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District Attorney Doyle Not In
Accord With Tradesman

Grand Rapids, June 3—1 have
read with considerable interest
your article on page nine of the
Michigan Tradesman for May 22.

Fully appreciating “the power
of the press,” | nevertheless must
adhere to that old adage “Fools
rush in where angels fear to
trade.”

Comments on the Newberry
trial. First, was it not Judge Ses-
sions rather than Judge Severance
who presided at the trial? Sec-
ond, was it not Justice McReyn-
olds (a good old Southern Dem-
ocrat appointed by Wilson) who
wrote the controlling opinion of
the Court?

Justice Mc Reynolds, who
wrote the opinion of the Court, in
a nutshell decided for reversal, as
said, page 247 of 233 U. S.:

“The Court below overruled a
duly interposed demurrer which
challenged the constitutionality of
Sec. 8; and by so doing we think
fell into error.”

Sec. 8 refers to the Corrupt
Practice Act, a Congressional act.
In other words, as | interpret the
opinion of the Court, the convic-
tion was reversed because the act
of Congress approved June 25,
1910, was unconstitutional. So
you will see, my good friend, that
this Congress of 1910 was not a
Democratic Congress, but by sol-
emn edict of a good Democratic
Justice of the Supreme Court,
Congress was told back in 1920
(the same as it was somewhat
painfully told a few days ago)
that its powers are limited. I want
to impress upon you that it was a
Democrat who told this to a Re-
publican Congress presided over
by a Republican President.

In a more serious vein, howev-
er, Mr. Stowe, I think you unduly
criticize ‘‘the manner in which the
case was conducted.” | think

likewise that you are a little too
harsh on the trial judge.

Justice White, who was for re-
versal, upheld the Constitutional-
ity of the act of 1910, but was for
reversal because “of the grave
misapprehension and_ grievous
misapplication of the statute.”
Justice White’s concurring opin-
ion certainly cannot be said to
have ‘‘placed the Federal Court
of Grand Rapids and the attor-
neys sent here by the Attorney
General of the United States to
try the case in a very unenviable
position.”’

Justice Pitney also concurred in
reversal, ‘“‘but upon grounds fun-
damentally different from those
adopted by the majority’ of the
court, Pitney joins White in that
the act is constitutional. But Pit-
ney, whose opinion Brandeis and
Clarke concurred in, was for re-
versal because he found the trial
court erred in that part of the
charge ‘‘which assumed to define
the extent to which a candidate
must participate in expenditures
beyond the amount limited in or-
der that he may be held to have
violated the prohibitions’ of the
statute (p. 292).

I have read the entire opinion
in the Newberry case and, as |
said before “‘fools rush in,”’ or in
a more modern method of ex-
pression, | may be ‘“‘putting my-
self out on a limb,” I cannot help
but call your attention as a law-
yer, to what I believe is a rather
severe reprimand to the trial court
and attorneys, when in fact the
Supreme Court’s opinion cannot
by any stretch of the imagination
“place the Federal Court of
Grand Rapids and the attorneys
sent here by the Attorney Gen-
eral of the United States to try the
case in a very unenviable posi-
tion.”

Can a trial court be subject to
such hash criticism when even, as
in this case, the Supreme Court it-
self was divided in its opinion of
the law?

Referring further to your arti-
cle concerning the trial of the
bankers before Judge O’Brien, |
believe you are in error on the
facts. Your article states that ““At-
torney General Cummings looked
over the list of Federal Judges
and decided that Judge O’Brien
was in a position to handle the
trials of the accused in an accept-
able manner.” You then state
that after two or three were ac-
quitted ‘The outcome created so
much opposition on the part of
the administration at Washington
that proceedings were brought
against Judge O'Brien to relin-

quish the trial of the remaining
accused persons.”

Your statement that the Attor-
ney General ‘looked over’ the
list of Federal Judges and “‘de-
cided’’ that Judge O’Brien was
in a position to handle them is
somewhat akin to the story of
Bridget and Pat. The former
asked Pat one morning why he
was dressed in his best suit and
was not going to work. Pat re-
plied that he was going down to
the court house to act as a juror
for one of his friends.

But your statement is not cor-
rect. Before the trial of any of the
bankers, Mr. Bard, who was rep-
resenting the Government, ob-
jected to Judge O’Brien because,
among other reasons, the Judge's
wife was a debtor of the banks
involved in the lawsuit before
him. There must have been some
merit in the Government's objec-
tions to Judge O’Brien, otherwise
the Circuit Court of Appeals of
this Circuit would not have order-
ed Judge O’Brien to show cause
why he should not sit at the trial
of the remaining cases.

Now, just one other matter on
which you and I agree—the grand
jury—and I am glad to see that
you agree with President Roose-
velt that we should depart from
the “horse and buggy days.”
However, the Constitution pro-
hibits the abolition of the grand
jury, just as does the Constitution
prohibit the delegation of Legis-
lative powers to the President and
as it likewise prohibits Congress
from legislating on _ intrastate
commerce. If you advocate a
change in the Constitution as to
the one, why not the other?

While, politically I violently
disagree with you, personally
admire your spirit and believe
you have more than atoned for
your political sins in the most
beautiful expressions found in
“The Carpenter’ on the front
page of the Tradesman for May
22. Thurman B. Doyle,

United States Attorney.

I am glad to give place to the
above letter and | appreciate the
painstaking effort the writer took
to present his side of the subject.
He is a very fair man and his
statements are entitled to careful
consideration because of his in-
side knowledge of the matter and
the time he has taken to look up
the legal points involved in the
controversy.

The statement that the trial
judge was Judge Severans was a
mistake. Judge Sessions was the

trial judge. The mistake was cor-
rected in our issue of May 29.

I note Mr. Doyle does not un-
dertake to justify the wretched
manner in which Government at-
torneys sent here to try the case
undertook to intimidate witnesses
by threatening them with impris-
onment in Fort Leavenworth if
they did not perjure themselves
on the witness stand.

E. A. Stowe.

—_—_e+»—__
Furthering Interstate Compacts

Since they are fully aware of
the difficulties involved in per-
suading various states to enact
legislation regulating competitive
conditions, advocates of such in-
terstate compacts are discussing
means of coercing states into tak-
ing such action.

The suggestion is made that a
Federal law coud be enacted to
forbid the shipment of goods pro-
duced in a state with low competi-
tive standards into one with laws
establishing high standards. The
prohibition of liquor shipments
into dry States and the regulation
of the movement of prison-made
goods furnish ample precedent
for such enactment, it is main-
tained.

State legislation is now regard-
ed as the only means of carrying
out the NRA program, in view of
the Schechter decision. A con-
stitutional amendment to give
Congress power to regulate work-
ing conditions is not regarded as
a serious possibility in most busi-
ness circles.

oo
Another AAA “Purge” Forecast

Another shakeup in AAA per-
sonnel, similar to that which re-
cently displaced Jerome Frank,
Gardner Jackson and other so-
called “‘radical’’ members of the
Adjustment Administration, is be-
lieved by many here to be immi-
nent because of the Supreme
Court NRA decision.

The bone of contention, it is
said, lies in differences of opinion
over the AAA’s authority to con-
tinue the licensing of certain agri-
cultural commodity producers.
Conservative officials hold the
court’s decision greately weakens
the licensing structure. Others,
led by AAA Administrator Da-
vis, assert that the program can
be continued along old lines and
remain within the confidence of
the Constitution. ,

All officials, however, join in
declaring that the matter is not
precipitating another ‘‘purge’’ in
AAA ranks.

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2

Jaunt To Eli Lilly Plant at Indiana-
polis

In accordance with your suggestion
expressed to me over the phone this
morning, I am happy to furnish you
with the details of the trip which our
sales organization made last Saturday
to the Indianapolis plant of Eli Lilly
& Co.

We left Grand Rapids on a special
pullman car on Friday evening and ar-
rived in Indianapolis Saturday morn-
ing promptly. We were met at the sta-
tion by R. C. Clark, who is in the sales
administration department and who
has as a part of his responsibilities the
details of just such a trip as this one.
As you will remember, there were
twenty-three in our party from our
own organization and I. H. Barker,
who is the Grand Rapids Lilly repre-
sentative. Mr. Clark was accompanied
by one or two assistants and by Mr.
Mossman, who is the manager of the
district in -which we are located, and by
Mr. Nelson who is manager of the di-
vision in which Grand Rapids is lo-
cated, which is the central division,
with headquarters in Indianapolis.

Our group was taken to the Colum-
bia Club, which is a very lovely club
located on the Circle, right in the cen-
ter of Indianapolis. This was our
headquarters for the period of our stay.
We were entertained at breakfast by
Lilly & Co. and had the honor of hav-
ing with us Eli Lilly, the grandson of
the founder of the company. Mr. Lilly
is President of the Eli Lilly & Co., and
after breakfast he spoke for just a few
minutes and gave us some background
of the foundation and organization of
the present Eli Lilly & Co.

I was very sorry to discover that J.
K. Lilly, who is the son of the founder,
and who is chairman of the board at
the present time, was out of the city.
I should have liked to have had every
one of our men meet Mr. Lilly because
not only is he a fine busness man and
a great gentleman, but he is a very
close friend of my good father and I
should have liked to have expressed to
him personally my father’s best wishes.

After breakfast we were taken to
the main plant of Lilly & Co. and di-
vided into groups of six, and given a
three hour drill through the manufac-
turing division of this institution. A
guide was furnished for each group of
six, and these guides were taken from
some of the “key” men in the various
departments, so that they were prepar-
ed and equipped to answer almost any
question which might be asked, and at
the same time to express themselves
intelligently and constructively as to
the various things which we had the
privilege of observing, I took the op-
portunity during the course of the
morning to slip away for an hour and
called upon two service wholesale
druggists in Indianapolis, the Kiefer-
Stewart Co. and the Mooney-Mueller-
Ward Co. As you may know the Vice-
President of the Kiefer-Stewart Co.,
A. Kiefer Mayer, is President of the
National Wholesale Druggists’ Asso-
ciation, and previously has served three
years as chairman of the Board of
Control. At the Mooney-Mueller-Ward
Co. I had the privilege of seeing Wm.
Mooney, Sr., who is a friend of my

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father’s and who spoke very affection-
ately of “Hank” Fairchild, whom of
course we know as Henry B. Fairchild,
(father of Harry E. Fairchild), one of
the founders of our company.

I shall not attempt to describe the
processes of manufacture in the Lilly
plant because they are beyond my abil-
ity to explain, but, of course this insti-
tution has grown very rapidly and par-
ticularly so in the last few years and
they have a large number of buildings
and in fact within another year they
will have rebuilt the entire plant—that
is within that time they will have re-
built the original plant which they put
up on their present location, They are
following an architectural plan which
is very beautiful and it makes a mag-
nificent contribution to Indianapolis.
Incidentally, at this point let me say
that Lilly & Co. employs, including
their salesmen, about two thousand
people. Several hundred of these are
salesmen, and they have at present
eighteen men employed in the British
Isles and will have before another year
twenty-four men calling on physicians
and druggists in the British Isles. I
believe I am correct in saying that
they have twelve men contacting doc-
tors and druggists in the state of Mich-
igan. :

At 12:30 we were taken to the cafe-
teria which is operated by the com-
pany for the benefit of its employes
who care to take advantage of it, and
were entertained at lunch by the offi-
cials of the Lilly organizations, includ-
ing Eli Lilly, J. K. Lilly Jr., Vice-
President in charge of sales, Edward
Zink, Genera] Sales Manager, and Mr.
Wright, who is one of the directors of
the company. After lunch we went to
an assembly room where J. K. Lilly Jr,
talked to us for a few minutes about
the Lilly sales organization and its
world wide scope. The facts and fig-
ures which he gave were startling, to
say the least, and just let me say that
at the present time Lilly & Co. has in
the field one man contacting the trade
for every 200 doctors in a given sec-
tion. They have, for example, one
man who has a territory of three
square blocks in New York City where
200 doctors have their offices. On the
other hand they have one man making
the entire state of Arizona, where there
are only 200 doctors in the entire state.

The entire sales organization is di-
vided into seven sections and each di-
vision includes several districts, After
this talk by Mr, Lilly we were taken
to the research laboratories, which are
across the street from the main build-
ing and which was opened about a
year ago. This is a building 200 feet
long and about fifty feet deep and is a
three-story construction, with attached
wing four stores high, which consti-
tutes the animal quarters of the re-
search laboratories. It is beyond my
power to describe the various types of
equipment in this research laboriatory
and attempt to tell what is done there.
Famous scientists work there by the
day and by the year, engaged in care-
ful study and consideration of the ma-
jor problems, with the hope that out
of this study will come some remedy,
if you please, which can be successfully
used in the treatment of human ills.

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No member of the Lilly organization
gave us any idea of what this research
laboratory might have cost either as to
the building or its operation, but an
informal statement was made to me
that there might be within the walls of
this laboratory a million dollars’ worth
of equipment. That may not be a fact
exactly, and I have no way of checking
this without making a direct enquiry,
because the value of the scientific ap-
paratus, etc., would be beyond by es-
timation or the estimation of any lay-
man.

After this visit we were taken by
bus to Greenfield, Indiana, where the
Lilly biological laboratories are locat-
ed and we had the opportunity of see-
ing this plant and listening to one of
the leading doctors in charge of it.
You will realize that is the plant in
which the work is done in producing
vaccines and serums. The farm itself
on which the laboratory is located is a
beautiful spot and a show spot and is
illuminated at night by several lights
because the main line of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad runs across the prop-
erty, and you can understand what a
wonderful advertising feature this is
for Lilly & Co. You may realize that
this biological laboratory is subject to
inspection at all hours of the day and
nght by Government officials, and if
they do not find everything exactly
correct they have the right legally to
deprive the laboratory of the opportun-
ity to manufacture these items for the
period of one year, You can realize
that for that reason, and for other per-
fectly apparent reasons, the Lilly bio-
logical laboratory is 100 per cent cor-
rect at all times, Lilly & Co. has one
way in which they try to “beat the
game,” so to speak, and that is they
are constantly striving for standards
which are way above the Government
standards, realizing that if they can
reach their own standards which they
have set for themselves, they will run
no risk at any time of failing to. qualify
under the Government’s standards.

After we were returned from Green-
field we were entertained at dinner by
Lilly & Co. and after dinner listened
to a technical and very scientific talk
from the chief pharmacist, and also
from Edward Zink, the General Sales
Manager. Shortly after that our train
left for Grand Rapids and a very busy
and happy day was completed.

Of course, as you know, Lilly & Co.
has visitors every day in the year, and
not only retail druggists who may be
interested but groups from colleges of
pharmacy and from wholesalers like
ourselves, and the two things which
struck Mr. Fairchild and me very
forcibly are that, considering the num-
ber of people who call upon them, they
are able to give so much personal at-
tention to each group, so far as the
executive family is concerned. We con-
sidered it a great honor to have not
only two of the Lilly family but Mr.
Zink and Mr. Wright with us nearly
all day. In the next place we were im-
pressed with the fact that while we
were being educated and entertained
we did not feel at any time but that
they considered it a great privilege and
pleasure and that they did not con-

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June 5, 1935

sider it boring to them or simply a
business proposition,

You probably realize that Lilly &
Co. has 230 accounts in the United
States, These accounts are all service
wholesalers and all the goods they sel!
are sold through the agency of the
service wholesaler and retail druggist,
They do not deal directly with the re-
tail druggist or doctor or other types
of merchants. In a great many in-
stances 10 per cent. of the total volume
of business done by a service whole-
saler is done on the Lilly line alone.
That accounts naturally for the very
close friendship and complete tie-up
between the two organizations.

Some of our men had never made
this trip and some of them had been
through the Lilly plant in years past,
and, of course, in the rapid progress of
pharmacy, a trip of fifteen or twenty
years ago would be nothing compared
with the trip of to-day, Mr. Zink ex-
pressed a desire that such an institu-
tion as ours might have its sales force
in a body make this trip at least once
in five years. I think he is entirely
correct and we pledged ourselves to go
with our sales force through the Lilly
plant again within a period of five
years. This was a wonderful day for
our institution. I know this little mes-
sage sounds very enthusiastic, but I
cannot express myself clearly enough
to let you know just how wonderful
all this appeared to us and what fine
consideration and treatment we _ re-
ceived at the hands of their organiza-
tion. I don’t believe that any one of
our travelers left without feeling that
in a way he was representing Lilly &
Co. on his territory with the co-opera-
tion of the Lilly man, although he per-
sonally may not be compensated direct
by Lilly & Co. for his efforts.

Lee Wilson Hutchins,

Vice-Pres. and Gen’! Mer, H. & P.

Drug Co,

—___+-
Abiding Law and Law Abiding
It’s just another day to me
With all its time-filled treasury
Becoming such a help in life
Its reoccurence too is rife
With greater opportunity:—
This just another day to me,

I would not ask to change the plan;
This day-by-day set-up for man
Affords munificence because

It guides hm with abiding laws

To all of these must he subscribe

Nor shall he boast, nor can he bribb.

The ages’ pages plainly say

That law abiding serves his day

He might have wished oft in the past
Immutability out cast

Unmindful man did never make .
A law but what he tried to break.

What need we most? These new ideas

And periwinkle panaceas

Or every man where-e’er he is

Conduct a law-abiding ‘“‘biz’’

Be fair and honest with his pelf

And thus a law unto himself.

Charles A. Heath.
—_2>_____

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Fear Results of Banking Legisla-
tion

Bankers are urging members of
the Senate to provide a percen-
tage limitation upon the amount
of reserves that may be required
of banks by the Federal Reserve
Board, under the omnibus bank-
ing bill.

They place the figure rather ar-
bitrarily at 30 per cent. What
they fear is that the board, domi-
nated by political influences, will
require 100 per cent. reserves for
demand deposits, with the pro-
viso that of this amount, say 87
per cent. may be invested in Gov-
ernment securities. Thereafter,
pressure would be upon the banks
to make the required investments.

The provision of the bill in
question carries out the theory of
Dr. Currie, adviser to Reserve
Board Governor Eccles, who con-
siders full reserve requirements as
necessary for the control of the
amount of money in use, demand
deposits being considered as
money. The feeling is, therefore,
that some central body could con-
trol.

The opposing bankers, howev-
er, aver that they see a situation
wherein is set up a vastly different
kind of banking system than the
- present one, and predict disas-
trous results to occur after the
next Presidential election, with
member banks’ reserves heavily
invested in Governments, which,
in turn, would be collateral for
notes culminating in a situation
through which other nations have
gone through with a great deal of
grief.

 

Wheat Referendum Disappointing

Since the Administration's agri-
cultural program may have to de-
pend largely upon voluntary co-
operation, in view of the decision
in the Schechter case, the vote of
wheat farmers on continuance of
production control promises difh-
culties for such a program.

Although the AAA staged an
intensive campaign to get all
wheat growers to vote in the ref-
erendum, only slightly more than
one-third of the total participat-
ed, according to the returns an-
nounced so far. Only two-thirds
of the contract signers, who have
received two years of cash bene-
fits, cast their vote in the referen-
dum.

While a heavy majority of
those voting favored continuance
of the program, the proportion
was much smaller than were the
majorities accumulated in previ-
ous polls in favor of continuing
the compulsory tobacco and cot-
ton programs. :

The lack of interest in the ref-
erendum revealed by those who
failed to vote may be explained
in part by the general belief that
endorsement of the program was
assured. Such apathy does not
augur well for future purely vol-
untary control of production,
however.

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

et in the

Wiru the passing of spring, every one
begins to think about vacation; and as
you plan yours, you demand at least
two features: It must be spent amid
the kind of surroundings you like best.
Its cost must not exceed the amount
you have fixed as a maximum.

No matter what sort of vacation
you prefer, the ideal site for it lies
right in the State of Michigan. You
need not go farther—and your
money will!

If your favorite sport is fishing, you
have in Michigan’s famed streams and
myriad sparkling inland lakes the per-
fect angler’s paradise. If you prefer
golf, you can choose among hundreds
of fine links throughout the State. If
it is touring by automobile that ap-
peals most to you, Michigan offers
you alluring motor trails lined
by an interesting variety of
natural scenic beauties.

—im \{«chigan

 

Swim

  

And if you are a lover of water sports,
you will find your native State bounti-

fully equipped to provide you with
exactly the kind of vacation site you
prefer. Here you can pick and choose
among five thousand lakes, bodies of
water ranging in size from a pond to
a vast inland sea.

Spend your own vacation in Michi-
gan. Call its unsurpassed facilities to
the attention of your friends in neigh-
boring states. By doing so, you will
assure them of a pleasanter vacation.
In addition, you will help to promote
the popularity and prosperity of your
native State.

It is for the purpose of doing our
share in this promotion that this series
of advertisements is being published
by the Michigan Bell Telephone Com-
pany, an organization that pros-
pers only as the citizens of
Michigan prosper.

MICHIGAN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY

 

 

4

MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS

Otisville—The Otisville State Bank
has increased its capital stock from
$20,000 to $25,000.

Lansing—The Sherwood Paint Co.,
Inc., has changed its name to the Su-
perior paint Co., Inc.

Marshall—Court & Westbrook, Inc.,
undertaker, has a capital stock of
$5,000, $2,000 being paid in.

Owosso—The A. T. Scarlett Motor
& Electric Co. has changed its name
to the J. & R. Auto Sales Co..

Highland Park—The Highland Park
Trust Co., has decreased its capital
stock from $500,000 to $150,000.

Detroit—The Universal Devices,
Inc., 3350 Clements avenue, has a cap-
ital stock of $10,000, all paid in. :

Detroit—Air Conditioning Engineers,
Inc., 9823 Grand River avenue, is cap-
italized at $12,500, $2,500 being paid in.

Powers—Fire caused an estimated
damage of about $5,000 to the Big R.
restaurant, R. A. LaLonde, proprietor.

Kalamazoo—The L. V. White Co.
has changed its name to the Kalamazoo
Diamond Oil Co., East Michigan ave-
nue.

Bay View—Lewis A Smith has re-
turned from Orlando, Florida, and re-
opened his grocery store for the sum-
mer.

Holland—Milo DeVries, manager of
the Home Furniture Store, 23-25 West
Eighth street, opened for ‘business
June 1.

‘Detroit—Merchandising Plans, Inc.,
1600 Buhl Bldg., has a capital stock of
$50,000, $1,000 of which has been
paid in.

Kaiamazoo—The Charles H. Osborn
Co., 224 Eleanor street, has changed
its name to the Delight Foundation
Garments, Inc.

Lowell—R. D. Hahn has completed
the installation of a refrigerated dis-
play counter for meat, in his grocery
and meat store.

Kalamazoo—The Albert Koopsen
Paint & Wall Paper Store has removed
its stock from North Burdick street to
133 North Rose street.

Ishpeming—Mather Inn has opened
a new tap room. It is styled in early
American and is located under the
Georgian dining room.

Kalamazoo—Thomas Parker, piro-
prietor of the Crystal Cafe, 116 Port-
age street, has remodeled the build-
ings to double its floor space.

Kalamazoo—The Economy Market,
Paul Gerber, manager, opened for bus-
iness at 1333 Portage street with a
complete stock of groceries and meats.

Lowell—L. A. Weaver has remodel-
ed his grocery store and meat market
making more spacious quarters for
displaying goods and serving custo-
mers.

Flint—The General Household Ap-
pliance Co., 130 East Second street,
organized for the sale of radios and
household appliances, has a_ capital
stock of $5,000 all paid in.

Kalamazoo—Ray Gage and Ernest
Greene have engaged in business at
West Michigan and Westnedge ave-
nues under the style of the Gage &
Greene, General Automotive Repair
Shop.

 

MICHIGAN

Lansing—The Hazel Fox Gown
Shop has opened for business at 515
West Allegan street, Its stock con-
sists of wearing apparel for street, day-
time Or evening, millinery, foundation
garments and hosiery.

Wyoming Park—Paul Gezon and
wife left Tuesday for Washington,
where they will visit a daughter who is
in the employ of one of the depart-
ments. They expect to be away from
home about two weeks.

Ishpeming—Ear]1 Leininger, 43, pro-
prietor of the Willam Leininger & Son
furniture and undertaking business,
died at his home, West Ridge street,
of bronchial pneumonia, following a
brief illness of a few days.

Ludington-—-Charles F, Engfer, who
recently purchased the grocery, fruit,
vegetable and meat store and farm
known as the LaSarge store at Vic-
tory, remodeled and restocked it and
opened for business June 1.

Whitehall—The Colonial Inn is in-
stalling a “Frontier Room”, which wiil
house relics of the lumber era, many of
them 50 to 75 years old. The cost of
the new room will be about $1,200 and
will provide a seating capacity for
about 50 patrons.

Petoskey—Frank D. Goodrich, who
recently came here from Alpena, where
he conducted a restaurant and_ ice
cream parlor, has opened a similar
place of business at the corner of Lake
street and Park avenue, unter the
style of The Goodrich.

Ludington—Newberg & Co., located
in the National Bank building for the
past 18 years, has removed its stock
of wearing apparel for men, women
and children, shoes, etc., to 106 West
Ludington street, thus gaining much
additional floor and display space.

Breckenridge—Fire leveled to ashes
the Alex Chisholm & Son furniture,
undertaking and general store, and the
Ervay bakery last Friday noon causing
damage estimated at over $30,000. The
cause of the fire, which seemed to have
originated at the rear of the buildings,
has not been definitely determined.

Lansing—Roy Hardy, who has con-
ducted a cigar and tobacco store at the
corner of Michigan and Washington
avenues for the past 27 years, has
closed out the stock and formed a part-
nership with Nat. Gold and engaged
in the men’s furnishings business at
the same location under the style of
Hardy’s Mens Furnishings Store.

Marquette—Dr.. James H. Dawson
has purchased the Clifton hotel,
changed the entrance from Front to
Bluff street, redecorated the entire in-
terior and refurnished the lobby and
many of the guest rooms. The Wonder
Bar will be opened June 15 under the
management of Lee Mucin. Elmer
Ocha is the manager of the Clifton,
which he opened for business June 1.

Ludingtan—Chief of Police T. J.
Barber warns Ludington residents
against a house-to-house magazine
salesman said to be operating in the
city. The salesman, according to in-
formation given police is claiming that
patterns printed in the magazine he is

offering for sale will be handled by a
local merchant. A check-up, however,
showed that the merchant in question

TRADESMAN

had no knowledge of any such arrange-
ment.

Detroit—The Arch-Aid Boot Shop,
operated by J. E. Temple, has moved
from 1253 Griswold street to 1111 Gris-
wold street, locating in the third floor
of the Kinsel building. It is now con-
ducted in conjunction with the studio
of Drs. Weiss, conducting a foot health
parlor said to be the largest of its kind
in the United States. In this connec-
tion, the Drs. Weiss conduct ten oper-
ating rooms with chiropodists in at-
tendance, and have a separate X-ray
room as well, The floor has been re-
fitted for the accommodation of Tem-
ple’s department.

Hart—The Colby & Spitler hardware
stock, the past year in the hands oi
receivers, has been sold at auction for
$2,150 to Joe Sycamore, of Grand Rap-
ids. A small house and lot in connec-
tion with the property brought $300.
The Colby & Spitler, business con-
sisted of hardware and farm imple-
ments, located on the corner of Main
and State streets in a two story and
basement building, also owned by them.
It is one of the oldest businesses of the
town and had supplied the needs of
farmers on a credit basis throughout
all the years of its operation.

