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Extra copies of current issues, 5 cents; issues a month or more old, 10 cents; issues a year or more old, 25 cents; issues five years or more old. $1. Entered at the _ Postoffice of Grand Rapids under Act of March 38, 1879. DESTROY EVERY GERMAN? Germany belives that she has the right to dominate the world. Her militaristic autocracy believes that this war is a step toward such world domination, but that German de- mands for the present may rest satis- fied with substantial gains in Europe. For years German political writing has been full of the “terms of peace” after a war, and to-day those terms remain unaltered. The Russian ne- gotiations have served to prove that what has for a long time been pub- lic opinion, is now official opinion. In the first year of the war, the one great fear expressed by German of- ficers was that a long war in Europe would “cause America to wake up.” Wake up to what? Not to the need of American participation in the war. The German officers thought America negligible for this war. But they did, and do, fear that America would awake to the danger to her: self, her ideals, her institutions, her interests. There is no hope of a changed Ger- many—of establishing those peacetul and friendly relations which should determine international conduct — if Germany gains her objects, or any part of them, in this war. She has set her heart on certain material ob- jects. We must ‘see to it that she does not gain them. Then her first step blocked, we may hope that her people may awaken from their dream of empire. We fight for a world peace, yes; but we also fight for self- preservation. Unless we can accom- plish the result by other means, we must destroy every German in Ger- many in order to make the world safe for the civilized people on this planet. The foundation cause of this war is Germany’s firm belief that she alone has the right to direct the progress of the world and to exploit its re- sources. For the last thirty years the military autocracy of Germany has seen to it that this belief was GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1918 taught in the schools, and to-day that autocracy is reaping the benefits of a blind obedience to its will, German political writing of recent years is full of the idea that the German people is God’s chosen people, destined to impose its Kultur on all other peo- ples. German teaching has borne fruit ind the world is aghast. Volumes re needed to list, merely, the proved cases of barbarity—for Germany by refusing investigation through a neutral jury proposed by Cardinal Mercier, has confessed her guilt. Let us not forget that German offi- cers and soldiers in 1914, with no re- straint, raped the women and _ chil- dren of Belgium and France in the first advance; that they placed screens of children before them; that they executed, as a warning against a feared Belgian rising, fifty innocent Catholic priests and thousands of in- nocent citizens; that they gave them- selves up in a hundred different places, to plundering, incendiarism, imprisonment, massacres and_ sacri- fices; that in France they have de- liberately made a desert of territory in retreat, of destroying productivity for at least a generation to come; that the Kaiser ordered Turkey to massacre half the population of Ar- menia, and the people of Germany openly applauded the Kaiser for his bloody crusade; that Germany, by the cruel starvation and deportation of conquered population is attempting to “Germanize” the lands of Poland and Russia; that she torpedoes hos- pital ships with “defenseless beings, wounded or mutilated in war, and women who are devoting themselves to the work of relief and charity,” (Protest of the International Red Cross committee in Geneva, Febru- ary, 1917); that no other government in the world’s history, ever ordered or approved a Lusitania. On September 2 Chicago will en- joy moving pictures, projected on a water screen one hundred -feet high and five hundred feet wide, at a dis- tance of 1,600 feet from the audience. This will mark the opening of the Government’s war exposition in Grant Park. The Great Lakes Band will begin to play the national anthem and then sixty streams of water will pour from the fire tug Graeme Stew- art, and the Stars and Stripes will apepar in colors on the liuid curtain. Then moton pictures of various war activities will be shown. The pro- ject ng machine. will be mounted on a platform built in the lake, but the audience will be seated on shore. Ex- periments have proved that this aquatic drama is practicable. Most things will come your way if you go after them. WATCHDOGS OF THE SEA. During June alone British ships steamed 8,000,000 miles, so says the head of the British Government as he points out the picture of the work of the British sea dogs—the watch- dogs along all the lanes of the seven seas. Added to all else, the British fleet has made secure for trade, meas- urably so, the sea traffic of all waters, and not a German flag aside from those of the submarines has dared to show itself. At first a raider or so appeared and was shot to pieces. Well does the British Premier, without any disparagement to the other Allies, point to the fact that the German land offensive might have been disastrous if successful, but the sea offensive would have been fatal. The possibility of American transportation to the war areas would have ceased with destruction of the British fleet. France, Italy and Great Britain threatened with starvation— the war would have been over. The British Navy at the outbreak of the war had a tonnage of two and a half million; to-day it has a tonnage, with auxiliary ships, of eight million. Its vast preponderance over the fleets of its Allies has made it the one out- standing guarantor for the security of the seas from enemy assailants, and even in the case of the sub- marines there have been one hundred and fifty of these sunk, mostly in the course of the past year. England has given freedom of the seas to the allied and neutral shipping. PUTTING ON GERMAN STAMP. On several occasions attention has been called to the manner in which the Germans have built up a large amount of business by picking up what may be regarded as the uncon- sidered trifles of trade. One of their specialties was the taking of partly finished manufactures of other coun- tries and using them as raw materi- als for their own industries. Great Britain was one of their great sources of supply in ventures of this kind, and the iron and steel industry of that country was much drawn upon. Quite recently there has been con- siderable discussion in Great Britain as to the manner in which the Ger- mans imposed themselves on Shef- field cutlery, and especially as to razors. A quarter of a century ago, an Englishman invented a machine for the hollow grinding of razors, but the Sheffield manufacturers and jour- neymen would have none of it. So the Germans took it up and improved on the machine. As a result, razor “blanks,” partly finished and made of the best Sheffield steel, were sent to Hamburg to be there finished. Then the Sheffield people brought them Number 1823 back and stamped on them “ground in Hamburg”. This gave them ua vogue enabling them to command higher prices. After a while, the Sheffield people even put the Hain- burg stamp on razors that were not ground in the German city so that they could get the benefit of the en- hanced prices. This disparagement to British trade is one of the things that is now done away with. sreaaoeimeaieiainaaieetnnae The agreement with Sweden brings to a satisfactory end _ negotiations which have been pending almost since the day we entered the war. Sweden, like the other neutrals, has finally -been brought to a _ re- cognition of the fact that the En- tente controls certain essential raw materials, and hence the Entente is in a position to demand that any Government which wants these raw materials must acknowledge as ef- fective the existing blockade of Germany. We are to furnish Sweden with certain necessary supplies. She in turn must pledge herself that none of these supplies are to be ex- ported to Germany, and, moreover, that they shall not release other sup- plies for export to Germany. This is the most important provision of the new agreement, because it keeps the bockade intact and effective. The clause allowing Great Britain her proportionate share of Swedish iron ore merely follows the set in the pact with Switzerland; while the clause as to use of Swedish ships follows our arrangement with Holland. No doubt, recent allied victories and the fear of a German peril in Finland, more particularly in the Aland Islands, have helped to bring about the present agreement. But the most potent factor, after all, has been the argument from neces- sity. precedent California stands in doubt, trying to choose between wild ducks and the cultivation of rice. The law which protects migratory birds ensures safe conduct for the ducks at present, and the rice-growers have no way of sav- ing their property from unprofitable consumption. The San _ Francisco Chronicle complains that the game is fattened “at other people’s expense, for the gratification of those who find pleasure in killing something.” If the Federal law leaves the ducks ex- posed at any point, the State law is there with armor, so that the rice- growers of the West feel somewhat the same emotions in regard to the wild duck as the stockmen of the Far North feel for the brown bear. The chap who has decided to en- joy life as he goes along is out of place in the present times. ADESMAN | f MICHIGAN TRADESMAN August 28, 1918 LATE FOOD RULINGS. Substitute Programme Will Not Be Reduced. Lansing, Aug, 27—There is no longer any regulation as to what kind of shortening bakers may use in any product. They may use an- imal fats, vegetable fats and oils, compounds or butter. Whichever fat is used, however, should be used in an economical manner. While there is no longer any need for des- ignating a certain kind of shortening, the need for conservation of all fats still exists and the Food Administra- tion asks that it be observed. Geo. A. Prescott, Federal Food Administrator. Grinding Rye For Feed. Lansing, Aug. 27—Owing to the scarcity of feed for stock in Michi- gan, the following general permit is issued: 1. You are permitted to grind for feed rye that is unfit to be ground into flour, whether because the rye was frosted while growing or for some other reason. In each such -+>___ Curtailment of Loans By, Banks. Credit extended by banks to their customers for nonessential purposes hurts in several ways. First, it in- volves the use of money that might be better invested in Government se- curities, thereby helping to win the war, and shorten the war with the consequent saving of American Jives. Second, it involves the use of labor, material and transportation, which ought to be left free to meet, to the fullest, the needs of the Government. Third, it involves unnecessary com- petition with the Government, both delaying Government operations and making them more expensive. WY ASN NI y Y PSL Y Yo, 47; eZ Ge, : \ ZZ WF ? >. “YT i i *¢ U \ Nt is the one they employ—keep a stock constantly on hand so that you are never without it. Because of the deep, golden, buttery June shade, dairy- men demand Dandelion and spread its fame. -WELLS & RICHARDSO a We guarantee that Dandelion Brand Butter Color is PURELY VEGETABLE and that it meets the FULL REQUIREMENTS OF ALL FOOD LAWS-—State and National N CO, BURLINGTON, VERMONT Manufacturers of Dandelion Brand Butter Color THE COLOR WITH THE GOLDEN SHADE ‘ \ TAD MICHIGAN TRADESMAN August 28, 1918 Movements of Merchants, Holland—J. J. Van Dyke has sold his grocery stock to the North Side Grocery Co. Owosso—T. B. Willoughby is closing out his stock of notions and bazaar goods and will remove to Pontiac. Kalamazoo—Sam Folz, the clothier, is celebrating to-day the thirty-fourth anniversary of his engaging in business in this city. Bay City—Frank A. Gillies, Flint tailor, has filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy, with assets of $700 and liabilities of $5,158.22. Owosso—Harry E. Smith has sold his grocery stock and store fixtures to Ansel F, Loomis, who was the original proprietor of the store. Howell—M. Inmann his sold his stock of second-hand furniture and house furnishing goods to Charles E. Marston, who will continue the business. Kalamazoo—Harley C. Miller has taken over the interest of his partner, Edwin J. Manning, in the Liberty garage and will continue the business under the same style. Eaton Rapids—C. M. Hunt & Son have merged their implement business into a stock company with a capital stock of $50,000 under the style of the C. M. Hunt & Sons Co. Bannister—Claude . Wooley succeeds W..E. Rawson in the grocery business. Jackson—Adam Geiger has engaged in. the music and musical instrument business at 205 Chittock avenue. Corunna—W. J. Simeon is closing out his furniture stock and will remove to Ovid and take possession of the Voorhees Furniture and Undertaking Co, stock which he recently purchased. Grand Haven—Clarkson Rollins, Federal Food Administrator, has im- posed a fine of $5 upon H. Wolk for having two sguar cards in his posses- sion. The money goes to the Red Cross. Mr. Rollins states that fines will be imposed on all who are found to have more than one card. . ———— ee Manufacturing Matters. Stanton—Dan Buskirk has re-opened his bakery in the Pakes building. Detroit—The Liberty Starter Co. has been organized with a capital stock of $50,000. Greenville—The Atlas Electric Stor- age Battery Co. has increased its cap- ital stock from $40,000 to $80,000. _ Palatka—Leon Maggialero and An- gelo Vessetti, bakers, have been summoned to Lansing to show cause before Federal Food Administrator Prescott why their licenses. should not be taken away. They are charged with violating the food regulations. Hopkins—The Hopkins Dairy and Cheese Co. has installed a skimmilk condensor in its plant here to utilize the skimmilk available from its sweet cream business. Lansing—The Capitol Bakery, 1010 North Cedar street, has been permit- ted to resume business after com- plete renovation conducted under the auspices of the board of health. Charlotte—The South Bend Cream- ery Co., of South Bend, Indiana, has leased a building here and will open a depot for the buying of cream, eggs and poultry which will be shipped to South Bend. Sturgis—Detroit business men have purchased the plant and ‘stock of the Sturgis Go-Cart Co. and will continue the business, adding allied lines. Norval Hawkins, of Detroit, will be general manager. Muskegon — The Muskegon Dairy Co. has installed a bottle washer and sterilizer and a large bottle