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Kntered at the Postoffice of
Rapids under Act of March 3, 1879.

The choir of Beauvais, the nave of

\miens, the pcrtal of Rheims and

the towers of (Chartres would to-

gether make the finest cathedral in

the world, wrote Herr Baedeker in

one of his much-read guide books.
Germany has only cne cathedral
that at

Phat is why she is destroying French

worthy the name Cologne.

cathedrals. Germany looks ahead.

She destroys French cathedrals now

and says it is part of the fortune of
war. But she has a more mercenary
reason. She thinks that after the

War, with all the other srand cathe-
drals in Europe destroyed, the thous-
ands who have come from far parts
of the world to see the cathedrals of
cathedral

It is business. Compare‘

france will @o to see her
at Coloone.
Cologne
with the
amone the

to other cathedrals, the
mediocre, but
it will
cathedrals of the

cathedral is

others gone rank

ereat world.
Centuries of painstaking labor, mil-
lions of dollars and the prayers and

thoughts of millions of human beings

have gone into the building of the
orand edifices which Germans’ can-
non crumble im a few hours. The

famous cathedrals of France

four

are rich in world associations, in the

history of nation and church. [lun-
dreds of little churches mi as many
towns and villages, some hallowed
by as many centuries of worship as

the cathedrals, also have their mem
es. Uhey are being leveled by the

Verdun

}
Or

ruthless

same destroyer.
Nancy, Soissons, Compieone, Arras,
down to the modest houses of wor-

ship in the wayside villages are iu

the list for which there some day

]

must be an accounting.
Of the four famous cathedrals
Rheims was the first to come within

The
of its destruction has been told
The first drive this
within

range of the German artillery.
=tory
again and. again,

spring brought the Germans
shelling distance of Amiens. Already

the big shells and airplane bombs

Grand:

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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1918

have torn gaping holes in its walls

and one has only to
that city,

which four years ago had a_ popula-

pass through

the streets of deserted
tion of 93,207, and to view the empty
and into the
streets, to realize that it is doomed.

houses. crushed fallen

Beauvais is still beyond range of the
cannon, but airplanes can fly over it
in the dark of night. Its cathedral
windows are shattered, and workmen

are removing the famous. carved

caken doors and rich tapestries to

places of safety.
Pans. it
In the light of this knowledge

Chartres is beyond
seems. safe.

, two
things must be done—Cologne must
and decent

be destroyed people

register a solemn
foot on
Speak to) a

everywhere must

vow fnevet to set German

soil, never to German,
never to buy anything from a Ger-
man, never to buy anything made in
Germany, never to read a German
book or sing a German song, never
short,

to utterly obliterate everything Ger-

to listen to Germatt music; in
Tian as lone® as life lasts.

child

taught

And every

and grandchild should be
that

maintained for time and eternity. Af-

this ostracism is to be
ter that we need not worry, for there

will be no Germans in heaven.

 

THE MODERN BORGIA.
Bertha Bloody Bill
and his family own the Krupp works

Krupp. Kaiser
at Essen.

Bloody Bill has
Bertha Krupp the power of life and
death
is meant her 150,000 employes.

conferred = on

“subjects —by which
She

for carrying

over her

has wider opportunity

on secret cruelty and private ven-

geance than any other woman who

ever lived. Evidence is not lacking
that she exercises her prerogative to
She holds

beneath her

the fullest extent. court

in a secret dungeon
palatial home and acts in the capacity
of both tudge and jury, from whose
appeal. She

and the

sentence there is no

tries all kinds of offences
penalty is invariably death.
This

was proclaimed by the

re-establishment of serfdom
Kaiser. At
that this
from the auto-

the same time he stated

ideal condition—ideal
cratic standpoint—would become un-
iversal all over the empire as soon as
the war ended.

The American people should find

a new name for the German word
“kindergarten,” which is too sugges-
tive of blocd and lust to permit its
retention in a country peopled with

freemen and lovers of liberty. Some

may use the word thoughtlessly,
but no true friend of America will
ever again utter any word which

smacks of Germany and her in-

famous people.

WOOL AND WOOLENS.
When it
tion is not

comes to wool the situa-
clear, but it
that
there is not likely to be any dearth
The month
for which data on wool imports are
May. In that
60,000,000 pounds
ihe total imports for the
first five months of the calendar year

quite so

seems to he beyond question

Of raw material. latest

available is month
nearly were im-
ported,

were 212,910,944 pounds, and these
imports are on the increase. The
earlier figures showine there would
be available for use in this country

during the present year at least 1.200,-
000,000
tive.

pounds, are quite conserva-

Nor does it seem likely, from

present indications, that over 750,-
000,000 pounds of virgin wool will be
consumed im the mills, A e¢reater

control by the Government of the

raw) material is shown in the an-
nouncercent that it will do its buying
direct in Argentina, instead of mere-
ly exercising an option to take the
wool on its this

As regards fabrics, a kind of census

arrival in country.
has been taken showing the quantity
made tp. Lhe
reason or none, are not to

figures, for some
be made
public, but frem official quarters it 1s
that
It is certain that there has

declared there are plenty of
fabrics.
been much hoarding of cloths and an
artificial scarcity has been created.
This condition has been at its worst
and it is apparent that it cannot con-
tinue. The
likelihood, be forced to disgorge be-
next light-

filled. It
that no

speculators will in all
fore the needs for the

weight season have to be

is also reasonably certain
excuse for further price advances in

fabrics will be worthy of attention.

 

PHANTOM ARMIES.
Inconsistency being the hobgoblin
of small souls only, it is easy for the
German military critics to speak of
the non-existent American army as
now being driven forward to slaugh-
and unscrupulous

ter by the wily

French. The phrase “like Brusiloft’

eceurs with suspicious regularity;
evidently the word has gone out to
Berlin editors, “play up Brusiloff and
casualties.” “American

and

his terrific

cannon fodder” Gasttalties Of a

"hundred thousand’ are the pre-
scribed tune for the German news
acrobats. If you believe the Salz-

manns and others, the proud German

army has been badly beaten by an

untrained Americans
Senegal and

inconsistency

aggregation of
and black men’ trom
Indo-China; another
which we will not be cruel enough to
that has other
The trick is a
clumsy one, and yet likely to be ef-
fective in its brutal fashion, if the
impression should really go forth that

press On a nation

things to worry over.

 
  
  
 
 
 
  
    
 

Number 1820

rance is now playing for vietory by

sending Americans and “black men”
cheap cannon-fodder—into the
battle, Nearly four years ago the

German press artists began to -peak

of France’s colored troops as if all of
Krance’s own sons were already ac-
counted for or else refused to pay
the toll of

brutal

battle. But it is only the

German mind, so blind to the

elementary moral perceptions, so de
t I

void of humor, that would think of
bringing this charge against a people
hlood tor

fields

danger

that has poured out its

civilization, on its native an.l

wherever the Germanic

threatened—in Belgium, in Italy, in
‘ibania. [1 it
that are
then all the

might of

Servia, in Gallipoh in

is not French arms now

driving the invader back,

more glory to the French

genius which can win victory with

phantom armies.

 

CANNED GOODS SITUATION.

Buyers of canned goods see no rea-
son why they should anticipate their
requirements under prevailing condi
considerations are not

tions. Price

controlling this year and it is, there-

fore, only a question of quantity

Where there has been any anxiety on

this score, as in the case of Maine
corn or early Jume peas or of tuna
fish or canned fruit, hookings have
been sufficient to absorb the output

at once. But as to other ttems such

as Eastern tomatoes, there has been

no anxiety shown and local jobbers,
than
this
this is shown in
$2.10

for instance, have booked less

they have ever done before at

The effect of
the reduction in the price from

time.

which has prevailed for a good part
this
would be

of the time, down to $2 and at

Writine it Seems as if it
difficult

that figure.

for canners to maintain even
Apparently there are
levels beyond which the public will
not go even though prices have been

Foe rl

strikingly

approved by the \dministra-

tion. This has been illus-

trated in the case of sardines which

are now generally quoted 50c below

the maximum price approved by the

Government, with persistent rumors

these figures
this year
that it
1s possible to save as much at 25ce a

f cutting below even

The
than fast

¢

pack is a lareer one

and it is intimated

case by simply skimpine on the
quantity of oil, so that at the present
price of cottonseed oil 25c a case can
be quickly saved.

sweaters is un-
Retail-

demand for

The

changed from the past week.

ers are doing better than they did
some time ago, but there is no par-
ticular snap to the buying, and this

reflected in wholesale and

mill quarters.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

August 7, 1918

 

UPPER PENINSULA.

 

Recent News of the Cloverland of
Michigan.

Sault St. Maric, Ano 5—C. B.
Trowbridge, for the past two years
manager of the Grinnell Bros. music
store here, has been made manager
of the whole copper country district.
Mr. Trowbridge has made many
friends while in the Soo who will re-
gret his departure, but wish him every
success in his new field. He was an
active member of the Soo’s Boosters
Club, which helped much to put grin
into Grinnell Bros.

“The best preparation for a hard
day's work is a good night’s sleep.”

According to reports from St.
Ignace, the good road building is re-
sponsible for much agricultural activ-
ity. With the extension of the road
much clearing is being done and the
land is being put in condition for
crops. The only anxiety felt at St.
Ignace now is the small allotment of
coal to be shipped for that port at the
present time, but with the added
supply of wood caused by the clear-
ing of the land, there is no immed-
iate danger.

The Mackinaw Islanders received
their first visit from a hydroplane
last Sunday afternoon. The entire
population gathered on the beach or
docks, to feast their eyes in wonder-
ment at the monster plane which flew
through the air with the grace and
fleetness of a bird and plowed the
waters as well. The machine was a
Curtis hydroplane, owned and driven
by Mr. Judson, of Muskegon, who
was accompanied by two passengers.
Mr. Judson stated that he had left
Grand Haven Sunday afternoon,
stopping at Harbor Springs and tak-
ing in the town on his way to the
Island, the running time from Grand
Haven to Mackinac being two hours
and forty-five minutes. The trip
from Harbor Springs to the Island
was made in thirty minutes, the dis-
tance being about sixty miles. The
party spent several hours on the
Island, leaving at 6 o'clock for
Charlevoix, where they put up for
the night.

Fishing at the Snows without a
fishing license it not what it is
cracked up to be. One of the guests
at the Islington neglected to get his
fishing license before starting out and
the game warden took him in. He
was, however, let off after parting
with some of his long green, so as to
make the capture as painless as pos-
sible.

The hotel business at the Snows
and Mackinac Island has not been as
good as it might be, but they are
looking for a good trade during
August.

“Hard luck seems to follow some
people because it knows they wont
make much of an effort to get away.”

The Soo Times, for the past seven-
teen years under the management and
ownership of W. H. Ragan, changed
hands last week and was taken over
by the Soo Times Publishing Co., an
organization of well-known local
business and professional men. The
Soo Times Publishing Co. at that
time purchased the job printing office
and business formerly conducted by
Norman L. Martin. The new com-
pany will continue the publication of
the Times and also do a general book
and job printing business as well.
Norman L, Martin will be the man-
aging editor and W. H. Crowe will
be the superintendent of the printing
department. The Times will be con-
ducted as a Republican newspaper
and it will always be a booster for
everything that it believes will be for
the best interests of the Soo and
Chippewa county.

Barish Bros., for the past few years
in the ladies and men’s furnishing
goods business, have outgrown their
present quarters and are making ex-
tensive improvements in their busi-
ness block on Ashmun street. ‘The

 

block formerly contained two stores,
which will be put into one, the par-
titions being torn out and improve-
ments made so that the entire
ground floor will be used by Barish
Bros.

Mrs. Clarke Martin, who for many
years conducted a millinery estab-
lishment at 319 Ashmun street, has
moved into larger quarters at 327
Ashmun street. The new store is
completely remodeled and redecorat-
ed and will be one of the finest estab-
lishments of its kind in Cloverland.

“When opportunity knocks at your
door, do you say “come in” or “call
again?”

L. Burcham, who has conducted a
barber shop in the basement of the
Adams building for some months, has
become associated with Elliott Young
in the same line of business at 507
Ashmun street.

W. B. Robertson, the well-known
shoe repair establishment, has been
moved to 213 Ashmun street, into

Belle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.
LaBelle, of Johnswood, Drummond
Island, became the bride of T. Otto
O’Gorman. After a sumptuous wed-
ding feast, the party enjoyed a trip
around Drummond Island in Mr. La-
Belle’s commodious yacht, Diana.
Many out of town guests were pres-
ent and the young couple received the
congratulations of their numerous
friends, wishing them a bright and
happy future.

The Soo will observe the civic hol-
iday here on Wednesday. The Soo
Driving Club will provide interesting
sport in the form of horse races at
the Chippewa county fair grounds.
Some of the speediest animals in the
country will be entered.

“A defective stomach keeps more
people awake than a _ guilty con-
science.” William G. Tapert.

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Gabby Gleanings from Grand Rapids.

Grand Rapids, Aug, 6—The Wor-
den Grocer Company’s office and

 

As in America?

Can we do less?

And every alien

Of German conquerors?

No! That flag

 

A SACRED TRUST.
Where is the sky so blue, the world so fair

Throughout the length and breadth of this fair land
From golden orange groves to snow clad peaks.
Where eagles wheel their flight, all hearts are one.
United now we stand—the sons of those

Who gave their lives to make our Freedom live.

Will not this sacrifice
But prove our right to bear the honored name
American; but prove our right to stand
Beneath those starry folds so freely flung
O’er rich and poor alike?

Who seeks protection from Autocracy

Finds on these beckoning shores a safer refuge;
Finds what our Fathers came here to establish,
Freedom to worship God in his own way,
While Freedom’s flag waves over all alike—

All brothers, all Americans, all one

In spirit, and in courage and in love.

Shall this dear flag, dyed with the crimson blood
Of Herces, and whose every stripe and star
Means Honor, Justice and Equality,

Be lowered by the filthy blood-stained hands

Which never has gone forth unto defeat
Since it was given us, a Sacred Trust,
Victorious shall go forth across the sea
Victorious shall remain, forever more.

Eleanor Blair Greene.

 

 

larger quarters necessitated by the
increasing business.

Word was received through F. J.
Allison that the well-known Chas.
Hasse, traveler for the National Bis-
cuit Company, has been too busy for
the past three months to send in any
news items, but sent in his card,
“Uneeda Biscuit,” instead.

Among the many business changes
which are recently taking place in the
Soo is that of the Gerry Press, which
expects to move from its present lo-
cation, 201 Ashmun street, to its new
quarters, 213 Ashmun street, which
is being remodeled to accommodate
the new tenant.

John E. Andary, proprietor of the
Soo corner store, expects to move
next week into the new location on
the corner of Portage and Bingham
avenue, which has been remodeled
and put in shape for the opening in
the near future.

We read that Andrew Carnegie re-
cently gave away his seven thou-
sandth organ. I would seem as if he
had only his heart left.

The Dixie garage, formerly known
as the Chippewa Automobile Co., has
been purchased by Booth Bros., who
will continue to conduct it as a re-
pair shop and automobile livery.

Last Wednesday Miss Doris La-

sales force will have a picnic at
Gun Lake. Arrangements for the
entertainment will be in charge of
the men, while the young ladies will
have charge of the eats. We sincere-
ly hope that the eats will not get
any of the young ladies in wrong
with Mr. Hoover. The trip to Gun
Lake will be made by automobile.

E. E. Kraai, who covers Holland,
Muskegon and Grand Haven terri-
tory for the Worden Grocer Com-
pany, is covering his territory with
a new Dedge car. Mr.. Kraai figures
that in this way he will be able to
sell an extra $100,000 worth of mer-
chandise by not having to wait for
trains and interurbans. It has been
said that “a word to the wise is suf-
ficient,” and the author of Gabby
Gleanings wants to impress upon the
mind of every new driver, including
Mr. Kraai, the fact that telegraph
poles and fences are in the habit of
growing very close to the center of
the road.

Tom Remmink, of Graafschap.
wants to correct Gabby Gleanings of
last week. He says the brand new
girl is a boy. It is the opinion of the
suthor of Gabby Gleanings that Mr.
Remmink ought to have been in
nossession cf this information in the
first place,

E. J. Hart, who has charge of the
tea department of the Worden
Grocer Company, and has. been
spending the last three weeks taking
the baths at Mount Clemens, is back
on the job again. If Mr. Hart feels
as good as he looks, the writer can
see no reason why he should not
live to enjoy the privileges of life
and good health for a good many
years to come.

The date set for the big U. C. T.
doings is Sept. 7. All members of
No. 131 please watch the calendar
and the Tradesman.

Arthur Cox, who was formerly in
business on the West side, has made
arrangements to open a first-class
grocery store at 45 Ionia avenue.
Mr. Cox expects to begin doing
business about Sept. 1.

John D. Martin is justly proud of
the work done by his band of “wifll-
ing workers for the Red Cross” (his
daughters Carolyn and Esther, and
their two chums, Catherine Sullivan
and Esther Akeley). John bought
for his two girls a couple of the
Naper swagger knitting bags that
have been on sale for some time at
different places in the city, and talk-
ed it over with the girls about mak-
ing some, and canvass the different
furniture buildings during the July
market, and turn the proceeds in to
the Red Cross. The girls agreed,
and the next thing was to get all the
materials furnished, so the entire
proceeds could be handed over to
Mrs. F. J. Perkins, of the Red Cross.
A call on Mr. S. J. Hufford, of the C.
W. Mills Paper Co., resulted in “Sol”
delivering a large bundle of bags, the
size required. Mr. McBurney, of the
Michigan Seating Co., was appealed
to, and a supply of heavy paper cord
for the handles was the result. Then
Will Hine, of the Bixby Office Sup-
ply Co.. loaded the “willing workers”
with library paste to stick the pic-
tures on the bags. The veranda of
the Martin home for the next few
days was the scene of much activity,
cutting out and sticking the pictures
on the bags. “But how are we go-
ing to put the handles on?” was the
girls’ quandary. So away went John
and the girls to see Roy Randall, of
the Tradesman. “Sure,” said Roy,
“we'll put ’em on.” Through the
courtesy of the managers of the
Furniture Temple, Keeler furniture
exhibition building, the Furniture
Exposition Building, the Manufac-
turers Building, and the Furniture
Exchange. the girls were allowed tc
go through each building, with the
result that $60 was turned over to
Mrs. Perkins. The girls are still
making bags, for their objective point
is $40 more to get from the sales
they expect to make, which will
make their doing their bit for the
Red Cross an even $100.

Mrs. Homer Bradfield has so far
recovered from her recent illness as
to be able to accompany Homer on
some of his territory in the auto this
week.

Dr. C. M. Taylor, Supreme Sur-
geon, and Charles A. Hebbard.
Supreme Auditor of the United Com-
mercial Travelers, were in Grand
Rapids on official business last week.

Some of the signs we see in our
travels read like this,

Go to Heaven for Flowers.
Charles Heaven,
Florist,

Benton Harbor, Michigan.
We Feed the Babies.

Barlow Bros.,
Dairy,
St. Joseph, Michigan. :

Clothes cleaned and repaired in

the rear.
(A Grand Rapids Sign.)
U. Ketchum & I, Cheatum,

Clothiers,

Halstead St., Chicago, III.
“The Irishman and the Jew”
(Joy & Netzorg)

Kalkaska, Michigan. :
Take this car to the House of David.

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(Sign on a street car in Benton Har-
bor, Mich.)
O. B. Joy,

Undertaker,
Lansing, Mich.

Walter S. Lawton left Sunday
night for the Upper Peninsula where
he will spend a month calling on the
trade of the Dr. Miles Medical Co.
in that territory. This is the first
time Walter has crossed the Straits
for twenty years. The territory is
ordinarily covered by the Wisconsin
representative of the house, but he
has been transferred to Iowa tem-
porarily and Walter has had the up-
per Peninsula added to his bailiwick.

Claude R. Lawton has returned
from Chicago, where he consulted a
distinguished specialist regarding his
condition... The decision is that. his
trouble is due to an infection back of
the eyes, which can be reached only
by an operation through the mouth
and nose, Dr. Welch is in charge of
the case and will see that Claude has
the best attention that surgical skill
can command.

William Cooper, who purchased
the Phenix Hotel, at Edmore, May 1,
has thoroughly renovated the prem-
ises. He has redecorated and re-
furnished the hotel complete, making
a house which the most fastidious
commercial traveler will appreciate.

George V. McConnell (W. H. Hill
Co.) had more fun than a box of
monkeys one day last week when he
undertook to buy $100 worth of
Thrift stamps from each one of
ten different booths on the street.
The consternation of the young
ladies in charge of the booths over
their inability to avail themselves of
Mr. McConnell’s prodigality was a
sight to behold.

Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Dooley have re-
turned from a three weeks’ auto trip
through Ohio, Indiana and Michigan.
They report a nice trip through a
splendid agricultural country, grow-
ing mostly corn, oats and wheat. The
crop yield is the best in a half dozen
years in Ohio and Indiana. They
covered about 1.000 miles and made
short stops at Detroit, Cedar Point,
Sandusky, Dayton and Ft. Wayne.
John reports remarkable good roads
in Ohio and Indiana, but has not
much to say about. the Michigan
roads.

Allen F. Rockwell, with the Brown
& Sehler Co., and wife and son, Ber-
tron. have been spending two weeks
at Beachwood Resort, Wall Lake.
While there they entertained Dr. and
Mrs. R. Hanson De Coux,. of Grand
Rapids, for a few days. Rocky also
got into close communication with
the finny tribe. According to Mr.
Rockwell's observations, it is a tribe
of dwarfs which inhabits most of the
lakes and rivers of Michigan. Mrs.
Rockwell broke all records for catch-
ing bullheads. while Rocky special-
ized on dog fish. D. F. Helmer.

—~+-.____
Housewife Solves Sugar Supply.
The problem of Hooverizing on

sugar has been solved by at least one
Yakima (Wash.) housewife. She
measures out the family’s sugar sup-
ply for the week, dividing each mem-
ber’s share .in jelly glasses. The
glasses are labeled with the name of
the allottee and are used pn the
table in place of the regular sugar
bowl. The scheme has worked suc-

cessfully.
—_—_—_——.-.-o—
Pennsylvania Grocers to Be Denied

Sugar.

Forty grocers in Reading and
Berks, Penn., for failure to apply for
their sugar certificates before July
15, the day on which expired the time
given by the Government for that
purpose, will receive no more sugar
after Aug. 1, probably for the dura-
tion of the war.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Pay Nothing More and Stand Pat.

Kalamazoo, Aug. 5—We read with
interest an article in last week’s is-
sue of the Tradesman relative to the
case of Donald Richards Co. vs. Mr.
Venema.

We also are one of their victims,
and after realizing that we had been
misled, we endeavored to get out of
it by refusing to make payment of
the notes; but as we did not desire
to get into trouble by going to the
expense of a lawsuit, we have paid
some of the notes as they have ma-
tured.

Our case is exactly as put up to
Mr. Venema, word for word, and af-
ter reading this article, we would like
to ask you for advice.

We still owe $37.20, but as it is
like pulling teeth to pay this, in view
of the court’s decision, is it advisable
to pay the balance or is there a way
out of paying and getting a refund?

We have the goods still on hand.
but they are no good. They do not
sell.

We would very much appreciate
any advice you could give us in this
matter, as we feel we are simply pay-
ing out money for something which
is a fake. M. Ruster & Sons.

The advice of the Tradesman

would be to pay nothing more and
stand pat. In face of the remarkable
decision of the Michigan Supreme
Court, pubfished verbatim in last
week’s paper, no lawyer of character
or standing will undertake to prose-
cute a case for the Iowa City fakers.

So far as a refund is concerned,
that would be a difficult matter un-
less some member of the house could
be caught in Michigan long enough
to obtain service. Until the effect of
the sweeping decision obtained by
Mr. Venema wears off and is forgot-
ten, it is safe to say that no member
of the concern will darken the thres-
hold of this State.

——+22>__
Sugar Card Only Check on Greedy
Germans.

A general dealer in a town less
than a dozen miles from Grand
Rapids writes the Tradesman as fol-
lows:

Aug. 3—I read with interest the let-
ter published in the last Tradesman
from a merchant who is located in
the center of a strong German settle-
ment. I am situated in identically the
same position as he is and can heart-
ily corroborate all he says reeardine
the unpatriotic attitude of German
farmers in general. I honestly be-
lieve there are twenty German farm-
ers within five miles of my store who
have at least 100 pounds of sugar
apiece hoarded in their homes. They
buy 5 pounds of my peddling wagon,
5 pounds of my neighbor’s peddling
wagon and 5 pounds from the ped-
dler who goes by from the next town.
They slip over to neighboring vil-
lages every Saturday night and pur-
chase 5 pounds from every dealer
who will let them have sugar. Then
they boast about the way in which
they have beaten Hoover at his own
game!

I am half German myself, but 1
thank God I am not ALL HOG and
that the half of me which is not Ger-
man is enough in the ascendency to
Drevent my being a liar and a traitor
to my country, as most of my Ger-
man customers have proven to be.

My experience in living up to the
Hoover rulings leads me to the same
conclusion the Tradesman is com-
mitted to—that the only practical
method of shutting off the piggish
tendencies of the German farmer is
the county sugar card. Of course,
crooked Germans who ape the dis-
honest methods of the Kaiser will
find some way to beat the card sys-
tem, but the restriction will act as a

check to some extent, at least, and
prevent such a large accumulation of
surplus sugar in the hands of con-
sumers.
Blcody Bill Hanged By Detroit
Grocers.

Detroit, Aug. 5—At Tashmoo Park
last Wednesday afternoon, after a
fair and impartial trial, at which W.
J. Cusick was judge and M. J.
Maloney foreman of the jury, Kaiser
William of Germany was sentenced
to be hanged and his execution in
effigy and in full military uniform was
carried out amidst impressive and
solemn ceremonies. Following the
obsequies, some fifteen hundred men.
women and children who were pres-
ent joined in singing “Over There”
and “The Star Spangled Banner.”

An essay contributed by Roy R.
Fuller, of 111 Bethune avenue. con-
taming five reasons why the kaiser
should be hanged, was read during
the ceremony. This essay, which won
the first prize of $25, was as follows:

1. The Kaiser should be hanged
because he started this world war
and has been the cause of the death
of hundreds of thousands of men. In
some states a man is hanged when he
commits one murder. The kaiser
therefore certainly deserves the
same fate.

2. Because he hasn’t got sense
cnough to see that his cause is hope-
less, nor to see the advisability of
giving up the struggle. Our Sam-
mies, however, are going to make
him do it anyway.

3. Because he is inhuman and no
such inhuman monster should be al-
lowed to remain on earth. He should
be sent straight to his rightful throne
alongside of satan.

4. Because he tries to justify him-
self with God for all his terrible acts.

5. Because he isn’t worth wast-
ing powder on and a rope being
cheaper is, therefore, the best way.

Clarence A. Day.
—— +2 >___

Uncle Sam Will Use a Blacklist.

Washington, Aug. 6—My attention
having been called to instances of
discrimination against soldiers inthe
prices charged in retail stores, |
directed a Nation-wide enquiry into
this subject, with the following re-
sults:

At most places no discrimination
was found. At many points there is
a more or less marked tendency to
give disccunts to soldiers. Instances
of discrimination were found. al-
though, as a rule, not among the best
class of dealers. Apparently the
most frequent discriminations occur
in articles of necessity for officers.

The results of the examination
which are before me show identical
articles sold to civilans at one price
and to soldiers at a higher price, the
difference sometimes being as great
as 50 per cent. against the soldier.

Conduct of this kind can not con-
tinue, I think, in any community in
this country, if brought to the atten-
tion of the people there. I have ac-
cordingly directed by general order
each camp and post commander in
the United States to cause from time
to time fresh examinations into this
matter, and to post on the bulletin
board for the information of. all

soldiers the names of such shops and
dealers as are found discriminating
against soldiers and officers; and to
hand to the president of the chamber
of commerce in each city, and to the
editors of the local newspapers,

copies of such lists.

Newton D. Baker,
Secretary of War.
—_>---~>____

Food Lessons in Department Stores.
Department stores in many of the
large cities have called on home de-
monstration agents to assist them in
giving instruction in food conserva-
tion to their customers and em-
ployes. In stores special
rooms have been equipped where de-

some

monstrations are given and literature
distributed. Attractive booths have
been set in the aisles of others where
exhibits of war cooking are shown
and recpes are given out. The
agents have worked with the window
decorators in planning
hibits. In

window ex-
many places wheat su)b-
stitutes have been featured in demon-
purchaser has
recipes and_ in-
them. Classes
for employes after hours have been
arranged. In

each
with

and
supplied
structions for

straticns,
been
using
some cities the agent
meets these groups regularly every
week.
——_22->___

Agents Help Bakers and Hotel Men.
hotel and
managers cf institutions are coming
agents for
with conservation prob-
The community kitchens and
liberty bread shops are well patron-

Bakers, men, grocers,
to home-demonstration
help
lems.

their

ized by these business men, who need
to conform to. the
regulations, At

expert advice

Government's food
one of the bread shops in Springfield,
Mass., ass‘stance has been given to
matrons from both Smith College and
Mornt Holyoke. In Owego, N. Y.,
the county home demonstration agent
has gone into the kitchen of one of
the hotels where she has given her
personal help to the cooks in teach-
ing them how best to follow the lat-
est conservation recipes.
—_~+2>+___
Commend Sunday Farm Work.
Judges in Tennessee have refused
to punish persons accused of work
on farms on Sundays, but have com-
mended them for so doing. This was
reported to the Department of Agri-
culture's labor confer-
ence in Not long
ago the rural churches of Indiana, in
a conference at Purdue University,
took the position that it is quite right
and prcper to do farm work on Sun-

recent tarm
3irmingham, Ala.

day if that Sunday work is necessary
to produce food crops to help whip
Germany.

 

E. P. MILLER, President

Wm. Alden Smith Bldg.

 

F. H. HALLOCK, Vice Pres.

FRANK T. MILLER, Sec. and Treas

Miller Michigan Potato Co.

WHOLESALE PRODUCE SHIPPERS
Potatoes, Apples, Onions

Correspondence Solicited

 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

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Movements of Merchants.

Hudson—J. H. Gooder, recently of
Stanton, has engaged in the grocery
business.

Jackson—The Wolverine Laundry
Co. has changed its name to the
Moon Laundry Co.

Holland—The First State Bank of
Holland has increased its capitaliza-
tion from $50,000 to $100,000.

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has
sold his stock of groceries and bazaar
goods to Albert Coffin, who has taken
possession.

Detroit—The Macauley-Temple Co.,
dealer in men’s furnishing goods has

Fowlerville Hagerman

increased its capital stock from
$3,000 to $5,000.
Ishpeming—Thieves entered the

shoe store of Ed. Trondson, on Sec-
ond street, July 30, carrying away
but little stock or money.
Scottville—The Scottville Produce
Co. is building an addition to its plant
which will enable it to add at least
sixty employes to its pay roll.
Hamtramck—The Liberty State
Bank has been incorporated with an
authorized capital stock of $100,000,

all of which has been subscribed.
Corunna—M. W. Grant. dealer in
general merchandise, has removed

his stock to the Patterson building,
at Owosso, and. will the
business.

Ishpeming—K. Rosberg & Co. have
purchased the Henrickson business
block and will occupy it early in the
fall with their stock of meats and
groceries.

3ig Rapids—The Hardy Bros. Pro-
duce Co. has been incorporated with
an authorized capital stock of $20,-
000, of which amount $10,000 has been

continue

subscribed and paid in in cash.

Kalamazoo—Thieves entered the
book and stationery store of Beecher,
Kymer & Patterson August 1 and
carried away considerable stock and
the contents of the cash register.

Detroit—Fried Steam Laun-
dry has been incorporated with an
authorized capital stock of $20,000.
all of which has been subscribed and
paid in, $5,000 being in and
$15,000 in property.

Bros.

cash

Cedar Springs—J. A. Skinner now
occupies three store fronts with his
drug, paint and crockery stock. He
has one of the most ccmmodious and
completely equipped stores of the
kind in Northern Michigan.

Detroit — The Struthers-Ziegler
Cooperage Co. has been incorporated
with an authorized capital stock ot
$75,000, of which amount $50,000 has
been subscribed and paid in, $7.377.19
in cash and $42,623.81 in property.

Detroit--The Specialty Sales Co.
has been organized to manufacture,

repair and sell general mechanical
and other specialties, with an author-
ized capital stock of $1,000, of which
amount $500 has been. subscribed,
$100 paid in in cash and $150 in prop-
erty.

Manistee—Violation of the food
rule which provides for the sale of a
pound of substitute for every pound
of flour has resulted in the closing
of the grocery store of Michael Krus.
This is the second Manistee grocer
who has been penalized for the vio-
lation of this rule.

Lansing—Alex Kaperonis, proprie-
tor of the Lansing cafe, on South
Washington avenue, in a_ signed
statement filed with the State Food
Administration, acknowledges that
his restaurant has been serving beef
on different occasions more than one
meal during the day, which is a vio-
lation of a bulletin issued to all pub-
lic eating places from the state office
July 15, limiting the use of beef to
one meal a day. Kaperonis agreed
to the payment of a fine of $25 which
will be turned over to the Red Cross.
In explanation of the violation of the
ruling Kaperonis said the ruling
simply slipped his mind and that only
July 30 he informed his chef that beef
could not be served only at one meal
each day.

Manufacturing Matters.

Hillsdale—The Augusta Basket Co.
will remove its plant here and con-
tinue the business.

Harbor Springs—Mr. Anderson,
former manager of the Delton cream-
ery, has opened a creamery here un-
der his own name.

