were given the thoughts afterwards worked out. On May 31, they met at Beaver Dam, Wis., con- cluded to band the Christian commer- cial travelers together for mutual rec- ognition and united service for the Master and decided to call a meeting at Janesville, Wis., July 1 1899 in the Y.M.C.A. building. Only three men were present, John H. Nicholson, W. J. Knights and S. E. Hill. They or- ganized with S. E. Hill, Pres.; W. J. Knights, Vice-Pres, John H. Nichol- son, Sec’y-Treas. Much thought was given as to what the name of the Asso- ciation should be, and after special prayer that God might lead them to se- lect the proper one, Mir. Knights arose from his knees and said, “We will be called Gideons.” Membership of the Gideons was orig- inally limited to traveling men. Other business men, attracted by the results soon asked for the opportunity of shar- ing in the work, Now the Gideon Association is open to any Christian business man. The members help to support the work with their dues. They promote it on spare time, without re- muneration. The work, international in its scope, is handled through local camps. All Christian business men are cordially invited to join the association and share the joy of personal effort in winning men to Christ. It is the purpose to bring Christian business men and traveling men to- gether in an effort to present the Gos- pel of our Lord Jesus Christ to the public by placing the Bible in hotels, hospitals and other public places. Rec- ords-indicate that the great majority so reached do not hear the Gospel in any other way. Hotels everywhere want Gideon bibles. The Association is financed by reg- ular and associate membership dues and by donations from those who take an interest in our work. One Bibie class in the South alone supplied funds for 6,000 bibles and is continuing its financial assistance. One and a quarter million copies placed, 22,000 in twenty foreign coun- tries. Thousands of men and women reached and influenced. Broken homes re-established. Saddened hearts made glad. Christ's promise of “more abun- dant life” fulfilled in unexpected and miraculous ways. Certainly the Gideon ministry is Scriptural, resultful and marvelously led of the Holy Spirit. We invite you to join with us in this May 15, 1935 work. All contributions are used in the spread of the Gospel. A Gideon bible in English can be delivered any- where in the world at a cost not to exceed one dollar. Substantial contribu- tions are needed to meet the requests coming from all parts of the world. Make an investment in things eternal, The first Bibles placed were twenty- five in the Superior Hotel, Iron Moun- tain, Montana, Nov., 1908. The largest shipment of Bibles was made to Cal- ifornia, 1911, of 25,250. Samuel Fulton is our present Inter- national President with headquarters at 202 South State street, Chicago, Ill. The present local Camp President is Harry C. J. Roeper, 500 Worden street, city, and E. A. Larson, Sec’y-Treas., 862 5th. street, city. received by any member and receipt is mailed by the Treasurer. The 1935 state convention will be held here in Grand Rapids May 18 and 19 with convention headquarters at the Mertens Hotel. Sunday, May 19th, representatives of the Gideons will attend the services in about twenty-five local churches to Contributions are give their testimonial about the Gideon work, C. Oscar Strand. —_—_.2. Extreme clearness is claimed for a new sausage casing. 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Senf, Sec’y SERVICE aAwNnpD EFFICIENCY Michigan May 15, 1935 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN IN THE REALM OF RASCALITY Questionable Schemes Which Are Under Suspicion Unfair competition in the sale of re- conditioned or used spark plugs is pro- hibited by the Federal Trade Commis- sion in an order to cease and desist is- sued against Federal Auto Products Co., of Chicago. The order directs the respondent to cease “neglecting, re- fusing or failing on the wrappers, boxes and cartons containing such spark plugs or in any other way to indicate or make it known that such spark plugs are reconditioned or used.’ The respondent company consented to issu- ance of the cease and desist order. Unfair advertising of medicines caled “Pap-O-Dine” and “Kurto” will be stopped ‘by M. L. Clein & Co., of At- lanta, under a stipulation entered into with the Federal Trade Commission. The company agres to cease alleging that substantial benefit will be derived from one dose of Pap-O-Dine, except in cases of simple gastric hyperacidity, or that this preparation is a competent treatment for indigestion, stomach ul- nausea, heartburn, gas pains, bloating and other ailments. Kurto will no longer be advertised as a com- petent treatment for impetigo, cracked toes, athlete’s foot and eczema, unless, in the last two instances, the represen- tations are limited to the relief of itch- ing caused by these ailments, cers, Advertising of plated hollow-ware as “Sheffield Reproduction” will be dis- continued by Lehman Brothers Silver- ware Corporation, 197 Grand street, New York City, under a stipulation en- tered into with the Federal Trade Com- mission, in which the corporation agrees to cease using the word “Sheffield” alone or in connection with other words so as to imply that its products are manfuactured at Sheffield, Eng- land, in accordance with the process used in the manufacture of Sheffield silverware or plate. The stipulation points out that this company’s prod- ucts were not made in accordance with this process or in Sheffield, England. Engaged in packing food products, including strained honey, W. F. Straub & Co., Inc., of 5520 Northwest High- way, Chicago, has entered into a stip- ulation with the Federal Trade Com- mission to cease using in advertising the word “non-fattening” or other words which may tend to confuse pur- chasers into believing the product not to be a fattening food. The stipulation points out that it is the consensus of opinion among scientists that honey is a fattening food and in fact produces added weight. Engaged in the sale of a dentifrice called “Hyral” which it advertised as a treatment for bleeding gums, pyorrhea and trench mouth, the Hyral Distrib- uting Company, of Fort Worth, Tex., has entered into a stipulation with the Federal Trade Commission to discon- tinue unfair advertising representations. Among the assertions to be discontin- * ued are the following: That the use of Hyral will prevent pyorrhea, trench mouth or other mouth disorders; that it is 100 per cent. efficient as a denti- frice and that most mouth disorders would practically disappear if Hyral were universally used. Selling women’s hosiery on orders taken by salesmen through house-to- house canvass, Louis H. Tabach, of 1060 Broad street Newark, N. J., trad- ing as Longwear Hosiery Co. and Cer- tified Hosiery Co., nas entered into a stipulation with the Federal Trade Commission to cease and desist from eleven alleged unfair practices. Among thes eare the filling of orders for hosiery with articles of different sizes, colors or quality than ordered; demanding or collecting additional payment of 10 per cent. as the alleged cost of postage and insurance fees on shipments of hosiery made to correct mistakes in size or color, and unduly or unreasonably delaying the correction of mistakes in filling orders or failing to make such adjustments. Other unfair practices to be aban- doned include the representation that hosiery is woven with a special lock- stitch which prevents snagging or run- ning, and that it is guaranteed to be hole-proof or run-proof for three to six months, when this is not true. Tate Furniture Co., of High Point, N. C., manufacturing cedar lined fur- niture, has entered into a stipulation with the Federal Trade Commission to abandon use in its circular and other advertising of the words “Cedar Lined,” so as not to imply to pur- chasers that its products are lined with or composed of cedar wood of such thickness as to afford the protection against moths generally understood and recognized to be characteristic of “cedar’ or “cedar lined” products. The company agrees not to use the words “Cedar Lined” to describe its articles unless, when they are lined with a veneer of cedar of a thickness or quan- tity which does not afford protection from moths, the words “Cedar Lined” shall be immediately accompanied by other words in conspicuous type to clearly indicate that the products are not moth-proof or do not afford pro- tection from moths due to the cedar veneer, Alleging unfair competition in the sale of paper products, the Federal Trade Commission has issued a com- plaint against Samson Paper Products Corporation and Louis, Harry and Moe Hyman, 118 Greene street, New York City, dealers in roll paper. Adding machine paper was adver- tised as “Number I Sulphite Bond,” indicating a high grade when in fact it was inferior to that known as Number I Sulphite Bond. This practice was alleged to be unfair competition with * other dealers. The Commission has given the re- spondent until Friday, June 7, to show cause why an order to cease and de- sist from the practices alleged should not be issued. ‘Unfair representation of shoes by advertising them as “Dr. Posner’s Sci- entific Shoes” when they are not made under supervision of a doctor and con- tain no orthopedic features, is alleged by the Federal Trade Commission in a complaint issued against Dr. A. Pos- ner Shoes, Inc., 140 West Broadway, New York City. This practice is un- fair competition, according to the com- plaint. The respondent is given until Friday, June 7, to show cause why an order should not be issued requiring it to cease and desist from the practice alleged. ++ _____ Campaign of National Organization of Sausage Manufacturers The merits of sausage and ready- to-serve meats, the scores of uses of the products, and the delicious taste and flavor of the goods are being an- nounced to the people of the United States this month as never before. In Boston, arrangements have been made for a “Sausage Parade” through the main part of the city and the sub- urbs, telling people about the merits of sausage and ready-to-serve meats. The route of the parade is by the home of the Governor of Massachusetts. Plans include presentation of sausage and ready-to-serve meats to the gov- ernor and to the mayors and selectmen of Boston and of the suburbs through which the parade passes. The Boston group also is sponsoring an advertising campaign, and each week a “stunt” similar to the sausage parade will be arranged and executed. A newspaper in a Southern state re- ports that a local advertising campaign of substantial size has been arranged, using the suggested advertisements of the National Organization of Sausage Manufacturers, a division of the Insti- tute of American Meat Packers which is sponsoring the “Get Acquainted with Sausage and Ready-to-Serve Meats Campaign” from May 6 to June 1. The Executive Secretary of the Na- tional Association of Retail Meat Deal- ers has sent to one thousand of the key men in the organization a memor- andum telling about the campaign and urging all members to participate. A radio talk on sausage and ready- to-serve meats is being made weekly by a home economist of the National Live Stock and Meat Board from one of the most powerful radio stations in the country. Proposed radio addresses On sausage and ready-to-serve meats have ‘been sent to companies which are participating in the campaign. Some of these undoubtedly will be made to large radio audiences. Uses of sausage and ready-to-serve meats are being shown to thousands of women attending National Live Stock and Meat Board cooking schools from now until the end of the month. Consumers are actually being shown how they can include sausage and ready-to-serve meats in their menus to advantage. Three hundred of the leading hotels in the country, as well as all the hotel and restaurant associations, have been asked to feature sausage and ready-to- serve meats on their menus during the period of the campaign. All of the big food stores in one of the largest cities in the country have been asked to display and feature sau- sage and ready-to-serve meats, The big sausage drive is under way— the first Nation-wide, concerted effort to point out the many merits of sau- sage and ready-to-serve meats, the scores of ways in which they can be used, and the delicious taste and flavor of these products. The first week was devoted to the merchandising of pork sausage, frank- furters and dry sausage. During the week beginning May 13, the products which will be featured are liver sau- sage and bologna—two of the most important products of the average sau- sage manufacturer or packer and cer- tainly two of the most appreciated of the many sausage and ready-to-serve meat products, The windows of retail meat stores will carry the large center panel of the National Organization of Sausage Manufacturers display, showing the open road scene. The side panels will show liver sausage and bologna used in sandwiches, and hors d’oeuvres and canapes, probably known to most of us aS appetizers, made with sausage and ready-to-serve meats, In the following week, cooked ham and the specialties will be featured, and in the final week, frankfurters and loai products will be emphasized. A thirty-two page recipe book, con- taining more than ninety newly-devel- oped recipes using more than thirty different kinds of sausages and ready- to-serve meats has been completed, and copies sent out by the National Organization of Sausage Manufac- turers and packers throughout the country. This booklet, which can be imprinted, has been designed so that it may be used as a part of the cam- paign or as a complete piece in itself for use by the sausage manufacturer or packer whose name appears on the back of the book. Interest in the campaign has been increasing as the campaign opens. A large number of orders for the recipe book is anticipated by the National Organization of Sausage Manufac- turers. Shipment of the books can be made very shortly after the order is received, and will be filled in the order in which they are received. The price at which the recipe book is being sold is $36.90 per thousand, f. o. b. Buffalo, plus the charge for imprinting, —_+<--___ Get all you can without hurting your soul, your body, or your neighbor. Save all you can, cutting off every needless expense, Give all you can. Be glad to give, and ready to distribute; laying up in store for yourselves a good foundation against the time to come, that you may attain eternal life—John Wesley. —_+++___ During a very busy life I have often been asked, “How did you manage to do it all?” The answer is very simple: it is because I did everything promptly. —Sir Richard Tangye. “EXTENSION OF THE CODE Despite the Clark resolution, which provides for a ten-month extension of the NRA and limits codes to those in- dustries engaged in interstate com- merce, predictions were made last week in leading retail quarters that the retail code will be continued and will apply to retailers regardless of :-whether they might be classed as doing an interstate business or not. Those holding this view were care- ful to point out that it represented their personal opinions only, based on the: belief that the retail code, compar- atively speaking, has been one of the “suecesscul ones” and that having a eode apply to some retailers and not to. the rank and file would create an almost impossible. situation. ““As one outcome of the situation, it was’suggested in one quarter that Pres- ident Roosevelt, by ‘executive order, would: act to place all retailers affected by’ the present code under the one to follow after the expiration of the pres- ent NIRA on June 16. Should this ac- tion or other steps having the same effect be taken, it was pointed out in manufacturing quarters that it would have a'‘decidedly strengthening influ- ence upon enforcement and financing of tlt’ producers’ codes, where the sale and use of the*NRA: label is a vital factor. dg2% Tyas “Election of a new chairman for the National Retail Code is expected to be taken at the meeting of the Authority tobe held in Washington, following the resignation of Rivers Peterson re- cently. Retailers here yesterday were unwilling to speculate upon his succes- sor. Those close to the Code Author- ity were also averse to discussing pos- sible action on the code situation by thé’ Authority. In these quarters it was stated quite definitely that no one in the National Retail Code Authority or in the NRA is going on the assumption that the act and the codes thereunder are to be discontinued. ~* Whether this will be done by the President under an execu- tive order or by atfiendment to the ex- isting act by Congress is an open ques- tion. ~ - It was added that the problem of whether retail trade is interstate or intrastate is so complex a one and is so governed by conflicting court deci- sions that it is hoped that the new law will clarify it once and forall and not leave it for further doubt and litigation. This view also emphasizes that the determination of what the merchants want in their code rests with them: De- spite some criticism, it was held that there is.a genuine desre for continu- arice of the code among merchants, with ‘certain changes that experience may have proved necessary. At this time retail executives are unwilling to speculate upon the form the ‘extended code should take gener- ally, pending the further clarification of the Congressional legislative situation with respect to the NRA. On the score of the fair trade practices, the National Retail Dry Goods Association has ; gone on record as favoring the continuance of the NRA with certain a a a MICHIGAN : changes in codes, but by implication has endorsed the fair trade rules. The major question in connection with the fair trade practices was the matter of enforcement, with many in the trade feeling that they could not be enforced and others asserting that despite lack of complete enforcement the injurious effects of misleading ad- vertising and price-cutting had been materially curbed. The major drift of retailer criticism of the present code and suggestions for the new one are illustrated in three recommendations by retailers cited by Kenneth Dameron, Professor of Mar- keting at Ohio State University, who wrote of a recent survey made by him in the Harvard Business Review under the title “The Retail Department Store and the NRA.” These suggestions Dr Dameron summarized as follows: Bring store hours and employe working hours closer together; eliminate trade prac- tice provisions and finally strengthen administrative provisions so as to en- force the code. MARKETS ARE AFFLICTED While it is plain that certain New Deal policies interfere with business recovery, questions can be raised con- cerning the importance of their influ- ence, The trouble seems more deep- seated and a hint of it is contained. in the study issued during the week upon Aspects of Manufacturing Operations During Recovery, made by Frederick C. Mills of the National Bureau of Economic Research. In the summary to this survey he points out the analogy between the period before 1929 and from 1933 to 1935. During the Twenties manufac- turing industries maintained profits and overhead charges at high levels and selling prices failed to decline to a de- gree warranted by increased production and the fall in labor costs. Reduced markets were the result. From 1933 to 1935 the failure of over- head and fabricating costs to reflect the great gain in productivity helped to perpetuate excessive prices and re- tarded a needed expansion in the vol- ume of sales. Mr. Mills believes the following conclusion is justified: “The immediate passing on to the consumers of a major part of the ben- efit of increasing industrial productiv- ity in the form of lower prices con- tributes directly to the maintenance of industrial operations on a high level and to the raising of the standard of living of the people at large.” He adds that action of special groups to procure the advantages of increased productivity for themselves or the effort to decrease productivity and advance costs runs the danger of defeating its own purpose through jeopardizing markets, TRADE REPORT SCORED Immediate objection was raised by foreign trade interests last week to the conclusions drawn by Gecge N. Peek, special advisor to the President on foreign trade, from his latest interpre- tation of our international capital and trade position. Studies of domestic and foreign investments that he sug- gested, along with a.review of policies TRADESMAN based upon our status as a creditor na- tion, were regarded as likely to be of value but his twisting of figures to show that we are not creditors and therefore have no need of excess im- ports was thoroughly criticized. It was pointed out that the United States last year made the largest gain in exports of any of the leading com- mercial nations. The increase amounted to 27 per cent. As an importer we ranged ahead of the United Kingdom and Germany. Upon the basis of this showing, it was argued that there can- not be anything seriously wrong with the present foreign trade policy. Much was made in Mr. Peek’s re- port of the large imports of gold, sil- ver and currency, which could be put down chiefly to a repatriation of capi- tal, and of the increase in foreign in- vestments here. In trade circles it was indicated that restrictions which have been set up here have tended strongly to turn foreign capital to investment rather than to trade. Removal of these restrictions, with cotton an outstand- ing example, and furtherance of recip- rocal trade agreements should mean continued gains in merchandise ex- change. DRY GOODS CONDITIONS Unfavorable weather conditions over a large part of the country continued to restrict retail trade in the week. Clearance sales failed to draw their usual response and the introduction of new summer lines was hampered. Ex- ceptional values at low prices appear to be the only drawing cards that offset the weather influence. Department store results for April, as reported upon by the Federal Re- serve Board, were quite in line with estimates. Sales for the country as a whole ran 12 per cent. above those in the same month last year. In the St. Louis Reserve District they were un- changed, but elsewhere the increases ran up to 22 per cent., which was the San Francisco showing. The New York area gain was 6 per cent. A compilation of chain-store sales last month made by Merrill, Lynch & Co., shows an increase of 13.29 per cent. Over a year ago for twenty-three sys- tems. The March-April totals com- bined disclose a rise of 4.96 per cent., which takes better account of the ef- fects of Easter business. Wholesale merchandise markets were somewhat more active in the week, but felt the effects of slow busi- ness at retail. Some tendency to wind up summer operations and start on the fall season earlier is observed. BUSINESS INDEX ADVANCES Bonus legislation and the railway pension decision of the United States Supreme Court were Washington de- velopments with a distinct bearing upon general business during the week. An agreement in the automobile strike at Toledo had scarcely less significance, for the immediate future at any rate. The Bonus bill strategy of the ad- ministration brought forth a measure that the President could veto with the most force and propriety and one that would stand the least chance of being passed over that veto. Inflation from May 15, 1935 this source was, therefore, not consid- ered likely. While successful in this instance, the Government seemed to be placed in jeopardy on its security program and even NRA wage and hour legislation through the Supreme Court ruling on the railroad pension act. The 5—4 de- cision apparently outlaws legislation of the sort and may forecast the Schech- ter case outcome. A sharp upturn in the business in- dex has been registered for the latest week, All the series except lumber production were higher. The advance in electirc power production was par- ticularly marked although it might be put down to increased home use due to weather conditions. Commodity price movements of the week were mixed, with a slight tend- ency upward. Sales managers of man- ufacturing companies are using the in- flation argument to push orders, but it is worth noting that purchasing agents are not impressed by this prospect in their own operations. Nowadays when business is not all that it should be there is a temptation to sit back and say, “Well, what’s the use! We've done everything possible to stir up a little business and there is nothing doing so what’s the use of trying!” There is always a way. There Was a way in and there is a way out. And success to-day comes to the man who grits his teeth, squares his jaw, and says, “There is a way for me and, by jingo, I’ll find it.’ The stagnator gathers green scum, finally dries up and leaves an unsightly hollow. eee eee Surely there must be some place where the great minds of Shelley, Homer and Spinoza go after death. The denial of immortality does not square with intelligence. Adolph. S. Ochs, shortly before his death, said that he believed that he was more than an animal and that he did not believe that this life is the end. Our bodies change and in the end crumble. It is a house of clay. But inside there is a spiritual duplicate, As we have borne the image of the earthly, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly. In this and like communities public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed; consequently he who moulds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes and decisions. He makes statutes and deci- sions possible or impossible to. be exe- cuted—Abraham Lincoln. A man may fight fiercely to hold his Own in business; but he does not need to fight to get ahead of someone in the elevator, or up the car steps, or at the postoffice window, And no matter how strong competition is, business and per- sonal courtesy make it easier and pleasanter for everybody, The power of God is the only thing that can make us civil. Good manners ‘is merely the result of the reverence that one holds for another person. That poor thing which we call man has an opportunity to share with God. He be- lieves that man is competent to come up to His level. <(<- <(<- May 15, 1935 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 9 OUT AROUND Things Seen and Heard on a Week End Trip When I think of the millions of dollars which are wasted every month at Washington through the employment of cheap and brain- less individuals supposed to be connected with the New Deal, who are holding appointive offices solely because of their political afhliation, and compare that con- dition with the remarkable meet- ing of a few scientists which met at Dearborn last week as the guests of Henry ford and who handed out information which will be of priceless benefit to the American people,I wonder why we do. not have more meetings of the Dear- born sort and send 100,000 in- competents and_ crack-brained fools out of Washington by the first train. Instead of forcing farmers to grow less food and other farm products, we should encourage them to grow more and help them find a market for all they can pro- duce. In undertaking to deprive in- dustrial workers of the so-called evils of capitalism, we have forced them over to trade union- ism, thus placing them under a tyranny a hundred times worse than any evil ever experienced under so-called capitalism. In forcing bankers and other business men onto codes we have made them puppets of cheap men in Washington who have no ade- quate knowledge of the business they undertake to dictate. The New Deal is the worst con- coction of evil and imbecility ever conceived by the mind of man. I am told by a man who is very close to the situation at the Dow Chemical Co., at Midland, that 270 dif- ferent products are now being pro- duced from the brine which is pumped up by that industry. Included in these products is a metal which is so light in weight that it will float on the water. There will be a large increase in soy bean crops in Iowa this year, which Fred Sargent, of the Northwestern Railway, has been campaigning for these many months. It is said that the acreage in soy beans wlil be nearly four times as large this year as three years ago. The crop is being encour- aged by the presence of a large oil and cake mill in Des Moines. The oil pro- duced by soy beans is claimed to be equal in every respect to linseed oil. Honorable Chase S, Osborn, Gover- nor of Michigan 1911 and 1912, who lives in Michigan during the summer season and in ’Possum Poke in ’Pos- sum Lane, Poulan, Worth county, Georgia, during the fall and winter months, has very graciously consented to appear in Grand Rapids October 21, under the auspices of York Lodge, and deliver a lecture on the subject “King Solomon’s Gold Mines. Governor Os- born made a trip to these abandoned gold mines in Southern Africa some years ago and wrote a very entertain- ing story about it in the American Tyler-Keystone, The lecture will be given in the amphitheater on the third floor. Those who are familiar with Governor Osborne’s dynamic person- ality and something of his wonderful capacity to describe things as they are in the most graphic manner possessed by any man in America, of his rough- ing it, not only in Africa, but in the wilds of Michigan and Canada, can look forward to a splendid evening of entertainment and information. When Governor Osborn is called to his re- ward, Michigan will lose the greatest descriptive talker she ever possessed. When Johnson & Hubbard engaged in the grocery business on Portage street, Kalamazoo, twenty-three years ago, they cheerfully permitted me to place their names on the subscription list of the Michigan Tradesman and every year since I have renewed my acquaintance with them. Mr. Johnson died not long ago. His interest was purchased by H. L. Hubbard, son of the surviving partner, but no change was made in the firm name, which has always been the best in merchandis- ing and merchandising practice. I never saw Portage street so con- gested with traffic as it was last Sat- urday, I was told that the proposition to widen the street was gaining im- petus in the district it traverses and that steps to accomplish that result will shortly be taken. I found Ernest Wise, the hardware dealer, had located on the opposite side of the street since I called on him last. In our issue of May 1 Paul Findlay gave the Tradesman a pen picture of John A. Feeney, who has been en- gaged in the grocery business at Dav- enport, Iowa, since 1899 and now has one of the finest food stores in Amer- ica. I sent Mr. Feeney a copy of the Tradesman with a commendatory letter on his great success along several lines. His reply was as follows: Des Moines, Iowa, May 9—In reply to your letter of May 1, which was ad- dressed to me in Davenport, Iowa, and then forwarded to me in my office at Des Moines, Iowa, I wish to take this opportunity of thanking you for your consideration. I have known Mr. Find- lay since 1904 and I, too, have always found him to be a very fine gentleman. I have been Chief of the Dairy and Food Division of the Department of Agriculture since January, 1933, I find the work most interesting, instructive and enjoyable. But what I want to convey to you is that—once a grocer, always a grocer. I went to work for William M. Lillis in May, 1890, and was there with him for nine years. Then I went into business for my- self in 1899 and bought my first mer- chandise from a court sale. There have been a good many changes in the busi- ness since that time. But if one at- tends to business in the grocery line, there are always possibilities of going places. Early in 1930 I bought the property from the man that I started to work for in 1890 and remodeled it and I have what my competitors say: one of the finest stores in the state of Iowa. It is not the largest room in the state, but we cater to the finest trade in the three cities and we have it and hold it. John A. Feeney. I recently received a letter from Hon, Fred L. Crawford, Representative in Congress from the Eighth district of Michigan, soliciting my support of his so-called “open price fair trade bill.” He sent me a copy of his proposed measure and I gave it careful study. The more I studied it the more con- vinced I became that the measure was not what the retail merchants needed to create more favorable trade con- ditions. I wrote him to that effect and received the following letter in reply: Washington, D. C., April 22—I am glad to have your letter of April 16, and I am forced to the conclusion that you do not understand what I mean by an “open price.” It is my opinion you have this confused with the “open price” as defined by a great amount of publicity which has been in the trade papers and the public press for the past several years with reference to open prices maintained by associations of processors or sellers, That is not what I mean by an “open price.” If that is what you mean by an “open price,” I agree with you that we need less of that at the present time. However, when you disagree with selling goods as set forth in the bill which I have introduced, you then place yourself in agreement with the giving of secret rebates, the crushing of the independent home owned retail store, the absolute destruction of old line wholesale food jobbers such as you have scattered throughout the State of Michigan, and you align yourself com- pletely with chain stores, their method of doing business, and the destruction of all legitimate merchandising of food commodities, I suggest that you read my bill care- fully before you state that you are op- posed to business being conducted along the line which that bill suggests. You should see the letters I have re- ceived from wholesale food jobbers and their associations in the central west- ern states, who thoroughly understand what this bill would do if it was enacted into law. You should also see the let- ters I have received from retail associa- tions. This bill of mine is not based on theory. It is based on practice, as I experienced the selling of goods with- in the state of Michigan. In closing, let me ask you if you are in favor of, we will say, the Michigan Sugar Company (any other company’s name might be _ used) publishing through its brokers that its price for 400 bags of sugar in carload lots is so and so per bag, and then through play- ing its cards under the table, gives se- cret rebates to one wholesale firm in Michigan whose branches are scattered throughout the state, and then force the other wholesale jobbers wherever they may be located, to pay the price as announced to the trade through the brokers of the Michigan Sugar Com- pany? If you are opposed to this kind of sce then you are in favor of my bill. If you are in favor of that kind of selling, you are opposed to my bill, andi furthermore, if you are in favor of that kind of selling, you are opposed to every home owned retail grocery store in the state of Michigan and most all of the wholesale food jobbers in that state, Probably with these explanations, and with a more careful reading of the bill, you will better understand my po- sition. Fred L. Crawford. Realizing ‘hat Rot Robert W. Irwin, President of the Robert W. Irwin Co., dominant owner of four large furni- ture factories, had given this subject painstaking study, I sent the above letter to him, with the request that he give me his ideas on the matter. His reply was as follows: Grand Rapids, May 9—Please par- don delay in repyling to your letter of April 26, enclosing a letter from Con- gressman Crawford. The Congressman overlooks entirely the sound economics of trade and that which is in the public interest. He is only thinking of the interest of a few dealers, and from their standpoint any kind of monopoly or stabilizing power, of course, is a good thing for them, but every dollar that they take to them- esives under such a plan comes out of the consumer, Under the capitalistic system the ideal condition is the smallest possible return to capital, providing it is suf- ficient to keep capital engaged in busi- ness. Free competition is the auto- matic governor which controls this re- turn, and history shows that there is no lack of capital for enterprise under this system. Anything that creates an arti- ficial stabilization of prices or price fixing is not in the common interest. The Congressman seems to overlook entirely that to every grocery store there are hundreds of customers who have to pay in added profits which would result from the enactment of his plan. I am returning the Congressman’s letter herewith, Robert Irwin. Lansing, May 2—This is another re- minder that the plans for the Michigan session of the Central States Forestry Congress, June 19, 20 and 21, are near- ing completion. Following are a few of the features of the field trips planned for Thursday and Friday: Abandoned logging town; marsh res- toration project for water fowl; mod- ern fire tower; experimental release of planted white pine in oak-popple sec- ond growth; more extensive cultural operations of various kinds in both plantations and volunteer second growth; forest plantations of both na- tive and exotic species from twenty- five to thirty years old; state forest camp and picnic ground; state forest canoe camp; one of the largest and oldest forest nurseries in America; demonstration of environmental im- provement for fish life in lakes and streams; entomological study plots; state military reservation; over-browsed deer yard; recently developed modern fish tank truck; fish hatchery; one of the few remaining virgin pine stands in Michigan; game planting demonstra- tion area; typical state park; typical conservation district headquarters; plots showing the effects of various methods of jack pine slash disposal on natural regeneration; demonstration of the use of short wave radio in forest fire control; demonstration of new fire suppression equipment including the sinking of a well by the jet meine whereby a flow of fifty gallons of water per minute is obtained in less than a quarter of an hour. The total distance traveled during the two days will be little more than a hundred miles. The average interval between stops will be fifteen minutes and the maximum will not exceed half an hour; Negotiations are under way for a National hook-up broadcast as a part of the Farm and Home Hour program directly following he noon meal Fri- day. S. McIntire, oa Treasurer. In addition to the tulip show, Hol- land offers two additional attractions this week in the shape of a free exhibit of the products of iocal factories and a miniature representation of a street in the Nethérlands in the armory, with an admission fee of 25 cents. Both affairs are well worth inspecting. The (Cont:nued on page 23) eg epeubthineenitessars MICHIGAN TRADESMAN May 15, 1935 FINANCIAL Proceedings of the Grand Rapids Bankruptcy Court In the matter of Frank E. Hardy, bank- rupt No. 6218. The first meeting of cred- itors has been called for May 24. in the matter of Hardy Brothers Pro- duce Co., bankrupt No. 6221. The first meeting of creditors has been called for May 24. In the matter of Furniture City Em- ployment Service, Inc., bankrupt No. 6216. The first meeting ‘of creditors has been called for May 24. In the matter of Joseph Colletti, bank- rupt No. 6108. The first meeting of cred- itors has been called for May 23. May 6. On this day the reference, and adjudicaton, in the matter of George W. Krouse, bankrupt No. 6021, were received. The schedules have been ordered filed. Upon receipt of same the assets and liabilities will be made known. May 6. On this day the schedules, ref- erence, and adjudication in the matter of Archie E, Blakeslee and Charles H. Blakeslee, individually and as co-part- ners, doing business as Blakeslee Broth- ers, bankrupt No. 6230, were received. The bankrupts are located in Grand Rapids. The schedules of Blakeslee Brothers, show total assets of $126,163.31, listing fae total liablities of — 818.06, pane Chas. N, Remington, Michigan Trust Co., Curtis M. Wiley, G. me Home Bldg. fa Loan, Re ee 5,594.12 G. Ce. Mutual Bldg. and Loan___- 5,381.02 Helen P. Stiles, G. unknown American Home Security Bank, G. R 500.00 Mrs. A. M. Blakeslee, G. R.- 7,356.02 G. - Bcneen (60. 611.45 S. A. Morman & Co., G. R _. 2,912.89 “aa M Young, G. Bo 2, 1325.28 Bixby Offce Supply Co., G. R.---- 2.71 Cities Service Oil Co., G. R.---- 30.00 Consolidated Tile & Fireplace Co., eR a pS aS SL 303.85 J. Ss. Crosby & Co., 128.66 Henry Delnay, G. ae 275.65 Furn. City Glass Co., 83.35 G. R. Directory Co._ 10.00 G. R. Gas Light Co._ es 3.00 G & Gravel Co... Bs 2.80 G. R. Marble & Fireplace Co.__-- 55.00 G. R. Merchants Serv. Bureau_- 18.75 Cl oe 40.00 G. R. Real Estate Board___--_-- 62.56 Great A. & P. Tea Co., G. R.__-- 10.00 Hammer & Cortenhof Co., G. R._- 16.77 Hunter Machinery Co., Milwaukee 2.00 Henry Laman, G. Ff Manhattan Fire & Marine Ins. Co., otro 20.3 5 James Newhouse, G. R._--------- 288.18 Cc. F. Peterson Coal Co., G. R.-- 65.00 Prince & Prevost, G. R.__------ 17.82 Warrent L. Rindge, G. R 418.30 Paul Steketee & Sons, G. R._--- 60.00 Verhay Lumber Co., G. R._------ 7,933.35 Wicks, Fuller & Starr, G. R.---- 25.00 Zuidema Plectrie Co., G, R.------ 730.17 Gerrit Becker, G. R._------ = 29.84 G oR “steraid 3: a 80.00 em 8 Sereen (Co. 1.75 Guarantee Bond Mtge. Co., G. R. 22.20 3. 3. NanderMecr 5.90 Young & Brockmeier_ 20.00 G RR. Savings Bank _.__ 40,571.56 Mutual Home & Savings Ass’n_- 4000. 00 —Schedules of Archie E, Blakeslee, (in- dividually) show total assets of $5,982.00, and total liabilities of $13,781.85, listing the following creditors: CC <- Mooberry. G, BR. 125.00 John Cunningham, C ate 300.00 Peter Nielsen, G. 150.00 John Van Noord, G. R._--------- 150.00 100.00 Cornelius Vander Weide, G. R.__- S. A. Morman & Co., G. R Garret Becker, G. Consolidated Tire, Henry Delany, G. R Owen Ames Kimball Co., G, R.__ Philbrick Hardware, 70.00 Prince and Prevoost, 150.00 Verhey Lumber Co., 100.00 Mocer Marm, (Ro 60.00 Cascade Golf Club, 434.61 G. R,. Chamber of Commerce____ 5.00 Travelers Insurance Co., G. R.-- 161.00 James Newhouse, G. R.__-------- 141.25 Ray Harrison, G. = 20.00 Joseph Hummel, G. 23.85 Tisch Hine Co., 7.00 Peterson Coal Co., ‘G. _ 30.00 Cornelius Tanis, G. Re 30.00 Blodgett Memorial Hospital, G. R. 144.00 Dr. R. J. Hutchinson, G. R 136.00 Herpolsheimer Co., G. a 75.00 Wonk Dairy. G Roos 75.00 40.00 Hammer & Cortenhof, G, R._----- G. R. Gas Light Co., G. R is Heat Equipment Corp., G. R._ G. R. Savings Bank ___-____- Alexander McColl, G. R._------ 30.00 Dr. E. W. Schnoor, Gos ~ 4,623.7 75 Merchant’s Service Bureau, G. R. 6.25 Starr & Starr, G. 20.00 —Schedules of Charles H. Blakeslee, in- dvidually, show total assets of $7.00, and total liabilities of $485.18, listing the fol- lowing creditors: Cascade Country Club, G. R.____ $410.92 Consumers Power Co., G. R._--- 24.26 May 2. On ths day the schedules, in the matter of the Feld@pausch Brothers, a Michigan corporation, bankrupt No. 6205, were received, The schedules show total assets of $600, and total liabilities of $9,345.63,, listing the following creditors: Urban Feldpausch, G. R $ 516.79 Theodore Feldpausch, G. R._--- 2,670.00 Leo Feldpausch, Jr, G. R. — 1,680.00 x R. Savings Bank_____ 2 285.08 Mr. D. Rachon, Fowler__-------- 600.00 C. Morris, Raa ee 500.00 E. L. Eardley, G. R. -~ 400.00 Irving H. Smith, G. R.__ . 400.00 Armus Bros., Detroit__ a 16.86 . Afman, Wayland___- 19.27 A. Genkes, Middleville_____----- 113.68 Afman & De Vries, Wayland__-_ 169.11 Sinclair Lumber & Fuel Co., G. R. 52.00 De Young Bros. Fuel Co., G. R.-- 100.00 Bobsin Ane Co., sia SS 100.68 Swift & Company, 100.72 Weils Casing Co., 596.25 G .R. Butchers Supply i SS De 6.80 Chilli Products Corp., Chicago__ 12.48 W. Wierenga, G. Ro 144, Jacobson Commission Co., G. R.-- G 8 Packine Co. Lockwood Oyster Co., G. R. Guggenheim Bros., Chicago_._- 50. J. K. Laudenslager Inc., Philadelphia 15.84 Whittaker Bros., Fowler,, Michigan 50.00 Charles W. Henning, Saginaw____ 20.52 Thelen Lumber Co., G. a 17.00 Ben Hanak, Chicago SS a 341.18 May 4. On this day the schedules, in the matter of Albert B. Spidle, bankrupt No. 6131, were received. The bankrupt is located in Ionia. The schedules show total assets of $6,350, of which $2,350 is claimed exempt, and total liabilities of $6,048.53, listing the following creditors: Waxes 5 = 54.81 Charles C. Spidle,, Flint_____ ~ 3,000. 00 Day Lite HWluminating Co. Chicago 15.00 Regina & Walker, Cincinnati____ 19.006 Young Hardware ‘Co., jonia 9.38 Ionia Hardware, fonia. 8.16 Smith & Smth, Ionia_— - 106.12 Ven Hatloo Garage, Ionia. 41.66 Harry Myers, Ionia__-____ D080 state Savings Bank, lonia_ a 41.60 Page. Co, Joniag 20 — 851.46 R. Lee Page, Ionia_ ce - 250.00 National Bank, Ionia____- ~ 1,230.38 G. -R. Barber Supply Co._ a 15.50 William: Bright, tonia. 