filler. The company has filed incorporation pa- pers with Secretary of State for $10,- 000, all subscribed and paid in. Detroit—The Victor Screw Works successor to the McLean-Heames Co., has increased its capital stock from $250,000 to $500,000. The con- cern’s business has been increasing considerably of late and expansions are contemplated. Corunna—The Biggam Trailer Co. is now employing fifty men but needs more help. An average of thirty-two trailers a day is being turned out. The concern has a large Government order and expects to be well sup- plied with business for a long time to come. s Hart—E. S. Powers has completed a fine modern creamery building, which has been fully equipped with modern up-to-date machinery for the manufacture of butter and ice cream. The daily output is rapidly increasing which finds a ready market under the Hart Brand dairy products. Monroe—The Brisk Blast Co. has been reorganized with C. B. South- worth as President; Charles McIn- tyre, Vice-President and Treasurer, and J. F. Meyer, Secretary. This company manufactures automobile accessories and airplane parts. The company moved to Monroe from St. Louis, Mo., about eighteen months ago, Adrian—The Peerless Wire Fence Co. is now operating under a Food Administration order, the administra- tion considering that wire fence is necessary for the production of food. °: “en figures. supply on hand will be enough to run for two months, however. Ludington—The old Simons school has been purchased by the Kupper & Homel Shirt Co. and will be re- modeled to become the main plant of the shirt-makers. It was only two years ago that the Kupper & Homel factory began operations in the sec- ond. story of Samuel Kupper’s store building. Business increased rapid- ly. When the enlarged plant is ready it will employ 200 women and girls. St. Johns—The Industrial Foundry Co., manufacturer of municipal and grey iron castings, recently com- pleted the construction of a 50x50 office and pattern shop. Up-to-date pattern machinery ‘is now being in- stalled and will start operation Sept. 1. The company expects to be able to handle the new business very sat- isfactorily owing to the fact that its foundry work is in connection with pattern building. Kalamazoo — The Dunkley Co., which has been conducting litigation in California for some years to col- lect enormous royalties from the packers on the basis of patent claims in connection with peeling peaches, has now made an application for an injunction in the Federal District Court of San Francisco against a long list of well known canners, which would prevent them from can- ning peaches this year, operations on which are just now active, and would be seriously annoyed unless some financial arrangement is made with the Dunkley Co. The hearing is scheduled for this week. Detroit—Announcement has _ just been made by the Wayne Cigar Co. of the sale of its four big manufac- turing plants, together with its large stock of leaf tobacco, to the General Cigar Company, of New York. The consideration is said to approach sev- Charles J. Spietz, one of the owners of the old company, the announcement continued, will be re- tained by the General Cigar Com- pany as district manager of produc- tion for Michigan. Through the con- solidation of the Wayne company’s facilities with its other holdings, the General Cigar Company will have control of thirty-eight factories throughout the country, with a pro- duction of approximately 700,000,000 cigars annually. ———o >> The new $30 mileage, good for one thousand miles on any railroad in the United States by any number of per- sons, now is on sale at all ticket of- fices. Purchasers do not save money by buying this book but may save themselves and railway agents the bother of selling tickets and making change. —_>->___ Mr. C. H. Brown, of Hopkins, has accepted a position as creamery supply salesman for A. H. Barber & Co., of Chicago. Mr. Brown is calling on the Michigan trade and getting acquainted with customers of his house. ——— If you cannot write good advertise- ments, have some one do it for you, The company is running at capacity iy but don’t use poor ones. The space The® but is unable to supply the = The owing to the shortage of wire. costs just as much filled with poor advertising. Need of Iron and Steel in Farming. Following the receipt of letters from hardware dealers indicating a serious shortage in the kinds of iron and steel used by country black- smiths and in farming operations, the Bureau of Markets made a survey of stocks held by wholesale hard- ware dealers and of their estimated needs for six months. A _ question- naire was sent to dealers who furnish supplies directly or through retail dealers to country blacksmiths and farming communities. Replies from some 250 dealers indicate that in most instances supplies on hand on June 1, 1918, were much less than those of a year ago. Many dealers reported a shortage below actual requirements for the next six months, particularly in the case of barbed wire, nails, and other fencing materials, sheets for roofing and for silos, and steel bars of a size suitable for wagon tires and farm repair work. Because of the need for iron and steel in war industries the priorities committee of the War Industries Board requires dealers in need of supplies to file a statement, on blanks provided for that purpose, showing the uses for which the materials are desired. The committee then gives the dealer a rating, determined by the essential character of the supplies re- quired, and the higher ratings receive the first attention in distributing the available iron and steel. ——_—-o--2 What a U-Boat Costs. | Although actual figures, for obvi- ous reasons, are not available, one would be underestimating rather than overestimating the cost of the Ger- man submarine U-29, which the Brit- ish Admirality reports to have sunk, at $1,000,000. This total is based on the fact that, according to a certain official publication, the E-4 of our submarine fleet, which was completed in 1913, cost $535,000; and the E class is neither the largest or the most expensive type of submarine in the fleet to-day. According to the Admirality state- ment, the cost of the “hull, fittings and equipment” of the E-4 was $130,- 000, $395,000 being spent on her pro- pelling and other machinery. In ad- dition to this outlay there was an item of $9,000 for “incidental charges” which relate to the proportionate costs incurred while the vessel was in the hands of the dockyard authori- ties being finished off—London Times. —_——>-- Gloves from Whale Intestines. The manufacture of gloves from whales’ intestines is to be undertaken shortly in Norway, according to a dispatch from Commercial Agent N. L. Anderson in Copenhagen. The Norwegian State whaling stations have received orders to save the in- testines of the whales they catch and to salt them down. It is said that this material is fine in every respect, soft, pliable, and exceptionally strong. —_2+>———_ A woman is seldom satisfied when an old dress is forced to do her a good turn. a a aE ee a re ee ee _—- -=—= =~ — — LC cea ea Fre rs eee 1 os S f o~ S y = 7 . a : Ee a ee ee eee — , a - Reon ne ee eee August 28, 1918 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN eR Tes eg 1SHNg ‘Ey ef: Ani es GR A”6) +e —— I mi ra nk (in aS \| cs GROCERY > PRODUCE MARKET hye ey att we y ‘ ’ ‘ y wii fiat ct ’ i om fo’ "EX Pi an > 4 Gi wit DY = ties Review of the Grand Rapids Produce Market. Apples—Red Astrachans command $1@1.50 per bu.; Transparents, $1.50 per bu.; Dutchess, $1.50 per bu.; Maiden Blush, $1.50 per bu.; Pound Sweet, $2 per bu. Bananas—$6 per 100 Ibs. Beets—$1.25 per bu, Butter—The market is active, at about %c per pound advance over last week. The percentage of butter arriving shows the effects of the heat, The market is firm and we do not look for any change in the immedi- ate future. The consumptive demand is very good. Local dealers held ex- tra fancy creamery at 45c for fresh. They pay 40c for No, 1 dairy in jars; they also pay 30c for packing stock. Cabbage—$3.75 per large crate and $3.25 for medium. Cantaloupes—Hearts of Gold from Benton Harbor command $4 for standards, $3.75 for ponies and $2 for flats. Carrots—$1.25 per bu. Cauliflower—$3 per doz. Celery—35c per -bunch. Cucumbers—Home grown com- mand 75c per dozen for No. 1 and 60c per dozen for No. 2. Eggs—The market is unchanged, so far as price is concerned. The market at the present is firm and likely to remain firm for some time, with a possible slight advance. The new candling rule is eliminating much of the waste which formerly accompanied egg handling. Local dealers pay 38c for No. 1 candled cases included, delivered in Grand Rapids, Grape Fruit—$3.50 per box for all sizes Floridas. Grapes—$3 per doz. for 4 lb. bas- kets of blue varieties. Green Corn—20c per dozen. Green Onions—18@20c per dozen. Green Peppers—$1.75 per bu. Honey—25c per Ib. for white clov- er and 22c for dark. Lemons—California selling at $9 for choice and $9.50 for fancy. Lettuce—Garden grown, ‘5c per u.; home grown head, $1.25 per bu. Musk Melons — Benton Harbor Osage, $2.50@8 per crate of 12 to 16. Nuts—Almonds, 21c per ib.; filberts, 20c for Grenoble; Brazils, 18c; Mixed nuts, 16%%4c. Onions—Home grown stock now has the call, commanding $3.75 per 100 Ib. sack. Oranges—California Valencias, $10 per box. Peaches—Early Carmans (white and semi-cling) from Benton Harbor fetch $3 per bu.; California Elbertas command $1.85 for flats; St. Johns and other varieties of home grown, $5 per bu. Pears—Clapp’s Favorite, $3 per bu.; Bartlett, $3.50 per bu.; $4.50 per box for California Bartlett. Pickling Stock—Cucumbers, $3 per 4 bu.; white onions, $1.75 per 14 bu. Plums—$2@2.25 per bu. for Brad- shaws, Green Gages and Guiis. Pieplant—$1 per bu. Potatoes—Home grown command $4 per 100 Ib. sack. Radishes—15c per dozen. Summer Squash—$1 per bu. Sweet Potatoes—$3.50 per 50 Ib. hamper. Tomatoes—Home grown command about $2 per bu. Water Melons—$5 per bbl. con- taining 10. Wax Beans—Home grown, $2 per bu. ——_2--____ A furniture merchant located in a mill district where wages are high tried many ways of interesting the several thousand of employes who passed his store on their way to and from work, especially the office work- ers. He decided finally upon a “lur- ing’ window display. He fitted out his window to represent a “den.” Just before the mill whistle blew one sales- man entered the window and seated himself in the easy chair. ‘Passing, the crowd saw an attractive room and a prosperous looking business man very much at his ease smoking and deeply engrossed in the evening paper. While the “display” continued the sales of “den” furniture were heavier even than the merchant ex- pected. —.-+>—__ Lemon drops are so popular in the army that about 200,000 pounds of lem- on drops are used each month, consti- tuting about 15 per cent. of the amount of candy furnished to the army. At the beginning of the war it was found that most of the lemon drops being manufactured for the commercial mar- ket were not adaptable for the army, being made of glucose and imitation fruit flavors, although there were some lemon drops of high quality on the market. The lemon drops now being supplied are made of pure granulated sugar and flavored with an emulsion made from the rind of the lemon. It is found that the product made from the formula has the thirst quenching quality of lemonade, —_->--- In the store where the clerks wait for the customer to speak first there usually isn’t much said about buying. ———_+- + It is possible for a man to be a failure without having ever failed. The Grocery Market. Sugar—The situation is unchanged. It is now given out that refiners are not to be permitted to add the 15 points of extra profit which the Gov- ernment has allowed them to make, to the selling price, but that the Gov- ernment will pay this out of a special fund. If this is true, the market will not advance. Jobbers say they are selling under the certificate system not over half of the usual amount of sugar at this season; so that either the certificate system has cut down the demand or consumers and retail- ers are working on their reserve stocks, Tea—The local market lacks new features of consequence and trading continues quiet. A fair enquiry is noted, but actual business apparently is limited to small quantities. With stocks of all descriptions: light, the market retains a firm tone. Coffee—The market is firmer and all grades of Rio and Santos can be quoted at about %c higher for the “week. The only reason is that Brazil, in spite of the enormous amount of coffees she has to sell, has been able to keep the current price up. As a matter of fact, if she succeeds in keeping prices up to where they are now after the spot stock of Rio and Santos in this ‘country is exhausted, an advance of probably %c more will then occur. It is hard to see, how- ever, how with the tremendous avail- able supply, prices can make any permanent advance. Mild grades are quite cheap in comparison with the present price of Brazils, and this is showing to some extent in the de- mand. The consumptive demand for coffee is fair. Canned Fruit—This market is in a nominal position in the absence of of- ferings of any importance at the pres- ent time. Canned Vegetables—The chief item of interest in the market at the pres- ent time is tomatoes which are ap- proaching their climax in what will be glut week very soon. The outlook is excellent from the production standpoint. Peas and corn are about unchanged. . Canned Fish—The trade are decid- edly up in the air as regards salmon. It looks now as if the amount of salmon available for the general trade might be almost nothing. In the case of sockeyes the Government original- ly said it wanted 1 per cent. of the pack, but after the packers had sold considerable to the general trade the Government changed its mind and commandeered the entire pack. It has also given notice that it will want at least the most of the Alaska pack and some packers say they have been instructed not to sell any at all to the general trade until the Govern- ment’s requirements are fully satis- fied. It is entirely possible that salmon may be off the markets dur- ing the coming season. Domestic sar- dines have advanced about 25c. Pack- ers say they could not pack at prices fixed by the Government. Dried Fruits—Two of the import- tant crops are showing excellent pro-- duction and two others are disap- pointing.. A combination of this kind & in ordinary years would afford some wonderful opportunities for specula- tion but only one of the items this year offers any such chance and ap- parently all that can be got out of it has already been taken. Raisins will prove to be a record breaking crop