Owosso—Paul Siess, cigar manu-
facturer, has taken over the Joseph
Hecht cigar factory and will consoh-
date it with his own.

Detroit—The Reinhold Manufac-
turing Co.. manufacturer of machin-
ery, has changed its name _ to
the Turner-Messenger Manufactur-
ing Co

Sparta—The Indiana Condensed
Milk Co, has purchased the Sparta
plant of the Grand Ledge Milk Co.
and will use it to produce the Wil-
son brand.

Manistee—The Filer Fiber Co. is
planning the erection of a large ad-
dition to its plant. It has increased
its capitalization to care for the in-
crease in business.

Ironwcod—The Universal Auto
Co. has been incorporated with an
authorized capital stock of $30,000, all
of which has been subscribed and
paid in in property.

Detroit—The Mau Co. has been in-
corporated to manufacture, buy and
sell furs and fur garments, with an

authorized capital stock of $25,000,
all of which has been subscribed and
$316.22 paid in in cash.

Kalamazoo—The D'Arcy
Co. has purchased the stock
equipment of the Braveman Spring
Co., of Peoria, Ill, and will remove
it to its plant here.

Detroit—The E-Z Cut Tapp & Die
Co. has been incorporated with an
authorized capital stock of $10,000,
all of which has been subscribed and
$5,000 paid in in cash.

Detroit—The Helen Elizabeth
Beauty Shop has been incorporated
with an authorized capital stock of
$2,000, $1,000 of which has been sub-
scribed and paid in in cash.

Spring
and

ee
Whalemeat Cannery.

Captain F. G, Dedrick has recently
purchased from the canning machin-

ery manufacturing plants at San Jose,
Cal., a full equipment for the whale
meat cannery at Moss Landing, near
Watsonville. The captain placed a
contract for $20,000 worth of machin-
ery. He states that the select part
of the meat of the whales captured
will be canned and the rest of the
giant mammals will be used for oil,
fertilizing, etc. Captain Dedrick is
attached to the United States Army
and his address is Presidio, San Fran-
cisco.

_—— Oo
Going After the Kaiser.
The following is posted on
door of a deserted cabin in
County, Oregon:
There’s potatoes in the wood-shed,
There's flour in the bin.
There's beans a-plenty in the cupboard,
To waste them is a sin.
Go to it neighbor if you’re hungry!
Fill up while you've a chance,
For I'm going after the Kaiser,
Somewhere over in France.

the
Coos

Manufacturers of woolens and
worsteds who have given thought to
the extensive use of substitutes in
their civilian goods to save wool and
maintain their machinery in operation
for a longer time on a given supply
of virgin stock, hesitate to take ac-
tion which might flood the market
with low-grade goods. It seems
likely that such goods in stock will
Icse value after the war more quickly

than all-wool fabrics. They under-
stand that distributers have enough
cloth now on hand to clothe the

civilian trade well into next year, and
they believe that the market would
benefit if these stocks were reduced
and not replenished at once.

One of the Federal Railroad Re-
‘ional directors for the Middle West
has issued instructions that the miles
of sweet clover along the right-of-

way of the various lines under his
jursdiction shall not be cut. this
summer. He wants to help the bees.

They are the best sugar conservers
we have. and work all day without
salary. Sweet clover is not only a
storehorse of honey, but a valuable
producer of humus, acting as a re-
storative to worn-out land, and grow-
ing in the most arid spots. where it
drives out even sunflowers and rag-
weed.

President Wilson’s expression of
imterest in a new effort to obtain Fed-
eral control of child labor is a good
omen for Congressional legislation

August 7, 1918

to that end. Some measure drawn
to meet the objection of the Supreme
Court is sure to be introduced. With
Administration support it is sure to
pass. It has been suggested that
Congress impose a heavy excise tax
on goods made with the labor of
children; the Supreme Court has al-
ready decided in favor of the consti-
tutionality of such an excise. An act
drawn upon the lines of the Webb-
Kenyon Act to limit the transporta-
tion of intoxicants might attain th:
desired end, Certainly, ihe spirit o/
the times will not wait upon laggard
States to stop the industrial abuse of
children.

—_23>___
The size of our army in France is

a subject of never ending wonder and
pride to the ordinary citizen. He is
amazed at the great accomplishment
and he is prone to boast. grandilo-
quently about it, but he doesn’t know
a thing about how it is done. The
unassuming branch of the national
service which is responsible is the
Army Transport Service, backed up
by the navy. A million and a half
men sent three thousand miles over-
seas in fifteen months with the loss

of less than 300 is a_ surpassing
record.
by Gen. Foch. The German High

Command boasted that it had made
trench-warfare a thing of the past,
had restored the warfare of
maneuvers. Well, it is the French
army that is doing the maneuvering
at present. If it is now a campaign
of strategy, the French have got the
great strategist. He is delivering
blows that are telling and that must
be in accord with a far-reaching plan
Already he has garnered great re-
sults, and the promise mounts higher
with each day’s news.

and

—_-_+-2
Underwear mills are still waiting
for yarn prices to be announced by
the Government and their absence is
continuing to hold up action on
spring 1919 underwear. Some men’s
union suits have been opened bur
this is all that has been done and
all that is liable to be done. until
some definite announcement has been
made as to future yarn prices by the
Government.

—o—->—__
Additional lots of linens were land-
ed in this country last week and im-
porters are regarding each receipt oi

goods as the last they can count
upon. The market here is quiet. Re-
tailers have fair stocks and dis-

tributers as a class are awaiting th:
results of price fixing in other lines
of textiles.

sweaters have been ou!
long enough to have had a fair tesi
and the stretched out condition o:
some that have been worn but
short time is proving to be about th«
best argument against them that i!
is possible to obtain. Even as a fai
they did not materialize to any ex-
tent.

Ribbon

——~---.—___

One thing certain in merchandise is

that the store that keeps something

doing all the time. does not have to

worry about what the other stores are
doing.

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Review of the Grand Rapids Produce
Market.

Apples—Red Astrachans command
$1.50 per bu.; Transparents, $1.75 per
bu.: Dutchess, $1.50 per bu.

Bananas—$6.50 per 100 Ibs.

Beets—$1.25 per bu.

Butter—The market has been active
with a good consumptive demand.
The quality arriving is good for the
season. The market is in a healthy
condition at the present basis of
quotations and not likely to change
in the immediate future. Local deal-
ers held extra fancy creamery at 43c
for fresh. They pay 38c for No. 1
dairy in jars; they also pay 30c for
packing stock.

Cabbage—$4 per large crate and
$2.50 for medium.

Cantaloupes—California and Ari-
zona standards, $4.50 per crate:
ponies, $4 per crate; flats, containing
10 to 12, $2; Hearts of Gold from
Jenton Harbor are now in market,
commanding $4.50 for standards and
$2 for flats.

Carrots—$1.25 per bu.

Cauliflower—$1.75 per crate of 8 to
10 heads.

Celery—35c per bunch.

Cucumbers — Home grown _ hor
house command 7c per dozen for
No. 1 and 60c per dozen for No. 2.

Eggs—The market is firm, at prices
ranging the same as last week, with
a good consumptive demand. The
quality arriving is good, considering
the warm weather and the receipts
are being cleaned up on arrival. The
market is in a healthy condition and
no change is looked for during the
coming week. Local dealers pay 38c
for No. 1 candled, cases included, de-
livered in Grand Rapids.

Grape Fruit—$3.40@8.75 per box
for all sizes Floridas.

Green Corn—30c per doz.

Green Onions—18@20c per dozen
for home grown.

Green Peas—$2 per bu. for home
grown.

Green Peppers—$4 per 6. basket
crate; $1.85 per 4 basket crate.

Honey—22c per lb. for white clov-
er and 20c for dark.

Lemons—California selling at $9.50
for choice and $10 for fancy.

Lettuce—Garden grown, - 75c’ per
bu.; home grown head, $1.25 per bu.

Nuts—Almonds, 21c per Ib.; _ fil-
berts, 20c for Grenoble; Brazils, 18c;
Mixed: nuts, 16'4c.

Onions—Louisiana and California
are both sold on the basis of $4.25
per 100 lb. sack.

Oranges—California Valencias, $9
per box.

Peaches — Early Carmans from

3enton Harbor fetch $4 per bu.; Tex-
as Elbertas command $5 per bu.

Pieplant—$1 per bu.

Potatoes—Home grown find ready
ssle on the basis’ of $2 per bu.; Vir-
ginia fetch $3.50 per 100 Ib. sack and
#6 per 11 peck bbl,

Radishes—15c per dozen for home
grown hot house.

Spinach—$1.25. per bu. for home
grown.

Summer Squash—$2 per bu.

Sweet Potatoes—$4 per 50 Ib.
hamper.

Tomatoes—Home grown hot house,
65c per 7 Ib. basket.

Water Melons—$5 per bbl.
taining 10.

Wax Beans—Home grown, $2 per
bu.

Whortleberries—$4 per 16 qt. crate.

con-

Four Omiss‘ons Last Week.

The following county food admin-
istrators were unintentionally omit-
ted from the list published last week
hy the Tradesman:

Charlevoix — Frank
Boyne City.

Kent—Guy W. Rouse, Grand Rap-
ids.

Thompson

Montcalm — Wm. H. Bradley,
Greenville.

St. Joseph—Wm. C. Van Ness,
Sturgis.

Mr. Prescott has not not yet made
an appointment for Livingston coun-

ty.
Charles H. Sherbrook has been
appointed administrator for Benzie
county.

——_2++.___

“Pacifying disgruntled customers by
mail is not always easy to accom-
plish,” says one manager in charge of
sales by mail, “but a great stride can
be made in this direction by a sym-
pathetic admission early in the let-
ter. For instance, if a letter to a ruf-
fled customer begins with: ‘It cer-
tainly must be exasperating to you,’
or some such admission, the customer
may be won over to a more pleasant
mood. The secret of it is that by
showing sympathy with the customer
a basis of mutual understanding and
good will is established, even if no
actual adjustment can be made.”

—_2-.__

John L. Lynch has contracted to
conduct a fifteen day reduction sale
for the Boston Store, at St. Louis.
The stock, which comprises staple
and fancy dry goods, inventories
about $65,000.

— +>

Lots of salesmen talk too much, but
the salesman who says too little never
sells any goods that aren’t asked for,
If you know what the happy medium is,
try to educate your clerks to it,

The Grocery Market.

Sugar—There is a decidedly quiet
market for refined sugar. There now
seems to be no doubt that consump-
tion in household canning and pre-
serving will require a very much
smaller quantity of sugar than had
been estimated, as, except in locali-
ties where fruit is plentiful and rela-
tively cheap, it cost, combined with
that of glass jars, come close to pro-
hibitive figures and tends to dis-
courage extensive home preserving
operations. Later in the season when
local crops mature and prices recede
somewhat, this condition. will, no
doubt, be modified to some extent,
but there now seems to be little rea-
son to believe that necessity for
economy in other directions will be
appreciably influenced by the diver-
sion of any very considerable part of
the available supply to this purpose.
The Government seems disinclined to
give the refiners any more profit at
present.

Tea—Summer dullness is in full
control of the market and develop-
ments are entirely routine
lines. The only business in progress
is of the filling-in order, distributers
manifesting no inclination to antici-
pate requirements to the smallest ex-
tent. No pressure is used by holders
to increase the movement, as it is
realized that nothing is to be gained
thereby, and as spot holdings in most
varieties outside of Javas, Indias and
Ceylons are at a low ebb, the general
tone of the market is decidedly firm.
In new crop teas for forward deliv-
ery trade is equally slow, but there
is nothing in the outlook to warrant
the expectation, is such is entertained
by buyers, that anything will be
gained in the way of price conces-
sions by the withholding of orders
until later.

along

Coffee—The market is unchanged
and still dull. All grades of Rio and
Santos rule on the same basis as a
week or two ago, and the demand is
confined to actual wants, all specula-
tion having been eliminated. There
seems to be no reason for any ad-
vance in coffee, although there may
be a decline a little later.

Canned Fruit—Wtih prices with-
drawn for new pack and with spot
offerings pretty well cleaned up there
is little left of the market, which re-
mains in a nominal position.

Canned Vegetables—Standard No.
3 Maryland tomatoes are quoted
nominally at $2 f. 0. b. factory, but
the chances are that this price could
be shaded if buyers felt like booking
up. Maine corn is quoted nominally
at $2 for new pack, but the price of
$1.75 for Maryland-Maine style is re-
garded as too high and buyers are
holding back.

Canned Fish—Intimations from the

Coast are that red Alaska and pink.

salmon prices will be on the same
basis as last year. Reports as _ to
catch of sockeye are unusually favor-
able for an off year.

Dried Fruit—Activity in dried fruit
is impossible under prevailing cir-
cumstances. Future business was all

over within a few days after it start-
ed and spot business has been held

5
in check by the fact that prices have
been raised very generally to the
basis of the new crop fruit. In the

case of prunes, fr instance, it is rath-
er difficult to figure out just how this
could be successfully accomplished
without transgressing the rules of the
Food Administration. New
prunes this year are 2c to 2%c higher
than they were last year, and yet
dealers say that they are justified in
asking higher prices because the mar-
ket has been selling below a parity
with their cost basis. This might be
true of certain sizes, but in the case
of 40s, for instance, there seems to
be considerable suspicion on the part
of buyers that sellers are trying to
crowd on all the traffic will bear.
There will be a shortage of prunes
this year because of short production
and the heavy requisitions by the
Government. Everything from 50s
been set aside for the
Government, and where the crop last
year was a record one, being estimat-
ed at 230,000,000 pounds, estimates
for the new crop are now down gen-
erally to 130,000,000 pounds. Peaches,
of course, did not have very much of
a chance. With a crop only three-
quarters the size of last year to begin
with and with the Government tak-
ing half of that, there was very little
to go around. Apricots are ordinarily
considered an unimportant crop in
comparison with the others, and have
consequently not been licensed. With
the extra demand to be thrown upon
them through the scarcity of peaches,
an unlooked for speculative oppor-
tunity presented itself and independ-
ents began buying up offerings until
the association decided to withdraw.
Raisins are a good crop and bookings
are liberal.

Sugar Syrups—The market is
quiet, with offerings light. All sales
are made on basis of the fixed offi-
cial quotations.

Molasses—Arrivals are moderate
and are chiefly deliverable on old
orders. Prices are firmly held.

Rice—The scarcity of
comes daily more acute. Not only
are the floors of wholesale dealers
virtually bare, but retailers are now
reported to be running out. No relief
can be looked for until several weeks
have passed and the new crop has
begun to move in quantity adequate
to meet pressing needs of consump-
tion,

Cheese—The market is very firm,
with a good consumptive demand, at
prices ranging from '%4c to %ec higher
than a week ago. The quality arriv-
ing is good and the market is firm on
the present basis of quotations. No
further advance is looked for in the
immediate future.

Provisions — Everything in the
smoked meat line remains steady at
unchanged prices, with a fair
sumptive demand. Pure lard and
compound are both unchanged. Dried
beef, barreled pork and canned meats
are unchanged, with a light demand.

Salt Fish—Mackerel is still com-
paratively scarce and high in price.

—_+-+__
Learning is frequently a drug on the

crop

to 70s has

stocks be-

con-

 

market, while doing always finds ready
buyers.

 

 

 

LATE FOOD RULINGS.

Grocers Must Keep Record of Sugar
Sales.

Lansing, Aug. 1—On account of
the restricted allotment of sugar
from 3 pounds to 2 pounds per capi-
ta per month, the following regula-
tions must be carefully observed:

Sell sugar only to your regular
customers.

If you are not using the card sys-
tem, require a verbal statement from
every buyer, that he has not pur-
chased or has on hand, sugar in ex-
cess of the above ratio; also keep on
file a sales slip or a book record o:
each sale, giving naire ?d Iress. quan-
tity and date. Th’s informzt on must
be kept so that the Federal inspec-
tors may have it for checking when
they call at your place of business.

After this date sell no sugar for
canning and preserving unless the
application or pledge card has been
endorsed by the local Administrator.
This includes the first purchase, as
well as any subsequent purchases that
may be made, and then sell only
when the purchaser needs it for im-
mediate use, and in such amounts as
may be necessary to preserve the
fruit on hand, not exceeding twenty-
five pounds to a family.

Remember that less than half of
the normal canning is being done in
most parts of the State on account of
scarcity of fruit and high prices.

Keep these instructions for future
reference, as any violation will sub-
ject you to the penalties provided.

Geo. A. Prescott,
Federal Food Administrator.

Public Eating Places.

Lansing, Aug.1i—The allotment of
sugar for Michigan for the month of
August has been reduced 33% per
cent. It is therefore necessary for
us to reduce in the same proportion
the allotment to the retailers and the
public eating places.

Under the new allotment~ certifi-
cates for August will be based on an
allowance of two pounds per person
per month.

Restaurants and _ public eating
places will be alloted upon the basis
of two pounds for each ninety meals
served.

Please advise all retail grocers and
all users of sugar that it will be
necessary to hold them to a strict
accounting of all sugar sold or used
by them.

We are enclosing with this Bulle-
tin a letter addressed to all retailers
and same will be sent to them with
their August certificates. This, you
will note, includes the change in the
canning regulations about which we
sent you a telegram, also notice to
the merchants that they must keep
on file sales slip or a book record of
all sugar sales, except when under
the card system.

Geo. A. Prescott,
Federal Food Administrator.

Special Instructions.

Lansing, Aug. 1—The United States
Food Administration advise that the
sugar allotment must be further re-
stricted and that the maximum al-
lowance for each 90 meals is two
pounds instead of three. This cov-
ers all kinds of sugar made from cane
or beets and includes sugar for table
use as well as cooking.

The enclosed certificates cover
your August sugar allotment, in ac-
cordance with the statement which
you filed. Therefore do not ask for
additional certificates, as you have
heen given your portion of the sugar
which we have for distribution.

Sugar for canning must be pur-
chased by you under the regulations.
which requires that the application or
nledve card has to be endorsed by the
local food administrator. This in-
cludes the first purchase not exceed-
ing twenty-five pounds. as well as
any subsequent purchases that may

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

be made for canning or preserving.
Geo. A. Prescott,
Federal Food Administrator.

Cold Storage Eggs.

Washington, Aug. 5—Special Rule
10 is hereby amended to read as fol-
lows:

Rule 10. All trading in cold stor-
age eggs shall serve to move the cold
storage eggs in the direct line of dis-
tribution to the consumer, and noth-
‘ng contained in this or the preced-
ing rule shall authorize any licensee
to use any more indirect method of
distribution than he has been accus-
tomed to use in the past in the dis-
tribut'‘on of eggs. One sale of any
lot of cold storage eggs between
dealers in the same class may be made
where necessary to supply the reason-
able requirements of the buyer's
business, provided a report is made
promptly to the local Federal Food
Administrator, Such sales shall be
made at an advance of not more than
4 per cent. over cost except when
sold by the original storer who shall
sell at not more than 6 per cent. over
cost. If sold by a commission mer-

chant to a wholesaler the commission

shall not exceed 4 per cent.

Except for such sales no licensee
shall sell to another in the same or
any preceding class of distribution
without the written consent of the
local Federal Food Administrator,
which will be given only in extraor-
dinary circumstances. Where such
consent is given the dealer shall not
sell at an advance of more than 10
cents per case over cost, nor in the
case of a commission merchant sell-
ing to a wholesaler shall the commis-
sion amount to more than 10 cents
per case. Provided, however, that
nothing in this rule shall pervent
sales at cost. Provided. further, tha‘
nothing in his rule shall pervent sale:
fer immediate delivery from one city
to another for actual distribution to
relieve exceptional local shortage, but
a report of any such sale must be
promptly made to the local Federal
Food Administrator, with the rea-
sens therefor. Such sales shall be
made at a price not to exceed 4 per
cent. over cost, or if sold by a com-
mission merchant to a wholesaler the
commission shall not exceed 4 pe-
cent: and provided, further, that noth-
ing in the rule shall prevent a com-
mission merchant from acting as an
avent for dealers other than original
shippers and packers, as provided in
Rrle 3.

Special Rule 2 is hereby amended
to read as follows:

Rule 2. The original nacker o-
shipper, storing in a cold storage

warehouse shall not sell cold storage
ezgs to wholesalers at an advance of
more than 6 per cent. over cost. In
case cold storage eggs are stored in
the name of a commission merchant
the original storer shall he deemed
to be the consignor for whom the
commiss‘on merchant acts as agent.
An additional advance not exceedine
4 per cent. of cost may be charged bv
the original packer or shipper in sell-
ing to jobbers or suppliers of hotels
and institutions. An additional ad-
vance may be charged in selling to
retailers, not exceeding 5 per cent. of
cost if sold at mark (i. e., in original
packages), and not exceedine 10 pe-
cent. of cost in selline candled eges
(cost in figuring this 10 per cent. to
he calculated as prescribed in Rule 5)
An additional advance not exceedine
12 per cent. of cost may be charged if
the original packer performs the
functions of a supplier of hotels an4
institutions, as heretofore defined.
Herbert Hoover,
United States Food Administrator.

To Wheat Flour Millers.
Lansing, Aug. 1—The new recula-
tions governing the prices of wheat
flour and wheat mill feeds were ef-
fective July 22. You have received
a copy. Under these regulations you
are entitled to certain margins over

the basic prices.

In selling flour to wholesalers and
retailers you may add a margin of
fifty cents per barrel over the basic
price. In selling to consumers you
may add a margin at the rate of $1.20
per barrel over the basic price.

In selling wheat mill feeds to
wholesalers in less than carload lots
you may add a margin of $1.00 per
ton to the basic price. In selling to
retailers in ton lots or more you may
add a margin of $2 per ton to the
basic price. In selling to retailers in
less than ton lots you may add $3 per
ton to the basic price.

The margins on sales of wheat
mill feeds to consumers are not fixed
by the United States Food Adminis-
tration, but are to be determined by
the Federal Food Administrator for
the State. In Michigan the follow-

“ing regulation has been made:

In sales to consumers in ton lots

or more a margin of $3 per ton over
the basic price may be taken. In
sales of less than ton lots to con-
sumers a margin at the rate of $4
per ton may be taken.
- A miller is not entitled to a job-
ber’s profit, nor any other kind of a
profit, in addition to the margins pre-
scribed, even though he may have a
separate tobbing department.

These pr'ces are for cash sales at
your mill. In making delivery you
are entitled to make a_ reasonable
charge, and are entitled to charge in-
terest on credit accounts. If you
have made any sales of wheat flour

or of wheat mill feeds on any other.

basis than the foregoing specified

margins since July 22 (inclusive) you

will please promptly correct such

iNVO‘Cces. Geo. A. Prescott,
Federal Food Administrator.

—~+2—___
Retail Grocers Want More Profit To
Cover Costs.

Retail grocers are complaining that
the profit margins provided by the
Food Administration, while seeming-
ly adequate when made, are plainly
insufficient to cover the rapidly in-
creasing costs of doing business,
which are estimated to have advanced
from a normal average of 17% per
cent. (on sales) before the war to
probably 23 per cent. or more now.
In various parts of the country de-
mands are growing for a readjust-
ment of the margin.

For instance, a typical grocer in St.
Louis made an analysis of his ex-
penses and found surprising increases.
He employs two meat cutters, who
formerly were paid $20 and $18 a
week, respectively, or a total of $38
a week. He is now paying the same
employes $50 a week, or an increase
of 36 per cent. He employs four
clerks, three of whom received $13 a
week and the one $14 a week, or a
total of $53, whereas he is now pay-
ing that same help $72 a week, an in-
crease of 26.3 per cent.

His ice, which formerly cost 22%
cents, has been advanced to 30 cents.
Paper, has advanced from 334 cents a
pound to 8 cents, meaning an increase
of 114 per cent. Butcher paper has
risen from 3 cents a pound to 6%
cents, Or 108 per cent. He formerly
paid 8 cents for twine, and is now
paying 70 cents, or an advance of 288
per cent. Heat was obtained at a
cost of $3.25 a ton, whereas now the
Same coal costs $6.50. Where horses
are used in delivery, oats formerly
cost 32 cents; it is now 70 cents, al-
theugh a while ago it was 90 cents.
Hay, which formerly cost $18 a ton,
the grocer is now forced to pay $26

August 7, 1918

and repairs are costing upward of 50
per cent. more while insurance on
stock and equipment has been ad-
vanced.

Another retail grocer has had an
expert accountant go over his books
to determine accurately his overhead
expense. Th’s retailer does an annual
business of $60,000 with an expense of
$13,553.96, or 22.59 per cent. The dif-
ferent items were found to show the
following percentages:

Neat 260... 50 0: -.. O27
Labor : 12.22
Delivery wagons ........... 03.

 

Light, heat and power ...... 00.1826
Telephone ~........ s----.-- 0039853
Bad debts ...1.... 1. bees OL
Insurance .......: eee --- 00.2
Shrinkasze |... 7. See -. 00.5
WOO bee 00.5
interest on note ..........-. 00.2
fee see. 00.126
Denations 60). .)50). ---.. 00.06
License and tayea 00.268
Stw., bags, stamps, printing 00.2
Depreciation on fixtures ... 00.125
Interest on investment 00.57
Total per cent. ..... 44.30
In most of the fair price lists es-

tablished by the Food Administration
for such staples as sugar, butter, eggs,
lard, flour, ete., items are priced on a
basis of from cost to less than 10
per cent. gross. However, the Food
Administration on canned goods,
dried fruits, cereals, ranged the mar-
gins from 16 to 30 per cent. On Sugar,
heretofore largely sold in a competi-
tive way at from no profit to 10 per
cent. the allowance is now 9% cents
retail price or 12.6 per cent.

Did Not Borrow to Buy Bonds.

The Federal Reserve Bulletin says
that one of the most encouraging
and gratifying features of the Third
Liberty Loan is that apparently there
has been little use of the bank ac-
commodations for the purchase of
the bonds. It estimates that’ proba-
bly more than 80 per cent. of the
bonds are already fully paid for.

The financial statements of the
various Federal reserve banks indi-
cate that not much borrowing from
the banks was done by the subscrib-
€rs to the third loan. They either
paid cash or bought on the install-
ment plan.

This eases a great deal the burden
of the banks, upon whose shoulders
rests the financing of the business
and industry of the country.

——_ -- 2

The Grand Rapids Hardware As-
sociation held its third annual picnic
last Thursday at Whitefish Lake.
Forty-five gentlemen attended, in-
cluding representatives of the local
hardware jobbers and resident repre-
sentatives of outside jobbers. Din-
ner was served at Hartt’s tavern, af-
ter which base ball, tug of war, fish-
ing, swimming, quoits and other
sports occupied the afternoon hours.
The party went to and from the lake
via automobiles.

Every idle hour helps the Kaiser in
his damnable attempt to enslave the
world. Wherever we are, or what-
ever we are doing, let us-do:our work
a little better.

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August 7, 1918

DOGS AND CATS.

 

Cogent Reasons Why They Should

Be Exterminated.
Written for the Tradesman.

I hope by writing this article to
Start something and maybe I will ii
it catches the eye of any of the food
commissioners, which I truly hope it
will, and that some action be prompt-
ly taken to abate a food leakage and
a public nuisance.

Records in county clerks’ offices
will show’ several thousand dogs
registered and the amount of
revenue to each county derived from
the dog tax; but the number of dogs
taxed falls far short of the actual
number to be found in each county.
In this article I will confine myself
chiefly to city dogs. Nearly every
family that has a dog keeps it as a
pet, that being its sole usefulness,
The time. affection, money and gusn
spilled on some dogs and cats is
thoroughly disgusting. Better far be
devoting it to the care of orphan
children or occupations beneficial to
mankind, The dog fancier is about
the only person who makes a profit
from the breeding of dogs, and the
nearer he can come to a fixed stand-
ard of excellence set for his favorite
breed the better price he can get.
That is good for him, but how about
the purchaser? How much better
off is he with a dog which will score
98 per cent. than if it lacked in
points to the degree of disqualifica-
tion, unless he, like the man from
whom he purchased the dog, wanted
it for breeding for profit? Breeders
of thoroughbred horses, hogs, cattle,
sheep and poultry benefit mankind
by producing stock that greatly ex-
cels common stock, in a_ utilitarian
sense.

But how much better off are we
because of thoroughbred dogs? My
left hand has three scars showing
where the fangs of a pet thorough-
bred Newfoundland lacerated it when
I was a lad of twelve summers. Had
he been a mongrel I think it would
have been quite as comfortable. I’d
as soon be dog meat for a common
cur as for a collie, fox terrier, aire-
dale or bull dog.

The calendar will soon announce
dog days, but before that period ar-
rives, the dog catcher—another
profiteer—will, in most towns, be
notified of someone having been
badly bitten by a rabid dog and then
he will get busy. Dog owners will
get notices to muzzle their pets and
procure licenses where they have
not already done so—generally a case
of locking the barn door after the
horse is stolen.

Then, too, there are unmention-
able ways in which dogs make dis-
gusting nuisances of themselves.

Now I come,-to my mind, to the
most important point. It is the food
question. We are asked to econo-
mize and conserve in every possible
way in the handling and consump-
tion of food and in some cases com-
pelled to do so. The average dog,
be he thoroughbred or mongrel, will
consume about as much food per
diem as a child. The cost of feeding
a dog is equivalent to that of feed-

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

ing a French or Belgian orphan.
How is that, Mr. Hoover? And it is
not all waste from the table the dogs
get. Much of it is food fit for
humans. The part not fit for man-
kind’s consumption could be turned
into hog or poultry food or fertilizer.
Speaking of fertilizer: dogs proper-
ly prepared make excellent plant
food. Dog hides make good leather.
It is to be regretted that their bark
cannot be utilized in tanning their
pelts. I had thought of suggesting
their conversion into weeniewursts,
but I have too much respect, even
for dogs, to place on them such an
od‘ous _ stigma. It smacks too
strongly of pro-Germanism.

A word or two on the country
dog: When father and I went to our
sheep pasture one morning we found
most of our fine flock had been kill-
ed during the night. We found the
dogs that did the slaughtering. They
were a couple of worthless curs be-
longing to a worthless towpath
squatter—the kind of man designated
in the South as poor white trash.
Father always said a poor man kept
a dog and a d—m poor one kept two.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars
worth of sheep are killed annually
in the United States by dogs. Does
the fact that some dogs are useful in
driving up the cows from the pasture
at night compensate for the great
damage that is done to sheep? Many
sheep breeders have given up the
business, having become discouraged
through having their flocks killed off
by dogs.

Lest we forget the canine species
entirely a few .specimens should be
preserved to remind us of the times
we were rudely awakened in the
night from our peaceful slumbers by
some mangy whiffet sitting on his
haunches howling at the moon, or
yelping on the trail of a cat. A few
dogs should be kept as harbingers for
fleas.

Speaking of cats, they, too, should
be consigned to the same phosphate
sack as the dogs. Traps will catch
mice. Cats will catch birds. Be
they Manx cats, Angora cats, Per-
sian cats, or just common scrawny
cats, they will catch birds. For facts
on this point I respectfully refer the
reader to the Audubon Society. Cats
are useful as pets only. They destroy
thousands of birds annually. Could
we know the value of food consumed
by cats annually we would probably
be greatly surprised.

So much against the keeping of
dogs and cats. Now, you dog and
cat lovers, come on with your argu-
ments in fayor of keeping these ani-
mals in our midst, especially in war
times. I say, away with them and
thereby abate a nuisance and con-
serve tons of useful food. As plain-
tiff, I here rest my case, leaving it
to the cool judgment of the courts
and food commissioners to enter a
verdict after the defendants have
filed their evidefce in favor of keep-
ing cats and dogs. B. B. Yankee.

i

Don’t be afraid of over-advertising,
of spending on advertising more money
than you ought to spend—as long as
your advertising is properly hanatea.

 

 

 

 

The War Must
Be Won

We must become so wrapped up in the Con-
duct of the War that no final settlement can be
made in which fundamental justice to all liberty-
loving peoples will not be one of the chief con-
siderations.

Already the efforts of American soldiers have
helped to save France from destruction. Our
greater and continued efforts must make the Safety
secure, and we must do our part in saving America.

Therefore we must, as a race and as indi-
viduals, do everything necessary to the Winning
of the War.

We must buy Liberty Bonds to the full extent
of our means.

We must save and purchase .Steadily Thrift
Stamps and War Savings Certificates.

We must observe the Food Regulations and
help to supply the food needed for our troops and
those of our Allies.

We must give to the Red Cross, the Red Star
for horses, the Y. M.C. A., the Y. W. C. A., the
K. of C. and to all auxiliary efforts of this kind.

There is no Business, no Work more important
than War Work, and no duty greater than our
duty to help in every way possible to Win the

The War Must
Be Won

Contributed to the cause of human liberty by the

WORDEN GROCER COMPANY
GRAND RAPIDS—KALAMAZOO

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

;

ONE YEAR OF FOOD CONTROL.

One year ago next Saturday—on
August 10, 1917—Congress enacted,
and the President signed, the Food
Control law enacted by Congress and
Herbert Hoover, as the President’s
agent, became the Food Dictator of
America. For three months before
that he had been virtually acting as
an official, although he had no legal
status, and his work was carried on
patriotically at his own expense, ef-
fective in large measure because of
an astonishing spirit of co-operation
on the part of the food trades and
the public.

Every one who has had anything
to do with the production and han-
dling of food concedes that food con-
trol has been a great success. The
strange part of it is that it has been
accomplished without any radical
putting out of business of the “wick-
ed wholesaler,” or introducing any
sensational plans of direct trading or
paternalistic store keeping. Mr.
Hoover's success has been chiefly due
to the fact that he early amalgamat-
ed his efforts with the co-operation
of practical business men, who be-
lieved in the fairness of his motives
and were ready to accept him as their
quite as much as the
the long-suffering

own captain
champion © of
housewife.