19.10 George N. Shaw, Muir______---_-- 10.00 Consumers Power Co., lonia___-_- 37.00 Aetna Life Ins. Co., Hartford, Conn. 22 163.86 In the matter of M. A. Guest Co., bank- rupt No. 5648. The sale of assets has been called for May 21 at the former place of business at Big Rapids. The assets for sale consist of land, buildings, machinery, tools, furnture, fixtures and equipment, all appraised at $27,800. All interested in such sale should be present at the date and time above stated. In the matter of M. A. Guest Co., bank- rupt No. 5648. The final meeting of cred- itors has been called for May 27. The trustee’s final report will be approved at such meeting. There will be a divi- dend for creditors, in the matter of Wolverine Grain & Milling Co., bankrupt No. 6195, first meeting of creditors was held May 8, at which time the bankrupt was present by Thomas D. McBridge, Secretary-Treas- urer, and represented by Messinger & White, attorneys, Certain creditors were present and Leo C. Lillie and Howard W. Fant, William J, Landman and R, H. toach, attorneys, were present on be- half of credtors. Thomas D. McBride was sworn and examined before a reporter. Fred G. Timmer, of Grand Rapids, was elected trustee and his bond fixed at $1,000. The meeting adjourned without date. In the matter of Muskegon Brewing Co., bankrupt No. 5684. The final meet- ing of creditors has been called for May 28. The trustee’s final report will be ap- proved at such meeting. There will be a dividend for creditors, May 10. On this day the reference, and adjudication in the matter of August Janke, bankrupt No. 5362, were received. The schedules have been ordered filed. Upon receipt of same the assets and liabil ities will be made known, May 10. On ths day the reference, and adjudicaton in the matter of James A. Howard, bankrupt No. 6084, were re- ceived. The schedules have been ordered filed. Upon receipt of same the assets and liabilities will be made known, May 10. On this day the reference, and. adjudication in the matter of Frank A. Deitle, Administrator, bankrupt No. 6093, were received. The schedules have been ordered filed. Upon receipt of same the assets and liabilities will be made known. May 11. On this day the schedules,, ref- erence and adjudication in the matter of Robert A. Johnston, bankrupt No. 6242, were received. The bankrupt is the pro- prietor of an oil station, parking lot and sandwich shop, of Grand Rapids. The schedules show total assets of $7,525, of which $6,350 is claimed exempt, and total liabilities of $14,635.96, listing the follow- ing creditors: Howe Owners’ Loan Corp. DEON oo $5,317.00 James D. and Mary E, Locke, Ms ee a ee ee eh uncertain Union Bank of Michigan, G. R._- 441.60 Gommercial Credit Co., Detroit-. 209.16 George & Josephine King, G. R. 5,490.00 James D. and Mary EB. Locke_--- 515.00 Grinnell-Row Co., G, R.--~------ unknown American Lfe Insurance Co., Coro 114.03 G RR Savings Bank =. - oe 60.75 American Home Security Bank, Oi BR ee ee 268.00 Vander Werf Ptg. Co., G. R._--- 19.72 Wurzbure’s Dry Goods Co: .G Re (22596 Wood Petroleum Co., G. R.------ 11.61 Verbrugee Oil Co: G. Ree 9.66 Reliable Tire Co., G. R.---------- 20.00 Hired Witch Gi Ro 37.86 Cornelius Hoffius, G. R._.-.______ 30.00 Cities Service Oil Co., G. R.-._. 526.93 A. S. Cochran, Muskegon eens 32.00 Valley City Milling Co, GR... 1,409.68 a ee Recovery Plus Reform The administration is trying to ride two horses, recovery and reform, and isn’t having great success in doing so. After two years of experimenting the nation has learned that our economic structure cannot be made over, from basement to attic, in a short time, It will require years to bring about many of the reforms which have been pro- posed and which the Roosevelt admin- istration is endeavoring to put into ef- fect all at once. Unfortunately, the President is chief- ly concerned now, with his re-election staring him in the face, with making it appear that no mistakes have been made; that everything he has endeav- ored to do has been successful; that the entire social and economic fabric can be made over while business recov- ery is being attained. It cannot be done and the nation now is recognizing that fact. —_2++____ What the Jubilee Means No throne has ever been brought closer to the people than has the throne of Britain, the greatest in all history and in all Christendom, under His Majesty, George V and his Queen. This is the outstanding fact of this jubilee, and will be its most lasting and by far its most important lesson. The British Empire in these anniversary celebra- tions is telling the rest of the world for what it stands and of what it is capable, and so stupendous a demon- stration cannot be without a sobering influence in world affairs, a construc- tive influence in the preservation of the world’s peace. —_~2~--__ A Hint to the G. O. P. The theory that President Roosevelt, given time enough, will defeat himself, is not one to which Republicans should subscribe. They are well within their rights, of course, in making capital of All Issues CONSUMERS POWER PREFERRED BOUGHT—SOLD—QUOTED Buying and Selling orders exe All listed and unlisted Stocks <4 bonis Your Inquiries Invited ROGER VERSEPUT & CO. Investment Bankers—Bro! 332-338 MICHIGAN TRUST BLDG. GRAND RAPIDS Phone 8-1217 what discontent there is, but they should devote most of their efforts to the formulation of a constructive pro- gram so sound in its conception and so sure of execution that it will attract the approving interest of the entire electorate. —__+->—___ Government Domination of Cotton Extended Announcement that limited amounts of pool holdings of spot cotton are to be sold and replaced by future con- tracts is taken to indicate there is little likelihood of an early termination of Government domination of the market, Previously, it had been hoped in the trade that pool holdings would be liqui- dated in the spot market whenever prices permitted. With more cotton steadily being drawn into the Govern- ment’s hands by the 12c loan, the pool’s action will prevent any offsetting re- duction. Accumulation of substantial holdings of futures also renders the establish- ment of a high loan value on the new crop of the staple more likely if the Government is to avoid material losses on its commitments. —_+~++___ Day of Reckoning When that day arrives regardless of what the interventions may be, whether an apparent recovery or a slow process of disintegration, the terrific impetus of the economic forces created by an insolvent Federal Reserve System, a bankrupt banking system, a destroyed middle class and no credit with which the unemployed may be relieved, it is difficult to conceive the method by which we may escape from the despo- tism of a dictatorship. —_~+->___ In a Nut Shell It is up to Mr. Roosevelt and his ad- visers to give proof quickly if they can that their policies of lavish distribution of billions derived in half by heavy tax- ation and in half by gigantic deficits, are not setting back recovery, corrupt- ing national politics and making de- pendents not only of a fifth of the na- tion but of counties, sovereign states, cities, towns and ¥ West Michigan's oldest and largest bank solicits your account on the basis of sound poli- cies and many helpful services . , OLD KEN T BANK 2 Downtown Offices 12 Community Offices GRAND RAPIDS Phone 9-4417 J. H. PETTER & CO. INVESTMENT BANKERS MUSKEGON Phone 2-3406 May 15, 1935 Michigan Farmers Will Profit From Beer Industry Farmers of Michigan will enjoy the largest profits in 20 years from their barley crop this fall because of increas- ed consumption of beer. According to estimates made public today by the United States Brewers’ Association, Michigan will market 2,786,000 bushels of barley, one third of which will be purchased by the brewing industry for the filling of 307,000,000 bottles of beer. This will represent two per cent, of the minimum total of 50,000,000 bar- rels of the amber malt beverage which is the production goal of brewers this year. Figures giving the Michigan farme:s’ barley planting intentions for this year, based on last year’s average of 14 bush- els per acre, reveal that 199,000 acres of land will produce 2,786,000 bushels. Last year Michigan planted out only 188,000 acres to barley, according to United States Department of Agricul- ture reports, but for 1935 will increase the acreage to this grain five per cent., largely because of the increased activ- ities of the beer industry. The brewing industry will use ap- proximately 50,000,060 bushels of bar- ley and 37,500,000 pounds of hops from the 1935 harvest throughout the entire country according to national estimate by the Associations’ grain experts. Earlier in the year it has been pre- dicted that as much as_ 125,000,000 pounds of rice would be required dur- ing 1935 to meet increased demands of brewers for that grain. On March 18 the Government placed a $1.44 per 109 pound compensating tax on brewers rice, Now it is believed by C. D. Williams, secretary of the United States Brewers Association, that malt and corn grits may be substituted largely for rice, in consequence, A survey of grain prospects just completed reveals these figures, based on the production of beer, ale, stout and porter for the year 1934 when 41,000,000 barrels were sold. This year it is estmiated that 50,000,000 barrels or more will be the required production total, Mr. Williams stated. Beer sales increased 28 per cent. for the first quar- ter, and production 21 per cent. About one-third of the barley crop of 1934, amounting to 119,000,000 bush- els, was taken up by the brewers. This year the farmers’ barley planting inten- tions show that 11,954,000 acres will be planted out to barley, as compared with 7,144,000 acres in 1934. Figures also reveal that slightly more than 75 per cent. of the hops harvested last year went into the brewing of malt bev- erages. The United States Brewers’ Associ- ation, the Rice Millers Association and others have appealed to the Secretary of Agriculture to make a special rul- ing regarding processing taxes and compensating taxes on brewers rice to be used exclusively in the manufacture of malt beverages, this grade of grain being too small and otherwise unsuit- able for any other purpose, according to Mr. Williams. Before brewing was re- sumed in 1933 such quality rice sold for as low as 65 cents per 100 pounds. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN The World at Your Elbow From any telephone of this com- pany you can talk not only to locali- ties throughout Michigan, but also to distant cities, ships at sea, many foreign lands—to thirty million tele- phones distributed all over the world. You can do this because the Michigan Bell Telephone Company is a component part of the Bell System. In addition to wider service, that relationship enables us to give you better service; for it places at our disposal thousands of valuable pat- ents and the most efficient methods of operation; it secures for us the benefits of constant research by hun- dreds of scientists in the famous Bell Laboratories, specialists whose only mission year in and year out is to develop means of improving the ser- vice —to find “a better thing or a better way.” It assures us assistance in financing; it provides us with the world’s finest tele- phone equipment, produced by the Western Electric Company, manufacturing division of the Bell System. It permits us, in short, to share in every progressive step in the evolution of the telephone. And it enables us to render cheaper service; for all these assets —the fruits of a long-sustained policy of good management — come to us under our contract with Ameri- can Telephone and Telegraph Com- pany at a cost much lower than would be possible without our asso- ciation in the Bell System. America today holds undisputed world supremacy in telephonic com- munication. That leadership grew out of the facilities and the forward- looking policies of the Bell System. And it is because the Michigan Bell Telephone Company is a part of that system that we are now sup- plying the people of this State with a service never surpassed in quality, and reaching to most civilized areas of the globe. 11 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, Rapids. Treasurer—O, H. Bailey, Sr., Lansing. Directors—Holger Jorgenson, Muske- gon; L. V. Eberhard, Grand Rapids; Paul Gezon, Grand Rapids; Lee Lillie, Coopers- ville; Martin Block, Charlevoix. Grand Welcome News of a Grocers’ Construc- tive Meeting One splendid and exceptionally suc- cessful grocer writes me that he is asked to discuss the following ques- tions during a forthcoming meeting. He has this own ideas but would like mine “if not too-much trouble” to me. He ends with: “If this takes too much of your time, just forget it.’ Well, if he could realize how wel- come pointed questions or other dis- cussions from grocers are to me, he’d know that he does me the greatest pos- sible favor, and that he also pays me a high compliment, But likewise if he could realize how seldom grocers talk along constructive lines, he would know his enquiry was doubly welcome, Now see what pointed subjects he plans to cover: “What is the difference between taking stock at retail and on cost valuations? “How much time per day should. a business head spend planning? “Give your reasons for the success of a grocer. “Also reasons for his failure or lim- ited success.” Are those important questions? Yes, they far transcend in importance in every grocery store all questions of what can be done to stop the other fel- low, on which last most grocers’ meet- ings spend much time. Inventory should be priced both ways, on both cost and sale values. With an adding machine this becomes quite simple. Cost must be current re- placement cost, and it must always be complete, That is, invoice cost is not conclusive, nor is market cost. Cost must include all expense of getting goods in, stored, handled; addition for probable shrinkage if any, such as the 2 per cent. allowance on canned goods. The point is to insure that when you write a figure as cost, it will cover every element of cost, actual or con- tingent. Don’t fool yourself on this. Large operators take cost or market, whichever is lower, in pricing inven- tory. That is all right except that it is hardly sound for a grocer’s stock, which runs to small totals. But also it gives a false picture in relation to sale val- ues, since the spread can only be cor- rectly arrived at on the basis of current values. The special value of taking inventory two ways is that thus we get a check each period on what our average mar- gin is on our basic, staple stock. For when you take the total cost from the total sales value, you can get exactly the percentage of spread as it averages on sales. Here a suprprise awaits you—one of the most useful puzzles you can solve. How? Thus: You will find the average spread thus arrived at far exceeds what you know to be the fact, provided you have kept track of your business for oe toe SN eb en ON sce ena MICHIGAN TRADESMAN any considerable length of time. First time I did things thus I got an average margin of more than 31 per cent. Knowing that my average gross was not greater than 21% per cent, this set me thinking; and I puzzled until I solved the problem, What was the explanation? It was this: That inventory includes the min- imum amount of sugar, butter, perish- ables, milk and cream and many other items of which supplies are purchased daily or several times weekly, What you inventory is the more slowly mov- ing articles, which are purchased in some volume and make up the stock turn which runs to ten or twelve annu- ally. Example: Stock at retail value, $2,000, average turn 12, and business $30,000 a year; but $200 of that stock turns weekly. Then the remaining $1,800 will make just over 7.55 turns, and the sales of $10,400 produced by the $200 stock pull down the average wide spread you find in your inventory figures. This, of course, because the margin on those rapidly moving staples is far narrower than on the other items. This work is exacting, but highly in- structive, Sale value volume must be priced with care. The average article at 9c, 3 for 25c, must be extended at 8'4c, $1 per dozen. But herein your own intimate knowledge will enable you to judge varieties, so you can in- sert the price that must nearly repre- sent sales conditions. You know inti- mately what items sell in singles as against multiples and can price accord- ingly. Studies which thus reveal stock mov- ing only seven and one-half times also prompt us to curtail quantity purchases, Likely enough two or three hundred dollars may be squeezed out of the slower-moving stock, and it is better to keep a heavier average bank balance than needless stock. These are some valuable things we learns from the two-way inventory. “How much time daily for plan- ning?” This reminds me of when, as a mere child, I asked my father how he got his great proficiency in arithmetic, the intricacies of which seem so great to beginners. I think I asked when he got time to practice. “Why,” he an- swered, “we’re figuring all the time,” which was a way he had of pluralizing his answers to show that such was the proper way for all of us. : The answer stuck with me and promptly took on life and meaning as I realized) how complete it was. We were “doing” arithmetic all day. I be- came so imbued with the notion that soon I figured all sales mentally as I assembled the goods; and had the “answer” ready when the buyer said “that’s all.” I can now look into the eyes of a fine, upstanding German farmer who bought what was then a big bill, who showed his astonishment when I immediately gave him the total, say $2.67. He did not say I could not be right, but I had to show him. We put the figures down and he added them; found them exact. Thenceworth he sought me out to wait on him and I enjoyed his complete confidence. Business planning is just like that. Every minute of every day the thought- ful business head plans, Every inci- dent is noted and stored away in a memory which grows to astonishing capacity under such constant drill; and such incidents are the foundation of plans and, the general conduct of the business, Under such system the grocer con- stantly sees and mentally assembles items to be pushed through improved display and in whatever advertising he may do. That is something altogether different from bargain-offerings or loss-leader selling. This can and al- ways should be real selling, at regular prices, by the simple and obvious expe- dient of offering the goods to consum- ers who come to the store. Constant observation on these lines, planning which proceed while the daily May 15, 1935 business goes on, results in steady im- provement of the store and more effec- tive display. Two years ago I visited a country store into which had been installed recent equipment of quite fair design; but its lack of orderliness was so obvious that I used it as a text for a story of which I sent a copy to the grocer—all private, of course, not ex- posing him to anybody. Ten days ago I saw the store again and it was so vastly improved that I told him I’d give him 60 per cent. higher rating; yet not a dollar more had gone into equipment. For further questions, I must use next article. Paul Findlay. —_—_+-<.___ The world doesn’t want our politi- caliy-boosted cotton. Rademaker-Dooge Grocer Co. Distributors for KARAVAN KIRO COFFEE KARAVAN EL PERCO COFFEE KARAVAN SIXTY-SIX COFFEE Phone 8-1431 Grand Rapids, Michigan Wednesday evening. SMASHING RADIO SUCCESS "THE Tender Leaf Tea program . . . Family . . . . has been voted the most popular comedy-drama on the air today. Millions hear it every Reap the rewards of this sales-stimulating advertising. Feature Tender Leaf Tea now. A Product of STANDARD BRANDS INCORPORATED - One Man’s a — a a sa May 15, 19385 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 13 MEAT DEALER How to Achieve Tasty Dishes With Economy A new gambit of conversation is be- coming familiar at many American family dinner tables this Winter. The comment is exasperated or reproachful or resigned in tone, according to fath- er’s disposition and the day he has had down town,,but roughly it runs like this, “My dear, why don’t we have aiy decent meat any more?” Or, if father hasn’t waited to finish carving, “I don’t see why we never have a sharp knif2 in this house!” The idea behind both complaints is that the average family roast or steak is tougher than it used to be. Wives addressed on the other side of the table think of many rejoinders; but mentally sorting and discarding the frivolous and irrelevant, they find the most telling answer is the govern- ment’s statement that the meat sup- ply is smaller this Winter than at any time in ten years, and that one result of drought and feed shortage is right there on the platter under father’s dis- satisfied gaze. The average run of meat is. still tougher than it used to i or, as the government puts it suavely, “less tend- ed,” and the head of the house doesn't like it any better because he is told why. Thus women are looking around for new methods of getting flavor and ten- derness out of meat that is muscular from the animal’s exertions in quest of pasturage and lean from the meager fare; to help them the Bureau of Home Economics of the Department of Agri- culture has just isued a new bulletin of reminders for cooking it. It is an abstract of an existing pam- phlet, “Meat Dishes at Low Cost,” a collection of mouth-watering main dishes, braised and roasted and stewed to extract the ultimate vestage of good- ness and flavor from meat. Take, for instance, the rubbery steak that now bounces on the family platter, despite the best assurances of the butcher, the housewife’s: own exploring forefinger on its moist surface in the shop and the pounding it got in the kitchen be- for it was cooked. It ought to be fali- ing in luscious tender slices under the carving knife, which is as sharp as it ever has been, but the fact remains that It might better be treated as “less tender meat,” ground for meat balls, or patties, or a meat loaf, or given the long, slow cooking with moisture prescribed for the humbler cuts. Not that the bulletin recommends any such extravagance as buying steak at sirloin or porterhouse prices and cooking it like round or rump. There is a recipe for smothered steak with onions which may be made of these cheaper cuts and this one for Swiss steak: For Swiss steak select a fairly thick piece of beef from the chuck, rump or round, or a slice of veal. Season the meat with salt and pepper, sprinkle generously with flour and pound thor- oughly. The pounding helps to make it is not. the meat tender, and the flour absorbs the juice. Cut the steak into individual portions and brown in suet or other fat in a heavy skillet or kettle. Then add canned or sliced water enough to cover. Partly cover with-a lid, and simmer for 1% to 2 hours, or until the meat is tender enough to be cut with a fork. There should be plenty of good gravy to serve over the meat. There are pot roasts, and stews, and the stews’ first cousins, French ragout and Hungarian goulash; there are deli- cious stuffings for low-priced tender roasts; and there are meat pies made under a biscuit crust or a layer of mashed potato. This Russian recipe for tsche, to be served with pancakes, turns out to be nothing more obscure than beef brisket decked with onions and cabbage and sour cream. Select about two pounds of beef bris- ket and cut in small pieces. Cook the meat in 144 quarts of water for two hours or until it is almost done. Chop a head of cabbagge, slice 3 or 4 onions or leeks and a parsnip, add to the meat broth, and cook until meat and vege- tables are tender. Mix one tablespoon of flour and one-fourth cup of sour cream, and add to the stew. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Serve buck- weat, wheat or corn pancakes with tsche. Also given are recipes for our adopt- ed German sauerbraten with ginger- snap gravy, and for cooking the hum- bler beef liver with all the flavor and food value of the more expensive kinds. Many of these basic recipes are rec- ognizable among the dishes on New York’s fashionable restaurant menus, for the success of a chef is not gauged by his triumphs in cooking expensive cuts of meat. One hotel manager con- fides that the way to beat a hotel out of its profit is to order roast beef. They cant make money on it, he says, and never could. The hotel’s loss on the rare roast beef is balanced by the chef's skill in dressing up the cheaper cuts, and serving them “en brochette” and “en caserole,’ and his cunning with the remains of the joint, deftly transform- ing them with seasonings and sauces and his own practiced art in garnish- ing. Take a look at the chef’s salmi of lamb, for example. One finds, lurking under the delicious brown sauce, the fancy triangles of toast, the scattered stoned olives and mushroom slices, nothing moresexotic than slices of cold roast lamb. It shames us to realize that we had the makings at home all the time, the night we had cold lamb for dinner. As one sixteenth-century cookery book has it. “You may garnish or let it alone.” Often the only differ- ence betwen ours and the chef’s dishes is that we let it alone. The tireless home economists of the Department of Agriculture appear to agree. They remind us of the zest that seasonings add to meat dishes, the sage and thyme and parsley that can be bought for a trifle or raised in the gar- den. No horseradish ever came out of a bottle as keen and pungent as the root from the garden, dried and pound- ed and mixed with a little wine vinegar. tomatoes, or The bulletin has reminders too of the place of onions, bayleaf, mint leaves, celery tops (fresh and dried), celery seed and caraway, pepper, pap- rika, curry, garlic and various sauces bought or home-made. The boiled ham becomes a lordly dish when simmered with a sliced onion and a carot, a few cloves and peppercorns and half a bay- leaf, then skinned and baked under its tempting layer of brown sugar and bread crumbs, studded with pungent whole cloves. Skillful touching up with seasonings takes restraint, and the good cook is one who knows when enough is enough. She knows that the discreet use of salt brings out the flavor of many dishes, from apple sauce to cereals, and comes home from the West Indies having learned that the matchless coffee she had in Jamaica depended on a dash of salt in the breakfast coffee pot. But a heavy hand with the salt has ruined many a good meal. “Onions, one of our most indispen- sable seasonings, may be abused,” we are told, But boti flavors can be made agreeable to many people who otherwise do not like them “as garlic often is. by using just a little—a ‘suspicion,’ as some cooks would say; or by rubbing the pan with the cut surface of the onion.” Individual family tastes will govern the quantity of garlic or onion in the meat dishes, but something ought to be done to keep onion out of the corned-beef hash. With all deference to the localities that gild its perfection with minced beets, there is no adequate defense of the onion swaggering in the depths of the corned-beef hash, noisily attracting to itself all the attention that rightfully belongs to the peerless fla- vor of corned beef and potatoes. We are reminded that meat is one of the most flavorsome of comestibles and advised to make the most of it by using it to tone up bland foods. Good cooks of every nation have known the principle and followed the practice, as witness liver in the oatmeal of the Scotsman’s haggis, the meat sauces that make the Italian’s spaghetti inter- esting, and the grateful service that New Englands boiled dinner has done for the jaded Winter vegetables. In addition, the economical house-wife knows that one pound of shank will go as far as two if it goes into a fric- assee and if there are plenty of dump- lings with the gravy. The home econ- omist recommends canned meat, too, either for quick meals or for house- holds distant from fresh meat supplies, and suggests its use in a wide variety of savory dishes which, as the Colonial recipes have it, “eat very well.” One of these is “baked meat pinwheels”’: Chop a small onion fine and cook for a few minutes in three fourths of a cup of meat broth, milk or water. Thicken with a little flour mixed with cold water, add to 1 pint of chopped cooked or canned meat and season to taste. Make. biscuit dough, using 1 quart of flour, 4 teaspoons of baking powder, 114 teaspoons of salt, 6 table- spoons of fat, and’ milk or water to make a soft mixture, Roll out the dough in a fairly thick sheet; then spread with the meat fill- ing, leaving a margin of about an inch uncovered. Roll up the sheet of dough and cut cross-wise in 8 or 10 slices, like pin-wheel biscuits. Lay the pinwheel slices flat in a greased pan. Bake in a moderately hot oven (375 degrees F.) 30 to 40 minutes Serve with gravy or tomato sauce. Altogether, if the family isn’t en- tirely reconciled to the temporary ab- sence of rare roast beef and juicy steaks and chops, something very pal- atable can be made of the more un- yielding fiber of the meat we have on hand. Properly cooked and seasoned and sent piping hot to the table, these new dishes adequately feed and even soothe and comfort the family—even the weariest father, who may aban- don complaints about the carving knife ((it has never been sharp enough yet), and mellowed by a second helping, con- cur in the famous old grace of Robert Burns, Some hae meat and canna eat, And some can eat that want it. But we hae meat, and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit. A little study of the government’s new bulletin indicates many ways to make the family thankful for meat— N. Y. Times, —_~+-+___ In all the affairs of human life, so- cial as well as political, I have re- marked that courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones that strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart.—Henry Clay. INVESTIGATE d youll choose Tw KOLD aE because only BALANCED HUMIDITY can pro duce Perfect Refi gerahon. At Top: MODEL 6200. cae KOLD” Display Case. 3 courses plate glass, rub- ber set. Full procelain outside and in. Outside lighting. Hard rubber doors and runners. Cork insulated. - Right: MODEL 581. “DRY-KOLD” Meat Cooler. Cor- rect cold without mould. Ages and keeps meat for long periods. Complete Equip- ment for Finest Markets. The “Dry-Kold” Refrigerator Co. NILES, MICHIGAN 14 HARDWARE Michigan Retail Hardware Association. President—A. D. Vandervoort. Vice-President — W. C. Judson, Big Rapids. Secretary—Harold W. Bervig, Lansing. Treasurer—William Moore, Detroit. The Secret of Payment Morale With the majority of instalment ac- counts, collection management be- comes, sometimes constantly, and at least occasionally, a game of checkers. The customer who, heretofore, has mostly co-operated with the store in making payments, suddenly abandons this character, and makes a “move,” designed to evade payment for a time or, sometimes, permanently. The “move” is failure to meet a payment, coupled—if pressed for an explanation —with an excuse or reason. With hardware stores doing a considerable instalment business, there are custom- ers every day making such “moves.” The checker expert will tell you that, with a given set-up of men on the board, a cerain “move” made by one player leaves his opponent, usually, with only a small number of correct plays. There are perhaps dozens of ways to make the wrong move, and ‘only one way to make the right move. It is just so in collections, when a customer becomes delinquent, and makes a move to evade payment. Some of these delinquents are mighty skilful, and unless met with exactly the best counter-offensive will win the game, soon having the store hopelessly on the defensive in respect to the account. Instead of $6, due on her washing machine, Mrs. Thompson tenders a $5 bill. It is the cashier’s “move.” So she remarks that she has no authority to accept partial payments. It will be nec- essary for Mrs. Thompson to add an- other dollar, “I hope it won’t incon- venience you too much.” Of course, Mrs. Thompson may not have the dollar, in which case the cash- ier handles the situation (1) to obtain a promise of the one dollar within the near future, at a stated time, as when Mr, Thompson brings home his pay check the following Saturday; or (2) Mrs. Thompson solemnly vows that, on the next payment date, she will make up the deficiency. If the cashier has an unsatisfactory conversation with the partial payer, probably she will summon the store manager, who will have a heart-to- heart talk with the customer. Of course, the heardware store will not handle all partial-payers in this way. The customer’s standing may make such a procedure ridiculous. However, with a large group of people who fly into the partial payment habit, the store with the right “move” early in the situation, will cure, or at least curb, the evil. Suppose that Frank Stevens, who has been a good friend of the store for a long time; comes in a week fate with a payment on an electric refrigerator. You like Frank and you don’t mind the accommodation in the slightest. You have the impulse to tell him that it doesn’t matter at all—he can take his time any time over payments. This investigator has heard hardware mer- MICHIGAN TRADESMAN chants often make this remark to favor- ite customers, Such expressions are mighty bad moves in the checker-game of collec- tions. Frank has had pretty good in- stalment habits to date—don’t let him slip from them. When he apologizes for being late, remark that you had noticed his absence, and wondered about it. And if you feel the delin- quency peril is very great, add the fur- ther comment that you were just on the point of telephoning him. There is one “play” made by a cus- tomer which, if successful, is almost al- ways disastrous to the account. We re- fer to the customer who, buying an automobile or pressed for some charge account, comes to the hardware man and states the situation, asking the store to wait for payment while the automobile dealer or grocer is paid. There are mighty few exceptions to the principle that the hardware store must never, on any consideration, con- sent to delays in payment for such reasons, The principle must be upheld at all times that the hardware mer- chant must be paid at the same time as others, promptly. If the customer ex- plains that a finance company is threat- ening to repossess, the store should with as unemotional a tone as possible explain that its security must be main- tained, too, and, lacking payment, re- possession will have to be resorted to. Such handling is the only one that is feasible. Otherwise, the customer will constantly be in trouble with other creditors, and, successful in the first instance, will continually pay the hard- ware store last. In an exhaustive study covering a large part of the world, this writer has found that the near-universal practice of instalment sellers, when a customer is in distress because of sickness, is im- mediately and generously to grant an extension. It would be inhuman of instalment sellers to be cold and unre- lenting at such times, and to their cred- it be it said that they practically never are. On the other hand, an extension is usually granted instantly with expres- sions of sympathy. However, in sickness situations the extension should not be an indefinite thing, even when the sickness itself is an indefinite matter. The hardware dealer who allows a customer to “put over” this excuse faces the probability of a chronic de- linquency condition. The customer will have discovered that the dealer will “wait,” and so, always, he will pay more pressing creditors first. One Western hardware dealer replies like this: “I’m sorry, Mr. Schmidt, but we can- not give you an extension on that basis. We cannot operate our business on payments you make to an automobile dealer. You bought these goods prom- ising to make prompt payments, and we must insist on them. “Tt is true, as you say, that the finance company can repossess your car; but it is equally true that we can repossess these goods you have bought from us. I’m sorry, but we cannot grant the extension you ask.” The purpose of this “answer” is to establish in the customer’s mind the belief, in future, he cannot “stall” the hardware store account to meet an automobile payment; (1) obtain the best possible immediate adjustment. If it is an impossiblity for the customer to pay anything at once, which may be the case, it is always possible for the hardware dealer to get the promise, and the performance, of payment at the earliest possible date, this being made specific with the understanding which is reached. There is more than word's, of course, to an “answer.” Tone of voice, facial expression, and general manner, all are highly important. The conditions of hardware operation are such that the dealer must apply collection treatment to people, effectively, yet retain their respect and good will. Most poor collectors among merchants are men who are afraid of the consequences of being firm.—John T. Bartlett in Hardware Age. store —_+2 > Norris T.V.A. Bill Gets Setback Withdrawal of the Norris bill de- signed to get around an adverse court decision, the effect of which has been to limit operations of the Tennessee Valley Authority, is seen in the Senate. A two-man filibuster kept a motion to make this measure the unfinished business of the Senate from coming to a vote, forcing postponement of the demand for consideration of the bill. Senator Norris, however, probably will not permit the matter to drop per- manently and sooner or later, perhaps within a few weeks, he will renew his motion to take up the bill for action. May 15, 1925 However, probabilities are that the Democratic leaders will be more alert and seek to circumvent the motion somehow. There is the further possibility that unless President Roosevelt demands passage of the measure it will be side- tracked in the last minute rush to clean up the calendar. The hope is to ter- minate the present session in about seven weeks and there are many im- portant measures yet to be acted upon, among which are bills ‘denominated President Roosevelt. —_2+++>—__ Tighten Control Over House House Democratic leaders are tight- ening their control over that body for the protection of the administration’s legislative program. This was revealed when notice was served on one of the committees con- sidering a rather important measure that the presence of its members on the floor was required during the dis- cussion of the banking bill. Afternoon committee hearings were accordingly dispensed with and night sessions sub- stituted. A similar requirement will be im- posed on committees when other ad- ministration bills are im the House, it is learned. This will tend to insure the leadership of approximately maximum support whenever there is necessity for taking of a vote. It precludes surprise votes by any minority, and tends to “must” by speed up discussion of bills. ——_o-ee Washington, so ready to criticize business leaders, will hereafter find it- self criticized. Wholesale Only INOCULATION Bulk Telephone 9-4451 SEEDS FARM SEEDS GARDEN SEEDS Vegetables and Flowers We Specialize in LAWN GRASS and GOLF COURSE Mixtures INSTANT SERVICE Write for our special prices ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Wholesale Only SEMESAN Packet 25-29 Campau Ave. giao May 15, 19385 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 15 DRY GOODS Michigan Retail Dry Goods Association President—D, Mihlethaler, Mihlethaler Co., Harbor Beach. First Vce-President—C. R. Sperry, J. B. Sperry Co., Port Huron, Second Vice-President—F, F. Ingram, L. H. Field Co., Jackson, Secretary-Treasurer— Leon F'. Rosa- pe1W ‘suelo Rosacrans & Sons, Tecumseh. Directors N. J. VanAndel, Wm, D. Hardy & Co., Muskegon. _Harry Grossman, Chase Merc, Co., Pon- iac. Harry L. Rimes, Rimes & Hildebrand, St. Joseph. D. M. Shotwell, J. W. Knapp Co., Lan- sing. Sid Medalie, N. Medalie & Co.. Man- celona, D,. W. Goodnow, D. M. Goodnow Co., it Howell, W. R. Mehlhose, A. Loeffler & Co., Wyandotte. Death of John Richey, Former Dry Goods Merchant John Richey, for many years one of the leading business men of Charlotte, died. Friday morning at the Hayes- Green County Memorial Hospital, where he had been a patient for the previous ten days. Mr. Richey had been out of health for six years but did not retire from active business until some time later, when the majority control of the well-known business car- rying the Richey name was taken over by the brother, Fred A. Richey, who has successfully continued the business since his ownership, The Albion Recorder gave the fol- lowing account of Mr. Richey’s coming to Charlotte, in its story of his passing: John Richey, retired Charlotte mer- chant and for many years a clerk in the former Fred W. Austin dry goods store here, died suddenly this morning at a Charlotte hospital. He had been ill sev- eral months. Mr. Richey, whose home was in Charlotte, left the employ of the Austin store twenty-one years ago and with the late George T. Bullen, then in the dry goods business in Albion, opened the Bullen & Richey dry goods store in Charlotte, Mr. Richey being in ac- tive charge of the store. Subsequently Mr. Richey purchased Mr. Bullen’s in- terest and later formed a partnership with his brother, Fred A. Richey, also a former Albion resident. A. short time ago John Richey retired, disposing of his interest to his brother, who still operates the store. Few men: have been more active in community promotion than Mr. Richey; he gave of his time, energy and money long after such effort was a tax on his waning physical strength. He was president of the Community Association; original member of the Rotary Club and an honorary member of the organization at the time of his death; was on the official board of the Methodist Church and was a tower of strength in every movement looking to the advancement of the moral and spiritual side of community life. Until a short time before his death he con- tinued to take a keen interest in local affairs. As a useful and unselfish com- munity leader he ranks with Vaughn Griffith, Lee Chandler and H. R. Syl- vester, Mr. Richey is survived by his widow; two daughters, Mrs. Max F. Cheney, and Mrs. L. B. Whalen both living in Detroit; a brother, Fred A. Richey, Charlotte, and two sisters, Miss Flor- ence Richey, Albion, who has been spending the winter in Charlotte, and Mrs, Arthur Hayes, of Kendallville, Indiana. The funeral services were held at the late home, 320 W. Harris Ave., Mon- day afternoon in charge of his pastor, Rev. George A. Mooers of the Law- rence Ave. M. E. Church. Rev. Mooers took his text from St. Paul’s epistle to the Philippians, “I thank God upon every remembrance of you” and he used the quotation most effectively in illustrating the influence that Mr. Richey’s useful and honorable life had been to the community, The pastor told of Mr. Richey’s long and devoted service to the church and lauded his spiritual ideals, that “intangible token of influence’ which marked every phase of his career.-—Charlotte Trib- une. +. Mills Cheered By Rug Ruling Any doubt as to whether they acted within their rights in barring chain and group buyers from volume dis- counts were cleared up by a ruling handed down in Washington. The rul- ing, made at the request of the Insti- tute of Carpet Manufacturers of Amer- ica, Inc., was written by M. D. Vin- cent, acting divisional administrator, and held that provisions of the carpet and rug code regulation defining those eligible for discounts are not manda- tory. According to rug producers, the ruling indicates the stand they took in February against giving volume re- bates to group buyers. Chain and group buying offices held the ruling has no bearing on their claims that the rug mills’ stand against rebates constitutes discriminatory treatment. —_—_~+2>___ Discuss Chinaware Price Rise Dinnerware buyers held an informal meeting at the National Retail Dry Goods Association headquarters to dis- cuss the recent price rise in domestic chinaware. No definite action on the increase was taken at the meeting, but they will hold another session within two weeks at which time methods for protesting the advance are expected to be worked out. Under the new quota- tions, dinnerware prices were increased 7 to 17% per cent., with stores ordering 1,000 dozen pieces or more of the ame design entitled to the lowest figures. Buyers have been outspoken in criti- cizing the new rates, on the ground that the minimum fixed was too high. —__~+~-+>—____ August Sales Again Questioned With the bulk of the seasonal coat business now over, except on white and pastel garments, the question has ‘arisen as to whether retailers will be active in the market shortly to cover needs for August sales. While con- siderable difference of opinion exists as to the value of these sales as a mer- chandising feature for either retailer or manufacturers, the belief is that many stores which have made a prac- tice of these events will continue their policy, In the coat trade itself the feel- ing in some quarters is that these events start the fall season with a low price level that reacts disadvantageous- ly upon later selling. ——_+>++___ White Jewelry Well Re-ordered Widespread consumer acceptance of white costume jewelry is indicated in the active re-orders on this merchan- dise now reaching manufacturers. In- terest in pins and clips has been out- standing, with a good demand also re- ported for bracelets and earrings. In colored items, the bright shades are receiving precedence over pastel hues, it was said, The attention gven by leading stores to gold effects in cos- tume jewelry has aroused considerable comment in the trade, as indicating not only a current demand for these effects, but suggesting a strong vogue for gold items in the fall, —_++- Market New Cigarette Case A new type of cigarette case featur- ing a sliding top has just been intro- duced on the market. The top is a solid piece which slides either to the right or left over the bottom. The case holds fourteen cigarettes in a space smaller than in any previous type of container. The top may be removed and the case used as a ciga- rette box for table or other home use. The item, which has already attracted the attention of retailers, is priced to retail at $2 or $3, depending on the ornateness of the case. It is available in both silver-plated and enameled types, ——_+-- Woven French Shorts Offered The men’s French short situation has been complicated by the introduction in several quarters of styles made of woven fabrics instead of being knitted. Broadcloths, percales and waffle cloths are being used, the general construction of the woven numbers resembling the knitted types, except, of course, that they lack the elasticity of the latter. Prices are varied, one mill offering a number at $1.50 a dozen. Use of a cheaper fabric would bring this price down 25 to 35 cents a dozen. GRAND RAPIDS PAPER Box Co. Manufacturers of SET UP and FOLDING PAPER BOXES Seek Wider Chromium Market Hoping to benefit by the high costs of sterling silver, manufacturers of chromium-plated hollow ware will make a special bidi for business this fall by presenting high-grade goods to compete with sterling. Confident that prices will curtail consumer demand for silver hollow ware, the chromium producers have worked up special lines of merchandise to retail at $10 up. A few sales agents yesterday held ad- vanced showings of the new mer- chandise and exhibited hollow-ware pitchers, coffee sets, ice containers and similar goods in modern designs. Ebony handles were stressed in some of the lines, with varnished wood and red composition handles in others, —_—_—_2--2 New Premium Outlets Sought Manufacturers of premium merchan- dise are well satisfied with early fall contracts from established customers, but are concerned about additional business which was expected to develop from new sources this month, Efforts to get actual commitments from new customers in industries other than the food, cosmetic, tobacco and liquor lines have brought only limited results to date, Producers are hoping to stir up more interest at the annual trade show in Chicago this month. 