St. Johns—In the death of Robert
Sayers Clark, the city of St. Johns lost
one of its best known business men
and bankers. Mr. Clark died at the
age of 75 in the home he built forty
years ago. When he was 15 years old
he went to work for his father in a
general store, in charge of the hard-
ware department, and six years later
assumed one-third interest in R. Clark
& Co, Subsequently the firm name
was changed to R. Clark & Son. In
1885 he bought an interest in a cloth-
ing firm which became Sullivan &
Clark. A year later he sold out and
joined with M. A. Hulse in establish-
ing the Clark & Hulse clothing firm,
which has been operated since that
time. Nineteen years ago Mr. Clark
helped organize the Farmers State
Bank of St. Johns, which was merged
with the State Bank of St. Johns in
1928. Mr. Clark served as the first
president of the Farmers State Bank
and continued for several years.

 

Manufacturing Matters

Battle Creek—Clifford & Company,
707 Central National Tower, manufac-
turer of signs and specialties of wood,
glass and wire, has a capital stock of
$6,000, all paid in.

Detroit—The J. M. Campbell Co.,
814 Fox Theatre Bldg., organized to
manufacture and sell building special-
ties and equipment fixtures, has a cap-
ital stock of $5,000, $1,000 being
paid in.

Alpena—The Huron Industries Co.,
manufacturer and dealer in tools and
parts, has merged its business into a
stock company under the same style
with a capital stock of $75,000, of which
amount $56,000 has been paid in.

Muskegon—The Asmussen Roofing
Co., 154 Ottawa street, manufacturer
and dealer in roofing and accessories,
has merged the business into a stock
company under the same style with a

 

June 5, 1935

capital stock of $5,000 of which amoun;
$2,500 has been paid in.

Filer City—The Falleen Drop Forg
Co., manufacturer of drop forgings, has
merged the business into a stock com-
pany under the style of the Falleey
Drop Forge Corporation, with a cap-
ital stock of $65,000 common and $135,-
000 preferred, $144,640 being paid in.

—_>+>—___
Cloth Made as Paper Is?

How long will it be before we shal]
have another revolution in textile pro-
cesses?

The first textile revolution caused a
violent change in the life of every civ-
ilized nation by ushering modern in-
dustrialized production on to the world
scene. The next one is not liable to be
so upsetting to the general economic
order. Nevertheless, the cotton-textile
industry alone is our largest manufac-
turing industry, and when drastic pro-
cess changes come, as they are sure to
do, they are bound to cut deep into our
economic and social structure.

Mysterious rumors that a long step
has already been taken in the direction
of revolution are now afloat.

There is no mystery about the fact
that a certain New England mill is
doing weird things in the textile field,
the only mystery is “how?”

Known facts are that the fabrics
turned out by this mill are so varied
that some resemble parchment and
others look like tapestries; that all sorts
of novel color effects are produced;
that texture ranges from the “softness
of a silk handkerchief to the sturdiness
of industrial belting.” Also that the
pattern and color scheme are so easily
changed that the high cost of short
runs, one of the textile industry’s pres-
ent curses, is avoided.

The mysterious new technique is be-
lieved by the Arthur D. Little organ-
ization, from whom our information
comes, to be a combination of the tech-
nical methods of the textile, the paper
and the rubber industries.

——_2>~-____

Lower Prices Will Aid Retail

Sales

Many retailers hope that lower
Prices resulting from termination
of NRA codes will provide some
stimulus to their sales volume
over the next few months. How-
ever, they doubt that June dollar
volume will equal that of a year
ago, although the percentage de-
cline may be less than in May.

Warmer weather and the lure
of sharply lowered prices on a
few items resulted in some im-
provement in retail trade last
week. However, store executives
report that sales in New York fell
4 to 5 per cent. below the corre-
sponding week in 1934. Else-
where, sales last week averaged
onlv slightly lower than last year.

For the month as a whole, re-
tail fell behind May, 1934, al-
though out-of-town stores made a
considerably better relative show-
ing than did those in New York.

While retailers expect June
business to register gradual im-
provement, they point out that a
rapid spread of wage cutting
would reverse such expectations.

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Essential Features of the Grocery
Staples

Sugar—Jobbers now hold cane gran-
ulated at $5.40 and beet sugar at $5.20.

Canned Fruits—Things being what
they are, such futures prices as have
been named on California fruits have
been interesting only in establishing an
idea of how new packs would come
out. Since prices to growers have not
in most cases been established as yet,
such quotations showed a disposition
On some hands to take a chance. As
a general thing, they are the smaller
factors in the industry,

Canned Vegetables—New pack peas,
standard ungraded, are quoted at 80c,
factory, are running to unusually good
quality, This price decline should not
be particularly surprising, as the crop
is large and unless something happens
to alter present prospects materially,
there will be plenty of peas.

Canned Fish — Alaska pink salmon
has slid off to $1, with some interests
holding for $1.05. However, the people
that are quoting $1 are important
enough to come pretty close to estab-
lishing a market.

Dried Fruits—The remarks of the
President on the fate of the New Deal
did fruits n ogood, of course. The
agreements under AAA _ with fixed
prices to the growers provided the
basis for present quotations pretty
largely and sentiment in them was af-
fected as it was in other commodities.
However, there is this to be said: The
remarks came at the usually dull sea-
son of the year, when there is only a
thin interest in dried fruits for ship-
ment, as far as spot goods are con-
cerned, The effect of the statement on
futures, had they been quoted, would
be more upsetting. During the past
few weeks, there has been a somewhat
easier trend in the market for ship-
ment, since packers with surpluses of
whatever kind have been trying to
move them out. There has not been
any particular element of distress at-
tached to these efforts, however, and
except for prunes and raisins, surpluses
still on the Coast are small. They con-
sist largely of the lesser grades of apri-
cots, some dried peaches and some
pears, and a comparatively small
amount of figs. The New York market
is drifting along after somewhat sea-
sonal fashion, with varous items show-
ing a little tendency to ease off where
there is any serious sales pressure.
Stocks, however, are in' small compass
and this being the low merchandising
season, retal outlets are content to op-
erate on the smallest of inventories.

Evaporated Milk—Evaporated milk
packers hope for improving prices, as a
readjustment of the farmer milk prices
is under consideration. Many of the
milk packers report slim profits during
the first quarter of the year, owing to
the high raw milk level. Sales quotas
are holding in good volume, but some
of the packers are using premiums to
stimulate buying of their advertised
brands.

Maple Sugar — Heavy maple sugar
crop in the East has been reflected in
this market with easier prices and re-
sulted in keener merchandising for
maple sugar sales,

Nuts—The shelled nut market is en-
tirely routine here. There is only a
hand-to-mouth business going on and
irterest seems to be most active in a
few items like cashews, Brazils, wal-
nut pieces, etc. Some expansion in de-
mand for imported shelled almonds is
expected because of the cleanup of do-
mestic goods, but many buyers of Cali-
fornia almonds have found themselves
long and resales have been frequent.

Olive Oil—The market shows little
change here, Prices are holdng with-
in a narrow range and there is no par-
ticular change in quotations abroad.
Both Italy and Spain are steady and
generally slightly higher than formerly
and first hands here are taking their
requirements in a replacement way.

Rice—The market continues active
in a fair way here, with the effects of
warm weather tending to make th2
grocery trade buy more closely. The
fate of AAA will hardly mean anything
to spit rice, but it will naturally have
some adverse effect on new crop un-
til it becomes more clearly apparent
whether the act will withstand a Su-
preme Court test of its constitutional-
ity, Brewers grades continue active.

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Review of the Produce Market
Apples—No, 1 Spys, $1.75.
Asparagus—Home grown, 50 @ 60c

per dozen bunches.

Bananas—4'4c per Ib.
Butter—Creamery, 25'%c for cartons

and 25c for tubs.

Cabbage —90c per bu. from Ken-
tucky.

Calavos—$2.25 per case from Calif.

Carrots—Calif., 55c per doz. bunches
or $2.75 per crate of 6 doz.

Cauliflower—$2.25 per crate for Cali-
fornia.

Celery — Florida, $4.50 per crate; 12
stalks to bunch, 55c.

Cucumbers—Home grown hot house
are held as follows in 1 doz. boxes:

xtra Bancy i 08 oe 55c
No i eee 45c
Noo 2S eee 35c

Dried Beans—Michigan jobbers pay
as follows for hand picked at shipping
stations:
€ EP. from farmer== 22-8 $2.60
Light Red Kidney from farmer__ 4.75
Dark Red Kidney from farmer-_- 5.75
Eight Cranberny 005-225 5.10
Dark Cranberry —222 922 222 4.10

Eggs — Jobbers pay 22c per dozen
for all clean receipts. They sell as

follows:

Large white, extra fancy_--------- 26c
Standard fancy select, cartons_---- 25c
@urrent receipts: 23 222 24c
Meditin 2562s 23c
Cracks 2 22c

Egg Plant—$1.50 per doz. from Fla.

Garlic—15c per Ib.

Grape Fruit — Florida, $3 for all
sizes.

Green Beans—$2.25 per hamper for
Louisiana.

Green Onions—Home grown, silver
skin, 20c per dozen.

Green Peas — $1.60 per hamper for
Calif.

Green Peppers — 40c per dozen for
Florida.

Honey Dew Melons—$2.50 per case.

Limes—2lc per dozen.

Lemons—The price is as follows:

300) Sunkist te $4.00
S00; Sunkist 202512 4.00
$60 Red Bali) 3.50
S00) Red Ballet) ee 3.50

Lettuce — In good demand on the
following basis:

California’s, 4s and 5s, crate_---$4.50
Leaf hot house. 2-92) 8 5c

Mushrooms—30c per box.

Onions — Texas Bemuda in 50 Ib.
sacks, $2.75 for waite and $2.50 for
yellow.

Oranges — [fancy Sunkist California
Navels are now sold as follows:

7G ee $4.00
DO 4.50
6 ee 4.50
PD) 4.50
26 oe ee 4.50
De 4.50
288 Ee 4.00
524 3.50

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

WO $3.50
Me 3.50
pe 3.50
We 3.50

Parsley—30c per doz. for hot house.

Pineapples—24s and 30s Cuban, $4.25
per box.

Potatoes—Home grown, 50c per 100
lb, sack, Idaho, $2.50 per 100 Ib. sack.
New cobblers from the Carolinas, $3.25
per bbl. of 160 Ibs.

Poultry—Local jobbers pay as fol-
lows:

Heavy Howls. 22 3 eee 19c
ieht Howls soo 2s l6c
Murkeys oe 20c
Geese 2
Ducks | 2205 eee 15c
Radishes—Outdoor, 8c per dozen

bunches.

Rhubarb—Home grown 30c per bu.
of about 30 pounds,

Spinach—Home grown, 35c per bu.

Strawberries—24 qt. case from Indi-
ana, $2.75 @ $3. These are the best
berries we have received to date.

Sweet Potatoes—$1.75 per bushel for
Jerseys.

Tomatoes — Florida repacked, 90c
per 10 Ib. box; Toledo hot house,
$1.10 per 8 lb. basket.

Veal Calves—Local jobbers pay as
follows
ancy 2. 12%
Goad oe 11

Wax Beans—Miss, $2 per hamper.

Whortleberries—Alabama, 30c at.

—_++2s—__—_

Immediate Widespread Strikes

Doubted

Despite reiterated threats of
venal and unscrupulous union
leaders to stage Nation-wide
strikes to protect improved work-
ing conditions gained under the
codes, labor disputes over the
next few months will be mainly
local in their inception and will
be confined to the smaller indus-
tries, personnel executives state.
The coal dispute, of course, is an
exception.

Larger concerns in the more
basic industries seem certain to
maintain wage scales for the sum-
mer at least. The shortage of
skilled labor in specialized lines

is increasing and supports exist-
ing wage rates, it is pointed out.

While the length of the work-
ing week will be increased in cer-
tain industries, industrialists doubt
that much friction will result. Al-
ready at least two major concerns
report requests from their em-
ployes for a longer work week to
increase weekly earnings.

Over a longer period, however,
serious disputes are feared, espe-
cially if organized labor should
decide to make new drastic leg-
islative demands, and seek to co-
erce Congress by strikes. A vic-
tory for labor in the coal contro-
versy would greatly stimulate sim-
ilar walkouts elsewhere it is
feared.

ee
TVA Bill Being Fought

Senator Norris insists that his
TVA bill, which is designed to
circumvent an adverse decision of
a Federal Court in Alabama en-
joining the sale of surplus power,
is designed merely to clarify the
law.

Opponents of the TVA pro-
gram, who are fighting the Norris
bill in the House, give the meas-
ure greater importance than the
Senator. In fact, it is said that if
it were not for the fact that the
strategy of the opposition in the
Senate was very bad, the measure
would never have been adopted
by that body.

It had been hoped in the Sen-
ate that Senator Harrison would
step in with some of the legisla-
tion of which he is in charge and
thereby delay the taking up of the
Norris bill, but the plan was a
weak one and the Norris bill was
adopted.

The House Military Affairs
Committee stands 13 to 12
against the legislation, but the
Administration is seeking to per-
suade some of the former to
change their position and permit
the measure to become a law.
How successful are these efforts

will be seen shortly.
—__22 s__

Glass You Can Bend

Not so sweeping, but still rather
revolutionary, is glass than can be
bent as sheet steel is.

News of this came out of England a
year or sO ago, and now, it is reported
two American companies are licensed
to manufacture the new product.

One important use: where glass has
to stand great heat on one side, ordi-
nary heat on the other, as for windows
in furnace rooms, the new material
will last longer.

Ordinary force will not break the
new glass, but when it does go it
crumbles instead of shattering.

—_>+<-___

Men need salvation more than they
need anything else. Political reforms,
the guarantee of social security, scien-
tific achievements, are powerless to
make an unsaved person lastingly hap-
py. Men cannot be happy as long as
they are estranged from God.—John
H. McComb, D.D.

Taxes will tax recovery.

 

 

MUTUAL
INSURANCE

(Fire and Life)

 

Incendiary Fires in Nebraska

In the investigation of suspicious
fires the utmost care is taken to avoid
publicity and reflections being cast on
any innocent party or parties. It is a
greater satisfaction to the investigator
to be able to exonerate the suspected
ones than it is to bring charges of
arson against them.

In one year alone in Nebraska there
were over two hundred suspicious fires
investigated. On investigation it was
firmly believed that one hundred and
fifty of these fires were, without doubt,
of incendiary origin. But only eight
persons were convicted. This state of
affairs is due to three primary causes.
First—The most difficult case to prose-
cute is that of arson. Second—During
the past year it has not been an un-
common incident to trace incendiary
fires to people, who, only a few years
ago, were leading citizens in their re-
spective communities. In these cases
such people bring into play friends of
financial or political influence to res-
cue them when the authorities start to
bear down upon them. Third—There
are many honorable attorneys, but
there are some not too honorable. The
honest lawyer well knows the difii-
culty in getting arson convictions. So
does the crooked lawyer who takes
great pleasure and thinks it ciever to
defend a client whom he knows is
guilty of incendiarism.

People as a whole refuse to “get
excited” over a set fire because they
believe that it is the Insurance Com-
pany which pays. We feel that a little
lesson on insurance is hereby justified.

Modern business practice has carried
us far beyond the old pass-the-hat days,
and those of us who now want insur-
ance protection contribute to a com-
mon fund which is administered by the
insurance company for the benefit of
those who may suffer loss,

Because the insurance fund is a
common fund, arson is looked upon as
a very reprehensible act. It is a low
and vicious crime. When a policy of
insurance is issued to a man a certain
trust is imposed in him—he is at least
presumed to be a man of honor—
worthy to be associated with all those
who contribute to the fund. When a
member of the group then, commits
arson and collects, he has betrayed his
trust and committed an act of gross
injustice against his fellow members.

Probably it is because Nebraska in-
surance companies have become more
vigilant, or because people are now
aware of an up-to-the-minute inspector
in Fire Marshal Davis, that few in-
cendiary fires have occured of late.

The time is not far distant when
punishment for arson in Nebraska will
be swift and certain. This will do more
than anything else to discourage the
burning of property to collect insur-
ance. The arsonist strikes a match in
a mere flicker of time with no thought
of human life or loss of property. Why
then should he be given prolonged at-

   

 

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tention and undue consideration? Time
mellows the cruelest crime. He who
strikes at life and disregards the pos-
sessions of his fellow men should have
the penalty exacted in the swift, cer-
tain movement with which he struck
his match. :

To protect the innocent and catch the
guilty, every fire should be carefully
examined and payment deferred until
a thorough investigation has been
made. This will work no hardship on
honest men—but it will make it more
difficult for crooks to collect insurance,
As citizens of Nebraska each and every-

One of ys has a duty to perform. Root

out the arsonist. If you have the
slightest suspicion that a fire in your
locality was ‘‘set” do not hesitate to
report it to the state fire inspector's
office. or to some other reliable author-
ity—or to the insurance company.
Your information will not be divulged
and though your suspicions may have
been in error no harm will have been
done, On the other hand if the fire
was of incendiary origin you will have
done nobly by your friends, your in-
surance company and your State,
Arson does not pay. Those behind
penitentiary walls can give testimony

to this. True, the depression made
crooks o otherwise honest citizens
but to their utmost sorrow. With

brighter days and better times ahead
we hope that the crime of arson will
come to nihil. Nebraska people can
rest assured, however, that never ceas-
ing vigilance wil be kept, making the
future path of the arsonist rough and
difficult to tread—Mutual Insurance
Journal.

——_++>__
Items From the Cloverland of
Michigan

_ Sault Ste. Marie, June 3—At this
time of the year, this is a Natoin with
but a single thought—vacation. Memo-
rial day finds vacation time in full
swing. And during the succeeding 3
months a large percentage of the peo-
ple will have their annual furlough
from. the cares and labors of making
a living. The vacation is an all reveal-
ing barometer of prosperity. There is
no other country in the world where
wage-earners and workers for small
salaries can afford the luxury of a va-
cation trip, which is expensive and en-
Joyed at an additional expense of loss
of earnings during during the period of
absence from work. So far this year
many of the cottages at the Les Che-
neaux Island are now occupied by the
regular resorters, which is a good in-
dication for another good tourist year.
The same is also true at Mackinac
Island, where the merchants are spend-
ing much money in dolling up their
places of business and several new
business houses have opened. All are
optimistic and figuring on this being
an exceptionally good season and build-
ing accordingly,

The Club Rendezvous, conducted by
Robert Gillespie and J. D. Flannagan,
has opened on Mackinac Island. The
Rendezvous is on the second floor of
the Truscott building at Main and Hu-
ron streets. It has been decorated in a
color scheme of Chinese red and black.
Light lunches are served. Both. men
are residents of the Island. Mr. Flan-
nagan was former manager of the
Mackinac Island’ liquor store,

George Lafleur has returned from
Florida, where he spent the winter. He
has opened his store at Cedarville with

a new stock of confectionery, soft:

drinks and novelties. He reports a
good business durng the winter. in

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Already a man who isn’t strong
enough to push a lawnmower is swing-
ing a golf club in good style. :

Wm. Kirkbride, Jr., of Pickford, is
in charge of the meat department for
the H, P. Hossack & Co. store, at Ce-
darville, Mr. Kirkbride is an expert
meat cutter, having had several years
experience in his father’s market at
Pickford,

Robert Rector has purchased the in-
terest of Charles Smith in the Ojibway
service station on West Portage ave-
nue and will continue the business,
selling gas, oils and doing washing,
greasing and repair work.

Hoban & Son, the well-known meat
merchants at Mackinac Island, have
discontinyed credit and are now work-
ing on a cash and carry scale. This
firm has enjoyed a good patronage for
many years and are adapting the new
plan with satisfactory results.

Henry De Molen has opened a gro-
cery and confectionary store on East
Spruce street in the building tormerly
occupied by Con, Harris, which has
been vacant for the past year. The
new store has been redecorated and
several changes in the fixtures have
been made, His son will assist in the
store. The neighborhood is considered
as one of the best in the East side and
near the tourist camp, which has been
a help to that section of the city.

The best way one can take beauty
back from the woods is to carry it in
his mind and soul.

Bernard Laprairie, who captained
the Chicago Baby Ruth hocky team
last winter, has opened a retail beer
store at 116 Porter avenue, East. Mr.
Laprairie expects to be a member of
the United States Olympic hockey
team next winter and make a trip to
Germany.

A Bay City man could not convince
the police last week that his business
was not affected by the city ordinance
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June 5, 1925

pay $5 for a license to peddle plants
and flowers in the city.

James Aloysius Byrne has opened a
beer garden at 331 West Portage. Jim
is well known in the city, having been
active in the American Legion as ;
drummer, and has many friends,

Fire destroyed the new inn at Bla-
ney Park last Wednesday, with a loss
of $25,000. The resort was owned by
the Wisconsin Land & Lumber (Co.
Construction of a new inn will be
started at once. In the meantime Cel-
ebim Tavern and Bear Creek Lodge
will be used as dining halls.

William G, Tapert.
—_+____
One of the great weaknesses of the

American executive is his indifference
to those who misrepresent Business.
The average man is too busily at work
to reply to those who malign Business.
He seems to accept the misrepresen-
tation, libel and calumny as one of the
necessary evils of Business and silent],
submits until finally the undenied lies
grow into general beliefs, with the re-
sult that both the public in general and
Business in particular suffer.—Charles
E. Carpenter.
——_++-____

I have brought myself by long med-
itation to the conviction that a human
being with a settled purpose must ac-
complish it, and that nothing can resist
a will which will stake even existence
upon its fulfillment—Disraeli.

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Lines of Interest to Grand Rapids
Council

The June meeting of Grand Rapids
Council was called to order Saturday
evening, June 1, at 8 o’clock by Senior
Counselor Ghysels with about twenty-
five members present. The attendance
was small, but made up of those wno
were full of pep and argument.

The question of a joint picnic with
Battle Creek and Kalamazoo Councils
came up and was thoroughly discussed.
A committee was appointed to com-
plete the details of the where and when
of the U.C.T. picnic. Those who will
serve on that committee are L. L. Lo-
zier, Gil Ohlman, Gerald Wagner, Ray
Shinn and Tom Fishleigh. There is a
bare possibility of the picnic being held
at Gun Lake this year. The point is
centrally located for Battle Creek, Kal-
amazozo and Grand Rapids members.
The committee will be able to report
more details at a later date.

It was announced during the meet-
ing that H. R. Bradfield, who was ap-
pointed Grand Secretary to fill the un-
expired term of the late Maurice Heu-
man, would be a candidate for that
office at the Grand Council meeting
which will be held in Saginaw June 6,
7 and 8. The delegates from Grand
Rapids Council were instructed to lend
their best efforts toward securing his
election.

The Council was closed at 9:45 and
the Senior Counselor advised the mem-
bers that a recess would prevail until
Sept. 7 when the fall activities would
get under way.

Golf is the tie that binds many a
husband and wife by separating them
on Saturdays, Sundays and other
fighting holidays.

The Supreme Court of the United
States kicked plenty of feathers out of
the Blue Eagle when it invalidated the
N.R.A. The threat of the fierce bird
kept a big majority of the chiselers in
line and did much for recovery but it
will now be a common dog fight among
those who think they cannot do busi-
ness without chiseling. Business is
highly competitive, but there isn’t any
reason under the stn | why | fair
and profitable means cannot be used
to secure a satisfactory amount. It will
be interesting to await the arrival of
the “horse and buggy” days as predict-
ed by some leading lights of the
country.

This is the day of streamlined ve-
picles, but the trouble with the country
to-day is that too many people have
dreamlined brains.

There is conversation going around
that people in our fair city will be
equipped with thought-o-meters, breath
o-meters and look-o-meters. So much
per thought, breath or look must be de-
posited before the meter will work.
The amount collected will go-to the
city as a special tax. We understand
this is due to the inability of the local
government to “function with the funds
available under the 15 mill tax limit.

We assume that the aforementioned
meters will not be resorted to, but we
understand that other type meters are
being seriously considered. The police
department has been decimated with-
out regard to the length of service.
This move smells of the old axe used
in retaliation for the affixing of signa-
tures to a removal petition which was
circulated against an official several
months ago. A few more humorous
moves in the city hall may cause the
people to go on a funny spree of their
own and transfer their allegiance to
territory outside the city limits,

Nobody ever sees his own face in
the glass. What he observes there is a
compound, divided into three parts:
one part himself as he really is, one
part representing what he expects to
see, and a third part what he wishes
to behold.

A news writer in a recent periodical!
remarked that this has become a Na-
tion ruled by letters and wire from
those who desire certain legislation. It
is our understanding that in a demo-
cratic form of government the people
elect capable (?) men to represent their
cause in the two houses at Washington
and that these men are to function
without
things are now they are not solons,
but receiving stations for avalanches
of letters and ‘bundles of telegrams. It
is our opinion that this will soon be a
Western Union and

interference. However, as

government by
chain letters.
The veto of the bonus bill by our
good President is either a gesture of
good common sense or a brilliant pol-
itical move. Assuming the first is true,
the veto is backed by a veteran who
makes this statement. “The men who
fought for America in the emergency
of 1917 are fighting against her in the
emergency of 1935. The fight for the
bonus is the ugliest episode in Amer-
It has fouled the name
‘veteran’ beyond cleansing; new gen-
erations will not forgive us. It has
dragged our uniform in the mud. for
sixteen years. It has shocked .Europe’s

ica’s history.

war sufferers even beyond the power
of ridicule. What shall our own coun-
trymen say of us when the bills come
in? A woman in the state of Wash-
ington has answered that question; for
nearly twenty years I have paid a tax
in this state for soldiers compensation,
skimping to do so—me, an old woman,
carrying grown men on my back.” If
the gesture is a smart political move
what is to hinder the speedy passage of
the bill in the waning months of the
present Government’s power in 1936?
There is an unprecedented demand
by newspaper composing rooms for
extra supplies of ciphers. This is due
to the New Deal dealing glibly in
millions and billions and the ordinary
supply of zeros carried by composing
rooms is not enough to set up the
newspaper copy. A lot of demand for

nothings.

Tom Fishliegh spent Sunday up
North, where he is making a two
week trip in the interest of his com-
pany.

Past Counselor Groom is feeling

some better after being confined to his
home for the past ten days.

This issue will conclude our items
until the fall session of the Council
unless something of importance comes
up. The Grand Council session will be
reported in the following edition of
the Tradesman We are sure that Ed-
itor Stowe will grant this staff a vaca-
tion during the summer months when
Council activities are dormant and the
boys too lazy to think up items After
the Grand Council report we will say
adios until September.

Notgniklip.

—_+++____
Three Hundred Expected To Attend
Saginaw Convention

Saginaw, June 4—Three hundred
United Commercial Travelers will
meet here Thursday and Friday for
the annual convention of the U. C. T.
Grand Council at the Bancroft, Auxil-
iaries of the organization will hold
their convention in connection with the
men’s session, members of the Saginaw
auxiliary acting as hostesses,

Registration for the men will begin
at noon Thursday at the Bancroft.
Fred A. Phillips is general chairman
for the convention. At 6.30 p.m. Thurs-
day a team work dinner is scheduled,
followed by a meeting of the execu-
tive and finance committees at 9 p.m.
At 9:30 p.m. an entertainment is being
arranged and the Lum council will
meet at midnight.

The main session is slated for 9 a.m.
Friday and will be opened by Oren M.
Leidlein. Mayor Weber is to give the
welcome address. Other speakers will
be Mr. Phillips; J. Hugh Foster, of
Chicago, supreme conductor; James G.
Daly of Columbus, editor of Sample
Case, and Allen F, Rockwell of Grand
Rapids, grand counselor,

The forty-second annual executive
session of the Michigan grand coun-
cil will take place at 9:30 am. The
council will reconvene at 1:30 p.m. and
the closing event will be supper dance
at 9 p.m, with supper at midnight.

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If more salesmen would combine the
use of sole leather with their gray
matter, they would land more orders.