It is quite as remarkable, after all
this cost cutting, to find the trade
just as solidly behind Mr. Hoover as
they were at,the outset, and there is
little or no complaint because he has
shaved off the “margin” between pro-
ducer and consumer by 13 per cent.
The reason is that he has done it by
emphasizing, so that all could see it,
the distinction between commodities,
service and speculative advances, and
made each element stay in its proper
place, without interfering with legit-
imate operation of the essentials of
production and distribution.

He has not done the impossible.
He has not reduced the high cost of
living, except by eliminating the arti-
ficial values inherent in a rabid oper-
ation of the law of supply and de-
response to excitable and
unbridled public excitement. As a
rule, the strictly functional middle-
man is still in business and paid on
the whole a living and normal profit.
Traders have not, however, been
forced to jump into wild speculative
pits to supply their essential needs,
nor has unintelligent demand or
gambling avarice been allowed to in-
flate prices beyond real value.

mand, in

The one authoritative voice of Mr.
Hoover and his associates, running
back to the “bench-mark” of actua?
cost, plus reasonable service compen-
sation, has stabilized the whole field.
Probably any more radical sweep of
the official axe would have been
fruitless, and would only have re-
sulted in friction that would have de-
feated the ends now accomplished by
“a long pull and a strong pull and
a pull altogether.”

Food trade men who have lately
been in Washington in consultation
with the Food Administration report
that the once common talk about
trimming out profits and eliminating

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

middlemen has given place almost
wholly to a frenzied campaign to
promote larger crops. In other words,
it has dawned on the close observers
that one of the chief causes for the
high cost of living was relative scar-
city of supply far more than a super-
abundance of middlemen. With plen-
ty of supply the incentive for specu-
lative middlemen is reduced to a
minimum and the distributive middle-
man left a fair field to justify the
profit he exacts by actual service
performed,

The process of wiping out specula-
tive trading has forced the grocer
into more or less of a slot machine
existence—performing a definite serv-
ice for a definite and limited profit—
but it has made his place on the
whole comfortable and_ tolerably
prosperous without forcing him to
adopt speculation as a means for
making a livelihood. The sharp trader
may still crave for the good old days
when he could make a clean up by
taking a flyer in sugar or canned
goods, but on the whole he will prob-
ably find his balance of profit almost
as satisfactory, over a period of
years, as when he robbed Peter one
year and paid Paul the next.

Speculation was as much the hoo-
doo of the grocer as it was of the
consumer. The grocer has been wan-
dering helplessly for years, knowing
full well that some day something
must happen. And when Mr. Hoover
came along with a “please help me
win the war” rather than an imperi-
ous “you must,” they accepted him
as a leader in a crisis. He may not
have permanently led them out of a
competitive malestrom into a func-
tional system of well paid service,
but he has steered them into a calm-
er and safer existence.

Nothing proves the soundness of
the Hoover idea, that the most effec-
tive business stimulus in the world is
profit, more strikingly than the way
the farmers are changing front on
crops; seeking those which pay the
most rather than those which the
public needs most but is unwilling to
pay for.

Take the matter of sugar. In the
West whole sections formerly en-
gaged in beet culture have this year
flopped to wheat and corn. In Cuba
and Louisiana sugar plantations are
being plowed up to plant garden
crops, vegetables and seasonable pro-
duce which pays the highest profit.
Farmers in various parts of our coun-
try who were “stung” with an over-
production of potatoes last season
are changing to other things and even
the canning crops are in places suf-
fering from sharp limitation of price,
uncertainties of labor, high cost of
fertilizer, etc.

The canners, too, are reported in
some places as discouraged by the
limited returns likely to come to
them under the sharp regulations of
profit. The Food Administration has
left them a fair margin in the maxi-
mum price, but the fear of violating
the margin rule set up under “Rule
1a” has scared some of them so that
they have preferred to stay out
rather than take the risks. The can-
ner only turns his product and cap-

 

ital over once a year and playing
safe on profits on one side and run-
ning into Uncle Sam as a profiteer
on the other makes life by no means
a bed or roses for him just now.

 

LOOKING TO THE FUTURE.

In most instances, producing estab-
lishments of the larger and important
kind are owned by companies whose
stock is more or less widely distrib-
uted. The corporations are intended
to go on indefinitely, and some of
them have been operating for very
many years. Products turned out by
them have received favorable recog-
nition and have acquired a reputation
for worth in other countries as well
as this, and the good will implied
thereby is as much of a real asset as
is the machinery or other portion of
the plant. To meet increased war-
time needs, the plants have been en-
larged and their capacity increased
by more efficient methods and better
equipment. When hostilities cease
there will be need of finding outlets
abroad for the increased productive
capacity of the mills and _ factories.
Without these outlets, a great deal of
the machinery will have to remain
idle during the part or whole of each
year. Such a condition would add to
the cost per unit of production in
textiles, metals, etc., and tend to keep
up prices to determine consumers, be-
sides provoking a lot of labor dis-
turbances which would further  un-
settle conditions. Now, in order to
be in a position to go on with for-
eign trade, it will be necessary to
keep prices down to the lowest notch
possible, and it is especially desirable
that what shrinkage there be shall
not come suddenly because that
would simply be to invite disaster.
Some unsettlement is bound to result
in the process of readjustment to
normal conditions, and most concerns
are providing reserves to meet the
contingency. But the nearer prices
get to hardpan in the meantime, the
less jar there will be at the finish.

 

 

ADVANTAGE OF SUGAR CARD.
The reduction in the sugar ration
from 3 to 2 pounds per capita per
month went into effect August 1
without friction or opposition. All
accepted the situation gracefully.
One of the good features of the
card is

sugar that it gives every
grocer an opportunity to ascertain

who his regular customers really are
and also enables him to compile an
accurate mailing list of those
buy goods of him regularly. Locat-
ing customers by such designations
asi the “Man with a full beard on
Jones street” or the “woman. who
works for Mrs. Brown two days a
week” is no longer necessary, because
the grocer can compile a list from the
sugar cards he issues which will be
of great value to him in sending out
printed matter and locating those
who have to be looked up because
they do not pay promptly. 3y going
over the list frequently the dealer
can determine whether he is selling
his customers their full quota of tea,
coffee, canned goods and other art:
cles on which the profit is much more
satisfactory than on sugar.

who

August 7,

PRICE FIXING IS FAVORED.

Efforts at price fixing of Many es-
sential commodities, with which the
Government authorities are now con-
cerning themselves, have, as a rule,
been met with ready acquiescence. jf
not with actual favor, by producers.
One reason for this is that the reduc-
tions made have not been Tad-
ical or drastic and that they allow
for profit margins much absve those

obtainable in normal times,

Very

Another
is the recognition by the producers
themselves of the need of checking
the price advances, which had created
a runaway market that was bound to
when inevitable
Values
are a source of peril when a show-
called for. Then, too, an-
other matter had to be taken into
cons deration and this was the reten-
tion, if not the extension, of the ex-
pert trade obtained by the opportun.
ity which the war afforded. It would
not do to have inflated prices when
peace ccmes, and, with it, the trade
competition that is sure to follow. To

end in disaster the

contraction came. Fictitious

down is

some, of course, this is nct a matter
Cne of this latter class,
a manufacturer of textiles,

of concern.
said not
long ago: “When the war is Over, |
will
have made my pile from tne targe

will shut up shop and quit. |

profits I am now getting, and i shal
not care what comes afterward.” This
man, however, represents only a very
small percentage of those engaged in
production.

 

COTTON AND COTTON GOODS.

So far as cotton is concerned, the
principal feature of the last week was
the very pessimistic Government re-
port bringing the condition of the
crop down to 73.6 per cent. as
against 85.8 last month.
a yield of 13,619,000
15,325,000. The change

ascribed to the drought in the grow

This would
indicate bales

instead of

ing districts, with Texas and Louisi
ana especially affected. The general
impression seems to be that the of-
ficial report is certainly net an over-

estimate. Still, it must be borne in
mind that, without exception, the
condition of the ‘crop has always

shown a lowering of percentage af-
ter the August estimate. With the
carry over, there will be available—
if nothing unforeseen
to 17,000,000 of native
This will be more than ample for al!

occurs—close

bales cotton.

needs, even though the shippin:
situation shculd change so as to per
mit greater exports than recently.
The goods market, while showing

some hesitation, because prices have
been fixed on only certain construc
tions and for a short period, was fair-
ly active with many orders made sub-
ject to revision in accord with Gov
ernment prices. It is noteworthy
that the reductions in prices during
the last month did not measure up
to the reduction in the price of raw
cotton, and there is evidently a large
margin of prcfit allowed to the mills.
Less has been heard recently of re-

stricting the supplies for civilian
uses because of pressing Govern-

ment requirements. The capacity of
the mills is regarded as ample for all
needs.

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BENZONIA COLLEGE.

 

Faith of Founders Justified By

Subsequent Events.
Written for the Tradesman.

When Benzonia College was locat-
ed, its founders, being bible students,
very likely had in mind the scriptural
reference to a city set upon a hill
that can not be hid. They could not
have selected a more sightly spot,
nor one better suited to attract stu-
dents desiring to pursue their educa-
tion under favorable conditions amid
the beauties of nature which every-
where abound. The hill commands a
charming view of the surrounding
country diversified by hills and val-
leys, wooded stretches and cultivated
farms. The location affords facilities
for various kinds of recreation, so es-
sential to vigorous mental and phys-
ical development.

Crystal Lake, appropriately named,
about ten miles in length by two
to three in width—said to be the
clearest body of water on the globe
—lies at the foot of the hill or high
rolling table land on which the
school is situated. Here is every op-
portunity for yachting, rowing and
swimming in summer and skating and
ice boating in winter. In many
places the shores of the lake are
bold and densely wooded. <A fine
drive on the beach extends along one
side, connecting Senzonia w th
Frankfort, at the mouth of the Betsy
river, which skirts the Benzonia hills
on the side opposite the lake.

It used to be a favorite expression
of the early settlers, at their meet-
ings in the log school house, at the

time when they were beginning to
make their little clearings in the
woods that the wilderness would

some day bud and blossom as the
rose. They seem now to be enjoying
the fruition of their hopes.

It must have been about the year
1860 when the first settlers began to
come in. The whole country from
Newaygo to the straits of Mackinaw
was then practically an unbroken
forest, abounding in wild game such
as bear, deer, wolves, wild cats, foxes

and many fur bearing animals. The
Indians roamed at will, hunting,

trapping and fishing. In fact, it was

one of their happy hunting grounds. -
There were no roads or highways,

only Indian trails or blazed trails

made by white men, and no bridges

over the many streams which trav-

ersed the region.

Elk Rapids, Traverse City, Manis-
tee, Pere Marquette (Ludington)
Pentwater, Whitehall and Muskegon
were lumber points on a small scale
as compared with what they after-
ward became. The manufacture of
lumber was the only business. There
were no stores except in connection
with the mills and these only to
supply the mill hands. There were
no other inhabitants. There were
abandoned sawmills at Frankfort and
one or two other places on Lake
Michigan. Northport, Goodharbor,
Glen Haven and one or two other
points were wooding stations on
Lake Michigan, where propellers,
which then all burned wood, stopped
on the way up and down the lakes

MICHIGAN

to “wood up.” The wood at these
stations was generally chopped by
Indians or Canadians imported for
that purpose.

There was little or no travel be-
tween the places mentioned except
by water. The country north of
Manistee was known as the Grand
Traverse region, The only means of
communication between the places
in that region and the outside world
was by steamers or sail vessels and
the weekly mail carried on the backs
of Indian ponies from Grand Rapids
over trails through the woods often
times so indistinct and undefined as
to be difficult to follow.

Such was the condition of the
country when Grand Traverse Col-
lege was founded at Benzonia. The

founders must have been men of
vision and faith in the future of the

 

TRADESMAN

and pastor of the church, several re-
tired preachers and Others, all with
their families and household goods
and some livestock—horses and cat-
tle. On the arrival of these colonists
the college was to open. There was
not sufficient depth of water at the
entrance to the harbor at Frankfort
at that time to admit the Rocket, so
she anchored off the entrance and the
Passengers and goods were landed on
lighters. The horses and cattle were
backed off the boat into the lake and
swam: ashore, led with long halters
by men in rowboats. There was
nothing at Frankfort but an aban-
doned sawmill and a deserted board-
ing house. The inhabitants had all
left except one man in charge of the
Property and a small black bear
chained to a post in front of the
boarding house. The colonists took

 

Hon. Reuben Hatch

country for there were no inhabitants
in the. whole region to furnish stu-
dents, There would seem to be noth-
ing but the beauty of the location
and the healthfulness of the climate
to attract students. These recom-
mendations, however, counted for
little where there were no. students
to attract. But the faith of the found-
ers seems to have been justified as
shown by subsequent events, for the
region is now filled with prosperous
and thriving communities.

In the early spring of 1863 a com-
pany of colonists from Northern
Ohio chartered a steamer called the
Rocket at Cleveland to land them at
Frankfort. In the company were
Rev. James B. Walker, of Mansfield,
Ohio, who was to be President of the
college, Rev. Reuben Hatch, who was
to be professor of Greek and Latin

possession of the boarding house and
spent an uncomfortable night lying
about on the pine floor. The
next morning they departed for Ben-
zonia, a distance of nine or ten miles
up the Betsy river. Some of them
went in boats propelled by long poles
pushed against the bottom of the
river. Others managed to find their
way by land through the woods over
a sort of a road that was hardly pas-
sable for wagons. That and some
four or five miles of road through
and around Benzonia were the only
toads in the region. Rev. C. FE.
Bailey and his brother, John, the
original founders of the college, and
about a dozen other families had
already settled there.

At this time there were only a few
acres of land cleared at Benzonia and
none tO amount to anything in the

soft

   

 

whole region arouad about, which

was everywhere covered with the orig-
inal forest, principally beech, maple,
elm, basswood, hemlock, and, in cer-
tain localities,
any land

pine. In order to get
for cultivation the forest
had to be cleared away. The trees
had to be felled and cut up into logs.
Ox teams were required to haul the
logs together into heaps for burning.
All farm work done
teams. Oxen the principal
means of transportation. Whoever
wanted to travel fast, walked. The
faithful ox performed well his part
in helping to clear the land. Without
him the settlers woutd have been well
nigh helpless. In his day and gen-
eration an automobile, even a ford,
would have been as useless as the ox
is to-day.

was
were

with ox

There was a small grist
mill, but no grain of any consequence
to be ground. This mill was as hard
up for grist as the college was for
students and _ the prospects were
about as inviting in the one case as
in the other. It was thirty miles to

Traverse City, the nearest trading
point, but no road. It was farther
to Manistee and no road. There was

no store at Benzonia. The only way
to get provisions in summer was by

boat to Frankfort, if by any means

a boat could be induced to land
there. In winter ox teams could
make their way through the woods

to Manistee. The necessity of having
a store became apparent and
the following year Charles E. Bailey,
the treasurer of the college, and one
of its founders,
it was

soon

went “outside,” as
brought in a small
stock of goods and opened a store in
one of the rooms of his house, which
was open to the public one or two
days in a week.

called,

There was no pasture for cattle
and the cows roamed at large through
the woods, both summer and winter,
browsing on trees and under growth
and in the season eating leeks, which
were everywhere abundant. The sal-
vation of the settlers was the potato
which flourished on the new land and
was of the finest quality. Eaten with
leeky butter the potato left a flavor
not soon to be forgotten. The set-
tlers supplied themselves with sugar
very largely from the maple trees,
which always gave down generously.
The winters were long and the snows
were deep, but the people were not
dependent upon the coal supply and
did not suffer. All the settlers had
all the wood they wanted at their
very doors by simply cutting it, and
they were all experts at wood chop-
ping. The fuel thus obtained did
double duty—it warmed in the cut-
ting as well as in the using. They
lived in log unplastered
frame ones heated with stoves, often
with the stove pipes running through
the roofs. They endured all kinds of
hardships and exposures but enjoyed
good health. So marked was. this
that it was a common saying that
they would have to shoot some one
to start a graveyard.

houses or

The college was well endowed and
owned large tracts of choice lands
which it sold to settlers. It coula
afford to pay fair salaries to the

 

 

10

teachers from the start. The Presi-
dent, Rev. James B. Walker, was an
eloquent preacher and an author of
some note. He was in feeble health
and did not take a very active part
in the college work. The principal
burden of conducting the college
classes fell upon Rev. Reuben Hatch
during the three years of his resi-
dence at Benzonia. He was a pro-
found scholar and taught Greek
and Latin as thoroughly and con-
scientiously as though a knowledge
of those dead languages was essential
to the development of American
civilization.

The college opened with the advent
of the colonists by the Rocket. The
opening was more auspicious than
there was reason to expect, consider-
ing the circumstances and the fact
that the Civil War was at its height.
There was occasion afterwards to
notice the effect of the war, as sev-
eral of the students which it could
ill afford to lose were called to the
army.

The first college edifice was a
small one-story building, unplastered.
There was not a plasterer in the set-
tlement, neither was there any ma-
terial out of which to mix plaster.
This building stood about where the
tennis court is now located and has
long since given place to much more
pretentious and commodious  build-
ings. Some of the classes were held
in Mr. Hatch’s home.

There was one other public build-
ing in the place and that was a log
school house which stood on the
west side of the street, about opposite
the home of Charles E. Bailey. The
church services were held in this
building and the church bell, for lack
of a belfry, was located on a large
hemlock stump near by. This bell
was religiously rung for every serv-
ice, although it is doubtful whether,
owing to the fact that the residences
of the settlers were so. scattered
anybody heard it but the person who
pulled the bell rope. But in those
days it was thought that a church
bell was indispensable as one means
of saving grace.

This sketch would be incomplete
without mention of John Bailey, a
brother of Charles, who did his full
share and more in work which was
none the less needful because it was
less conspicuous than the part which
his brother, who was a preacher of
no mean ability, took in the activities
of the settlement. He was always
ready with a helping hand when help
was most needed. As one of the
founders of the college, he is entitled
to a share of the credit for its suc-
cess,

lf the early struggles of the found-
ers of this institution are any meas-
ure of the success which it ought to
achieve, it is surely destined to be
an important factor in the education-
al activities of the State. Among the
early settlers were many families of
education and culture and they were
all devoted to the common enter-
prise, namely, the building up of a
school that would take rank with the
leading institutions of learning in the
country, Reuben Hatch.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Fall Hats and Caps.

A new condition has made its ap-
pearance in the fur felt hat market to
the extent that very little fur will
now be imported, owing to the re-
stricted shipping on nonessentials in-
to this country. This will create a
shortage of fur felt hats, and there
appears to be no relief in sight.
While the factories making these
goods have a limited supply, it will
soon be used up, the length of time
being estimated at about six months,
depending of course on the quantity
of the reserve stock on hand at the
present time.

This condition will prevent many
new styles being shown, and more
staple shapes than heretofore will be
bought, and the radical styles will
gradually disappear from the lines.

Fancy colored silk caps are in big
demand, and the warmer the weath-
er, the more sale there will be for
them. The better qualities from
$13.50 per dozen up sell the best.

Straw hats are moving freely, and
prices are bound to be considerably
higher next season, as the same rule
applied to hatters’ fur applies to
straw braid which is almost exclu-
sively made in China and Japan.
Buyers are now placing orders for
hats to be used next Spring, and are
anticipating as much as possible the
demands of retail merchants at that
time.

——_+->____
Satin-Striped Silk Waists Sell.
Among the new fall lines of
waists for women, none is attracting
greater attention, it is said, than those
of satin-striped silks with rolled col-
lars and tucked fronts. Although it is
true that this design is something of
a carry-over from past seasons, buy-
ers from many sections are very par-
tial to waists of this kind. Georgette
blouses are also figuring quite prom-
inently in the early business. Organ-
die collars and cuffs are used on
these garments. Tailored waists
with high collars are getting their
share of the early orders, and in
some sections show signs of an in-

creased popularity.
—~+s2__
Glossy Black Satin Leads.

Judging from the early business
placed the coming fall season is to be
one of the best in many years for
dresses of glossy black satin. Dress
manufacturers of this city report
that black satin with a high gloss has
been very popular all summer, and
that buyers are taking the same
ih'ng for fall, although in a somewhat
heavier weight. “It is a fact,” said
one manufacturer, “that in order to
get bus’ness all you have to do is
show a buyer a well worked out line
of black satin frocks and hand him
an order pad and a pencil, He will
do the rest. Black satin is one of
the best selling materials to-day that
IT know of,”

Voiles and Ginghams for Misses.

Voiles have attained a high degree
of popularity this season in party
dresses for girls and young misses,
Retailers everywhere are said to have

bought all the dresses of this mater--

ial they could get and still to have
wanted more. Pale pink and very

 

light blue were the leading colors.
Silk hand embroidery is liked for
trimming, and on some is lavishly
used. For less formal wear, play
dresses of ginghams in conventional
patterns have been the most actively
sought. For this purpose the darker
color combinations, which are the
least likely to soil, are wanted.
—_»--<-_
Organdie Frocks Are Liked.

There has been a particularly active
demand for organdie dance frocks for
women to date, according to reports
from local manufacturers. More or
less simple styles and designs are
preferred as a rule. Plain white
dresses of this material are liked very
much, but flesh, blue, orange, and
other popular light summer shades,
as well as combinations of these col-
ors, have also sold in good quantity.
Silk sashes are worn a great deal
with these frocks and on many form
the only touch of color in the whole
garment. Laces and frills are among
the trimmings used.

 

August 7, 1918

 

 

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Glut of Cotton Here—Famine Else-
where in World.

The situation in cotton is probably
the most complex in its history. It is
problem upon problem, and its many
Phases are dependent and interde-
pendent upon each other.

Half the world is facing a famine
in cotton, while the other half is
threatened with a glut. It is as
though two barrels were placed side
by side, one overflowing with water,
and the other dry, with no connect-
ing pipe between. This pipe is trans-
portation.

Due to the activities of the German
submarine, the world’s tonnage in
ships has been so reduced that
only a small portion of it to-day can
be placed at the disposal of the mer-
chant. The demands of war, that
cannot be denied, are being satisfied
at the cost of peaceful pursuits. This
situation is somewhat relieved to-day
as compared with the recent past, but
it is still acute, due to the fact that
we have over a million men in
France, and that we are adding to
that million at the rate of some 300,-
000 monthly. These men must be
supplied with the essentials of war,
and this takes tonnage, more ton-
nage, and still more tonnage, and
although our shipbuilding activities
are being immeasurably increased
I can see no let-up in the demands of
war for all possible shipping until
peace comes.

Exports this year compared with
last show a shrinkage of over 1,500,-
000 bales. I believe the coming year
will show a greater shrinkage, for
cotton will only be taken by the
Allied nations, who will take only
what necessity forces upon them.
Practically America’s only other out-
let for cotton is to Japan, and Japan
is taking largely of the Indian crop
as it permits of a shorter haul, and
Japan has no excess bottoms, having
turned over a very large tonnage for
the use of the Allies.

Due to many and varied causes.
chief among which is labor, home
consumption is falling off, and as a
result the visible supply of American
cotton to be carried over will be in
excess of last year by nearly 500,000
bales. This is unfortunate and will
become most burdensome when the
new crop begins to move in volume.

The last Government condition re-
port gave as planted 37,000,000 acres,
and indicated a yield in excess of 15,-
000.000 bales, linters excluded. This,
with the present carryover, gives us
a supply of American cotton of more
than 18,000,000 bales, and as. con-
sumption most probably the coming
year will be under 12,000,000 bales,
we must find financial protection for
at least 6 000,000 bales. which at pres-
ent prices is over three-quarters of a
billion dollars and will prove burden-
some in the extreme.

The South reports much cotton
held by small country banks, and
these banks will not be in a position
to afford the proper measure of relief
to the planter who may determine to
hold his cotton. It is all very good

to hold cotton when prices are low,
but it is fallacious to attempt its
holding when prices are high. The

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

planter who failed to dispose of his
crop when cotton was selling above
30 cents a pound in the South has
only himself to blame to-day, and can
expect little sympathy from others.

The movement this season meets
a most unfortunate situation. The
merchant has not been in a position
to make forward sales, and not hav-
ing made them, is in no position to
buy the cotton until it is offered at a
price which permits of hedging. In
past years this custom has been
largely followed and has acted as a
cushion upon which the moving crop
could rest. This year there is no
such cushion, and cotton must be
sold practically in the open market,
with buying limited.

Speculation is dormant, and specu-
lation in past seasons has discounted
the early movement by forward sales,
but futures have been selling at such
a discount under spots that the
proposition has not been an appeal-
ing one, and so another prop is taken
from under the market. This puts
the matter up to the farmer, and if he
is at all wise he will not attempt to
hold cotton at these prices, but will
sell freely without forcing until the
Price is such that he deems it best to
make a stand. This price should be
largely determined by the cost of
production, and as to the cost of
production it varies so widely in dif-
ferent States, in different sections of
States, in fact, on each and every
farm or plantation that its determi-
nation is largely one of the individ-
ual.

The cost of production, however.
will not enter into the price of cot-
ton to any very great extent. The
fact that it might cost 10 or 15 cents
to produce a pound of cotton in
Texas does not prevent a pound of
cotton in Great Britain from being
worth 40 cents, or in Germany from
being worth two dollars. If the cot-
ton cannot reach the high markets
of the world, it will necessarily be
disposed of in the low markets of the
world, if disposed of at all. This
brings practically the whole question
back to ships, and ships are the crux
of the entire affair and should be
kept constantly jn mind with relation
to the general situation in cotton.

It 1s
too much of an essential of both war
and peace, and the lessened purchas-
ing power of the dollar will have a
constant tendency toward the main-
tenance of higher prices. It is un-
fortunate that the shortage of labor,
hoth skilled and common, makes it

Cotton is not going begging.

impractical at this time to increase
our number of mills. There is a cry-
ing need for the manufactured article
at home and abroad. The markets of
South and Central America that have
been supplied in the past largely by
Germany have hecome buyers of our
goods, and the demand of these sec-
tiens is only limited by what we have
to sell. TI reiterate, it is most unfor-
tunate that we cannot increase our
output and so satisfy these markets
and make them permanently markets
of America. It js an alluring oppor-
tunity that our spinners and mer-
chants have at hand and should make
every endeavor to embrace.

It might not be amiss to say a
word or two regarding profiteering in
the manufactured article, which has
undoubtedly taken place, and which
in all probability will be controlled
shortly from Washington. This
profiteering was not voluntary, but
was forced upon the manufacturer.
The competition between our num-
erous Allies for war materials, and
our Government’s competition as
against the public, automatically
made for very high prices. The
farmer, knowing that his cotton
could be bought by the spinner at
from forty to fifty cents a pound in
many instances, would not. sell
around thirty cents and continued to
hold for higher prices and is now suf-
fering the consequences.

There is much talk of price fixing

of raw cotton as a solution of the
problem. I think this talk ill-ad-
vised. It is uncommercial, uneco-

nomic and unfair to fix the price of
a staple article where there is a sur-
plus. The exigencies of war may
make it needful to fix a maximum
price where there is a shortage of
an essential to avoid profiteering on
the part of the few at the cost of the
many, but to fix a price on a staple
with an overburdensome excess is to
take the taxes of the many for the
benefit of the few. This is not in
line with the teachings of our form
of Government, and should the
authorities place a minimum value
upon cotton, the farmer who has an
excess of potatoes can demand a
minimum price on potatoes: if there
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and that the Government take his
excess at the price. This vicious
custom could be carried on ad infin-
itum, and none could foretell to what
it would lead.

We are told that the South is
pleading the baby act, that the South
1s whining and whimpering. I am a
Southern man, and I do not believe
it. If the South to-day is showing a
craven spirit in its commercialism it
is a spirit that has grown within the
very recent past, and I do not be-
lieve it is there. The movement in
New Orleans petitioning the Gov-
ernment to establish a fixed price for
cotton was ill conceived, and in my
judgment was not representative of
the true sentiment of the Southern
producer. I believe it to have ema-
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tionable Securities.
Written for the Tradesman.

A step in the right direction was
taken when Congress passed the bill
creating the Capital Issues Commit-
tee, but it did not go far enough. It
empowers the committee ‘to investi-
gate all security issues of $100,000
and upward, and either approve or
disapprove them, but the committee
can impose no penalty if securities
are issued without their approval.

Co-operation with the Committee
by patriotic investment bankers and
banks renders the Committee some-
what effective, as these institutions
refuse to offer for sale, or accept as
collateral, any issue of $100,000 or
over which does not bear the stamp
of approval of the Capital Issues
Committee, but there are hundreds
of thousands of citizens of medium
means who have heard nothing of
the Committee and its activities, nor
of the attitude of the banking inter-
ests and of the investment bankers.
Because of this situation get-rich-
quick promotors still have a large
field in which to operate. They are
flooding the mails with highly color-
ed prospectuses and filling the news-
papers with advertisements giving
glowing accounts of the profits to be
made through investment in their
stocks and bonds.

There is no question that the oil
investment field is an attractive one,
but there is an avalanche of fake
companies whose assets consist of
leases and possibly a well in the
course of sinking without any tangi-
ble evidence of success in striking
oil, or even prospects of so doing.
In this way millions of dollars are
being taken from the people which
will serve no good purpose in this
hour of the Nation’s need. This be-
ing the case, Congress should go a
step further and provide protection
for investors by passing a bill in-
vesting the Capital Issues Committee
with full authority to compel all of-
ferings of securities, whatever their
character or amount, to first secure
a certificate of approval from the
Committee before offering the same
for sale, and providing a stiff penalty
for any violation of this provision ot
the law. With this authority in the
hands of the Capital Issues Commit-
tee, the National Government, exer-
cising full control over the mails, it
would be possible to completely cen-
sor all security offerings and put a
stop to the get-rich-quick schemes
which have so preyed upon the pub-
lic. The blue sky laws of the various
states have done good work but have
not been able to fully weed out this

insidious evil. The situation needs
radical and quick treatment. Con-
gress can provide it.

At a meeting of women in Chicago
attended by persons from various
parts of the country one of them fer-
vidly patriotic proposed a resolution
that none of the members buy a new
dress during the remainder of the
year 1918, and one even more enthu-
Siastic proposed to make the dress
purchase voluntarily prohibitive for
the remainder of the war. While the
motive was of the best, the action, if
carried out, would be a serious eco-
nomic mistake and, instead of being
beneficial to the country, would re-
sult in serious harm through slowing
down, if not destroying, an industry
which gives employment to many
thousands in the constructive end,
and many more thousands in the
manufacture of fabrics from which
dresses are made. Sensible econo-
my and the curbing of the extrava-
gance for which this Nation is noted
would be most commendable, and it
is fair to say it is being largely prac-
ticed, but such radical action as that
proposed would be a real injury to
the Nation. There should be no more
disturbance to general business than
is absolutely necessary to carry the
war to a successful conclusion.

Absence of monetary inflation is,
perhaps, the most marked feature of
our present ececnomic position, In
spite of the war and some egregious
mistakes not essential to its prose-
cution, we have maintained liquidity
to a remarkable extent. It may be
stated, as a positive fact, that Nation-
al trade has never undergone so
great expansion with so few elements
of real inflation. In a year general
stocks of money increased from
$5,414,000 000 to $6,540,000,000, and
actual circulation from $4,736,000,000
to $5,318,000,000. Armed with author-
ity and supplied with bullion re-
serves enabling it to sanction reserve
note issues of many billions, the
Federal Reserve Board has found it
necessary to approve an increase of
only $1,178,000,000 reserve notes in
the year to June 23, 1918. Increases
in general stocks of money and in
reserve note issues thus closely cor-
respond. Both may be taken as re-
flected in the condition of National
banks May 10, 1918, which discloses
an increase of over $1,309,000,000 (or
8%) in deposits from May 1, 1917.

H. F. Rawlings, of New York, has
submitted to Secretary of the Treas-
ury McAdoo a plan for the  install-
ment payment plan of Federal and
income taxes which bids fair to be
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in small denominations, $50, $100,
$250 and $1,000 to be received in pay-
ment of taxes due in June, 1919, the
Same to bear interest at a fair rate.
It is evident that if such a plan were
put in operation, many persons
would thus discount their obligations
to the Government, which would
place funds in the Treasury at atime
the funds are needed, before the date
set for the payment of the taxes. The
plan of the War Savings stamps could
be advantageously followed in the is-
suance, date and maturity of these
certificates. All banks should be
provided with these certificates for
sale to their customers.

In the formation of a National As-
sociation of State Banks a step has
been taken of great importance to
the Nation. No one influence in busi-
ness life has had more to do with our
National growth and prosperity than
the small country banks. Their im-
portance should not be measured by
their capital. They organize the
credit of their communities and ren-
der valuable and indispensable ser-
vices. In the Middle West, West and
Northwest, many of these small
banks, with capital under $25,000,
have sprung into existence, taking
excellent care of the needs of the
communities in which they cperate.
Their services take on a wider scope
than those of larger institutions and
their relations with their customers
are far more intimate, Generally
organized under state supervision,
they represent an ideal of free and
independent banking which is rapid-
ly disappearing. And their existence
should by no means be predicated
upon the wishes of the large banks,
whether these remain under state
laws or become members of the Fed-
eral Reserve system, nor are they to
be measured by the requirements of
the National banking system. They
fill a niche of their own and the war-
rant for continuance is in_ their
present existence and successful op-
eration, They cannot be replaced
except through the enactment of a
branch banking law which is open to
tco many well founded objections.
It is well worth while to consider the
small country banks, both for their
indispensable services and their in-
dependent nature, especially at this
time of change of form, character
and purpose of our banks as business
integers and the tendency toward
consolidation, The people who use
the small country banks are satisfied
with them and, what is more impor-
tant, if principles count, they stand
upon their own integrity and, except
for their relations with nearby cor-
respondents, are unassailable by the
convulsions which affect larger in-
stitutions in centers of population. Ii
no bank is stronger than the financial
solvency of the community in which
it exists, the small country banks are,
in principle, among the strongest
banks we have and are entitled to
the fullest protection it is possible
to give them. The formation of the
National Association of State Banks
at the St. Louis meeting promises to
give them this and it should be
recognized and encouraged by both

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

the American Bankers’ Association
and the state associations.