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Affiliated with THE MICHIGAN RETAIL DRY GOODS ASSOCIATION GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. <> 0 SD 0 SD 0 SD (0 SD () D> (:) ED (2 D( 0 OED 0D 0D 0 GED () GED (0-0 (0) ED 0D 0 GED 0 GED 0G HOTEL DEPARTMENT Problem of the Stimulation of Travel A. Wallace Swith, managing director of the Lake Merritt, Hotel, Oakland, Calif., has made a careful study of the problem of stimulation of travel, with special relation to methods whereby railroads, steamship companies and ho- tels can, by co-operating, increase busi- ness, and why they should do this. The eleven point program which he has formulated as a result of his investi- gation, and upon which comment is in- vited, is as follows: (1) Bring together in one group all those interests which would be vitally affected by the increase in travel, in such a manner as to build up public interest and travel on a large scale generally. (This would make possible the exchange of ideas and collective study of same, and start a movement with a definite: purpose in mind which would be nation-wide—-not merely localized as it it, more or less, at pres- ent). (2) Organize this group under some suitable name, appointing officers se- lected by the railroads, steamship com- panies and American Hotel Associa- tion, and authorize them immediately to set up a national organization whose business it will be to further public in- terest in travel by a co-ordinated front. (This will join those industries now active in handling travel in one united: purpose for building up public incen- tive to travel, which is more or less the very backbone of these industries.) (3) Have these officers, as soon as possible, appoint necessary national, state and city committees, the mem- bers of which shall be selected from the passenger division of the railroads and steamship companies, and members of the hotel association, said commit- tees to operate under regulations and policies set up by the national organi- zation, (This will rapidly put in mo- tion a vast machine on a national scale, and these committees, each with its duties carefully outlined and working effectively, will gradually create a trav- el-minded public. (4) Set up a joint publicity program which will combine greater interest, advantages and incentives than can be offered otherwise, as an appeal to the public to support a movement of this kind. (This will eliminate much dupli- cation of publicity, effort and expen- ditures on the part of these industries independently, and enable them to cover the entire country at one time with one co-operative sales appeal.) (5) Establish greater interest by offering an attractive, special coopera- tive, all-inclusive, round trip from any point to another on a basis whereby the traveler could plan a trip in ad- vance and, knowing just what such a trip would cost, be able to make equal payments in advance in accordance with the period of time desired to do so, and as per a special budget to be setgup. Such round trip privileges to include any and all special round trips offered by the carriers at any time, as, for example, summer excursions, tours, etc, (This would make possible the MICHIGAN TRADESMAN issuing of one joint scrip book in the full value of the entire amount paid in by the traveler, to be accepted the same as cash for payment of railroad and steamship fares, including sleeping ac- commodations and meals in transit, for hotel accommodations and meals in ho- tel dining rooms of hotel members of the American Hotel Association, and sightseeing trips, etc., thereby elimin- ating the carrying of unnecessary cash, the trouble of cashing checks, as well as the worry in connecton with same.) (6) Establish greater advantages by offering an attractive profit-sharing uniform discount from the face value of the scrip to be given in cash from the total paid in by the travelers to the travelers when the scrip is issued, and give them the privilege, upon re- turning home, to turn in for cash any scrip they may have left over at its face value, less the profit-sharing discount paid when the scrip was issued. (This will eliminate any question as to the loss in interest they may ordinarily feel they would have to take by trans- ferring funds from savings to a travel contract of this nature, and encourage advance installment payments. on travel.) (7) Establish a greater incentive by making it possible for the public to ar- range for an pay on such a travel con- tract in any railroad or steamship ticket office in any part of the U. S. A., and issue and redeem the scrip therefrom under regulations set forth by the na- tional organization. (This will create a large volume of new business which would be made possible by travel bu- reaus, hotels, merchants, etc., all over the country, joining in and giving their support to a movement which would be beneficial to them and to the com- munity they are in.) (8) To make this scrip acceptable to all those to whom it may be offered as cash, this scrip should show where it was issued and where the cash was originally paid for same, so the holder thereof would always be able to receive the cash minus the profit-sharing dis- count allowed from any railroad or steamship ticket office, which in turn would clear such scrip at the original point of issue. (This will not only place the scrip in financially respon- sible hands but will establish its value. To the traveler who may not be inter- ested in the installment payment priv- ilege and who is paying cash for a given round trip, this scrip could be issued as an added convenience and inducement for the traveler to patron- ize the carriers, hotel, etc., which are extending the profit-sharing privilege. This, in turn, would create a strong co-operative organization of the indus- tries, and involve no more detail than at present.) (9) When scrip is issued, the trav- eler’s name, address, itinerary and the date thereof can be recorded and sent to a central point for the compiling of a mailing list which would be very valuable in future following up to in- crease travel, and the cost of which could be obtained by selling same at a given price per name. (This would give to these industries a very direct source for distribution of advertising, and a more personal touch with the traveling public could be developed.) (10) Develop a combined advertis- ing medium which can be placed in hotel guest rooms. In one respect, at least, hotels have a. distinctly unique advantage over any and every other kind of business. In their guest rooms they have at their disposal an inval- uable and absolutely free medium in which they may advertise services ben- eficial to the traveling publicc. (This would make possible a uniform “Trav- elog” which could be made not only more attractive and convenient to the travel-public, but advertising space therein would bring a large revenue to this proposed organization.) (11) To the travel bureaus which are supporting this movement, the cus- tomary commissions can be paid as follows: At the time the travel bureau ar- ranges for a special travel contract, the ticket office can give to the travel! bureau the number of the contract, which number will be the same as the one On the scrip to be issued against this contract. When the scrip clears at original point of issue, the travel bureau can be notified on a special form of the exact total received by the car- rier, hotel and sightseeing company, and put in its claim for said commis- sion accordingly.) Hotel and Restaurant Equipment Glassware, China, Silverware H. LEONARD & SONS 38-44 Fulton St., W. GRAND RAPIDS - MICHIGAN May 15, 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 WILL F. JENKINS, Owner and Operator “Back on the Job’’ 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 Room Rooms $1.50 and up MRS. GEO. SNOW, Mangaer New Hotel Elhott 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 Warm Friend Tavern Holland, Mich. Is truly a friend to all travelers. All room and meal] rates very reasonable. Free private parking space. W. H. LILLARD, Manager & 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 ee 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 esean gm Se alain tama May 15, 1935 Combining the sale of the commod- ities of all of these industries as a unit nationally will not only make possible a joint, convenient scrip, but will pro- vide for a uniform profit-sharing dis- count and an attractive advance in- stallment payment privilege. This program will not in any way disturb the present individual policies of these industries, but will consolidate their present organizations and ma- chinery in one working unit with one definite purpose in mind, a great amount of duplication of effort in the travel field. ———_>>___ Double Occupancy Costs Money So strong has become the pressure upon hotels to concede the right of the traveling man to insist that his wife shall be complimented when she ac- companies him on his trips that Pres- ident Green, of the American Hotel Association, has seen fit to take the matter up with those sales executives who circularize the hotels on behalf of salesmen and their wives. President Green points out that there has been considerable discussion of the situation on the part of hotels, and comprehensive investigations have been made to determine if by any chance the income according to other departments of the hotel might possibly compensate for the increased cost of the double occupancy. This study has shown that such is not the case Pres- ident Green then goes on to say that— “T know this may seem strange to people not fully acquainted with hotel costs, for they assume that the second person in a room contributes nothing to the expense of operation. As a mat- ter of fact, it increases the demand for service in practically every department. While it may bring to our dining rooms a few women from whose patronage we would not otherwise benefit, we have found the average effect upon food business most disappointing. It seems that when traveling men are accompanied by their wives, they in- cline to greater economy than when traveling alone. In order to keep the joint outlay within the husband’s ex- pense account, both tend to patronize the most inexpensive restaurants they can find. Naturally, these are not bur- dened with the overhead and cost of service from which hotel dining rooms cannot escape.” This being the case, the free accom- modation of the wife of the traveling man constitutes a further load to be carried by the already over-burdened hotel man, and this official pronounce- ment from the headquarters of the A. H. A. should stiffen the determination of the operators throughout the coun- try—particularly in the smaller towns where the pressure is strongest—to demand from the traveling man a prop- er additional sum for the second occu- pant of the room, just as the traveling man demands payment for the addi- tional tube of tooth-paste or tractor which he is selling. : The statement from Mr, Green 1s timely in view of the early opening of tha season when the traveling man operating n_ his automobile may be expected to get on the highways in full force. eliminating MICHIGAN Drive On for Hotel Food Orders Convinced that the hotel and restau- rant business wlil show a sharp gain this spring and summer, as indicated by the present trend, food manufac- turing and wholesale organizations are making a special drive for new orders in that direction this month. Execu- tives for wholesale houses state that, while orders from hotels and restau- rants have increased steadily since the Easter season, heavy buying is not ex- pceted to develop until next month, when the vacation season gets under way. Although a large percentage is expected to consist of canned and bulk goods, distributors are making a spe- cial effort to push fancy items in gro- cery lines. ——__> + 2 Pity Mooney Cannot Stretch a Rope Los Angeles, May 11—The hideous Mooney case has been brought out into the open again for another airing. This time the California legislature has come through with a demand on the Governor to extend executive clem- ency to the arch fiend who deliberately murdered and injured a score of inno- cent people in a preparedness parade twenty years. since. Now they pre- sent the claim that he was convicted on perjured testimony, It is to laugh! Eight years ago on a visit to San Francisco, I made the suggestion to a friend that possibly he had been suffi- ciently punished, whereupon I was con- ducted to the public library there, in- troduced to a competent authority, ‘who placed at my disposal a complete tran- script of all the testimony, upon which I spent several days of careful study. My conclusion was that even had he escaped conviction on that particular charge, his previous career of lawless- ness, which he admitted on the stand to be true, entitled him to stretch a rope, Millions of dollars have been ex- tracted from gullible adherents of trade unionism, to be filched by so-called union leaders for their own personal aggrandizement, The combined bench of the state supreme court made a spe- cial study of all the evidence at the behest of Mayor Walker, of New York, deciding unanimously that there was not a single mitigating circumstance in his case, and now Governor Mer- riman is brought to face the issue be- cause of political angles — meaning votes procurable from questionable saurces. If the Governor accedes to these outrageous demands he will dis- cover in his next campaign that re- spectable, thinking constituents will re- move him from public life for the bal- ance of his career. According to revised regulations is- sued by the Liquor Control Commis- sion of Michigan, wines under 16 per cent, alcoholic content may now be dispensed under the same regulations as beer, which will produce a condi- tion at least restful to the hotel and restaurant contingent, The move was made largely because of reported dis- crepancies in winery accounting, in favor of the wineries. Wines and all beverages of stronger content will be handled, as heretofore, through state outlets. “Tommy” Walker, first assistant manager of Hotel Pantlind, has been appointed sales manager of the hotel as well, succeeding Eric Dahl, in that capacity. Here is a “comer.” I have enjoyed the friendship of this irresist- ible young man for many wears—in fact, ever since he embarked on a ho- tel career—and have never found him wanting, He will continue his success in his new position and will be fre- quently heard from in the future, John S. Packard, manager of the Dearborn Inn at Dearborn, for the L. G. Treadway Corporation, has ap- TRADESMAN pointed Richard L. Widlund assistant manager of that institution, succeeding C. Angevine who has fi lled that po- sition during the past year. Mr. Wid- lund has been connected with the Treadway organization for eight years, his last previous assignment having been as manager of Middlebury Inn, Middlebury, Vermont, Arrangements for the coming silver anniversary of the Hote! Greeters of America during their convention here next month are completed to the very last detail, and look highly promising from the entertainment viewpoint. The delegates will most asuredly be kept busy during their five-day meeting and will be supplied with most complete facilities for becoming familiar with all the attractions of the world’s Garden of Eden. I shall expect to find many of my old Michigan friends among the assembled hosts who are sure to create an attendance record, There seems to be no question as to the universal desire on the part of ho- tel operators for rate stabilization— upwards—but the difficulty seems to be to accomplish what everyone knows to be desirable. It ought not to be im- possible, and it is one of the important objectives toward which hotel men should be working. Successful farming, as in any other line of industry, depends as much upon the individual as upon the environment. One of the researchers in the Depart- ment of Agriculture cites the circum- stances that in a Midwestern state there are two farmers whose lands are side by side. Each has eighty acres and the soil and plantings are exactly the same. Yet when the figures for the year were completed it was found that where the one had a net profit of $1,- 750, the other was $198 to the bad. Is this the difference between diligence and dullness? If so, then the farm bureau, besides appropriating money to ameliorate the condition of the hus- bandman should establish a mental sur- vey annex to ascertain if establishing prices is the only necessary proceeding to “bring home the bacon” to the farmer, I guess, after all, the pedestrian will have to be eliminated, as he is getting to be more of a nuisance in cluttering up the highway, than Old Dobbin ever was. If one were given to statistics he could probably demonstrate by the “rule of three” that it is the pedestrian that is always in the way and makes auto driving a real problem. In the first place, if he were done away with, sidewalks could be eliminated and the streets made wider for mayhem and carnage between the auto drivers. It would be the real sport of kings, with the elimination of fleshy accumulations on the tires. One of our California coroners went so far in directing a ver- dict in one of the cases where the walker came out second best, that he really got what was coming to him, which in the general order of things is just about what it will figure out on the basis of general annihilation for us all. With all these advanced “models” in locomotion I shudder to think of the ultimate when they begin “harvesting” in groups instead of singly. Succumbing to the blandishments of that erudite physic dispenser, one Dr. Moore, I was whirled away to witness the ever popular Ramona pageant, pre- sented as a community non-profit en- terprise by the citizens of the twin cities of Hemet and San Jacinto in the locality where the immortal Indian maiden Ramona lived and died. In the cast were more than 200 people who took part in the spectacle. Many thou- sands of Southern Californians make their annual trek to the Ramona bowl —just three miles beyond Hemet to- ward the San Jacinto mountain range —for this pageant. From Los Angeles 17 to the bowl the distance is approxi- mately ninety-five miles, and we went by the new Garvey avenue highway to El Monte, thence to Pomona over a new highway, and then to Ontario and Riverside and over the Box Springs grade past March Field to Perris and finally Hemet. Between Perris and Hemet we saw the first of the colorful wild flower display that attracts so many motorists to that particular sec- tion, Yellows, reds, whites and blues— all of the blossoms combine to make the vista by the highway a kaleidoscop- ic one, while during the first portion of the trip, through “the orange groves, the orange blossoms and their delicate fragrance provided a pleasant experi- ence. After a most delightful lunch- eon at Hemet we proceeded to the bowl. Most of the principals in the cast have portrayed the same roles year after year, reminding one of an enor- mous, devoted family, and have attain- ed the efficiency of professional thes- pians in their parts. The bow! is a huge natural amphitheater in a pocket of a canyon in the slopes of the San Jacinto mountains. To the North stretches the floor of the fertile Hemet Valley while in the distance are the snow-capped peaks of the San Ber- nardino mountains, and to the east, the majestic San Jacintos. By reason of ue remarkable accoustic properties of the bowl, in which ordinary conversa- tion is audible for hundreds of yards, the entire mountainside becomes a stage of awe- inspiring proportions, As no artificial properties or scenery are used, the illusion is created that the spectators are viewing the events of decades ago transpiring before their eyes, Attempting to supply a review of the play would be a hard task even if space permitted me to do so, and use- less for the reason that traditional his- tory has covered the real action of the play in every civilized tongue. I had seen it before, but the appeal to me is in. the ensemble, from all walks of life, from the noble red man to the modern civilization as we know it. Looking accross a babling brook, spectators see gay fiestas of the days of the dons and dark-eyed senoritas flirting and dancing. Horsemen gallop in and out of the bowl in thrilling episodes, all en- livening the love idyll of Ramona and Allesandro, the Indian hero. 1 was interested in the numerous facilities provided for the motorists who attend the pageant. They may drive their cars over a perfect highway, to the rim of the bowl; while at the foot of a short decline free parking space for thousands of cars is provided. For the return trip to Los Angeles from Hemet we drove through San Jacinto and thence to Beaumont and Redlands, joining Foothill boulevard at San Ber- nardino and then home via Claremont and Pasadena. A restful trip on a per- fect day, with forewarning of a raven- ous appetite for a dinner such as the gods provide, Not the meat in the cocoanut, but the butter in the sandwich is what agitates me, and impels me to say just what I have on my mind at the present writ- ing. Yesterday I hied me to one of these “shoppes” and ordered a ham sandwich at the schedule price of fif- teen per and found on delivery two slices of “extra dry” bread and a mod- erately thin “film” of extra dry ham. There was no butter anywhere, nor, for that matter, any sort of lubricant to help this decidedly unpalatable offer- ing on its way. Of course the restau- ranteur kindly informed me that the times were depressed and he was prac- ticing conservation of—what I did not learn, for the price charged was still fifteen per. But a thought came to me and that was this: Why does the sand- wich man continue to persist in serv- ing butterless sandwiches, when the very name suggests a couple of slices of moist bread, well buttered, with a (Continued on page 24) DRUGS Michigan Board of Pharmacy President—M. N. Henry, Lowell. Vice-President — Norman A. Weess, Evart. Other members of the Board—Frank T. Gillespie, St. Joseph; Victor C. Piaskow- ski, Detroit; Earl Durham, Corunna. 