with estimates of 175,000 tons as against the heavy crop of 165,000 tons last year. “ Apricots will also be of large production. Prunes, on the other hand, may not be more than 150,000,000 pounds as against 225,000,- 000 pounds last year, although esti- mates vary down to 125,000,000 pounds and up to 175,000,000 pounds. Peaches are not likely to be more than 75 per cent. of last year’s pro- duction although some estimates from the coast are even more pessimistic. There has been an opportunity for speculation in apricots because of this shortage of peaches, on the theory that they would be used for substi- tutes, apricots being unlicensed. In- cidentally this shows what would have happened if there had not been the strong curb placed upon dried fruit operations by the Food Administra- tion. The association was compelled to withdraw prices very quickly when it was found that outsiders were buy- ing up supplies and officials of the association declare that advances that have taken place since are entirely without warrant. It may be that war conditions will permit these profiteers to carry through their deals as plan- ned but the belief is that somewhere along the line someone will suffer losses and the situation is not re- garded as by any means a wholesome one. In the meantime spot markets are nominally very fine. Molasses—There is a lack of new developments, prices being steady with trading quiet. Corn Syrups—A fairly active en- quiry is noted and the market remains firm at the recent advance. Starch—The market is firm at 50 points advance, Cheese—The market is firm at an advance of about 4c per pound over last week, with a fair consumptive demand. The advance is general all over the country. The consumptive demand is good and stocks are much lighter than they were a wéek ago. We do not look for any change dur- ing the coming week. Rice—There are no new develop- ments in the local rice situation, Trading continues quiet. All varieties are in small supply and the market continues firm. Provisions — Everything in the smoked meat line is firm at an ad- vance of about 1 cent a pound over last week. Stocks are reported to be light and.demand good. Pure lard is steady at unchanged prices. Bar- reled pork, dried. beef and’ canned: meats are all unchanged, with a fair consumptive demand. Salt Fish—The removal of the em- bargo on Irish mackerel and Scotch herring has not as yet had any par- ticular effect. It willl, of course, in- crease the supply of these products a little later, but whether that will ma- terially affect the price remains to be seen, ce UPPER PENINSULA. Recent News of the Cloverland of Michigan. Sault Ste. Marie, Aug. 27—James McDonald, popular postmaster and member of the firm of Goetz & Mc- Donald, general merchants at Detour, sprung a _ surprise on his many friends last week when he announ- ced his marriage to a good looking school teacher who taught at Detour last year. Jim has been unusually active for the past two months, build- ing an elegant home which he gave his friends to understand was in the nature of an investment and would be for rent when completed. It is all over now and the boys were given to understand not to call on him before 8 .in the morning instead of 6:30, as heretofore. Jim has been sparring around for the past fifteen years and was considered a con- firmed bachelor. Their many friends are extending many hearty congrat- ulations. The Soo is Johnny on the spot on the work-and-fight order of the Gov- ernment and, as a_ result, Bennie Rousseau, 38 years of age, was given a sentence of sixty-five days at the expense of the county, which goes to show that this is no time for trifling. The Hotel Detour not only has running water in some of the rooms, but almost a finishing touch was put to this well known hotel last week when it was hit with lightning twice almost at the same time, tearing a window sash from one of the rooms, which greatly improved the ventila- tion. It knocked down one of the chambermaids and stunned two other girls during its course through the house. The proprietor, Joe Lamere, is not discouraged, however, and is still open to the public, taking care of the traveling men as best he can under the conditions. Charles Field, one of our best known men in the city, proprietor of a cigar and confectionery store, also a professional politician sprung a big surprise on the community last Wednesday when he announced his marriage to Miss Lottie Gerrie, a good looking operator at the tele- phone exchange. Charlie has been a charter member of the Bachelor’s Club for many years and the surprise wes unexpected. So well has the secret of the intended marriage been kept that ‘the county clerk was the only man in town who knew of it. Even the families of the contracting parties were kept in ignorance. The Fields are off on their honeymoon at Mackinac Island and will be at home to their friends in the Raymond apartments upon their return. Harry G. Mills is the new mana- ger for the Grinnell Bros. music store here. having succeeded Mr. Trow- bridge, who left to take care of the copper country district about one month ago. Mr. Mills is enthusiastic about the Soo and its prospects. He came from Escanaba. where he held a similar position for the Grinnell Bros. He has been with the com- pany about fifteen years and _ has become very musical. “Placing a tax on the extra profits of protiteers is all right in a way, but it does not lower the price of food to the consumer.” The eighteenth battalion of U 5S. guards. consisting of four companies, arrived at Fort Brady last Wednes- day and took immediate possession. These soldiers were formerly sta- tioned at Fort Snelling. Minnesota. The battalion is under the command of Major W. E. Mould. The forty- first infantry which has been _ sta- tidned here since October 9, 1917, denarted elsewhere. Dr. Alex McDonald, an old resident of the Soo, but now located at Detroit, arrived in the S-o last week by motor, accompanied hv Mrs. Mc- Donald. They were warmly welcom- MICHIGAN ed by their many Soo friends. “Don’t forget to take out your license, boys, before soing fishing at the Snows. Two more victims were assessed last week. Safety first. This week we will have a dollar day at the Soo. From the announce- ments of the enterprising Soo mer- chants, a dollar would seem as big as it did before, although the pur- chasing power has been greatly re- duced. William G. Tapert. ——_>-2-.—____ Gabby Gleanings from Grand Rapids. Grand Rapids, Aug. 27— Charles Gunsaul, hardware dealer at Covert, motored over to Grand Rapids one day last week, accompanied by. his wife and daughter. Over 8,000 membbers of the U.C. T. are now enrolled under the flag of freedom, all pledged to destroy the Germans and everything they stand for. Jess L. Martin was in the city last week, preliminary to his taking a two weeks’ training course. at Camp Stever, Lake Geneva, Wis. He has turned his confectionery stock at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, over to a manager. On the completion of his course at Camp Stever, he will enlist as a private and undertake to secure admission to an _ officers’ training camp for regular service in the army. Walter Lawton completed his trip through the Upper Peninsula in three weeks, instead of four weeks, as he expected to spend in that district. At Rockland he ran across Frank Hibbard, who has been confined to a wheel chair for two years. Mr. Hib- bard was engaged in the drug busi- ness at Evart many years ago and his friends of that place will regret to learn o fthe misfortune which has overtaken him. He is still conduct- ing a drug store, with the assistance of his faithful wife. Dr. G. W. Ferguson, who is spend- ing his summer vacation in Nova Scotia, as usual, writes his friend, John J. Doole an interesting account of a chance meeting he recently had with a namesake of Mr. Dooley, as follows: “Mr. .Dooley tells a very interest- ing story of a man he stopped yester- day, without papers and just a little bundle of clothing, consisting of a shirt and a couple of handkerchiefs. The poor fellow turned out to be one of eight survivors off a schooner, loaded with Scotch herring, bound for New York with a cargo for Chi- cago. He said it was about 8 o’clock in the morning of the ill-fated day. they were just twenty-five miles out of port. A perfect calm prevailed, when all at once a submarine came up out of the water iust as suddenly as if it had dropped out of the sky. The undersea demon then came alongside and the officers, with side arms in hand, came aboard the schooner and ordered all-‘hands off. They took to their boats. Knowing that they would be lost unless by chance some lucky one should spy them, they asked for their own ship compass, which was denied them, with a rough command to get off or 70 down with their cargo. The poor fellows even begged for their own oilclothes for protection from the spray and exposure which was always known to be terrible in these parts, but this bit of humane permission was also refused them. The Ger- mans took everything they could use at all. While the men were loading on the spoils, two others were ar- ranging the shot which was to seal the ship’s doom. The man almost cried while he told of the two fellows who took three bombs about the size of teacups, fastened them together, swung them under’ the _ craft with the log line and blew the innocent old hull absolutely in two.. The survivor claimed that he never saw anything so quick and merciless in his life and felt so badly because the schooner was the only home he Se eee ee ne Screen ce ree a fg TRADESMAN had known for the past twenty years. He further mentioned the per- fect manner in which the submarine officers spoke English, The man said most of them seemed to be perfectly Americanized in accent and, perhaps, they were all former waiters in New York restaurants. This was his joke, the only one he had. But he said he couldn’t help noticing the way they talked and bullied like the German policemen he had had push him along the street because a sailor doesn’t walk as fast as a land lubber. To show the unlimited feeling the offi- cers of the sub had they blew up the ship before their own two human tools who had set the bomb had time to get away from the’ tidal wave caused by the explosion and their boat was capsized, while later they were picked up by the sub. The sur- vivors then tossed around all day long and saw no one. That night a rough sea came up and never drove them out, as is usual. But when dawn came along they sighted a steamer and were taken to New Foundland on that. They all had come to the conclusion that it would be better to take their own lives by drowning than to suffer the way they were doing much longer. And this man still contends that in many in- stances it would save much suffering far out at sea to go down with the boat, rather than to take the ex- posure and starvation later. For the sea is not covered. with shipping as it was a few years ago and one may go days in a calm without sighting as much as a fishing boat. In con- clusion, all the man had to say was that he considered the methods now used on the sea by the Germans as nothing more than a wicked design, even worse than that used by the most common pirates before the war. And they were the lowest class who floated until the Germans came.” A. P. Anderson, who makes the Traverse ‘City territory, is laid up this week with a case of poison ivy. Mr. Anderson expects to be out in the near future. The good old U. S. A. is now at war and in a cause worthy of the attention and assistance of each and every citizen of the United States. The traveling salesmen can be of un- limited assistance in carrying out the rules and laws of our Government by reporting all infractions and deeds of disloyalty and by reporting all slack- ers. A slacker may be one in a great many ways. He may be a man who in his business is not trying to get the full efficiency out of his labor. He may be a man who is shiftless— who just keeps busy without getting any results. By results, I means re- sults that will help our Government win this war. The time will come, and is not far off, when we will all have a chance to serve our Uncle Sam in the ranks and in various capacities for which we are best fitted, and in this I am sure the traveling salesman will be no mean factor. He is the man- who, neces- sarily, because of his calling, has had to keep just a jump ahead of the pro- cession. He is the cog in the wheel to whom the house has to look for success ,in a financial way, and the good ar bad opinion of the house for which he travels is up to their trav- eling salesman. The man who paves .the way; the man who first intro- duces himself and then introduces his house; and the man behind the works and recommends their prod- ucts; the one who endeavors to and does change and mould the mind of. the merchant to see things as he sees them—he is the man to whom the general merchant goes and asks of, “How are the other fellows doing it?’ Uncle Sam has called a good many of our younger members who are now serving in the ranks, who have given good accounts of them- selves, and are helping to pave the way to Berlin, and when that goal is reached, there will be enough trav- x Be ace hs ean ee ae August 28, 1918 eling salesmen there to do their part of the work—getting reports and making terms. In this, I am sure, U. S. Grant established a precedent, and until then, boys at home, let us “carry on” and be of every assistance possible to our Government. The Stars and Stripes have always pro- tected us and ours and under that protection we have had a good living and happiness. So, boys, let’s get busy! The Worden Grocer Company’s annual picnic was pulled off on sched- ule time at Manhattan Park, at Reed’s Lake, Saturday. The Worden Grocer Company ball team played the Thomas Canning Company and it was a case of the “prune sellers” canning the canners to the tune of 18 to 4. It was the opinion of the crowd on the bleachers, however, that the attention of the players was somewhat diverted at times from the game to the eats which were stored at a convenient corner and guarded by an efficient force of ladies cap- tained by Miss Eble, who was chosen for this office by reason of her abil- ity in winning both the fat ladies’ and slim ladies’ race. During the afternoon the steamer Major Watson hecame stalled by running aground. The water in the lake was unusually low at this time owing to a spell of dry weather. They were just about ready to abandon the steamer and take the passengers ashore in life- boats, when the swimming contest was called on. The first to take the plunge was our mutual friend, W. E. Sawyer, then Ed Kraai, af Holland, Muskegon and Grand Haven fame. followedf by Harry Winchester. The introduction of these travelers into the cool and refreshing waters, seem- ed to relieve the steamer to a cer- tain extent but not sufficiently to float it. The Captain called for volun- teers and of course our friend, E. A. Crandall, was on the job. (Eldreth always did tackle anything in the way of a job). He made the plunge, but did not seem to be of any great assistance in the way of raising the water, so a second call was sent out, accompanied by a scout who made the rounds of the grounds. That he obtained results goes without ques- tion, for soon he emerged from be- hind a mighty oak where he found Fred Beardslee eating pie. In some way Fred had accomplished the seeming impossible and had succeed- ed in getting past the guard, and into the cook shanty. He also had en- ticed Will Cook, of Kialamazoo, into the deal. The two were brought out into the foreground and_ followed their companions into the water, whereupon the steamer gave two toots and proceeded on her way. There were in all about 160 present and all reported they had a good time, and looked forward to the time when the treat may be repeated in 1919, P. S. It has just come to the no- tice of the writer that Richard Pren- dergast started from the dock at Ra- mona on the Major Watson and in- tended to get there in time to take part in the games and especially the eats, but when he saw the unbeliev- able results accomplished by his trav- : eling salesmen in relieving the steam- er from its predicament, he decided that he was not their equal in ath- letic stunts, and so came in by a side door and looked longingly at what was left of the eats. Somebody no- ticing his longing and wistful looks, asked him to fall to—then Dick was happy. R. J. Nichol, Central representative for the Michigan Hardware Company, has gone to Denver Colorado,where he will locate his wife for a few months in hopes a change of residence will benefit her health. He will keep up his resi- dence on Dunham street, where his two children and their grandmother will continue to make their home. : D. F, Helmer. Michigan Beer gn a ae ¥ Ferro na iaesbnicsarindtbadenhnnienincscaninhnranouuneeetenueianemt eotaruntom ett eee August 28, 1918 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN The Yardstick of Michigan’s Progress of the Union. We have made remarkable strides; each year sees progress. Brains and ingenuity are grad- \ ] EAR BY YEAR our industry gathers momentum and takes its rightful place among the progressive states ually opening the sources of fabulous wealth. An opportunity is offered once each year to see what Michigan is doing industrially—to see the fruits of our toil. It is a magnificent offering—this show of the West Michigan State Fair—one that beggars all power of description. The exhibits of the West Michigan State Fair this year will be superb—unequalled in former years. There is a reason for this being true. There has been a purpose in making the War-Fair the biggest of all Fairs. The coming Fair is a War-Fair, dedicated to a program of National service and placed at the disposal of Uncle Sam. The prevailing thought in its plans is not what can be done for the West Michigan State Fair, + but, rather, what service can be rendered the Government. The Fair will render two distinct services. The first will be in the role of spokesman for the Government. By means of a magnificent Government exhibit Michigan people will be brought into closer sympathy with our War-work, Another service rendered will be the stimulation of the production of foodstuffs. Superb exhibits of live stock and food products will be the means the Fair will use in talking to the food producers, To the merchants of Michigan the Fair offers an exceptional opportunity to visit the Grand Rapids market at the reduced rate of fare offered by the railroads, The war will not interfere for if there is any time when merchants should come to market, it is during times like these when merchandise is scarce. West Michigan State Fair, Grand Rapids | | _ September 16 to 20, 1918 Grand Rapids wholesalers and manufacturers have planned far ahead this season. They have gone into the markets and secured generous stocks, and Grand Rapids warehouses and store rooms are comfortably filled with merchandise—not filled to capacity, but with goods enough to take care of the needs of merchants patronizing Grand Rapids houses. There are distinct advantages in coming to Grand Rapids to select Fall and Winter merchandise. Grand Rapids is located directly at the door of Michigan merchants compared with Eastern markets— and it is within the keeping of the times to buy close at home, now when railroad transportation is so congested —when our country needs every bit of railroad service obtainable. Buying close at home ensures quicker delivery—there will be less delay in getting the goods to you, & Finally, coming to market in person gets you in touch with market conditions—it gives you a keen in- sight into the future which will prove valuable to you later. , You'll find your visit to Grand Rapids Fair Week profitable. Selecting merchandise in person assures you of the merchandise you need, getting away from your business for a few days will be a vacation for you—and you'll return home rested and ready for a big season of business. Don’t forget the dates---Sept. 16 to 20, 1918. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN August 28, 1918 SPOILING WHITE PAPER. While there is no disposition in trade circles to complain of enforced war-time conservation and regulation, there is much sentiment in sympathy with the suggestion of a prominent trade factor, printed in another col- umn, that the Government is wasteful of black ink on white paper and that there is room for reform at home— right in Washington, D. C. Everything that the grocer inter- viewed says is well known to ob- servers of food regulation, and the same might be said of the “publicity” of many other branches of the Gov- ernment. This desk, for instance, naturally receives—and wants to—all the information regarding Food Ad- ministration there is to be had, but the flood of duplicates that comes proves the need of supervision and a substantial pruning and co-ordination, We get direct from the Federal Food Administration every order is- sued. Then it comes in from the Na- tional Wholesale Grocers’ Associa- tion, which has issued it to all its members at the request of Washing- ton. Then perhaps it comes from the Southern Wholesale Grocers’ Asso- ciation, next it appears in advices of from anywhere from ten to thirty of the State associations, according to whether or not one is on their mail- ing lists. It comes again from the State Food Administration and sev- eral Government periodical bulletins, and very likely is followed by circu- lars from some of the “sideline” as- sociations, like the coffee roasters, extract men, candy manufacturers, specialty manufacturers, etc. Nor is that all for everyone of them is verbose to a fault, using several times the paper and ink necessary to tell the story through an effort to be exact and formal... Not uncommonly it is possible at this desk to reduce a circular of 500 words to less than a hundred and tell the story to the reader better than in the original. Think of the effect of this upon the post office, especially when it is multi- plied by thousands who receive the same matter. It clutters the offices, adds to the handling by the clerks, loads up the mail trucks and mail cars of the railroads—much of which is duplicated at point of destination and delivery. Then it clutters up the desk of the business man. And add to’ it the multitudinous forms of oth- er propaganda—for “everybody’s do- ing it’—suggesting Uncle Sam needs an economizer more than anyone else, The same thing is true of many other publications. Every few days there comes to this desk a pamphlet of food decisions under the Pure Food Law—from 50 to 100 closely printed pages—seiting forth in ‘ten times the necessary verbiage the complaints, convictions, penalties, etc., of sundry offenders, and very com- monly having to do with cases from two to four years old; in which no one to-day has the slightest inter~ est, if he ever had. Of course the law requires it; which, in turn, throws it back on our “statesmen,” who draw “ laws aimed to make the offender “a source of innocent merriment” for the public as much as possible. Only Uncle Sam pays the freight. Every bureau at Washington has its own publicity department, usually in charge of a professional publicity man who thinks that his job depends —as perhaps it does—on the amount of matter he utters, rather than the degree of useful information he gives as to the needful and important goings-on of the Government. One who reads it faithfully cannot escape the conclusion that hundreds of offi- cials have gone publicity-mad in their wild efforts to keep in the limelight. And a ridiculously small portion of it ever moves the editorial pen or paste- pot, to inflict it on the public. CANNED GOODS SITUATION. The present lack of activity in can- ned goods is regarded as being with- out special significance other than it represents the dullness generally found at this particular period of the year. Another fortnight will see a complete change in the situation when the new pack goods will begin to come in in greater volume. Con- ditions as they are developing may be said to be working out satisfac- torily. Production of everything in the line of vegetables will be ample although certain varieties may have to be replaced by others. It begins to look as if the plans of the Food Administration are to be crowned with success in that they have or- ganized production and distribution on the best possible basis that could be devised under the circumstances, with a minimum of loss to those who were entitled to just profits and the elimination of those who were en- titled to no profits at all because no legitimate service had been rendered. Retail prices in comparison with oth- er years are abnormally high but they are accepted as being on a war basis. To reorganize trade methods on such a gigantic scale has been one of the marvels of administration. It has, of course, been possible for Mr. Hoover and his assistants to benefit by the mistakes of other countries but only to a limited degree because the Amer- ican problem has been entirely differ- ent from anything else. This is a country of vast production and even with curtailed crops such as have oc- curred in last year’s experience there would have been in normal times more than sufficient for domestic needs. It became necessary to wake up the country to the realization that our obligations extended beyond our own borders and to put the country in a state of mind which would ac- cept rationing and food economies on a patriotic basis. Probably the greater part of Mr. Hoover’s success has come from his attitude of seeking co-operation rather than the arbitrary exercise of power. Recent failures and__ liquidations among retail rug houses illustrate the situation in that trade. And the fact that some of them were selling rugs at only $3 or $4 above the mill price would tend to prove that their move has been forced on them. eo kc NERNEY ACCES NE IAI SEP ET WHAT MAY RESTRICT BUYING It would relieve the minds «f many producers and merchants if they could be assured of what the general public will do in the way of buying, not only for fall but for next spring, for which preparations should be made now or in the near future. Guides which formerly were safely to be trusted are of no value now because of changing as well as chang- ed conditions. Quite a lot of people in the ‘country are making more money than they ever did. Many, also, who before the war did nothing in the way of productive effort, have been tempted to go into the labor field for the profit there is in it or from patriotic motives. This class in- cludes large numbers of women and girls who now have more money to spend. In practically all the lines of business which care for war re- quirements, wages have been several times advanced. As against these things, which would. indicate larger, more varied and more frequent pur- chases, are several offsets. One of them is the withdrawal from or- dinary buying of several million of men who have been or will be taken for military duty. Their ages are just those when the wants, especially in the way of things to wear, are most numerous and urgent, and when style makes the greatest appeal. Then there is the larger class. whose incomes have remained stationary or practically so. To such persons the rise in the cost of living has been most onerous, and their burden has been increased by the income tax. To them, as well as to those of large incomes, the prospect of an in- crease in the tax is rather -discon- certing and it is bound to be shown in reduction of buying. To how great an extent these cir- cumstances may curtail purchases, and what classes of articles may be most affected is the puzzle. Higher food prices have aided the Govern- ment materially in reducing the buy- ing of things, supplies of which are needed for the army and for the Allies. Similarly, the advanced prices of things to wear have also restrict- ed purchases measurably. There was danger that such restriction would become so marked as to reduce buy- ing to the danger point and cause much business embarrassment. It was, in great measure, to avoid this result that producers were more than willing to have maximum priecs on fabrics set by Government order. The prices made thus far, however, are simply designed to prevent further advances to the ultimate consumer and not to reduce them from the high levels they had reached. Up to the present, retailers have been able to give their customers the benefit of the-lower prices at which much of their goods had been bought in the past. But the old stocks have almost disappeared, and it is now a question how the general public will take to the new and higher figures which will prevail this fall and next spring. The retail clothiers were advised at their recent National convention to go slow in their buying because of . these circumstances. Other retailers ee rae Neat ne eC ae ae ne ee lt eee are likely from present indiactions to follow the same course until the at- mosphere clears and they can discern the course of events. What may force them in this direction is the fact that bankers and credit men are averse to aiding them in taxing any speculative chances while prices rule as high as they do. THE MAN WHO PAYS. Mr. J. H. Moores, whose death occurred at his home in Lansing last Saturday, left a valuable legacy to his home town in the form of a river drive and park, but he left the