A recent ruling by M. C. Elliott,
counsel for the Federal Reserve
Board, is of interest. It is to the ef-
fect that War Savings stamps can-
not be classified as a bond or note
cf the United States, and _ notes,
drafts or bills of exchange secured
by such War Savings stamps should
not be treated as eligible for redis-
count by the Federal Reserve Banks.
This is based on the stipulation print-
ed on the War Savings certificates
which reads, “This certificate is of no
value except to the owner named
hereon and is not transferable.”

Paul Leake.

———>_2 > ____
The Nature Lovers.
Written for the Tradesman.
I can never see a pretty tree
In its native bower or wood,
can never walk by the Manistee
Where the mighty forests stood,
can never smell the spruce and pine
Or the fragrant balsam fir,
ean never hunt the arbutus vine
But what—I think of her.

— - met

{ can never pick wood-violets,
Meadow lilies, shinleaf too.

Or the little flower that ne’er forgets
And the dainty hare-bell blue,

I can never look for the maiden-Fair
And the ferns where th’ asvens stir.
I can never find the grass-pinks there
But what—I think of her.

I can never gather berries blue
Nor the later ones so black,

I ean never go where strawherries grew,
Past the swamp of tamarack

Where the honey-suckle an’ columbine
And wild goose-berries always were

Never build a fire with cones of pine

But what—I think of her.

I can never sit by the silent sea
When the waves have gone to sleep

Or hear thunder-bolts rage over me
When the tempest stirs the deep;

I can never gaze on the stars at night
When there’s not a cloud to blur,

On a silvery moon with its kindly light

But what—I think of her.

We in Mother Nature fad a friend
And a true companion too,
So our loves and tastes did interblend
Till they just together grew:
And whenever now I walk a-field
Where the beauty is astir
How the memories tv heart enshield
As e’er I think of her.
Charies A. Heath.
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Both employers and laborers will!
doubtless welcome Federal control of
the distribution of unskilled em-
ployes, which became effective Aug.
1. No manufacturer employing more

than 100 men is now permitted to re-

cruit labor except through the Gov-
ernment Employment Service. Man-
ufacturers have worried in recent
months as never before over the huge
labor turnover. A State labor official
of Pennsylvania has spoken of the
“steady movement of labor from
Pittsburgh to Philadelphia, and back
from Philadelphia to Pittsbureh—
two streams crossing each other
from one end of the State to the
other, an absolute economic waste”:
there have been many similar
streams. The limited measure of
Federal control had to wait upon the
development of the Federal Employ-
ment Service, until lately a by-activ-
ity of the Bureau of Immigration.
With the Federal chain of employ-
ment offices developed and linked
with State chains, it is becoming pos-
sible to satisfy a shortage of labor in
one city from an overplus in another.

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What is doubtless a typical bit of
testimony about the vogue of war
books at public libraries comes from
Cleveland. The calls for such vol-
umes at the main library average

one-tenth the whole demand.
first week of July nearly 350 war-
books were taken out, not including
works on the historical background
of the war, war-poetry, war-fiction, or
popular books on

loaned in amazing numbers.

In the

the technical or

religious aspects of the conflict. As
Cleveland has twenty-six branch li-

braries, large and small, the total
circulation was far greater. The

very popular war-books are held and

Thus

the library has purchased 130 copies

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of Empey’s “Over the Top,” and per-
sons asking for it are often sent away
empty-handed. Gerard’s “My Four
Years in Germany” is said to go out
nearly as fast, especially
movies have advertised it.
“First Hundred
shows no
Probably even
would tell the

since the
lan Hay’s
Thousand” — still
slackening in popularity.
towns and
same story.

villages

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Patriotic Duty Developing On Insur-

ance Officials.
Written for the Tradesman.

From time to time the United
States authorities have issued warn-
ings for the conservation of food
products. There have been wheatless
days and meatless days. The people
have eaten corn bread, rye bread and
have used other substitutes and have
tried studiously, faithfully and con-
scientiously to help Uncle Sam save
wheat for his army and our neighbors
in Europe.

As a patriotic people they have con-
tributed to the Red Cross, the Y. M.
C. A. and the K. C. They have bought
Liberty bonds. They have supported
every war activity and every patriotic
movement generously. It is easy for
ene to do what everybody is doing.
Doing as much brings satisfaction.
Whether enough has been done is
another question.

All of this has been done because
the war is for us and for our poas-
terity. Our ideals have been hui-
dreds of years in forming. Freedom
and Liberty, respect for the rights
of others and other of our ideals are
being trampled under foot. These
principles have been bred and born
into us. They have been taught us
from our mother’s knee. It is as nat-
ural for us to love and respect and
light for these principles as it is ro
breath or as it is for our hearts to
beat.

Many of us are required to give up
our sons and brothers. Naturally we
are reluctant to see them go, but we

kiss them good-bye and bid them
Godspeed. We hope for their safe
return, but only God himself knows

the sacrifice they must make. They
go. We may never see them again.
The next word may be a telegram re-
porting a serious wound, followed by
another announcing the death, and a
little later letter to the father and
mother—tender as an officer can write
—telling of the brave deed—of the

numbered grave—with a “God bless
you for your loyal son.”
Not only hav& individuals made

sacrifices and devoted their time and
energy to war work, but various
classes of business men and business
organizations have done special work
along many lines. Many of the cap-
tains of industry and business men
have given freely of their time and
talent. Many of them have been call-
ed to Washington from time to time
for conference on many subjects.
Many insurance companies have
performed a great and patriotic serv-
ice in the way of inspection and con-
servation of food products. building
materials, manufacturing and storage
plants. Many of the larger mutual
insurance companies have had _ their
inspectors and special agents working
for months along their lines. It has
cost them money and oftentimes de-
prived them of the services of their
own employes. Through this work
they have saved millions of products
used in war industries, necessary food
for the soldiers and materials which
will greatly help in winning the war.
These companies were equipped to do

this work efficiently and well and have
rendered a patriotic service in so
doing.

Every dollar spent to save property
is a dollar that helps you, your com-
pany and your boy in France. Every
building saved is material released for
the use in war industries. Every
ounce of food and food products sav-
ed is that much contributed to the
American cause.

I cannot believe that the . mutuals
are not patriotic. I cannot believe
that our mutual insurance people will
give to the Red Cross, Y. M. C. A
K. C., buy Liberty bonds and sacrifice
their sons on the battle fields of Eu-
rope without demanding that our mu-
tuals do their full duty in conserving
the property under their care. Nor
will they, as members of such com-
panies, stand for anything less than
a policy and a plan that will be of
the greatest benefit to themselves, to
their neighbors, to Uncle Sam and
his army. Could there be any reason
from a conservation standpoint, froin
a patriotic standpoint, or from any
other, why every mutual in the United
States should not at this time make
an inspection of every piece of prop-
erty which it has insured for the sole
purpose of conserving that property
from the fire waste.

Our boys and our brothers are now
on the battle fields of Europe or in
the training camps of America. Even
now their lifeless and maimed bodies
are being brought home to us. or
buried on the bloody battle fields of
France. This day may bring you a
message announcing the death of your

son. These boys are making the
greatest sacrifice possible. Every
building we permit to be burned,

every particle of food which we permit
to go up in smoke means labor, ma-
terial, food and energy taken from the
support of our boys and our brothers.

President Wilson has said: ‘“Pre-
ventable fire is more than a private
misfortune; it is a public dereliction.
At a time like this, of emergency
and manifest necessity for the conser-
vation of national resources, it is more
than ever a matter of deep and press-
ing consequence that every means
should be taken to prevent this evil.”

Shall We Inspect or Adiust?

Whether we shall inspect the prop-
erty before it burns and have the de-
fects remedied, or whether we shall
permit the property to burn and then
adjust the loss is the question con-
fronting many mutual insurance com-
panies to-day. The company may
choose either alternative. Lack of
inspectors will necessitate more ad-
justers. Competent inspectors used
constantly will decrease the need for
adjusters. As inspections increase,
adjustment will decrease. So far as
we are able to learn, this is the unan-
imous verdict of the companies which
have tried it.

We often hear the cry that luck is
against this man or that man, or
against this company or that com-
pany. Generally, however, good luck
or bad luck is nothing more or less
than good management for poor man-
agement or the result of the use of
good judgment or poor judgment. It
sometimes takes a burn to teach a

child the danger of fire. Experience
is a dear school. Fools will learn
it no other way. It is to be hoped
that none of our mutual insurance
companies will have to be burned into
the inspection work. It is to be hop-
ed that they will realize the necessity
fcr careful inspections by competent

inspectors before too many losses
have occurred.

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mainder of the season.

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Both are necessary. Both have a
work to perform. But do you not
think that at this critical time we
should have more inspection and less
adjustment?

How to Prevent Fires.

It is an old maxim that: fire is a
good servant but a hard master.

Shakespeare wrote: “A little fire
is quickly trodden out; which, being
suffered, rivers cannot quench.”

Fires are the result of accident, of
spontaneous combustion, and of de-
sign. If they have been accidental
the cause can generally be discovered,
and it will be found they might have
been prevented.

If the following precautions are
taken, fires from accident or spon-
taneous combustion will seldom oc-
Cre:

Keep your house, store, or factory
clean.

Never allow rubbish, such as paper,
tags, cobwebs, old clothing, boxes,
etc., to accumulate in closets and
unused rooms.

Never fill your coal oil lamps after
dark or near an open fire.

Never run your stove pipes through
a wooden partition or through the
roof without proper protection.

Never allow your furnace, steam or
hot water pipes to come in contact
with food.

Never put up gas brackets so they
can be swung against the wooden
window casings or against, or im-
mediately under curtains.

Never put ashes in a wooden recept-
acle in or about your premises.

Never keep matches in any but me-
tal or earthen safes, and when you
light one never throw it on the floor.

Never allow smoking in proximity
to inflammable merchandise or ma-
terials.

Never take an open light to examine
a gas meter or into a closet. :

Never read in bed by candle or
lamp light.

Never close up your place of busi-
ness before going over the entire
premises to see that all fires and
lights are safe or extinguished.

Never forget that carelessness and
negligence are the cause of over two-
thirds of all fires.

Never forget to have pails or buck-
ets and water near at hand for im-
mediate use in case of emergency.

George Bode,

Sec’y Michigan Shoe Dealers Mu-

tual Fire Ins. Co.

—+> >.
In no way can a man of German

descent prove his loyalty to this
country more effectually than by
having his name changed by law to
some name which does not suggest
the land of blood and bestiality. A
rose would smell as sweet by any
other name, but the possession of a
German name should be an object
of detestation to its owner, if he has
any regard for the land of his adop-
tion, just as its retention makes him
an object of contempt in the minds
of every true American citizen. This
is a good time to call a halt on every-
thing German. It is foolish to draw
the line on German knives and Ger-
man dyes and not treat all German
surnames with equal abhorrence and
contempt.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

MANISTEE WATER.
Safe to

 

Drink, But
Taste.
The four letters published here-
with are self explanatory. The first
one is addressed to August Field
landlord of the Hotel Chippewa, at
Manistee:

Grand Rapids, July 10—I am pleas-
ed to commend this week the patri-
otic stand you are taking on flour,
meat and sugar. It is certainly very
commendable.

| was astounded over the awful
taste of the water served at the Chip-
pewa. It certainly destroyed the
aroma of your coffee and I could
imagine I tasted it in everything you
served. Isn’t it possible for you to
drive a well and obtain an ample sup-
ply of palatable water for culinary
purposes? I ordered three rooms
with bath, but the odor of the water
kept all of my party from bathing.
The city certainly places a heavy
handicap on you in forcing you to
impose such water upon your guests.

I make this criticism in all kind-
ness, because I honestly believe you
want things right. I have always
maintained that you are too deuced
GOOD NATURED to be a severe
landlord and the way in which you
tolerate bad tasting water convinces
me that my previous diagnosis is
correct.

Aside ‘from the water, your hotel
is a long ways ahead of anything I
have ever experienced in Manistee.
The furnishings are not always in
good taste, but I give you credit for
making an honest effort to give the
public satisfactory service.

E. A. Stowe.

Manistee, Aug. 1—Your letter of
July 10 to August Fields, manager of
the Chippewa Hotel at Manistee, was
handed to me, as City Manager and
Superintendent of the Water Depart-
ment in this community, with the re-
quest that I look into the complaint,
with a view of ascertaining whether
or not there were any just grounds
for your harsh criticism of the water
being used in our city.

I have submitted samples of our
water to the State Bacteriologist, for
examination and am pleased to say
that I received a most favorable re-
port from the same. I have instruct-
ed our city clerk to send you a sworn
copy of said report and hope that in
the future, should you have occasion
to visit Manistee, you will not be
alarmed at being compelled to drink
the water that we now pump. Our
bacteriological analysis of this water
proves it to the equal of any water
in the State of Michigan. I take the
liberty of giving you this informa-
tion, as I feel that in justice to our
city and those responsible for the
water furnished I could do no less.

P. H. Beauvais, City Manager.

Lansing, July 29—The samples of
water received from you July 25 have
been examined with the following re-

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A. A. Spoor, Bacteriologist.

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pleased to receive your letter of Aug.
1, enclosing statement from a bacter-
iologist to the effect that the city
water of Manistee is safe to drink,
so far as potability is concerned.

If you -will kindly refer to my let-
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could not drink it and I could not
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spent several dollars extra for rooms
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It is possible, of course, that the
people of Manistee have become so
accustomed to the water that they do
not notice the bad taste; but to a
stranger it is a matter of great dis-
comfort and annoyance. Mr. Field
is trying so hard to attract visitors
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nate that he should be so seriously
handicapped.

What are you going to do about it?

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Women Should Can Now for Next
Winter.

A billion jars of fruit and vege-
tables this summer and fall—that’s
the “stunt” that Uncle Sam has set
for the housewives of America. That
doesn’t include anything canned by
the factories; the idea is that the
factory-canned stuff shall all go
abroad for the army and the hungry
people over there. Fix it firmly in
your mind that every time you
screw the top on a jar of food you
are in very fact helping to win and
to end the war. This is no figure of
speech, no exaggeration to induce
you to save food on general princi-
ples—it is literally true that every
ounce of food laid aside this summer
and fall for use next winter means
iust that much direct food-help for
the army and the Allies. Think of
that as you hold a commonplace to-
mato in your hand, and then put it
in a jar.

The women and girls of the United
States last year put up about half a
billion cans of fruit and vegetables,
and practically all of it kept and was
used last winter. In my house we
are still using the corn and squash,
beans and peas that we canned a year
ago. Some of it overran the new
crop, and so far as I can see, it will
be just as good a year from now.
The Government asks us to can
twice as much this year as we did
last. That means not only that we
who canned all we had to spare will
have to duplicate last year’s effort
and find still more to can, but that
lots of those who didn’t do anything
about it then will do it this year.

It is different from ordinary times.
This is not primarily a question of
saving money, important as that as-
pect of it is. Even if you have no
garden and have to buy at disheart-
ening prices every ounce of the veg-
etables and fruit that you put up in
your city kitchen, it is a patriotic
duty to do it to the utmost of your
ability. It is a question of conserv-
ing every bit of foodstuff now avail-
able and not needed for immediate
use, so that it shall not spoil and be
wasted, but shall be usable next
winter. Every rotting vegetable in
this broad land this summer is help-
ing the Kaiser.

So, you see, it isn’t a question of
whether you like to do canning, or
can afford to buy canned things from
those who do like to do it. If you
have it within your power to can
things in your house, it is your duty
to do it—ijust as much of it as possi-
ble.

The sugar rationing tends to dis-
courage somewhat the canning of the

fruits that take a lot of sugar; but
twenty-five pounds will go a long
way, for all that. The important
thing is to can vegetables—especi-
ally the staple kinds that are high in
food value—and that do not require
sugar. It’s so easy as to be almost
absurd.

First of all, don’t be afraid of it, or
feel that it means a ceremony upset-
ting your whole household for days
on end. That isn’t the way to do it.
You can dovetail it in, a bit at a time.
and hardly notice the extra work.
The principal thing is to understand
the method. In most places there
are lectures and demonstrations by
experts, going on all summer under
the auspices of the Food Adminis-
tration, and the newspapers and mag-
azines are full of material on the
subject. Send to the National War
Garden Commission, Maryland Build-
ing Washington, D. C., for their ex-
cellent bulletin on “Home Canning of
Vegetables and Fruits.” They will
be glad to send it to you, and you
will find it very explicit and helpful.

Then start right in and don’t be
nervous about the results. As I heard
an expert say recently at a lecture:

“Do not be afraid that your pre-
served vegetables and fruits will spoil
in the jars. If you perform each step
correctly your work will keep as lone
as you want it to.”

Easy as it is, each step of the tech-
nique is important. The fruits and
vegetables must be fresh, the rubber
bands for the cans must be new and
freshly dipped in boiling water be-
fore using, and the cans must first be
sterilized by covering them in cold
water, bringing the cold water to a
boil and boiling for not less than
twenty minutes. If the jar contains
live germs, they certainly will grow
in your preserves and spoil them.
That’s just common-sense. And it is
the one key to success.

The cold-pack method is now used
extensively, is advocated by the ex-
perts, and seems much easier and
better than the old methods. This
article is not intended as explicit in-
structions, but only to outline and
interest you in the method. You'd
better get some of the carefully writ-
ten material of the Food Adminis-
tration.

You will need a washboiler or large
covered pail, with a rack in it for
your jars. You can have a piece of
galvanized wire netting fitted to the
bottom. The idea is to have the boil-
ing water circulate freely around the
jars. This is very important. When
they are placed in the boiler or pail
or other container the water should
be at least two inches above the tops

of the jars, and more water must
be added to keep it at that level
as it boils away. If the contents of
the jars appear to have shrunk or the
water in them below the top, that
does not matter; the sterilizing wiil
have killed all the bacteria.

Prepare your vegetables and fruits;
blanch the vegetables by dipping
them in boiling water from five to
ten minutes, according to size. Re-
move from the boiling water, pour
cold water over them for.a minute
until they are chilled; then pack them
into your sterilized iars, sprinkle over
the top of each one teaspoonful of
salt to a quart jar, then fill with boil-
ing water and partially seal—that is,
do not put on the top as tightly as
you can. Then place the iars in the
boiling water in your large boiler or
pail as described above, for the re-
quired length of time. Then seal each
jar as tightly as possible.

Fruits if blanched should be only
dipped in and out of the boiling
water and then cold-dipped, so as to
lose none of the juices; then packed
in jars and a hot syrup poured over.

There are three grades of syrup to
be used according to taste and
amount of sugar available:

Thin syrup, one cup of sugar to
four cups of water.

August 7, 1918

Medium syrup, one cup of sugar to
two cups of water.

Thick syrup, one cup of sugar to
one cup of water.

Boil until dissolved and pour over
the fruit, partially seal, put the jar
into your container, and boil for fi-
teen minutes. This is the rule for all
kinds of fruits. Vegetables take long-
er—beans, peas, and spinach, two
hours; corn, three hours; the rest of
the vegetables, about an hour and a
half.

In filling your jars with starchy
vegetables, such as peas, beans, and
corn, do not fill them quite to the top
—leave about two inches of space, as
they absorb the water and must have
room to expand.

This cold-pack method is much
easier than the old; not so much
standing over hot stoves. Picking

and preparing the vegetables consti-
tute the most tiresome part of the
process; but the result is worth
while. All last winter I had canned
asparagus, green peas, little beets,
and other things, as sweet and fresh
almost as if they had just come from
the garden. And I wasn’t compet-
ing in the market with Uncle Sam.
Prudence Bradish.
—_>+.____

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Sugar Program Will Not Relax.

Lansing, Aug. 6—Beginning last
Thursday, the patriotic Wolverine ad-
justed himself to a two pound per
month consumption of sugar. This
new food regulation will continue at
least until the first of October, and
possibly later. The first of the new
crcp from which relief may come,
will reach the United States market
in October, in the form of beet sugar,
Louisiana cane sugar will be avail-
able about the middle of November,
and Cuban cane a month later. How-
ever, the quantity of these supplies
will hardly be sufficient to afford ap-
preciable relief until in January.

The rxstricted individual ration im-
plies nce modification or departure
from the food administration’s policy
of encouraging canning, without the
use of sugar whenever possible—
“but canning by all means!” The
food administration explains that the
largely increased foreign demands
for sugar at this time, are taking
much of the amount that had been
anticipated for canning purposes. Ac-
cordingly, the administration js call-
ing upon housewives to preserve
their fruit without sugar, and adding
a sweetener later on, when it is ex-
pected the supply will be more plen-
tiful. A limited supply in addition to
the two pound allowance is available
for canning.

The Food Administration points to
the record of the country in the re-
cent exportation of wheat, For sevy-
eral months the figures show the
household consumption of wheat has
been less than 50 per cent. of normal.
As a result 142,000,000 bushels of
wheat have been sent overseas. This
wheat, according to reports made to
Herbert Hoover, now abroad, was
“the salvation of the Allies.”

Before the war, the Allies drew
virtually no sugar from the sources
of American supply. Now, practical-
ly one-third of their sugar supply
comes from that which ordinarily
would have been distributed in the
Jnited States.

The Food Administration an-
nounces that the supplies of candy
being manufactured for American
troops, will not suffer depletion
This ration will be maintained to its
fullest extent. The Y. M. C. A., Red
Cross, Knights of Columbus and Sal-
vation Army units in France, will be
fully provided with sweets, and the
administration adds, “It is only fair
that the people at home should con-
serve for the men in the field.”

George A. Prescott,
Federal Food Administrator.

—_2+2>—____
Capitalizing the Thrift Idea.

Naturally, merchants are combat-
ing with might and main the idea that
thrift consists in a refusal to spend
money for any purpose whatever, On
the other hand they are trying to in-
culcate the thought that thrift con-
sists in spending wisely and gener-
ously as circumstances will permit,
while getting good value for the
money expended. They are appeal-
ing to this newly implanted habit of
thrift, not only in the solicitation of
business through advertising but in
other ways hitherto unpracticed in
retail stores.

Here is an instance of capitalizing
the thrift idea. After buying some
notions in one of the leading stores,
the saleswoman asked if she might
take the customer’s address and call
her up when she had a special sale
on in notions and small wares.

“Since people have learned to be
careful of little expenses, you’ve no
idea ‘how many of them like to be
called up and told when to expect a
special sale,” she explained. “Many
women tell me they put the differ-

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

ence between the regular and sale
prices into thrift stamps, and they
Say it doesn’t take very long to fill a
card in this way. I have quite a
long list that I never néglect to tele-
phone the day before a sale, and they
appreciate the attention. Of course
they could get the information from
the daily paper, but not every woman
has the ad reading habit, and this
seems more personal anyway. I am
pretty sure to see every woman I
call up some time during the day, and
it makes my work more interesting
waiting for them and on them. I
should like to add your name to this
special list, may I?”

She took down the name and ad-
dress, and the customer departed
looking pleased with the idea of this
little private advertising agency. It
gave her the idea of “getting in on the
ground floor,” of having just a bit of
an advantage over the mass of women
who would have to depend on the
newspapers, poor things, instead of
having a tip straight from headquar-
ters,

——_+ + >___
Not Pleased With the Amended Egg
Ruling.

Clarksville, Aug. 5—I note the
amended ruling on candling eggs, as
published in the Tradesman of July
31. It seems to me that it is a bad
deal for the retailer, The farmer can
bring in his bad eggs and sell them
to us. Then we must candle them
and lose the bad eggs. We pay with-
in one cent a dozen as much as we
get for them. How are we coming
out? I should think it would be the
place of the man who first sells the
eggs to do the candling. Then no-
body would get stung. It is a tough
proposition for us as it stands now.

S. Pierce.

You have your remedy—you can
candle every offering of eggs as they
are brought in to you by the farmer,
While there is no law or ruling to
compel you to do this, you can make
such a ruling for your own guidance
and protection. Every man is a law
unto himself. You would not accept
sour molasses, wormy cereals, moth
eaten garments or soiled shoes from
your jobber. Why should you ac-
cept bad eggs from the farmer, know-
ing that you must eliminate them by
careful candling before you ship them
to dealers in other towns or sell them
at retail to your own customers. The
Tradesman thinks Mr. Prescott has
made a great mistake in modifying
his original ruling, but you would
make a greater mistake in not as-
serting your right as a merchant to
refuse to pay for anything which is
not merchantable and wholesome.

—_++ >
Any Fool Can Knock.

Don’t criticise your neighbor’s faults,
No matter what they do,

Don't ridicule the masses or
Malign the chosen few.

Don’t think yourself a censor for
The silly, human flock,

And just remember as you go,
That any fool can knock.

Don’t laugh at those who make mistakes
And stumble on the way,

For you are apt to follow them,
And almost any day.

Don’t think the others shifting sand
While you are solid rock,

And don’t forget, for heaven’s sake,
That any fool can knock.

Don’t be a puller-down of fame
On other men conferred,

Don’t give a parting kick to one
‘Who fell because he erred.

Don’t think that you are perfect and
The only size in stock.

And now, once more, just bear in mind
That any fool can knock,

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The Shoe Shop De Luxe.
Written for the Tradesman.

The big cities have become accus-
tomed to the trim little boot shop.
And they like it.

Wherever you go in your wander-
ings, when you come to the city of
metropolitan ambitions, you are pret-
ty apt to discover somewhere
around the corner one of the excep-
tionally attractive little boot shops.

Sometimes they sell women’s
shoes along with the men’s, but for
the most part the little shoe shop de
luxe is a man’s proposition. Just
now the little boot shop is hard hit
by the war, for many of its custom-
ers being young men of draft age
are now wearing Munson army shoes
and are off at the training camps, on
the way over, or in action on the
fighting front.

Stronghold of the Little Shop.

The little shoe store has a grip on
its trade out of all proportion to its
size.

Its lines being exclusive and its
stock limited, the clientele is tot
large. Therefore the dealer and his
clerk or clerks come to know many
of their customers by name. They
know what office they are in, or the
kind of work they do, or the partic-
ular type of out-door sport that ap-
peals to them.

Under such conditions it is possi-
ble to establish a sort of camaraderie
with one’s trade which wouldn’t be
possible in the big store with its
many salespeople and its  multi-
tudes of shoppers.

Usually the lines in the little ex-
clusive shop run from medium to
the higher priced goods, and the
store service afforded by such shops
is of a high order. Each customer
is carefully fitted. The lies are not
extended, but they are full as far as
they reach. The popular sizes are
on hand in the stock room. One is
sure of a fit if he happens to like any
of the lasts the little shop de- luxe
happens to carry.

The room is well lighted, and
there’s a sort of masculine atmos-
phere about it that timid and unpro-
tected males appreciate. And, as
man is largely a creature of habit
and dearly loves to do repetitive
things, once getting him started to
the little shop de luxe, he’ll keep
coming.

And this hold of the little shop up-
on its clientele increases as the
years go by. It may come to it that
the little shop will have to enlarge
its quarters and provide more fitting
room facilities and increase its stock
to take care of its growing trade,

but generally it gets about so big,
and then holds its own. And its a
nice little proposition. The dealer
has a substantial and even-tempered
His customers are
not so largely of the floater class.
They are permanent folks in the
community. And the little shop de
luxe acquires a goodwill that is real-
ly an asset.
The Gospel of Neatness.

As may readily be surmised, the
little shop de luxe believes strongly
in the gospel of neatness.

It is this faith which makes it, in-
deed, the little shop de luxe.

Everything is in place.

And the findings case is free from
dust.

Magazines and newspapers do not
clutter things up.

It's just a trim, spic-and-span lit-
tle shop.

Now man is not exactly a tidy an-
imal—that is the average man isn’t—
but he likes tidy places. If you want
a laboratory test, give him the run
of a lower floor with several apart-
ments; let all of these apartments be
mussed up save one—the smallest of
all, a little denlike place; let that be
clean and well aired; and then sit
back and observe where Mr. Man
will finally light. He’ll gravitate in-
to that clean little den, and there
light his pipe, cigar, or cigarette, as
the case may be.

So the little shop de luxe is mak-
ing a good bet when it assumes that
“mere man” will be not unapprecia-
tive of neatness in the little bootery.

The Application of the Moral.

Now if it be asked, Why all this
chatter about the exclusive little
shoe shop de luxe in a publication
which goes to shoe dealers handling
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the answer: There is a moral here-
in.

The little boot shop de luxe has
discovered certain principles of mer-
chandising that are legitimate and
valid; also universal, we may say, in
their application. That is, they make
a hit anywhere and everywhere.

Neatness in a shoe store (or any
other kind of a store for that meater
should not be limited to the lit-
tle exclusive places where people
may shop. Why not attractiveness
in the big store as well as the little
one? The very large stores of our
big cities are neat, Much time and
effort and money are expended to
make and keep them so.

But so many merchants in the
smaller communities seem to. be-
come careless in such matters.
Things get out of place. And things
accumulate and pile up. And there
is a fine film of dust over everything.
And the sense of untidiness perme-
ates the very air.

Windows are not changed with
sufficient frequency.

And window fixtures «re not pol-
ished and brightened up as_ they
should be.

The material with which the win-
dow floor is covered or the back of
the window is draped, fades out, or
becomes soiled.

And when these things are allow-
ed to happen, you can’t have an at-
tractive store,

Careful Fitting Everywhere.

I have dwelt at some length upon
the service-feature of the small ex-
clusive shoe store.

But high grade service should not
be limited to the small shop.

Wherever and by whomsoever
shoes are sold, they should be cor-
rectly sold; that is the selling of
them should involve their fitting.

This takes a bit more time than
the careless way; but it pays.

It involves also the passing up of
an opportunity now and then.

But the main point is, it makes
friends for the store.

It’s a merit of the little shop that
ought to be emulated by every deal-
er in shoes no matter whether his
place be large or small.

Cid McKay.

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To relieve as much as possible the
unprecedented dgmand for ‘leather,
the United States Department of
Agriculture is urging that slaughtered
and dead animals on the farm be skin-
ned with great care. Usually the
skinning of animals on the farm and
the care of hides is not given a great
amount of consideration and through
carelessness many hides are cut and
scored when they are removed. By
devoting a little extra time and care
in skinning animals to make sure that
they are not cut or scored the farmer
can increase their value on the mar-
ket several times. In tanning hides
scores show very plainly and in many
cases one-half of the thickness of the

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 19

BANKRUPTCY MATTERS.

Proceedings in the Western District
of Michigan.

Grand Rapids, July 30—Robert A. Best,
of this city, has filed a voluntary peti-
tion in bankruptcy. The adjudication
has been made and the first meeting
called for August 9, at which time cred-
itors should appear to prove their claims
and elect a trustee. The schedules of
the bankrupt show liabilities amounting
to $2,670.85 and assets consisting of
household goods valued at $250, and
which are claimed as exempt to the
bankrupt. Following is a list of the
creditors of said bankrupt:

Secured Creditors.
Frank J. Cook, cashier, Grand
BRaDIOS 206 $1,000.00
Kent State Bank, Grand. Rapids 500.00
Unsecured Creditors.
Shapiro & Karr, Philadelphia ..$ 376.50
Puritan Chocolate Co., Cincinnati 590.64
Truman M. Smith Co., Grand Rapids 1.47
Stanley Foundry Co., Grand Rapids 6.18
Baxter Bros., Grand Rapids ......
Vanden Berg Cigar Co., Grand

RODS oo 60.00
Hall & Gillard, Attorneys, Grand
BADIGS foo. 50.00

A. J. Daniels, Grand Rapids .... 5.00
$2,670.85

Rudolph Kapff, of this city, has filed
a petition in bankruptcy. The adjudica-
tion has been made and the matter re-
ferred to Referee Corwin. No meeting
of creditors has as yet been called. The
bankrupt’s schedules show the following:
Liabilities $717.38; assets, $85, consisting
of household goods valued at $75, which
are claimed as exempt, and $10 paid on
Liberty bond taken out through the G.
m & LL Railway €o. Following are
the creditors:

Secured Creditors.
EX. A. Maher, Grand Rapids ...... $ 25.00

Unsecured Creditors.
Bowditch Bros., Grand Rapids $ 27.76
C. H. Adams Co., Grand Rapids $8.25
Economy Shoe Store, Grand Rapids 4.00
D. H. Bertram, Grand Rapids .. 15.77
Dr. E. S. Petersen, Grand Rapids 46.50
Barr & Solomon, Grand Rapids .. 51.49
James Williams, Grand Rapids .. 14.14
Harry Verstay, Grand Rapids .... 44.47
Winegar Bros., Grand Rapids .... 42000
John M. Dunham, Grand Rapids 50.00

In the matter of Williams & Parker,
bankrupt, Muskegon, the final meeting of
creditors has been held. The _ trustee’s
report, showing a total balance on hand
of $1,067.60, was approved and allowed.
Certain administration expenses, pre-
ferred labor claims and a first and final
dividend of 5.6 per cent. was declared
and ordered paid.