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 Committee—M. N. Henry (chairman), Lowell; Benjamin S. Peck, Kalamazoo; A. A. Sprague, Ithaca; Leo J. Lacroix, Detroit; James W. Lyons, Detroit; Ray Jenson, Grand Rapids; Dun- can Weaver, Fennville. Vegetable Oils Last week the grains were somewhat easier while lard and cottonseed oil futures held steady. Crude cottonseed oil was unchanged while in Britain cot- tonseed oil was firmer and lard futures showed a good gain. Meanwhile an improved tone in the vegetable oils was evident. After being quoted very nominally for some weeks the refined edible oils came to life and were quoted more ac- tively with business volume improving. Although the actual changes in quota- tions were not great, the present prices more nearly represent levels at which business is being done. Rapeseed oil is interesting bakers and promising to develop business in that field. Sunflow- er oil is active and firm. Imported cot- tonseed oil for cooking is said to be in active demand. The bulk lots of the crude and refined edible oils are re- ported to be quoted more nearly in line with present buying conditions and business in that line is better. Coconut oil dropped nearly %c last week, while tallow rose 4c per pound. In sympathy with coconut oil lower prices for palm oils were heard in some directions. China wood oil continues to provide “fireworks” with prices jumping sharp- ly on occasions, Nearby oil was up in the week, while July oil was from %4c to %c higher than a week earlier, The trade is still having a hard time trying to satisfy demands for spot and nearby oil. Some now predict that the situa- tion may not ease up materially for from two to three months. Oiticica oil is selling well, according to reports. Spot oil in drums is quoted at from 14c to 14%c, with sales at 14c said to be made in several directions. The sharp rise in china wood has proved a great benefit to sellers of this oil. Whereas a few months ago it was 7c a pound now it is double that figure. This higher price is paid by consumers who would have to pay 18c or so for china wood oil. Perilla oil continued more active all week with good sales made, stocks nearby and spot being rapidly depleted, according to reports. Perilla oil is cheap as compared with other paint and var- nish oils and this factor appears to be pushing sales despite the continued un- MICHIGAN TRADESMAN certainty as to whether or not Congress may levy a processing tax on it. How- ever the likelihood of this action now appears to be reduced, Other oils generally are dull. De- natured olive oil is selling in very small volume. Little activity in soy bean oil is heard of while rapeseed oil is rather quiet. Castor oil, as usual, is un- changed in price and moving in a very “ small way. Essential Oils Makers of fly spray and other insec- ticide compounds are showing a keener interest in essential oils. Dealers also report a larger number of inquiries for the account of soft drink manufactur- ers. Perfumers are taking moderate quantities of floral oils, but with the summer season close at hand little in the way of any real improvement is anticipated from this quarter. The situation in orange oil is attract- ing considerable attention. Limited of- fers of West Indian oil together with the tight position in the Italian and do- mestic grades are factors largely re- sponsble for the strong feeling that prevails regarding the general outlook. Only a routine buying movement is noted in lime oil, Dealers are inclined to sit back and look on, feeling that as production gets under way in the pri- mary market quotations may possibly decline. Oil grapefruit sales are hold- ing up in good volume and quotations are steady at $2.85 to $2.90 a pound. Bergamot is easier. Some dealers are asking $2.55 to $2.60 a pound for spot goods, but in other quarters it is pos- sible to secure material at $1.35 to $1.40 per pound, Although trade in cananga is rather narrow, the market continues to dis- play a firm tone because of high re- placement costs. Oil lemongrass is quiet. Safrol is scarce and in the ab- sence of spot offerings quotations are largely nominal. Soap manufacturers are showing a fair interest in aromatic chemicals though little in the way of any unusual activity is reported. Rubber specialty makers are in the market for small lots and insecticide and disinfectant manu- facturers are showing considerable in- terest. Fine Chemicals A steady to firm tone prevailed in the fine chemical market over the past week, In view of the stability consum- ers were placing considerable confi- dence in the market and many inquiries for forward deliveries were noted. The slight decline in the domestic and for- eign grades of crude glycerine failed to have any influence on chemically pure prices, and based on reports from lead- ing refiners the demand for the latter continues in fairly good volume. Despite the small stocks of quick- silver available on spot, buying has not been in sufficient volume to bring about any material change in quotations, Fu- ture price movements in codliver oil are likely to be in an upward direction because of the firm reports coming from Norway. This year’s production fell considerably below the output a year ago and in some instances import- ers seem rather anxious to cover a por- tion of their forward requirements in anticipation of a firmer market later on. Toward the close of last week orders for citric acid were reported to be com- ing in more freely. The arrival of warmer weather should bring about a further upturn in activity it is believed. Caffeine and sodium benzoate displayed a greater amount of activity. The methanol market is featured by a firm tone. Good shipments of pure material are reported and the solvent grades are commanding a fair amount of atten- tion. ———_+++____ Motiocn Picture Industry Does Better With the fall booking season under way, the motion picture in- dustry currently anticipates a ma- terial increase in revenues during the balance of this year, as com- pared with 1934. The largest circuits report that attendance at theatres since Sep- tember has averaged fully 25 per cent better than for the same pe- riod last year. The change in the May 15, 1935 type of attraction presented since the Legion of Decency Campaign was pushed has stimulated at- tendance, it is asserted. The operation of the industry's NRA code has also bettered con- ditions. The ban against free tickets, lotteries and other devices which actually constituted rebates from quoted box office prices has augmented theater income. More- over, the display of free attrac- tions by non-theatrical enterprises has been reduced. The fair trade practice regula- tions will be continued under trade association auspices, it is ex- pected, should Congress fail to ex- tend the National Industrial Re- covery Act. +++ The idea now germinating is to go ahead regardless of political thunder- ings and threatenings. + >. > Horse sense behind the steering wheel is better than horse power under the hood. Parsons Insecticides “How time does fly— its fly time again” —Bulk or bottled.) trade) FORMALDEHYDE U. S. P. 40% TO-DOT (Super Household Fly Spray FLY-DI (In bulk only to the Drug TO-DOT (Cattle and Dairy Sprays) Parsons Chemical Works MANUFACTURING LABORATORIES GRAND LEDGE, MICH, SEASONABLE ITEMS SEED DISINFECTANTS CERESAN DuBAY No. 738 SEMESAN BELL NU-GREEN INSECTICIDES PARIS GREEN ARSENATE of CALCIUM LIME and SULPHUR ARSENATE of LEAD BORDEAUX MIXTURE COPERCARB OXO BORDEAUX SPONGES PICNIC SUPPLIES CHAMOIS SKINS WAXES POLISHES CLEANERS PAINT BRUSHES—VARNISH BRUSHES BATHING CAPS SODA FOUNTAINS and SUPPLIES PAINTS ENAMELS TURPENTINE RUBBER BALLS GOLF SUPPLIES LACQUERS MOTH DESTROYER BASE BALLS CAMERAS and FILMS BATHING SUITS and SHOES VARNISHES' OILS MARBLES PLAY GROUND and INDOOR BALLS and CLUBS ANT ROACH LICE BEDBUG FLEE RAT MICE MOSQUITO TICK KILLERS, ETC. Our prices are right and stock complete. HAZELTINE & PERKINS DRUG CO. Grand Rapids, Mich. May 15, 1935 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT Prices quoted are nominal, based on market the day of issue. ACID Acetic, No. 8, Ib.-----____..... 0o @ 10 Boric, *Powd., or Xtal., Ib.__ W%@ 20 Carbolie, Xtal., Ib) 36 @ 43 Citric, 1b @ Muriatic, Com’1. 03%@ 10 Nitric, Ib. 2 lo @ 16 Oxalic, Ib. _ @ Sulphuric, Ib. 03%@ 10 Tartaric, lb; 22 88 e@ = 40 ALCOHOL Denatured, No. 5, gal...--.. 38 @ 60 Wood, gal. Seeeaeteeecoee | Oe | 60 ALUM-POTASH, USP ump. Ib. 2 6 @ 15 Powd. or Gra., Ib... __-_. 0o%@ 16 AMMONIA Concentrated, Ib. -.-...1. 06 @ 18 ty ——- 08%@ 13 3-2 Ib 6 OS Ol Carbonate, Ib... as a SC at Muriate, Lp., 1b....... ——- uw @¢G@ Muriate, Gra., Ib......... 07%@ 18 Muriate, Fo,, tb... EE ARSENIC Pound) oo 07 @ 20 BALSAMS Copaiba, ib.) 208 60 @1 20 Kir, Gana., Ibo. 200 @ 2 40 Py Oree, ih. 50 @ 1 00 Pers Tp ee 350 @ 4 00 Tolu.- lb, 2... SO 6 @ t 80 BARKS Cassia Ordinary, Ib. -__-_.-_--. eo Ordinary, Po., lb....01. 20 @ 30 Saigon Ib. 2.0 eo 4 Saicon, Fo. WM... 50 @ 60 ir, ih 40 @ 465 Elm, Powd 38 @ 45 Elm, G’d, sone 33 @ 46 ras (P*d lb. 50) o Soaptree, cut, 1b..— 20 @ 30 Seaptree, 35 @ 40 Cubeb, Ib. @ Cubeb, Po., @ 80 Juniper, Ib. 10 @ BLUE VITRIOL round... lclC CUCU SLCUd BORAX Pd or Xtal, ib. OK GO BRIMSTONE rae 0 @ 10 CAMPHOR Found ee 72 @ 8 CANTHARIDES Russian, Powd, .--.-..___. @ 4 60 Chinese, Powd. ~-__------ @ 200 CHALK Crayons White, dozen -_--~.---. @ 3 60 Dustless, dozen ~—----- @ 6 00 French Powder, Coml., Ib... 03%@ 10 Precipitated, Ib. ..--------- 122 @ 16 brepared, ib, ---.. . 4 @ i¢ White, lump, Ib.-----—----- 02 @ 10 CAPSICUM roan & _— 70 Powder, lb. 62 3 1% CLOVES Whole lb. 220-20. ee 30 @ 40 Powdered, lb. -------------- 35 @ 45 COCAINE Ounce 2222202 ee 13 75@15 40 COPPERAS xral 1h... 03% 0 Powdered, lb. —~.--------- a- C6 @ % CREAM TARTAR Pound __...__.__.___..._.-._- 25 @ 38 CUTTLEBONE Pound 202.2... 20 @ 88 DEXTRINE Yellow Corn, Ib..-.--------- 06%@ 15 White Corn, !b.------------ 7 @ 16 EXTRACT llow Lab., er nein Licorice, P’d, Ib. eo 6 FLOWER Arnica lps ooo. 0 @ 655 Chamomile German: th. 60 @ 70 Roman, Ib. ~- ee @ 1 40 Saffron American, lb. ___-__----- @ 1% Spanish, ozs, ._.._._ @1 2% FORMALDEHYDE, or Pound) 220 Sua @ 2 FULLER’S EARTH Powder, Ib. 1.22. ——. 10 GELATIN Pound 22-0 oo eee 6 @ 66 GLUE Brok., Bro:, Ib.2 0 oe 30 Gro’d, Dark, | Oe 25 Whi. Flake, Ib.-.---.. 37%@ 35 Wihite Gids he 2 @ 3 White AXX light, this @e@ 40 Ribbon 22 42%@ 60 GLYCERINE Pound) (ooo ee 19 @ 45 GUM Aloes, Barbadoe: so called, 1b. “gourds___. 35 Arabic, first, Ib. Arabic, sorts, Arabic, Gran., lb. Arabic, P’d, Tb ib. 2 Asafoetida, lb. Asafoetida, Po., lb..._---- Guaiac, lb. -...... on Guaiac, powd, .—...-.-_- TSO De ee ee Kino, powd., Ib... EV TE ee es ee Myrrh: Pow. Ib. o oo Shellac, Orange, pe ee 42 Ground, lb. cc te Shellac, white 4bone dr’d) lb. 45 Tragacanth 17 25 HOPS %s Loose, Pressed, Ib,...-.. HYDROGEN PERoxiae Pound, gross ............ 44 lb., gross dcop 00 % Ib. groom ---1l1 00 INDIGO Madras, Ib, -._---- ----~ 2 00 INSECT POWDER a ee) ok Pure, Ib. LEAD ACETATE Xtal, Ib. Powd. and Gran... LICORICE Extracts, sticks, per box. 1 60 Lozenges, Ib, 40 Waters, (248) box..--.-..-. LEAVES Buehu, jb., short... Buchu, lb., long.___---.-- Buchu: P’d:. lb. Sage, bulk, Ib, _..- = ab Sage, loose pressed, \%s, Ib. Sage, ounces -....----- mown Sage, P’d and Grd._.-_. i Senna Alexandria, Ib. _...-.. % Tinnevella, bb. LIME Chloride, med., dz. ~---.... Chloride, large, dz...---- LYCOPODIUM Pound 2235 32 eee 50 MAGNESIA Carn, “Ms 1 16 Oxide, light, 1b._--—- STs MENTHOL Pound 3 4 93 MERCURY Pound ee, 216 QOH FOOH9OOHOHHHOOHOOHSSO6 2 1 1 40 @ % ans 18 00 @11 50 @ 3 25 @ 41 g 25 36 @ 2 00 g 60 1 60 @ @ @ @ 380 @ 44 @ & @ 35 @ 4 @ 4 @ 3% @ 30 @ 35 @ 8 @ 1 45 @ 60 30 $ i @ % @ 170 @ % @5 @ 20 MORPHINE Ounces!) 2 @12 75 es ie ee @14 40 MUSTARD Bulk, Powd. Select, Ib. 4 @ 60 No. 1, 17 @ 2% Balls, lb. see @ 1b Hlake: Wb seen O6eKhe@ 15 NUTMEG Pound: 22 0) oo @ 40 Powdered, ib. __-..-._... @ 50 NUX VOMICA Pound) 2202-2 ee g 26 Powdered: Ib. ° 220 15 25 OIL ESSENTIAL Almond Bit., true, ozs. ._.....- @ 60 Bit, art., ozs. .-- @_ 30 Sweet, true, ip 140 @ 2 00 Sweet, art., lbs..-...... 7% @1 20 Amber, crude, @ 1 40 Amber; rect,, Ib....-_.____. 130 @ 2 00 Anisoc by oes 110 @1 60 Bay, ib. oot Od @ 4 36 Bergamot, Ib. @ 3 00 Cajéput, ib: oo w--- 150 @ 2 00 Caraway S’d, lb... 350 @ 400 Cassia, USE Ib 215 @ 2 60 Cedar Leaf, lb..wt..--.... 170 @ 2 20 Cedar Leaf, Coml., lb...-... 100 @ 1 25 Citronelia, Ib. ... 8 @ 1 20 Cloves 1b, 18 @ 225 Croton, tbs) 400 @ 4 60 Cubeb; Ib. 20 ee Oe 4S 80 rigeron, Ib, ....-.-..-.--- 370 @ 3 36 ksucalytus, Jb, 2. cconsce 86 @ 1 20 Nene oo 25 @ 2 60 Hemlock, Pu, “Db. ee 170 @ 220 Hemlock Com., Ib.__._..-. 100 @ 1 25 Juniper Ber., 1b ae 300 @ 3 20 Junipir W’d, lb. ._..._... ~—-150 @1 75 6 00 @ 6 40 125 @ i 60 215 @ 2 60 @ 1 26 Mustard. art., 0zS. ..._.. @ 365 Orange, Sw., lb......-..._.. 300 @ 38 26 Origanum, art., @12w Pennyroyal, Ib. . @ 3 20 Peppermint, 1b. @ 5 30 Rose. dr. 22 @ 2 bu @ 1 00 @ 1 50 @ 8 60 @ 4 7% @240 @ 1 40 @ 400 Nanay ip see Zl @ 4 0 Thyme, Red, Ib....-.....175 @ 3 40 Thyme, Whi., 1 @ 2 60 Wintergreen Leaf, true, @ 6 00 Birch, lb. @ 4 60 Sv @ 1 20 Wormseed, “bb. @ 4 00 Wormwood, Ib. @ 6 00 OILS HEAVY Castor, gal. _ @ 1 60 Cocoanut, Ib, 22%@ 36 Cod Liver, Norwegian, gal. 120 @ 1 60 Cot. (Seed. gal. oo 120 @1 30 rd, ex., gal.__... 155 @1 65 Lard, No. 1, gal...._____ 125 @1 40 Linseed, raw, gal.__ 78 @ 98 Linseed, boil., gal. 81 @ 96 Neatsfoot, extra, gal. 80 @1 00 Olive Malaga, gal. -_--..-..200 @ 3 60 @ & 00 . 1 60 90 @ 65 @ 2 00 is : 20 Powder, ozs. 1 30 Gran. 628 1 30 Round) 2b 06%@ 16 PEPPER Black) gerd:, ib... ss 25 35 Red, grd., Ib.-_.. 4 @ 56 White, grd., 1b... 4 @ = 55 PITCH BURGUNDY Pound (22 80 6G 6 PETROLATUM Amber, Plain, Ib... 12 @ 17 Amber, Carb., Ib... 2 14@ 19 Cream Whi.,, be —_ . 4a ss Lily White, “Ib. «6 Se Oe Snow White, De 22 @ 27 PLASTER PARIS DENTAL Barre @ 6 00 Mess, Mp 2 03%Q@ 8 POTASSA Caustic, st’ks, Ib.---...____ 69 @1 04 Higuor Ibo eo «#@ POTASSIUM Bicarbonate, Ib. _.-...-..-. 30 @ 35 Acetate, WD. 2 69 @1 04 Bichromate, Ib, -----—--- 16 @ 26 Bromide, Ib. ok a Ge Carbonate: Wh. 2282 48 @ 72 Chlorate Rta: Ib... So ed Bowd. ib.02 ee 19 @ 27 Gran, 1b 32 @ 40 Fodide. Ip. 222225 18 @214 Permanganate, lb. __------- 22 @ 50 Prussiate Red, Ib. soo ees 909 @1 00 Neliow, ib. = GO @ Pound -.. @ 30 Powd., Ib 3 @ 4 QUININE G02. cans, Of8:220 23 @ 71 ROSIN Pound 4 @ 16 Aconite, Powd., Alkanet, ib, ee Alkanet, Pow, Ibe 2 Belladonna, Powd., pan Blood, Powd., Ib 36 Burdock, Powd., Ib... Calamus, Fencne Split “and Peeled, ms Calamus, Ordinary, De Calamus, Powd., Elecampane, Ib. Gentian, Powd., ) Ginger, African, Powd., lb. 16 Ginger, Jamaica, Limed, Ib. 38 Ginger, Jamaica, Powd., lb. 30 Goldenseal, Powd., lb.__--__ 2 00 Hellebore, White, ‘Powd., lb. 20 indian Turnip, Powd., Ib. cores lpecac, Powd., 1b. Ibe es pennmmnnnae 3 00 Licorice, Ibi eee ee 35 40 Licorice, Bowd., ips 15 26 Mandrake, Powd,. Ib. 40 Marshmaliow, Cut, ao 69 Marshmallow, Powd., 60 OFtiB, ID) (os oe 36 Orris, Powd., !b...... 40 46 Orris, Fingers, lb.........2 1 7 Pink, Powd.. Ib. 1 50 2 25 Poke, Powd. Ib 30 Rhubarb, Ib Sarsaparilla, Med., Cut, Ib. Squills, Powd., 1b es 42 Tumeric, Powd., 1b. ponenmace 16 QOO OE ROS SE LOHE OL OHOSEHHHEHEHEHH LEGOSO o s Valerian, Powd.. lb...” 50 i . SAL Kpsom, ee ee 03 @ Glaubers o Team i 03 @ 10 Grant ib, 2222 eee os Nitre — 3 “tak or Powd:=. =. 49 2 Grane) Ibo ooo es 09 ¢ ae Rochelle,’ i ee ee 7 @ Soda ib 2 a 02%@ 08 s i SEED mise: Ibo eo 40 45 Canary, Recleaned, Ib._.____ 10 g 16 Cardamon, Bleached, Saat @ 200 Caraway, "Dutch, Ib... 232 @ 30 Celery Ib; 22 @110 Colchicum, Powd,, @ 200 Coriander, Ib, 165 @ 2 Fennel, Ib. ___ 30 @ 40 Flax. Whole. Ib. 06%@ 15 Flax, Ground. lb 06%@ 15 Hemp, ae 1b 03 @ 16 Lobelia, Powd. 85 Mustard, Black, 17 4o 26 Mustard, White, 16 @ 2 Poppy, Blue, Ib 20 @ & Quince, 100 @1 25 Rape, 10 @ 15 Sabadilla, Powd., 45 @ 55 Sunfiower, Ib. 11 @ 2 Worm, Levant, lb @ 5 50 Worm. Levant, Powd @ 5 75 SOAP Coats Conti, White Ash ee Caustic, Co’l., Hyposuiphite, Phosphate, 1b, Sulphite he Ib. SYRUP Rock Candy, Gals,___.______ 70 @ 85 % Pints, dozen. Pints, dozen ee $ i 4 Quarts, dozen @ 3275 Gallons 2200 63 @ 78 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 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 intended as a guide for the buyer. upon the market. By comparing the base ’s sundries is listed upon base prices, not Each week we list items advancing and declining 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 adva nces, 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 im to act as a buying guide for everyone. takes advantage from it. possible for it to quote prices A careful merchant watches the market and ADVANCED Sugar—10 points Good Steers & Heif.—2c Top Steers & Heif.—2c Med, Steers & Heif.—4c Com. Cattle—ic Top Veal—lc Good Veal ‘Yc Med. Veal—Y2c Spring Lamb 2!/ac Good Lamb—2c AMMONIA Little Bo Peep, med._. 1 35 Little Bo Peep, lige..-- . is Quaker, 32 0z...._..-- Star, 12-o0z. AP@?LE BUTTER aker, 12-28 og., Me Boies Maas en eee tee 1 60 BAKING POWDERS Clabber Girl 10-oz., 4 doz. case_.___. 3 50 2 Ib., ‘1 doz. case_____ 2 30 Royal, 2 0z., doz.-.... oo 6 — coz. 2 00 6-0z., per dozen---___ 12-0z., per dozen____ 2 25 6-Ib., per dozen__-__. 12 25 Calumet KC 100z., 4doz.in case... 3 36 15 0z., 2doz.in case... 2 45 25 0z., 2 doz. in case__ 4 12 5 Ib., 1 doz, in case_. 5 90 10 ib., "ie doz.in case__ 5 75 BLEACHER CLEANSER Lizzie, 16 oz., 12s_-_-- 16 Linco Wash, 32 oz. 128 3 2 Clorox, 24 pints Sahai Clorox, 12 quarts___-- z 8 BLUING Am. Ball, 36-1 0z., cart. 1 00 Boy Blue, 18s, per cs. 1 35 BEANS and PEAS Dry Lima Beans, 26 lb. ‘ 20 White H’d P. Beans_. Split roc yell, 60 Ib. 3 35 Split Peas, gr’n, 60 lb. 4 75 Scotch Peas. 100 Ib... 6 65 BURNERS Queen Ann, No.1 --_-- 1 15 Queen Ann, No. 2 ..--. 1 25 White Flame, No. 1 and 2, 25 BOTTLE CAPS Single Lacquor, 24 gross case, per case...... 4 10 Med. Lamb—2c Poor Lamb—1t1c Good Mutton—2c Med. Mutton—1c Pork Loins—Yoc Pork Butts—/Vc Pork Sholders—lc Pork Spareribs—!2c Pork Neckbones—!4c Pork Trimmings—/2c DS ) Bellies—1Yac eee eseennat estiaemeeeeeaeseiacesceeremenseeseacnceenes BREAKFAST FOODS Kellogg’s Brands Corn Flakes, No. 136. 2 40 Corn Flakes, No. 124__ 2 40 Rep, No. 224. 87 Pep No. 250 -...-..... 1 05 Krumbles, No. 412... 1 65 Bran Flakes, No. 624__ 2 37 Bran Flakes. No, 650__ 1 00 Rice Krispies, 6 oz... 3 40 Rice Krispies, 1 oz...-. 1 10 All Bran, 16 oz. ...-... 3 30 All Bran, 10 0z. _.... 3 7% Wheat Krispies, 24s__ Post Brands Grapenut Flakes, 24s8.. 2 10 Grape-Nuts, 248 -..... 3 90 Grape-Nuts, 50s ...... 1 60 Instant Postum, No. 8 5 46 Instant Postum, No, 10 4 70 Postum Cereal, No. 0. 3 38 Post Toasties, 36s_... 2 40 Post Toasties. 24s__.. 2 40 Post Bran, PBF, 12_. 1 74 Post Bran, PBF, 24. 2 36 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 60 Warehouse -__-...._ 7 7 Winner, 5 sewed______ 5 76 Eagle 4 25 BRUSHES Scrub New Deal, dozen... 85 Stove Shaker, dozen ........ 90 Shoe Topcen, dozen BUTTER COLOR Hansen's, 4 oz. bottles 2 40 Hansen’s, 2 oz. bottles 1 60 CANDLES Electric Light, 40 Ibs. 12.1 Plumber, 40 Ibs. 12.8 Tudor, 6s, per box.__. 30 CANNED FRUITS Apples Per Doz. Imperial, No. 10-.__.- 5 00 Apple Sauce mart. Noo 22 5 10 Mart; No: 10... -2) £25 Apricots Forest. No. 10__--_--- 8 50 Quaker, No. 10..--. 9 75 Gibralter, No. 10._--- 9 00 Gibralter, No, — 2 40 Superior. No. toa 2 70 Supreme, No. Supreme, No. 2 85 2 25 Quaker. No. 2__-__ _. & €0 Quaker. No. 2%-----_ 27 Blackberries Premio,..No, 10_.._.--- 6 Quaker, No, 2_--... S40 Pure Lard in tierces—5gc Dried Beef Knucckles—tc Bacon 4/6 Cert.—2c Boneless Rump Beef—$2 DECLINED Wilson’s Nut Oleo—t'/oc California Prunes—!/c Fruit Can Rubbers—10c Blue Berries Eagle, No. 10. Cherries Hart, No, 10... 5 70 Hart, No. 2 in syrup_. 2 25 Hart Special, 2... 1 25 Supreme, No. 2 in syrup a eens Hart Special, “No. 2.. 1 35 Cherries—Royal Ann Supreme, No. 2%... 3 20 Supreme, No. 2... 2 30 Gibralter, No. 10__.... 9 26 Gibralter, No. 2% .--. 2 75 Figs Beckwith Breakfast, No. 10... 138 00 Carpenter Preserved, 5 oz. glass -.--.. 1 85 Supreme Kodota, No. 11 90 Fruit Salad Supreme, No. 10____. 12 00 Quaker, No, 10__---- - 11 75 Supreme, No. 244__--_ 3 60 Supreme, No. 2_-._.-- 2 70 Supreme, No. 1---.-. 210 Quaker, No. 2%... 3 18 Gousberries Michigan, No. 10_---- 5 35 Grape Fruit Zeneda No, 2.----.--. 1 35 Grape Fruit Julce Florda Gold. No, 1---- 75 Quaker, No. 2.._.___.. 1 35 Florida Gold. No. 5-- 3 90 Loganberries Premio, No. 10 - ---- 6 75 Orange Juice é Phillips No. 1 Can, dz. 95 Phillips No. 2 can. dz. 1 3 o Peaches Bakers solid pack. Naor 30. a 7 50 Premio, halves. No. 10 6 70 Quaker, sliced or halves. No. 10_----- 8 50 Gibralter, No. 2%---. 2 00 Supreme, sliced No. i i ee ga 215 Supreme, halves, No) 236) 25 2 25 Quaker, sliced or halves, No. 24%4-_---- 215 Quaker sliced or halves, No. 2._-... 1 70 Pears Quaker, No. 10------ 8 58 re Bartlett, No. Se 2 65 Quaker, Bartlett, No. oe 1 95 Pineapple Juice genes Diamond Head, 2 eae Doles, Honey Dew, No. 102 6 75 Pineapple, Crushed Imperial, No. 10-----. 