 

A Victory for the Gold Bloc

The hard-pressed gold bloc has
had the first solid crumb of com-
fort in some time, in the shape of
a rejection by the Swiss of the
New Deal proposal.

While not directly on the sub-
ject of devaluation, a majority for
the referendum proposals would
have forced the Government to
borrow for public works, and thus
to weaken its fiscal position. Un-
der the circumstances, this might
well have led to currency devalu-
ation before long.

With the French politico-finan-
cial crisis passing also, the French
and Swiss francs and the Dutch
guilder seem likely to remain
firmly anchored to gold, at least
until lasting currency stabilization
is arranged by Great Britain and
the United States.

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Extended Painting Season Ex-
pected

Heavy buying of the principal
raw material indicates that paint
manufacturers are expecting large
sales for some time to come.

In addition to their active lead
buying, paint makers are respon-
sible for linseed oil deliveries dur-
ing the last few weeks at the
highest levels for any period since
1931.

Prevalence of cooler weather in
most sections of the country has
delayed actual painting somewhat
during the past few weeks. Hence,
manufacturers predict that the ac-
tive season will extend over a
longer period than is customary.
Export sales of finished paints are
improving also.

~~ +
To executives: Take your vacations
early.

 

 

AMEE eT

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DRY GOODS CONDITIONS

More seasonal weather brought an
upturn in retail trade last week in most
sections of the country. In some cases
the improvement was not enough to
push volume ahead of a year ago, but
in others there were gains ranging up
to 10 per cent. Sharper price competi-
tion in this area as a result of the
NIRA decision added to the number of
shoppers, Summer goods and sports-
wear were most active,

Estimates on department store sales
for the month just closed were more
varied than usual. They agreed in
looking for a loss and put it all the way
from 2 to 5 per cent. Reports from
other centers were more cheerful and
it was thought that the country as a
whole might show a gain.

Renewal of the spectacular price
competition upon cigarettes, books and
some toilet articles, which was so
sharply criticized in pre-code days,
quickly followed upon the Supreme
Court Recovery Act decision early in
the week. The losses are charged to
advertising and the stores seek to pro-
mote the idea that other prices are
correspondingly lower, though, as one
executive put it, less than one-tenth of
1 per cent. of the stocks are affected.

Nothing official was given out on
store wages and hours, but there were
individual assurances that these will
be maintained at code levels. Should
price competition spread, however,
some of these promises may prove dif-
ficult to carry out. Even under the re-
vised NIRA it was not intended to re-
tain the retail codes, for the reason that
the business is typically intrastate.

For the near future the outlook in
the retail business is somewhat uncer-
tain, according to authoritative opinion.
Lower prices should attract more
trade, but lower wages, actual or
threatened, would tend to reduce it.

 

NIRA COLLAPSE UNSETTLING

As in trade, the collapse of NIRA
had an unsettling influence upon major
industry in the week. Automobile pro-
ducers quickly announced that the end
of the code regime would mean no
change in policy and other large indus-
trial divisions sought to continue their
recovery agreements upon voluntary
lines.

Fear of the “chiselers,” however, was
dominant if not expressed. It was re-
called that after the assurances given
at the Hoover conferences wage cuts
came thick and fast. Some of those
who promised to maintain rates were
probably sincere, but many of them
acted upon the theory that the race
was going to the wage-cutter and “the
devil take the hindmost.”

However, there are some strong con-
trasts in the situation now and what it
was in 1930, Price inflation and an
excessive debt structure are not pres-
ent and business recovery is under way.
There are artificial conditions of one
kind and another, but not the need for
liquidation that existed then.

Industrial buyers are not unduly dis-
turbed over possibilities. In fact, they
assert that they are going ahead upon
plans made earlier in the year. Some
softness in prices is expected for the
immediate future, which, they believe,

   

MICHIGAN

will be followed by a resumed advance
as the work relief program gets under
way and inflation influences are again
active.

The business index has turned high-
er and stands at 81.6 for the latest
week, as against 81.3 in the previous
week and 84.7 a year ago. Larger auto-
mobile output, when a decline is sea-
sonal, put this series higher and had
the chief weighted influence. Car load-
ings also gained both on an actual and
an adjusted basis.

SHOULD GET TOGETHER

In the lighter industries the effect of
the NIRA decision may prove more
pronounced than in the heavier lines.
The Retail Code restricted purchases
to Blue Eagle products, for one thing,
and the elimination of labels opens the
door wide to marginal and sub-stand-
ard merchandise. Morecver, there are
numerous small manuacturers pressing
for orders. Offsetting these influences
on the other side of demoralization are
only the trade associations and the la-
bor unions, the latter particularly
strong in the apparel industries.

Retailers may be expected to push
strongly for the overthrow of code pro-
visions to which they have objected.
Last week there were demands not
only for the pre-code discounts but for
higher ones. Rules on returns and can-
cellations were being disregarded Ad-
vertising allowances and shipping ex-
penses ‘were being sought.

Against this pressure the manufac-
turers’ associations threw the weight
of their memberships by taking over
the enforcement of NRA standards.
The proposal for a central organizatjon
of all apparel producers to lead the
fight against uniust demands received
widespread support.

Resident offices here were queried
by client stores throughout the coun-
try on the market outlook. The retail
price war in this city seemed to be
accepted as the forerunner of similar
competition n all centers and influ-
enced store buyers in their search for
price concessions,

Before this conflict of interests takes
its costly toil it might be well for the
trade and wholesale market associa-
tions to get together upon their differ-
ences.

COMMERCE CLAUSE OBSTACLE

In his discourse upon the NIRA de-
cision before the press on Friday Pres-
ident Roosevelt referred to the many
appeals which have come from busi-
ness interests for a continuance of the
Recovery Act, while at the same time
he made it clear that the Supreme
Court’s ruling on interstate commerce
makes it impossible to go ahead with
economic or social legislation on Fed-
eral lines.

If all activities except transportation
are barred out from relief under the
commerce clause, then the President
suggested there is no way to proceed
except in the direction of a constitu-
tional amendment. In many quarters
his remarks -were considered too pessi-
mistic, and yet the court seemed bound
to uphold property rights at the ex-
pense of human rights.

Possibly a solution, short of a con-
stitutional amendment, ties in requiring

 

 

TRADESMAN

licenses for all goods shipped by com-
mon carriers. Licenses would be issued
only if shippers and consignees main-
tained proper wage and hour stand-
ards. Another way out is suggested in
having trade and industry carry along
their own recovery measure, This
would follow along the lines indicated
in this column before the Blue Eagle
program was announced. Product,
value and working standards would be
drawn up for an industry by represen-
tatives of all interests and the public
educated through intensive advertising
to choose such goods in preference to
those which were sub-standard and
meant lower wages and reduced divi-
dends.

OFFERS CASH DISCOUNT

A discount of 2 per cent. on cash
transactions has just been inaugurated
by Strawbridge & Clothier, Philadel-
phia department store, and retailers
throughout the country will probably
follow developments with considerable
interest, The store will also allow one
per cent. on charge accounts paid with-
in thirty days and has extended the
credit period to sixty days after which
carrying charges will be assessed.

In announcing the new plan last
week Herbert J. Tily, president of the
store and also head of the Retailers’
National Council, suggested that all
retail establishments might well fol-
low the new discount set-up and end
“discrimination” against the cash cus-
tomer. He pointed out that it costs
money to carry unpaid bills and the
customers paying cash have been as-
sessed for this expense. Less than. half
of the department sales of the country,
he explained, are cash transactions and
these are being penalized to carry the
credit structure.

While little criticism was offered to
this discount plan, retailers during the
week were not so ready to commend
it, although none disputed its logic.
There appeared to be some fear that
the move would start still keener price
competition and the offering of other
and less justifiable inducements to the
buying public,

WARNING TO WOMEN

A writer advocates the use of the
electric needle to eliminate the beard
and so save the large amount of time
in shaving. Why this horror of mus-
tache and beard? Men let hair grow
on the head. Why not fet it grow on
the face? A man is ashamed of a bald
spot on his head; and yet he makes his
entire face bald and shamelessly de-
prives himself of a beard, the symbol
of manhood. A beard or mustache
gives strength, character and individu-
ality to the face and marks the differ-
ence between men and women. In
their hearts women like mustaches and
beards and secretly admire andi respect
bearded men more than they do
smooth-faced men. Women pretend to
dislike beards and mustaches simply
because style woman’s master — has
placed the ban upon the beard. The
mustache and beard are coming back.
With them will come back man’s old
authority over woman No wife ever
got a divorce from a bearded patriarch.
A bearded man tries to live up to his
beard,

 

 

 

 

June 5, 1935

THE GENERAL STRIKE

A general strike is in fact revolution,
It is war against the Government, and
against the public. No free and self-
respecting society will permit one to
continue any great length of time.
Such a strike in America would meet
with the same and a speedier fate than
it met in Great Britain. There the en-
tire populace turned out to break the
strike, and organized labor lost pres-
tige and influence beyond calculation.

The same ‘would happen in this
country, At present the majority of
Americans wish well to the workers in
their bargaining with employers, and
are inclined to favor strikers on the
theory that employers are often able
to meet the demands of the strikers.

That is essentially different from
countenancing a genera! strike, which
is not a quarrel with employers at all,
but an effort to do so much harm gen-
erally, to inflict such serious injury on
industry and on the public that politi-
cal action will be forced at Washing-
ton.

 

UNCONSTITUTIONAL NIRA

The highest wage scale is the best
wage scale, providing it is not out of
balance with other factors in the na-
tional economy.

So far as the broader implications of
the decisions are concerned, I am satis-
fied that they will eventually be recog-
nized as vital steps forward in promot-
ing a sane industrial recovery, Sooner
or later we are bound to recognize that
regimentation and bureaucracy have no
part in our national economy. They
can only produce one result—lowered
efficiency, increased costs and reduced
standard of living,

We have also to recognize the fal-
lacy of the “theory of scarcity” upon
which many of our recovery programs
are based. Recovery can be promoted
only by increasing productivity. Arbi-
trary and uneconomic increases of the
factors that make up prices penalize
productivity and retard recovery. Em-
ployment is reduced as well.

 

 

SEEING AN ANOMALY

The President of the United States
assuredly desires world peace; the
members of Congress, among whom
are numerous fathers of numerous sons
of war age, undoubtedly want world
peace; parents demand world peace
and harmony, and young men desire
and demand universal peace. No one
will admit a desire for a catastrophe
war, either local or general. And yet,
what do we see on every hand?
Preachers are denounced if they de-
rlare themselves against war; teachers
are dismissed from service for teaching
doctrine of peace; young men who
would be eligible for conscription are
beaten, arrested and jailed when they
congregate to assert themselves for
world peace; demonstrators against
war and for peace are treated as trai-
tors to the country,

eerie

 

The survival of the fittest means
finally the survival of the self-con-
trolled, because they alone can adapt
themselves to the perpetual shifting of
conditions produced by. industrial
Progress.-C. L, Shaw, :

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

June 5, 1935

OUT AROUND

 

Things Seen and Heard on a Week
End Trip

One of the grandest fights I have
ever seen any man make is the strug-
gle William R, Roach has made dur-
ing the past half dozen years to. regain
his health under circumstances which
would have staggered a less resolute
man. But for the inspiration afforded by
beautiful home surroundings and the
hearty co-operation of his associates in
business, I cannot help thinking he
would have surrendered to the mani-
fold afflictions which have crossed his
path, but his hope and courage have
never faltered. I expect to see him
emerge from the present prolonged pe-
riod of pain and resume his desk with
his old-time cheer and good will to all.

 

H. K, Royal, manager of the Oceana
Canning Co., made a business trip East
last week, during which he visited the
trade in Philadelphia, attended a meet-
ing of canners in Washington, D.C.,
and accompanied a party of visitors
to the old Washington home at Fred-
ericksburg, Va., where a Michigan
cherry tree has been planted on the
spot where the legendary tree of that
variety is purported to have been cut
down in his early boyhood by the
“Father of His Country.”

 

J. F. Oswald, who has conducted a
general store at Cressey thirteen years,
has sold his store building, stock, resi-
dence and five acres of land to Charles
McNulty, who has been associated
with his uncle, H, G. Stanton, general
dealer, five miles West of the city on
West Bridge street for the past ten
years. The transfer of ownership will
take place this week. The entire trans-
action is a cash deal. Mr. McNulty is
so fortunate as to have acquired his
knowledge of the mercantile business
under a shrewd and experienced mer-
chant who has made a success of every
branch of business he has ever under-
taken.

 

Mrs. L, F. Hartmann and Mrs. Ben
Krause have taken a lease of the Hill
Top Inn, at Lamont, for the summer
and will conduct it along the most ap-
proved lines. Food only will be served.
Both are experienced housekeepers and
expect to accord their dining custom-
ers perfect satisfaction. Mrs, Krause’s
mother, Mrs. Fankel, who had wide
experience in handling large parties in
churches and elsewhere, will be asso-
ciated with the young ladies.

 

The Wm M. Ferry Hotel, at Grand
Haven, has discontinued its popular 60
cent fried chicken dinners and substi-
tuted therefor regular full course din-
ners for $1, which are greatly appre-
ciated by the patrons of the Ferry.
Among the beverages included in the
menu for the charge above named is
draft beer.

When I was President of the Grand
Rapids Board of Trade—now Associa-
tion of Commerce—we purchased 30,-
000 little elm trees in France, about
five feet long and quarter of an inch in
diameter. The trees cost three cents

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

apiece and we distributed them among
the scholars of the public and paro-
chial schools of the city for a penny
apiece, All we asked was a signed
agreement from the recipients to plant
and care for. the trees. The trees
proved to be very hardy and I think
those which were given proper atten-
tion have done well, The one on our
home lot—planted by the daughter of
E. D. Conger—is now fifteen inches
in diameter two feet above the ground.
I wonder how many readers of the
Tradesman were equally fortunate in

being able to show such good results

from these little trees.

 

Grand Rapids, June 1—If I could be
assured that our worthy officials and
citizens of Grand Rapids would co-
operate with me as wholeheartedly and
loyally as you always stand ready to
do it would be a simple matter to put
this project into operation.

It requires a great deal of capital and
understanding and your assistance is
most necessary. It is imperative that
the city and board of education accept
Plant No. 2, so that Plant No. 1 may
be relieved of taxes in order to re-
ceive a Government loan.

We have a city of which we may be
justly proud, it is ideally situated and
has every advantage of education and
good clean recreation; our one draw-
back has been a means of getting em-
ployment for our people and relieve
the city of its relief rolls and this can
be accomplished if our officials will so
see the light of day and put their
shoulders to the wheel and help get
this plant under way. It is a real op-
portunity for Grand Rapids. I am
working night and day and gambling
with what funds I have, but it is hu-
manly impossible for one man to com-
plete. If I can successfully see this
through I have in mind several other
industries which I believe may be ob-
tained for our city. Just yesterday the
town of Lyons donated both a site and
plant to induce one of our firms to lo-
cate there, which shows to what ex-
tent other cities are bidding for the
very things which I am most anxious
to obtain for Grand Rapids.

You have always supported me so
loyally and are one man who seems to
understand that my plans to aid the
city and state are wholly unselfish and
if a few of our individuals could be
made to understand this fact and di-
vorce me from politics for the good of
Grand Rapids it would be a nice piece
of missionary work.

Frank McKay.

 

Two extracts from recent decisions
of the United States Supreme Court
might well be read together. One is
an extract from Justice Cardozo’s pre-
vailing opinion in the West Virginia
chain store sales tax case:

The state may tax the large
chains more heavily than the
small ones, and upon a graduated
basis, as indeed we have already
held. Not only may it do this, but
it may make the tax so heavy as
to discourage multiplication of the
units to an extent believed to be
inordinate, and by the incidence
of the burden develop other
forms of industry.

In principle there is no distinc-
tion between such an exercise of
power and the statute upheld in
Magnano Co. v. Hamilton, where-
by sales of butter were fostered
and sales of oleomargarine re-
pressed. A motive to build up

. through legislation the: quality of

men may be as creditable in the
thought of some as a motive to
magnify the quantity of trade.
Courts do not choose between
such values in adjudging legisla-
tive powers. They put the choice
aside as beyond their lawful com-
petence. “Collateral purposes or
motives of a legislature in levying
a tax of a kind within the reach of
its lawful powers are matters be-
yond the scope of judicial in
quiry.”’

The tax now assailed may have
its roots in an erroneous concep-
tion of the ills of the body politic
or of the efficacy of such a meas-
ure to bring about a cure. We
have no thought in anything we
have written to declare it expe-
dient or even just, or for that
matter to declare the contrary.
We deal with power only.

In this case, Chief Justice Hughes
and Justices Brandeis, Stone and Rob-
erts stood with Justice Cardozo.

In the more recent railroad pension
case Justice Roberts, writing the pre-
vailing opinion, declaring the law un-
constitutional, said:

The theory is that one who has
an assurance against future de-
pendency will do his work more
cheerfully, and therefore more
efficiently. The question at once
presents itself whether the foster-
ing of a contented mind on the
part of employe by legislation of
this type is in any just sense a reg-
ulation of interstate transporta-
tion.

If that question can be answer-
ed in the affirmative, obviously
there is no limit to the field of so-
called regulation. The catalog of
means and actions which might
be imposed upon an employer in
any business, tending to the satis-
faction and comfort of his em-
ployes, seems endless.

Provision for free medical at-
tendance and nursing, for cloth-
ing, for food, for housing, for the
education of children and a hun-
dred other matters, might with
equal propriety be proposed as
tending to relieve the employe of
mental strain and worry. Can it
fairly be said that the power of
Congress to regulate interstate
commerce extends to the pre-
scription of any or all of these
things?

Is it not apparent that they are

really and_ essentially related
solely to the social welfare of the
worker and_ therefore remote

from any regulation of commerce
as such? We think the answer is
plain. These matters lie outside
the orbit of Congressional power.

In this decision Justice Roberts was
supported by Justices Van Devanter,
McReynolds, Sutherland and Butler,
while the Chief Justice wrote a vigor-
ous dissenting report.

It is interesting to compare the two
points of view but it must be remem-
bered that what Justice Roberts could
uphold in the West Virginia case was
a state law; what he ruled against in
the railroad case was an abuse of the
powers of Congress.

9

Strict enforcement of Michigan’s
new apiary inspection law has been in-

stituted by Commissioner of Agricul-

ture, James F, Thompson. The pres-
ent legislature enacted the law placing
Michigan in a leading position with
other states in respect to this extensive
industry, valued in this state at $10,-
000,000 by Thomson.
Under the law every person, firm or

Commissioner

corporation possessing or owning bees,
shall register with the department of
agriculture, Registration fees are $1.50
per apiary of 10 colonies or more, or
75 cents per apiary for each apiary
containing less tham 10 colonies. Reg-
istration is required by June 1 each
year. The law is designed to eradicate
disease colonies of bees. Its passage
by the legislature was sanctioned by
the majority of beekeepers throughout
the state. Twenty-five inspectors are
now in the field Thomson revealed.
They have full authority to inspect and
then confiscate bee colonies when dis-
ease is detected.

 

Two bills of the recent legislature
are of particular interest to automobile
drivers of the state. One, Senate Bill
No, 388, Senate Enrolled Act No. 131,
provides that anyone whose operator’s
license has been suspended as the re-
sult of an accident, must, if he seeks
reinstatement prior to the time set by
the revocation order, apply to the cir-
cuit court of the county in which the
accident occurred, The measure was
drawn to guarantee to circuit judges
the privilege of reviewing their own
revocation orders,

 

The second measure, House Bill
No. 340, House Enrolled Act No. 148,
strikes the offense of driving while
improperly registered, or while not
registered at all, from the list of viola-
tions for which conviction automatic-
ally brings the operator under the stern
provisions of the financial responsibil-
ity act of 1931. Since the latter act be-
came law, nearly 1,000 operators have
been brought under its provisions,
chief “tooth” in the act being that the
operator must prove his ability to meet
accident claims up to $11,000, which
requires the posting of cash, securities
or insurance policies, in this sum, with
the Secretary of State.

 

Officials of the Department of State
believe that with this future possibility
eliminated, the penalty for the misde-
meanor of driving while improperly
registered, is made somewhat more
proportionate to the offense. There
are, at present, approximately 100,000
persons operating automobiles in this
state, without operators’ licenses.

 

I am so impressed with the leading
editorial in the New York Times on
the Supreme Court decision last Tues-
day morning I am reproducing it in
the Tradesman this week, with proper
credit. How the Times could say as
much in so small a space in the eight
hours or so it had at its disposal be-
tween the delivery of the opinion by
Chief Justice Hughes and the require-
ments of the pressroom is more than
I can understand.

(Continued on page 23)

 

 

10

FINANCIAL

Leading Democratic Newspaper of

America on the NIRA Decision

Two incidental reasons for satisfac-
tion with the decision of the United
States Supreme Court in the case of
the National Industrial Recovery Act
must catch evey eye. The first is that
Chief Justice Hughes spoke for a unan-
imous court. There can be no question
now of asserting that the minority was
right in a 5-to-4 decision; nor can there
be invidious remarks about the Tories
among the judges outvoting the Liber-
als. All are united in upholding the
view that most of the provisions of
NIRA are invalid under the Constitu-
tion. The second cause for gratifica-
tion is that the judgment of the court
came so long after the enactment of
the law. Had it fallen near the time
when the nation was_ enthusiastic
about NIRA it would have been bad
both for the court and the country.
Now it follows closely upon a marked
change of public sentiment. The Recov-
ery Act had done its work, the chief
benefit of which -was to stir the people
into hopeful activity and had come to
be almost universally regarded as a
piece of legislation now obsolete and
ineffective. Nowhere will the opinion
of the Supreme Court in the matter
now provoke angry resentment. The
judges simply pronounce to be dead a
statute which the great mass of the
people had already decided to be dead.

Taking the instance of codes under
NIRA, we find the Supreme Court
making a complete end of them. It de-
cides that Congress had no constitu-
tional power to delegate to the Presi-
dent authority to impose codes upon
private business, Especially repugnant
to the court was the grant of authority
to him to make changes in the codes as
he might please. The Constitution does
not permit delegation of power to the
President to do “whatever he thinks
desirable.” Going still further, the Su-
preme Court holds that no group in
any industry may frame a code for
itself through which the attempt is
made to give the force of law. In other
words, violation of the code, even when
it is voluntary, cannot be punished by
the courts. This seems to make the
case against the codes complete. A
large number of them had already been
extinguished. The rest of them were
ended by Mr. Richberg’s announcement
last night.

More striking and penetrating is the
decision of the court that the Federal
Government has no constitutional right
to go into the States and fix hours and
wages in industries which are not
clearly and exclusively engaged in in-
terstate commerce. Transactions, de-
clares the court, which merely affect
intrastate commerce, are not subject
to Federal legislation and must remain
within the control of the States. Other-
wise, affirm the judges, we should soon
have everything brought within Fed-
eral jurisdiction, with the result of set-
ting up a “centralized Govenment”
never contemplated by the Constitu-
tion. That part of the decision seems
to do away with Section 3 of the Re-
covery Act and leaves it only a thing
of shreds and patches. Congress may

 

   

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

attempt to piece the fragments together
but it is now evident that if any revi-
sion of NIRA is to be made, it will
have to be an entirely new law. Per-
haps the old one will now be allowed
to expire on its appointed date of June
16.

Great significance ataches to the rul-
ing out by the court of business which
merely “affects interstate commerce.”
That same clause, it will be noted, oc-
curs in the Wagner Labor Bill. If it
remains there and another judicial test
is made, the consequence will be ex-
pected to be the same as in the rejec-
tion of NIRA as unconstitutional. It
is a nice point to decide whether an in-
dustry is frankly engaged in interstate
commerce, or merely affects it indi-
rectly. Yet it was deemed vitally im-
portant by the Government, since the
Solicitor General argued in this very
case that intrastate transactions are fre-
quently so interwoven with interstate
commerce that the latter cannot be “ef-
fectively regulated without control over
the former.” That control the Supreme
ourt has declared to be unconstitu-
tional,

There will be more to say of this
Supreme Court decision, as Congress
may seek to gather up the fragments
of NIRA. The action of the court
seems so far to have met -with general
approval. Senator Borah says that by
it “the Constitution is re-established.”
Two years ago Congress was ready to
take great chances with the supreme
law. Hereafter it may be more careful,
since the evidence is now clear that the
Supreme Court will not permit the
Federal Government to usurp or en-
croach upon the constitutional rights
of “indestructible States.’—N. Y.

Times, tal

—__»> 04+

The “Yardstick” That Stretches

The chief argument on which friends
of the Tennessee Valley project always
fall back is the argument that, how-
ever impracticable the latter may seem
to be, it has great value as a “yard-
stick” for power rates. In other words,
we are told that, once it has been ascer-
tained how much it costs the authority
to produce power, we shall have a basis
on which to determine the fairness of
rates charged elsewhere by private
producers.

Wendell L. Willkie, president of the
Commonwealth and Southern Corpora-
tion, pointed out several months ago
how far from reliable this “yardstick”
was, and declared that private com-
panies, given the special advantages
enjoyed by this government-financed
project and putting their bookkeeping
on the same basis, could make rates
even lower than those of the T. V. A.
Mr. Willkie charged that the authority
had written down its capital invest-
ment by 60 per cent., that taxes paid
were much less than those paid by
private operating companies and that
in several other extremely important
particulars the cost basis of the pub-
licly operated T. V. A. and privately
operated companies were far from
comparable.

Those portions of the audit of TVA.
by the Comptroller’s office that have
been made public would seem to indi-
cate that Mr. Willkie had not over-

stated the case. This audit shows that
the total net value of assets transferred
to the T.V.A. in the form of plants
and other properties was almost $133,-
000,000, and it shows that these prop-
erties are capitalized by the authority—
with no “break-down” of the figures
given on the books, incidentally—at
$51,000,000, a “write-down” of 62 per
cent, Or, put the other way about,
the T.V.A. rubber yardstick has to be
stretched two and a half times to come
anywhere near the truth.

Its depreciation policy is likewise
criticized in the Comptroller’s audit,
which says on this point:

“Despite the apparently excessively
depreciated value at which the Muscle
Shoals property was taken upon the
books, the authority is not using the
valuation basis for depreciation. In-
stead, it is basing depreciation on earn-
ings from the sale of power by charg-
ing 10 per cent. of the gross revenue to
operations as depreciation. On such a
basis there has ‘been husbanded $82,618.
Such reserve appears to be entirely in-
adequate. If the return from operations
is to be properly determined the rea-
sonable value of all things concerned,
including depreciation of the origina!
investment, must be taken into consid-
eration. Assuming a very conservative
rate of valuation the amount of depre-
ciation would be approximately $1,-
000,000 per annum.”

In other words, the Tennessee Val-
ley Authority has been able to give
more favorable rates than private com-
panies by resorting to such devices as
carrying its plant at a fictitiously low
figure and then by making ridiculously
inadequate charges for depreciation. A
private corporation that attempted jug-
glery of this sort would have to answer
for it to its stockholders; and if it got
by the stockholders it would have the
blue-sky laws to deal with. But when
the “stockholders” are only the tax-
payers—well, that is a different story.—
N, Y. Tribune-Herald.

—2r++___
The Break In Farm Prices

Sharp declines in prices of agri-
cultural commodities which have
been increased by the AAA are
arousing concern. The Admini-
stration may be forced to adopt
drastic measures to stabilize farm
prices, or turn to outright defla-
tion, if this trend should continue
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The broad decline in the com-
modity markets on Wednesday
was largely due to fears that the
AAA program would be held un-
constitutional by the Supreme
Court. This influence will prob-
ably dominate movements of
agricultural prices until such time
as a decision can be obtained, or
until radical modification of the
law to buttress its constitutionality
can be enacted. If prices continue
to sag, however, agitation to pro-
tect the gains made under the
AAA is certain.