In the matter of H. W. Hakes, bank-
rupt, Grand Rapids, the assets of this
estate have been sold to Harry K. Dean,
for $50. Said assets consist of 2,150
shares of capital stock of Gold Cup
Mining Company, which was of the par
value of $1 per share and appraised
by competent appraisers at 25 cents per
share. Dean, who was the promotor of
the company, acquired the stock at a
fraction over 2 cents per share. He sold
the stock to Hakes at 25 cents per share.

In the matter of John K. Burkett,
bankrupt, Kalamo, a special meeting of
creditors has been called for August 5.
The trustee’s first report and account,
showing total receipts on hand amount-
ing to $219.15, will be considered and
passed upon and it is possible a first
dividend may be declared.

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Vice-President—Patrick Hurley, De-

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Poultry Industry From the Distrib-
utor’s Standpoint.

It is a difficult undertaking to
visualize and express what
thousand people in any important
branch of a big industry see and
think. Too often individuals here and
there undertake to do this, and be-
cause their vision is obscured or be-
cause their judgment is warped ow-
ing to incomplete data or assumed
facts, there is trouble to follow.
Hence I am a bit skittish of my posi-
tion in being too outspoken in saying
what some other§ might feel cafe in
setting forth were they addressing
you on this subject.

I make the foregoing statement ad-
visedly and in all seriousness for the
simple reason that the pouliry indus-
try is as big as all out of doors and
it has so many angles to it we had
just about as well try to make up a
graph slowly what the weather con-
ditions will be six months or a year
hence as to try to forecast the drift
of our affairs. Forsooth, «here are
variable factors which govern tlie
weather, and it is equally true that
there are any number of variables
which can and do crop up period-
ically and which set at naught the
very best guesses we poor mortals
may make about the game of is-
tributing poultry and eggs.

But I believe that I voice the »est
thought and sentiment among our
trade when I say that the dealers in
poultry and eggs are generally opti-
mistic when they look out over the
situation that confronts our country
to-day. Perhaps the very nature of
the business of distributing tends to
encourage optimism, for by all the
records it is quite clear that only she
optimist can stay in the game and
keep from going broke. Your typical
distributor is somewhat like a soldier
—he is prepared for anything that
may turn up, always hoping for the
best, but always prepared for the
worst if he expects to come out on
top.

Personally, I can not take issue with
those who look forward to better
things, because I think even a cur-
sory analysis of the poultry situa-
tion throughout the country at this
time justifies the prediction that the
worst is over, at least for the time
being. I think the majority of peo-
ple in our trade realize fully that
under these war conditions we must

several

 

continue to face the abnormal for
War itself is abnormal, and every-
thing considered it must affect ad-

versely our trade and our industry in
common with others similarly situ-
ated.

| believe the majority of those en-
gaged in the distribution of poultry
and eggs are not only patriotic, but
that they are thorough patriots and
that they welcome regulations seek-
ing to curb excessive profits and
prevent injurious speculation, provid-
ed these things have ever applied to
our trade in a degree which justified
apprehension. And while I have this
thought in mind I want to call your
attention to the fact that the selling
of future contracts on our leading
exchanges was abolished voluntarily
even before the present Food Con.
trol Law was passed. I may say
further that this step was not taken
anyone believed either the
producer or the consumer was injured
-when a bona fide future sale was
made, but it was done in order to
clear up any grounds for the charge
of profiteering or injurious specula-
tion. About the strongest possible
proof that could be advanced to show
that the stopping of future trading
could not and-can not permanently
influence values is thut prices since
future sales were discontinued have
gradually advanced in keeping with
the upturn in practically all com-
modities, which as Mr, Hoover point-
ed out over a year ago, is sure to
be one of the inevitable economic
changes growing out of the war. It
is far from my purpose to provoke
any discussion here or hereafter re-
garding future trading, but when we
are again returned to normal condi-
tions I trust that some of our would-
be reformers, who apparently haven’t
even a speaking acquaintance with
the underlying principles that govern
the making and breaking of markets,
will have learned that the identical
principles which I apply to the selling
of wheat, cotton, coffee, meats, sugar
and whatnot will have to be applied
to those other enormous agricultural
products, to wit: poultry and eggs.

I am thoroughly convinced that a
great many people haven’t a clear
conception of what the poultry and
egg crops really mean. Gentlemen,
we have a billion dollar proposition
for the simple reason that we have
a billion dollar country. Statistics
are not as complete as we would like.
3ut we know absolutely that the
value of the egg crop to the pro-
ducer is well above $600,000,000 a
year, and the value of the poultry
crop is certainly more than enough
to boost the total above the billion

because

mark. Some time ago I felt the
necessity of preparing a_ particular
exhibit to be used in a case before
the Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion, and relying upon figures com-
piled by the U.S. Census Bureau,
coupled with actual prevailing mar-
ket prices, we found in distributing
centers the wholesale value of eggs
in 1917 to be upwards of $725,000,000.
Transportation charges on the move-
ment of this enormous crop will be
in the $15,000,000
this year, for we know by careful
calculation that the average trans-
portation is around 50c per case and
that fully half of the more than
60,000,000 cases produced move into
commercial channels.

The value of the commercial poul-
try crop is not so easy to figure out.
We know that greater New York
uses upwards of twenty-five million
dollars’ worth of live poultry per
annum, and it is estimated that fully
as much more for poultry is con-
sumed in that market. In other
words, New York's bill for poultry

neighborhood of

is at least $50,000,000 a year. Now
then, on the basis cf one-fourth of
the entire Trunk Line territory which
justifies us in stating roughly that
our population east of the  Pitts-
burgh-Buffalo line to seaboard and
north of the Potomac requires ap-
proximately two hundred million dol-
lars’ worth cf poultry every 12
months. The population in the terri-
tory just mentioned is only one-third
of the entire country. Therefore, we
are probably justified in saying that
in these good United States we eat
six hundred million dollars’ worth of
poultry annually.

Mind you, I am not jumping at any
of these conclusions, and I am mor-
ally certain that when we have better
statistics we will not only verify
everything I have just stated, but we
will be amazed to find that all esti-
mates heretofore have erred in that
they have been too conservative.

Perhaps I am digressing a bit in
calling your attention to these fig-
ures, and if so, I crave your pardon.
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in mind the fact that we are dealing
with a proposition which involves
millions and hundreds of millions of
dollars before we can lay claim to
the breadth of vision to deal even
with subsidiary questions which are
perforce interwoven with a billion
dollar industry that has simply grown
up and spread all over creation with-
out anyone knowing much about it.
I am not joking when I tell you that
only a few years ago practically no-
body knew anything worth while of
the economic value of poultry and
eggs, for our soothsayers, statesmen,
college professors and newspaper
writers—taking them by and large—
were disposed to let the hen shift for
herself and to practically disregard
her as a source of food supply. But
with what statistics are available we
now know that the hen and her pro-
ducts represent the equivalent in
value of one-twelfth of our entire
agricultural crops.

The mere fact that we can define
these values and express them even
in a general way gives us a tre-
mendous leverage in maping out our
program for the future and we should
use this information; moreover, we
should add to it and verify related
data as they become available here-
after. We should go farther than
this and present certain interesting
facts to the consuming public as to
the value of poultry and eggs from
the standpoint of their food equiv-
alent, not so much because we want
to detract from the value of other
foods, for there is plenty of room for
al! good foods now and hereafter.
My idea is to clear up in the public
mind some doubts which have been
created by reason of unfair adver-
tising of certain other food products,
and also to prove that eggs and poul-
try represent good food values at
whatever they may be. selling for
alongside competitive products.

Our trade realizes that something
of this sort is necessary, and that we
have already taken steps, as I have
explained to a number of you people
before, to begin an Educational De-
partmental campaign of education.
Unfortunately, these plans have been
held up because of present war con-
ditions. But we shall hear more of
them later.

If there is any one thing which
has brought good cheer among our
trade lately, it is the government crop
report issued a few days ago which
indicates a corn yield of 3,160,000,000
bushels, which is a record crop if we
have an even break of weather from
now until it matures. Coupled with
this is the outlook for a bumper yield
of wheat, rye, oats, etc., and it would
seem there will be an ample supply
of feed for poultry and other live
stock. This.is all refreshing news.
To be sure, the yield is one thing,
and the preparation of these foods so
that they can be converted into the
meats and meat substitutes is an-
other. I am sure that our trade stand
ready to do everything possible ta
see that these great crops are proper-
ly utilized, and that those people try-
ing to raise poultry may be provided
promptly and abundantly with their
indicated requirements.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Again, you may think I am di-
gressing when I| speak of our interest
in production. I believe the distrib-
utor is coming to realize as he never
has before that he has a very direct
interest in production. And why not?
It is perfectly obvious that unless
production is kept up there would
soon be nothing to distribute and
and again we should see that Othel-
lo’s occupation was gone. Per contra,
I hope that the producer has learned
by now that without the distributor,
he, the aforesaid producer, would
have little incentive to keep on pro-
ducing beyond what might be re-
quired for local use. Going a step
farther, I rather think that before
long the consumer will see very
clearly that he is dependent in a
large measure both on the producer
and the distributor, and just as de-
pendent on the distributor as on the
producer, for all thinking people who
have studied the question impartially
must realize that the present ma-
chinery of marketing is the out-
growth of years of experience and
that it is indeed the quickest, safest
and most economical method of tak-
ing this billion dollar crop, providing
the enormous financial accommoda-
tions to handle it, to store it and to
distribute it at such times, and at
such places and in such qauntities as
the whims of the weather and caprice
of the consuming public may dictate.

[ believe I am justified in saying
that we seek your counsel and co-
operation in helping to serve our
common country. The poultry in-
dustry is big—too big for any one
branch of it to try to regulate it all.

It is only by constructive planning,
constant effort, genuine co-operation
—live and let live policy—that we can
accomplish our aims fully.

I confidently believe that we are
facing the sunrise of a better day,
and feel sure this great movement
looking to a real federation of our
gigantic industry is sure to bring re-
sults which will make all feel a thrill
of genuine patriotic service within
the very near future.

W. T. Siebels.

—_22+—___
Egg Crop Worth $603,000,000.

Some time ago Leon M. Estabrook,
Chief of Bureau of Crop Estimates.
U.S. Department of Agriculture, gave
the following information bearing on
the value of eggs produced in the
United States:

“A very rough estimate of egg pro-
duction on farms in 1917 arrives at
the total of 1,884,000,000 dozens. The
average price réceived by farmers for
eggs in 1917, weighed by monthly
production, was 32 cents per dozen.
This is a fairly dependable price, and
if the estimated production may be
accepted as approximately true, the
value of the farm egg production, at
farmers’ prices, was $603,000,000.”

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For Sale

Only store in manufacturing
village of 600 inhabitants located
in good farming and dairy coun-
try. Will sell with or without
buildings. Annual business sixty
thousand dollars. Accounts col-
lected through local industries.
Other business interests make it
necessary to sell.

Marathon Paper Mills Company,
Rothschild, Wis.

 

 

 

 

 

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Merchant
Millers

Owned by Merchants

Products sold by
Merchants

Brand Recommended
by Merchants

NewPerfection Flour

Packed In SAXOLIN Paper-lined
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Rea & Witzig

Produce
Commission Merchants

104-106 West Market St.
Buffalo, N. Y.

Established 1873

United Seates Food Administration
License Number G-17014

Shipments of live and dressed
Poultry wanted at all times, and
shippers will find this a good
market. Fresh Eggs in good de-
mand at market prices.

Fancy creamery butter and
good dairy selling at full quota-
tions. Common selling well.

Send for our weekly price cur-
rent or wire for special quota-
tions.

Refer you to the People’s Bank
of Buffalo, all Commercial Agen-
cies and to hundreds of shippers
everywhere.

 

 

Egg Candling Certificates

One must be used in every case of eggs sold by the merchant to ped-

dler, wholesaler or commission merchant.

seller to severe penalties.

Not to do so is to subject the

We can furnish these forms printed on both

sides, to conform to Government requirements, for $1 per 100, postage pre-

paid. Special prices in larger quantities.

TRADESMAN COMPANY
GRAND RAPIDS

 

Onions, Apples and Potatoes

Car Lots or Less

: We Are Headquarters
Correspondence Solicited

Vinkemulder Company

GRAND RAPIDS

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Dandelion Vegetable Butter Color

A perfectly Pure Vegetable Butter
Color and one that complies with the
pure food laws of every State and of
the United States.

Manufactured by Wells & Richardson Co.
Burlington, Vt.

 

Send us your orders

ALL KINDS FIELD SEEDS

will have quick attention.

Both Telephones 1217

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It Pays to “Holler” and Keep on
Hollering.
Written for the Tradesman.

“How do you find business?” en-
quired the Aggressive
Dealer.

“It’s awfully slack,’ returned the
Drug Store Man. “Nothing doing at
all. The season’s bad.”

“Why don’t you holler a bit?” re-
torted the Hammer and Nails Chap.
“What d’you mean?”

“Holler right out loud. Advertise.
And keep on hollering—keep on ad-
vertising. If you don’t keep on hol-
lering, people forget that you're in
business. They hear somebody else
a few doors further down hollering
and they head that way.

“I know, because I’ve tried it. You
saw that floor finish display in the big
window last week. The minute we
put it in, our sales jumped. The min-
ute we put in enamelware, our sales
of floor finish took a slump, and our
sales of enamelware started to soar.
That floor finish display is still pull-
ing business, but enamelware gets
the limelight.

“T run a little advertisement—only
a few inches—in the local papers. It
cost me $40 a month. I dropped i:
for a while. I couldn’t see the re-
turns, I said—but I saw the differ-
ence when I quit advertising. And 1]
saw the difference when I started
again.

“But if an advertisement is to pull,
you've got to change it right along,
If I let the advertisement run over
a week, its pulling power depreciates.

“You’ve got to get out and holler,
and keep on hollering, if you want
to do business now-a-days.”

That is the view of one aggressive
merchant, based on practical exper-
ience.

Most merchants instinctively look
forward to a coming golden day
when their hard work will have
brought them to a point where they
won't need to work any more. Busi-
ness will thrive without effort, will
grow and keep on growing without
guidance, and all the merchant will
have to do will be to sit and rake in
_ profits. And in the midst of their
hard work right now, they console
themselves by picturing the better
day to come.

Haven't you, at least in the early
days of your own business career,
some such illusion?

For it is an illusion.

What really happens is that, in
course of time, the merchant estab-

Hardware

lishés a measure of good will, by
reason of which people prefer to deal
with him. Where he was an unknown
stranger in the community, he is
known and liked. He has built up
a reputation for reliability and for
knowledge of his business, that helps
him to hold trade. He has learned
his business, so that the tasks that
once were hard are now relatively
easy. He has learned how and where
to buy to the best advantage. He has
learned to know his community as
individuals, so that he can sell more
readily by reason of his knowledge
of individual preferences and preju-
dices. And as a result of all this, he
is surer of himself, his position is
surer, he can buy with more confi-
dence, he can sell more effectively.
And he makes more money.

But he cannot, even now, sit back
in a chair and leave his business to
run itself. He must keep things mov-
ing. He probably does more work—
accomplishes more—than in the early
days when he was a strugeling busi-
ness man.

The only difference is that habit
has made the performing of these
tasks a great deal easier. Where he
was an amateur, he is now an expert.

It is a good thing for the hardware
dealer, and the hardware clerk who
expects to some day go into business
for himself, to acquire a habit of “hol-
lering, and keep on hollering.”

Not in the mere sense of advertis-
ing, but in the doing of things that
will help business.

I have in mind right now the pic-
ture of two merchants in the same
line of trade. Harris bought an es-
tablished business. Grant started an
entirely new store, in a new stand.

Harris is quiet, easy-going. He
does a lot of work, mostly routine;
but between times he takes things
pretty easy. His business is fairly
steady, but has shown no marked
growth, In fact, he has complained
that the war is spoiling business in
his line.

Grant is brimful of practical ener-
gy. He is always devising new stunts
to attract trade. He advertises in
the newspaper, he puts on good win-
dow displays, and every now and then
he makes some shift in the interior

arrangements of his store, designed
to improve the sales. He is one of
the few merchants in town who gets
out circular letters to a mailing list
of 500 people at regular intervals.

A good many people he canvasses
personally. Particularly, of course,

where a big immediate order or a
Prospect of steady business jis in-
volved.

While he is trying out one new
scheme, he is busy thinking up an-

 

 

BUILDING LIME

Write for Prices
A. B. Knowlson Co.

AGRICULTURAL LIME

203-207 Powers’ Theatre Bldg., Grand Rapids, Mich.

Sand Lime Brick

Nothing as Durable
Nothing as Fireproof
Makes Structures Beautiful
No Painting

 

 

 

CHICAGO

Goodrich Steamship Lines

and
Muskegon Interurban Ry.
DAILY 8:15 P. M.
Saturday Daylight Trip 7:45 A. M.

$3.50 $7.00
One Way Round Trip

Half the Rail Fare

Upper $1.25
BERTHS Lower $1.50

Tickets Sold to All Points

Interurban Station
124 N. Ottawa Ave.

Goodrich City Office
127 Pearl St., N. W.

 

 

No Cost for Repairs
Fire Proof
eather Proof

Warm in Winter
Cool in Summer

Brick is Everlasting

 

Grande Brick Co., Grand Rapids

So. Mich. Brick Co., Kalamazoo
Saginaw Brick Co., Saginaw
Jackson-Lansing Brick Co. Rives

 

 

 

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Ask about our way
BARLOW BROS. Grand Rapids, Mich.

Signs of the Times
Are

Electric Signs

Progressive merchants and manufac-
turers now realize the value of Electric
Advertising.

We furnish you with sketches, prices

 

H ARNESS OUR OWN MAKE
Hand or Machine Made
Out of No. 1 Oak leather. We guarantee them
absolutely satisfactory. If your dealer does not
handle them, write direct to us.

SHERWOOD HALL CO., LTD.
Ionia Ave. and Louis St.

157-159 Monroe Ave.

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Foster, Stevens & Co.
Wholesale Hardware

Grand Rapids, Mich.

and operating cost for the asking.

THE POWER CO.

Bell M 797 Citizens 4261

 

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Wilmarth show cases and store fixtures in West Michigan’s biggest store
In Show Cases and Store Fixtures Wilmarth is the best buy—bar none
Catalog—to merchants
WILMARTH SHOW CASE COMPANY

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other. If to-day’s business sets a
new record, for a week day, his ef-
fort to-morrow will be to eclipse
that record. From start to finish
Grant's policy is one of steady busi-
ness building. The success of one
new idea is not made an excuse for
a holiday, but becomes a stimulus to
the trying out of some other new
idea.

And his business is growing rapid-
ly, in spite of the war; or perhaps
helped by the fact that the war has
set people thinking along new lines,
and Grant is sufficiently wide awake
to adapt himself.

There is room in every business for
improvement. The ideal merchant is,
not the one who possesses the hugest
resources, but the one who makes the
most of what resources he has. The
capacity for building up a_ business,
for evolving new and better methods,
for discerning and taking advantage
of new possibilities, is what marks
the leader in business.

Can you improve your business
anywhere—in advertising methods
selling methods, store organization,
buying methods, collection methods?
Think the subject over. Try out new
schemes for greater efficiency, for
the production of better results. Keep
alive to what the other fellows are
doing, and try to go them one better.
When you score one advance, plan
for another, and then another. Hol-
ler—and keep on hollering.

Victor Lauriston.

—2-.—____
Southern Michigan Fa'r Sets the
Pace.

Hillsdale, August 6—The Hillsdale
fair announces that “All baked goods
must ccnform with the rules and
regulations, as issued by the National
Feod Administrator, or the same will
not be received for entry. This rule
is imperative.”

Other agricultural fairs are adopt-
ing the same suggestion and the pol-
icy is expected to be of great value to
the food administration program not
only that it will stimulate the use of
the substitutes in the rural home but
the premium winning recipes will be
generally adopted, in every locality.
The food conservation division of the
state administration has issued a val-
uable bulletin for the information of
exhibitors in these departments which
in part says:

Yeast Breads.

Prizes may be awarded:

1. To the best bread baked in ac-
cordance with the regulations gov-
erning licensed bakers. One pound
of substitutes to three pounds of
wheat flour.

2. Best bread baked under 50-50
rule. One pound of substitutes to
one pound of wheat flour.

3. Best bread baked with as little
wheat as possible. Recipes of pro-
portionate wheat flour and_ substi-
tutes should be attached to the entry.

Wheatless Quick Breads.

1. Should be made entirely of al-
lowable flour substitutes. Sugar sub-
stitutes should be used instead of

sugar.
Cakes and Cookies.

Prizes should be given for cakes
and cookies only under the following
conditions.

1. They should be made entirely of
allowable flour substitutes.

2. They should have at least 50
per cent. of sugar substitutes such as
molasses, syrup or honey. No frost-
ings of any kind made of sugar
should be used.

Pies.

Pie crusts should be made entirely

of substitute flour.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

: Jellies.

(Maximum canning with minimum
sugar.)

_1. No prizes should be given jel-
lies, jams or preserves unless made
with at least 50 per cent. syrup in-
stead of sugar.

Milk and Dairy Products.

The use of dairy products should
be encouraged as much as possible.

A prize may be offered for the most
palatable and attractive dish of cot-
tage cheese.

General Statements.

1. No food under any condition
should be wasted. Plans should
either be made to sell the food which
has been exhibited, or to see that it
is disposed of to the best possible ad-
vantage.

2. Recipes for food to which
prizes have been awarded should be
sent to the Food Conservation Divi-
sion, Federal Food Administration,
Lansing, Mich.

3. Have recipes attached to all
baked goods on display at the fairs.

4. Recipes will be supplied upon
request from this office, or original
recipes may be used.

——_—-2-p——___
“Me und Gott.”

Detroit, Aug. 6—To the Editor:
On five distinct occasions since the
beginning of the war the Emperor
of Germany has declared to the world
that such successes of his army as
the ravishing of Belgium, the crush-
ing of Roumania, the Italian retreat
and the deception and breaking down
of Russia were due to the direct co-
operation of God with the arms of
Germany.

Would it not please God and stim-
ulate the allied world to a united
spirit of patriotism if the Christian
organizations of America, England,
France, Italy and the world should
arise in holy wrath and brand the
kaiser’s claims as blasphemous lies
and hurl them back into the teeth of
this archblasphemer of God? “And
so let it be known there is a God in
Israel.”

Has not the kaiser done a hundred-
fold greater violence to the “ing-
dom of God than Ahab, and did not
Elijah challenge King Ahab and all
the followers of Baal single-handed?
Did he not repudiate their blasphe-
mous claims, bring fire from heaven
to brand their lies, and then slay
them all at the brook Kishon? Are
the Eliiahs of the modern church
asleep under juniper trees, that they
heed not the claims of this despoiler
of nations, this archenemy of Chris-
tian civilization, this  crucifier _of
human liberty, who, while drenching
the world with innocent blood, lays
claim to being an ambassador of God,
and that God is a co-worker with
him? Delmer E. Croft.

>>
Develop a New Metal.

A metal suitable for the very finest
forms of cutlery has been developed
from combining iron, chromium, and
cobalt, according to an announce-
ment made by Professor W. L. Good-
win of Queens University, Kingston,
Ontario. Consul F. S. S. Johnson,
who is at Kingston, reports that the
new metal is easy to work and is
shortly to be put on the market in
commercial quantities.

Professor Goodwin is Chairman of
the Canadian Section of the Society
of Chemical Industry, which organi-
zation, in conjunction with Canadian
chemists and chemical engineers, is
working toward getting a higher de-
gree of extraction of useful sub-
stances from ores and finding new
uses for waste products. Canadian
chemists were responsible for the dis-
covery of the new metal, which is
peculiarly a Canadian product.

 

 

 

The “Little Gem”
Battery Egg Tester

Cane

 

Electric or Battery

Write for catalogue and prices.

We have the best.

 

S. J. Fish Egg Tester Co.

Jackson, Mich.

 

 

The Book That
Takes the Risk
Out of Buying

For many years “OUR
DRUMMER” with its net
guaranteed prices has been
famous for taking the risk
out of retail buying. This is
more than ever the case now
in these unusual times. It
not only makes buying se-
cure from the price stand-
point, but it removes uncer-
tainty in the way of getting
goods. Back of the prices in
this book are huge open
stocks of the merchandise it
advertises.

Butler Brothers

Exclusive Wholesalers of
General Merchandise

New York Chicago
St. Louis Minneapolis
Dallas

 

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—n Counselor—W. T. Ballamy, Bay

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Grand Junior Counselor—C. C. Stark-
weather, Detroit.

Grand Past Counselor—John A. Hach,
Coldwater.

Grand Secretary—M. Heuman, Jackson.
. ag Treasurer—Lou J. Burch, De-
roit.

Grand Conductor—H. D. Ranney, Sag-

Grand Page—A. W, Stevenson, Mus-

Grand Sentinel—H. D. Bullen, Lansing.
Grand Chaplain—J. H. Belknap, Bay

 

 

Tribute To The Traveling Salesman.

Recently one of the directors of
McKesson & Robbins, Inc., New
York, received an invitation to take
lunch, with several Y. M. C. A. men,
just returned from the front, who are
to-day doing such valiant work be-
hind the battle lines in France and
in Other theaters of war. At the
table the discussion centered on the
Y. M. C. A. huts and the work of
the boys in providing for the comfort
of tired, sick and wounded soldiers.
One of the Y. M. C. A. men was
asked by the director of McKesson &
Robbins to state what, in his opinion,
was the greatest problem, if any, con-
fronting the hut work near the front
line trenches. The Y. M. C. A. offi-
cial replied:

“The most difficult problem we
have is to find the right type of man
for the work. The man best adapted
to this work and the man whose work
is productive of the best results, and
under whose care sick and wounded
soldiers most quickly convalesce, is
he who has been trained to be cheer-
ful under any and all conditions, even
during times of the greatest stress
and trial, and at the same time
possesses initiative. The man _ with
the cheerful disposition and the abil-
ity to act is the one who is valued
most by us—but, unfortunately, he is
the type of man whom we find it
difficult to secure.”

The director of the big drug house,
in reply to this statement, said that
he believed he could pick out the
men—not individually, but collective-
ly—of all men who possessed the
maximum amount of cheerfulness,
and the necessary initiative. Said he:

“The type of man you need is rep-
resented by the traveling salesman
better than by any other class of men
I know of. Cheerfulness is one of
the attributes of a successful travel-
ing salesman—and cheerfulness at all
times and under all conditions. The
very nature of the traveling man’s
business—selling goods to business
men—renders it important that he
maintain at all times an even temper,
and that he radiate cheerfulness, not
alone by the smile, but also by his
general modus operandi. If you are

looking for a cheerful man—a man in
whom sick soldiers can actually see
and feel manifestations of cheerful-
ness, then I commend to you the
American traveling salesman. His
cheerfulness is proverbial. He has
been glorified for this attribute in
prose and verse. Few men are sub-
jected to as many annoying and
troublous conditions as the traveling
man—and still fewer have the fac-
ulty of meeting and overcoming them
cheerfully.

“The traveling salesman,” contin-
ued the McKesson & Robbins di-
rector, “is frequently away from
home for weeks or months at a time
—spending many of his nights in a
Pullman sleeper—often compelled to
put up with irregular train service
and poor hotel accommodations—
constantly up against keen competi-
tion. In a word, the life of a suc-
cessful traveling salesman is a con-
stant fight, and through it all he
must maintain a cheerful spirit—and
he does.

“The traveling furthermore,
must possess initiative if he is to be
successiul. Matters of responsibility
are placed upon him by his house.
His job calls for the exercise of good
judgment, discretion, keen discern-
ment, and quick action. In order to
be successful, it is as necessary for
him to possess initiative as it is to
be cheerful. I do not believe you
will find any class of men who are
so well fitted for the great work the
Y. M. C. A. is conducting behind
the battle lines, as the traveling
man.”

This idea, submitted on the spur
of the moment, met with the instant
approbation of every Y. M. C. A. man
present, and they decided then and
there to send out letters to business
houses throughout the country, en-
listing their aid in this direction.
Every wholesale house in the United
States will receive a circular from the
Y. M. C. A., asking them if they can
spare some of their traveling sales
force, over draft age, for the work
above mentioned. Applications for
these positons should be made to the
secretary of the local Y. M. C. A.

Asa result of this idea, the Y. M.
C. A. huts in France and elsewhere
will in all probability be in charge of
traveling salesmen, whose duty it will
be to aid in the rapid restoration to
heath of sick and wounded soldiers.

Score another for the Knights of
the Grip!

— >>

Your ability as a business man will,
in spite of you, be judged to some extent
by the way you dress and by your
whole personal appearance.

man,

Twilight On Little Traverse Bay.
Written for the Tradesman.
Tenderly the twilight falls
Like a calm upon the sea,
As the wood-thrush sweetly calls—
Mentor of my reverie.
Sunshine seeks another strand
Leaving mine to welcome sleep
Guarded by a starry band
Which does nightly vigil keep.
Twilight is our stepping stone
From the toilsome, tiring day
To a world where each alone
Travels his peculiar way;
There no sun does ever shine,
Far away he leads his lay
While the stars the night enshrine—
It’s the Land O’Nod, they say.
Like an intercessor—friend
Are the twilights of my years
Till the earthly dark shall end
And eternal day appears.
Charles A. Heath.

August 7, 1918

 

OCCIDENTAL HOTEL
FIRE PROOF
CENTRALLY LOCATED
Rates $1.00 and up
EDWARD R, SWETT, Mgr.

Muskegon tos

Michigan

 

 

139-141 Monroe St
Liotta Coney
GRAND RAPIDS. MICH

 

 

HOTEL HERKIMER
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN
European Plan, 75c Up
Attractive Rates to Permanent Guests
Popular Priced Lunch Room
COURTESY SERVICE VALUE

 

 

HOTEL GRANT

Mrs. W. Boosembark, Prop.
Newly Furnished New Management
Everything First-class
GRANT, MICHIGAN

 

 

Beach’s Restaurant
41 North Ionia Ave.
Near Monroe

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Prompt Service
Reasonable Prices
What More Can You Ask?

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(Steel Steamers)

CONNECTING

Boat Tr ain FOR THE BOAT

Leaves Grand Rapids Station
Rear Pantlind Hotel

EVERY NIGHT AT 9 P.M.

 

 

 

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IN THE HEART OF THE CITY
Division and Fulton

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RATES $1.50 up with bath

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DETROIT DETONATIONS.

Cogent Criticisms From Michigans
Metropolis.

Detroit, Aug. 6—The Detroit news-
paper’s street car problem is further
from a solution than ever before.
Usually there were one or two avow-
ed candidates for mayor who would
dispose of this momentous question.
This year we have five in our midst.

A. B. Wilkinson, formerly city
representative for an Eastern tea and
coffee firm, after convalescing from
an illness which confined him to his
home for several’ months, has ac-
cepted a position as teller in the
Highland Park. State bank.

George Kidd, president. of the
Woodward Hardware Co., 2090
Woodward avenue, has_ returned
from a two weeks outing at Topina-
bee.

A card has been received from
William E. (Billy) Wallace, former-
ly, Northern Michigan representative
for Burnham, Stoepel & Co., which
was postmarked New York. Billy
has been in a Southern camp and the
inference drawn is that he is on his
way over seas.

The Avenue barber shop has been
opened in the newly remodeled store
in the Avenue theater building,
Woodward and Jefferson avenues.

H. D. Murray, captain of company
A, 550th Reg., Michigan State Troops,
left last week with his company for a
week’s outing at one of the lakes ad-
jacent to Detroit. Mr. Murray is
city representative for Guy Brewster
Cady and Staff, dealers in advertis-
ing novelties, 125 Farmer street, and
is Past Counselor of Detroit Council.

Cadillac Council, beginning with
the October session, will ‘begin a
series of salesman’s meetings. These
gatherings will be open to the entire
traveling fraternity and will be fea-
tured by leading sales experts and
speakers from different business pur-
suits from all parts of the country.

A ruling passed by the Supreme
Council of the U. C. T., which should
prove of intense interest to members
of the organization provides for the
payment of insurance to those who
meet with accident when in the Gov-
ernment service on American. or
Canadian territory.

FE. E. Holipeter, proprietor of a
cigar and confectionery store at 580
Michigan avenue, has opened an-
other store at 1195 Hamilton boule-
vard and will devote his time to the
new store. Negotiations are under
way for the disposal of the Michigan
avenue business.

The United Cigar Stores Co. has
leased the store at 20 Grand River
avenue and will open for business in
a few days.

The report in a recent issue of a
Detroit paper regarding the advance-
ment of H. N. Wilhams. son of
Leonard Williams, to the rank of
Adjutant General in the army was
somewhat misléading, inasmuch as
the appointment was for one day
only. <A letter explaining the one
day honor conferred on Lieutenant
Williams was received by his father,
who mentioned it to a friend, who
mentioned it to another friend, and
lo! we have the story in print. “Len”
Williams is a charter member of
Detroit Council.

Everything is fare, paradoxically
speaking, with the D. U. R., accord-
ing to the Detroit News.

Lower Woodward avenue was
treated to a surprise that bordered on
a shock when Harry Marks, of E. A.
Marks & Co., cigar store and factory,
50 Woodward avenue, went on a
rampage a few days ago and had a
hair cut, never stopping until every
whisker on his face was removed for
cause.

The Overland cafe has been open-
ed at 739 Cass avenue.

James W. Tyre, of the Tyre Hard-
ware Co., 463 Grand River avenue,
and President of the Detroit Hard-

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

ware Dealers’ Association, returned
from a Northern vacation trip las:
week. i

“What’s in a name?” can be an-
swered by making enquiries into the
record of Michigan’s Governor.

Theodore R. Karsten, son of the
proprietor of the Karsten chain oi
restaurants, has left for the Great
Lakes Naval training station, having
enlisted in the. navy.