7 Honey Dew, No. 2%... 2 0 Honey No, 2... 1 90 Quaker, No. 2%__..-- 2 35 Quaker, No. 2........ 1 Quaker, No. 1_----. 110 Pineapple, Sliced Honey Dew, sliced, Do. 40-2 9 00 Honey Dew, tia bits, O20 Honey Dew, No. 2%__ 2 45 Honey Dew, No, 2... 2 00 Honey Dew, No. 1____ ; 10 Ukelele Broken, ‘No. 10 7 90 Ukelele Broken, 2%... 2 25 Ukelele Broken, No. 2 1 85 — Tid Bits, No. Quaker, No. 1..--.... 1 06 Plums Ulikit, Ege 10, 30% Syrup —_.____..___._. 6 50 daa Egg, No. 2% 2 30 Supreme Ege, No. 2__ 1 70 Primo, No. 2, 40% SYTaD | 2 8 Oe Prepared Prunes Supreme, No. 2%. Supreme, No. 10, itelien . 6 50 Raspberries, Black Imperial, No. 10 7 Premio, No. 10._.. Hart, 8-ounce -...... 80 Raspberries, Red Premio, No. 10...-.... 8 76 Strawberries Jordan, No, 2_-___---. 2 50 Daggett, No. 2_...___. 2 25 Quaker, No. 2----_-.-. 2 35 CANNED FISH Clam Ch’der, 10% oz._ 1 35 Clam Chowder, No. 2__ 2 75 Clams, Steamed No. 1 2 75 Clams, Minced, No. % 2 40 Finnan Haddie, 10 0z._ 3 30 Clam Bouillon, 7 oz... 2 50 Chicken Haddie, No. 1 2 75 Fish Flakes, small... 1 25 Cod Fish Cake, 10 oz. 1 55 Cove Oysters, 5 oz.--.. 1 35 Lobster, No. % -----.. 2 25 Shrimp, 1, wet... 1 45 sard’s, ie Oil, k’less_. 3 97 Salmon, Red Alaska__ 2 25 Sakmon, Med. Alaska_ 1 75 oo Salmon, ay Alaska 1 3 Sardines, Im. %, ea. ns Sardines, Cal. ee Tuna, % Van Camps, GOS.) ho es 1 55 Tans. %s, Van Camps, Gog. oe Tuna, 1s, Van Camps, G06. oe 3 Tuna, %s, Chicken Sea, Oe 1 85 Tuna, % Bonita__.... i 45 CANNED MEAT Bacon, med, Beechnut 3 60 Bacon, ige., Beechnut 3 75 Beef, ige., Beechnut_. 3 Beef, med., Beechnut_ Beef, No. 1, Corned_- Beef, No. 1, Roast _... Beef, 2% oz., Qua., S! Corn Beef Hash, doz. Be:fsteak & Onions, s. [ii esPi tp SHRAESRSSTSSERK Ham, Potted Meat, 4% Libby Potted Meat, % Libby_ Potted Meat, % Qua... Potted Ham, Gen. %~- Vienna. Saus. No. %_-- Baked Beans Campbells 48s ___....-- 2 ~ ~ «a CANNED VEGETABLES Hart Brand Asparagus Quaker, No, 2_..---.. 2 Hunt Picnic — 20 1 80 Hunt No. 1, Med. Green : 00 Hunt No. 1 Med. White 3 15 Hunt No, 1 Small STOR 2 80 Baked Beans 1 Ib. Sace, 36s, cS._--__ 1 80 No. 2% Size, doz... 1 10 No. 10 Sauce______-.._ 4 00 Lima Beans Baby: No. 2.0223 1 60 Marcellus, No, 2...... 1 25 Scott Co. Soaked... 90 Marcellus, No. 10___._. 6 90 Red Kidney Beans NO! 90 475 SPCR: lies ia MCR Ue 1 00 String Beans Choice. Whole, No. 2__ 1 80 cut,, No. 10 2 at 6. 2 1 35 Marcellus Cut, No. 10. 6 00 Quaker Cut No. 2--.. 1 20 Wax Beans Choice. Whole, No. 2_. 1 80 Cut, No.10 __. = t 25 Cutty Noo 2 ooo 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. 3... 95 Hart Diced. No. 2.--_ 95 Quaker Cut No. 2%-- 1 20 Carrots Diced: No.2 <0. 95 Diced, No. 10 ..---._.. 4 20 Corn Golden Ban., No, 2... 1 Marcellus, No. 2... 1 Fancy Crosby, No. 2 1 40 Whole Grain, 6 Ban- tam. No. Quaker No. lv RS 1 65 8 00 Peas Oxford Gem, No. 2... 3 15 Sifted E. June, No, 2-. 2 00 Marcel., Sw. W No. 21 65 Marcel., B. June, No. 2 1 46 Quaker, B. Ju., No, 10 8 00 Quaker E. J., No. 2_-. 1 45 Pumpkir. Sauerkraut Net) OU No. 2% Quaker___.___ 1 00 NO. 2: Quakers: fous) o 85 Spinach Supreme No. 2%4______ 1 65 Supreme No, 2__--__ 1 324% Supreme No. 10___.__- 5 40 Quality, No, 2.00 110 Succotash Golden Bantam, No. 2_ 1 75 Hart, No. %.. 1 65 Pride of “Michigan____ 12 Tomatoes NO. 10 2 6 58 NO: 2% 85 a, fs 1 40 Quaker, No, 2._._._ 110 CATSUP Quaker, 10 oz._.._doz. 1 10 Quaker, 14 0z.____doz. 1 4@ Quaker gallon glass, a0zen oe 11 00 CHIL! SAUCE Sniders, 80z. .....____ 1 65 Sniders. 140g. ________ 2 25 OYSTER aaa aie Snriders, 11 0z.-.--___ 2 00 CHEESE Roguefort 225 68 Wisconsin Daisy _______ 18 Wisconsin Twin ______ ad Ye New Yor - June, 1983____ 25 Sap Sexo 2) oo 62 BSAC Ie ear a9 Michigan Flats _________ 17 Michigan Daisies ______ a7 Wisconsin Longhorn ___ 18 Imported Leyden _______ 25 1 lb, Limberger ________ 20 Imported Swiss .._.___ 56 Kraft, Pimento Loaf____ 26 Kraft. American Loaf__ 24 Kraft, Brick Loaf______ 24 Kraft. Swiss Loaf______ 2 Kraft, Old Eng. Loaf___ 34 ft, Pimento. % Ib. 1 75 Kraft. American, ¥% lb. 4 15 Kraft, Brick, % Ib.____ 75 Kraft, Limbur., ¥yY Ib. i i May 15, 1935 CHEWING GUM Adams Black Jack...... 68 Adams Dentyne ........ 6 Beeman's Pepsin -... 66 Beechnut Peppermint... 65 Doublemint Peppermint, Wrigleys__ 66 Spearmint, Wrigleys_. - it. 65 65 CHOCOLATE Baker, Prem., 6 lb. % 2 45 Baker, Pre., 6 lb. 3 oz. 2 60 German Sweet, 6 lb.4s 1 86 Little Dot Sweet bibs Ma 2 60 CIGARS Hemt. Champions ___ 38 60 Webster Plaza ...___ 76 00 Webster Golden Wed. 75 u Websterettes —_-___ a Cmcoe Garcia Grand Babies_ ‘0 a0 Bradstreets -........ th i oo RK G Dun Boquet.... 75 C0 Perfect Garcia Subl._ 95 0v BereEy oo 20 00 Burwieer 2 00 i nc Cocoanut Banner, 25 Ib. tins___ 18% Snowdrift, 20 lb. tins__ 1814 CLOTHES LINE AGente 60 tt. 2 ls 1 90 Keystone, 50 ft. ; 85 Corona, 50. tha) 1 49 COFFEE ROASTED Lee & Cady 1 ib, Package RYCO) clea a han ne 2145 Boston Breakfast ____ 18% Breaktast Cup ___.__ 17% Competition ......___ lesz ove ee 21 MASeStic ens aims 23 Morton Ho } Quaker, Vac Tins aoe le Quaker, in glass jars. 26% Coffee Extracts Mo ¥. per 100. 2 lz Krank’s 50 pkgs...ww 4 Zo Hummel’s 50, 1 Ib. 104% CONDENSED MILK EKagie, z oz., per case__ 4 60 Cough Drops : Bxs Smith Bros... 2 sou 4D Luden’s -__.__. cS Vick’s, 40/10c__-._____ 2 40 COUPON BOOKS 50 Economic grade. 2 5u 100 Hconomic grade... 4 5u 500 Economic grade_.20 vu 1000 HEconomic grade__37 5U Where 1,000 bookg are Ordered at a time, special - ly printed front cover is furnished without charge. CRACKERS Hekman Biscuit Company Zesta , TReRerS. 1-lb. ee 65 Hekmén’ S Toasts, 1-lb. salting Soda Crackera, Saltine Seda Crackers, 1-, pees, 5 See ae ‘Soda ei estes aa Cota WARIS a oe cece tenia” 2 8% oz, pkgs... 3 Butter Crackers, bull bulk 13 Butter Crackers, 1 lb, 1.60 Butter Crackers, 2 Ib. 3.12 Graham Crackers, bulk 13 Graham Crackers. TIb. kes, 202k 1.65 sraham oe 216 DkeS 8 3.05 Graham C’s, 6% oz... 93 Junior Oyster C’s, blk. 13 Club Crackers ________ 1 76 CREAM OF TARTAR 6B ib: Doxess 22 ORIED FRUITS Apricots Extra Choice ~.--_--__ 23% StOnAAre 2014 Citron 10: Ib, Dox 25 ay 15, 1935 May 15, MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 21 urrants To “a moka ee FRESH MEATS HERRING SOAP TEA Packages, a Junket Teblets ~~ 1 3 Am. Family, 100 box 5 20 dana e i S a : Beet Helland Herring KF. 60 23% mw . Top Steers & Heif.____ 21. Mi edium -—--_-_---.. 19 Dates . : ; xed, kegs -_________ Fe 100 box. 4 35 Choi Good Steers & Heif.____ 18 Milkers, k ; i oe oummamema 12s. pitted. 1 40 Me ; S ers, kegs -.......0 96 Flake White, 10 box-_ 3 20 Pane 3 Quaker, , DP ——- Med. Steers & Hef.____ 17 Boneless Herring, 10 lb. 15 Ivory, 100 6s 5 05 Sanna eS s Quaker, 12s, regular__ 1 10 _ “MARGARINE Com, atte 77 it ¢€ alla Fairy, ox. No. 1 Nibbe_—-—_-____ 3 ie, Ib... 2 00 Ww ; ‘ut Lunch, 8 lb. paila 1 2% Fairy, 100 box__ 00 Quaker, 12s, 1% lb._- ilson & Co.'s Brands Palm Olive, 144 box__. 6 20 Quaker, 12s, 1 1b.___ 1 46 es Oleo ss Lava, x ~ 3 55 eal Gunpowder Net fi Th mee 100% Veg Oil Grown on eect ns ieee = Figs ‘Amedes FB Tubs, 60 Count, fy. fat 6 00 P & G Nap Soap, 100@3 20 oe ake ce 120 erica Farms __.___ 15 Pails, 10 lb. Fancy fat 150 Sweetheart, 100 box... 5 70 Ceylon i . case... Grandpa Tar, 50 sm...210 Pekoe, medium ___.__. 63 MATCHES ae wines Barber Bar, 9s 60 : ite Fish illiams Mug, per doz. 48 Engli Peaches Diamond. No. 5, 144.__ 5 72 Lamb nglish Breakfast Evap. Choice _------ 15. Searchlight. 144 box__ 5 72 Spring Lamb -________ we eee ce ee tee Cones ein Eva. Fancy -_----- 16% Swan. 144 1 ood K K KK Norway... 19 60 ae - 35@36 Diamond, No. S16. pote 4 a ongou, fancy ___.__ 42@43 Peel Cut Bunch 2. 1 50 S eee Boned, 10 lb. boxes... 16 hole Spices Lemon, sees 9 a 5 gross case Allspice oe @24 os oz, dosw—----_-_ Standard, 6 gro oS Zanzibar --~ @36 ° Cassia, Canton _______ @24 4 of, dozen_____-._ 90 SHOE BLACKENING Cassia, 5c pkg., doz. @40 Fancy -------------_.. 50 Citron, Torelli, 90 2 in 1, Paste, doz.....01 30 Ginger, Africa -_____. @19 4 oz., dozen_.._---- MUELLER’S PRODUCTS E. Z. Combination, dz. 130 Mixed, No. 1__.._._... @30 oni, 9 2 10 Pork or linia cag ee a oe ene doz.. @65 TWINE : : : xbys, ci 1 utmegs, Ce @50 ‘otton, 3 ply c as Bees S Susans. 9 ae ie Sor ea — 2S Shine, dex 90 Yutinegs, 105-110 _____ @48 Cotton, 3 ply Mien Thompson’s S’dless bik. 74% Noodles, 6 0z. -. 2 Shoulders —— i8ig eee ee ores - Quaker a’diess bik.-__- Egg Vermicelli, 6 oz... 210 ‘Spareribs ~_______ -- 13% foe ee Egg Alphabets, 6 0z... 2 10 ae ones ~--------- 0846 STOVE POLISH Pure Ground in Bulk VINEGAR Quaker Seeded, 15 oz.__ 8 — Spaghetti, 24c, rimmings --------__- 15% = Blackne, per doz._____ 1 30 ace. Jamaica __. @18 _F.O. B. Grand Rapids oe 2 20 Black Silk Liquid, doz. 1 30 Oves, Zanzbar ______ @28 Cider. 40 erain________ Black Silk Paste, doz.. 125 28sia, Canton________ @22 White Wine. 40 grain 18 California Prunes _ Enameline Paste, doz. 130 Ginger, Corkin -____ @17 White Wine, 80 grain 4% 90@100, 25 lb, box2s--@06% PROVISI Bnameline Liquid, doz. 130 Mustard -—_____-_____ @21 O@ 90, 25 i one oe cen one BE. Z. Liquid, per dez..1 30 Mace Penang -_-._. @6) 70@ 80, 25 lb. boxes -_@07% e Radium, per doz.______ 130 Pepper, Black _____ @23 60@ 70, 25 lb. boxes mares Almonds. Peerless -_._ 15% @lear aos nae Rising Sun, per doz.__. 1 30 Nutnegs @25 No.9 mei Bog 60, 45 1. boxe 2 large —-—-- 18% hort Gut. Cle 00@34 00 654 Stove Enamel, dz. 280 PePrer. White ______ @48 No.1, pe nae 2 40@ 50, 25 1b. boxes --@ Fancy Mixed __-____ 16 rt Cut, Clear. 3000 Vuicanol, No. 10, doz. 130 Pepper, Cayenne ____ @26 No. 2 per rene 1% 30@ 40, 25 lb. boxes--@10 Filberta, Naples ______ 16 Stovoil, per doz... 3.00. «Paprika, Spanish _____ @36 No. 3° bon 8708S --—--- EGG 20@ 30, 25 lb. boxes --@11% Peanuts, vir. Roasted 11% See oe pe ne 2 30 18@ 24, 26 lb. boxes--@14 Pecans, 3, star __________ 25 Dry Salt Meats Rocnese Rolls, per doz. 90 Pecans, Jumbo _-------- 40 DS Bellies___...20-25 20% : Cheotor’ NO 2. doz. | 50 Pre seaencae a V2 SALT Seasoning Rochester, No. 3. doz.. 2 00 peat Welnuis Gal a Ge ane Soe aa Chli Power, 1% oz... 65 Rayo, per doz... 75 Pearl, 100 lb, sacka__-- 3 5 : Lard quale: 36-144 oka 7 20 pee Ly 1% 02. - P pore {lerces = 14% Quaker Iodized, 24-2. 145 Onion Salt _______ 1 35 Wann 60 1b. tubs --___ . No. 1, bbls.._____ 215 Garlic NWARE a Bulk esr ee See Seen Peanuts ‘ a Zz tubs .----advance %4 Med. No. 1, 100Ib. bk. 107 Ponelty, 34 o2.___ 2 = Baskets Elb.Macaroni, cn a ae ot 0. 1__.--_____ 14% - Pails ___.advance % Chippewa Flake, 70 1b. 100 Kitchen Benanet 495 Bushels, Wide Band Ege Noodle, 10 lb, box 1 2 Ib. Cellop’e case_ 150 10 1b. pails ___advance % Packers Meat, 50 lb... 70 Laurel TPeaves. 00 99 wood handles_.__’_ 2 00 5 lb. pails ___.advance 1 Crushed Rock for ice, Marjoram, 1 oz._______ . Market, drop handle. 90 3 Ib. pails _.___. advance 1 cream, 100 Ib., each 95 Savory, 1'oz.......... 90 Market, single handle. 95 Pearl Barley Compound, tierces ___ 13% Butter Salt, 280 Ib. bbl. 4 00 Thyme’ 1 oz...” 65 Market, extra a) Chester ae [ Shelled Compound, tubs -____- 13% Block, 50 Ib..__-_______ Mt 1. © Siliat mgs, .< Almonds ——---—-—--_-.- 39 Baker Salt, 280 Ib. bbl 3 80 nas 5 Splint, medium ___. ~~ 7 60 eanuts, Spanish, 125 6. 10 lb.. per bale_____ 1 03 Splint smal 2) 6 50 Lentils 10 pits, BREE ----——--—- 9% Sausages 20, 3 lb., per bale______ C0 ee Chili -.------------—------4% ilberts ~-.--.-____.___ = Bolan ee es 15 25 Ib, bogs, table... 45 STARCH Churns ---—- + ve. ll” Barrel, 5 gal ‘ ria 2 oS Oh kf Corn » 5 gal., each____ 2 40 ee re aa Kingsford, 24/1 ______ 286 Barrel, 10 gal., each___ 2 55 Pearl, 100 ib. sacks... 7% Game sliced 36 iba bags, per Ib____ 4% to 6 gal., per gal.____ 16 Minute, 8 0z., 3 doz... 4 Ub Headcheess’ 2 18 eo oa ap 1 64 Dromedary Instant ~.. 3 50 MINCE MEAT _—. 2 20 Pails eee Heat Gatvanizea “3 9 ait. Punch . . —~= Smoked Meats (ia 2 85 co + 26 Yo Ho, Kegs, wet, ib. 16% Hams, Cert.. 14-16 Ib... 22 Gloss a qt. Galvanized _____ 310 3 doz. Carto Aneal 9 -» 12 qt. Flaring Gal ‘Agsorted flavors. Hams, Cert., Skinned Argo, 24, 1 Ib. pkes.__1 72 46 at. Ti & Gal. Jr._ 6 60 an oa bee oe ee ee , . 8 | pkea | 46 OLIVES—Plain Knuckles, 3-5 1b... @23 Silver Gloss, 48, 1s___ 4 Gina Talk "0% =r 19 Quaker, 24 3% ozz. cs. 1 80 Smoked Picnics ______ @17 Elastic, 16 pkgs.______ 38 M Traus : : 155 Quaker, 24 7% og. cs. 355 Boiled Ham -_________ @33 Staley 24—1 Ib._ 170 ywouse Wood, 4 holes__ 60 Quaker Geto, Ge aE 3 2 Quaker, 12. 11 oz.__.. 235 Minced Hams -______ 6) Mie 0 tues. wood, 6 holes. 70 Carnation, Tall, 4 doz. 3 22 cas 12 22-0z, cs. 450 Bacon 4/6 Cert.______ @30 fae ee 5 holes... 65 Carnation, Baby, d dz. 1 61 gal. glass. each_____ 1 50 Rat. snine 1 00 Oatman’s idee, ate : = Beet SYRUP Mouse. mole 1* ooo ea ‘a cuies alii 22 auto a Boneless, rump -_._Ib 20 00 Free Run’g, 82, 26 oz... 3 40 i = Pet, Baby. 4 dozen_-__16l1 Quaker. 24. 3-02. cs2. 2 70 Five case lots__.__._.. 2 3) Blue Karo, No. 1%__ 2 72 T Borden's, Tall, 4 doz. 322 Quaker. 24. 5-oz. cs. 3 37 oe 24) Blue Karo, No. 5.1 dz. 370 Large Galvanized Borden's, Baby, 4 doz. 161 Quaker. 24. 74 oz. cs. 4 16 knee Five case lots_____--_- 2.30 Blue Karo, No. 10-- 352 Medium Galvanized. 7 7s aro, No. 4 2 ; Sa foi Bee 15 Colonial Red Karo. No. 8, ida 399 S™all Galvanized __-" 6 75 FRUIT CANS Cale ee Fifteen 43 _..__ 100 Red Karo. No. 10____ 3 85 Pork 2 11 Twenty 3s 1 65 Ball Mason ae a. oe Imit. Maple Fl Bann we F. O. B. Grand Rapids PARIS GREEN odine, 24, 2s________.. 1 35 3 eyOr er, Globe________ 5 50 Grae 116 A : Iodine, 36, 1___%__ 1 20 Ganee’ We i, 2 dz.. 2 87 na single__ =e aa One quar ae @ 00 Plain 36) 13600 » No. 3, 2 cans 4 84 sa single___.______ 6 00 Half gallon __ 13 00 ee Log Cabin Plain, 24, 2s 1 35 ae Peerless_______ 8 50 Mason Can Tops, gro. 2 45 Baney Glue Rose 490 : Maple and Cane Non an —— a q hoi anu Uni se Fancy Head ._._____ 6 00 BORAX eanuce L pall gene ; = Univers) a FRUIT CAN RUBBERS PICKLES Twenty Mule Team Kanuck, 24/12 Glass__ 4 00 Quaker Red Lip, 3 gro. | 3 Kanuck, 12/26 Glass 4 16 Garton 2. io y, Paper Food Dishes L and eT poy oe 92% eee fi see woe 2 59 a ; ' a i i ae Jeo eee ATINE 2 gp Paw Paw, quarts, doz. 2 80 18 Wieggees au Grape June 3 Ip mize: Ber M—__- =. ell-o, 3 doz.__________ 12 rolls, per case ______ 1 39 WASHING POWDERS Ww 5 Ib. size. Murate, pages re :- ee 18 cartons, percase __. 235 Bon Ami Pd., 18s, box. 1 90 ec 3 Sane : = i “2 Knox's, en-——-~ re Dill Picl.les 12 cartons, per case _.. 1 57 Bon Ami Cake, 18s... 1 65 f naa Jelsert, 3 doz._-------- Gal., 40 to Tin, doz... 8 20 Brille, 2 re 85 WRAPPING PAPER 32 oz. Glass Thrown___ 1 60 Big 4 Soap Chips 8/5__ 2 60 Butchers D F. per 100 5 88 Chipso, large -----_-- 450 MAZOLA cooKING o1L Kft. per 100________ 5 88 HONEY Climaline, 4 doz._.-.__ a0, Pinte 2 cue tik @u. 1% SALERATUS Grandme, 100, 5c_----. 350 Quai. oa ee : a Sees Lake ‘ es ie Oe 5 Arm and Hammer 24s_ 1 50 Grandmm, 24 large... 3 50 Gieallons’ ones easale 15 60 T PAPER JELLY AND PRESERVES Pure. 30 lb. vails_____ 2 35 Imitation. 30 1b. pails. 1 84 Pure Pres., 16 oz., dz_ 2 00 12 oz. Apple Jelly, dz. 95 13 oz. Mint Jelly, dz. 1 60 7 oz. Cranberry Jelly, dz 90 JELLY GLASSES % Pint Tall, per doz._.-. 25 PIPES Cob, 3 doz. in bx. 1 00@1 20 PLAYING CARDS Blue Ribbon. per doz. 4 00 Bicycle. per doz.---_-- 4 50 Caravan, per doz.._- 2 25 POP CORN Sure Pop, 25 Ib. bags 2 55 Yellow, 24 1-lb. bags... 2 50 SAL SODA Granulated, 60 Ibs. cs._ 1 35 Granulated, 18-2%4 Ib. packages COD FISH Bob White, 1 Ib. pure 25 Paragon, 1 Ib... 8 3 3 3 Gold Dust. 12 ee Lux Flakes, 50 small. 4 56 4 3 4 2 La France Laun 4 dz. 3 65 ux Flakes, 20 large. 4 33 Old Dutch Clean., 4 dz. 3 40 Banso, 444 65 Rinso, 40 89 += ue Spotless Cleanser, 48, 3 85 2 25 z 3 15 Super Suds, 48 ._._.. 3 90 Sunbrite, 50s -_--__.. 2 03 Wyandot, Cleaner, 24s 1 52 TABLE SAUCES Lee & Perrin, large___ 5 75 Lee & Perrin, small___ 3 35 Pepper 2 1 60 Royal Mint. 2 2 40 Tobasco, small________ 3 75 Sho You, 9 0z., doz.__. 2 00 Aat lapge) oo es 4 75 A=), smalky = 2 35 Caner 3 Oz). sos oe 3 30 Quaker, 100 Rolls... 4 50 Silk Tissue, 100 rolls__ 3 59 YEAST CAKE Macic: 3 doz. 2 2 70 Sunlight, 3 doz. _ 2 70 Sunlight, 1% dog. ..___ 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 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN May 15, 1925 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. Michigan Shoe Exhibition Association Annual meetings held once a year at Pantlind Hotel, Grand Rapids. Address all communications to Rodney I. Schopps, Secretary, Pantlind Hotel. To Accelerate Normal Recovery As close and continuous observers of American industry and trade, the busi- ness press is convinced that the well- being and prosperity of our people must depend, in the long run, upon the maintenance of constantly increasing efficiency of production and distribu- tion. Only in this way can high stand- ards of living for the American con- sumer be maintained, To realize this objective it is essen- tial that the development of new meth- ods and processes for the manufacture of goods required by the consumer, to- gether with the promotion of efficiency in distribution and merchandising, be stimulated in every legitimate way. The chief motivation of this development always has been, arid we believe must continued to be the incentive offered by the profit system, So long as the com- petent and the enterprising can antici- pate rewards proportionate to the skill and energy expended this progress, benefitting industry and the public alike, will continue. Therefore, any tendency on the part of government to interfere with this vital process we believe is against pub- lic interest. Under the stress of emer- gency many measures have been adopt- ed for the control of industry and trade which seem to us to be inconsistent with the tested principles which have been responsible for national progress and the well-being of the individual citizen in every walk of life. Whatever merit these measures may have, as ex- pedients designed solely to meet the exigencies of a national crisis, it is manifest that they cannot be continued indefinitely without crippling the in- dustrial structure, dislocating and un- balancing the national economy, and reducing the opportunities of the in- dividual business man, worker and con- sumer. We urge, therefore, that government discontinue at the earliest possible moment, al] those temporary measures which have been found to interfere with the normal and healthy processes of American business, or which are not in keeping with traditional American policies of individual progress through competitive merit, or of progressively higher standards of living for the peo- ple as a whole through continued in- creases in productive efficiency. At the same time we recognize the right and duty of government to adopt those measures which are necessary for the protection of legitimate business and all other citizens from the exploi- tation of predatory interests, whether these be in the ranks of industry, finance or labor. We recognize the necessity of protecting the public from natural monopoly or monopolistic prac- tices affecting production, rates, prices and wages. Industries which are nat- urally competitive should not be al- lowed to engage in monopoly practices without government regulation. We therefore urge that, to whatever extent industry opposes government regimen- tation, it shall as a matter of consis- tency and sound economics accept the principle and carry out the practice of free competition in the public interest. We are opposed to government oper- ation of business and competition with its own citizens. We are opposed to government own- ership and operation of railways. We believe the restriction of free en- terprise and competition through a system of government licensing of processors, as proposed in amendments to the Agricultural Adjustment Act, to be inconsistent with the interests of agriculture, business and the public. We urge the elimination at the ear- liest possible moment of all artificial brakes upon freedom of individual in- itiative and enterprise, because we be- lieve that through them alone employ- ment can be expanded and normal] in- centives for business development and capital investment provided—Boot and Shoe Recorder. —_>+~._—_ Advise Extra Shoe Promotion The men’s style committee of the National Shoe Retailers Association ad- vise members that they are recom- mending continuance of the slogan adopted at the fall 1934 meeting: “Take a Chance on a Third.” This plan, that is, one of carrying an extra, new or different type of shoe, met with good success during the last Fall and Win- ter. Shoes, which might be considered as “thirds,” include the monk shoe, new pattern plain-toe oxfords, bow pumps for evening wear, new pattern wing-top oxfords, two-eyelet oxfords and napped finish brown or gray ox- fords. —_>+___ Big Things Ahead For Northport Northport May 14—Regular army units of combat airplanes and anti- aircraft ground forces will stage army maneuvers at Northport, Michigan, be- ginning June 3. : Lieut. Col. Charles B. Meyers, com- mander of the 61st Regiment Coast Artillery Corps from Fort Sheldon, and Major William C. Goldsborough, com- manding the 15th. Observation Squad- ron and the 2lst Photo Section from Scott Field, Ill., visited Northport last week in search of a suitable location for the annual warfare drill that is a part of their training. They express themselves highly pleased with the ter- ritory in the vicinity of the Woolsey M___ Human pride is not worth while; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it. TROUBLE SAVINGS - DETROIT SERVICE .