Inflationists, armed with a new
argument, will also seek to bene-
fit from the situation.

It seems likely that the Admin-
istration will first attempt to stab-
ilize prices by crop loans, as is
being done with cotton, before
resort to inflation. However, with
all curbs upon production re-
moved if the AAA were invali-
dated, this procedure might well
prove merely a prelude to direci
inflationary measures.

—_++.+—____
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Long ago in my first pastorate a lit-
tle boy ten years old was run over by
a truck in front of his own home and
cruelly hurt—for weeks we did not
know whether he ever would walk
again, They picked up his broken body
and carried it into the house and while
they were waiting for the physician his
mother sat beside his bed. He was
badly scared, By and by he said:
“Mother, are you frightened?’ She
pulled herself together, looked at him
steadily, and said: “No, I am not frigh-
tened.” “Well, then,” he said, “I will
not be either.” His courage did not
come from trying. He caught it from
somebody. My soul! how many of the
finest things in our lives we caught
from our mothers!
Harry Emerson Fosdick.
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IN THE REALM OF RASCALITY

Questionable Which Are

Under Suspicion

The Raladam Co., of Detroit, is
charged with unfair competition in
making false and misleading represen-
tations in aid of the sale of of “Mar-
mola” tablets, widely advertised by
radio and otherwise as a remedy for
over-weight, in a complaint issued by
the Federal Trade Commission and
based on representations made by the
company since April 17, 1929, the date
of a former order to cease and desist
against Raladam,. In the former case
against Raladam, the United States
Circuit Court of Appeals, Cincinnati, in
1930, set aside the Commission’s order
and was upheld by the Supreme Court,
May 25, 1931, on the sole ground that
the Commission had not shown the ex-
istence of substantial competition,
Among ingredients of Marmola is des-
iccated thyroid, made, it is said, from
the thyroid glands of the sheep, the
cow, the pig and the goat. The com-
plaint says it is a dangerous and pow-
erful drug, its function being to burn
up tissue, and that Marmola contains
so much of it that when taken as di-
rected it is liable to produce radical
and harmful physical changes. “Such
harmful changes may safely be guarded
against only by the previous and con-
tinuing investigation, observation and
advice of a competent physician,” says
the complaint. “There are several
classes or types of obesity. In only
a very small percentage of obesity
cases is desiccated thyroid a safe and
efficacious remedy and then only when
administered by a competent  physi-
cian.” The complaint alleges that the
following representations by Raladam
are untrue: That reputable physicians
endorse the use of ingredients con-
tained in Marmola; that its use con-
stitutes the same treatment as all mod-
ern doctors employ; that the virtues
of Marmola ingredients are known by
and prescribed by physicians the world
over; and that Marmola constitutes a
scientific remedy, safe, harmless and
efficacious, that can be taken safely
without medical advice and direction.

Schemes

Rodgers Distilleries Co., of Chicago,
and Western American Distillers Cor-
poration, of San Francisco, have been
served by the Federal Trade Commis-
sion with complaints alleging unfair
competition and violation of the code
of fair competition for the distilled
spirits rectifying industry. According
to the complaints, the respondents’ use
of the word “Distillers” or “Distiller-
ies” in their corporate names, and on
labels, has a tendency to deceive buyers
into believing that they manufacture
and distill liquors from mash, wort, or
wash, when in fact they are not distil-
lers.

 

Three companies selling preparations
for use in treating diseases have en-
tered into stipulations with the Fed-
eral Trade Commission to cease and
desist from false representations of
their products. They are: Cleveland
Regol Company, leveland; King’s Bet-
ter Vision Institute, Los Angeles, and
Dermolav

Laboratories, Inc., New _

York City. The Cleveland firm agrees
to stop advertising that its medicine
“Regol” is a competent or effective
treatment for liver trouble, unless the
representations are limited to function-
al disorders of the hepatic glands of
the liver; for indigestion, unless lim-
ited to intestinal indigestion due to
lack of bile; or for gas, unless limited
to gas in the intestine due to intestinal
indigestion. It will also no longer ad-
vertise that the preparation will afford
permanent relief and has been effective
in cases where operations have pro-
duced no benefits. King’s Better Vision
Institute (0863) will cease advertising
that its course is capable of correcting
wrongly shaped eyeballs, nearsighted-
ness, farsightedness and other eye
troubles and that the course is the out-
growth of thirty years-of scientific re-
search. It will no longer represent
that use of “Eyezone” will change the
shape of the eyes and prevent the need
of glasses, or that the use of the
“Spineometer” affords a competent
remedy for various organic troubles.
Dermolav Laboratories, Inc. (0864)
agrees to discontinue asserting that
either of its preparations, “Dermolav
Liquid” or “Dermolav Scalpfood,” will
“srow” hair or cause scalp or skin de-
fects to disappear.

Unfair competition in the sale of a
beauty shop preparation for coloring
eyelashes and eyebrows is charged in a
Federal Trade Commission complaint
against Louise Norris, of Kansas City,
Mo., trading as Louise Norris Co. Al-
though advertised as safe and harm-
less, the “Louise Norris Permanent
Lash and Brow Coloring,” according
to the complaint, is not safe and harm-
less, but contains dangerous drugs or
chemicals and its use as directed may
result in inflammation or poisoning of
the skin and other troubles, and may
cause blindness or death. Contrary to
the respondent’s advertisements, the
complaint says that this preparation
is not scientific and is not approved by
the United States Government or
boards of health nor have medical
authorities of high repute helped to
perfect it.

Conde Nast Publications, Inc., of
New York City, is charged with un-
fair competition in a Federal Trade
Commission complaint alleging that the
respondent entered into a combination
and agreement with selected manufac-
turers and retailers in various parts of
the country for sale of certain women’s
garments featured in Vogue magazine,
published ‘by Nast. This is the first
complaint of its particular kind to be
issued by the Commission. The prin-
cipal charges are that the publishing
company’s practices have a tendency to
mislead and deceive its readers into be-
lieving that its research and recom-
mendations as embodied in certain pub-
lished articles are disinterested, also to
deprive the public cf the benefits of
normal price competition among re-
tailers by constraning the latter to sell
at prices arbitrarily fixed by the pub-
lisher and certain manufacturers. Also,
the publisher’s action is alleged to have
caused manufacturers to limit the
choice of retail dealers in each locality

to those selected by respondent, thus
depriving the public of the benefits of
competition among a number of dealers
in each locality. According to the com-
plaint, the Vogue publishers entered
into contracts with various dress and
garment manufacturers that Vogue
should choose models of women’s
wearing apparel from the model lines
of these manufacturers for featuring
in the magazine’s departments called
“Vogue Smart Economies” and “Vo-
gue’s Finds of the Fortnight.” The
complaint says that for such featuring
of models the manufacturers agree to
pay the publication company a service
fee of 5 per cent. of the amount col-
lected on each sale of reproductions of
the models chosen by the publisher to
be featured. The manufacturers agree
not to make or sell any other garment
similarly designed. The complaint says
the respondent also made agreements
with certain retailers throughout the
country who feature and sell these gar-
ments. The magazine publishes their
names, the complaint says, and agrees
to furnish a list of these selected re-
tailers to the manufacturers with whom
it enters into contracts, the manufac-
turers agreeing to sell only to the re-
tailers in a given community so listed.
Retailers signing contracts with the
Nast publications agree to purchase a
minimum of one of each garment fea-
tured in every issue of Vogue and: to
maintain the retail price thereof quoted
in Vogue for at least one month after
the on sale date of the magazine issue
in which they are shown, according to
the complaint. The publisher is al-
leged to have agreed that for at least
two months after delivery of model
garments to selected retail stores they
shall not ‘be sold by the manufacturers
to any other store in the selected re-
tailer’s city, except under the same
terms as between the selected retailer
and the respondent.

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Proceedings of the Grand Rapids
Bankruptcy Court

In the matter of Burkhart & Son Pack-
ing Co., bankrupt No. 6123, The sale of
assets has been called for June 13, at the
premises formerly occupied by the bank-
rupt in Peninsula township, Grand Trav-
erse county, (located on Old Mission Pen-
insula, approximately 8 miles north of
Traverse City. The property for sale
consists of machinery and equipment ap-
praised at $1,710.15. Real estate ap-
praised at $3,175. All interested in such
sale should be present at the date and
time above stated. The trustee is Fred
G. Timmer, Grand Rapids. The property
will be open for inspection the date of
sale and the day preceding.

May 29. On this day the schedules,
reference, and adjudication in the matter
of Felix Kowalinski, bankrupt No. 6262,
were received. The bankrupt is a baker
of Grand Rapids. The schedules show
total assets of $3,982.91, (of which $550
is claimed exempt), and total liaoilities of
$4,729.83, listing the following creditors:
City Treasurer, G. Ro. acs
G. R. National Bank__

Howard C. Lawrence, Receiver,
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2,075.00

Blenbaas Bros., GG. KR... 1,106.77
Northwestern Consolidated Milling
Co., €hicaeo 2. ee 4.00

  
  

Ideal Coal Co., G. R.- sete Z 92.70
KE. B. Gallagher & Co., G. R._ = 91.50

Krebill Milling Co., Concord_ ae 35.00
Veenstra’s Garage, G. R.--- poe ‘
Michigan Bell Telephone Co., G, R. 8.42

 

Piankineton & €o.. G. KR. 35.62
But Dary, G. Risto ee es 46.00
G. Bi Paper €o:2 2: 20 30.00
Wilson & Company, G. R.__----__ 3.50

Watsen-Higgins Milling Co., G. R.
John VanderVeen, G. R.__---
Voigt Milling Co., G. R._-
Schimen Service Garage, G.
Beeker Bros, G. Rio: -- ees 2
Bay State Milling Co., Winona, Minn, 5.00

In the matter of Simon Kratzenstein
and Jacob Kratzenstein, co-partners ud
ing business as Fashion Leader, final
meeting of creditors was held May 14.
Fred G. Timmer, trustee, was present in
person and represented by Hilding &
saker, attorneys. Certain creditors were
represented by Dunham & Sherk, Carroll,
Kirwin & Hollway and Henry Miltner.
One account bidder present in person.
Trustee’s final report and account was
approved and allowed, Certain attorneys’
bills were approved and allowed. Balance
of accounts, bills and notes receivabie
was sold to William J. Romkema for the
sum of $12. Order was made for the
payment of expenses of administration,
preferred claims and a first and _ final
dividend to creditors of 13.5 per cent. No
objection to discharge. Final meeting
adjourned without date. Files will be
returned to U. S. District Court.

May 31. On ths day the schedules, ref-
erence, and adjudication in the matter
of Chester M. Courser, bankrupt No.
6263, were receved. The bankrupt is a
stationary engineer, of Grand Rapids.
The schedules show total assets of $492,
(all of which is claimed exempt), and
total liabilities of $5,341.29, listing the
following creditor
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State Savings Assocation, G, R. 4,5 3
Union Bank of Michigan, G. R.__ 227.16

May 31. On this day the reference, and
adjudication, in the matter of Four Flags
Brewing Co., bankrupt No. 62 were
received, This is an involuntary petition,
and the schedules have been ordered filed,
Upon receipt of same the assets and lia-
bilities will be made known. The bank-
rupt is located in Niles.

June 3. On ths day the schedules, ref-
erence, an dadjudication in the matter
of Cleland W. Hunt, bankrupt No. 6267,
were received. The bankrupt is a farmer
of Grattan township, the schedules show
total assets of $9,270 (of which $860 is
claimed exempt), and total liabilites of
$18,112.28, listing the following creditors:

 
  
 

  

 

 

    

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Young & Chaffee Furn. Co., G. R. -00
Herpolsheimer Co., G. R.----_--- 86.00
International Harvester Co., G. R. 30.00
Belding Mercantile Co., Belding -00
Rockford State Bank, Rockford__ 1,270.00

 

 

 

Elgin W. Condon, Smyrna______ $25. %o
€. ©) Be Cutts. Rockford. = 24a
Rockford Motor Sales, Rockford 36.05
George Dockery, Rockford___--- 61.64
Squires & Co., Rockford:_____ 135.33
Glenn McBride, Rockford___ 113.06
Finch Bros., Rockford_______- 2 90.00
Cc. F. Sears, Rockford_ a eat 57.35
Coon & Co. Rockford 22 o 46.23
Albert Wooster, Rockford____-.-. 690.00
F. Buckley, Rockford___- ie 112.00

   

William Bush, Rockford 60.09
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Casner mstate: Gu Re oe 614.06
William Myres, Rockford_____ 95.00
Jacob Ryskamp, G. R.- bs aie 133.33
Gy Ro Growers. Inc. G. Rov 48.50
William Joyce, Cannonsburg__-- 55.00
Bella Cowles, Orleans__.-.._______ 240.00
Roth Bros., Lowell, Mich. __ 1.20.00
Belding Savines Bank =." P29io9
Ambrose & Noble Spencer,

Belding), 2. oo eae a a peeoe
Belding Oil Co., Belding | Tt33
Bert. Storey, Belding 2.2. 7* 16.00
John G. Hessler, Belding__ _ 613.00
G. M. Spencer Estate, Belding__ 200.00
Orville C. Bush, Pasadena, Calif. 1,180.00
Monroe Nurseries, Monroe___---- 7.12
Dr, DeMaacd. Rockford 8. 28.00
Bila Warner: G. Ris 22 50.00

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Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers Associa-
tion of Michigan.
President—Rudolf Eckert, Flint.
Vice-President—O. A. Sabrowski, Lan-
sing.
Secretary — Herman Hansen, Grand
Rapids. i
Treasurer—O. H. Bailey, Sr., Lansing.
Directors—Holger Jorgenson, Muske-
gon; L. V. Eberhard, Grand Rapids; Paul
Gezon, Grand Rapids; Lee Ldllie, Coopers-
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High Grade Advertising by Small-
Town General Merchant

George Cavalli, general merchant of
Cloverdale, California, advertises so
well that I have often reviewed his
work. Until lately, he worked out his
own circulars. Now he has changed off
to the local newspapers and, consider-
ing small-town paper display limita-
tions, he does a good job; considering
that the town holds only about 750
people, the job is fine.

George talks to his people in his ad-
vertising about as he might chat per-
sonally; and that is a strong feature in
any advertising. He also is liberal-
minded; unselfish; hence profits in ex-
tra measure on the plan that “the lib-
eral soul shall be made fat.” Wonder-
ful how self-forgetfulness centers re-
turns right on ourselves! For instance
somewhat condensed:

“The Spirit of Christmas comes to
town. Your local merchants are pre-
pared ... They are the Santa Claus
who support your local Red Cross,
churches, schools, civic organizations.
Give them your first call and watch
your community prosper .... This is
going to be a fine foods Christmas, A
basket, box or package of fine foods
makes a wonderfully timely gift. We
are prepared to take care of you with
these.”

There speaks George for his town.
You may be sure he lost nothing by
thus boosting everybody. Then he
quotes: “Fine food gifts in baskets
from $2.50 up. Fine foods in fancy
boxes, from $1.50 up. Fine foods in
fancy packages from 75c up.” Then
more specifically:

“Cross & Blackwell Marmalade, 50c,
for two pound jar. From Seville or-
anges; bitter-sweet. Crosse & Black-
well mincemeat, one pound, 20c. From
the finest ingredients; mixed with
brandy and rum, Navel oranges, 30c
per dozen, large size, new crop, sweet
and juicy.”

Those are examples of good adver-
tising—not mere listings, but descrip-
tive of the goods. Next step for
George will be to give count on his
oranges, a la Omaha. His customers
will soon get the idea. His advertising
will then be more definite and con-
fidence inspiring.

Again: “Lost and Found. On taking
our inventory we found that we were
overstocked on the following items, so
we are taking a loss, so as to turn
them into cash. Palm Olive soap, 5c
ber bar; 256 ‘bars only. Decorated cups
and saucers, two for 25c; 172 sets only.
Cookie jars, each 80c regular $1.25. 11
only on hand. Bamboo leaf rakes, each
19c; thirty-eight on hand.”

Again: Resolved —That we will
continue to give during 1935 the same
quality merchandise as we havé in

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

the past, Price consistent with the
quality. Come in and let us plan your
grocery budget for this year. May you
thrive in thirty-five.”

Again: “The old saying: ‘At a great
pennyworth pause a while. Many are
ruined buying bargains.’ Considering
quality our prices are fair, both to
seller and consumer. The above quo-
tation is applicable at this time.’ Then,
after the usual descriptive quotations:
“Thank you. Having sold the Econ-
omy groceteria to Caul Baumeister, of
Cloverdale, and Francis Sten, I wish
to take this opportunity to thank ail
our friends and customers who have so
loyaly given us their suport the past
five years.”

All of this is good stuff. I quote it in
such detail because it is so chatty, so
friendly, so unassuming, so merchant-
to-customer in direct collaboration, I
quote also because it so rarely appears
in grocer advertising—in any other ad-
vertising, for that matter; for even in
the big cities, where “experts” are sup-
posed to flourish, this intimate tone is
seldom met with.

That tone should be studied, emu-
lated, striven after; but also it is not
difficult to attain if the advertiser will
simply range himself on the customer’s
side of the counter and take her part
in the thinking and descriptions. What
does she want to know? Well!. she
wants facts; the unvarnished truth
about what she is offered or what she
seeks. And if you think that way, you
will not go far wrong, nor will you miss
the tone very much.

Mire: cleave to that tone always.
Do not let extraneous things creep in
to mar the continuity of your friendly
converse. You own individuality will
then shine through your advertising,
and you should not mar the effect by
departing, even  temporarfly, into
strange, evanescent paths.

I say this because George departed a
bit from grace since March, 1933, un-
der the influence of NRA propaganda,
and uttered some notes that rang falsc.
For example, February 19 of this year:

“Let’s put the chisel away. It was a
sad experience while it lasted. That
little tool—the ‘chisel’—was one of the
most depressing in the business world.
No matter how good a product was;
no matter how well you served your
customers; no matter how much value
you gave for your money, there was
always someone around the corner
with a chisel to offer something just as
good for just a few cents less. Usually
these so-called bargains were at the
expense of quality and, as a result, the
buyer got no more than he paid for—
often less.”

Now, that does not ring George-true.
It is unfamiliar after what he has given
us for lo, these many successful years.
For in all that time he has pursued the
even tenor of his efficient way, giving
us full value, telling us simple facts in
plain language about what he has had
for us; and our confidence in him has
grown until we have taken his every
word at par—no slightest question oc-
curring to us.

Now he casts indefinite aspersions on
certain nebulous folks around the cor-
ner, and what is our reaction? Well,

we are like other folks. We are but
slightly moved when a merchant com-
plains against somebody who chisels:
incidentally, about as silly and childish
an expression as ever was invented. We
think: ‘What's the matter with
George? Ils somebody cutting in on
him? Apparently so, since he squeals
thus openly. Maybe there’s something
to it. Let’s step around that corner and
see for ourselves.”

A knock is a boost. People reason
for themselves, If you let your light
shine unshaded, it will illumine your
area, provided it be a good light. And
if it be not good, all your words -vill
avail naught.

There are not many talse notes in
George’s advertising. I have quoted
what I think the worst. With the end
of the Blue Eagle, good merchants will
not be apt to be thus led into false by-
paths. Let such stick to iheir job of
offering honest values, speaking posi-
tively—never negatively—telling what
they have, casting no asparagus on
what the other fellow may not have.
That is the true gospel of merchandis-
ing and George has followed it con-
sistently, except the little lapses noted.

The one tie in with NRA I find
which rings true is this: “Under the
Blue Eagle we will carry on as usual——
fair wages and fair hours for employ-
ees; fair selling practices for the con-
sumer and fair prices. These are the
principles of NRA—the new creed for
American business, These have been
our principles for the past twenty-three
years, and will be adhered to.” ;

 

June 5, 1935

That’s good talk—positive, to the
point, familiarly confidence breeding.
Paul Findlay.
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anybody can talk. It’s what you talk
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MEAT DEALER

 

Farmers Paid Major Part of Plant
Dollar

American housewives might “take a
leaf from hotel and restaurant menu
cards” if they wish to satisfy the appe-
tite of their husbands for tasty meat
dishes and at the same time keep well
within their family food budgets,

This suggestion was given by Wm.
Whitfield Woods of Chicago, President
of the Institute of American Meat
Packers, speaking recently before the
Baltimore Kiwanis Club.

“Hotel and restaurant managers are
familiar with the kinds of meat that
men like and buy at luncheon,” Mr.
Woods pointed out. “If housewives
would serve at dinner the kinds of
meat their husbands buy at luncheon,
they would find their husbands well
satisfied and their meat bills relatively
low.”

Appeal to Appetites of Men

Mr. Woods listed pot roast, beef and
lamb stew, spareribs, roast shoulder of
pork and lamb, and frankfurters as
meat dishes which usually appeal to
the appetites of most men.

“Such dishes,” he said, “are conspic-
uous on the menus of hotels and res-
taurants and are accompanied frequent-
ly by other dishes that appeal to men,
cabbage, sauerkraut, mashed
potatoes, and turnips. They are com-
paratively low-priced and are easily
prepared. By alternating them with
such standard meats as steaks, chops,
housewives can make

such as

and rib roasts,
an appreciable saving on their weekly
food budgets.”

In discussing the division of the con-
sumer’s meat dollar, the speaker, who
represents the trade, reseach, and edu-
cational association of the American
meat packing industry, stated in part:

“Cash payments for live stock plus
processing taxes comprise between 70
and 80 per cent. of the packer’s income
from all live stock products. Nearly
half of the remainder goes into pay-
rolls; another fourth, for supplies,
power, fuel, etc.; and another fifth, for
repairs, insurance, depreciation, taxes,
interest, and other operating expenses.
This leaves available as profits only
about one-sixth of one per cent. per
pound of live stock handled.

“For ten years back,” he added, “the
difference or ‘spread’ between the plant
value of packinghouse products and the
amount paid for live stock has been not
more than two and one-half cents per
pound of live stock bought—and al-
most all of this margin has been spent
for payrolls, supplies, transportation,
and other necessary items of expense.

“The two-and-a-half cent
which includes all the costs of turn-
ing live stock into meat, is kept at a
minimum by the spirited competition
of more than 700 packing companies
rgeularly purchasing live stock for
slaughter, The various expenses such
as taxes, etc., involved in that margin
ordinarily do not change greatly from
one year to the next and have increased
little if any during the past year when
prices have been above the abnormally
low levels of 1932 and 1933.”

margin

Discussing the labor cost in proces-
sing live stock products, the speaker
pointed out that, of the approximately
$200,000,000 paid out by the industry
in wages and salaries in 1934, nearly
$150,000,000 went to its 131,000 wage
earners, averaging about $100 per
month,

—_>+>___
Meat in Diet Aids Prevention of
Anemia

“Culinary skill without scientific
planning for the needs of one’s family
is like a beautiful dress that is inex-
pertly seamed together, Miss Lucile
Harris told 2,000 women in the Jeffe-
son Plaza (in South Bend, Indiana)

at the third session of The News-
Times “Foods on Parade” cooking
school.

“Miss Harris intermingles her in-
struction on preparation of new dishes
wit hlectures on food values, menu
planning and diet requirements—she
stressed the importance of iron in the
diet and the use of meat in the preven-
tion of anemia.

“To bear out her statement that pale
cheeks and listless bodies are the result
of too little meat, Miss Harris related
the results of a research conducted by
Dr. Robert S. Herzog, of the North-
western university medical school.

“Dr. Herzog’s studies on the effect of
low meat diets upon children carried
him into the grammar schools of a poor
section of the city. From these schools
he selected 55 children, and studied
their physical conditions and social his-
tories carefully. Of these, he found 48
per cent. suffering from various degrees
of anemia.

“Hot lunches were fed daily to this
group—half of them being given a dish
which included meat, and half, a hot,
meatless lunch of the same caloric
value.

“At the end of the study, those chil-
dren whose lunch provided meat
showed decided improvements in, con-
dition over the other group. Miss Har-
ris said:

“*The copper and iron that meat fur-
nishes are needed not merely by young-
sters. Anemia in grownups is quite as
common and as dangerous. They, too,
need meat in generous quantities, to
be sure that they are as strong and
well and energetic as a busy life de-
mands.

“‘Tf on the other hand, you want
to lose weight, keep on eating meat.
You want to shed fat, not muscle, and
you need meat’s iron and copper to
make you radiantly and not anemically
slender,

“Kat meat, You need to build up
your muscle tissue, you need its min-
erals to guard against nutritional ane-

Mia.

Protection of articles in shipment or
storage is lent by a new non-inflam-
mable liquid which, after application,
turns into a water-proof, air-tight coat-
ing of live rubber. It is sprayed, dip-
ped, or brushed on, is said to strip off
cleanly, easily.

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Firemen speed to fires comfortably
seated, sheltered from wind, weather
and dangers of collision, in a new
sedan-type engine. The enclosed body
is of shock-resistant, all-metal type.

Modification of Code Provisions

Substantial modification of
numerous existing code provisions
will be necessary if voluntary com-
pliance with them under the aus-
Pices of trade associations is to
prove successful, trade association
officials assert.

Prevailing restrictions upon
maximum weekly working hours
will have to be liberalized in most
industries, they say, to give rea-
sonable likelihood of compliance.
A forty-eight hour work week will
be found a minimum that can be
enforced, it is held, now that legal
restraints are lacking. Readjust-
ment in wage rates, while likely to
be necessary in some cases, will
not be as frequent as increases in
working hours, they assert.

Moreover, fair trade practice
provisions in many codes will
have to be liberalized. All pro-
visions contrary to the anti-trust
laws will have to be removed as a
matter of course, but others found
unduly burdensome will have to
be modified if voluntary -compli-
ance is expected.

———
Interstate Compacts — The Way
Out?

Grave doubts are expressed by
trade association executives that
the proposed establishment of in-
terstate industrial compacts among
the various States to regulate
wages, hours and trade practices
on a uniform basis is a practical
solution to the impasse caused by
the termination of the NRA codes.

In the first place, since many
legislatures are not in session, well
over two years may be required
before important industrial States
can pass guch laws. Moreover,
the temptation for certain States
to: refuse to pass such a law, or to
establish lower standards to at-
tract industries may prove irresist-
ible.

However, there is a growing
conviction in some industries that
competitive standards cannot be
maintained by voluntary agree-
ments supervised by trade associa-
tions. Consequently, they may
favor interstate compacts as the
only constitutional method of en-
forcing compliance with recog-

nized standards.
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A simple method of etching initials
identifying marks on
windshields, etc., is provided by a new
etching compound and aluminum-foil
stencils, The paste contains no Hydro-
fluoric acid.

on glassware,

Our attitude toward others is like
the planting of different kinds of seed;
it brings forth treatment from others
like the seed we have sown. If we
smile we receive smiles in return. If
we frown, frowns come back. Our deal-
ings with our neighbors are reflected
back to us like the faces we make be-
fore our looking-glass. If by being
kind to our neighbors we plant a kind-
ness seed, it will grow and bring forth
deeds of kindness for us to enjoy. Ev-
erybody appreciates kindness and good
will coming from the other fellow. To
be able to enjoy such pleasure we must
not forget to be kind and express good
will. If we want the warmth of friend-
ship we must put the fuel of friendship
on the fire of life—Lowell Fillmore,

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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.

Comprehensive Review by the Mich-
igan Hardware Association

The National Congress opens in De-
troit 8 p. m., Monday, June 17 and
closes Thursday afternoon, June 20.
Every Michigan hardware dealer is
invited to attend the most important
hardware Congress ever held.