people of Michigan a much richer heritage in the example he afforded some years ago when he refused to consider the proceedings of a bank- ruptcy court as final and paid every’ creditor 100 cents on the dollar, with interest, as soon as he got on his feet, financially speaking. Forced in- to liquidation by the failure of the bank with which he did business, Mr. Moores suffered the loss of a for- tune he had built up by years of patient effort. Instead of accepting the situation with resignation and assuming that he no longer owed any obligation to his creditors, be- cause the bankruptcy court had legally freed him from further lia- bility, Mr. Moores took the moral view of the situation instead —the viewpoint which every thoroughly honest man holds under such circum- stances—and immediately proceeded to improve his financial condition by operations in Mississippi timber lands. Of course, fortune favored him—just as it usually favors every man who is actuated with high mo- tive and noble aspirations—and in- side of a dozen years he was able to repay every creditor in full, with in- terest. Not only did he do this, but he had ample means left to provide for the future of his family and make bequests to the city of Lansing which will keep his name green as long as time lasts. They will also serve to intensify the real nature of the man, who was honest in heart, honest in action and honest in all the walks of life. “Hereafter, a ship for a ship,” says the Spanish Government to the Ger-* man. After all kinds of injuries suf- fered in silence or with merely formal protests, Spain has screwed her courage, apparently, to this very mild sticking point. Exposure of German spy work throughout the peninsula, aid given U-boats, sabot- age, bribing agitators to bring about revolts in the already discontented section of Catalonia, has strengthened the Government’s hands. The fear hitherto entertained that any answer to Germany which would make a call upon the country’s patriotism would at the same time cause a revolution has now, by timely publicity, been re- moved. The pro-Germans and the agitators stand revealed as Ger- many’s mercenaries, And this will largely account for the more drastic action threatened by the Spanish Ministry. You can’t tell how well heeled a man is by the size of his shoes. ee ee a a August 28, 1918 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 8 W. I LS NN. A P U, S E RS—are steady users. Thus Wilsnaps give most Always Wilsnaps—Always advertised merchants a constant ‘‘quick turnover.”’ The October Advertisement Appearing in Vogue and Harper’s Bazar NEW YORK OFFICE: 1182 Broadway, between 28th and 29th Streets U; nsnap iw! The quick “give” and release of the Wilsnap spring completes a Wilsnap day’s work of faith- ful fastening. For Wilsnaps always will snap and unsnap—properly, too! Put dependable, rust-proof Wilsnaps on guard on daintiest lace—on heavy cloth. Yes! There are Wilsnap sizes for every fabric. Have a supply on hand. Wilsnaps—always Wilsnaps, wherever snap fasteners are used. Always Will Snap THE WILSON FASTENER CO., Makers 117 East St. Clair Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 17 = . 1 f , Look for this card y, : —orange colored— REG. U.S. PAT OFF, Toc everywhere Fashion’s Fastener 16 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN August 28, 1918 ’ SNUG _. -vyyr CE YN DRY GOODS, © FANCY GOODS «» NOTIO \ sy} erect CCE 444L, Lip §: — 4 (( I Uh es r ag 5 ganas aS (eS Purchasing White Cottons For 1919 Is Already Active. Scientists who are supposed to be ‘in the know” say that next year we are booked for a long, hot summer, which will mean more white cotton and summer gowns than ever. We don’t know how these scientists ar- rive at their conclusions, but we do know such expectations are already reflected in the trade, with special attention being paid to the fineness of the goods. Organdies will be very fine, and both black and white will prove smart. The manufacturers are ques- tioning: “Will organdies be as pop- ular next season?” Yes, women think—and their decisions mean more money clinking in the cash carriers that lead to the stores’ tube rooms. Jobbers’ sales of white fabrics are active, white goods are higher and only now are cotton buyers sure that women are going to dress in the ever-lovely white as freely, and more so, as usual. Future and present de- liveries are not as cheerful as they might be. White summer frocks are always appropriate for the season. The changes in these goods are not as easily noticed as the colored cottons, and if stocks are left over they are always near enough the next lot of deliveries to keep on selling. The new organdies for 1919 will cer- tainly equal those of 1918 in fineness and finish. Owing to the high price for labor and raw cotton, cotton prices for fin- ished goods will naturally be much higher, but the fabrics also will ad- vance in finish and general merit, The idea now seems to be that the market has a good selection of white fabrics. Plain weaves sell so well and are more quickly made when these seasons are combined with the fact that many orders for plains for the January openings are already booked and, naturally, the manufac- turers are not going to work on fan- cies when the public seems to want plains. : The wide spreading fancy for or- gandies will naturally affect lawns, and many Swisses later. Lawns, be- ing akin to organdie, will be its nat- ural substitute, although never of the Same transluscent appearance. Ultra- fashionable women, and the neck- wear trade, look on organdie as a leader, but many still prefer voile. Each has its own niche. Probably organdie ‘will be very high in 1919, but will any choice fabric be cheap? New England is fast being noted for its exquisitely fine yarn mill work of this kind, and we are now strong rivals of England and France for voiles—this in regard to the plain white especially, Fancy white usual- ly needs to be embroidered, but the plain white is very popular and is put to many uses. The finish of voiles has much improved, being softer and of a dainty, transparent appearance, almost sparkling in effect. The white voiles trimmed with velvet ribbon, filet or Venise lace are more likely to be worn, as the em- broidered borders »r robes are more expensive. Nothing is more dainty than a voile waist with hand em- broidery, and skirt simply trimmed. If retailers could always have a fig- ure dressed in a suggestive manner it would help the sale of fabrics more than keeping them on the counter. Fabrics, like people, may be ideal or of coarser material, as organdie and gingham. The flimsy aspect of organdie does not convey frailty to persons accustomed to handling it. The consumption of sheer goods has grown steadily since women began to wear invisible lingerie and time does not alter this aspect. Many new or- ders are being sent in as a preventa- tive against empty shelves late in the season. No one need have the feeling that overstocking will result in the laying in of more sheer cotton goods. If any ate left over they will sell next spring if they do not this early fall. We must use more cotton or silk for fall, and cotton is by far the cheaper, Cotton also comes in the greatest variety. of designs and weights. Prices for all white and colored nov- elties have not been kept on a par; the colors always having the advan- tage, but this is expected to change on account of the dyers and dye sit- uation. Outside of the sheer white cottons the interest is in the heavier white cotton goods under the name of skirtings—piques, gabardines, serges, poplins, ducks, etc. The fancies with small figures—all white—have sold well in made and unmade skirts. Rumor has it that we may wear heavy white in the house through the coming winter. Silk and cotton take well in white. Some houses have skirt fabrics in numbers from one to fifteen, and even to twen‘v-five, materials, and all of them sell. Even if left over they do not look past selling at the first of another season. ee The clerk who is afraid to call a customer’s attention to other goods than he came to buy, who is bashful about it, needs to be put in a position where he will be compelled to speak up or lose his bread and butter. UNTIRED BUSINESS MEN. Place They Occupy in Modern Fiction, Fiction has no romances more fas- cinating or more dramatic than those concerned with modern business. Love furnishes no more thrills than does commerce. There are as many variations in plot for the business struggle as for the love affair. Yet business has only recently come into its own in fiction. It is a brand new motif in the novel, the short story and the play; a truly modern element in romance. In the past we had stories a plenty detail- ing efforts to dig up buried treasure on uninhabited islands. Only of late years has the attempt to obtain the coin in more normal fashion been played up. Yet since business occupies the larger share of our waking hours, it has a right in literature. And as now- adays everybody, from the bellhop to the college president, from the baggage smasher to the floor walker, is writing stories or plays, we are see- ing a variety of business interests represented in our democratic fiction. Perhaps the reason for this pre- vious reticence lay in the fact that formerly trade was considered vul- gar, and since literature was for ladies and gentlemen, no mention must be made, or, at least, no em- phasis placed, on anything so ple- beian as commerce. While business is still scorned in certain quarters— witness the inability of any one con- nected with any trade, save that of the brewer, to be presented at the British court—in literature the re- strictions are all removed. And trade flourishes in fiction as in life. True, trades were mentioned in earlier fiction, but in a gingerly fashion, and with an_ aristocrati- scorn quite different from the treat- ment accorded a few favored profes- sions, as the ministry of war. Fight- ing and preaching were suitable sub- jects for literature, but not buying and selling. Even the learned and military professions were not brought forward as they are now. The model hero was purely and sole- ly a gentleman. When mention was made of the hero’s business in the past the em- phasis was laid on the person, not Grand Rapids, on his calling, on his social and not on his business struggles, on his ri- valry in love, not in trade. A man’s calling might be mentioned, but it was a thing apart from the real ma- terial for fiction. It was the man himself who was of interest, not his work, Dickens, for instance, introduces a number of trades in his fiction, but the business itself is not the thing stressed. It is merely added for the sake of local color or to make the character more picturesq:e. We have, for instance, Mr. Krook, proprietor of a rag and bottle shop, who dies of spontaneous combustion as the result of too much liquor. Dombey and Son sounds like the title for a bus'- ness novel, but it isn’t. True, we We are manufacturers of TRIMMED AND UNTRIMMED HATS for Ladies, Misses and Children, especially adapted to the general store trade. Trial order solicited. CORL, KNOTT & CO.. Ltd. Corner Commerce Ave. and Island St. Grand Rapids, Mich. ly, ag. > HESUN-BEAM BRAND” — Y iN | \ ‘*Sunbeam’’ Sweater Coats and Jerseys ‘Better Made for the Better Trade’’— is considered and appreciated more than ever. 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Thackeray, the aristocrat, draws for us chiefly persons with genteel professions, whose hands are unsoiled by trade. George Eliot gives us a weaver in Silas Marner, but he weaves merely cloth for a living, and not commercial romance. Anthony Trollope is principally concerned with the clergy. Scott’s heroes are warriors or adventurers. Jane Aus- ten’s gentlemen have too much pride and prejudice to enter trade. In modern fiction, especially in America, this is all changed. The business of romance is still impor- tant, of course, but the romance of business is not less so. Trade furn- ishes the complications and the strug- gles for countless novels and stories and plays. One reason for this aside from the fact that trade has risen in respecta- bility and literature has been democ- ratized, may be the feminine inva- sion of business as of literature, which has made modern business more entertaining than formerly when mere man had the manipulation of it all alone. The extension of the reading public always carries with it an extension of the line of interests involved. And since women consti- tute a large part of the reading pub- lic nowadays, the fact that women are interested in business naturally carries with it the inclusion of busi- ness in the materials for fiction. Now the tired business woman may find relief from her problems by reading about them in novels. Business women are. essentially modern—and American—innovations in fiction as they are in life, Fancy Mrs. Radcliffe writing of an Emma McChesney, for instance, or Samuel Richardson depicting an Iron Wo- man! Scott could win our sympathy with the woes of a lovely and femi- nine Rebecca, but could he have made us love and admire a homely Jewish woman running a store as Edna Fer- ber has done so notably in Fanny Herself? O. Henry has shown us many types of business women, salesgirls in basement stores, restaurant cashiers, stenographers, manicurists and what not. While Richardson wrote an in- terminable Pamela to show the strug- gles of a lowly girl to preserve her virtue, O. Henry in a few hundred words has given us a greater picture of a working girl in his Unfinished Story. The modern author writes not on- ly of the appealing woman in busi- ness, not only of the one who wins our admiration by her success, but also of her who does not know the game. Only a present day American writer could make such delicate sport of lovely woman showing herself a goose as Edwin Le Fevre has done’ in The Woman and Her Bonds in his delectable series of Wall Street studies. Now we have romance in reality, passion in cold trade, comedy and melodrama in all forms of commerce. Frank Goewy Jones, in his realistic and entertaining series of business MICHIGAN TRADESMAN stories centering round “Just Jones,” makes the principal character of his fiction a homely, timid, unattractive clerk, certainly unpromising material according to the older ideas. The tailor, for instance, how he has been scorned! Even George Mere- dith, while making a tailor the hero of his Evan Harrington lays the em- phasis on personality rather than on business, on the man’s social rather than professional aspirations ‘and struggles. Yet this character, here- tofore considered hopelessly un- dramatic and plebeian, has been made for us so fascinating as recently to entertain the American