A baby boy—boy No. 3, by the
way—arrived at the home of Abe
Davis, house salesman for A. Krolik
& Co., on August 1. If the war lasts
long enough, ete.

Harry Pratt and P. C. Palmer, de-
partment managers for Burnham,
Stoepel & Co., motored to Toledo
last week.

Over 500 employes and their friends
attended an outing at Bois Blane
Island given by the Towar Wayne
County Creamery last Wedmesday.
The steamer Sappho was chartered
for the occasion and, as the sleepy
nulkman said next morning, “what
they didn’t do and have—well, there
ain't no such animal.”

George A. Drake & Co., stationers
and outfitters, have moved into the

building at 121-125 Woodward ave-
nue, recently remodeled for them.

The new store, modern in every de-
tail, has tive floors and basement.
The move was necessitated by the
increasing business of the firm.

O,. E. Jennings, Senior Counselor
of Cadillac Council, dropped into a
restaurant recently (so the story
goes) and Lord knows it was hot
enough to drop in even worse places
than a Detroit mastication parlor.
Orla, known all over Michigan and
Grand Rapids for his smiling person-
ality and amiability, was extremely
peeved over the frailty of the turtle
soup he had ordered. Calling over
the waiter, Orla, with a special effort
at transforming his usually agreeable
nature to a most serious expression,
scowlingly remarked: “I ordered
turtle soup. There isn’t a vestige of
turtle flavor in this.’ “What do you
expect?” said the waiter, “If you or-
dered cottage pudding, you wouldn’t
expect a cottage in it, would you?”

Frederick Stearns & Co. gave an
excursion to 2,000 employes and
friends at Bois Blanc Island Satur-
day. The steamer Brittania was
chartered for the occasion, “A day
of high grade enjoyment” was the
verdict of the happy excursionists.

The Detroit Retail Hardware
Dealers’ association closed up shop
last Thursday to enjoy a day’s out-
ing down the river. Notable among
the day’s stunts was a ball game, um-
pired by Tom Burton, well-known
local representative for the Lisk
Manufacturing Co., which ended in
a score of 2 to 2, The closeness of
the score, as explained by some of
the spectators, was caused by the
timidity of the players, who refused
to get too close to the ball in its
flight over the plate. As is usually
the case with this outfit, a pleasant
day was enjoyed. A. J. Scott, of
Marine City, Secretary of the Mich-
igan State Hardware Dealers’ Asso-
ciation, attended the excursion.

Max Girardin, Northern Michigan
representative for the United States
Rubber Co., who had his leg ampu-
tated last month, is convalescing
rapidly at his home, 67 Mt. Vernon
avenue.
ber of Detroit Council, has lost none
of his old-time optimism and is plan-
ning on “hitting the pike” again in
the near future, an event looked for-
ward to by his host of friends as well
as himself.

A letter has been sent out by the
food administration to the various
traveling men’s organizations, thank-
ing them for the able assistance ren-
dered the Government. Eighty
thousand of ‘em have been enrolled.

Warm weather, instead of keeping
members away, seemed to act as a
stimulus, judging by the attendance

Mr. Girardin, who igta mem- -

at the last meeting of Detroit Coun-
cil. One of the largest crowds in
several months attended, all inteni
on furthering the interests of S. J.
Hitchings, Past Senior Counselor of
the Council, who is candidate for
Sentinel of the Grand Lodge. Ex-
pressions of support from individuals
in;all parts of the State were relayed
to the members.

Word has been received that Mar-
tin Hansen, man of family, has been
given 60 days to dispose of his busi-
ness affairs before being called into
the service. Mr. Hansen is proprie-
tor of a thriving dry goods business
in Eaton Rapids. If the report of his
call is true, he will gladly take up
arms for his Uncle Samuel. Edsel
Ford, son of Henry Ford, is still re-
siding in Detroit.

H. Scharago, dry goods dealer, 181
Davison road, has moved to the
building three doors west.

B. Leader has purchased the gen-
eral dry goods stock of A. Rebrandt,
Junction and Buchanan. :

Inasmuch as a_ near-serious acci-
dent was averted, one cannot help but
facetiously feel that as a chauffeur,
Herb ‘Salisbury, salesman for Burn-
ham, Stoepel Co., would make a high
class business man. Herb was the
recipient of a new automobile last
week to be used in calling on his
trade. Not being familiar with the
machine, a driver was sent with him.
When about three miles from Detroit
the driver turned the wheel over to
Herb with minute instructions to
manage the car. We have heard of
Inrge. profits derived from turning
stocks often, but when Mr. Salisbury
was picked up from under the debris,
vninjured, it was learned he had a
double turnover in less time than it
takes the editor of the Tradesman to
reply to a recalcitiant labor unionist
who tries to uphold the organization.
This was one time, however, when
two turnovers were made in so short
a time at a loss.

F. Tuchowski, formerly in the cafe

business, opened a dry goods and
furnishing store at 118 Federal

avenue Saturday.

Andrew Leska, dry goods dealer at
975 Milwaukee avenue, has had his
store remodeled throughout.

The salesforce of the Simons Sales
Co., 88 Willis street, West, held an
old fashioned picnic on August 1 at
Deer Lake Inn in commemoration
of the first anniversary of the organi-
zation of the firm. A banquet fol-
lowed in the evening, at which time
the year’s record business was dis-
cussed.

Pledging themselves not to handle
German-made goods until ten years
after the war, retail merchants of
Windsor and vicinity have started an
anti-German trade campaign among
business men of Ontario. The move,
fathered by Major G. H. Wilkinson,
who served two years in Fance with
Canadian units, has met with unani-
mous favor among retailers of the
Canadian border cities, who signed
pledges not to trade with any Ger-
man firm, or sell “Made-in-Germany”
merchandise for at least ten years
following a declaration of peace. The
Border Cities Retail Merchants’ As-
sociation, which has a membership
of more than 500, will appoint depu-
tations to visit other cities in the
province to carry on propaganda
work. Major Wilkinson declares the
people of Canada will never forget
the German atrocities, but they might
be sold German-made goods unless

merchants took action to boycott
Germany and her commodities, he
said.

“Calf Island.” the summer home of
August Marxhausen, in the Detroit
river, near Trenton, was raided by
five inspectors workifge under the
state food and drug commissioner,
last Thursday. Six thousand bottles
of beer, half of it concealed in the
root cellar and half buried in the
ground, were siezed, together with a

large quantity of Rhine wine and
other alcoholic beverages. The party
reached the island by motor boat and
searched the premises thoroughly. It
Was necessary to get a tug to take
the stuff to the mainland. Three
motor trucks brought it to the coun-
ty building. A large portrait of Bis-
marck was found hanging on a wall
in the house. Calf Island is the prop-
erty of Mr. Marxhausen and his is
the only residence located upon it.

Fred A. Lavery, city salesman for
Morris Fraser & Co., has joined the
marine corps and gone to. Paris
Island, North Carolina. His associ-
ates in the house presented him with
ten pounds of candy and 800 cigar-
ettes on the day he left. H. J. Mc-
Donald, who covers Western Mich-
igan for the same house, will follow
Mr. Lavery to Paris Island in the
course of a week or two.

James M. Goldstein.

—_+-+____
Bottom Facts From Booming Boyne
City.

Boyne City, Aug. 6—We are having
some real summer weather and the crops
are responding to it in wonderful man-
ner. We were told to-day that if we
have six weeks of good weather, crops
will be the finest in years. Of course,
that “if” is a very large one and is
fraught with a great deal of anxiety.

The Chamber of Commerce, in con-
junction with the War Board, is work-
ing up a big labor day celebration, in
which all the workers in town are ex-
pected to join. It will include every-
body—workers with pen or pick, brain
or brawn or both. Fortunately we have
few of the leisure class in Boyne City.

W. S. Shaw and A. F. Henze were ab-
sent on a visit to the Tractor exhibition
at Salina, Kansas, last week in the in-
terest of the Traction Engine Co.

The steamer Griffin is delivering ore
at the local furnace for the coming
season’s supply. We don’t want our boys
to run out of the necessary incentive to
persuade the huns to go home and stay
there. “Between the iron furnace, the
chemical works and the Tanning Co.,
30ytle City is doing its bit to make the
life of the boche as bitter as possible.
We are inclined to think that the recent
—and continuing—strategic withdrawal
of Ludendorf’s skirmish line was started
in this burg.

I. R. Dean, who has conducted an auto
livery for the past eight years, enlisted
and has gone to Columbus Barracks.
If “Jim” drives for his Uncle Sam as
he is won’t to do, where speed laws in-
terfere with the full exercise of his
capabilities, there won’t be any time
wasted or any avoidable accidents.

Maxy.

Poultry, Beans and
Potatoes.

Buffalo, Aug. 7—Creamery butter
extras, 45@46c; firsts, 42@44c; com-
mon, 41c; dairy, common to choice,
35(440c; packing stock, 32@33c.

Cheese—No. 1, 'new,
choice, 24@25c.

Eggs—Choice, new laid, 47@51c for
fancy and 44@45c for choice.

Poultry (live)—Old cox,
fowls, 31@35c; chicks, 32@40c;
ducks, 32@35c.

Baans—Medium, $11@11.50 -per
hundred lbs.; Peas, $11@11.50 per
hundred Ibs.; Marrow, $12.50@13.50
per hundred Ibs.

Potatoes—New, $5@5.50 per bbl.

Rea & Witzig.

Butter, Eggs,

fancy, 26c;

——-_—_. >. ———____

J. Harvey Mann, 805 Madison ave-
nue, has received a letter announcing
that his son Morris has arrived safely
Over Seas.

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Next time you are. sick, don’t quit
work and keep on eating; quit eating
and keep on working,

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Michigan Board of Pharmacy.
President—Leonard A. Seltzer, Detroit.
Secretary—Edwin T. Boden, Bay City.
Treasurer—George F. Snyder, Detroit.
Other Members—Herbert H. Hoffman,

Sandusky; Charles S. Koon, Muskegon.

Michigan State Pharmaceutical Assocla-

on.
President—J. H. Webster, Detroit.
Secretary—F. J. Wheaton, Jackson.
Treasurer—F. B. Drolet, Kalamazoo.

Michigan Pharmaceutical Travelers’ As-
sociation.
President—W. E. Collins, Detroit.
Secretary and Treasurer—Walter_ S.
Lawton, Grand Rapids.
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Drug Store Nearly Fifty-four Years
Old.

Traverse City, Aug, 5—Fifty-three
years of successful business sprang
into existence December 20, 1865,
when Dr. B. D. Ashton and Albert
W. Bacon opened up a small stock of
groceries and drugs under the firm
name of Ashton & Bacon in a build-
ing which they had erected for that
purpose on Front street about ninety
feet west of Park street. May 1,
1866, the stock, amounting to $722,
including furniture and fixtures, was
bought by L. W. Hubbell & Co. of
which L. W. Hubbell was the active
partner and manager and Hannah,
Lay & Co. special partners. May 1,
1875, this firm closed up their busi-
ness by selling its stock of groceries
and provisions to Hannah, Lay &
Co, the drugs, medicines, paints, oils,
fancy goods and confectionery to S.
E. Wait.

April 1, 1879, L. M. Mills, who had
been owner of a drug store at Kal-
kaska, accepted a partnership with
Mr, Wait. the firm to be known as
Wait & Mills. This partnership con-
tinued until 1885, when the firm was
dissolved by mutal consent, Mr. Mills
accepting a position of traveling
salesman with the firm of Shepard
& Hazeltine of Grand Rapids. Inthe
fall of 1889, feeling the need of more
commodious and pleasant quarters,
the corner room of the new Masonic
block was leased from the Masonic
Association and the stock was moved
there January 1, 1890. On April 1,
1901, Mr. Wait took into partnership
his two sons, E. W. Wait and C. R.
Wait under the name of S. E. Wait
& Sons.

This partnership continued until
1911 when C. R. Wait decided to go
into business in Detroit, and is lo-
cated there on the corner of Grand
River avenue and High street. S. E.
Wait and E. W. Wait continued the
business as S. E. Wait & Son and the
store is a landmark with every resi-
dent of the Grand Traverse region.
The senior Wait probably has as
wide an acquaintance among the old
residents of Traverse Bay as any
man now living. What Mr. Wait has
attained—and here is the lesson to be
learned from his history—he has at-
tained through hard work, the main-
tenance of a clear, definite objective
and an unswerving fidelity to the
highest ideals. He early acquired a
steadfast determination to make a
success of his life, not merely a nar-
row personal success, but a success
whereby he could be of service to
others. And to a most marked degree
he has reached his objective. He is
always at the forefront in construc-
tive work for the advancement of his
city and State, in educational and

charitable work and in helping to
establish and maintain lofty  stan-
dards in his chosen profession. His
family, his friends, his church and
his city always find in him a helpful
companion, a devout and _ untiring
worker and a most estimable citizen.

_———2) oo
Simply a Question of Business
Policy.

A leading Western jobber has is-
sued a notice to his customers in
which he points out that, generally
speaking, trade conditions are pros-
perous, and business is good, but the
very high prices and extremely close
credit dealings in primary sources of
supply are requiring of wholesale
dealers very large investments of
capital to enable them to carry ade-
quate supplies for the retailer, and
as a result, the jobber finds it
necessary to confine credits to the
shortest time possible commensur-
ate with the actual needs of his re-
tail customers. Then again manu-
facturers and first hand dealers who
formerly granted the jobber cash
discounts of one and two per cent.
have withdrawn these discounts and
in many instances merchandise has
to be paid for spot cash on arrival,
thus eliminating the concessions: for
cash, and which of necessity must be
in a measure likewise withdrawn
from the retailer, or if not with-
drawn altogether, is a vital reason for
the jobber insisting on prompt pay-
ment if the retailer desires to earn
the discount which is granted for
quick payment.

' The object in bringing these mat-
ters to the druggist’s notice is to
suggest that the retailer with a real-
ization of changed ‘conditions will
watch his own sales carefully to
avoid possibility of selling articles
for less than they are worth, and
which with frequent market changes
is possible, and also with a view of
bringing in his own slow pay col-
lections and to advise conservation
in the method of extending credit.

Wilhelm Bodemann in a recent let-
ter commenting on the subject of
market changes, points out that some
druggists are charging for quinine, as
an example, according to market
prices, no matter what they had paid,
but utterly fail to see that they must
follow the market price when qui-
nine (or any other item) declines.
They insist that it would be unbusi-
ness like to sell at a lower figure
than what it costs in case of decline.

Druggists conducting their busi-
ness on a legitimate profit basis are
handicapped by the ignorance and
carelessness of other druggists who
do not keep posted on prices. Read
your price lists. Compare them

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August 7, 1918

 

with the prices upon the goods up-
on your shelf and if any goods are
wrongly marked correct the error.
—_—--.____
American, Mineral Waters.
Before the war Americans travel-

Bell Phone 596 Citz. Phone 61366
Joseph P. Lynch Sales Co.
Special Sale Experts
Expert Advertising - Expert Merchandising
44 So.lonia Ave Grand Rapids, Mich

 

ed far abroad to see Alpine peaks,

 

although here in our own country
there are mountains and canyons
and falls that surpass in grandeur
even those of Switzerland; so also
they imported great quantities of
mineral waters regardless of the fact
that the United States is surpassed
by few countries in the number and

For War Puddings
and Desserts
™ no other flavoring is as delight-

ful, satisfying and economical as
} ‘*mapley”’

Crescent

variety of its mineral springs. °
Chemical experts of the United Mapleine
States Geological Survey, Depart- The Delicious ‘‘Golden Flavour’’

 

ment of the Interior, say that after
American springs have been more

All jobbers or Louis Hilfer Co.,
1205 Peoples Life Bldg., Chicago. (M-213)

 

carefully investigated and exploited

 

and provided with better accommo-
dations for hydrotherapeutic treat-
ment they can furnish counterpart:
of nearly all the famous spring re-
sorts in Europe. There is also a
satisfactory assurance that if miner-
al waters are a war-time necessity in
convalescent hospitals they can be
supplied from American springs, so
that the imports may be completely
shut off without deprivation in this
country.

   

Chocolates

—__~>--->

If you want the public to have confi-
dence in you, be careful about the use
of the superlative in describing your
goods. Everything cannot be the best,
the greatest value, the most satisfactory,
the grandest and finest. People don’t
care so much about your description so
long as the quality and you are right.

Package Goods of
Paramount Quality
and!
Artistic Design

 

 

 

1918
Holiday Goods

Druggists’ Sundries, Books, Etc.

According to our usual custom during the last fifteen
years, our line of samples is on exhibition at Saginaw,
Mich., at No. 119-121 South Franklin St., second floor,
and the headquarters of our traveling salesmen are at
the Bancroft House.

Our line for this year is more complete than ever be-
fore and has been bought and arranged with the keen
sense of the requirements under present conditions and
the fact that many of our good friends must have mer-
chandise that purchasers can mail to the boys in the
camps and wherever they may be located.

We have kept this definitely in mind and our line is
bought and the greater portion of it delivered, and we
ask that you reserve your orders until you can inspect
these samples. Mr. L. W. Hoskins and Mr. Lee Wilson
Hutchins are in charge, and we advise that you make
arrangements for a date at the earliest possible moment.

 

 

Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.

Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

 

 

 

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August 7, 1918

Some Don’ts for War Times.

Don’t put money into unproductive
assets. The labor needed to produce
those assets should be used in mak-
ing munitions or in using munitions.

Don’t speculate. Prices of all kinds
of materials are likely to go up and
security prices will show much ap-
preciation. Money will be plentiful.
All kinds of bubbles were blown with
inflated currency during the Civil
War. But there are so many ele-
ments that may _ cause artificial
changes in the market that he is a
wise man who resists the silent voice
of chance and sticks close to his own
business.

Don’t hoard. We need every cent
we can get to keep business going.

Don’t waste money in unavailing
pleasures and luxuries. While thous-
ands of girls are putting hand deco-
rations on ladies’ clothing, our boys
at the front may freeze because we
can’t get enough labor to make their
suits and shirts.

Don’t use any more than you ab-
solutely need of the things that are
needed by our military forces. Eat
simple food, cut down on the con-
sumption of gasoline.

Don’t reduce your standard of liv-
ing. You can be economical without
banishing all your friends and giving
up all your pleasures.

Don’t borrow just because it’s easy
to borrow. Be careful not to over-
extend.

Don’t drop your credit for one min-
ute. Remember that there are bound
to be radical readjustments of indus-
try. Some of your customers may be

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

WHULESALE DRUU PRICE CURRENI

in lines of business that will be

brought down by the readjustment.
Stop to think the situation over and
make up your mind to curtail credit
wherever it appears necessary.

Don’t forget that the withdrawal
of thousands of men from productive
pursuits means that those who re-
main must work harder.

——s7-— >
The Tree Garden.

Written for the Tradesman.

I have a pretty garden fair
Of pine and evergreen,

The hemlock tree I’ve planted there
And juniper between,

The taller spruce and tamarack,
The fragrant balsam fir,

Red cedar from the swamp aback
Where the lady-slippers were:

And jack-pine from the sand-plains far
Are in my garden too,

Noble norways which great giants are
If centuries they knew.

The trees and I are intimate,
I know that they know me

For each does so reciprocate
My generosity.

And each is growing in its way
And has so much to do

To gather fragrance day by day
Supply each spikelet new.

And yet withal they’ve such a charm,
Such loveliness and grace

My selfish self I there disarm—
Enchanted in the place

Where perfume of the evergreens
Does permeate the air,

I hear their message—and it means
Your blessings you should share.

Charles A. Heath.

Automobile tourists insist that the
2pproach to Empire, either from the
North or South, presents one of the
most beautiful aspects of any town
in Northern Michigan. Nestled in a
valley, with wide streets, well kept
stores, well painted homes and well
cared for lawns, the topography and
landscape effect are beyond descrip-
tion.

Even a crook can hand out a
straight tip if he wants to.

 

Moore’s
Mentholated Horehound & Tar
Cough Syrup

Dealers should now be placing their orders.
Be on the safe side.
If our representative does not cal] on you, write us direct.

THE MOORE COMPANY
TEMPERANCE, MICH.

EXTRACTS, COFFEE, TEA, SPICES, GROCERS’ DRUGS,
NON-FREEZE BLUING AND AMMONIA.

 

 

WE ARE ACCEPTING CONTRACTS NOW FOR
1919 DELIVERIES OF

J. Hungerford Smith Co.’s

Soda Fountain Fruits and Syrups

If you have not signed up, drop us a card.

Protect yourself for next season’s business before it is too late.
Prices guaranteed against advance or decline.

We also carry a full line of Soda Fountain Accessories.

 

 

 

Putnam Factory Grand Rapids, Michigan

Manufacturers of

Putnam’s ‘‘Double A’’ Chocolates

 

 

 

 

 

Prices quoted are
Acids

Boric (Powd.) 18@ 25
Boric (Xtal) 18@ 25
Carbone: 2... 66@ 70
Citric ...::.. -- 110@1 15
Muriatic ........ 34@ 65
Nitric. ...5.:.., 104%@15

Oxalic ........ «-- 60@ 70
Sulphuric ....... 3% 5
Tartarie ...... 1 12@1 20

Ammonia
Water, 26 deg. ....12@ 20

Water, 18 deg. ..10%@ 18
Water, 14 deg. .. 9%@ 17
Carbonate 19

Chioride .......

Copaiba .......
Fir (Canada) .. 1 26@1 50

Fir (Oregon) .. au@_ 50
Peru ........... 5 25@5 50
POW ...50.... -. 1 75@2 00

Barks

Cassia (ordinary) 35@ 40
Cassia (Saigon) 90@1 00
klm (powd. 35c) 30@ 36
Sassatras (pow. 40c) @ 35
som Cut (powd.)
GS iceceae cae oe

Berries
Cubeb ...... ---. 1 60@1 70
Bish oo... @ 50
Juniper wescacee La@ 18
Prickley Ash .... @ 30

Gxtracts
Licorice ......... 60@ 65
Licorice powd... 1 05@1 10

Flowers
Arnica ......... 1 50@1 75
Chamomile (Ger.) 70@ 80
Chamomile Kom. 1 Taqw2 vo

Gums

Acacia, lst ..... 75@ 8
Acacia, 2nd ...... 66@
Acacia, Sorts .... 40@ 60
Acacia, powdered 60@ 70
Aloes (Barb. Pow) 30@ 40
Aloes (Cape Pow.) 30@ 35
Aloes (Soc. Pow. 90) @ 85

Asafoetida .... 2 75@3 00

POW. 255... a @3 00
Camphor ...... 1 40@1 45
Guaige .......... @1 40
Guaiac, powdered @1 5
WMG cs @ 8g)
fino, powdered .. @1 00
MAYIER . 5.5.55. w TW
Myrrn, powdered @ 7
Opium ....... 28 50@29 00
Opium, powd. 30 00@30 50
Opium, gran. 30 00w30 50
Snellac Saee So ¥0

eeccce w
Shellac, Bleached 90@ 95
Tragacanth .... 3 25@3 50
Tragacanth powder 3 00
‘Lurpentine ...... 15@ 20

ineecticides
AFSeEnICG 30.22.00), 1@ 2
Blue Vitriol, bbl. .. @11%
biue Vitriol, less 12@ 20
Bordeaux Mix Dry 20@ 25
Hellebore, White
powdered .......38@ 46
Insect Powder .... 40@ 60
Lead, Arsenate Po 34@ 44
Lime and Sulphur
Solution, gal. .. 20@ 35
Paris Green .... 48% @64%

ice Cream
Piper Ice Cream Co.,
Kalamazoo
Bulk Vanilla ........... 95
Bulk Special Flavored 1 00
Brick, Plain .......... 1 20
Brick, Fancy ........ 1 60

Leaves
Buchu ......... 1 8@2 00
a's lowered 2 wo" a.
2, Ssecee
¥% loose .. 73 718
Sage, powdered .. 65 60
Senna, Alex .....1 40@1 50
Senna, Tinn. .... 46
Senna, Tinn. pow. 60 65
Uva Ursi ........ 45@ 50

Olle
Almonds, Bitter,
true ........ 18 50@18 75
Almon Bitter,
artific cesses 1 COQ@T 20
Almonds, Sweet, :
(hue 2.2... s. 2 75@3 00
Almonds, Sweet,
imitation ...... 75@1 00

Amber, crude .. 3 00@3 25
Amber, rectified 4 00@4 25
Anise... 0.332. 2 00@2 25
Bergamont . 8 00@8 25
Cajeput ........ 2 00@2 25
Cassia ......... 3 50@3

Gaster .....:... 3 40@3 65
Cedar Leaf ..... 1 75@3 00
Citronella ..... 1 60@1 26
Cloves ......... 4 50@4 75
Cocoanut ....... 40@ 650
Cod Liver ...... 5 60@65 75
Cotton Seed .... 2 05@2 20
Croton ...:.... 00@2 25

nominal, based on market the day of issue.

Cubebs ........ 9 25@9 50
Higeron ........ 3 25@3 50
Eucalyptus .... 1 25@1
Hemlock, pure 2 00@2 25
Juniper Berries 17 50@17 75
Juniper Wood .. 2 75@3 00

Lard, extra .... 2 10@2 30
Lard, No. 1 .... 1 80@2 05

Lavender Flow. 7 00@7 25
Lavender, Gar’n 1 25@1 40
MOn <........ & 2
Linseed, boiled, bbl. @2 05
Linseed, bld less 2 15@2 20
Linseed, raw, bbl. @2 03
Linseed raw less 2 13@2 18
Mustard, true, oz @3 25
Mustard, artifil oz. @2 00
Neatsfoot ...... 1 80@1 95
Olive, pure 10 00@10 50

Olive,

yellow ....... 5 35@5 60
Olive,

Green ...-.... 5 35@5 50

Orange, Sweet .. 3 25@3 60
Origanum, pure @32 50
Origanum, com'l @ 7
Pennyroyal .... 2 50@2 75
Peppermint .... 4 75@5 00
Rose, pure .. 30 00@33 00
Rosemary Flows 1 60@1 75
Sandalwood, E.

F. ccccesesce 17 GOG@IT 76
Sassafras, true 3 00@3 25
Sassafras, artifi’l 75@1 00
Spearmint ..... 5@5 00
Sperm ...:..... 85@3 00
WANSY 2. 0..e5es «4 25W4 50
Tar, USP ...... -- 45@ 60
Turpentine, bbls. @ 69
Turpentine, less 74@ 80

Wintergreen, tr. 5 50@6 75
Wintergreen, sweet

birch ........ 4 00@4 26
Wintergreen art 1 36@1 60
Wormseed ... 13 50@13 75
Wormwood .... 6 00@6 35

Potassium
Bicarbonate .... 1 90@2 00
Bichromate ...... 60@ 70
Bromide 1
Carbonate ...... 1 8@2 uu

Chlorate, gran’r 65@ 70
Chlorate, xtal or
powd. weccecece GOQ), Go
Cyanide ...... ooee TU@M GU
lodide ......... 4 59@4 66
Permanaganate 5 50@5 6u
Prussiate, yellow @1 7
Prussiate, red ..3 75@4 00
Sulphate ...... cece @& 8
Reets
Alkanet ....... 3 25@3 50
Blood, powdered 30@ goa
Calamus ......... bu@4 ov
mleCalupauc, pwu. iow 40
Gentian, powd. 27@ 35
alnger, African,
powdered ...... 25@ 30
Ginger, Jamaica 3o@ 40

Ginger, Jamaica,

powdereu ...... 22@ 80
Goldenseal, pow. 8 50@9 00
Ipecac, powd... 4 V0@é4 25
Licorice 48@ 50
sucorice, powd. .. 43@ 00
OUrris, powdered 40 45
Poke, powdered 20: 35
Rhubarb ........ 75@1 25
Rhubarb, powd. 1 00@1 50
Rosinweed, powd. 25@ 30
- illa, Hond.
ccccccee 15@ 80
Sarsaparilla Mexican,

ground ........1 00@1 10
Squills .......... 35@ 40
Squills, powdered 45@ 65
Tumeric, powd. 23@ 30
Valerian, powd. .. @1 00

Seede
AMISO ccceuse coos 42@ 45
Anise, powdere 47@ 50
Bird, lg .......... 1&8@ 19
Canary .......... 20@ 25

Caraway ....... 75@ 80
Cardamon ..... 18
Celery (Powd. 65) 55@ 60
Coriander 36
Di

 

Flax, ground ll@ 15
Foenugreek pow. 22@ 30
Hemp ....:.. wecee CGH 56
EOnGHG .... 22 0cces 40@ 50

Mustard, yellow .. 38@ 45
Mustard, black .. 25@ 30
Mustard, powd. ..

BOR ¢.c..cc.6c. @1 00
Gueee seocecee J 40Q1 50
AEG co ccuccecces 18 20
Sabadilla ...... 35
Sabadilla, powd. 35@ 4
Sunflower ........ 12
Worm American .. @ &
Worm Levant .. 1 20@1 25
Tinctures
MOGMIG ...6...,. 1 6
deme caeeece 1 35
AVOICR coc cece se

Asafoetida ......
Belladonna ....
Benzoin Compo’d
a a ee
Cantharadies ...

00 08 >
SsSsase

gegoses

Capsicum ....... @2 16

OM ocecce @2 10
Cardamon, Comp. 1 60
Catechu ........ 1 60
Cinchona ....... 2 35
Colchicum ...... @3 40
Cube! geddeauea 3 3
Digitalis ........ 1 90
Gentian ......... @1 60
Ginger ......... e @2 00
Guaite’ ......654- @l 90
Guaiac, Ammon. @1 80
leding ...... whee @1 50
Iodine, Colorless @1 75
Iron, Clo. ...ccce 1 60
Ming 20 .......... 1 66
Myrrh ........... 2 60
Nux Vomica .... @1 1%
Opium .... 2.2... @y 00
Opium, Camph. @1 35
Opium, Deodors’d 9 60
Rhubarb ........ 1 6

Paints

Lead, red dry .... 14@141
Lead, white dry 14q@iae
Lead, white oil 14@14%

Red Venet'’n bbl. 1% 5
Venet’n less 6

Vermillion, Amer. 25@ 36

Whiting, bbl. ......