In preceding Congresses the sub-
jects, as well as the speakers, were
taken almost entirely from the hard-
ware industry itself. In the Detroit
Congress the field is much broader.
The topic of the Congress is “Reading
the Riddle of Competition” through 3
principal steps (1) a description of
Syndicate Methods from inside syn-
dicate organizations, (2) a description
of what other retail fields are doing
to meet syndicate competition and (3)
suggestions for adopting and applying
features of successful plans, wherever
used, in hardware distribution.

See the June Hardware Retailer for
more. complete discussion of the pro-
Look over the entertainment
program. It’s a honey, then show it
to your wife. Bring Her to Detroit
With You the Week of June 17.

The Convention Program

Mon. “Our Program” N, E. Given,
President National Retail Hardware
Assn. “Government Competition”
Congressman Samuel B. Pattengill.

Tue. “Syndicate Pricing and Buy-
ing’—Chas. F. Emerson of the Inde-
pendent Grocers Alliance. “Syndicate
Merchandising Methods” W. L. Stens-
gaard, formerly in charge of store pro-
motion and display for Montgomery
Ward Co. “Comparison of Syndicate
and Independent Distribution Costs”
C. N- Carter, C.P.A. “Consumer Co-
operatives’ (from the inside).

Wed. “Hardware Store Display and
Promotion”—Nelson J. Waters, Paw
Paw, Mich. “Outside Selling by Hard-
ware Retailers’—R. A. Chandler, Syl-
vania, Ohio. “Helping Independent
Druggists to Meet Syndicate Compe-
tition” —(By official of the Drug Insti-
tute of America). “A Successful Plan
in the Food Field” L. W. Hitchcock
Asst. to Pres. of the Red & White
Chains.

gram,

Thu. “Planned Merchandising that
Checks the Chains’—F. C. Budden-
baum, Gen. Manager Regal Stores, a
voluntary food store group. “Jobber
Service Plans in the Hardware Field”
—H. W. Hirth, National Retail Hard-
ware Assn. “A Jobber-Dealer Plan for
Hardware Distribution’ — Paul M.
Mulliken, Illinois Retail Hardware
Assn, “Cooperation the Key’—H. F.
Stickney, an expert on methods for
meeting syndicate competition.

A, D. Vandervoort, President:
The Roll Call

“Raise the roof” with “Michigan, My
Michigan” when the Michigan dele-
gation answers the roll call at the open-
ing meeting Monday evening. The
words must be memorized. Cut out and

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

retain them.
State.
sing.

We are proud of our
Let’s show that pride when we

Michigan, My Michigan
(Tune: Maryland, My Maryland)
A song to thee, fair State of Mine,
Michigan, My Michigan;
But greater song than this is thine,
Michigan, My Michigan;
The whisper of the forest tree,
The thunder of the inland sea,
Unite in one grand symphony,
Of Michigan, My Michigan.

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sing a State of all the best,

Michigan, My Michigan;

sing a State with riches blessed,

Michigan, My Michigan;

Thy mines unmask a hidden store,

But richer thy historic lore,

More great the love thy builders bore,
Michigan, My Michigan.
Registration. Registration will com-

mence Monday morning, June 17. A

registration fee of $2 has been estab-

lished for each Association member
and $2 for each lady guest. Ten dollars
worth of entertainment for two dollars,

The entertainment is open to associa-

tion members, their wives and espe-

cially invited guests only,

Any hardware dealer may register,
without charge, for as many of the
convention sessions as he cares to at-
tend.

Transportation to and from enter-
tainment features is provided for out-
of-town guests and for others if their
own cars are not available.

The Entertainment Program

Monday evening (open to everybody)
Special features before program,
dance and movies after program.

Tuesday afternoon (for registered la-
dies) Luncheon at Dearborn Inn;
Trip through Greenfield Village.

Tuesday evening (for registered dealers
and guests) Boat ride and special en-
tertainment on the Steamer Tash-
moo (Courtesy Wholesalers’ and
Manufacturers’ Committee).

Wednesday afternoon (for registered
ladies) Trip through Detroit News
plant, entertainment at WJR radio
station and tour through Fisher
building.

Wednesday evening (for registered
dealers and guests) Light Opera
“Rose Marie.”

Thursday afternoon (for registered

ladies) Sight seeing trip to Belle Isle,

Grosse Pointe, art center, lecture and

organ recital at art center. (Enter-

tainment concludes Thursday p.m.)

The Entertainment Program

At the National Congress, Michigan
offers the most spectacular and com-
prehensive entertainment program that
has ever been presented at a National
Congress. This program has been in
the making for an entire year. All
possibilities have been carefully. exam-
ined and the best of them chosen for
the entertainment of the delegates and
members attending the National Con-
gress. Every hardware dealer in the
state may attend the convention ses-
sions. Every association member may
participate in the entertainment,

Monday. The convention sessions
open Monday evening. Special enter-
tainment features will enliven the
opening ceremony, Upon entering the

—

ballroom of the Statler Hotel, in which
the opening meeting will be held, there
will be seen an elaborate display, 50
feet long, of “Michigan—The Play-
ground of the Nation.” This display
is installed by the courtesy of the
Michigan Tourist and Resort Associa-
tion. At the conclusion of the roll call
of the Michigan delegation Curly
Moulton, National Champion, will give
his famous demonstration of expert
bait casting, Following the  pro-
grammed addresses a dance will be
held in the banquet room, adjoining
the ballroom, Continuous with the
dance “Michigan Outdoor” movies will
be shown in the ballroom. The opening
day is “Michigan Day” at the Con-
gress. All hardware dealers and their
ladies are invited to be present.

Tuesday. On Tuesday there is a 1
o'clock luncheon at the Dearborn Inn
which will welcome our guests, in
these Colonial surroundings, with the
hospitality that is truly American.
After a delicious luncheon a_ special
tour is arranged through Greenfield
Village. Even those who have seen
Greenfield Village before will appre-
ciate the opportunity of visiting it
again, Here are the houses of our fore-
fathers, the church, the school, the
country store, the courthouse, and the
town hall, the blacksmith shop, the
photographer’s gallery, the old livery
stable, the postoffice, the railroad sta-
tion and the unforgettable and contin-
uously growing museum, The Museum
displays include early American tex-
tile displays, a gun and locksmith shop,
hardware store, tinsmith shop, electri-
cal and other exhibits.

Tuesday evening the Steamer Tash-
moo has been chartered exclusively for
the hardware group. This trip is in
charge of the “Wholesalers and Manu-
facturers Committee.” Thirty (30) en-
tertainers including a ten piece orches-
tra, will enliven the evening with spe-
cial acts between each third dance. A
prize drawing will be held at 11:00
p.m., with refreshments later.

Wednesday. For the ladies, on Wed-
nesday afternoon, a special trip has
been arranged to the “Detroit News”
Building—one of the most up-to-date
newspaper plants in the country. This
visit has always been very popular with
convention groups. From the Detroit
News Building the ladies will be taken
to the Fisher Building where an enter-
tainment, especially for them, will be
provided by WJR radio station, After
a tour through the Fisher Building re-
turn will be made to the Hotel.

There are no convention sessions on
Wednesday, afternoon so the men will
be at liberty to do whatever they
choose. Arrangements will be made
for a golf tournament for such as wish
to play golf, they can attend the base-
ball game between the Detroit Tigers
and New York or can visit the auto-
mobile factories or Greenfield Village,
or if they desire, can take the trip
through the Detroit News Building
and WJR radio entertainment.

Wednesday evening everybody will
be the guests of the Association at
Navin Field where the popular light
opera “Rose Marie” with 200 voices
will be given. This is a New York cast

June 5, 1935

under the expert direction of J. J.
Schubert.

Thursday. Thursday afternoon the
ladies will be taken on a sightseeing
trip to Belle Isle, Grosse Pointe and
the Art Center, After a visit to the Art
Center and a special lecture on the
Diego Rivera murals, especially ar-
ranged for our guests, an organ recital
will be given by one of the finest musi-
cians in the city of Detroit. The en-
tertainrment program concludes the
same time as the convention program,
Thursday afternoon.

NRA Declared Unconstitutional. The
decision of the Supreme Court declar-
ing NRA unconstitutional confirms the
arguments advanced by the Associa-
tion. The Supreme Court says “On the
grounds discussed the attempted dele-
gation of legislative power and the
attempted regulation of intrastate
transactions affect interstate
commerce only indirectly, we hold the
code provisions here in question to be
invalid.” Without a doubt some new
form of NRA will be presented in
Congress. Vigilance will be necessary
to see that the independent merchan-
diser will receive protection not ac-
corded under the present codes of
many manufacturers.

which

New Insurance Service Man, The
Merchandiser announces, with pleas-
ure, the addition of a new insurance
service man, C, L, Blackburn, formerly
of Grand Rapids. Mr, Blackburn is
well known to the hardware fraternity
of the state, having traveled for Pat-
terson-Sargent Paint Co., Boydell
Brothers Co, and other concerns, He
will represent the United Hardware
and Implement Insurance Co. (lowa
Hardware Mutual Ins. Company, Im-
plement Dealers Mutual Fire Ins. Co.
and the Ohio Hardware Mutual Ins.
Co.), In addition to representing the
endorsed hardware mutual insurance
companies he will attend to association
service in his territory.

Mr. Blackburn, who will headquar-
ter in Lansing, represents the United
Hardware and Implement Mutuals in
the central part of the state, Arthur
Borden, of Grand Rapids, in the West-
ern part and FE. J. Cliggitt of Detroit,
in the Eastern part. Let these gentle-
men audit yvour insurance policies.
They have been able to point out sav-
ings for other dealers and may be able
to do so for you. Give these boys a
warm welcome when they call on you.

National Better Housing Day, The
Federal Housing Administration an-
nounces a “National Better Housing
Day” on Saturday, June 15. Everyone
interested in building industry will find
this a significant day in the program
for the extension of interest in homes.
Public attention will be focused on the:
fact that houses can be built, and fi-
nanced under government insured
mortgages for as much as 80 per cent.
of the appraised value, giving the buy-
er 20 years to pay off in convenient
monthly installments suited to his in-
come. The campaign will be conducted
in every important city and town in
the country. Ground will be broken
simultaneously for new model homes
sponsored by local groups. There will
be a national ceremony in Washington

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June 5, 1935

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-
crans, Fred Rosacrans & Sons, Tecumseh.
Directors

N. J. VanAndel, Wm, D. Hardy & Co.,
Muskegon.

Harry Grossman, Chase Mere. Co., Pon-
tiac.

Harry L. Rimes, Rimes & Hildebrand,
St. Joseph.

_D. M. Shotwell, J. W. Knapp Co., Lan-
sing.

Sid Medalie, N. Medalie & Co.. Man-
celona,
. W. Goodnow, D. M. Goodnow Co.,
Howell,

W. R. Mehlhose, A. Loeffler & Co.,
Wyandotte.

 

Pacts Suggested Within Industries

With governmental control over the
wages and hours of most workers elim-
inated by the Supreme Court decision
voiding the NRA, a new foundation for
governing business practices might be
laid, with the old fair-trade practice
rules spnosored by the Federal Trade
Commission as the basis, Gilbert H.
Montague, an authority on constitu-
tional law and closely associated with
several code groups, said here yester-
day.

While during the two years of the
NRA, Mr. Montague had been ex-
tremely doubtful of the validity of the
Recovery Act, having pointed out on
many occasions its apparent conflict
wita the law, he was somewhat sur-
prised by the decisiveness with which
the court had swept away the entire
structure.

To his way of thinking, it is almost
government to
legally

impossible for the
frame legislation which will
cover any substantial portion of work-
ers, The sales organization for a man-
ufacturing company, selling the prod-
uct in every State in the Union, would
come under the court interpretation of
interstate commerce. But the workers,
manufacturing that product, would be
exempt, Mr. Montague pointed out.

Railroad workers, he continued, have
always ‘been regulated, because they
were considered to be in interstate
commerce, This consideration, how-
ever, was buttressed by the secondary
fact that they were employed by a pub-
lic utility, an added assurance that the
government could regulate them.

In suggesting that the Federal Trade
Commission might be utilized to sal-
vage some of the fair-trade principles
of the NRA, Mr. Montague said that
the chief difficulty lay in legalizing the
so-called Group Two rules. Phe
Group One rules were those which had
been clearly defined by law as unfair
trade practices and as such were sub-
ject to government enforcement.

The Group Two regulations were
generally special rules drawn up by an
industry to cover practices peculiar to
that field. Under the Appalachian coal
decision, some of these practices, pro-
vided they were such as to prove de-
moralizing to the industry, might be
outlawed for that particular industry.
They would not, however, necessarily
apply to other industries, Mr. Monta-
gue said,

He cited the Supreme Court decision
in 1923 in the case of the Window
Glass Manufacturers v. the United

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

States in which it was held that there
was nothing in the Sherman act that
forbade an industry-wide agreement for
a six months’ curtailment of produc-
tion, when the industry was able to
show that this curtailment was neces-
sary for its existence.

In connection with these fair-trade
practices, Mr. Montague suggested that
the time might be ripe for Senator Nye
to revive his measures of three years
ago, in which he sought to make these
practices legal and binding on the min-
ority of an industry, when approved
by the majority.

Stability in wages and hours could
be achieved by contracts among busi-
ness men, Mr. Montague pointed out,
but he considered them difficult to en-
force. In every industry, he said, the
10 to 15 per cent. minority would prob-
ably refuse to enter into such agree-
ments and would be able to undermine
the structure set up by the others. Sev-
eral groups have already shown inter-
est in such contracts, however, and
have asked to draw up sample agree-
ments.

The question of collecting damages
in the event of violation of the con-
tract is a difficult one, although a prop-
er liquidated damage clause could be
drawn and the money collected for in-
fractions applied to future policing of
the industry, Mr.
N. ¥. Times:

++ ___

Grocery Producers Plan No Cuts

Large manufacturers of staple gro-

Montague said.—

cery products and representatives of
the principal canning interests state
that they are planning no downward
revisions in prices, as both branches of
the food industry expect to continue
the hour and wage provisions of their
codes. Fear was expressed, however,
that some of the smaller packers might
take advantage of the labor situation
and cut their prices sharply when the
new packs come into the market, Al-
though prices among wholesale distrib-
utors showed a firmer tendency yester-
day, buying by retailers was at a low
point because of the uncertainty in the
market. Directors of the Associated
Grocery Manufacturers of America,
Inc., will meet at the Waldorf-Astoria
Hotel next Tuesday to study the situ-
ation,

Hardware Sales in Sharp Gain
Hardware volume continues brisk in
all divisions of the trade this week.
Jobbers report substantial reorders for
all types of seasonal merchandise with
electric fans to retail around $5 an out-
standing item. Sales for last month
will show an advance of close to 15
per cent. compared with May, 1934. In
a report made public by the National
Retail Hardware Association, April
volume was fixed at 11 per cent. above
the corresponding month last year.
Sales from Jan, 1 to April 30 also were
11 per cent. ahead of the 1934 figures
for the same period. Southeastern and
North Central States, the report ex-

plained, showed the sharpest gains.

A new line of lighting fixtures is
made of molded plastic. The fixtures
are available in a variety of pastel
shades, are said not to fade, peel or
craze.

Men’s Wear Sales Improve

While men’s wear stores do not join
in the wave of price-cutting that up-
set some other merchandise lines dur-
ing the week, they report an improve-
ed volume of business principally due
to the warm weather. Preparation for
the holiday brought in requests for all
types of sports clothing and furnish-
ngs, with lightweight suits receiving
their first interest of the season. In a
few instances, they said,
asked whether they were going to re-
duce prices and when,
the answer was “not until the July and
August clearances.”

customers

In most cases

Firm Markets Surprise Jobbers

Dry goods jobbers were somewhat
surprised last week at the absense of
efforts on the part of mills to cut
prices and bring in business. In pre-
vious years, similar occasions would
have been followed by a wave of off-
price offerings but under the NRA the
markets have become so solidified that
they were able to restrain any hysteria,
jobbers said. While they expected that
there would be some price readjust-
ments on a number of lines, they did
not believe they would-be drastic, un-
less of course, something happened to
break the commodity markets sharply.

—_—_+->____
Retail Glassware Call Better

A stronger retail demand for glass-
ware than was anticipated earlier fea-
tured the close of the month. While
many factories have not been operating
at close to capacity during recent
weeks, general volume for the month
compares well with the same month of
1934, Possible effect of the Supreme
Court decision on glass industry codes
was not clear immediately. It was not

   

GRAND RAPIDS PAPER Box Co.

Manufacturers of SET UP and FOLDING PAPER BOXES

15

believed there would be any change in
wage rates and hours of labor, as most
of the labor in the glass industry is
governed by collective-bargaining wage
agreements,
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Kitchenwares Ordered Freely

Small housewares markets continue
active, feeling no effect of the NRA
ruling so far as current business is con-
cerned, Buyers or department stores
reordered quantities of goods for im-
without
over prices. Kitchen tool lines, quoted

mediate shipment quibbling
at code prices, were in especially good
demand for use in coming promotions
and for regular sale. Buyers said they
had received no instructions regarding
forward contracts from their offices and
for that reason were confining com-
mitments to current needs.
———_++<-____
Sweater Prices Advances

Price advances ranging from $1 to $3
a dozen were put into effect this week
by several large sweater mills on Fall
lines. In one instance, the quotation
on sport coats was moved up from
$19.50 a dozen to $22.50. The increase
was made necessary by the recent
sharp advances in wool. Whether mills
will be able to obtain these levels, in
the light of the NRA collapse, was re-
garded as a question. Several mills
have withdrawn lines from sale com-
pletely.

—_+~+___

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HOTEL
DEPARTMENT

Purple Mountains Rising Out of the
Haze

Los Angeles, May 29—This marks
the opening of the great International
Exposition, at San Diego, just 130
miles away from the Angelic City, as
the crew flies. Half of Los Angeles is
down there—the rest. awaiting their
return—as the “standing room” sign
will surely be displayed early. For
the writer—it can rest a few days, and
then I will try to tell my readers some-
thing about it.

 

 

But my faithful friend, Dr. Moore,
is nothing, if not original, so last week-
end he dragged me to the fore to plan
certain routes—mostly original—for
approaching the Southern City in the
future. Traveling in a.circle, so I would
call it, Many a writer of boyhood ad-
venture stories has disposed of the vil-
lain of the plot, in the last chapter, by
handing him a whirling jtinerary. The
author just plants the doer of dark
deeds in the midst of a thick jungle and
permits him to wander around in a
circle until he falls from exhaustion,
etc. However, traveling in a circle is
not always so tragic. In fact, it’s un-
usually charming and enlightening in
Southern California, if you are accom-
panied by a companionable and careful
chauffeur. There are literally dozens of
“circle” tours in this section that offer
the motorist abundance and. variety of
scenic thrills which cannot be dupli-
cated elsewhere. The king of them all,
in my opinion, is that pivoting journey
that takes you from Los Angeles up
through San Bernardino and down to-
ward Calexico, thence across the La-
guna mountains to Tia Juana, Mexico,
and north again to Los Angeles, with
San Diego as an intermediate stop. It
is a trip that offers a myriad of delights
if you are in a rush and want to do it
in a day; a hundred if you take three
days and a thousand’ if you care to
spend a fortnight searching out the
beauties encompassed by this tour. It
was our purpose to touch as many of
the principle towns as we could on this
trip, so our route led us fram Los
Angeles to Glendale, San Bernardino
and Banning. This particular portion
of the trip I have heretofore “treated”
in these columns, so I will save the
space for other purposes. Of course,
there ‘were flowers, miles of them. And
those purple mountains rising out of
the haze miles away, It is a country
that makes one feel bigger, makes you
want to grasp it all, see it all, cover
every inch of the ground. And this not
being a marathon, my kindly attendant
assists me in “viewing” and kindly
keeps his foot off the pedal, We slipped
down a highway below sea level as we
passed the Salton Sea, a shimmering
body of turquoise on our left, through
Brawley, Imperial, E] Centro and into
Calexico, which is located on the bor-
der line between California and Old
Mexico. In Mexicala, just a_ step
across the border, one witnesses the old
order side by side with the new. Be-
yond the frontier resorts set among
parched mud streets one finds the real
Mexico. Here charming and pictur-
esque thatch-roofed casas of adobe,
complemented by hedges of ocotillo,
outside bake-ovens, dove cotes and the
inevitable patch of gaily colored flow-
‘ers, all characteristic of the calm and
serenity that is typical of these people.
There is no hurry or bustle here. For
there is akways a glorious to-morrow
to do what cannot be accomplished to-
day. At Calexico a neat, vine-clad inn
appealed to us, where we were sup-
plied with many comforts, in conse-
quence of which we made it a “night
control,” and enjoyed it amazingly.
Next morning, headed due west toward
San Diego, after miles of driving over
a deset highway gaily bordered by oco-
tillos with their flaming blooms, our

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

route led us up through the rocky In-
Ko-Pah gorge, said by many world
travelers to resemble the famous Khy-
ber Pass of Asia. Immense fawn-tinted
boulders, like mammonth dinosaur eggs
piled one upon the other, lined the
smooth concrete highway that climbs
to an elevation of more than 4,000
feet. Looking ahead between towering
rocky crags we get a view of a great
purple plateau that stretches for scores
of miles below. This scenic valley is
rimmed by rolling mountain chains,
while nearer can be seen the cultivated
area that the hand of man has trans-
formed from a desert land into a gar-
den of inexhaustive fertility. This pro-
ductive country, which is a part of the
famous Imperial Valley, incorporates
over a half million acres that pours its
wealth of lettuce into all parts of the
entire nation—and at seasons when
these products are not obtainable else-
where. Thousands of more acres will,
of course, be placed under cultivation
with the completion of Boulder dam.
At the higher altitudes the traveler is
suddenly projected away from “sooth-
ing’ temperatures that is Mexico, into
the bright, frost-like briskness of the
mountains, Even the vegetation of des-
ert flowers and sage brush gives away
to sturdy, green-cloaked pines. We
dodge over the Mexican border line for
a call at the world-famed Agua Ca-
liente hotel, where one, if he desires,
may share all the joys of Monte Carlo.
At San Diego, we take a cursory
glance at the exposition preparation at
Balboa Park, all of which will be
spoken of later on. And here we are
once more, safe and sound in the City
of the Angels, our “log” showing a
distance of 597 miles traveled in two
days, without a single depressing inci-
dent,

 

By the time this column is in print
and distributed among its readers the
International order of Hotel Greeters
will have completed their “foray” up-
on the innocent and: unsuspecting den-
izens of Los Angeles. I may possibly
have something to say of their visit in
my next offering,

 

Franklin Pierce, well known to the
vast army of traveling men who have
been patroling Michigan for the past
thirty years, gvies a tangible excuse for
my visiting Hollywood at least once
each week. Sixty-four years ago, at
Pentwater he started his business ca-
reer by taking up the art of tinsmithing.
From thence he drifted into the service
of the Standard Oil Co. as a general
salesman, retaining that position until
several years ago, when he was retired
on a pension for honorable service,
moved to Hollywood, where he enjoys
the environment of a beautiful home.
I am enabled to state positively that he
is enjoying good health, under guidance
of his niece, Mrs. Ruth Adrian, for-
merly an executive with the W. R.
Roach Co. Always glad to meet his
old friends, of whom he has many who
take delight in keeping in touch with
him, :

 

Our old friend, Andrew (Andy)
Weisburg, manager of Hotel Oliver,
South Bend, Indiana, announces a pro-
gram of improvement for his establish-
ment which, when completed, will make
it an outstanding feature in the terri-
tory adjacent to the Michigan line.
New dining rooms to meet the re-
quirements of the present day, and
new equipment of various descriptions
are among the features to be intro-
duced. As “Andy” is practically a
member of our own Michigan Hotel
Association, through constant attend-
ance at its meetings, I feel justified in
exposing his scheme to his unsuspect-
ing brethren.

 

A. L. Wisley, operator of Hotel Top-
In-A-Bee, at Mullet Lake, has taken
over Cedar Lodge, Northport Point,
formerly conducted by George Ander-
son, now manager of the Park Place

Hotel, at Traverse City. Mr. Wisley
will operate both of the properties
mentioned during the coming resort
season.

 

I notice that Chas. H. Stevenson,
formerly proprietor of Hotel Steven-
son, Detroit, and at one time presi-
dent of the Michigan Hotel Associa-
tion, is representing the state organi-

 

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

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zation at a meeting of the executive
council of the American Hotel Asso-
ciation, at White Sulphur Springs, W.
Va., during the coming week.

Recognizing the importance of uni-
form practices in the cashing of checks
for the traveling public, the American
Hotel Association, through its protec-
tive committee, has collected all the
rules available, which will be arranged
and published in concrete form, and
available to members of that organiza-
tion as well as members of state asso-
ciations affiliated therewith.

 

Just a word about Sherman Insti-
tute, the U. S. Vocational training
school, at Riverside, which was handed
me as a real surprise when I was mo-
toring through that city the other day.
Here are 1,000 Indian boys and girls,
ranging in age from 10 to 20 years, who
are learning to work and win their way
in America of to-day. They represent
sixty-eight different tribes, so that the
school is, in effect, the Indian melting
pot of the Southern coast. The only
other school on the coast is in Oregon.
The thing that impresses one most in
this particular type of school is the fact
that the rising generation of Indians
does not think of itself as a beaten
race, robbed of its birthright, but as a
part of voung America, with as good a
chance as any group of young Amert-
icans, Instead, their chance in some
respects is better. They are provided
with good schooling, are well clothed,
housed, fed and taught trades. Their
foot-ball team is, so far as I know, in-
vincible, and their published school an-
nual compares favorably, both in read-
ing matter and art—produced in their
own printing office—with any high
school publication I have seen any-
were. They look to be of a high order
of intellect, and America should be
proud of them.

 

Hotel men in adjoining states are
becoming somewhat exercised over the
activities of the several touring and re-
sort associations operating in Michi-
gan. They not only claim that it is
having its effect on hotel business but
is bringing new residents to the Wol-
verine State, enlisted from the ranks of
tourists who have been brought there
through the efforts of the various bu-
reaus. Thus showing that the co-
operation of the State and the various
associations is bearing fruit.

 

The old-fashioned institution, known
as pumpkin pie, is said to lead in year
round sales, in the aggregate. Mother’s
mince pie carries off the ribbons during
cold weather, but as an all-season at-
traction honest, good old pumpkin pie
wins the sweepstakes, Another, I pre-
sume, of those scientific statements
which may or may not be authentic.

 

A great many hotel operators seem
to think that just because the feeding
end of their institution is a losing one
they should be in a rush to dispose of
it. I think this is a common error.
Years ago no one ever looked “upon an
institution as a hotel unless it had a
dining room, and, in fact, more com-
pliments were made to the former than
the ensemble. To be sure, the ordinary
dining room is not a source of great
profit, but it helps to make the hotel
popular. Why not try to continue in

the good work and study some plan

whereby it will return a profit A pop-
ular dining room is a real asset to any
hotel, even though the margin of profit
accruing therefrom is not as great as
from room rentals.

 

A Los Angeles fireman has just re-
ceived a medal from the War Depart-
ment for a gallant rescue of troops in
the Philippines nearly forty years ago.
All his comrades have probably died of
old age since then, but the medal goes
bravely on. The Nation does not for-
get, but its memory ts no hair-trigger
affair, as Will Rogers would possibly
suggest.