public for years in fiction and on the stage. We never tire of Potash and Perlmutter and their struggles with the clothing business. Maurice Hewlett makes a butcher the hero of his novel, The Stooping Lady, which would have seemed a thing incredible in the eighteenth century. The lumber trade has been made dramatic and entertaining recently in such novels as Clarence Budington Kelland’s The Source, and in such stories as those of Peter Kyne’s in the Saturday Evening Post. Wall Street has been made to yield romance and drama in many recent stories and novels, as in Bruce Bar- ton’s The Making of George Groton, where the young hero goes through business complications that bring out character. The homely hog has rooted his way into fiction and has been approv- ed romantic, as in such stories as The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, that sensational novel of the Chicago stock yards, and Henry Kitchell Webster’s The Bunker o’ the Bear, a story of a corner in lard. Frank Norris was’ making wheat even more valuable than it is in war times by his trilogy, which his un- timely death cut short. But we have The Pit, a big story of commerce. Cotton is the chief material in vari- ous present day stories of the South: Whereas the older fiction dealt only with aristocratic leisure, with colo- nels who drank mint iuleps and let darkeys do the work, now the South- erner is a wideawake person who has passed prohibition laws in the inter- est of business and is much concern- ed in the extension of trade. We have the book agent made de- lightful in Christopher Morley’s hu- mor of running a modern boarding house in Fanny Hurst’s Ice Water, Pi—. O. Henry has about cleaned up all the lowly trades for us, and G. K. Chesterton gives us a variety in A Club of Queer Trades. Arnold Bennett shows us a drap-. er’s shop in The Old Wives’ Tale, while H. G. Wells gives us drapers in Kipps and The Wheel of Chance. Henry Kitchell Webster, Samuel Merwin, Montague Glass, Irwin Cobb —but one cannot name all the suc- cessful writers of modern business stories! Business sometimes plays the role of the man maker. Trade with its democracy of spirit and its discipline, is made to reform weak characters. Nowadays the father who has neg- lected his son for twenty years makes everything right by throwing him unsupported into business. Watch him shed glory on the family and firm! The Turmoil, by Booth Tark- ington, shows the transformation of a dreamy youth from a minor poet to a successful manufacturer, although much against his will. Skinner’s Big Idea, by Henry Irving Dodge, de- picts the rejuvenation of men in busi- ness who have sunk into a rut too early. Dorothy Scarborough. ——_2++—____ Covered Buttons Save Life. Our informant says: “A certain young lady can thank Providence for the invention of covered buttons. She joined a Red Cross unit. Be- fore she left, her mother, a dress- maker, who had a hand button cover- ing outfit, inserted gold pieces in the button moulds which she covered. During the bombarding of one of the hospitals, some missile struck her and one of these reinforced buttons saved her from ‘serious injury. At another time she became de- tached from her unit and put some of the gold pieces to good advantage for purchasing life’s necessities.” ———_++.—___ Lawyer Keeps His Word. “T haven’t any case,” continued the client, “but I have money.” “How much?” “Sixty thousand dollars.” “Phew! You have the best case I ever handled,” said the lawyer. “I'll see that you never go to prison with that sum.” And_ the there broke. client didn’t—he went 11 The Book of Plain Prices ‘All the prices in “OUR DRUMMER ”’ catalogue are net and guaranteed for the time the catalogue is in com- mission. Moreover they are expressed in plain figures. This means that the man buying from ‘‘ OUR DRUM- MER” buys with the com- fortable assurance that he knows exactly what he is doing. If you are a mer- chant and have not the cur- rent number of this cata- logue near you let us know and one will be sent. Butler Brothers Exclusive Wholesalers of General Merchandise New York Chicago St. Louis Minneapolis Dallas QUALITY amount to offer: SERVICE SERVICE Our Road Salesmen will soon have sam- ples of the following articles of Men’s and Boys’ fall and winter furnishings for immediate delivery and would advise you who did not fully cover on this class of merchandise, when we were booking orders last fall, to act quickly, as there is a great scarcity of this kind of goods and we have only a limited Men’s and Boys’ Flannel Shirts and Blouses Men’s and Boys’ Wool Pants and Knickerbockers Men’s and Boys’ Mackinaws and Sheep Coats Men’s and Boys’ Gloves and Mittens Grand.Rapids Dry Goods Co. Exclusively Wholesale Grand Rapids, Michigan QUALITY 12 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN August 28, 1918 nw COU EL FLCC COAL MU gy 1qqeeves oj Zz > Z Cr) > yy HeuaN mina yy Ji =i] Ww = e MCUa eee Det f (G - =e ( — (( After-the-War Problems We) Must Face. Written for the Tradesman. Recent developments on the West- ern front bring before us more forci- bly some of the “after-the-war” problems. It is not too early to dis- cuss them, and the need of close and calm consideration by the business interests of the country is impera- tive. Especially is this true as to the revealed plans for ruthless trade conquest by Germany. Much has been written, both in fiction and al leged fact. Official disclosures from papers in possession of the State Department corrobrates most of the statements contained in published articles, and go further, showing that the Germans contemplate a com- ‘mercial battle for final world suprem- acy, “fought out” according to the approved German fashion on foreign soil. The expose shows how the German genius for patient, painstak- ing preparation and attention to every detail, of exhaustive organization and complete national mobilization have been brought to bear upon the prob- lem: It is serious and must be faced. The more widely the information re- garding these plans is disseminated the better. It hits us all in every line of business, and as in the final analysis, public opinion will influence National action after the war, basis for a rational solution should be es- tablished now. Notwithstanding the dropping of treaties to a negligible quotation, Germany, founds its scheme for the future on these scraps of paper. Among: the compacts the Huns expected to dictate on the bat- tle field were the following stipula- tions as to the products of the allied countries: An unlimited opportunity to ac- quire sites for winning raw materials, such as copper and cotton, and an unlimited right to get them out by German enterprise. All restriction must be precluded. It will not alone suffice to demand unlimited opportunities to secure raw materials in foreign countries, for their price by the time they reach Germany may have been raised to inadmissible amounts by export or transit charges, freight rates, the re- fusal of export premiums which are granted to other foreign business of a similar kind, and by other ‘forms of petty chicanery (for instance, the refusal to build connecting railways, or to recognize the ex-appropriation rights of Germany, etc.) The com- mercial treaty must place an abso- Inte bar to such arbitrary advances in the final price of raw materials. “It is also arrogantly asserted that the retaliation measure to be applied in case of infringement must be deter- mined upon beforehand with all se- verity.” According to the plan “to be dictated upon the battlefield,” provision must be made in advance that foreign officials must employ all the force at their command against the- originators, promotors and participants in boycotting move- ments which “injure our export trade,” and that in such cases the German government has a right to be consulted and to share in deciding the measures of opposition. Herr Herzog, the adviser of the German government in this proposed piratical control of trade, further says that, except where they are absolutely in- dispensible, “it must be expected the German technical skill will be ex- cluded from supplying our present enemies.” How many Americans would suffer this condition to exist? It must never exist and it can be seen that we are fighting not alone for universal liberty, but for our own commercial independence as well. Such a commercial treaty would stipulate that German shippers are eligible wherever foreign material and foreign workmanship are patron- ized in any form. It would be abso- lutely impossible for manufacturers from countries now allied against Germany to enjoy under any form or pretext whatever a preference in competing for state work. But no confidence can be placed upon paper concessions alone, according to Her- zog. On the basis of statistical data, we must specify the proportion in which German products have been included in official consignments from foreign countries. Purchases according to this proportion must be guaranteed by the state which is a party to the treaty.” The whole plan is based upon a military control of all industry and of every German by the government. The above brief outline is sufficient to give an idea of some of the terms Germany would impose on the world were she victorious and which she will have nerve enough to ask for in any peace negotiations. We have seen enough to know that every German is to be under orders from Berlin and to act as a spy and government agent. The success of this scheme would depend upon ac- curate and prompt information to be supplied by Germany’s spies, nor are trade statistics the least of it. Every German instructor and chemist, every laboratory and plant in the empire are to be under the orders of the General Staff—the commercial federation— and are to be kept working constant- Fire Insurance that Really Insures The first consideration in buying your fire insurance is SAFETY. You want your protection from a company which really protects you, not from a company which can be wiped out of existence by heavy losses, as some companies have been. Our Company is so organized that it CAN NOT lose heavily in any one fire. Its invariable policy is to accept only a limited amount of insurance on any one building, in any one block in any one town. Our Company divides its profits equally with its policy holders, thus reducing your premiums about one-third under the regular old line charge for fire insurance. MICHIGAN BANKERS AND MERCHANTS’ MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO. Wm. N. 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Van Aalderen, Assistant Cashier. 1 ap i ie pameeamemnereny Y Mex arse } § ti Hs } } i : 7 Lice Sam August 28, 1918 Preity nd cacao ccs enlnccacacnbhacasnscedssachantoesaarocdiansiataaigeted aesetea geek eanmeae ee ee eee MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 13 ly improvising substitutes for raw materials and improved methods and processes. With this information the General Staff is to prepare for inva- sion by mobilizing under five great organizations the entire commercial strength of the country. It is not to be a trust or combination. It is to be an army of manufacturers, miners and bankers, under command of a staff composed of the heads of the trades and of state officials controll- ed by the government. With such plans as a part of the future “peace,” should not America and her allied associates form a com- mercial and financial league which, while guaranteeing decent inde- pendence, will preclude the spread- ing through underground methods of the insidious German evil? Every man, woman and child in the United States is vitally interested and it is but proper that our people give voice to their sentiments, so that when our representatives who sit at the peace table will fully understand and carry out the wishes of the Nation. Consideration of after-the-war problems should not, and will not, in- terfere with our giving our united energies to the successful prosecu- tion of the war, but it does no harm that while our preparation for a con- tinwance of the conflict may be for ten years, we organize our peace pro- jects, so that if it should end in ten months we will not be caught nap- ping. Great Britain is fully alive to the situation and definite plans are under way to put an end for all time to “peaceful penetrations” by Germany of British colonies, both financial and commercial. All sources of supply within the empire are to be freed from foreign control of any kind. Fourteen committees are now con- sidering trade development and twenty-one committees are conduct- ing scientific and industrial research, independent of the fourteen studying trade development. Eight commit- tees are working on demobilization, acting as connecting links. between the demobilization scheme of the Ministry of War and the elaborate resettlement scheme of the Ministry of Labor. There are six committees on raw material, six on coal and power, two on finance, four on agri- culture and forestry, two on intelli- gence, six on public administration, two on labor and employment, four on housing, eight on education, two on aliens, three on legal matters and three on miscellaneous questions. While, of course, it is without the range of probability that the findings of all these committees will be adopt- ed by the British government, the fact remains that as soon as any of the after-war possibilities show their head above the horizon, Great Britain is equipped through prelimi- nary organization to give them con- sideration. It is an insurance against trouble, as well as preparation for any trouble which may arise. Amer- ica must also awake to the situation. The only question is how soon and on how big a scale shall our study of the peace problems begin. Paul Leake. Give Credit Where Credit Is Due. Detroit, Aug. 27—All patriots are looking for opportunities to help ad- vance our efficiency in waging this great conflict, but many are unwit- tingly doing some harm through un- willingness to relinquish prejudices, both personal and political. Early in the war many jumped to the conclusion, without sufficient reason, that this official was incom- petent, or that policy was wrong, when the official was untried or the facts upon which the policy was based were unknown to the public. Now when the official has proved his competence, or the policy has been shown to be wise in the light of sub- sequent events, some prejudiced ones have stubbornly refused to give credit where it is due, stoutly main- taining, in the face of demonstrative evidence to the contrary, that they were periectly right in their estimate of the situation, and that any suc- cessful situation resulted in spite of the official who was charged with its development, or of the policy