Whit

- 8% 6
L. H. P, Prepd. 2 90@3 10

Miscelianeous
Acetanalid ..... 1 10@1 20
Alum 1@ 18
Alum, powdered and

Ground ........ 16@ 20
Bismuth, Subni-
trat

eee reeeneee

4 00@4 10
Borax xtal or

powdered ...... 10@ 165
Cantharades po 2 00@6 50

Calomel ..... -. 2 69@2 75
Capsicum ........ 38@ 45
Carmine ........ 6 50@7 00

Cassia Buds ..... @ 40
Cloves .. T17@ &
Chalk Prepared ..123@ 15
Chalk Precipitated 12@ 15
Chloroform 90@ 97
Chloral Hydrate 2 32@2 42
Cocaine ...... 14 30@14 85
Cocoa Butter .... 60 6
Corks, list, less 40%
Copperas, bbls. ....@ 3
Copperas, less .. 3% 8
Copperas, powd. .. ‘g 10
Corrosive Sublm. 2 35@2 40
Cream ‘Tartar 86@ 92
Cuttlebone ....:... 75 80
Dextrine ........ 10
Dover’s Powder 5 75@6
Emery, All Nos. 10
Emery, Powdered 8
Epsom Salts, bbls.
Epsom Salts, less

ee eceeecce

So

Mirgot .......... 1 B@1
Ergot, wdered 3 76@8
Viake hite .... 18

ESSSe.5035

Formeldehyde, Ib,
Gelatine ........17
Glassware, full cs.
Glassware, less 50%

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3

    

Glauber Salts, bbl. @ 2%
Glauber Salts, less 3%@
Glue, Brown ..... 35 36
Glue, Brown Grd. 36 36
Glue, White .... 86 35
Glue, White Grd. 8 36
Glycerine .. we 40 92
Hops .... # 76
Iodine ...

ssecee OU 1s 90
Iodoform ....... 6 59@6 14
Lead, Acetate ... 25 30
Lycopdium ....
Magee. .6....:. Se
Mace, powdered
Menthol ........ 4 50@4 75
Morphine .... 15 45@16 00
Nux Vomica ..... @ 30
Nux Vomica, pow. 28 35
Pepper black pow. 42@ 45
Pepper, white ..... @ 650
Pitch, Burgundy @ 15
Quassia .......... 12@ 15
Quinine ........ 1 28@1 72
Rochelle Salts ... 67@ 62
Saccharine, oz. .... @2 90
Salt Peter ...... -. 36@ 45
Seidlitz Mixture ..48@ 55
Soap, green ...... 20@ 30
Soap mott castile 22%@ 25

Soap, white castile
CG8@) 2h... ee @32 50
Soap, white castile _
less, per bar .... @3 50

Soda Ash ...... 4%

Soda Bicarbonate 3 7
Soda, Sel... 06 .ccca 6
Spirits Camphor .. 1
Sulphur, roll .... 10
Sulphur, Subl. 5 1-10 10
Tamarinds ...... 16@ 20
Tartar Emetic .... @ 90
Turpentine, Ven. 50@4 75
Vanilla Ex. pure 1 50@2 00
Witch Hazel .... 1 35@1 75
Zinc Sulphate ... 10@ 1§

 

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ROCERY P -
as These quotations RICE CHIGAN
: are intend are carefu Cc TRAD
liable to cha ed to be faa lly corrected REN E Ss MA N
at mar nge at any ti ect at ti week] ]
itvmaciaad prices at a time. and | of going a within six hour - us, 5 ——
a e of purch ntry merch press. Pri sof maili Gs
ADV ase. ants will h ces. howe ing. Ys, 15 . oe “a Ae Chases ‘das
Blueb ANCE : ave thei ver, ar ee 45 peso aga 35 «A sorted Ch tes P gust 7
ee D Ea eir orders ce “8 ee oo ae eae 34 oe oe rails , 1918
Some 6 and 4s, 15 Ib. case .. 33. «OC ampion mels “._. Ch Pearl
Soaps = Bulk. 12¢ al case . can Chick in ~-- 29 P ester . Barle
w DECLI ao be ie es 35 co” "Ch Burka’ 36 ortage .... eat
ash Boards NED _ We barrels ay 4 Nabobs a. oe ers 7 25
| oe Nhe’ sie a 2 ce OE
akers Canned, doz. - > rash — ee --2 00 ae rein Ib. 11
> 5 c. Caramels es rs
A creas 3 Peanut Clusters vs. ge Hast Tnata i
A MMONIA c Ri OASTED puintolte - sn 35 ooo ae i
rect om °o St oe oe an Z 1
7 oz. l6c oo st acd : ar Chocolates .. . , broken phe
. BAR occ es er uans e ee :
32 eal 25c, 1 es box 2 70 Fair Corn Mair eeessesseeeeesee 19 P S .eeee 27 Flake, an ee 5.
40c, 1 d box 17 Gana : Choice s+... esses eens 191 Cc op Corn Pearl lb. s
oz. bo 5 oF oe pp eeeee P a: Lb racker- Good Aint 100 lb acks
AXLE R175 Fancy ....eeccsses, : Ad GHEWING ANCY oeeeseeseseeses 4 Checkers Pri Prize i i A tap oo
Diumo GREASE a Le 1 85 aa Black GUM ee fige 5 60 FISH : Ge Ng 16
Mica. “eg 1 lb., 4 Monba rench B ams Sa Jack sacc BD OO ING TA ae
1 wm 6 dz., do Pea eem ppo og Co N Cot CK
nice, ‘ “a — 5 : per Veo (Natural) Beechnut et ee onion ore ou ugh Drops No. > : — Lines te
, sesccee eechnUut -........... Dee ie » 3, 15 eee
5 lb. pail .. dz. 275 No Gooseb ean ee ee pete ei ceree 70 to Ses 20 Hag Me eam Boxes rag 4, 1B — emia uae 10
. BAKED te Sa * Fair erries ee oe seeeeeees 2 Fancy itteeeeee tetas 20% i TOS 1525.0: 1 40 No 5 6 i tents i
No. 1. per —— gen auley ey Gum 000 BB es coeis ie oo
No. 2, per doz. ........ Stan line erling oe ae 23 «8 UNDs & Line seetteeaes
No. 2 er doa, 22000003 3 nie ce Spearmint "Wrigleys” ae fea sg 1 2b cans oss 3 Sinai, per 100 fost :
/ oe (i Ea oO ie S See ee me eee
tnglish BRICK a ree eno .... ee s 400 OSES Sua se 2. o 26 No Flo fect bo
ea. Picnic igg 1 90 ae 70 Choic Mex 25 Eoceee cue 25 No. 1%, per i 60
aaa) ° 95 ae 3 10 i cbc a0 cq ai ican M 025 No. : per a
CS ee 37 H eS 5 az : Sn 13
Conden Jennings ee wenn! ” cc. ee ie 25 ae en fo dozen ....... 1s
Small, do Pearl Mustard, 2 _ German’ Baker & = Quart tin, 2 2 doz. 2 Size 1-1 oke—Kihy 20
Large doz. box Bluing Soused, 41 i 1 80 Premi n’s Sweet Co. Fair Guatemal % ms, tin, 1 goz. 2.7 60 Size 1- = per ra
, 2 doz. box .... 2 59 “am — ies 2 80 Premium .........+++ me aa : Gab ti tins, 1 Piecigg . . Size 2-0 per 100 .....; 8
BRE cou 2 OO omato Bo ee 1 60 ee ae 25 tins, % | » Size 3- , per in :
ae Tomato, 1 Ib. .....0.. 160 premium, Pheri Se 28 Gal. tins, 1-6 doa. 1 oie 8-0, per 100 ..01.. Da
Cencken Wiest. a DS oo 1 60 Premium, Ks wsgaid Co. Evivate ae doz. 18 50 Size 5-0, _ — ll
quaker P Wheat 2 400 Betton Mushroom eas eS ee wth .... 26 NUT e102)... i
Quaker eee ci 7 60 Buttons, Ae *- . CIGA mies aa sess as S—Whole eng 1, jesinkers 15
ee Briist Wheat : - otels, 1S ceteris @30 _ eter Dornbos. ae 30@32 oa Tarragona Jbs. No. > oer . oe
Saxon — oe 190 Cc Nena (gs @44 5¢ Dorr os Sin. B rands — Bean cae on ifornia 1 No. 4 er gross ee ae
shred eres oa, io Geese ysters 6c van mee oo a Long Bean ........ 25 a” Drake a eo ee
mpiscit heat Bis o- 4 50 ‘ove, 2 ib ee Joh Dam ecto 4 00 tae oe Sac gato ease dace f No. - per gross
het eaie is .. cuit 4 25 eos 120 Vv nson Ci sbeccees “Se cease @25 iIberts se eeoeeeee 18 No. 7. per gros
sbury’s B setesens 2 woes @1 8 utch M: igar Co. v0 -. 26@28 Walnu ss ee No. 8 per gr 8 ‘
___ellogg's 8 Geri 2 50 PAO ren — , ioe Masters, — Bogot Walnuts, Naples oe ac oe tn daca
fonsind orn oon oan ass Pears in’ syrup Dutch Masters ene 1 0) bachange’ "dai te Tablo nuts, fancy fe. OS 16,
Ponsted Gorn Flakes 4 20 per dz. utch M ters Pan. 75 00 BOY oe agate “> 26 Pecans, Large y ....16 J EXTH 2 40
‘or 7 Ss 6 3 ixchange Market, | ee TK
_indi a nore Flak oe 4 20 2 50@3 0 Dutch aster G an. 72 0 Spot M e Market. 25 ns, Ex. eee as e ennings D ACTS
Kkrumbles oe Marrow tat 2 fe — 00 oo Large’. 20 = laa
a oa 200 Karly joes... .. 1 35@1 eo Jay ........ - 12 00 Packa No. Shell erpenel 3%
pict es 4 20 rly June bees 60@1 55 aia _ anes cece 42 50 e ge Coffee P 1 Spanish ed Pure 2
prinket ee --. 2 v0 a a ftd 1 70@1 2 utch a? ral a: 50 ee York Ba: Ex le. x : ee ; Dram 15 on
rimket eves eeeeeee 2 r o- 9 2 . Va. She 1 5 ’ er
cede a 2 me Pie... eaches Det igen Hand 50 stad ag - ag Shelled @16% 2 “4 Ounce gee ae Doz.
eee 4% 0. 10 siz 16 G Masters Baby 42 oe xx) ao am rosene I 2 Ounce, 35 proce ek
oe 3 60 2 cat ple 4 30 Little D neeldeiceiend o ee — Xxx on Halve .- AON 214 Ounce 5 Cent .... .e
> BRO ” G Pin 50 tscbdg sharin aile ee i fae late z+» Ounce 35 Cer 2 a
Fane om rat nea Cc, M 42 rs 0 is s t M 4 ce.
fieney Sineior. = . Grated wtormsene 1 75 Dutch ‘Mast “iiasters 4 60 ders direct, to Ws old t0 Jordan. eaten GE unee 55 Cent 1, 510
a ‘ string Lo re eee en ye . 0 Jordan Almonds . Z ey y 5
standard ie ¥5 Ib, ¥ 50 - i aoe 10 w seconds — 50 in & Co., Le Mc- Almonds .__ @60 1 — 5 20
ommon, 2% rior, 23 Ib. 875 Fair Pay 60 yore ae te, 37 icago. : 4 Ounce ssorted 8 ov
Special, i he iar 8 6y Good oe n Eoaton a Co. B 69 Holland, Betvacte Fancy H Peanuts Moore’s Assorted ... 1 25
arehuuse - gore Bo Fancy . pece--- 1 8D a Michieen r rands pee % ng bxs. 1 #9 ate P Suns ae DU beg ov
. ee Jo. . eee ei mm Bo: Baetea Z. Vani P
- 10 60 v. 10 .... - 140 Court oo oe > Hu el’s foil, % gro. i.e mt 18@1 aye opie eke Per D
ee we psecries 1 60 Hommeter's ef mesrer S52 5 acd sgagye bok Van a5 a 18
olid Ba crub No. I ack 8 pion ’s Cham-_ 43 00 o. 1 43 Can oz. Ls a 35 C it 2 00
Solid _ 8 in N . 10, Bla Syrup Irog eeces m- CON S sted enti 19% 1% ‘ -emon 6 Cent 2 75
ie a, ce No. ck ne uol pabcee DEN nanich shale @20 l% OZ. 15 Cc 27
oak ce eer ok fee, Preserved 0 60 i Azora sicsssaseeces - oo a MILK No.l ao i lee us 25
ones - a . W. 30 zor: reement 50 nation, ‘ uk ee FL 35 Ce 2 vv
as LOO ater 10 0 Whal a Bis ent 42 Hebe, I ’ Bab 5 eo ever 18@ V: OUR Sent ares
ee 5 eba mare 00 . all y - : CRE 18% Vall : ~ AN “ io
Warrens, Geleee 0 Worden’ ae pee . - 00 s, Baby 5 00 Barrels a TARTAR Lisy geet ol erga
Sad shite s, 1 og Tall Ww cee and Made : 250 Pet, Tall . ce 4 - 3oxes .. rums . Rowena i tees ing Co.
Med. Alaska b. Flat .. 8 35 Foodhous Ante ee ee ee 600 Van Ry cere ee 5 oe 7g Graham nog eg | 11 20
Pink Red eo 3 = M oo e & Co. B 00 Van oy 3 . DRIED FR case 80 Kowena 3 lb per i 2 i 30
ao im poss 2 > Miss, Detioit“<1..01 37 50 aud sale 7 a ‘Apples dan” oltéd reat, 5 30
mon Sard bccpace 2 deal eoeecee 43 Cc 3 60 vap’d F oice, b! 25 n Gran ee =
Domestion Be aiisenlaeeneena onrecrion€ eee gn ee sl
Domestic, % Mustard ¢ 50 ok THES LINE | Horehound Canay . mac @ ber S earake 5 Ib 7
rw : : Sta : a 2a HU EER Sea LOW : eee .
|. BUTT thing = a = 23 oe 50 had scr Cotton ~ . cee = io. so+ 21 . Buckwncat c 6 38
Dandeli ER c , 8 ce 1 ° Tv Cot 80 Hee 22 ae ie ’ ot Yomp
on, OLOR N Sau seee 30 No. 8 wisted ton 2 ae Ca: ol eke alta Vats 6 86
25c size .. 2 00 No. oo. oe Kraut ' 50 oe gre 2 3 ae 3 ee i oe O30 New va on Mili r
aoe, Prieernebe S eo GC ie hoe 23 a : Perf —_——
Para CANDL occ cee 65 No. 80 raided otton 2 2 Mixed ~<...... 28 Wo ection
ae eae Es Dunbar. Sesionee , No. 50 ewes —— 2 =. Brok Candy Mui Pe -. 25% Gusken Groce 11 30
baratine, ti 000. 18g Dunbar, SE... 159 NO 8 Brut Soh Pe Had bea Mugs gate i cae - 8
Sy anaes - 4 cc 0 o. Cc seen 3 Cut Loaf -..s.ses.. Sa : 1 uaker, cl -- No
CANNED eee “a Fair . Sucectash i's oe oe ajinnnee i Grocers ng aod i a. ha 2 Quaker, 2 eloth . None
oo 40} crccccencce o. 60 Pe 15 POCETS wa veeeeeeees 25 , in |. er, aper .. one
sh ote Apples Ds Good vive vsene a lcs ae 1 73 oe rey 18 —- dee -- 16 Kan 48 paper -- None
No. 10 ndards .. gocceceneecene 1 90 No. 20, alvanized a 1 75 Novelty ers aera 25 range, a a Worle Hard si None
ee @1 60 Standar trawberrl o- No. 19. each 100ft. ire Premio eae 22 pean ooo 27 en Groce heat
@4 75 Fancy pneroniges No. 20, 2 oe ieee 2 8 re Creams ©... 23 «= Chuater, ppalsins Gol S =
Blackberrl ee 2 50 0. 19, rissa 100ft. peed 2 10 Oya | sseeceseseseiee 31 Loose co nartens American aoe, y, Paper
Standa eee es oo 1% Tomatoes -- 2 100ft. ice 00 lal ees eeeeeee. 9 hones aie 4 — S agle, %, z ss
ra No. 10 .. @ nec ce . M. Seed atels, 3 Cr. Ww prin 5
10 225 N e Leckece ce als 21 eeded ’ Cr. 9 Wi ord g Whe
@9 50 oa -- 140 Baker's COA 1lb. 10% Ning en Gr at
ele. eeeeee ; Ss Ca @1 ingold, 4 ocer
Baked Beans Hes er 3 00 Ae aa Auto Ki peciaitios oo cae Prunes , on “us bong cy
an Kimany una Bu (cs. ce Son isses (b - 90 25 Ib. oad oth
1 Kid sso- 2 Ys, nte, oe 88 nie B ask ails 70- Ib. --@ B
String eees-ss 1 pet HE: $ doz: In case Case Cleveland recs a Bh Caram Butter Bites.. 21 60-40 26 Ib. boxes | 1@ovi ee
aeons 1 50@2 s, 4 doz incase 450 Col nial, Ys cieaecbeke » Gar mel Bon orn .. 28 0- 60 25 boxes --@10% ranulated 3
we. » 1 50@2 00 -in case «ee. 7 50 E Onial. 4S ......0., -- 41 Co amel Cro Bons ( 2 40- 50 2 Ib. boxe --@11 88
= B oo Wan CAT onl CPPS ... See 35 coanut quettes _. 5 5 Ib. . Red . Whe
gtangand neers van Gusset apna 3m age aa ioe Sih, Bhs moe
bee, @2 0 8 pint 1 90 i ey's acc. 42 Ft onal M + ** OF £OuU Ce ee
re @200 . s .... 2 85 Buster . Ce 32 Hames. | Mints 7 Ib yr 25 Cali B 8 GOODS Mic ae aoe.
@ om HE fuyler ea seeeeeceeees ud nut in 2 lif : ean higa ts
Little N Clams 900 Pee ca % —— Lowney. ia Wee 30 Fudge, Clan Poan = Sea tean i iane Tens hn carlots
r OWNS, YS ve eeeeeevee. IC, es : .ima
eck, 1 Ib. a. oe) ustard 6 5 ha ce Ly Sicmean White oe 25 Brown and Picked ... 15% an carlots ...
Sic Bouiill ie beck @28 : Lowney. nt Soe sees 37 — A ect co 25 ore a... 5 oo noe
’ : YS eee Oo a eee s s
ertinen’s % pt. cats or e — Houte Ib. cans .... 37 ot mee peace 25 25 1 Ib Farina Tinna thas ick
Burnh 8 pts a. 2 ineappl a an Hou n, Ks 37 alian Bo Jellies ss 2D Bulk - packa n carlots ....
am’s qts. ..-.. . 3 75 oo @28 Van jmetca: ee 12 AA isonein Bons >. 22 . per 100 P<: 2 oes
De Ge Sap Sago : @ Van rowers, %s stanese 18 5 ib. — Drops. belies. a ee 65 Carlots : Hay
n-E ie... 8s ee! Sar eS
Domestic e Webb. ee = Lozenges, Pep. sees. z 25 purer 2 — Rusk than carlots . 73
hie Ske Nana 36 anchu “ko ners contai ce
Ww oo sarang eo seteee 2 (36) r ner Stre Feed
ilbur, \s cesteeeeaees = vib. box Kisses, 10° ° . Pearl. 0a olis 4 32 sles a. py
cccces 32 Star poerd ‘Puffs ||. 25 a ah ck . 6% Cracked "Corn. Fd
eee oe 0 seeeee
es, Asst. .. = foun 0. %. et 3 Meal
Skinner’ eo Mason IT JARS
s 248, box . Mason. pts.
case ° on, » per gro
1 87 Mas qts. bi 7
% on, % » per gro 60
tops, . 10 35
gro. 3 80

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GELATINE
Cox’s, 1 doz. large ... 1 46
Cox’s, 1 doz. small .. 9%
Knox’s Sparkling, doz. 1 90
Knox’s Acidu’d doz. .. 1 90

Minute, 1 doz. ....... 1 26
Minute, 3 doz. 8 75
Nelson’s ...... 1 50
Oxon .............. 7K

 

Plymoutn Rock, Phos. 1
Plymouth Rock, Plain 1 30

Waukesha’ ........... 60
HERBS
BEG foes 15
TIOPR coe. eto: « 45
laurel Leaves ......... 20
Senna Leaves ...... co. ao
HIDES AND PELTsS
Hides
Green, ‘NO. 1 ....0... 16
areen, NO. 2 ..:..... 15
Cured, No...) 12... ... 18
Cured, No. 2 ........ 17
Calfskin, green, No. 1 30
Calfskin, green, No. 2 28%
Calfskin, cured, No. 1 32
Calfskin, cured, No. 2 30%
Horse, No. 1. ...... 00
Horse, Ne. 2 2.5... 5 00
Qld Wool ........ 75@2 on
PIA es 50@1 50
Shearlings ....... 50@1 50
Tallow
Prune 2.6526. 6.0... @13
NO 2 iol. @12
WO. 8 @11
Woel
T’nwashed, med. - @65
Unwashed, fine .... @55
HONEY
A. G. Woodman’s Brand.
1 OZ, per got. |. ......:
20 oz. per doz. ...... 4 50
HORSE RADISH
Per GOR eo. 90
JELLY
15lb. pails, per pail . 1 45
301b. pails, per pail . > 65
JELLY GLASSES
8 oz. capped in bblis.,
per GGa 2.2.5... 2c. .c. 34

MAPLEINE
z vt. bottles, per doz. 8 00
1 oz. bottles, per doz. 1 75
16 oz. bottles, per dz. 16 50
32 oz. bottles, per dz. 30 00

MINCE MEAT

Per case 2...5......, 3 95
MOLASSES
New Orieans
Fancy Open Kettle .... 66
OCS oo. iiss... 53

Oe eae ee ce cece ese

Half barrels Sc extra
Red Hen, No. 2 ....
Red Hen, No. 2% ....
Red Hen, No.5 ......
Red Hen, No. 10 .....
Uncle Ben, No. 2

Uncle Ben, No. 2% ..
Uncle Ben, No. 5 .... 40
Uncle Ben, No. 10 .. 30

Ginger Cake, No. 2
Ginger Cake, No. 2%
Ginger Cake, No. 5 ..
VU. & L. Open Kettle,

Wm te CO C9 COED OO CB OD DO
: oo
o

moh 5 50
MUSTARD
~ & 6 i box ....../ 20
OLIVES

Bulk, 1 = kegs 1 50@1 60

Bulk, 2 gal. kegs @1 40
Bulk, 5 gal. a 1 ies 30
Stuffed, 5 Of. |... 1 35
Stuffed, 14 oz. ....... 75
Pitted (not stuffed)

TA OS oe. ee e's 75
Manzanilla, 8 oz. 1 35
Lunch, 10 On. .....2.- 1 75
Den, FG oe. ........ 2 90
queen. Marmmoth, 1y

OM yo. cs. . 5 50
Queen. Manmimmoth, 2%

ee 6 75
Qtive Chow, 2 doz. cs.

per doz: .........-.- 50

PEANUT BUTTER
Bel-Car-Mo Brand

6 oz. 1 doz. in case .. 2 90
12 oz. 1 doz. in case .. 2 50
oa 2: patie ......... 5 6
12 2 tbh pails ........ 5 7
5 lb. pails, 6 in crate 7 00
10.10: palis <.....:.<.. 21%
15 6D. Oels =... ek. 21

oo 1D. POUR. ws ces. 20%
be to. Cie |... ese. 20%

PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
| Iron Barrels
Perfection: 2 .0,..5.00. 12.7
Red Crown Gasoline 23.7
Gas Machine Gasoline 44.2
Vv. M. & P. Naphtha 23.7
eo Cylinder, Iron
Atlantic ig Engine,
Iron Bb
Winter Black, Iron

BIB eee il.
Polarine, Iron Bbls. .. 44.4
PICKLES
Medium
Barrels, 1,200 count 12 00

Half bbis., 600 count 6 50
2 60

5 gallon kegs ...... A
Small
Barrels .......,.... 14:00
Half barrels Seceecee 2 BO
6 gallon kegs ...... 2 8
Gherkins
Barrels ....:......:.. 25 00
Half barrels ........ 13 00
5 gallon kegs ........ 4 50
Sweet Small
Barrels <2 ........... 00
5 gallon kegs ....... 5 00
Hlalf barrels ........ 14 50

PIPES
Clay, No. 216, per box
Clay, T. D. full count 80
Cob, 3 doz. in box .. 1 25

PLAYING CARDs
No. 90 Steamboat .... 2 26
No. 808, Bicycle ..... 3 50
Pennant ...... ecesce. & 258

POTASH
Babbitt’s, 2 doz. ..... 2 65

PROVISIONS
Barreled Pork
Clear Back .. 51 00@52 00
ac Cut Clr 48 00@49 00
Pell as 37 00@38 90
Brisket, Clear 55 00@656 00

Clear Family ....... 35 00

Dry Salt Meats
S P Bellies ... 31 00@32 00

Lard

Pure in tierces..2744@28
Compound Lard 24 @24%4
80 Ib. tubs ...advance »®
60 Ib. t -- advance &
60 lb. tubs ...advance %

pails ...advance %
pails ...advance %
. pails ...advance 1
. pails ...advance }

Smoked Meats
Hams, 14-16 lb. 30 @31
Hams, 16-18 lb. 29 @30
Hams, 18-20 Ib. 28 @29
Ham, dried beef

Sets .......... 37 @38
California Hams 21%@22
Picnic Boiled

Iams)... 5. 31 @32
Boiled Hams .. 41 @42
Minced Hams .. 20 @21
BACON ......:5.. 38 @46

Sausages
BOIOsnS .. o.oo. 18
{iver ..... Seceseneece: Sm
Frankfort .........2;5 ~ 49
Work ......:..c0.- S48
WAL oi eck cecceees Oe
PONRUG . 24. ccs ccsccce 2h

Headcheese .......... 14

Boneless .... 25 00@27 00
Rump, new .. 80 00@81 00

Pig’s Feet
1% URIS ose 1 75
% bblis., 40 Ibs. ...... 3 40
$6. DDIS. os cca ee cocoa & OO
1 Obl... cl ee --. 16 00
ripe
Kite, 16 the. ....... «oe
% bbls., 40 ibe. ...... 1 @
% bbis., 80 Ibs. ...... 3 00
Casings

Hogs, per ib. .:........ 26
Reef, round set .. 194 =
Beef, middles, set .. 45

sheep ...... ---- 115@1 3
Uncolored Oleoma Ine
Solid Dairy ...... 26
Country Rolls .... 28 @29

Canned Meats

Corned Beef, 3 lb. .. 6 60
Corned Beef, 1 lb. .. 3 75
Roast Beef, 3 Ib. .... 6 50

Roast Beef, 1 Ib. .... 8 75
Potted Meat, Ham

Wiavor, 46 .........
Potted Meat, Ham

Wiavor, 408 .........
Deviled Meat, Ham

Piavor, 448 .......... §2
Deviled Meat, Ham

Wiavor, 4s ........ 1
Potted Tongue, %s ... 55
Potted Tongue, %s .. 1 00

RICE
Waney o.. 0 oo. 5,
Blue Kose
ErORGH 2.0.63. .

ROLLED OATS

Monarch, bbls. ..... 10 25
Rolled Avena, bbls... 10 60
steel Cut, 100 Ib. sks.

Monarch, 90 lb. sks. 5 10
Quaker, 18 Regular .. 1 95

Quaker, 20 Family .. 5 20
SALAD DRESSING
Columbia, pint .... 2 25
Columbia. 1 pint ..... 4 00
Durkee’s large, 1 doz. 5 25
Durkee’s med., 2 doz. 5 80
Durkee’s Picnic, 2 doz. 2 75
Snider’s, large, 1 doz. 2 40
Snider’s, small, 2 doz. 1 45
SALERATUS
Vacked 60 Ibs. in box.
Arm and Hammer .. 3 25
Wyandotte, 100 %s .. 3 00

SAL SODA

Granulated, bbls. .... 1 80
Granulated, 100 Ibs. cs. 1 90
Granulated, 36 pkgs. 2 00
SALT
Solar Rock
56 Ib. sacks ....... cc. | OO
Commen
Granulated, Fine ~ 2 10
Medium, Fine ........ 2 20
SALT FISH
Co
Large, whole ...... @14
Small, whole ...... @13
Strips or bricks .. 16@19
Pollock 2.2.2 .-.2..; @12%

Holland gata

Standards, bbls. .

Yo MM. bbhis: .o:.....

Standard, HORS . 2200.

¥. M. kegs ..... once
Herring

Full Fat Herring, 350

to 400 count ......
Spiced, 8 lb. pails ..... 95
Trout
£00 Ibs. ....... 7 50
40 lbs.

No. 1,
No. 1,
No. 1,
No. 1, 3 Ibs.

ED cucise 8

«anary, Smyrna ..... &
Caraway

Cardomon,
Celery
Hemp, Russian .......

Mixed Bird .......... §
Mustard, white
l’oppy
Rape ........... coccee eu

SHOE BLACKING

Handy Box, large 8 ds. 8 60
Handy Box, small .. 1 25
Bixby’s Royal Polish 1 20
Miller’s Crown Polish 90

SNUFF
Swedish Rapee, 10c 8 for 64
Swedish Rapee, 1 Ib. gis 60
Norkoping, 10c, 8 for ..64
Norkoping, 1 lb. glass .. 6€
Copenhagen, 10c, 8 for 64
Copenhagen, 1 Ib. glass 60

SOAP
Lautz Bros. & Co.
Acme, 100 cakes .... 5 50
Big Master 100 blocks 6 00
Climax 5

Malabar. 1 30

Queen White :........ 5 90
Oak Eear ....:..... 5 50
Queen Anne ........ 5 50

Proctor & Gamble Co.
Lenox 5
Ivory, 6 oz....
Ivory, 10 oz.
Star

 

ee twee rere sr eroes

Swift & Company

Swifts Pride ....... 5 00
White Laundry ...... 5 65
Wool, 6 oz. bare .... & 69
Wool, 10 oz. bars .... 9 40

Tradesman Company
Black Hawk, one box 8 75
Black Hawk, five bxs 8 70
Black Hawk, ten bxs 3 65

Box contains 72 cakes. It
is a most remarkable dirt
and grease remover, with-
out injury to the skin.

Scouring Powders

Sapolio, gross lots .. 9 50
Sapolio, half gro. lots 4 85
Sapolio, single boxes 3 40
Sapolio, hand ..... «es 2 40
Queen Anne, 80 cans 1 80
Queen Anne, 60 cans 3 60
Snow Maid, 30 cans .. 1 80
Snow Maid. €0 cana .. 3 4&0
Washing Powders
Snow Boy, 100 pkgs. . 5 45
Snow Boy, 60 pkgs. .. 3 55
Snow Boy, 24 pkgs. 5 00
Snow Boy, 20 pkgs. .. 5 25

 

Soap Powders
Johnson’s Fine, 48 2. 6 75
Johnson’s XXX 100 .. 5 75
Rub-No-More ...... ..
Nine O'Clock 4
Lautz Naphtha, 60s ..
os Leaf Soap Powder,

Be oe ks
Oak Vent Soap Powder.
TOG pes. 0c: . 5 50
Queen Anne Soap Pow-
der, 60 pkgs. 3

eeceee

SODA
Bi Carb, Kegs

SPICES

Whole Spices
Allspice, Jamaica ..9@10
Allspice, Ig. Garden @11
Cloves, Zanzibar .. 7
Cassia, Canton .. a
Cassia, 5c pkg. doz. _
Ginger, African ....
Ginger, Cochin .. : oan

Mace, Penang ......

wixed, No. 1 ..... . $i
Mixed, No. 2 ....... @16
Mixed, 5c pkgs. dz. @45
Nutmegs, 70-80 .... @45
Nutmegs, 105-110 .. @40
Pepper, Black ..... @32
Pepper, White ..... @40
Pepper, Cayenne .. @22

Paprika, Hungarian
Pure Ground In Bulk
Allspice, Jamaica .. @16

Cloves, Zanzibar @68
Cassia, Canton @32
Ginger, African .... @25
Mace, Penang ..... 1 06
Nutmegs ....... onus 36
Pepper, Black ..... @35
Pepper, White ..... @48

Pepper, Cayenne .. @30
Paprika, Hungarian @45

STARCH

Corn
Kingsford, 40 Ibs. .. 9%
Muzzy, 48 lib. pkgs. 9%

Kingsford
Silver Gloss, 40 l1lb. .. 9%
Gloss

Argo, 48 5c pkgs. 40
Silver Gloss, 16 8lbs. .. 9%
Silver — 12 6lbs. .. 9%

48 llb. unemnet ae a 9%
16 3lb. packages ...... 9%
12 61b. packages ...... 9%
S@ Ib. boxes .......... 6%
SYRUPS
Corn
Barrels ........ Bucs 72
Half barrels ........... 75
Blue Karo, No. 1%,
2 GOR. 226s ce. 2 65

Blue Karo, No. 2, 2 dz. 3 30
Blue Karo, No. 2%, 2
Oe ceceeee

4
No. 5, 1 dz. 3 95

Blue Karo,
a Karo, No. 10, % i“
Red ea. No. 1%, 2
Gem occ es 2 80
Red Karo, No. 2, 2 dz. 8 55
Red Karo, No. 2% 2dz. 4 40
Red Karo, No. 6, 1 dz. 4 25
Red Karo, No. 10 %
Co Ee 4 00
Pure Cane
Fair ...... ec cececcuece
Good ........ sues e
noice
TABLE SAUCES
Halford, large ........ 3 75
Halford, small ...... 2 26
TEA
Uncolored Japan
Medium. . ......:.... 20@25
@hotea. . 2.6.2... 28@33
Raney ... 5... 1.6... 36@45
Basket-fired Med’m 28@30
Basket-fired Choice 35@87
Basket-fired Fancy 38@45
No. 1 Nibbs <....... @32
Siftings, bulk ...... @14
Siftings, 1 lb. pkgs. @17
Gunpowder
Moyune, Medium .. 28@33
Moyune, Choice 35@40
Ping Suey, Medium 25@30
Ping Suey, Choice 35@40
Ping Suey, Fancy .. 45@50
Young Hyson
@holee ......2.0.... 28@30
Waney ..50 2050.0... 45@56
Oolong
Formosa, Medium .. 25@26
Formosa, Choice 32@35
Formosa, Fancy 50@6u
English Breakfast
Congou, Medium .. 25@30
Congou, Choice .... 30@35
Congou, Fancy 40@60
Congou, Ex. Fancy 60@80
Ceylon
Pekoe, Medium .... zaaeee
Dr. Pekoe, Choice 30@%5
Flowery O. P. Fancy 40@50
TWINE
Cotton, 3 ply ......... . 67
Cotton, 4. og sieges oe se a 67
Hemp, 6 piv ..........

3h
Wool, 100 ne bales .... 20

VINEGAR
White Wine, 40 grain 17
White Wine, 80 grain 22
White Wine, 100 grain 25

Oakland Vinegar & Pickle
Co.’s Brands
Highland apple cider
Oakland apple cider ..
State Seal sugar .....
Blue Ribbon Corn ..
Oakland white picklg
Packages free.