_ William Childs, who forty years ago
instituted what afterwards became the
most comprehensive chain of modern
priced restaurants in this entire coun-
try, and who was frozen out of his
company on account of his decided
stand against the inclusion of meat
offerings on his menus, is now demon-
strating very effectually that the veg-
etarians are numerous enough to make
it worth -while. Frank S. Verbeck.
—_2->___
Says United States Must Cease to be
a Republic

Dr. William Wirt on a now memor-
able occasion quoted certain busy ter-
mites of the New Deal in Washington
as saying that President Roosevelt was
in a swift current from which, as an-
other Kerensky, he could not extricate
himself, and that when he had served
the revolutionary purposes he would
go the way of Kerensky and be suc-
ceeded by the real man,

A congressional committee investi-
gated not the truth of the statement
but the doctor himself. Having allow-
ed some witnesses to give themselves
a clean bill of health and having put
Dr. Wirt in what was thought to be
a hole, the investigators were satisfied
with themselves and stopped.

Among the witnesses not called,
naturally enough, was Mir. Roosevelt
himself. He, however, has now taken
the witness stand voluntarily, not be-
fore a committee but before the coun-
try, and says it is all true, only having
decided to profit from Kerensky’s ex-
ample he will be Stalin.

Mr. Roosevelt’s confessions at his
press conference of Friday put him
definitely in the open as the advocate of
the abandonment of constitutional goy-
ernment, the suppression of the various
states, and the establishment of a por

‘litical autocracy free from judicial re-

straints and limitations of authority.
In, statements at once comprehensive
and specific, he says that the union of
states under the constitution has seen
the end of its useful days. The Presi-
dent admits that his true purposes are
those which have been attributed to
him. The policy of his administration
is to change the form of American
government and the organization of
society which it served and protected.
There can be no further confusion of
political issues in the United States.
Mr. Roosevelt and his revolutionaries
are through with American govern-
ment as it has existed. They will seek
to create in its place a form of gov-
ernment with which a large part of
Europe is unfortunately now familiar.
He says it is (better.

A greater issue than that of 1861 is
now before the people of the United
States. Then it was only a question
of whether a free people should lose
the territory of certain states. Now the
issue is whether the whole people shall
lose everything that has made them
free and their Nation great.

The ‘chief executive of the American
republic, Mr. Roosevelt, has thrown
down his gage of battle and says the
United States shall cease to be a re-
public under the laws which created it.
—Chicago Tribune.

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How to sell goods can be summed up
in one word “Hustle.” Always be on
the job—anytime—to get the order.

Michigan Hotel Safety Act Now State
Law

Repetition of a holocaust similar to
the Hotel Kerns disaster Dec. 11 in
which at least 31 persons, including
seven legislators, lost their lives, was
made more remote May 25 with ap-
proval by Gov. Frank D. Fitzgerald
of the Brown hotel safety bill enacted
at the recent legislative session.

As soon as the Governor had attach-
ed his signature, John C. Ketcham,
Insurance Commission, announced
plans for rigid enforcement of the act
by the fire marshal’s office, a division
of the insurance department.

The Commissioner said the outstand-
ing feature of the law is the provision
that every establishment providing
sleeping quarters for ten or more per-
sons above the first oor must register
‘before July 1 with the insurance de-
partment preliminary to mandatory
inspections to be conducted regularly
in the future.

The various classes of hotels, apart-
ments, rooming houses and_ other
places with dormitory facilities must
comply with regulations adapted to
their construction type and the num-
ber of quests they accommodate. The
larger establishments of nonfireproof
construction will be required to equip
with automatic sprinklers, in addition
to provide alarm systems and other
safeguards. An important provision is
made for adequate personnel and it is
mandatory on managements to train
their help in emergency conduct.

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Things Which Are Not Taxable

Gross proceeds from sales of tangi-
ble personal property to manufactur-
ers, producers, processors and/or agri-
cultural producers which are purchased
for consumption or use by them in
manufacturing, producing, processing
and/or agricultural producing are not
taxable.

Gross proceeds from sales of tangi-
ble personal property to manufacturers,
producers, processors and/or agricul-
tural producers which enter into and
become an ingredient or component
part of the tangible personal property
which they manufacture, produce or
process are not taxable. The fact that
the article manufactured, produced or
processed is in a different form or of a
different character is immaterial.

To illustrate: Examples of sales not
taxable; sales of tools, dies, patterns;
sales of machinery used or consumed
in the process of manufacturing such
as drill presses, punch presses, lathes
and grinding machines; sales of lubri-
cating oil to manufacturers for use on
machinery such as that illustrated
above; sales of coal, electricity, gas or
fuel oil to a manufacturer for the pur-
pose of operating machinery used di-
rectly in manufacturing a particular
product and/or of seeds, fertilizers,
feeds, drills, harrows, hayracks, load-
ers or grain binders to an agricultural
producers or similar articles.

In many cases a vendor sells to a
purchaser who buys for the purpose of
using or consuming in manufacturing
assembling, processing or producing,
and. also makes sales that come within
the terms of the General Sales Tax act.
The vendor will be required to jus-

tify any deduction from his gross sales
made by this ruling, The Board will
not attempt to prescribe the method
the seller shall adopt, but he should
secure from the buyer a certificate or
other evidence to. the effect that goods
are purchased for the purpose of man-
ufacturing, assembling, producing or
processing and/or agricultural produc-
tion.

Legal Bars That Wrecked NRA

The constitutional limitations on
which the NRA came to grief in the
Supreme Court decision of May 27 are
found in four references, as follows:

Article I, Section 1. “All legislative
powers herein granted shall be vested
in a Congress of the United States,
which shall consist of a Senate and a
House of Representatives.”

Article I, Section 8, Para. 3. “The
Congress shall have the power * * * to
regulate commerce with foreign na-
tions, and among the several States
and with the Indian tribes.’

Article I, Section 8, Para. 18. “The
Congress shall have the power * * * to
make all laws which shall be necessary
and proper for carrying into execution
the foregoing powers, and all other
powers vested by this Constitution in
the government of the United States,
or in any department or officer
thereof.”

Tenth Amendment. “The powers
not delegated to the United States by
the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to
the States, are reserved to the States
respectively, or to the people.”

——_>-+~+____

Agencies That Fall With NRA

Eleven governmental agencies, in
addition to the NRA itself, are auto-
matically ruled out of existence by
the Supreme Court decision declaring
the NIRA unconstitutional. These are:

Automobile Labor Board.

Consumers Advisory Board.

Federal Alcohol Control Admin-
istration,

Industrial Advisory Board

Labor Advisory Board.

National Industrial Recovery

Board.

National Labor Relations Board.
Petroleum Administrative Board.
Petroleum Labor Policy Board.
Steel Labor Relations Board.
Textile Labor Relations Board.

Not touched by the decision but due
to expire on June 16, unless revived by
new legislation, are the following:

Electric Home and Farm Author-
ity.

Subsistence Homesteads Corpora-
tion,

Office of Special Adviser on For-
eign Trade.

Nine New Readers of the Tradesman
The following new subscribers have
been received during the past week:
A. C. Petersen, Stanton
F, C. Hyde & Co., Riverdale
Charles McNulty, Cressey
Michigan Potato Growers Ex-
change, Inc., Cadillac
Chas. Telgenhof, Zeeland
Hieftje’s Sanitary Market, Zeeland
L. S. Vander Laan, Hudsonville
B. J. Nyhuis, Hudsonville
Community Co-op. Industries, Inc.,
Lansing.

 

  

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.

 

Report From National Association of
Retail Druggists

Representative Wright Patman of
Texas has been appointed chairman of
the Congressional Investigation Com-
mittee on the American Retail Federa-
tion, to replace Representative John J.
Cochran, Missouri, who is ill. Repre-
sentative Sol Bloom, New York, will
take the place of Representative War-
ren, North Carolina, resigned. This in-
vestigation promises to be of great
value in publicizing many of the prac-
tices which we have heen fighting.
Congressman Patman is an aggressive
fighter and can be depended upon to
conduct serious effort to expose the
real purposes of this new retail group
of chains and department stores. Hear-
ings were scheduled to begin this week
but have been postponed by Chairman
Patman.

Five retail druggists appeared at
these hearings during the week of May
20, N. Guy Miller, Purcellville, Vir-
ginia; John C. Emerson, Joplin, Mis-
souri; Roy C. Start, Toledo, Ohio;
Frank P. Kelly, Carbondale, Pennsyl-
vania, and Mr. O’Hanlon, of Winston-
Salem, North Carolina. These men ex-
pended money and valuable time to
come to Washington to help in this
fight. They were unusually successful
in bringing to the attention of the
Committee the need of the small man
in business for the principles of NRA.
Committee members indicated their in-
tense interest in their testimony by
asking them many questions. All retail
druggists in the country owe these
men a debt of gratitude.

Governo Lehman of New York and
Governor Nice of Maryland have
signed the Fair Trade Acts for their
states. The measure is being pushed
hard in Pennsylvania. All members of
Congress have been supplied with
copies of Roy Warnack’s History of
California Fair Trade act and with a
letter setting forth the purposes and
need for this type of legislation. Many
acknowledgments have already been
received indicating interest on the part
of Congress. The Pennsylvania law
was passed and sent to Governor Earle
on May 28,

As a result of a compromise between
Senator Copeland and Senators Bailey
and Clark a drastically revised Cope-
land bill passed the Senate on May 28

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

and is expected to pass the House. The
bill eliminates multiple seizures unless
the product is eminently dangerous to
health and modifies the definition of
antiseptics. We feel that this bill, while
not perfect by any means, will not se-
riously affect retail druggists.

Following is a copy of a letter
mailed from the Chicago office which
is self explanatory and we believe that
it should be given the widest possible
publicity through the various state and
local associations. Its importance can-
not be exaggerated.

My dear fellow member: At the re-
cent meeting of the Executive Commit-
tee of the N.A.R.D. a matter of great
interest and concern to the welfare of
retail druggists was discussed which
culminated in the adoption of the ac-
companying motion, which we believe
is self-explanatory.

It is obvious that manufacturers who
desire to avail themselves of the privi-
leges to control the resale of their mer-
chandise in the states that have adopt-
ed Fair Trade laws will find it unde-
sirable to have a method of distribu-
tion in those states that is different
from that followed in states not having
Fair Trade Acts. Consequently, we
know that some are considering at the
present time means to operate with a
uniform resale price in all states in or-
der that their prices will not vary.

For many years cut prices have af-
fected retailers unduly because of the
competition between themselves, We
now believe that with definite resale
prices under Fair Trade laws, some of
the burden of this highly competitive
selling may be taken from the retailers’
shoulders and thereby become the
manufacturers’ problem. In this sud-
den change of competition, the retail
druggist must impress upon manufac-
turers that he must be taken into con-
sideration and his profit protected.
This can only be brought about by co-
operation with manufacturers who will
observe this necessary profit margin.

We feel that this problem is vital to
the retail druggists of this country and
ask you to assist us in defending the
position of the druggists. This is a
service and leade:ship that the N.A.
R.D. is undertaking for your protec-
tion. Will you join this national move-
ment to jointly assist the retailers un-
der your direction in your state?

Since the adoption of Fair
Trade laws by many states neces-
sitates that a new policy of distri-
bution or marketing must be con-
sidered by many manufacturers,
which policy can be enforced in
those states with Fair Trade laws,
the number of which we know
will be increased, we respectfully
request the various state associa-
tions not to officially approve any
new resale price minimums unless
they cenform with the N.A.R.D.
Point No. 1, namely: ‘‘Stabiliza-
tion of prices, discounts and prof-
its to assure the efficient small in-
dividual druggist at least 3314 per
cent. margin of the minimum sell-
ing price.”

The Executive Committee of
the N.A.R.D. is hereby calling up-
on all state presidents and state
secretaries to insist that this con-

dition be met by manufacturers
who desire the co-operation of re-
tailers in effecting the distribution
of their merchandise under the
contemplated new schedules now
being formulated.

The Executive Committee of the
N.A.R.D. feels that itis absolutely es-
sential for the welfare of the druggists
of this country to insist and demand
that they receive a margin of 33% per
cent. on all standard advertised brands
of merchandise they distribute, and un-
less we have concerted action mini-
mum prices on these items are likely
to be set much lower than 33% per
cent,

We are convinced that the theory
advance by some manufacturers, be-
cause of iurnover, their items should
carry a smaller mark-up is economical-
ly unsound, and these manufacturers
should not be permitted to set a mini-
mum resale price which does not carry
25'4 per cent margin on selling price.

Harvey A. Henry, President,
John W. Dargavel, Secretary.

 

June 5, 1935

Druggists Escape Extra Liquor Tax

Michigan druggists will not have to
pay a double stamp tax for liquor sold
for medicinal use or for beverage pur-
poses, John M. Terwilliger, acting col-
lector of Internal Revenue, announced
Tuesday.

Terwilliger’s ruling sets at rest many
inquiries he has received from retail
druggists who were not sure whether
they could sell their liquors for medi-
cinal or other use on the one tax
stamp.

In connection with the Government
tax, Terwilliger said that the Medicinal
Spirits Stamp Tax of $25 will supplant
the same priced tax stamp known as
the retail liquor dealers’ tax, which ex-
pires July 1.

The Government tax is in addition
to the State tax.

+ +

A new electric tea kettle
plugged into any outlet, heated on any
range or, for hot water in a jiffy, can
be both plugged in and put on a range.
It whistles when it boils.

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WAXES

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CLEANERS

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BATHING SUITS and SHOES

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TURPENTINE
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Peru, lb. i  Aneiia Gren. Ib. @ % Hemlock Com. Ib..———- Gt* toa en eee
Tolu, Ib go Arabic, P’d, lb, __--------_. 2 @ 36 Juniper Ber., Ib.-_-W---- $00 @320 Licorice, Powd., lW.clw be
Asafoetida, Ib. ..----—--- 47 @ 60 Junip'r W’d, lb. __-_.150 @175  wanarate, Pow. br” =" @ 4
Asafoetida, Po., lb...____- @ 7 Lav. Flow., Ib._-._________ 6 00 @ 6 40 Marshmallow, C i =p G &
BARKS Gudiacib: @ 6e av. Gard., lb.-_---______. 126 @160 \arshmallow, Po Ja. e &
Cassia Guaiac, powd, .—_.-.--_-—- @_ 65 paee Ib, -___---_------.- 215 @260  Orris, Ib, _ es
Ordinary, Ib, ____..._-- @ % Kino, tb. -—----_______- @ 1 00 woe tue, ozs. @ 1 2 Gunn a @ 3
Ordinary, Po., Ib. 20 @ 3¢@ Kino, powd., lb_——_—--—- G's oeae a Gan OFS Vegas, o1%
Saigon Ib oecnn @ 40 Vv ED. eee ee ie ee @ 15 Ori nse, Wee DD nae mona 300 @ 8 2% Pink, Powd., 1b. oo @1%
Son Fol bl le ee Ean. Pow. Ip. e8: Oe pm GF tre ba 1? ass
Elm., 1b aw a Te Ones 248 (oe a Se eo a a
Elm, Powd., Ib. Poe cme at 33 @ 4s Groundi1b) 220 42 @ 50 eppermint, lb. ~_---_______ 475 @ 5 30 khubarb, Powd., tb. @ 70
aa Shellac, white (bole Gd) Wb. 45 @ 06 se, dr. _------_-_-_.--__- @350 ¢ o 2. 8
m, G'd, Pe 33 @ 4  tragacanth Rose, Geran,, 0z8.___-----_- @ 100 Sarsaparilia (Honduras, cut) 120 @ 1 20
eee oo 7 ¢ * Ne t bile th @ 2 00 Rosemary Flowers, Ib.------ 10 @ 1 60 Sauls Pada ae Cut, Ib. e &
oe ee 35 @ 40 No 2 Ibe _ 150 @1%5 andalwood Tumeric, PR d., oem em n ee 42 @ 80
’ -» ¥b.-—__-_-__. Spo 1 ems 7 oo 6 @ 1 26 EB. 1. Ib @860 Valeri owd., Ib. 165 @ 26
A wy, L, 1b. @ 4% ian, Powd., eS @ 50
HONEY ao 1be @ 240 SAL
Cubeb, Ib. @ 7 Pound -.------------------ 25 @ 40 Syn., 1b. @ig Epsom, ib | 03 @ 10
Cubeb. g 80 Spearmint. lb. @400 Giaubers)
Juniper, tb. 10 2% HOPS Mansy, thy w---- 350 @ 4 00 Taump, Ibo 03 @ 10
%s Loose, Pressed, 1b....... @ Thyme, Red, lb... ~—-175 @ 240 | Gran. lp, = oo 03%@ 10
BLUE VITRIOL be Whi., 1b.___-____ ~- 200 @260 Nitre '
P HYDROGEN PEROXIDE ntergreen otal Ob Eowd
ound a e@¢ ™ cos ae 00 @29 00 eat, true, Ib... 560 @6 00 Gran, ib 2 09 g 20
econ Ye Ib. gF08S ..-——--———-—-HT OD G18 00 Birch, Ib, -—-~-—----—-- au oce soghelle, Ib. --—----———— 17 @ 2
% 1b): grose 22 ---11 00 @1150 |, SYN. -—--~------------- 7 MLB OTA, BD. ~~~
Pacia bh. _ «#48 sw ~ Wormseed, Ib, -----.----_-- 3 50 @ 4 00 oo.
INDIGO Wormwood, Ib. 50 @ 6 00 SEED
BRIMSTONE Madras, ib, 300 @ 3 25 Anise, iD. oo — 2 @ 4
Pound 2 0% @ 10 OILS HEAVY Canary, Recleaned, he 10 @ 16
INSECT POWDER Castor, gal 145 @1 60 eee ee Ihe @ 200
CAMPHOR eS 31 @ 4 Cocoanut, Ib, ____________. 22%@ 3 Gal y. Dutch, Ib-_.__. 25 @ 30
. ——-—- Cod Liver, Norwegian, gal. 120 @ 1 60 ery, Ib. ——-—________ @ 90
Pound HEE 72 @ 85 Cot. Seed. zal 120 @130 olchicum, Powd., Ib. @ 2 00
LEAD ACETATE Dard) 6x) gall aia colenda, h le=s 25
CANTHARIDES Xtal ib, _----- 17 @ 26 Lard, No. 1, gal__ @146 Fennel, ib. 0 $ 40
Bisinn Posd a @ 450 Powd. and Gran.-_----- 2% @ 286 Linseed, raw, gal._----~-_ as 2 Whoie ib... 06%@ 15
Chinese’ Powd. __.___ @ 200 Linseed, boil., g: 3 @ 28 pax. ei ibe se O64@ 16
LICORICE Nees extra, gal.._.ttn 80 @ 100 Panett, Daa Ib... 608 @ 16
lv De me ee ree ow
CHALK Extracts, sticks, pes box.. 150 @ 2 00 Teaco gal @ 260 Mustard, Black, 11%9 =
Crayons Lozenges, be 40 ae ee Pure, gal. @ 5 00 Mustard, White, 1465 @ %
White, dozen --.------- @360 Wafers, (248) box... @150 Sperm, gal. 160 Poppy, Blue, 20 @ 2%
Dustless, dozen -.-.--.- @ 6 00 Tanner, gal. @ 90 Quince, Ib. 100 @1 25
ese Powder, Coml., 1b... 0349 * LEAVES Tar eal se @ 65 nee a ib. : 10 @ 15
ecipitated, Ib. --.--...-- 1 Whale, gal. adilla, Powd., 5
Prepared, Ib. —.---— [ome 8 ee - * , Cee sawn oo nee
White, lump, Ib.------------ 03 @ 10 2 Eee orm, Levant, Ib...
; ; Buchu, Pid. 1b @ Worm, Levant. P — @ 5 50
Sage, bulk, ib. — 2 @ 30 ONE ———- @ 5 %
CAPSICUM Sage, loose pressed, 48, Ib. a 64 OS 2. 1 20 :
Bods. Wi ees 60 70 ‘Sage, ounces -..-.----.. nt e@ 8% ae O23: 1 30 AP
Powter! bi iss ie 62 g 76 Sage, Pd and Grd.__-___.. @ 2% ran., OZS, -----------_-____- 1 30
‘ Seng rr er ES @15 76
CLOVES ee nee ee ll CU OE 0 Os
innev Ce an Gr Se) POUNG  - 2 ei es eo emeen pm See rneeeneneten
Whole, Ib. 22 80 GO uns -aary fee ane $s g 36 coer ec) us eae “ae * ”
Powdered, Ib. 6 @ & Uva Ursi lb oo @ 30 SODA
Uva Ursi, Pid: ib) @ 35 PEPPER 4S 03 10
COCAINE Black, grd., Ib,__._-____ 25 Bicarbonate, Ib.
. : — @ 3 Caustic 03% 10
Ounce 222 a 13 75@15 40 LIME Red, grd., Ib 4 @ 66 Caustic, Col. B 15
Chloride, med., dz. @ 86 White, erd., Ib.-—----_______ @@ © wes nm 10
COPPERAS Chloride, large, dz..----—- @ 1 46 Sulphite a
Mial lb) 03%@ 10 PITCH BURGUNDY Xtal., Ib. 25
Powdered, 1b. 2s 4 @ 18_ LYCOPODIUM Pound) {oe 80 G36 Dry, Powd,, 12%@ 20
Bound 2 50 @ 60 Silicate’ So, cake ae ne
CREAM TARTAR a >PETROLATUM
Found — = 38 MAGNESIA mber, aint Fp 2@ 1 : SULPHUR
Garo. Ws, Ibe @ 30 ae wh} eee ee 4 @ i9) (Meht, tb 04%@ 10
CUTTLEBONE Garb.. ie, Ib. «i 2 le wae oo aa o6 avin
ar’ woe, Ibi 222 :
Pound ———-— 40. @ & Oxide, Hea. oe @ 70 Snow White, Ib.-_--.-.___. 22 @ 27 Rock Candy, Gals._____. 70 @ 8
DEXTRINE Oxide, light, Ib. eee a @ 7
PLASTER PAR
Yellow Corn, Ib.------------ 06%@ 15 Barrels, (Ua . ne 600 % Pints, dozen_
White Corn, !b.-------—--- 07 @ 16 MEN TROr Lesa, tb. 1 os%e@ 60g ”~—sCPints, dozen _. @ 10
EXTRACT Found 493 @ 5 24 Quarts, dozen ______ @ 1 60
Witch Hazel, Yellow Lab. eas : POTASSA ee @ 3%
gal. 95 @ 1 65 MERC : oo Cte ete TURPENTINE
Licorice, P’d, Ib. 50 @ ¢@ Pound -__-_______..._....175 @ rquor, 1D, -—-----~~-—-____- 40 BUONS) oe ee 6 @ 7.

 

 

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MICHIGAN

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

The following list of foods and grocer’s sundries
intended as a guide for the buyer. Each week we list

is listed upon base prices, not
items advancing and declining

upon the market. By comparing the base price on these items with the base price

the week before, it shows the cash advance or decline

in the market. This permits

the merchant to take advantage of market advances, upon items thus affected, that

he has in stock.

By so doing

he will save much each year.

The Michigan Tradesman

Is read over a broad territory, therefore it would be impossible for it to quote prices

to act as a buying guide for everyone.

takes advantage from it.

A careful merchant watches the market and

 

 

ADVANCED

Poor Lamb—3c

DS Bellies—'c

Pure Lard in tierces—3c.

Smoked Hams—4c

Smoked Hames Fancy,
Skinned—l4c

Boiled Ham—!/c

Beef Liver—ic

Pork Liver—lc
elch

Grape Juice—40c

 

DECLINED
Top Veal—lc
Pork Loins—134c
Pork Shoulders—1!4c
Spareribs—1oc
Compound in tierces—\4c
Compound in tubs—\/c
Roasted Coffee—l4c, Voc
Diced Carrots—5c
Honey Dew
Pineapple—50c

 

AMMONIA
Little Bo Peep, med.__ 1 365

Little Bo Peep, lige... 2 25
Quaker, 32 oz....__.. 2 10
Star, 12-97. 80

APPLE BUTTER

uaker, 12-28 oz.,
m0 a 1 60

BAKING POWDERS

Clabber Girl
10-o0z., 4 doz. case_.___. 3 50
2 lb., 1 doz. case___..__ 2 30

Royal. 12 oz., doz.---- 8 85
Royal, 5 lbe., doz... 20 00

Rumford’s
10c, per dozen_____t 91
6-0z., per dozen--____ 1 40

12-0z., per dozen___.. 2 25
6-Ib., per dozen___-_. 12 25

Calumet
4-oz., 3 doz. case... 217
6-0Z,, 3. G0Z..- 2 85

16-0z., 2 doz.__._... 4 8
5-lb., % doz.___-______ 6 00

K Cc
100z., 4doz.in case. 3 35
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., % doz.in case... 5 75

BLEACHER CLEANSER

Lizzie, 16 0oz., 12s... 2 16
Linco Wash, 32 oz. 128 2 00

Clorox, 24 pints__--_- 2
Clorox, 12 quarts__.__ 2 56
BLUING

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

BEANS and PEAS

Dry Lima Beans, 26 Ib.
White H’d P. Beans__
Split Peas, yell., 60 Ib.
Split Peas, gr’n, 60 Ib.
Scotch Peas. 100 Ib._.

> eo mee
RSRKRS

BURNERS

Queen Ann, No.1 _____

Queen Ann, No. 2 ___._

White Flame, No. 1
and 2, doz._.._......

R

BOTTLE CAPS

Single Lacquor, 24 gross
case, per case______ 3 60

\

BREAKFAST FOODS
Kellogg’s Brands

[a
Blue Berries
Eagle, No. 10__. 8 56
Cherries
Hart, No. .10_.-______ 5 70

  

Corn Flakes, No. 136__ 2 40
Corn Flakes, No. 124__ 2 40
Pep, No. 224... 3 37
Pep No. 250 1... 1 05
Krumbles, No. 412... 1 65
ran Flakes, No. 624__ 2 37
Flakes. No. 650__ 1 00

Rice Krispies, 6 oz.__ 2 40
Rice Krispies, 1 0z._._. 1 10
All Bran, 16 oz. -.._.__ > <4

%

Whole Wheat Bis., 24s 2 31
Wheat Krispies, 24s__ 2 65
Post Brands

Grapenut Flakes, 24s_. 2 10
Grape-Nuts, 24s... 3 90
Grape-Nuts, 60s -_.... 1 60
Instant Postum, No. 8 5 46
Instant Postum, No. 10 4 70
Postum Cereal, No. 0_ 2 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_.. 3 00
White Swan Par., No.6 8 50

 

BROOMS
Quaker, 5 sewed_______ 7 50
Warehouse 17%
Winner, 5 sewed______ 5 76
Gale ee 4 25
BRUSHES
Scrub
New Deal, dozen... 85
Stove
Shaker, dozen _..._.. 90
hoe
Topeen, dozen -._.__ 90

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

Wicking ____. a 40
Tudor, 6s, per box___. 30
CANNED FRUITS

Apples
Per
Do:

Z.
Imperial, No. 10__._.. 5 00

Apple Sauce
Hart, No. 2.00 110
Hart. No. 10__...___... § 35
Apricots
Forest. No. 10_____.._ 8
Quaker, No.

Gibralter, No.
Gib.

  

Quaker. No. 2_________ 2 00
Quaker, No. 2%--____ 2 75
Blackberries
Premio, No, 10_.__.___ 6 2
Quaker, No. 2_._-_____ 1 75

 

Hart, No, 2 in syrup_. 2 25
2. 2 2k

Hart Special,

Supreme, No. 2 in
RVTED es
Hart Special, No. 3__ 1 35
Cherries—Royal Ann
Supreme, No. 2%... 3 20
Supreme, No. 2_______ 2 30
Gibralter, No. 10_.____ 9 25
Gibralter, No. 2%..__ 2 75

Figs
Beckwith Breakfast,
No: 10 os 98 90
Carpenter Preserved,
5 of. glans _........ 1 9%
Supreme Kodota, No. 11 90

Fruit Salad
Supreme, No. 10_____ 12 00
Quaker, No. 10_______ 11 75
Supreme, No. 21%4____ 3 70
Supreme, No. 2_______ 27
Supreme, No. 1... 210
Quaker, No. 2% ___ 3 15

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
Phillips No. 1 Can, dz. 95
Phillips No, 2 can. dz. 1 35

Peaches

Bakers solid pack.

ee a
Premio, halves. No. 10 6 70
Quaker, sliced or

halves, No. 10__--.- 8 50
Gibralter, No. 2%--.. 2 00
Supreme, sliced No.