wrong- fully initiated. Pure pig-headedness, surely, but it does some harm. It creates irrita- tion, furnishes fuel for the prejudices of others of like mind, interferes a little with the smooth running of the whole machine, dampens a little the ardor of some, and if it does any harm, should be given up. And the best way to give it up, in spirit as well as word, is for everyone to look on all subjects with a judicial mental attitude, resolved to get at the truth of any situation, and then, with all the facts clearly in mind, and preju- dice eliminated, a correct judgment can generally be arrived at on most matters not technical. Then, if we feel that errors are made, we know why we think so, and can state those reasons, where, if sound, they will bear fruit, Those who are indulging in this obstinate attitude of mind will con- tribute much to the unified spirit be- hind ‘the United States Government by discarding that position and by looking at things as they are to-day, and by uprooting, like true sports- men, the hidden hope that some one will fail to make good in order that pride of opinion may be justified at the expense of efficiency. This simply means being patriotic in private as well as in public. Harman Brown. ———->-+-2-—_—_ Why Should Age Serve as Deadline? Detroit, Aug. 27—A friend of mine —a real live man—with initiative and force, with the gift of continuance, and optimistic, who has made good in everything he has undertaken in the past, has been suddenly thrown out of work, owing to his firm giving up business, and he now finds _ diffi- culty in making new connections simply because he has reached the age of forty-five. Now, just what has age to do with making good in a new business, or in getting a new connection, especially when one is in excellent health and actually is youthful in appearance? Why a “deadline” after forty? Surely this should be an age of reason. Preju- dice should be discarded, and a man’s age should not enter into considera- tion in the business world when he can “make good,” is interested be- yond the day’s job and the week’s payroll, is a real human fellow, can talk with and interest others equally human, if he is honest with himself and also equally honest with others. This man is of prepossessing ap- pearance, has been successfully clerk, stenographer, secretary to men of affairs, chief clerk, office manager, correspondent, cashier, investigator; has a knowledge of credits, Spanish. commercial law, salesmanship. and advertising, and can fully satisfy the expectations and meet the require- ments of any reasonable firm. Really, what difference does it make whether a man is twenty or fifty, if he has ability, experience, and health? This is no time for prejudice in the business world, but of common- sense. George S. Bronson. Re Several years ago John H. Patter- son of the National Cash Company laid down the fundamental! rules of window decoration. One of these was: Exhibit only goods which you have for sale. One day Mr, Patterson, with this rule in mind, was walking along a street in Dayton and he saw a haber- Register dasher’s window which was lighted by a dozen lamp bulbs. The glare of the bulbs was so intense that’ one could hardly see the neckwear. “I would like to buy a half dozen incandescent lights,” said Mr. Pat- terson, to the clerk who met him as he entered tle was told the store did not sell lamps. “Why, then, do you exhibit them Why don't drop a narrow shade in front of the lamps, and reflect the light on the goods you do sell?” the store. in ypur window? you GRAND RAPIDS NATIONAL CITY BANK CITY TRUST & SAVINGS BANK ASSOCIATED the city. district. CAMPAU SQUARE The convenient banks for out of town people. Located at the very center of Handy to the street cars—the interurbans—the hotels—the shopping On account of our focation—our large transit facilities—our safe deposit vaults and our complete service covering the entire field of banking, our Institutions must be the ultimate choice of out of town bankers and individuals. Combined Capital and Surplus ............++6:! 1,724,300.00 Combined Total Deposits ........5.-.csseeeeees 10,168,700.00 Combined Total Resources ............2eeeeeee 13, 157,100.00 GRAND RAPIDS NATIONAL CITY BANK CITY TRUST & SAVINGS BANK ASSOCIATED WM. H: ANDERSON. President J. CLINTON BISHOP, Cashier Fourth National Bank United States Depositary Savings Deposits Commercial Deposits 3 Per Cent Interest Paid on Savings Deposits Compounded Semi-Annually I 3% Per Cent Interest Paid on Certificates of Deposit Left One Year Capital Stock and Surplus $580,000 LAVANT Z. CAUKIN, Vice President ALVA,T. EDISON, Ass’t Cashier 14 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN August 28, 1918 GRAND TRAVERSE BAY. Experiences of Early Settlers in That Region. Written for the Tradesman. Sixty years ago Traverse City was in the center of as fine a tract of tim- ber land as could be found anywhere, containing upwards of six thousand square miles. Its location at the head of the west arm of Grand Trav- erse bay, a beautiful body of water from five to ten miles wide by. forty long, gave it a spacious land-locked harbor and made it the natural me- tropolis of the region. There was nothing then but land and lumber for it to be the metropolis of, but it required little imagination to see that some day there would be something more. The early settlers little real- ized, however, what magnificent or- chards of cherries, plums, pears and other fruits were destined to cover those wooded hills. What little business there was, was confined to the production of lumber and cordwood, which was shipped to Chicago. The lumber was all pine. There was no market for hardwood and the vast forests of beech, maple, elm and basswood remained untouch- ed. Later, but before the manufac- ture of hardwood lumber to any con- siderable extent, elm ship-timber was shipped from Traverse City. The timbers were hewed in the woods and hauled to the bay shore on sleighs. There they remained until the open- ing of navigation, when they were loaded on vessels anchored off shore and carried down the lakes through the Welland Canal, and so down the St. Lawrence River to Liverpool, where they were used for ship-build- ing. The timbers were floated one at a time out to the ship and loaded between decks through openings in the stern, Many a ship into which they were built no doubt lies at the bottom of the ocean, ruthlessly sunk by the murderous submarines. Some of the choicest timber of the country was thus gathered up and_ sent abroad at prices which would now be considered ridiculous. After the close of the Civil War settlers came flocking into the coun- try and soon began a wholesale de- struction of the timber, in their in- fatuation for clearing the land for cultivation. In doing so they actu- ally burned up the best part of their farms, oblivious of the fact that in the timber, if it were properly con- served, they had an almost inexhaust- ible mine of wealth—a mine capable of supplying the Grand Rapids fac- tories with material for all time. In those early days the sight of white sails on the bay was common— schooners, barques and brigs sailing in and out with their cargoes of merchandise for the port or lumber for the distant market. The harbor sometimes fairly bristled with their masts. It is to be regretted that they have pretty much all disappeared. A big four-master standing up the Bay with all sails set before a fresh breeze on a bright June morning was a picture never to be forgotten. Un- der an inexorable economic law the SA oN END SARE commercial steam barge has _ sup- planted the romantic sail. Another interesting sight, whichin the early days used to be common, has also disappeared from the bay. The Indians were expert navigators in their dug-out or birch bark canoes. With one sail rigged in the bow, an Indian seated in the stern would calmly steer his frail craft with an oar through a sea into which a white man would hesitate to venture with a much stauncher craft. The Indian would have on board a full cargo consisting of camping outfit and cooking utensils such as he used and a load of passengers consisting of squaws and papooses, and sail the lake, regardless of wind or weather. In fact, the more wind there was the better he seemed to like it. It was not uncommon to see a fleet of these canoes under full sail coming up the Bay to their camping ground, a low, narrow, sandy peninsula between the Boardman River and the Bay. They would go into camp on this penin- sula, setting up their wigwams and establishing themselves for living in a few minutes after their arrival. They would remain until they dis- posed of their stock of fancy baskets and trinkets and then break camp, load their belongings into their canoes and sail away as quickly and quietly as they had come. The rail- road now occupies this camping ground with its tracks and depots and the red man is crowded out. The Indians were settled on two reservations, one in Leelanaw coun- ty, near Sutton’s Bay, about twenty miles north of Traverse City, and the other in Emmet county. There they lived in log houses or wigwams, according to their fancy, often pre- ferring the latter. They had their ponies, animals of much endurance, but incapable of willing effort. Some of them made a pretence of farming, but as agriculturists they were not a success. They preferred hunting, fishing and lounging around. In the early ’70’s the reservation in Emmet county was thrown open to white settlers and there was a rush of homesteaders to take up the lands. The land office was then lo- cated at Traverse City in a small frame building on the corner of Front and Cass streets. For several days the crowd in the street resembled a mob. No one was admitted to the office, but the land entries were made through a window. The homestead laws were subject to much abuse and sometimes were used as a means for the commission of fraud and even crime. In one case a man entered a homestead and bought a team and went to the store of Hannah, Lay & Co. and ordered a load of implements, utensils and provisions. When he came to pay for his purchases he presented a draft for a large amount on a bank in some Eastern city and asked for the change, amounting to. several hundred dollars in money, claiming that he would need it to pay out for improving his land. He exhibited the certificate of his homestead en- try as evidence of good faith. His story was so plausible that he suc- ceeded in getting the money. There was no telegraph and no way of in- vestigating the genuineness of the draft. He no sooner got the money than he disposed of his purchases and disappeared before it was dis- covered that the draft was a forgery. Needless to say that’ he never “prov- ed up” on his homestead. Years af- terwards when he was serving a term in the Ohio penitentiary for some other crime, Mr, Hannah call- ed to see him. He claimed to Mr. Hannah that he would have secured money enough by his crimes to make himself independent if ih had not cost him so much for bribes to the officers of the law in order to retain or re- gain his liberty after he was detected. The law required the homesteader to make a bona fide residence on the land and to remain there for five years before he could “prove up’— prove by the testimony of witnesses that he had resided on his homestead the required length of time, and get his patent, or Government deed, giv- ing him the absolute ownership of the land. During the five years he was allowed to be absent not more than six months at a time. Some persons attempted to construe this to mean that the homesteader had to be on the land at least once in six months during the five year period. Sometimes he put his construction to the test. One instance of this was the case of a man who had a good, well-stocked farm in Southern Mich- igan and who conceived the idea of adding to his holdings by taking up a homestead. He built a log house and chopped over a few acres and slept there two or three nights every six months, But he forgot to vote in the township where his homestead was located and continued to vote at his Southern Michigan home. His homestead was advertised as aban- doned and he lost it. There were many such cases. One thrifty couple made a bona fide residence on two homesteads in a way that was worth while. They selected adjoining tracts and built a double house on the dividing line, so that one half stood on each home- stead. They afterwards married and in that way the family secured 320 acres instead of 160, the regular al- lowance. The homesteaders who were hon- est with the Government and who in good faith set about carving out homes for themselves in the wilder- ness fared the best in the end. Many of them lived to reap their reward for enduring the privations of pio- neer life. They emerged from the ox to the automobile age to find themselves possessors of comforta- ble and even luxurious homes in a land of peace and plenty, under the protection of a beneficent Govern- ment to whose bounty they were in- debted for those homes, Reuben Hatch. » —_»- If you always have something new or difficult to show customers, you are in a position to take advantage of their curiosity—a quality that ex- ists in all of_us. aS ae TT aE IIT Do Not Trust to Chance No man can afford to take a chance on life itself. certain. And failure to make proper provision for the care of your prop- erty upon your death means that the results of your labor and effort may be but poorly conserved, and your family lose thereby. Send for Blank Form of Will and Booklet on Descent and Distribution of Property. THE MICHIGAN TRUST Go. OF GRAND RAPIDS Safe Deposit Vaults on ground floor; boxes to rent at very low cost. Audits made of books of municipalities, corporations, firms and individuals, It is too un- August 28, 1918 GOOD MAN GONE. Typical American Career of Lansing Philanthropist, Lansing, Aug. 27—J. H. Moores, donor of Moores park; organizer and director of a number of Lansing in- dustrial enterprises; philanthropist and pioneer lumberman, died last Saturday, following an illness of practically a year. The end came peacefully and was expected as the attending physicians notified the fam- ily Wednesday that death was near. Mr. Moores’ death occurred in the Moores summer home .on the river drive. The funeral of Mr. Moores was held Monday afternoon at the cot- tage on Moores river drive and was public. Internment in Hope ceme- tery. From truck gardening on the out- skirts of primitive Lansing to capi- talist and philanthropist is the typical American career of James Henry Moores. Mr. Moores was born in Croton, Licking county, Ohio, April 2, 1846. Having received a common school education in that State, Mr. Moores, filled