- IN THE AIR.. TORNADO CAN’T BE PREVENTED SO PROTECT YOURSELF AGAINST PROPERTY LOSS WITH MUTUAL WINDSTORM INSURANCE AS WRITTEN BY THE MICHIGAN SHOE DEALERS MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY MUTUAL BUILDING, LANSING, MICHIGAN GRAND RAPIDS SAGINAW STABILITY May 15, 1935 OUT AROUND (Continued from page 9) former has been crowded to capacity so far this week. Considering the prominence of the Netherlands as a coffee producing na- tion on its islands in the East Indies I naturally expected to see Old Gov- ernment Java coffee played up strongly. Instead, fresh milk was in evidence. I believe that a department devoted to the serving of the coffee named would prove a big drawing card, not only be cause of the merits of the brand, but on account of the fragrant aroma which accompanies its brewing. When I started the Tradesman I felt it to be my duty to investigate every article of food and drink until I had discovered the best—at least to my taste. With this end in view I spared no expense in purchasing everything which came my way. While in Costa Rica in 1912 I saw the finest looking coffee I ever set eyes on. The kernels were large and clean looking, The handling of the coffee, so far as grow- ing, curing and packing was concerned, was sanitary to the nth degree. I bought ten pounds of a grower and had it sent to Grand Rapids by ex- press. On my return home I had it roasted. One cup was enough to last me a life time. It was the strongest stuff I ever tasted. The yard man was presented with the remainder of the purchase. For years I heard much of the re- markable coffee served by the Hotel Belmont, N. Y. It commanded 30 cents a cup or 60 cents a pot. It was made fresh by the coffee maker every half hour during the day and evening. On my way to Bermuda in 1911 I spent a day at the hotel, waiting for my boat to sail, and in the meantime I drank several cups of the coffee. I sought an interview with the man who devoted his entire time to the preparation of the coffee. He told me it was clear Old Government Java and that he roasted a week’s supply every Monday; that the roasted coffee was placed in air tight cans while it was still hot and ground as needed every half hour, I bought 10 pounds of him and had it shipped to my hotel at Bermuda. My coffee was shared by my seatmates at the table, who insisted it was the finest they had ever drank. The next table to mine was occupied for two weeks by President (to be) Harding and friends. One evening I had an extra pot of my coffee made for him. It was so much appreciated that it re- sulted in an acquaintance which was kept up by correspondence until Mr. Harding died. When the Government adopted a rule that everything should be true to name, a change was necessary and Dutch houses who handle the brand at first hands from the growers changed the name to Ankola, which is the name of the province in Sumatra where the coffee has always been grown. Al- though it bore the name Java, it was never grown in Java. When the kaiser declared war on the world I assumed he would com- mandeer all the coffee ke could com- mand in Amsterdam, which he sub- sequently did. I purchased 1,000 pounds of a local dealer in July, 1914, and we are now on the last bag. The stamps on the bags indicate that the coffee was eighteen years old when I bought it, so the coffee we are now using must be thirty-nine years old. It has changed color three times dur- ing the twenty-one years I have had it. I submitted samples from time to time to coffee importers in Boston, who assured me that East India cof- fees continue to improve for fifty years, which is the longest record they have. Rio coffees become useless after ten years. The kernels assume the aspect of hard rubber and cannot be roasted or ground. The good people of Holland keep up an ancient and honorable Dutch prac- tice by meeting at a certain restaurant twice a day, six times a week, and in- dulging in what they call a “koffie drinken.” I do not often join in this affair when I am in Holland because the liquid served is strong enough to knock an ordinary man down, which means that probably pretty cheap Rio coffee is used. If the caterer would substitute Ankola coffee for the rank Rio now used he would easily sell twice as much coffee as he now hands out, even if he had to increase his price to 10 cents per cup. No one can create any stomach disturbance or in- terfere with his sleeping hours by using a half dozen cups of Ankola coffee, which is the mildest coffee of which I have any knowledge. The same suggestion will apply to the Warm Friend Tavern which under- takes to play up many Dutch traditions and practices in keeping with the tradi- tions of the town. If the landlord would discard the rank Rio coffee he now serves and substitute the mild East India coffee therefor, he would soon find his hotel had acquired as wide a reputation for good coffee as the Ban- croft House, of Saginaw, enjoyed for thirty or forty years for corned beef hash under the friendly regime of the sainted Hawley Lyon. J. B. Crawford has been named president of the Commercial National Bank of Ithaca to succeed the late John C. Hicks. N. E. Gibbs was chosen vice-president, the position previously held by Mr. Crawford. Mr. Crawford has been active in local banking since 1892, when he was made a director of the Ithaca Savings Bank. When the Commercial State Bank was organized with nearly the same stockholders as the old Ithaca Savings, Mr. Crawford was chosen as the first president. Later the bank was re-organized as a national bank. Mr. Crawford served as vice-president for the past twenty-five years. E. A. Stowe. has A snug, form-fitting dressing for minor wounds consists of an antiseptic gauze pad packed by a new elastic ad- hesive tape which wraps about the in- jured member. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Items From the Cloverland of Michigan Sault Ste. Marie, May 13— Condi- tions seem to be entirely different in these days. We read the headline in our local paper this week, Can Banks Get Borrowers? Governor Eccles, of the Federal Reserve Board, says that either the banks must lend money to business or the Government must set up machinery to do it directly. In Mr. Eccles’ position he should know where- of he speaks. No one can deny that the banks are loaded to the saturation point with low yield Government bonds, while the percentage of their loans to industry goes on decreasing, both rap- idly and steadily. But whether the cause is that the banks will not or can- not lend their idle money is something else again. It is a matter of record that while some departments of the Gov- ernment are verbally flogging the banks for not lending money, the Treasury Department, through its bank examiners, is furiously. busy criticizing any loan that is not prac- tically ready cash. Inasmuch as a business man does not borrow from the bank if the cash is immediately avail- able, how many loans would be made under such conditions requires no imagination. And if the Treasury, heeding President Roosevelt’s sugges- tions, has let up on absurd standards, is there anyone who has any confidence in present conditions? The President and congress want to borrow money. In other words, can the banks find bor- rowers, treasury or no treasury? If Mr. Eccles knows of any genuine busi- ness doing reasonably well under these conditions that cannot borrow favor- ably from its present bank, and will advertise that fact, eager bankers will break the door down into that fellow’s office just as soon as the airplane can get them there. If conditions are other- wise, Mr. Eccles should specify. Organization of the firm of Telgen- hoff & Talsma, auctioneers, was an- nounced last week at Rudyard Part- ners in the firm are Leon Telgenhoff and Egbert Talsma, of Dafter. Question Shaw has opened a sign studio at 205 Ashmun street. Mr. Shaw is one of our popular young men who studied at the Detroit School of Let- tering and has been working here for the past five years. Mr. Shaw hereto- fore has been able to do all of his work alone, but will now expand and add additional workers during the sum- mer. The Scotch patient was fumbling in his pocket. “You don’t need to pay me in advance,” said the dentist. “I’m not going to, “was the replyy. “I’m only counting my money before you give me the gas.” The formal opening of the Edlo Inn, in the Riverside Grove, took place last Wednesday, This new popular resort was formerly known as Beaver Park, located on the banks of St. Mary’s river five miles South of the Sault. The building has been remodeled and completely redecorated. A private din- ing room has been added and many other improvements made. The name was selected from the first names of the proprietors Edith and Louis Rapin. Lunches, special dinners and _ bever- ages will be served. The grove will be improved as a tourist camp with plenty of parking space. Mrs. Rapin was formerly a stewardess at the Coun- try club and has many friends who wish them every success in their new venture. Everett McCondra has purchased the gas and service station at the corner of Spruce and Magazine sts., formerly known as the Armstrong gas station. Mr. McCondra has redecorated the store and will devote his entire time to his new enterprise. The location is among the best in the city. Mr. Mc- Condra has been in the employ of the Marine meat market for several years where he has made many friends. One trouble with this country is the number of legal ways there are to steal. 23 The Hat Box announced their for- mal opening of their new store, located at 519 Ashmun street, Monday morn- ing of this week. Jim Biskus, proprietor of the Lin- coln cafe, on Portage street, which has been closed since last fall, when Mr. Biskus left to spend the winter in Flor- ida, where he conducts a large fruit station, returned to the Sault last week and is redecorating his cafe, getting it in order fr the opening, which will be in time to care for the large tourist business expected this summer. Business now begins to show the grouchiness of convalescence. Jake Schopp, the well-known mer- chant at DeTour, paid the Sault a visit last week. William G. Tapert. >—__ Zinc chloride and sodium bichromate are combined in a new wood preserva- tive. It is said to have greater preser- vative value than straight zinc chloride and, like the latter, to be termite-repel- lent, fire-retardant, 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 — door wali case, show cases, registers, cou! ers, back bar soda fountain and pine Biggs pol 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. Grand Rapids Auction House—Stock liquidating sales, Also auctioneer for private commercial factories --bankrupts —courts—etc., 636 Eastern avenue, Grand Rapids, Mich, 113 For Sale —Store building in country town near oil fields, Well located. Liv- ing rooms above. Write Earl Nelson, 315 West Lapeer, Lansing, Michigan. 727 FOR SALE—One Burroughs bank book- keeping machine. Good shape. One safe 62”x35”x41"” inside vault time lock. B. C. Ellar, Receiver, Alba, Mich. 728 FOR SALE— GROCERY FOR SALE, Modern, full stock. Near Lake Michigan. Fred Strefling, Sawyer, Mich. 729 RECEIVERSHIP SALE—Retail hard- ware store, merchandise, accounts and notes receivable, real estate holdings will be sold as a going concern, at Circuit Court Room, Court House at Hart, Mich- igan, on Saturday, June 1, 1935, at 10 o'clock A, M. Sale will be under direc- tion of Court. For details, inventories, inquire Walter B. Gleye, Receiver of Colby & Spitler Co., Hart, Michigan. 730 FOR SALE — GROG ERY, meats and lunch room, directly opposite Hillsdale college, Hillsdale, Mich. Owner has other business. A. L. Burdick, 311 Pleasant St., Hudson, Mich, 731 Wish To Buy—Market and grocery in live town. Communicate with Mrs, C. P. Clarke, 818 De Graff, Grand Ledge, Mich. 732 in one of Will invoice FOR SALE—General stock the best towns in Michigan. between $3,000 and $3,500. Can be re- duced somewhat to suit buyer. Would also sell building if desired. Address No. 733, c/o Michigan Tradesman, 733 pine iaariiires ee octagon teenie 24 Let Us Face the Facts The writer has just completed an extended survey of business conditions in Grand Rapids, which includes inter- views with merchants in every line of trade. A few report business a trifle better than a year ago, while the great majority say the volume of trade has fallen off: These are the reports from independent business men and women, many of whom were prosperous mer- chants for many years. A great many of these merchants formerly eniployed a considerable number of people, but to-day they are either doing all of their selling or have but a few clerks, com- pared with better days. A very large number of merchants are compelled to get along with depleted stocks, lack of credit and capital, as they see their trade gradually slipping away. Worry and deep anxiety for the future fill their hearts with fear. Recently the editor of one of the local daily news- papers said in an aditorial, that Grand Rapids is “financially sick,” when re- fering to an effort of the Industrial Association to raise a pittance of $50,- 000 for the purpose of starting idle plants to give employment to labor. My four weeks in contacting the inde- pendent business men and women of Grand Rapids convinces me the editor is right. It may seem poor business ethics for a city editor or myself as correspondent of the Michigan Trades- man to picture unfortunate conditions in the home city, but the time is here when the people should know the facts and any conditions that have a bearing upon them. This is not the only city that is “financially sick.” This situation prevails largely over the state, outside of a few localities in which the dis- covery of oil or unusual industrial ac- tivity has helped to make local con- ditions better. The writer was a former resident and taxpayer of this city and always had a kindly interest in its wel- fare. For this reason he recently wrote one of the local editors a short report of conditions among many local merchants for publication. It is regret- able that so many publishers forget the interests of the independent home merchants and cater to the big adver- tising chain store corporations. Grand Rapids is being bled white by the mul- titude of national chain store and mail- order corporations. My survey of the city shows over fifty per cent. of trade goes to the outside greedy chain cor- porations. There are very few independ- ent merchants left on Monroe avenue and in many business centers. Before the advent of the chain stores business centering here went to home mer- chants and the profit on this trade re- mained here and the city was con- stantly growing. To-day Grand Rapids business men and women are receiving less than half of the trade of the city. Chain store competition has driven the profit largely out of the trade they do get and none realize a sufficient profit. The big national chain store and mail order corporations are declaring reg- ular and special dividends, as_ they sap the profit on trade from Grand Rapids and -other communities, No wonder Grand Rapids is “sick finan- cially.” If its home merchants could MICHIGAN receive the trade that centers here, as formerly, times here would be in far better condition. The local Association of Commerce, Rotary, Kiwanis and other social and business organizations of this city should study the causes of why Grand Rapids is “financially sick.’ I urge them to make business surveys for themselves and find out first hand what the foreign commercial invaders are doing to their home city. Let them debate the question as to which is more preferable, a city of home owned stores or a city of outside chain store corporations. Which class was it that built Grand Rapids and which has the welfare and best interests of the city, now and in the future? This is also true of other cities, and of the entire state. Chain corporations remove hundreds of millions of the profit on trade from this state that formerly re- mained here. It is no wonder our leg- islature finds it difficult to finance state institutions, public schools, etc. Let us face the facts as to why business is “financially sick.” E. B. Stebbins. ———22___ Grocery Prices Continue To Sag With only momentary pauses, aver- age retail quotations have moved down- ward for the last twelve months Aver- age monthly declines have been only about 0.35 per cent., however, and the total reduction from the 1934 peak to early April was less than 4 per cent. In part, the drop reflects increased price competition within the retail field itself, and in part similar developments in some producing industries. The medium term outlook for retail prices is clouded by uncertainties as to NRA legislation. To a major degree, increases in retail quotations during late 1933 and early 1934 were the re- sult of wage and hour limitation and price maintenance provisions of codes. Gold manipulation and heavy Govern- ment borrowings thus far have pro- duced little, if any, inflation of internal prices, however effective they may be at a later date. Accordingly, a complete abandon- ment of the NRA would be expected to result in at least a short period of chaotic price readjustments, particular- ly in such lines as books, drugs and tobaccos where retail as well as whole- sale price maintenance regulations have been most effective. At least moderate inventory losses would result to retail stores, Regardless of the fate of the codes, however, industry probably realizes that reductions of wages and lengthen- ing of hours would increase pressure for unionization of labor which sug- gests that present wages would not be greatly altered. Since average retail prices do not include wide manufactur- ing or retail profit margins, there ap- pears to he little danger of sharply lower price levels. Indeed, following the completion of a readjustment phase possible over the medium term resumption of the upward price move- ment can be expected. The time ele- ment, however, is uncertain—Stand- ard Trade, —_——_+--2 He that wrestles with us strength- ens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. TRADESMAN Pity Mooney Cannot Stretch a Rope (Continued from page 17) succulent. slice of meat between? Good butter is procurable at a reason- able cost and everybody wants it in conjunction with the use of bread, the price of the assembed creation is just about the same as it ever was, and yet the dispenser continues to hand out these false alarm dainties, when, at a fraction of a cent additional cost he could please his customer, do some worth while advertising and supply re- peat orders. I wonder if it wouldn’t be worth while to think it over? There is a surprising amount of wild animal life in the canyons adjacent to Los Angeles, Coyotes are seen nightly in the city environs, while wild cats, opossums and weasels are frequently bagged. A local hunter told me a curi- ous story about the ’possums. Until late years there have been none in Cali- fornia. One of the Southern families who had moved here planned for an old-time possum dinner and sent back to Georgia for a crate of eight of these animals. After their arrival some of the slats of the crate became loose and they took their leave. Since then they have constituted a growing population. Someone complains about the soggy bacon served ofttimes at eating places. I can go the critic one better and will say that if the chef will lay his strips of bacon in a cold skillet and fry it over a slow fire he will turn out a product fit for the gods, and it will not arrive at the table looking as if it had been done up in curl papers. : Frank S. Verbeck. — +>» More Economic Nationalism Secretary Morgenthau’s radio ad- dress on American monetary constituted in effect a strong declara- tion for more intense economic na- tionalism. The Secretary apparently has leaned heavily upon the work of Foreign Trade Adviser Peek. Like him, he de- cries capital exports. Very little en- couragement for a program of orderly transition to a creditor nation status may be expected from the Administra- tion, as long as these ideas prevail. The Morgenthau address tended to lend some confirmation to recent re- ports that the President was leaning toward a more nationalistic economic policy, and that he was withdrawing support from the Hull program for foreign trade revival. The address seems quite unlikely to hasten an international stabilization pact. It indicated no readiness to agree to a readjustment of monetary parities, in the light of existing balance of pay- ments relations, such as Great Britain contends to be necessary. ——— +2 >—___. June 16 Important Date in Banking June 16 is a momentous day with bankers and business men and each group is fearful of its arrival before needed legislation of interest to it can be enacted by Congress. Banking and busines leaders are said to be very apprehensive of the outcome of filibusters designed to defeat or de- lay Title I of the omnibus banking bill and the extension of the National Industrial Recovery Act, for existing laws on the matters covered will lapse by legislative limitation unless some- thing is done in the meantime. Title I of the banking bill provides a new basis for the Federal Deposit In- surance Fund, while Title III contains policy May 15, 1935 a provision extending the time within which bank executives can liquidate indebtedness to their own institutions. Title II of the bill, called the central banking section, is much opposed. Efforts on the part of certain high officials to secure a twoO-year exten- sion of NIRA in face of adverse Sen- ate sentiment, may inspire a filibuster that will defeat the whole program. A New Flurry in Sterling The rise in sterling to a high of $4.8814 in the local market yesterday reflects merely the renewed shift of capital from France and other gold bloc countries to London. While sea- sonal influences favor higher sterling they would not alone account for such a sharp rise as has taken place. The British Equalization Account is believed here to be intervening in the market right along, offering sterling against francs and converting the lat- ter into gold. However, such sales of pounds have not proved sufficient to check the advance. Since pressure on the franc now is ascribed mainly to a shift of American and other foreign balances out of Paris, rather than a large scale flight of do- mestic capital, buying of sterling from this source is held likely to decrease before long, especially if the June 2 Swiss plebiscite should favor reten- tion of the present monetary policy there. . Clerks Not Receptive to Unions Union efforts to sign up retail store employes have continued in 1935 in various trading centers, particularly Milwaukee and New York. In most instances, progress has not carried to the point where even the small minor- ity representation deemed adequate for strike action has been obtained. With the sprink peak of retail business reached and the seasonally dull summer months approaching, strike attempts probably will be held off until fall, when service interruptions would be more embarrassing. The grocery chain field may prove an exception, in view of the minor seasonal factors here. Meanwhile, national economic and leg- islative developments will play a major part in determining the extent of labor difficulties later this year. —--_2 2 May Revive Vinson Bonus Bill There is some speculation as to whether there will not be a move in the House of Representatives to revive the Vinson soldier bonus bill in the event that the President vetoes the Patman bill and he is sustained by the Senate. Chairman Pat Harrison, of the Sen- ate Finance Committee, is of the opin- ion that no bonus legislation can now be passed in face of the disagreement among the various interests. Efforts to append the Patman bill to other relief measures, such as the Na- tional Recovery Act and the economic security bill, are not expected to be successful. 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