WICKING
No. 0, per gross ...... 50
No. 1, per gross ...... 65
No. 2, per gross ...... 90
No. 3, per gross ..... 1 45
WOODENWARE
Baskets
Mushals .... 0... .2. 2. 1%
Bushels, wide band .. 1 85
Market, drop handle .. 70
Market, single handle 75
Splint, large ......... 5 78
Splint, medium ...... 5 25
Splint, small ........ 4 75
Willow, Clothes, large
Willow, Clothes, small
Willow, Clothes, me’m
Butter Plates
Ovals
% Ib., 250 fin crate .... 45
44 3D., 250 in erate .... 45
1 ib, 256 im crate ..... 50
9 ib:, 250 in erate ..... 55
3 ID., 250 im crate ....: 70
5 Ib., 250 in crate ..... 90
Wire End
I Ib., 250 in erate ..... 50
2 Ib, 250 in crate ..... 55
3 \b., 250 in crate ..... 65
5 ¥p., 20 in erate ....:. 75
Churns
Barrel, 5 gal., each .. 2 40
Barrel, 10 gal. each ., 2 55
Clothes Pins
Round Head
4% inch, 5 gross ....1 10
Cartons, No. 24 24s bx. 1 15

Egg Crates and Fillers
flumpty Dumpty, 12 dz. 24
No. 1 complete
INo. 2 complete ........
Case, medium, 12 sets 1 80

Faucets
Cork lined, 3 in. ....... 70
Cork Hned, 9 im. ...... 80
Cork lined, 10 in. ...... 90
Mop Sticks
Trojan spring ....... 1 50
Eclipse patent spring 1 50
No. 1 common ...... 1 50
No. 2, pat. brush hold 1 50
Ideal, No 7 .-......... 50
120z. cotton mop heads 3 190
Palis
10 qt. Galvanized .... 4 50
12 qt. Galvanized .... 5 00
14 qt. Galvanized .... 5 50
Mibhre. 5.200 5 50

Toothpicks

Birch, 100 packages .. 2 00
Ideal

Traps
Mouse wood, 2 holes .. 22
Mouse, wood, 4 holes .. 45
10 qt. Galvanized .... 1
12 ut. Galvanized .... 1 70
14 qt. Galvanized ....1
Mouse, wood, 6 holes .. 70
Mouse, tin, 5 holes .... 65

Rat, wood .............- 84
Rat, sprimg <.........<. 15
Tub
INGO. 1 Fibre ..:....... 16
Ne. 2 Fibre ......... 15
Ne. © Bibre .........- 13

Large Galvanized ...
Medium Galvanized
Small Galvanized

Washboards
Banner Globe
Brass, Single
Glass, Single ........
Double Peerless
Single Peerless
Northern Queen
Good Enough
Universal

Window Cleaners

ee OE ool. ce. 1 65
WAT a as eens s oe 1 85
$6 tm oes 2 30
Wood Bowls
18 im. Butter ........ 1 90
15 in. Butter ........ 7 00
17 im Butter ....... 8 00
4193 in. Butter ........ 11 00

WRAPPING PAPER

Fibre, Manila, white .. 6
Fibre. Manila, colored

INO. 1 Manila ...... 7%
Butchers’ Manila .... 6%
Wate oe oe. i

Wax Butter, short e’nt 20
Parchm’t Butter, rolls 22

29

YEAST CAKE
Magic, $ doa ........ 1 15
Sunlight, 3 doz. ...... 1 00
Sunlight, 1% doz. .... 50
Yeast Foam, 3 doz. .. 1 15

Yeast Foam, 1% doz. 85

YEAST—COMPRESSED
Fleischman, per doz ..24

 

S ECIAL
Price Current —

SALT
Diamond Crystal

 

24 2 lbs. shaker ..... 1 70
a6 2 ibs. table ....... 1 30
160 2 Ibs. table ...... 5 75
86 3% Ibs. table 5 60
283 10 Ib. flake ...... 4 80
280 lb. bulk butter ... 3 38
280 lb. bulk cheese ... 3 38
280 lb. bulk shaker .. 3 88
28 Ib. cotton sk, butter 40

56 Ib. cotton sk butter 85
35 Ib. D. C.° coarse .. 48
70 Ib. D. C. coarse ... 90
D. C. stock briquettes 1 30

D. C. block stock, 50 Ibs. 40

Morton’s Sait

  

Mortons

FREE RUNNING

SALT

iT PQURs
ee

     
    
     

Per case, 24 2 Ibs. .... 1 80
Five case lots ..... le 70
ARCTIC
EVAPORATED MILK
TESLE ooo ba cdeece ees 6 00
Baby. ..... weedesccuee 4 25

Manufactured by Grand
Ledge Milk Co.

Sold by all jobbers and
National Grocer Co., Grand
Rapids.

BAKING POWDER
Ryzon
The Perfect Baking Powder
15e size, % lbs. 4 doz. 1 35
25c size, % Ibs. 2 doz. 2 25
40e size, 1 Ibs., 1 doz. 3 60
$1.75 size, 5 lbs. % dz. 15 75

THE ONLY
5c CLEANSER

9 iEans-scours
i rote porishes

 

80 can cases, $4 per case

AXLE GREASE

 

1 Ib. boxes, per gross 11 40
3 lb. boxes, per gross 29 10

 

iii iss aaa:

  

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

August 7, 1918

 

NATIONAL WAR LABOR BOARD

 

Its Effect on Public Affairs and In-
dustry.

No more practical bit of idealism
has been tried in the United States
than the operation of the National
War Labor Board. We have been
in the war a year. In _ the single
month of September, 1917, according
to the report of the Bureau of Labor
Statistics of the Department of La-
bor of the United States, there had
been, upon the imperfect figures ob-
tainable, a greater loss of man power
production, measured in the number
of persons involved in strikes, the
number of strikes and the average
days duration of such strikes—there
had been more days lost in the month
of September, 1917, the sixth month
after our entry into the war, than
were lost, according to figures pre-
sented in the same publication, from
the same source, in the whole calen-
dar year of 1916 in the German Em-
pire.

This is a war of production. The
defeat of production is the defeat of
an army that relies upon it to perform
its functions,

To prevent loss of production and
to increase the efficiency of the pro-
ducer is the first function of an in-
dustrial nation engaged in the task of
national self-defense. England found
herself confronted with a series
of restrictions upon her _ produc-
tion, developed in the course of
a systematic philosophy of the
wage-earning organizations, supple-
mented by a lack of the progressive
sense of mechanical improvement on
the part of a very large number of
her manufacturers. England was be-
coming industrially decadent. She
has had a most remarkable industrial
renaissance. Ninety per cent., sub-
stantially speaking, of the trades upon
which the British Empire relies for
the production of the supplies and
equipment of war and for her ship-
building program were highly organ-
ized. According to the inventory
made by the Naval Consulting Board
and published as a part of the fa-
mous Kernan report, we entered the
war with; substantially little) more
than 10 per cent. of our industries
organized. But we had more inter-
ruptions of production in the first six
months of the war, proportionately
speaking, than did England.

The National War Labor Board
was an effort to secure a modus vi-
vendi for the period of the war, pred-
icated substantially upon the ante-
bellum relations of the contending
parties, subject, as I understood it,
in every phase of the agreement to
the underlying principles of our insti-
tutions which fix the relations of our
employers and employes by a law
greater than any they can create be-
tween themselves.

But Britain undertook to secure
this result by an agreement between
the Government and the organized
trades of the British Empire, to which
the employers were not a party. That
was substantially expressed in the
famous treasury agreement of 1915,
and was reinforced by the munitions
acts of 1915 and 1916. So that the

 

agreement reached between the Brit-
ish Government and the workers of
Great Britain was translated into law
and had the force of public author-
ity, even if it were not thought politic
at all times to assert it and re-enforce
its provisions,

The National War Labor Board is
a body without legal authority. It
can compel no man to remain at
work. It can compel no man to sub-
mit his cause. It can compel no man
to abide by its decision. It possesses
nothing but moral authority, and
moral authority sanctioned by the cir-
cumstances of national necessity.
Upon the side of organized labor, the
employe members were appointed by
an organized national movement
which elected its representatives, rep-
resenting it is true a very small mi-
nority of those engaged in gainful oc-
cupation in the United States. But
that, in these practical times, is mere-
ly an illustration of the fact that when
it comes to questions of public in-
fluence and opinioo, a highly organiz-
ed mingrity is much more efficient
than a highly unorganized majority.

The employers were represented
through selections made by the Na-
tional Industrial Conference Board.
How large a percentage of all those
engaged in American industry are
represented it is somewhat difficult
to estimate. The fact is that that
Board, created for the period of the
war, is running to-day upon no
authority other than moral sanction.
Its success must represent the work-
ing personality involved, and it can
succeed in only one way, and that is
by the utmost good faith on the’ part
of both employer and employe. It
will demand self-restraint upon the
part of both. It will demand a recog-
nition of the circumstances under
which it has come into existence, and
the relationship of interrupted pro-
duction to the accomplishment of the
purpeses of the war. But if either
labor, in the persons of the organiza-
tions represented, or employers, in the
persons of the industries represented,
by their selfishness, their narrowness
of vision, their unwillingness to sub-
ordinate their own interest to that of
the nation, become responsible for
the failure of this effort to secure an
uninterrupted production, I believe
the heavy hand of public opinion will
fall upon the guilty party, and that he
will stand pilloried before the Amer-
ican people, to assume a responsibil-
ity more terrible when it arises from
a moral sanction than frequently aris-
es from unenforced criminal statutes.
And it has been brought forth in
great personal sacrifice.

I know the men who are repre-
senting the employers on that board,
and I can speak for them, because I
know that they personally are ful-
filling their difficult functions at great
personal sacrifice, and that many of
them are not only undertaking to
solve the very difficult personal and
economic problems there presented,
but are undertaking at the same time
to do their part to contribute to the
conduct of the war the most difficult
and original pieces of production that
have been undertaken in its course.
The distinguished ex-president of the

 

United States who is presiding over
that board has sacrificed many en-
gagements of long standing, his pro-
fessorship at Yale, and is serving, at
very great expense to himself, in the
Capital of our country, which has
been transformed from one of the
most restful, peaceful cities of Amer-
ica into a military camp where he
who serves best pays the most rent.

It is a very interesting and remark-
able social experiment that we have
undertaken, and it illustrates what
but few of us realize, that we are not
standing here waiting for reconstruc-
tion. We are in the midst of it. We
cannot be static forces in a dynamic
world, and the earth is in motion. I
cannot agree with those gentlemen
who think that the past is dead and
that we live only for to-morrow, for
our roots are in the past. Our flower-
ing is in the future. I cannot believe
with those who think you can banish
the tablets of Sinai or wipe away the
Sermon on the Mount, or that either
the contributions of religion and mor-
ality or of history and experience can
be wiped off the tablets of the human
memory, and the earth peopled by a
race who think they have nothing to
do but spring into an unknown and
uncertain future from a footing that
has lost its value.

Great changes have taken place
since this board was created. We
had entered upon this war with two
and a half years of European exper-
ience before us, with a good deal oi
the spirit of children who are never
convinced that a stove is hot until
they have had their fingers on it. The
war was still, in terms of our person-
al experience, something like a rail-
way catastrophe that impedes and de-
lays traffic, but only temporarily in-
terrupts the usual flow of motion in
a specific direction. We
realize that war had become the state
of life for the human family. Thank
God we have made up our mind to a
few things, and however late we were
in realizing that the lesson of Bel-
gium was that no treaty was respect-
ed by those who had broken it, and
that the lesson of the Lusitania was
that international law meant nothing
to a people who were their own law,
we have at length made up our minds
that the center of human intelligence
is not in the State of Nebraska, and
that the murderous policy of the Ger-
man submersible is not to be over-
come by the rhetoric of a Chautauqua
submissible. We are beginning to
think now that those who talk about
peace without victory speak with a
German accent.

I have never been a military or an
industrial pacifist. I have never seen
much that men can enthuse about that
they did not fight for. I have still to
be convinced that in a world of bur-
glars you can banish the police, and
that those who manufacture bullets
and bars have gone out of business
in the millenium.

I believe we are going through a
period of great change. I think it
requires no power of prophecy to per-
ceive that there will be greater chang-
es in the future, and that there are
radical changes in the present. But
this is not the first time that the

did not |

world has faced radical change. In
some four thousand years of recorded
historic effort we have had periods
when for three centuries the very
foundations of civilization were
trampled under foot, when the bar-
barians had wiped out the material
civilization of the Roman Empire
and left only a fringe of scholarship
and moral hopes to rebuild the Ren-
aissance of Italy. But they did it.
We went through the Civil War,
when a young nation we lost in cas-
ualities due to death, wounds and dis-
ease, a million of the best blood of
the North and South; yet the period
that followed the Civil War was_ the
greatest period of material develop-
ment in the history of these United
States. Then we builded our great
railroads. We opened up the West,
we dug our mines, we leveled our
forests, we established American in-
dustries, and we did it with the bro-
ken remnants, to speak in terms of to-
day, of the youth decimated by the
most savage and _ bitterest struggle
ever fought within the confines of a
civil state. How did we do it? We
did it because immediately after the
great period of the Civil War, under
the stimulating impluse of necessity
we multiplied the power of the human
hand. We increased all the instru-
mentalities of rapid communication
and transport. We used the powers of
transport. We used the powers of
the human mind to supply the defic-
iencies of the human body, and we are
living in a world to-day in which the
capacity for mechanical productions
under the inspiration of ingenuity and
skill, in the partnership of science, is
vastly multiplied: and to-day, with the
help of women, the race is entering
on a new era of multiplied power.
They tell us the losses of this g'-
gantic struggle may foot up to be
sixteen million men. Well, that is
terrific, but what of it? Within the
past decade how many times sixteen
millions have we multiplied the pro-
ducing capacity on the human race?
You no longer build your factories by
the flowing river. You no longer de-
pend upon the uncertain motions of
the wind. You no longer linger in
the shadowy uncertainties of the early
steam-engine. You build your fac-
tory where you like, and you carry to
it the power that operates it. The
mysterious lightning of the heavens
is now your slave and servant, and it
transmits itself at the touch of the
most delicate finger to the place of its
task. Within thirty years you have
wiped out one-third of the wind pow-
er that drove our navigation over the
seas. You have reduced the distance
across the continent and between the
nations. You have established over
the whole face of the world new ef-
forts of colonization, made possible
by the development of transportation,
by new applications of power, and the
highly civilized and industrially pro-
gressive inhabitants of the most
highly paid nation in the world have
competed with the cheapest and poor-
est and most lowly paid labor, China
and Japan, and met it successfully
and kept it out of the markets of
mankind upon equal terms, merely
because they could multiply their ca-

 

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August 7, 1918

pacity to produce. So I do not look
forward to the mechanical future of
the world with the fear of some of
those who think the world must stop
because it has lost so many human
hands. New human hands arise. It
is possible to-day for the delicate
hands of a woman to manipulate a
great machine tool with the same
ease that she touches the keys of a
typewriter. Within one week I have
seen a woman, with three months of
experience in a shop, handling the
delicate tooling of a four-inch naval
gun, with an allowance of two one-
thousandths of an inch, and doing it
with a skill and dexterity and keen-
ness of understanding that aroused
the admiration of the men who work-
ed beside her.

Another thing is that we are ob-
vicusly rousing dormant labor pow-
ers hitherto untouched. If we have
lost from the human family sixteen
millions of souls—and, God help us,
we can ill spare them—we have quick-
ened five hundred million into con-
tact with modern life. We have stir-
red Russia, China, Japan and the
sleeping millions of India, rousing in-
to the service of the human race un-
told millions of human hands from
whom before we had had substantial-
ly little contribution in production for
the necessities of the human family.
More than that, gentlemen, if we
look out upon our public affairs from
the standpoint of our own Nation, we
have gone through tremendous chang-
es, many of which are likely to be
for the better.

A year ago the business man re-
garded his Government too frequent-
ly in the light of a political relation-
ship that was irritating and vexatious.
His business relations with it were
confined very frequently to the pay-
ment of taxes and the purchase of
postage stamps. He did not do busi-
ness with his Government or for it.
It was a pocr customer, irritating, in-
conveniencing, slow in its payments,
and with the many demands upon his
time that were not proportionate to
the price paid him for his product.
He found more profitable the larger
market of private employment. To-
day this is all changed. The Govern-
ment of the United States is the
greatest customer of American indus-
try and commerce and transportation.
In one short year the Government of
the United States has passed from an
irritating regulator of the railroad
system of the United States to an
employer capable of locking out all
the railroad presidents of the Unite
States over night.

The ordinary markets are deranged.
Materials are difficult to obtain, or
in many instances unobtainable. The
transportation essential to the con-
duct of your business is uncertain, de-
layed, sometimes denied. Foreign
markets of a normal character have
disappeared. A tariff discussion, so
dear to the heart of the American
manufacturer, is to-day incapable of
taking place. You could not bring
together a body of American manu-
facturers to-day who could discuss
foreign costs, shipping charges, for-
eign wages, or make any comparisons
in the production cost which could be

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

translated into terms of commercial
competition. We are at war, and we
have only one job, to win it.

James A, Emery.

Looking Ahead to Thanksgiving.
In the effort to stop the wasteful
practice of slaughtering broiler tur-
keys—those weighing from two to
four pounds—the Food Administra-
tion is approaching the problem
through three different channels.

Farmers are requested to raise
their turkeys to maturity, thereby
adding to the nation’s meat supply;
dealers have been notified of the
Food Administration’s desire that
they refrain from purchasing the im-
mature birds; hotels, clubs and res-
taurants where most of the broiler
turkeys ar consumed have been ask-
ed to discontinue serving them.

It is pointed out that turkeys, un-
like chickens, do not become plump
and well-meated until nearly full
grown.

—__2- 2 ___

Shattering The German Sword.

Famine is Germany's trusted
weapon in her plan of conquest and
slavery. By this dread power she has
enforced the deportation of workers,

broken down the family unit and
caused indescribable terror and
anguish.

Famine has desolated Poland, dis-
organized Russia and forced Rou-
mania to peace.

Germany counted on this weapon
in her warfare against Europe, and
boasted that her submarines would
cut off food supplies and bring Eng-
land to her knees in three weeks.

But America has. shattered the
German sword. She has loaded every
steamer that came to her shores and
the Allies have been fed.

—~+2.——_

Great Britain Escapes Bread Ra-
tioning.

America’s self-denial in saving

wheat has enabled Great Britain to
escape the necessity of rationing
bread. With higher extraction in
milling and through the addition of
substitutes, the British have been able
to extend the bread value of the
wheat which America has sent.

As a result they are feeling a se-
curity which has added greatly to the
morale of the people. Now they are
looking forward to building up food
reserves against possible lean years
to come.

——_e-2-
Shift in Shirt Trade.

Many retailers who never before
bought men’s shirts to retail for more
than $2 each are now goitg into the
most expensive lines, according to
reports from local wholesale dis
tributers. In all communities where
there is any manufacttiting activity,
shirts to retail for as much as $10
and $12 apiece are taken in quite
liberal quantities.

— >>

If you are made of the stuff that
wins, you will not take up much of your
time complaining about hard times, the
war, a bad location, and other com-
plaints of the quitter. You'll turn to
yourself and say: “J guess it is right up
to me to make good.

31

 

BUSINESS WANTS DEPARTMENT

Advertisements inserted under this head for three cents a word the first
Insertion and two cents a word for each subsequent continuous insertion.

If set in capital letters, double price.

must accompany all orders.

No charge less than 25 cents. Cash

 

BUSINESS CHANCES.
For Sale—Standard adding and listing

 

machine in good condition. Capacity
99,999,999,99. H. O. Miller, Eaton Rapids,
Michigan. 861

 

For Sale—Cheese factory in Southern
Idoha. 3,000 to 5,000 pounds milk. Equip-
ment used only one season. Exceptional
opportunity for cheese maker wanting
business for himself. $2,000 down and
balance your own terms. Address: Ster-
ling Creamery, Twin Falls, Idaho. 862

Dry goods salesmen wanted for a
number of our stores in Illinois and
Wisconsin. Men that are not in the
draft; splendid opportunities for men
that can sell goods and use their heaas.
Address, The McAllister Stores Co., 208
So. LaSalle St., Chicago, Illinois. 863

Bargains—Furnish you names and ad-

 

 

dresses free, businesses, farms, unim-
proved lands, any kind anywhere. West-
ern Sales Agency, Minneapolis, a
sota.

 

Wanted—To hear from owner of good
business for sale. State cash price, full
particulars. D. Bush, Minneapolis,
Minnesota. 789

 

Wanted—First-class meat cutter. Not
in the draft. Must furnish references.
Good _ salary. Address Sanitary Cash
Market. Junction City, Kansas. 864

 

For Sale—To close an estate, we are
desirous of selling first-class stock of
general merchandise located in splendid
store building in heart of the resort

 

 

region. Stock and fixtures valued at
$6,000. Estate of F. E. Martin, Indian
River, Michigan. 865
Wanted—Grocery fixtures for new
store. Must be complete and good. Ad-
dress No. 866, care Michigan Trades-
man. 866
Will Sell—At old prices $9,000 stock

staple dry goods and furnishings. No

ready-to-wear. An exceptional oppor-
tunity for some merchant. Clean staple
merchandise much below market. Stock

No trades considered.
Stuart, Edmore, Michigan. 867

can be moved.
A. E.

 

Merchants—If you want to close out
your stock or raise money quickly, try
my ten days sales system. Address
W. A. Anning, Aurora, Illinois. 868

 

For Sale—A great opportunity to buy
a first-class cafeteria in the best city in
the State. A long lease ana a reasonavie
price. Big soldier trade. Address Sack-
rider Cafeteria, 11 East Main street,
Battle Creek, Michigan. 852

 

For Sale — Clean, up-to-date stock;
hardware, stoves and paints; also fix-
tures; corner location; best in city; es-
tablished 1847; population about 12,000;
inventory about $10,000. If you want

something good, get busy. No trade.
Location, Holland, Michigan. Address
J. A. Vanderveen. 854

 

Refrigerating Machine For Sale—We
have small, used refrigerating machines,
traded in on larger ones, we can guaran-
tee and erect completely at about one-
half price. H. A. Born Co., _

 

For Sale—Stock of shoes and men’s
furnishings in town of 1,000. Only stock
of the kind in town. Wish to retire from
business. Address No. 857, care Michigan
Tradesman for location. 857

For Sale—Grocery wagon in good con-
dition. A. I. Ulrich, Parkville, —_

 

SPECIAL SALES—Greene Sales Co.,
expert special sales conductors, Jackson,
Michigan. 830

 

Will pay cash for whole or part stocks
of merchandise. Louis Levinsohn, Sagi-
naw. Michigan. 757

Safes Opened—W. L. Slocum, safe ex-
pert and locksmith. 128 Ann St., N. E.,
Grand Rapids, Michigan. 104

Cash Buyers of clothing, shoes, dry
goods and furnishings. Parts or entire
stocks. H. Price, 194 Forrest Ave. East,
Detroit. 678

Wanted—Second-hand cash __ register,
for cash. Address A. F. Hunt, 215 So.
Washington Ave., Saginaw, Mich. 767

Pay spot cash for clothing and fur-
nishing goods stocks. L. Silberman, 106
BE. Hancock, Detroit. 608

Collections—We collect anywhere. Send
for our ‘‘No Collection, No Charge’”’ offer.
Arrow Mercantile Service. Murray =
ing, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Cash Registers—We offer penne
bargains in rebuilt National or American
registers. Also fireproof credit systems.
All makes. We buy, sell or exchange.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We carry a full line of supplies. Address

The J. C. Vogt Sales Co., Saginaw,

Michigan. 335
For Sale — My restaurant, complete

stock and fixtures; $300 cash; reason for
selling, joining army. Harry Bronwell,
Portland, Mich.

For Sale—Old established clean grocery
business located on main street of Battle

 

Creek. Annual sales $50,000. Rent
reasonable. Purchaser must have $4,000
cash. Reason for settling, owner has

other business.
Creek, Mich. :
Wanted—To hear from owner of good
business for sale. C. C. Shepard, Minne-
apolis, Minnesota. 837
For. Sale—Grocery stock and fixtures
invoicing about $4,000. Best class trade.

L. D. Hobbs, =e
8

 

 

Annual business, $45,000. Called on
August draft. Cash deal. Owosso, care
Tradesm2?n. 838

 

Wanted—Several millwrights, setters
and carriage riders. Wire or come at
once. Can also use millmen, woodsmen,
piecemakers, cordwood choppers, _ etc.
Good wages, steady work. I. Stephenson
Co. Trustees, Wells, Michigan. 842

 

On account of draft I offer my fine
bakery outfit for half price. Write or
call. John Nolet, 11 Western Ave., oe
kegon, Michigan.

For Sale—General stock, dry =
shoes, groceries. Merchandise clean and
up-to-date. About $5,000. Will sell at
1916 price. If looking for good going
business, see, M. Rann, Perry, a

 

 

POSITION WANTED.

Wanted—Position in grocery or general
store. Have had thirty years’ experi-
ence in general merchandise. Am fully
qualified to manage or help manage mer-
cantile business. Do you want such a
man? Address No. 762, care eS
Tradesman.

SEE NEXT PAGE.

Advertisements received too late to run
on this page appear on the following
page.

 

 

 

Michigan Hardware Co.

Exclusively Wholesale

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

  

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in Sie MEME

THE NEW FOOD RULING.

The only new food ruling which
has any particuldr bearing on the
grocery trade is that requiring gro-
cers to keep a record of their sugar
sales—either on slips or in a book—
where it may be inspected by the
Federal investigator when he calls on
the dealer in pursuit of information
as to the status of each sugar cus-
tomer. This ruling does not apply to
dealers doing business in counties
where the sugar card is in use. This
is the first official intimation the trade
has had that the Food Administra-
tion proposed to make a personal in-
vestigation of the manner in which
every grocer conducts his sugar sales.
It is intimated that the calls may be
“surprise visits,” so it behooves every
dealer to preserve his records care-
fully and keep them strictly up to
date. This he can do by recording
them in an indexed book, giving each
customer a separate page, or by
means of a card index system. The
latter is preferable, in the opinion of
the Tradesman, because the entries
can be so easily and quickly made
and the exact status of each sugar
customer can be so readily ascer-
tained.

Reports from all over the country
on mercantile business conditions
continue to be favorable, and the
prospects for a good fall trade are
said to be guod. The outlook is for
bounieevs crops, and labor is kept
constantly employed at increasing
wages. These two factors are the
ones of prime importance in gauging
the immediate future. So, merchants
are preparing to do business’ with
confidence. There is discernible more
of a disposition on the part of the
public to buy staples and fewer lux-
uries, but the latter are not being
neglected by the very many in the
artisan class who are receiving much
higher wages than they used to get.
Most of the buying for fall has been
completed, and the prices that will
be asked of the consumer will be
larger than hitherto because the
goods had to be bought before the
recent reductions went into effect. In
men’s wear lines, the rapidly in-
creasing number of persons taken for
military duty is calculated to reduce
the volume of purchases to a very
perceptible extent, and this promises
to be more apparent if the draft age
limits are extended as is proposed.
But this circumstance has been taken
into account. In all lines there is
noticeable an absence of any disposi-
tion to plunge or overbuy. Immed-
iate needs are being attended to while
the future is left to take care of itself.
This is because it is understood thas
the tendency toward higher price
levels has been definitely checked.

Public-service corporations, long
scored for their soullessness, will al-
low themselves the ghost of a smile
at the appeal of the Railroad Admin-
istration to its employes to be cour-
teous to the public. The Govern-
ment endeavors to penetrate into the
psychology of the lack of consider-
ation of which it has heard com-
plaints. The fault is dué in part; it

supposes, to the feeling that competi:
tion has been discontinued and that
“efforts to please the public are
therefore not required for the pur-
pose of obtaining business for the
railroads.” In part, it conjectures,
the condition is due to a mistaken
feeling that the Government is “par-
amount to-..the people, especially in
time of war.” <A possible cause that
it does not suggest is that the con-
fusion attending the transfer of the
roads and the consequent changes in
schedules, etc., has at once immense-
ly increased the demands upon the
employes, both for information and
service. For lack of willingness to
smooth the way of the traveller, how-
ever, there is no excuse, and the Di-
rector-General is. right in placing
courtesy first.

Iowa City, Iowa, has long been in-
fested with’ gangs of fakirs, frauds
and cheats, who prey on the credul-
.ity of merchants who do not read the
Tradesman regularly or—worse yet
—who read it so cursorily that they
do not note the frequent warnings
against fraudulent schemes contained
therein. One of them has recently
been smoked out by the Michigan
Supreme Court, as may be noted by
reading the communication and ac-
companying decision published in the
Tradesman last week, The nefarious
methods of these fraudulent concerns
have been brought to the attention

of the legal ‘department of the
United States Government, which
may find time—despite the great

work the department is doing in de-
tecting and punishing pro-Germans
and slackers—to place these worthies
behind the bars, where they properly
belong.
eee

No better investment could be
made by retail merchants than to
club together and secure the inser-
tion of the Government arraignment
of Sears, Roebuck & Co.—published
in the Michigan Tradesman of July
24—in a full page space in their local
weeklies for one or more weeks. This.
has already been done in several: lo.
calities at the suggestion of the
Tradesman, and every other locality
would do well to adopt the same ex-
pedient, In no way can the ulterior
purposes and contemptible methods
of mail order houses be better
brought home to the buying public.
The cost of such a publication. is
small where all the merchants of a
town generously join in the under-
taking. In fact, the cost is insignifi-
cant, considering the obicct attained
and the results which will necessari-
ly follow.

 

The Government placed some wool
underwear orders recently, but they
were for light-weight underwear and
not the: heavier variety which is gen-
erally purchased for the troops. Gen-
eral buying has not been resumed as
yet, although there is a growing be-
lief in the trade that wool underwear
will be called for in the near future.

“Get the goods if you can and pay
what you have to pay,” is an expres-
sion that has become quite common
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_other similar products.

   
  

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Retail Grocers Urged To Conserve
Sugar,

In order to bring the greatest possible
pressure to beat on retail grocers to aid
sugar conservation, the Food Adminis-
tration has sent the following letter to
every secretary of a retail grocers’ asso-
ciation in the United States:

Washington, Aug. 5—The Food Ad-
ministration needs the conscientious and
thorough help of every retail grocer in
the country in the conservation of sugar.

During the past thirty days the nec-
essity for increased sugar conservation
has become greatly emphasized, due pri-
mari.y to a shortage of supplies, losses
from increasing submarine activities and
other transportation difficulties.

The Allies, including their civil pop-
ulation and armies. are wholly depend-
ent for their requirements of raw and
refined sugar on the supplies available
here. Since they have lost the major
part of their producing sections through
invasion, our national obligation be-
comes greater. They must not be made
to further reduce their consumption
below their present minimum. — This
necessity alone should fill every patriotic
man, woman and child with a keen sense
of responsibility not to waste a single
ounce of sugar.

We are entering the season of great-
est sugar consumption when the fruit
harvest must be preserved for later use.
In order to make available every pound
of sugar for this necessary purpose,
there must be the most rigid kind of
conservation in other forms of consump-
tion. One of these is in the radical
reduction: in its use for household pur-
poses, other than for home canning and
preserving.

That real conservation of sugar may
be effected the consumer must be thor-
oughly impressed with the imperative
need for its economical use in the home.
The retail grocers, because of their con-
stant and personal contact with their
customers, are in a position to render
now a very distinct service. They must
urge that consumption be reduced to the
lowest possible point for ordinary use.
If two teaspoonfuls of sugar are now
used in coffee and tea, they should sug-
gest that it be cut to one or eliminated
for this purpose entirely. Urge that
sugar be not used in frostings or. fi'l-
ings for cake and pastry, but encourage
the use where possible of wholesome
substitutes, such as syrups, honey and
There are in-
numerable ways in which sugar con-
sumption can be reduced without the
slightest personal annoyance, and it is
to this end that every grocer must de-
vote his thought and energy.

Your local Food Administrator will
announce new regulations governing the
sale of sugar by jobbers and retailers,
and we urge the patriotic compliance of
every member of your association,

The Food Administration program,
because.of constantly changing economic
conditions, cannot be a permanent one,
but must be modified and altered from
time to time as national necessity de-
mands. With each important change
retailers have been advised how best
they could co-operate. Since none have
been of greater import than this, we
again ask the fullest measure of support.

Will you, as secretary, immediately
see that each member fully appreciates
the need of his individual co-operation
and that this co-operation is forthcom-
ing from all? Please inform us prompt-
ly what action is taken.

——_--2-2__

It is not necessary to believe all the
stories about the demoralization of
the German armies. Yet it is plain
that they are suffering defeat upon
defeat. The French continue to push
them back with surprising ease. It
is no longer the old story of advance
by yards. The drives are now miles
deep. And the former conventional

 

August 7, 1918

ideas about an offensive being neces-
sarily “stabilized” after the first few
days are being scattered to the wind

The promptness of the Govern-
ment in aiding the drought-stricken
farmers of the Southwest is shown
by the publication of preliminary
plans for distributing several million
dollars among them for fall seed pur-
chasing. The loan has been author-
ized by President Wilson, and by
limiting the maximum to any farmer
to $300, it is believed that at least
25,000 producers can be helped. The
high estimates of corn may be some-
what reduced by this’ continued
drought. The Government reports
late corn a failure in Texas except ini

a few localities. It is in poor con-
dition generally in Oklahoma and
Arkansas, it is “very poor” in ex-

treme southeastern Kansas, and “very
poor” also in Missouri. Local show-
ers have helped, but general rains are
needed in the region between Ne-
braska and the Gulf to save what is
yet retrievable. Happily, the weath-
er elsewhere has been favorable for
both the harvest and growing crops.
—_+2+<.—____

A careful study of recent writings
by German military experts reveals
these illuminating details of Prussian
strategy: The Kaiser’s soldiers re-
treated in order to improve their
lines; they were forced to retreat be-
cause traitorous German prisonets
had informed General Foch of the
Crown Prince’s plans; they are not
retreating; they are retreating be-
cause their advance proved the Al-
lies could be driven back; they
abandoned the Marne because it is
nothing but a river, after all, with
as much territory on one side as on
the other; they withdrew across the
Marne because they discovered that
there were no Americans. on_ its
banks; they retired because the
Americans did not know when they
were licked; they fell back because
an advance is a mere “geographical
conception;” Paris is where it can be
taken at will, and they don’t want
Paris. s

—_2++___

Labor is becoming more and more
of a problem with the hosiery mills.
One case was cited recently, where
a large quantity of half hose was com-
pleted, with the exception that they
needed finishing, Loopers were un-
available, so they are being finished
with a fine seam. Buyers so far are
appearing glad to get them even fin-
ished that way, which indicates the
desire for goods.

—_>22—___

Women’s underwear is not showing
any great amount of strength on ac-
count of the production which is
enough to take care of all demands.
The shifts that some mills have made
from making women’s underwear to
making men’s lines for the Govern-
ment is not felt to have been enough
to cause any noticeable change in the
total production of women’s under-
Wear.

 

BUSINESS CHANCES.

For Sale—Butter Kist popeorn machine
with peanut warmer. Perfect condition.
Cost $575 two years ago. Boys have
joined the ‘service.’ Mr. McClellan;

869

Utica, Michigan,

  

   
    
   
   
  
     
    
  

   
     
  
    

  
  
   
   
  
  
  
   
     

 

    
   
   
 

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