2
Supreme, halves,
No. 2

10: Bee
Quaker, sliced or
halves, No, 2%__.___ 2 15
Quaker sliced or

 

halves, No. 2 10
Pears
Quaker, No. 10--.... 8 58
Quaker, Bartlett, No.
a
Quaker, Bartlett, No.
2 1 95
Pineapple Juice
Doles, Diamond Heaéa,
NO. 2. oe 1 45
Doles, Honey Dew,

NGS 10 6 76
Pineapple, Crushed
Imperial, No. 10______ 40
Honey Dew, No. 2% 2 40
Honey Dew, No, 2... 1 90
Quaker, No. 2% _..__ 35
Quaker, No, 2______.. 1 80
Quaker, No. 1_.-.____ 110

TRADESMAN

Pineapple, Sliced
Honey Dew, sliced,

IGS AO § 00
Honey Dew, tid bits,

BN AD ls ee ee 8 50
Honey Dew, No. 2%. 2 46
Honey Dew, No. 2... 2 00
Honey Dew, No. 1__.. 1 10
Ukelele Broken, No. 10 7 90
Ukelele Broken, 2%4__ 2 25
Ukelele Broken, No. 2 1 85
Quaker, Tid Bits, No.

10

 
  

pe Se ec ~ 8 25
Quaker, No. 10. - 8 25
Quaker, No. 2%_____ 2 35
Quaker, No. 2__-._.__ 1 90
Quaker, No. 1... 1 05

Plums

Ulikit, No. 10, 30%

Syrup 220 ee 6
Supreme Egg, No. 2% 2 30
Supreme Egg, No. 2__ 1 70
Primo, No. 2, 40%

BYIND 2 1 00
Prepared Prunes
Supreme, No. 24%--___ 45

Supreme, No. 10,

Atatian 2 6 50
Raspberries, Black
Imperial, No. 10... 7 00
Premio, No. 10._.-.-.. 8 50
Hart, 8-ounce -_--.__ 80
Raspberries, Red
Premio, No. 10..--..._ 8 75
Strawberries
Jordan, No. 2_._._____ 2 50
Daggett, No. 2__ ae (aD

 

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 oz._ 3 30
Clam Bouillon, 7 oz__ 2
Chicken Haddie, No. 1 2
Fish Flakes, small____ 1
Cod Fish Cake, 10 oz. 1 55
Cove Oysters, 5 oz._.. 1
Lobster, No. 2
Shrimp: 1. wet. i
sard’s, 4 Oil, k’less__ 3 97
Salmon, Red Alaska__ 2 25
Salmon, Med. Alaska_ 1 80
Salmon, Pink, Alaska 1 38
Sardines, Im. \%, ea.6@13%
Sardines, Cal. 00
Tuna, % Van Camps,
om 1 55

ay

aces Soe

Tuna, 4%s, Chicken Sea,
Cy Aaeia SE S RUSE Eet 1 85
@unas 44 Bonita. 50s 1 45

CANNED MEAT

Bacon, med, Beechnut 2 60
, Beechnut 3 75

. Corned_. 1 95
Beef, No. 1, Roast -___ 1 98
Beef, 2% oz., Qua., Sli. 1 30
Corn Beef Hash, doz. 2 15
Beofsteak & Onions, s. 2 70
Chiii Con Car., ls. 1 05
Deviled Ham, %s..... 1 385
Deviled Ham, %s.._ 3 20
Potted Meat, % Libby 48
Potted Meat, % Libby_ 75
Potted Meat, % Qua... 65
Potted Ham, Gen. %.. 1 35
Vienna Saus. No. 4%... 90

Baked Beans
Campbells 48s ___..... 2 77

CANNED VEGETABLES

Hart Brand
Asparagus
Quaker, No. 2__.-.__ 2 20
Suet Picnic 1 a0

Hunt No, 1, Med. Green 3 00

Hunt No. 1 Med. White 3 15

Hunt No, 1 Small
eee 2 70

Baked Beans
1 Ib. Sace, 36s, cs.-___ 1 80
No. 2% Size, doz... 1 10
No. 10 Sauce__________ 4

Lima Beans

Baby. No. 2...

Marcellus, No, 2.__... 1 25
Scott Co. Soaked__. 90
Marcellus, No. 10______ 6 90

Red Kidney Beans

BO, 10) 20 4 75
NO 2 So 1 00

String Beans
Choice. Whole, No. 2_. 1 80
UL, NOP 1O: 7 26
Om, 6.8 1 35
Marcellus Cut, No. 10. 6 90
Quaker Cut No. 2... 1 2¢

Wax Beans
Choice. Whole, No, 2_. 1 80
Cul, No. 10 7 25
Cut NO: 2 2 ee 1 35
Marcellus Cut, No. 10_ 6 50
Quaker Cut No. 2... 1 20

Beets

Extra Small, No. 2_... 1 75
Hart Cut, No. 10...... 4 60
Hart Cut, No. 2. 995
Hart Diced. No. 2__-. $5
Quaker Cut No. 2%-- 1 20

Carrots
Diced, No. 6.0 90
Diceas No.) [Oe Sass 4 25
Corn

Golden Ban., No, 2...
Marcellus, No. 2
Fancy Crosby, No. 2
Whole Grain, 6 Ban-

 

 

 

tam. NO) 22 1 65
Quaker No. 10 8 00
Peas
Oxford Gem, No. 2__.. 3 15
Sifted E, June, No, 2. 2 00
Marcel, Sw. W No. 21 65
Marcel, BE. June, No. 2 1 46
Quaker, &. Ju., No. 10 8 00
Quaker E. J., No. 2_.. 1 45
Pumpkir
INOS AQ | ue 2s 4 75
No. Big) 0 8

No. 2
Sauerkraut
No, 10° Quaker 3 50
No. 24% Quaker_ cop
No. 2 Qudker 75
Spinach
Supreme No. 2%______ 1 65
Supreme No, 2... 1 32%
Supreme No. 10_______ 5 40
Quality. No, 2... 110
Succotash

Golden Bantam, No. 2_ 1 75
no. f - 155

Hart, o.
Pride of Michigan... 1 25

Tomatoes
No. 10) 6 BO
No, 24 2 ———_ & OD
No 2 2 1 40
Quaker, No. 2_______ 1
Quaker, No. 2% _____ 165
CATSUP

Quaker, 10 oz.____doz. 1 10

Quaker, 14 oz._._doz. 1 4@

Quaker gallon glass,
dgezen) 20 ee 11 00

CHIL! SAUCE
Sniders, 8 oz.
Sniders. 14 oz.

1
Sanat 2 25

OYSTER COCKTAIL

Sniders, 11 0z.....__ 2 00
CHEESE
Roguefort 2 68
Wisconsin Daisy _______ 16
Wisconsin Twin ______ 1544
New York June, 1934_— 24
Sap 6
Brick. (22 eee 18
Michigan Flats _______ 1544
Michigan Daisies _____ 1545
Wisconsin Longhorn ___ 16
Imported Leyden _______ 2:

  

1 lb, Limberger ___.
Imported Swiss ________ 56
Kraft, Pimento Loaf____ 24
Kraft, American Loaf__ 22
Kraft, Brick Loaf______ 22
Kraft, Swiss Loaf______ 26
Kraft, Old Eng, Loaf___ 33
Kraft, Pimento, % Ib. 1 65
Kraft, American, % Ib. 1 65
Kraft, Brick, % Ib.____ 1 65
Kraft, Limbur., % Ib._ 1 65

June 5, 1935

CHEWING GUM
Adams Black Jack... 68
Adams Dentyne ~—_.... 66
Beeman’'s Pepsin 66
Beechnut Peppermint... 65
Doublemint ....._. ——
Peppermint, Wrigleya._
Spearmint, Wrigleya__. 65
Juicy Fruit...

Wrigley’s P-K_.._..
Teaberry

Rk

REF

 

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

6 ib. 4482 2 60

CIGARS
Hemt. Championg ___ 38 50
Webster Plaza __.___ 76 00
Webster Golden W. 16 06
Websterettes —____

 

Garcia Grand Babies. 40 00

Bradstreets

Oding =2- =o 46 00
& G Dun Boquet._.. 75 G0
Pertect Garcia Subl._ 95 ou

ieonway, 0 20 00

Budwiser  _.._..___._ 20 00

isabeliq . 20 00
Cocoanut

Banner, 25 lb. tins___ 1814
Snowdrift, 20 lb. tins_. 18%

CLOTHES LINE

  

Atlanta, 50 ft.__ _ 4 00
dseystone, 50 - 1 85
Corona,’ 60; ft. 1 49

COFFEE ROASTED

Lee & Cady

1 Ib. Package
AV COL se Oe 21%
Boston Breakfast ____ 18
Breaktast Cup 3. | 17%

Competition __

  

MaAICStiC =a 27
Morton House 27%
Quaker, Vac T a ok
Quaker, in glass jars__ 26
Coffee Extracts

M. £., MOQ es 12
Frank’s 50 Digs... 4 to
fHummel’s 60, 1 Ib... 10%

CONDENSED MILK
agie, 2 oz., per case._ 4 60

Cough Drops
Bxs.
Smith Bros._____ oe aD
iuden’s 220 om & 46
Vick’s, 40/10c_________ 2 40

COUPON BOOKS
50 Economic grade__ 2 su
100 Economic grade__ 4 5u
300 Economic grade__20 00
1000 Economic grade__37 50

Where 1,000 books are
Ordered at a time, special-
ly printed front cover is
furnished without charge.

CRACKERS
Hekman Biscuit Company

Zesta Crackers, 1-lb.

pikes 1 65
Hekman’s Toasts, 1-Ib.

DEES.) oo
Saltine Soda Crackers,

Dut
Saltine Soda Crackers,

1-lb. pkgs, $1
Saltine Soda Crackers,

2b. pkea, es 2.
Saltine Soda Crackers,

8 02. pees. 22 1 12
Butter Crackers, bulk 13%
Butter Crackers, 1 Ib. 1 70
Butter Crackers, 2 jb. 3 33
Graham Crackers, bulk 13
Graham Crackers,

fab. pies eas 1.65
araham Crackers,

2b, pkes, 3.05
Graham C’s, 6%4 o0z.__ 93
Junior Oyster C’s, blk. te
Club Crackers ________ 1 76

CREAM OF TARTAR
6. 1b) Doxes 2s ag

ORIED FRUITS

Apricots
Extra Choice _________ 23%
Standard 200) oi 2036
Citron
10° Up. boxe 25

 

 

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June 5, 1935 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 21
Currants JUNKET GOODS FRESH MEATS HERRING Ee
Packages, 11 oz.--__._-- 18 Junket Powder __.__ 1 Family, 100 box & 20
Junket Tablets ______ 1 3% Beef Helland Herring He Qe 2 cian ss
Top Steers & Heif.____ 20 Mixed, kegs ...... Fels Naptha, 100 box__ 4 35 22030
Dates Good Steers & Heif.____ 18 Milkers, kegs __..____ 95 Flake White, 10 box__ 3 45 -30@36
eae, oS i to MARGARINE Gon Gath oe i rae aac ae = Pairy, 700 a Sonne 3 oo No. 1 Nibbe_________ 3
uak -- A - Cattle —__—_ Z Ww unch, f 3 » 100 DOX___-____
cone ns 1% Ib... 2 00 Wilson & Co.’s Brands Palm Olive, 144 box___ 6 20 Gunpowder
Quaker, 12s, 1 lb. 1 4 Oleo Lava, 60 box________ 3 65 noice
: Se 13 Veal Mackerel Camay, 72 box..._____ 9 95 -—----—------
100% Veg Oil Grown on Tubs, 60 Count, fy. fat 6 00 P & G Nap Soap, 100@3 45
Fige go America Farms ______ 15 Pails, 10 Ib. Fancy fat 1 50 Suceuicnes, ye box__ : e Paes Ga a a
ss case... 1 randpa Tar, 50 sm. __ . aa
Calif., 34-8 oz. Williams Barber Bar, 98 50
MATCHES ae “es Wats oe ae ee doz. Be e igen Breakfast
Peaches Diamond. No. 5, 144___ 5 72 : . Fancy, — » OV. — ngou, medium ______ 28
Evap. Choice __----.. 15 Searchlight. 144 box__5 72 Spring Lamb _______ Milkers, bbls. __.____. 18 50 Congou, choice _____ 35@36
Bva. Fancy -__-__.__ 16% Swan. 144 610 Good -___________ K K K K Norway-_.. 19 50 ongou, fancy ______ 42@43
Diamond, No. 0______ 4 80 Sib) patie oo 1 a auicie
Cat Lurch. 15 5
Peel Res me Matches ae Boned, 10 Ib. boxes.__. 16 a a en
‘Op, oss Case Spice Jam. are
— dosz._. ihe | 6® Congress, ‘or cs... 6 26 Cloves, Zanzibar____.. @36
ge, Torelli, Standard, 5 gro. cs... 4 00 Cassia, Canton _______ @24
dozen. 90 SHOE BLACKENING Cassia, 5c pkg., doz.__ @40
Citron, ‘Torelli, 2in 1, Paste, doz._____ 130 Ginger, Africa _._____- @19
oz., dozen_..__... 90 E. Z. Combination, dz. 130 Mixed, No. 1___.__.___ @30
e : MUELLER’S PRODUCTS Dri-Foot, doz... 200 Mixed, 10c pkgs., doz... @65 TWINE
Macaroni, 9 oz.___..__. 2 10 ! Pork ae Bixbys, dog.) 130 “Nutmegs, 70@90 @50 Cotton, 3 ply cone______ 49
Raisins at 9 o a : ¥ ee oo me Shinola, doz...-__._._. 90 wee poe Cotton, 3 ply balls______ 49
caro: 220) see eae epper, Black ______._ -
Seeded, er alee bli. Hed ge Nooilcn pee sale 279 Shoulder 18% ia
aan wel bik.___- Beg Vermicelli, 6 oz... 210 Spareribs -- 13%
Quaker s’dless -- Neck Bones 09 Pure Ground in Bulk VINEGAR
15 oz. 3 Egg Alphabets, 6 oz... 2 10 é SooNsne ee eee tee So STOVE POLISH Allspice, Jamaica @18 F.O. B. Gr a
Quaker Seeded, 15 oz... 8 Cooked Spaghetti, 24c, Trimmings ---__.___ 1H =Bisekte per doe CG ee @28 Cider. 40 crate Rapids
_— : foe 2 Black Silk Liquid, doz. 130 Sjoves. Zanzbar ____._ 22 White Wine w0-arain 2
Black Silk Paste, doz. 125 28sia, = 17 White Wine, 80 grain 2
Cotiicrala Prunes Enameline Paste, doz. 130 ypger.  Corkin hay © Wine, 30 grain 4%
90@100, 25 lb, boxes__@05% PROVISIOWS Enameline Liquid, doz. 130 yaoee hae oe
Seeeeat | fES Radiuntpe BO" 1H Rapier Sik BB
ie Te ie hones ek Ainnoiie: Pecsteca 15% Barreled Pork Histie Gas yee Goa 139 Natmegs @% No. 9, per gross ~
200 bt, 25 Ib: boxes _@08%% , large -._ 18% Clear Back ___28 00@34 00 654 Stove Ienamel, dz. 2 80 poder. White ——-- Ste No 1. per gies ye
40@ 50, 25 Ib. boxes--@09 Fancy Mixed 1g. Short Cut, Clear 30 00 Vuicanol, No. 10, doz. 1 30 Pogues. Onen @3¢ No 2 per grogs ~~~~~~ 1 50
30@ 40, 25 lb. boxes_.@10 Wilberts, Naples ____ 16 Stovoil, per doz.___.___ 3 00 aaa Ne 3, per gross |__| __ 2 30
20@ 30, 25 lb. boxes --@11% uts, vir. Roasted 114% Cerless Rolis, per doz. 90
18@ 24, 25 lb. boxes --@14 = Pecans, 3, star_..__ 25 Dry Salt Meats Rochester, No. 2, doz. 50
Pecans, Jumbo ________ 40. D S Belles. | 20-25 21 - | SALT Seasoning Rochester, No. 3, doz... 2 00
Pecans, Mammoth ______ 50 F.O. B. Grand Rapids Chli Power, 1% oz... 65 Rayo, per dos 15
orale a do Walnuts, Cal. __17T% to 22 bce aa ae : E js ee : & ooo 16 oz ge
Pearl, 100 Ib. sacks__-- | har a uaker, a -—--- eo 206 80
a in ee oe =e Quaker, Iodized, 24-2. 1 Z posi Sele os 1 do WOODENWARE
- (Ubs advance ied. No. 1, bble....____. 3:16 arlene ee 1 35
Bulk Goods Salted Peanuts 50 %b. tubs —__ | advance % Mor No. 1, 1001b. bk. 1 07 =Ponelty, 3% oz._______ 325 Bua Baskets
Elb.Macaroni, 20 lb.bx. 130 Fancy, No. 1__________ 14% 40 lb. pails ___advance % Chippewa Flake, 70 1b. 100 Kitchen Bouquet_____ 495 ae Wide Band,
Begg Noodle. 10 lb. box 1 22 12—1 Ib. Cellop’e case_ 1 50 10 Ib. pails _____advance % Packers Meat, 50 lb... 70 Laurel Leaves____ 20 Mark handles_____|_ 2 00
5 lb Pails _----advance 1 Crushed race — ies, se 90 Macher’ meh a 90
3. 1b. pails _____. dvance 1 eam, 100 Ib., eac 5 andle. 95
Pearl Barley Comegdia. ferces a Buttes Sale 280 1b. bbl. 4 00 a Ment extra, 1 60
Chester (20 5 00 Shelled Compound, tubs ______ 13% Block 50Ib: 2 40 $5 Be large 8s 8 60
Almonds 2 39 Baker Salt, 280 Ib. bbl 3 80 Sa medium _______ 7 50
Peanuts, Spanish, 125 6, 10 lb., per bale_____ 1 03 Spin small 22 6 50
Lentils Ib. bags 2g Sausages 20, 3 Ib., per bale______ 03
ert 10° Wihonta] 6 a 32) Bolopna (ei 15 25 lb, bogs, table. 46 STARCH Churns
Pecans, salted ____.._.. 66 Live 93 Corn Barrel, 5 gal.. each____ 2 40
Walnut, California ___ 55 _ 20 Kingsford, 24/1 ______ 236 Barrel, 10 gal., each___ 2 55
Tapioca 20 Powd., bags, per Ib... 4% 306 gal. per gal. 46
Pearl, 100 lb. sacks__-- 7% 86 Argo, 24, 1 Ib. pkgs.__ 1 64
Minute, 8 oz., 3 doz... 4 06 Headcheese __--_______ 18 Cream, 24-1 ______ 3 20 Pails
Drome Instant ... 3 50 MINCE MEAT 10 qt. Galvanzed ______ 2 60
POLS Such, 4 doz._____ 6 20 12 qt. Galvanizea 2 85
: uaker, 1 doz. case___ 90 Smoked Meats ' 14 qt. Galvanized ___ ~~
3 doz. oo. . 225 Yo Ho, Kegs. wet, Ib. 16% Hams, Fancy, 14-16 lb. 23 " 12 qt. Flaring Gal. Jn 6 6

Assorted flavors.

EVAPORATED MILK

eet ite daca t
Bonen. “Tall, 4 doz. 3 22
Borden’s, Baby, 4 doz 1 61

FRUIT CANS

Ball Mason
F. O. B. Grand Rapids
One pint ---——. 77
One quart —_---— 9 00
Half gallon _______. 13 90
Mason Can Tops, gro. 2 45

 

 

FRUIT CAN RUBBERS
Quaker Red Lip, 3 gro.
carton -22 oS 73

GELATINE
Jell-o. 2 .a0z. 2 00
Minute, 3 doz...------- 4 05
Knox's, 1 dozen-_-.. 3 25
Jelsert, 3 doz.---.----- 1 40

HONEY
Lake Shore 1 Ib. doz-- 1 90

JELLY AND PRESERVES
Pure. 30 Ib. vails__.__. 2 35
Imitation. 30 lb. nails_ 1 89
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 Tail, per doz.---. 85

OLIVES—Plain
Quaker, 24 3% ozz. cs. 1 80
Quaker, 24 7% oz. cs. 3 55
Quaker, 12, 11 0z.____ 2 35
Tempter, 12 22-0z. cs. 4 50
1 gal. glass. each_____ 1 50

OLIVES—Stuffed
Quaker, 24, 2-o0z. cs... 1 87
Quaker, 24, 3-oz. cs... 2 70
Quaker, 24, 5-oz. cs.__ 3 37
Quaker, 24. 7% oz. cs. 4 16
Quaker, 12. 16-oz. es. 4 35
1 Gallon glass, each__ 1 99

PARIS GREEN

‘ss 4
18) eee es -. 32
28 and Ge. 30

PICKLES
Sweet Small

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

Dill Pict.les
Gal., 40 to Tin, doz.___ 8 20
32 oz. Glass Thrown___ 1 60

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

Hams, Fancy, Skinned

 

14-18 1p, @23
tiam, dried beef

Hnuesies, 3-5 Ib. _ @25
Smoked Picnics ______ @19
Boiled Ham @33%
Minced Hams ________ 15
Bacon 4/6 Fancy_____ @31

eef
Boneless, rump ____Ib 20 00
Liver
Beet 16
Calg
ree 111
RICE
Fancy Blue Rose______ 4 90
Faney Head 6 00
RUSKS
Postma Biscuit Co.
18 rolls, per case ______ 2 10
12 rolls, per case ______ 1 39
18 cartons, per case ___ 2 35
12 cartons, per case _._ 1 57
SALERATUS

Arm and Hammer 24s_ 1 50

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

packages _ ------.. 110

COD FiSH 5
Bob White, 1 Ib. pure 25
Paragon, 1 ib... 8

  

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ASSN. |

   
 

Free Run’g, 32, 26 og. 2 40
Five case lots... 2 W
Iodized, 32, 26 oz

 

Five case lots___.-_._. 2 30
Colonial

Fifteen 43 ____ ~ 1

Twenty 3s 2

Six 103 __ 93

Iodine, 24, 2s__..1_.. 1 85

Iodine, 36, 1% 1 386
Plain; 36, 136.0
Log Cabin Plain, 24, 2s 1 35

BORAX
Twenty Mule Team
24,1 Ib. packages _____ 3 36

48, 10 oz. packages_.__ 4 40
96, 14 lb. packages____ 4 00

WASHING POWDERS
Bon Ami Pd., 18s, box. 1 90
Bon Ami Cake, 18s... 1 66
Brig 85
Big 4 Soap Chips 8/5__ 2 60

@Chipse, Tarze 6.2 4 65
Climaline, 4 doz._._.._ 3 60
Grandma, 100, 5c.-..__ 50

Grandma, 24 large___.
Gold Dust. 12 large__
La France Laun 4 dz.
Lux Flakes, 50 small__
Lux Flakes, 20 large__
Old Dutch Clean., 4 dz.
Hanso, 446 0
Rimso; 40g) oS

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Wyandot, Cleaner, 24s 1 52

Argo, 24, 1 lb. pkgs.__ 1 72

Argo, 12, 3 lb. pkgs.__ 2 26
Argo, 8, 5 lb. pkgs.____ 2 46
Silver Gloss, 48, 1s_._. 11%
Elastic, 16 pkgs.______ 1 33
Staley 24—1 Ib.________ 1 70
SYRUP
Corn

Blue Karo, No. 1%__ 2 72
Blue Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 3 70
Blue Karo, No. 10____ 3 52
Red Karo, No. 1%____ 2 92
Red Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 3 99
Red Karo, No. 10____ 3 85

   

Imit. Maple Flavor
Orange, No. 1%, 2 dz.. 2 87
Orange, No. 3, 20 cans 4 34

Maple and Cane
Kanuck, per gal.______ 1 25
Kanuck, 5 gal. can.____ 5 30
Kanuck, 24/12 Glass__ 4 00
Kanuck, 12/26 Glass ¢ 15

Grape Juiwe

Welch, 24 pint case___ 4 40

MAZOLA COOKING OIL
Pints, 2 doz., case____ 5 28
Quarts, 1 dozz. | 4 96
5 gallons, 2 per case__ 12 10

TABLE SAUCES
Lee & Perrin, large... 5 7
Lee & Perrin, small___ 3 38
Fepper ..___ ot

 
 
  

a 3 75
Sho You, 9 0z., doz.__. 2 00
AST lange. 475
A-1, small ___
Caner, 2 Of. 3 30

 

10 qt. Tin Dairy 4 00
Traps
Mouse, wood, 4 holes__ 60
Mouse, wood, 6 holes. 70
Mouse, tin, 5 holes___ 65
Rat, wood ____.__ 1 00
Rat, spring _____ 1 00
Mouse, spring 20
Tubs
Large Galvanized_____ 8 75
Medium Galvan zed_.. 7 75
Small Galvanized _____ 6 75
Washboards
Banner, Globe________ 5 50
Brass, single__________ 6 25
Glass, single__________ 6 00

Double Peerless__
Single Peerless

 

Bo 7 50
Northern Queen______ 5 50
Universal 2 7 25

Paper Food Dishes
% lb. Size, per M____ 1 79

I Ib. size per Mi 2 05
2 Ib. size, per M______ 2 40
3 Ib. size, per M______ 2 95
5 Ib. size, per M______ 3 85

WRAPPING PAPER
Butchers D F, per 100 5 88
Kraft. per 100 5 88

TOILET PAPER
Quaker, 100 Rolls____ 4
Silk Tissue. 100 rolls__ 3 59

YEAST CAKE

  
 

Magic) 3 doz. 2 70
Sunlight, 3 doz, __.__._ 2 70
Sunlight, 1% doz. _.___ 1 35
Yeast Foam, 3 doz.____ 2 70
Yeast Foam, 1% doz.__ 1 35
YEAST—COMPRESSED
Fleischmann, per doz._.. 30
Red Star, per doz...__._ 24

 

 

  

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

June 5, 1935

 

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.

 

After N.R.A. Comes Business
Responsibility
The Supreme Court axe removed the
head of the Blue Eagle in the “sick
chicken” case when it declared uncon-
stitutional the National Recovery ‘Act,
It also “caponized” all legislation that

  

delegates power to interfere with in-
trastate business. From now on the
Congress will remain within iis legis-
lative domain of interstate commerce
instead of rambling all over the eco-
nomic landscape with laws affecting
business and social conduct.

The Supreme Court has a happy
faculty of timing its decisions. In this
case two weeks before the expiration
of the Emerbency Act, which has cer-
tainly served its purpose to date,

Two years ago this month, the need
was great for some sort of dictatorial
action that would check the coolie
wage scale, the chiseler and the ex-
ploiter of child labor. Think back to
those days and remember that some
factories were paying less than a dol-
lar a day for certain operations and
that store labor was in many cases paid
with even less. The tremendous sur-
plus of labor through unemployment
brought about a condition where there
was no bottom to the wage scale.

The vicious spiral of reducing wages
and reducing purchasing power made
necessary a constitutional or
otherwise, to serve as a check against
the vicious halbits developed in the
depths of the depression. The shoe
industry was, in many ways, a mild of-
fender in comparison with the behavior
of other industries, but all in all, the
situation was intolerable to any civil-
ization, so the NRA was born. It
served its purpose well, when it kept
within the bounds of reason.

law,

If other industries had asked as little
regulation as the shoe industry, from
tanning to retailing, the spirit of the
NRA would have continued without
constitutional criticism. But other
forces and other pressures put in all
sorts of regulations, from “price-fixing”
to “work-restrictions” and a thousand
and one silly little things from reg-
ulating lunch periods to preventing a
man entering a business because it was
already over-machined.

1 Ao

dumb,

So the NRA would have died any-
way and the axe at this time simply
ends the experiment two weeks before
its automatic expiration. Months ago
we indicated the possibility of NRA
ending and the need for preparation
for the aftermath.

Ruthless cutting of wages at this
time will mean labor reprisals, strikes,
riots and everything else menacing to
real recovery. The low minimums as
set up by the NRA must not be de-
creased, In fact, in many cases, the
minimums are below ordinary stand-
ards of living when consideration is
given to the living year as against the
actual work time week. Of particular
necessity is the need for maintaining
current wages at retail, for clerk work
is becoming seasonal and the many
men who are dropped from the payroll
during July and August must live
somehow until jobs open up again in
September.

The shoe man who holds his organ-
ization on a fifty-two week payroll is
not only a real merchant but a real
benefactor. He is living up to the
spirit of the NRA and bettering it for
his own good, for in that sort of a
store craft-unionism is never needed.

Labor exploitation will be checked
by two fortuitous circumstances: First
—the bulwark of the huge govern-
mental expenditures for relief work
and the fact that if wages are cut too
low, men and women will not work
and will demand and receive the mini-
mums now given through relief chan-
nels. In some parts of the country
there is actually a shortage of labor
because the people prefer to go on re-
lief than to accept the dollar or two
difference that is offered by employers

who have evaded and avoided the
codes. Second—world-wide recovery
plus international increases in raw

material prices and also credit infla-
tion.

The important thing at the moment
is to carry on, in the spirit of the NRA,
the obligations to the worker, to the
consumer and to the spirit of good
business. If we are to have a period of
selfishness and stupidity, following the
discontinuance of the NRA, we will
pay for it individually and collectively.
In a way it is a good thing that this
action comes in the Summer months:
for business, if it is to continue as a
living force, can adjust itself to com-
petitive individualism before the com-
ing Winter.

Business can accept some of the
golden rules in the NRA and make
them voluntary rules of business con-
duct. Because the policeman has de-
parted we face the opportunity of get-
ting government out of business pro-
viding we put individual good. govern-
ment into business, Anarchy and dis-
cord have no place in this new free-
dom. As merchants, our relationship
with out neighbors and with our work-
ers is on trial. It is our belief that
industry in business will not fail this
great opportunity.

Laws cannot make “dumb business
men smart” but they can level down
smart business men to the size of the
For centuries we have devel-
oped business practice so that “he who

itt te

renders the best in goods and servicse
gets the reward. We then tried to reg-

ulate vicious abuse of that principle in-

a depression, and learned some lessons
and truths therefrom. Now with a re-
turn to “individuality’”’ we will see if
progress is possible without the stupid
selfishness of ‘both systems.—Boot
and Shoe Recorder.
+++
Oldest Shoe Store in Detroit

Detroit’s oldest shoe store, the Den-
del Shoe Store at 553 West Jefferson
avenue, has closed its doors. Louis
Dendel, the owner, has decided to re-
tire from business at the age of sev-
enty-seven.

The store was founded in 1849 on
land recently filled in, by Henry Den-
del, father of Louis, and a three-story
brick building was erected. The Den-
del family lived over the store for many
years, At that time, Jefferson avenue
was the city’s principal shopping dis-
trict, although the population at the
time was around thirty thousand, and
a little later became a fashionable shop-
ping district. It is now primarily a
wholesale district.

The Dendel store in the old days
made shoes as well as sold ready-made
footwear, and six cobblers were em-
ployed there at one time. The old
shoe-making equipment was kept in
the rear of the store until very recently.

Louis Dendel started in the store as
a boy about sixty-five years ago, and
has worked there all his life. He has
been sole owner since the death of his
brother, Henry, Junior, in 1890. In the
last half century the store has become
a center for mariners and railroad men,
many of whom brought a good trade
in workshoes to the store.

The Dendel store is probably the
oldest retail establishment in Detroit
remaining in one location, and also the
oldest in a single family solely. It even
outdates old stores like R. H. Fyfe &
Co. :

Dendel has also issued a general
challenge to shoe men, in the betlief
that his store has probably remained
on One site longer than any other shoe
store,

Louis Dendel is moving to a farm
near Howell, where he will spend the
remainder of his life. Commenting on
his plans, he said: “I don’t know just
how I can stand it, getting away from
the river front and my old cronies but
with Mrs. Dendel, I am going to move

 

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ge ae ee eee

out to our farm and ‘begin life anew’
at seventy-seven.”

Comprehensive Review by the Mich-
igan Hardware Association
(Continued from page 14)

at which President Roosevelt is ex-

pected to participate. This will be

broadcast over a nation-wide radio
hook up.

There is a tremendous latent de-
mand for new and better homes. Al-
though there has been much talk since
1929 about vacancies and over-build-
ing, not enough new homes have been
built in the last three years to replace
those destroyed by fire alone. Hard-
ware dealers should particitpate ag-
gressively in the home building pro-
gram. New homes mean the sale of
more hardware —thousands of items
are used in addition to builders and
cabinet hardware. For more informa-
tion write Federal Housing Admini-
stration, 1174 First National Bank
Building, Detroit, Michigan.

Are You Meeting Your Responsi-
bility? The merchant’s responsibility
to his sales people is to provide them
with sales tools necessary to intelli-
gent and profitable selling. The 1935-
36 merchandise study course opens
September 1. August 1 is the deadline
for enrollment. The National office
informs us that none can be accepted
after that date. Turn lost sales into
profit by enrolling your salesmen in
the study course. There is no cost for
enrollment and only sales people em-
ployed im association member stores
will be accepted. Hardware Retailer
Sales Manual, to be issued early this
fall, will be the basis of study. Ques-
tion folios, ten in all, will be sent each
student, every 30 days. Each folio will
cover one of the ten merchandising
provisions in the Sales Manual, If in-
terested sign the enrollment applica-
tion appearing on pages 2 and 3 of the
June Hardware Retailer.

For the first time in 41 years of As-
sociation history a joint meeting was
held of wholesalers and retailers to
consider the price problem and_ to
work out plans for retailer-wholesaler
co-operation. The meeting, under the
direction of the Trade Relations Com-
mittee of the Michigan Retail Hard-
ware Association and the National As-
sociation was participated in by the
Ohio Retail Hardware Association and
the National Association. Subjects dis-
cussed were: Price problems; selling

 

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policies of wholesalers;
wholesaler-retailer expense.

Participants. The Michigan Asso-
ciation was represented by Andrew
Larsen, C. L. Goddeyne, E. O. Hat-
ton, Chas, F, Taepke, Nelson J. Waters
and H, W. Bervig. The Ohio Associa-
tion was represented by Paul B. Swe-
ger, H. F. Stotzer, George R. Hoffman
and John B, Conklin, The National
Association was represented by H. P.
Sheets. The wholesalers represented
were W. Bingham Company, Bost-
wick-Braun Company, Buhl Sons
Company, Foster-Stevens Company,
Jennison Harware Company, Morley
Brothers, Saginaw Hardware Com-
pany, Smith-Winchester Company,
Stollberg Hardware Company, Geo.
Worthington Company. Other whole-
salers, who had been invited, were un-
able to attend.

The Price Problem. Members of the
Trade Relations Committee presented
the price problem, faced by retailers, in
each of several departments of their
hardware store. Actual merchandise
was purchased in local mail order
stores and compared with items taken
from the hardware retailer’s shelves.
Complete lists (sent herewith to mem-
bers) were supplied the wholesalers
who agreed to study the merchandise
and to supply retailers with merchan-
dise, where possible, at a competitive
price, quality considered.

Selling Policies. The Association
representatives outlined the need for
an establishment of specific selling pol-
icies on the part of wholesalers and
the need for more strict control of the
following sales: (a) factory sales for
personal use by officials or other em-
ployes; (b) Merchandise not wholly or
regularly stocked for resale by garag-
es, oil stations, and similar outlets; (c)
sales to stores masquerading as “un-
claimed freight” stores; (d) sales for
personal use of individuals, to schools,
municipalities and other governmental
agencies, including road commission-
ers; (e) sales to contractors, sporting
organizations, farm co-operatives and
others.

Distribution Expense. An examina-
tion of margin (gross profit) and ex-
pense over the seven year period from
1927 to 1933 indicated that the whole-
saler had an average expense of 20.4
per cent with a margin of 22.0 per cent.
Retailers had an expense of 29.2 and a
margin of 27.0 per cent, The seven
year period indicated a wholesaling
profit of and a retailing loss. Follow-
ing that analysis suggestions were
made for reduction of distribution ex-
pense, In this reduction the retailer
would play a large part in (1) con-
cenirating his buying sources; (2) tak-
ing care of traveling salesmen more
quickly; (3) making claims for short-
age immediately on receipt of goods;
(4) making claims for breakage of
damage of transit to the carrier, not
the shipper; (5) greater effort to pay
invoices promptly. The wholesaler, it
was pointed out, could reduce distri-
bution costs by dropping areas or
towns in which business could not be
economically secured, eliminating in-
dividual accounts in which an estab-
lished minimum could not be_ had,
establishinent of policies to reduce sale

analysis of

of merchandise in “broken” packages
and in standardizing selling policies.
. Future Plans. Wholesalers unani-
mously agreed to assign the associa-
tion the task of drawing up standard-
ized: selling policies and of preparing
specific suggestions for reduction of
distribution expense for presentation to
the ‘wholesalers andi consideration at a
later meeting to be held about August
1. The Association realizes its respon-
sibility in initiating the meeting with
wholesalers and will carry out the du-
ties assigned to it, Members are re-
quested to submit their suggestions in
the formulation of selling policies and
reduction of distribution expense.
Harold W. Bervig, Sec’y.

—_—_2+.____
OUT AROUND
(Continued from page 9)

I have always favored the enact-
ment of a Fair Trade Law, but it must
be all that its name implies before I
will ever give any legislative measure
my support. The bill which passed the
Michigan Senate at this year’s session
and was twice unanimously rejected by
the House contained sinister features
which no honest merchant could rea-
sonably endorse. The element of se-
crecy which was thrown around the
creation of the measure was such as to
lead seasoned legislators to detect the
Senegambian in the woodpile— and
they acted accordingly. I congratulate
the merchants of Michigan that the
measure died of its own accord, with-
out any opposition on their part.

 

If the so-called Fair Trade bill
handed to the 1935 Legislature had
been written by the chief attorney of
one of the chain store svstems or the
attorney of the organization of chain
store systems, it could not have been
more favorable to the cause of the
chains. How any organization of in-
dependent retail dealers could have
been wheedled into endorsing such a
measure is more than I can understand
except on the thepry that the members
voted to approve the bill without ever
reading it thoroughly and thus over-
looked the obnoxious features con-
tained therein.

The presentation of resolutions at
the average convention is usually a
huge joke. The secretary usually
writes the resolutions or has them pre-
pared by an assistant under his direc-
tion and control and hands them to the
committee on resolutions to be signed.
Nine times out of ten no member of
the committee ever reads the resolu-
tions or knows what he has approved
until he hears the report read by the
chairman of the committee or the sec-
retary. It is then too late for him to
give the matter mature consideration.
When the report is finally printed and
he reads it at his leisure he frequently
finds himself very much surprised to
note the kind of a report he authorized
by lending his signature to the docu-
ment, Things done in the hurly burly
of a busy convention seldom represent
the real thought and intention of the
thinking men present. They may be
utilized later as a club to force some
one to line up with the clandestine

plans of the secretary or other officers
of the organization.

In his heart to heart talk with the
newspaper correspondents of Wash-
ington last Friday, President Roosevelt
stated that his plans contemplated tak-
ing most of the authority away from
the states and concentrating it with the
chief executive, who would thus be-
come a dictator. He said he would
make his canvass in the presidential
election next year on that basis. I have
no fear of the outcome of such a cru-
sade. The people of this country are
too firmly attached to a republic to re-
place the head authority with a Stalin,
a Hitler or a Mussolini,

 

Saginaw, May 31—I am extending
to you an urgent invitation to attend
the Michigan Grand Council session to
be held in Saginaw, June 6, 7 and 8,
1935, with headquarters at the Ban-
croft Hotel. I impress upon your mem-
bers that the Ladies Auxiliary of Sag-
inaw Council, No, 43, have set up a
program of entertainment that perhaps
will never be equalled at any grand
council meeting ever to be held. The
men have spared no expense in making
everyone feel that from Thursday eve-
ning on we will all be Going to Town.

Now for a resumé of what will happen
when you arrive—Registration Thurs-
day —no fees. Team work dinner —
Thursday, 6 p.m, Meetings of com-
mittee at 9 p.m, Entertainment at 9:30
p.m. in the Gold Room of the Ban-
croft Hotel, entitled “Going to Town.”
From then on try and find out where
Lum Council is going to meet—mid-
night. Friday, June 7—reception and
registation and at 9 o’clock a.m. the
Grand Council meeting all day and
evening will bring forth grand ball and
buffet luncheon to be held in Crystal
Room and let your conscience be your
i in “Show me the way to go
home.” All free. Saturday morning
we have arranged for a free golf game
at the Grotto Country club. Bring
your clubs and tee off and don’t forget
the 19th hole. We will then bid you
good-bye and wish you Godspeed and
a safe return to your home and loved
ones. Fred A. Phillips,

Senior Counselor Saginaw No. 43.
—__+- +

Would Tinker With Constitution
Means of taking short cuts to
amendment of the Constitution
and for obtaining quick action in
the United States Supreme Court
in questions involving the consti-
tutionality of any Congressional
enactment are under considera-
tion in official circles, it is indi-
cated. President Roosevelt has
hinted at a possible move to de-
limit the executive right of the
States over intrastate matters as a
means of getting around the Su-
preme Court’s inhibitions as made
positive in the Schechter case.
Senator Norris has intimated
that consideration is being given
to a proposal to amend the Con-
stitution so as to deprive district
courts the right to invalidate or
tieup legislative acts on constitu-
tional issues. He probably has
particular reference to the deci-
sion of Judge William I. Grubb,
in the Alabama District Court, en-
joining the Tennessee Valley Au-
thority from disposing of surplus
power under certain conditions.
Proponents of the agricultural
relief program would even go so
far as to insure perpetuity of

AAA by constitutional amend-
ment, and there is a note of seri-
ousness about it, too.

——_+<->____
Commodity Trend Points Down-

The downward readjustment
of commodity prices seems likely
to continue for some time, as a
result of the NRA debacle and its
aftermath. Quotations for sev-
eral commodities most directly
affected by code controls have
not as yet been lowered mate-
rially, it is pointed out.

Sharp declines reported last
week were largely confined to
agricultural commodities, which
were influenced by fears over the
legality of the AAA. Retail price
cutting is spreading rapidly, and
retailers may be expected soon to
exert pressure upon prevailing
wholesale quotations for many
manufactured products.

Lower prices are now being
discussed even in industries where
favorable statistical positions ex-
isted. Thus, despite lower cotton
textile inventories, wage cutting
and extension of the working
week by many mills will probably
bring lower prices if continued.
Prices of copper and petroleum
products are threatened similarly.

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Money will one day seek and find
work.

 

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

Grand Rapids Michigan

 

 

 

BUSINESS WANTS
DEPARTMENT

Advertisements inserted under this head
for five cents a word the first insertion
and four cents a word for each subse-

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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 — Thirty-six-room brick
hotel, Best location in the city. Owner
recently lost his wife, and is nearly
blind. Inquire H. C. Clark, St. Johns,
Michigan. 734

FOR SALE—Retail BAKERY. Best
town in Central Michigan. Priced right
for quick sale. Ill health. Address No.
736, c/o Michgan Tradesman, 736

To Trade—Bither one or two hous
Mt. Pleasant, the growing oil city, for a
good mercantile business, hardware pre-
ferred, in a good trading small town in
Central Michigan. Send particulars. Lock
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24

 

SOME TRENDS IN TRADE

 

Sidelights on the General Business
Situation

We all know of the big gains made
in farm sections last year, but 1935 is
a far better year. Government figures
show that sales of general merchandise
in small towns and rural areas for
April were 37 per cent. higher in doi-
lar volume than in the same month last
year, and were 64 per cent. above the
same month of 1933. April sales in
rural areas were 101 per cent. of the
1929-1931 monthly average.

According to the Irving Fisher In-
dex of Business Conditions, there is
less of a slowing down than most
people expected for this time of the
year. As of May 20, conditions com-
pared favorably with those of April.

The Bu-eau of Labor Statistics
shows that there was a gain of 122,000
in industrial employment last month,
the fifth consecutive gain. Especially
notable was the gain in the durabie
goods industries ,where both employ-
ment and payrolls were at a peak since
the Spring of 1931.

The building uptrend is continuing
—particularly in residential construc-
tion. In New York, estimates for the
cost of new buildings filed with the
city authorities in the first four montis
of the year, for Manhattan, are three
times the corresponding totals for a
year ago. In greater New York, build-
ing projects calling for an outlay of
more than $29,000,000 were placed on
file. For the full year of 1934 less than
$19,000,000 was appropriated for build-
ing operations.

Improvement in business is reflected
in the tax receipts of the government,
March collections were $557,304,493, as
against $390,352,846 in the same month
last year.

Excise taxes on domestic distilled
spirits are up 50 per cent. Likewise
domestic wines Receipts from beer
jumped 25 per cent.; cigarette taxes
reached an all-time high, and marked
increases were shown in taxes on
matches, toilet preparations, passenger
cars and trucks, auto accessories, radio
and phonograph records, mechanical
refrigerators, sporting goods, excess
profits, capital stock, estate and gift
taxes.

Receipts from income taxes jumped
40 per cent.. Among the states con-
tributing the largest volume of income
taxes, California gained 39 per cent.;
Illinois, 60 per cent.; Massachusetts,
25 per cent.: Michigan, 58 per cent.;
New Jersey, 24 per cent.; New York,
32 per cent.; Ohio, 51 per cent.; and
Pennsylvania 40 per cent.

The same favorable trend is shown
in preliminary reports of April collec-
tions. Liquor taxes for the first four
months total 333.5 millions, an increase
of 137.7 millions over the previous
year.

New York is the sixth state to have
a resale price maintenance law, gen-
erally called a junior Capper-Kelly
bill. In Iowa and Maryland bills are
now awaiting the signatures of gov-
ernors.

For the country as a whole Dun &
Bradstreet report that retail sales last

MICHIGAN

week averaged 5 to 10 per cent. larger
than the comparative 1934 period, de-
spite poor weather conditions.

The upward trend of farm equipment
sales: shows no sign of abatement. A
Collier’s field investigator made a sur-
vey of thirteen Twin Cities dealers in
large lines of farm equipment, and
found only one able to name a delivery
date on tractor orders. All dealers
stressed the fact that farmers are pay-
ing cash in the majority of cases.

It is no wonder farmers are buying;
$12 hogs were quoted in the Chicago
stock yards on May 21. Only six times
in the history of the yards have hogs
reached this level during May.

The General Motors Fleet Sales
Corporation reports that sales for
April exceeded any single month in
the history of the division.

According to a survey made by the
Chicago Journal of Commerce, farm
liquidation is practically over with.
Prices of good farms are about 25 per
cent. higher than a year ago.

The Department of Commerce is
making special studies from the 1933
Census of Retail Sales. A current study
shows that more than 53 per cent. of
the retail stores in Massachusetts had
a sales volume of less than $10,000 in
1933. Altogether, these stores account-
ed for only 9 per cent of the retail
sales reported for the state in that
year. Of the stores in the State, 35
per cent. did less than $5,000 volume,
and 8 per cent. of the stores did less
than $1,000 of sales per store. Some
of these small stores had not operated
for a full year when enumerated, or
were regularly on a seasonal operation
basis. Average sales of all stores in
rural places were $12,300, and the aver-
age for stores in urban places was

$24,000.

The significance to marketing exec-
utives in these figures seems to be the
importance of having distribution in
the right kind of stores.

The American Iron & Steel Insti-
tute, at their New York meeting last
week, released the fact that barefoot
horses and foreign competition have
combined to cut the production of
American horseshoes to 8 per cent. of
the 1919 volume. Horses used 87 per
cent. fewer shoes last year than in 1919,
and the tonnage of imported horse-
shoes has increased 2,500 per cent.

Machine tool orders are now at a
peak for five years. The head of the
National Machine Tool Builders’ Asso-
Ciation states that manufacturers are
becoming increasingly conscious that
the short work week is a permanent
institution, and that successful com-
petition can be achieved only through
the maximum of efficiency which lies
principally in the development of pre-
cision machines of greater productive
power at lower operating costs.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Cor-
poration, a New Deal infant, now cele-
brating its seventeenth month anni-
versary with 14,000 banks and $16,000,-
000,C00 under its wing has had to pay
off on only fifteen bank failings in that
period,

A striking tribute to the honesty and

ability of American workers was

brought out in testimony the other day

 

TRADESMAN

in a suit brought by the Clark Blade
& Razor Co., which charges the Gil-
lette Safety Razor Co., and its subsidi-
ary, Otto Roth, Inc., with conspiracy
to obtain a monopoly on the sale of
blades. The plaintiff claims that the
Gillette Co. gave orders to its Newark
subsidiary to make blades “so bad. that
the average customer would become
disgusted and would go back to Gil-
lette,’ and that the Gillette Co. then
embarked on an extensive advertising
campaign warning the public against
“cheap iblades” and “gyp blades,” and
promoting the Gillette “Blue Blades.”
A factory official testified that the hon-
ing device on machines was so adjusted
that the blades were bound to be dull,
but that great difficulty was experi-
enced in maintaining this condition,
because the factory workers were so
accustomed to making good blades that
automatically and without thinking
they would readjust the honing device
so that good blades were turned out.

Two years ago taxes were delin-
quent on 237,000 out of 486,000 par-
cels of property in Detroit. To-day that
delinquency has been reduced to 31,-
000 and the amount of the delinquency
has been cut from $49,000,000 to $9,-
500,000. City of Detroit bonds have
jumped in two years from $36 to $98.

—_2-+___
And Textile Fibers From Oil

Here is another revolution that is
coming out of the laboratories. Per-
haps sooner than, perhaps not so soon
as that of textiles.

Chemists have been digging into the
atomic structure of naphtha, which is
at present one of the fractions obtained
when petroleum is broken down for
the abstraction of gasoline and lubricat-
ing oil, Already they have identified
thirty-five different hydrocarbons
which they can extract from the naph-
tha if they wish, have detected six
others and are on the trail of twenty
more.

What is hydrocarbon? This is not
the place for a definition, but if you
know what lbenzine and toluene and
ethyl alcohol are, you have a pretty
good idea.

The significance of ali this, as point-
ed out last month to the American Pe-
troleum Institute, seems to be two-
fold. One is that, just as chemical
magic made coal tar the source of thou-
sands of products previously obtained,
if at all, from other materials, so now
petroleum may take away from coal tar
many of the jobs the latter is now
doing for the world. Secondly—and
this stirs the imaginaton even more—
we may have all sorts of synthetc prod-
ucts hitherto unavailable.

Chemically, for instance there is no
reason why the textile field, and for
that matter even the field of paper
manufacture, cannot be revolutionized
even further by supplying them with
cellulose fibres derived from petroleum.
And if this possibility seems also to be
a threat to the farmer, what about the
prospect that even starches and sugars
and fats may come out of our oil wells?

Clean hits, no losses are provided by
a new metal golf tee. It has an arm,
free to spin, on end of which the
ball’s teed.

 

June 5, 1935

Skins for Cars

In Michigan, industrial companies
are trying out a new stunt for protect-
ing highly finished assembly parts,
newly finished automobile bodies, and
any iron or steel which needs to be
guarded against rust until used, The
stunt is to spray or brush or dip with
a special rubber solution.

The startling «result is to give the
item, be it a piston pin or be it a com-
plete automobile, a rubber housing
which can later be peeled off in a singie
sheet as easily as the transparent cellu-
lose wrapping from a candy bar!
Sounds funny, but it’s true.

Somewhat more than skin deep,
however, is another kind of surface
protection announced in May as ready
for practical use. This is a process
which, it is said, will absolutely pro-
tect wood from warping or shrinking.
First, the water content of the wood is
expelled by a solvent; this is the part of
the process which “licked” the problem.
The second step is to replace the solv-
ent with melted wax.

Golfers and tennis players are among
those who will benefit; but big changes
are also expected to result in the field
of furniture, which may soon be ex-
pected to have a finish which will last
“forever.”

—_2++___
Birth

Significantly and forcefully the be-
ginning, Everything that is beautiful,
bright and radiant. Simplicity and in-
nocence personified. The birth of the
golden morn escapes from the fullness
of the night and reveals the clarity of
glistening crystal. A babe is brought
forth with tender love and such trust-
fulness as is not wont to falter, The
flower in life’s midst is blooming glori-
ously in splendor, knowing, feeling,
realizing. But as the noon comes and
vanishes unheedingly, quickly follows
the dusk, Clouds gather God calls his
child—and birth is again transformed
into birth.

—_+~--___

If we will live with the determina-
tion to understand this world of ours
and to develop our capacities to the
fullest, our lives will widen in scope
and meaning. We need mental der-
ricks to lift our minds out of deep
ruts of conventionality and_ spiritual
vacuum cleaning which will enable us
to have new mental furniture in every
aspect of our lives, instead of living
in just three rooms of our minds. A
healthy curiosity and an ever-expan-
sive attitude toward the world will en-
rich life far more than confining creeds
and narrowing rituals—John Walter
Houck.

—>>>—___

To-day is your day and mine, the
only day that we have, the day in
which we play our part. What our
Part may signify in the great whole
we may not understand, but we are
here to play it, and now is our time.
This we know: it is a part of action,
not of whining. It is a part of love,
not of cynicism. It is for us to express
love in terms of human helpfulness.
This we know, for we have learned
from sad experience that any other
course of life leads toward decay and
waste.—David Starr Jordan.

 

 

 

  

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we RAGS”

We called him “Rags.” He was just a cur,
But twice, on the Western Line,

That little old bunch of faithful fur
Had offered his life for mine.

An all that he got was bones and bread,
Or the leavings of soldier-grub,

But he’d give his heart for a pat on the head,
Or a friendly tickle and rub.

And Rags got home with the regiment,
And then, in the breaking away—

Well, whether they stole him, or whether he went,
] am not prepared to say.

But we mustered out, some to beer and gruel,
And some to sherry and shad,

And I went back to the Sawbones School,
Where | still was an undergrad.

One day they took us budding M. D.’s
To one of those institutes

Where they demonstrate every new disease
By means of bisected brutes.

They had one animal tacked and tied
And slit like a full-dressed fish,
With his vitals pumping away inside
As pleasant as one might wish.

I stopped to look like the rest, of course,
And the beast’s eyes levelled mine;

His short tail thumped with a feeble force,
And he uttered a tender whine.

It was Rags, yes, Rags! who was martyred there,
Who was quartered and crucified,

And he whined that whine which is doggish prayer
And he licked my hand—and died.

And I was no better in part nor whole
Than the gang I was found among,

And his innocent blood was on the soul
Which he blessed with his dying tongue.

Well! I've seen men go to courageous death
In the air, on sea, on land!

But only a dog would spend his breath
In a kiss for his murderer’s hand.

And if there’s no heaven for love like that,
For such four-legged fealty—well!

If I have any choice, | tell you flat,
I'll take my chance in hell.

Edmund Vance Cooke.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

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