with all the aspirations of sturdy, hopeful youth, came to Lansing to get a higher education at the Michigan Agricultural college. Mr. Moores entered this institution in 1866. In 1913 this institution con- ferred ‘the honorary M. A. degree upon him. Michigan evidently suit- ed the young man and he elected to settle here. Truck gardening on a small scale was his ‘first venture. Later he launched out into the real estate business. Visionary, but con- servative; endowed with business acumen which only needed de- velopment.through experience, Mr. Moores saw a fortune in the pine forests with which Upper Michigan was then covered. In 1873 he made his first venture in pine land speculation. This was in March. In a small way he began business as a lumberman but did nothing on an extensive scale until 1880 when he began cutting logs along the Muskegon river; manufac- turing them into lumber and shipping his product by boat to Chicago. In 1881 he founded ‘the villages of Moorestown in Missaukee county. He was its first postmaster. In 1873 Mr. Moores considered himself prosperous enough to marry. His first wife was Miss Sarah Louis Stevens, of Concord, Michigan. Mrs. Moores died in March, 1886. In April, 1887, Mr. Moores was united in mar- riage to Miss Sarah ‘Frances Good- man, Oak Park. Ill. He had but one child, this daughter by his first wife. The daughter died some years ago after her marriage. In the lumbering business Mr. Moores’ prospered and amassed a small sized fortune, as fortunes went in those days. When the Lansing banks in which Mr. Moores had his accounts became insolvent in 1896 or thereabouts, he was forced into bank- ruptcy. Mr. Moores was practically “cleaned.” But he courageously an@ with the genuine optimism that was always characteristic of him, shoul- dered his obligations and made a new start. He had begun to investigate the pine possibilities of Mississippi and had, as early as 1887, made in- vestments in pine lands in this state. With little except his courage, good health and an indomitable will, Mr. Moores moved to the new field of operations. This was in 1897. From the start he made good. The bankruptcy court had legally ab- solved Mr. Moores of certain indebt- edness. But Mr. Moores was of a different opinion entirely. When in financial shape to do so, he returned to Lansing and paid dollar for dollar of his indebtedness in addition to the interest. The process of settling up his in- debtedness was slow, as he was un- able to find some of his creditors are Nae I eee MICHIGAN TRADESMAN who had given up their accounts as paid in full. Painstakingly and prompted by honest and sincere mo- tives, Mr. Moores traced each debt, but it was not until about eleven years ago that he finally located his “last creditor’ and received a “paid in full” receipt. This is said to have been an eventful day with him. In 1906 Mr. Moores returned to Lansing to make a permanent resi- dence. He invested heavily in Lan- sing real estate and got behind every industrial enterprise which had any possibility of a future. Some of these backings, however, did not prove suc- cessful, but Mr. Moores’ desire to see Lansing grow often prompted him to take chances on young concerns, At the time of his death he was President of the Lansing Pure Ice Co., the Lansing Stamping & Tool Co., the Lansing Foundry Co., the Moores Drive Association and the Lansing Connecting railroad, and Vice-President of the Lansing State Savings Bank and a director of the Atlas Drop Forge Co., and other concerns. In 1909 Mr. Moores presented to the city of Lansing beautiful Moores park, consisting of eighteen acres. He had acquired about 400 acres of land lying West of the city limits along Grand River to Waverly park. He was also instrumental in planning out and co-operating in the Potter park. He gave much of his time to civic affairs and was ever ready to work for the promotion of the gen- eral good of the city. On January 12, 1912, Mr. Moores was elected President of the Lansing Chamber of Commerce. His admin. istration marked the beginning of a big industrial and civic growth in Lansing. Mr. Moores performed many charities and his check book was always out for any person in distress. Provisions have undoubted- ly been made in his will to continue many of the philanthropies which he personally supervised during his life. About three years ago Mr. Moores began preparing for a quiet life and a greater personal freedom from business. He had ceased to acquire more real estate and was gradually liquidating much of that which he had acquired. Just what his real estate holdings were in Lansing is not known, but he had a rockbound faith in Lansing’s substantiality and his real estate investments were heavy. Last November he practically re- tired from active participation in Lansing’s business life, leaving the management of his Allegan street offices to his secretary, George E. Hutchinson. He left in November for Sea Breeze, Fla., and spent the winter there, returning in May. Dur- ing the hot months he has been liv- ing in his cottage West of Moores park on the river drive. Mr. Moores has been pronounced feeble the last few weeks and Wed- nesday physicians notified the family that the end was near. Mr. Moores had no immediate rel- atives with the exception of a sister, Mrs. S. J. Weed of this city, and his wife. Mr. Moores recently was elected to the Rotary Club of this city. For years he took an active interest in the affairs of the Plymouth Congre- gational church of which he was a member. In politics Mr. Moores was a Republican. ———_+--+_____ Sparks From the Electric City. Muskegon, Aug. 27—Shelby mer- chants had one of their old time ball games August 22. The score stood 18 to 22 in favor of the East side. While some good. plays were made, the game had quite a lot of comedy attached. A general good time and a goodly sum for the Red Cross was _the result. Miss Laura E. Brubaker and Wil- liam Monroe, of the Soo, were united in marriage recently. While not ac- quainted with either party, we wish to compliment the lady for her choice of name, but sincerely hope that fellow from Mears does not attempt to claim relation in public. We sure would feel humiliated. In the ejection from his hotel of a well-known insurance agent recently, landlord Peiffer, of Shelby, did the traveling public a great favor. This man has made himself so obnoxious by his disloyal acts and fault finding that his name is spoken only with disgust by citizens along the Pent- water branch. The writer had occa- sion to rebuke him in the same hotel when he demanded white bread on wheatless day. Mr. Peiffer conducts a good hotel and any fellow who finds fault with his strict compliance with the food regulations ought to be interned until after the war and then deported. The man in question is well versed in insurance and repre- sents a good company, but we doubt the good judgment of the company in retaining in its employ a man with anarchistic tendencies. The blacksmiths of Oceana and Mason counties held their fourth an- nual picnic at Pentwater Saturday, August 24. About 100 were present and a good time and plenty of eats made the affair very successful. They voted to hold the one at the same place next year on August 17, that being their National holiday. We are pleased to note that the present Grand Rapids correspondent of the Tradesman appreciates Muske- gon. Well, we wish to announce that in order to return the compliment, we are forced to admit that Grand Rapids sure was a nice quiet place to build the Holland Home. E. P. Monroe. 139-141 Monrose St Roth Phonus GRAND RAPIDS. MICH f The United Agency System of Improved Credit Service Unrrep A\GENCcY ACCURATE - RELIABLE UP-TO-DATE CREDIT INFORMATION GENERAL RATING BOOKS now ready containing 1,750,000 names—fully rated—no blanks— EIGHT POINTS of vital credit information on each name. 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Weare organized to Insure Build- ings, Stocks, etc., any where in the State of Michigan. Since our organization we have saved our members Thousands of Dollars, and can do, proportionally, the same for you. Home Office. Grand Rapids Protect Yourself by Using EGG CANDLING CERTIFICATES See advertisement on page 21. Assets $2,700,000.00 CLAUDE HAMILTON ice-Pres. JOHN A. McKELLAR Vice-Pres. WM. A. WATTS President Offices—Grand Rapids, Mich. Has an unexcelled reputation for its Service to Policyholders $3,666, 161.58 Paid Policy Holders Since Organization RELL S. WILSON Sec’y CLAY H. HOLLISTER Treas. SURPLUS TO POLICY HOLDERS $479,058.61 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN August 28, 1918 Moe, SS = LB Something for the Mother to Think About. The great call for hospital nurses that is echoing through the land is full of significance for the girls and young women of the country. Even though the war should end sooner than now seems possible, for many years there will be demand for the services of women, to care for the returning wounded—men crippled, shocked out of nervous poise, need- ing skilful care and teaching the way back to normal life and usefulness. Wonderful inventions, not only of apparatus but of methods of mental restoration, have spread a rainbow of promise across the black sky for the wrecked in body and mind who in former times would have been wrecks and nothing else to the end of their days. And immediately there will be great need of care and cheerful service among the convales- cent who will be fully restored to health and vigor. Now, to a great extent this is woman’s work. Just as the calls for volunteers and the selective draft have summoned millions of men to the fighting line and the hard ser- vices back of the battlefront, so the call for nurses will bring out thous- ands upon thousands of your women from shelered homes, to whom four years ago such a possibility would have seemed the most fantastic of absurdities. We could not hold them back if we would; we would not if we could. It is the call, not only of our country, but of sufferng humanity. Womanhood in all times has heeded that call, Our women will not fail now. All over the country they are going forth, and still more will go forth. A good deal of mischief has been done since the United States entered the war by a certain hysterical propaganda which has tended to make young women—and some older ones—imagine it in some way their duty to act differently toward a man in uniform from the way in which they would have acted toward him in citizen’s dress. Of course, there is a sense and degree in which this is not only proper, but desirable. The man who has been called into the military service of his country is making a tremendous sacrifice, of all he has, and the rest of us, women included, may well go far out of our way to express our gratitude. * But, so far as women are concern- ed, there is a line to be drawn, and a sharp line. Putting a uniform on a man does not change his character. In fact, with many men, the laying aside of the individual costume and aaa eee eee the merging of him into the imper- sonal mass of the army, and more than that, the transfer of him to strange places far from the restraints of home and neighbors, free him to a considerable extent from the in- fluence of the home public opinion, and in many cases he is not quite so careful and self-controlled as is his habit. This army is a pretty hetero- geneous gathering of men, of all sorts and kinds; they bring along with them every grade of moral standard. Besides that, even the best of them are terribly lonely and homesick. There is a wonderful work that fine young women can do to encour- age these lads, to uplift them, to bring out the finest qualities they have. I know of instances more than a few in which boys on the edge of serious demoralization were restored to their best ideals by the influence of the women they have met while they have been in the training camps. And I have known, too, of girls who have suffered irreparable damage be- cause they misjudged the character, not only of the soldiers with whom they came in contact, but of the na- ture of the influence they might have upon them. Since it is necessary for our girls to go forth into a new and all but un- foreseen field of activity, it is neces- Sary as it never was before to con- sider what fitness they have to meet the strains and temptations to. which they go. The girl of hitherto sheltered life who goes into a hospital to take the nurses’ training goes to a place where every form of reticence as to things physical, the relation of the sexes, and so on, goes by the beard. Things she never heard of in her life will be the subject, not only of her studies, but of her daily conver- sation. She will have to render to wounded soldiers and to sick people of both sexes services the nature of which she never has dreamed of. I need not specify. This is the neces- sity of the situation and it must be accepted. I go so far as to believe that it is good for her that it should be so. But all this carries with it a deadly peril for her if she be not well upon her guard in advance. Now, Mother, if you never quite dared to do it be- fore, you must be frank with that daughter of yours. You cannot shield her any longer. If you do not tell her what she needs to know for her own protection, somebody will. And who shall it be? Will you leave it to chance? The girl whose mother has been frank with her about these matters SEEDS WANTED ALSIKE CLOVER MAMMOTH CLOVER, RED CLOVER SPRING RYE, ROSEN RYE RED ROCK WHEAT, FIELD PEAS The Albert Dickinson Company SEED MERCHANTS CHICAGO, co! ILLINOIS -~ Moore’s Mentholated Horehound & ‘Tar Cough Syrup Dealers should now be placing their orders. Be on the safe side. If our representative does not call on you, write us direct. THE MOORE COMPANY TEMPERANCE, MICH. EXTRACTS, COFFEE, TEA, SPICES, GROCERS’ DRUGS, NON-FREEZE BLUING AND AMMONIA. Business Behind ‘the Trenches RN of SAY: Saker PAE Ege a ae ti Kid & * Of course there must be some business behind the trenches—if we are to win the war. Business must go right on—but merchandizing and manu- facturing must be adapted to the necessities of war. We are operating under restricted production to meet the requirements of the Food Adminis- tration. This means a limited supply for con- sumers. When your customers do eat wheat, however, urge them to eat the whole wheat. Shredded Wheat Biscuit contains every particle of the whole wheat grain, including the outer bran coat. In our process nothing is wasted or thrown away. It is made di- gestible by steam-cooking, shredding and baking. Made only by The Shredded Wheat Company Niagara Falls, N. Y. August 28, 1918 will go unscathed through all the dangers that await her, as clean and pure and safe as ever she was. Doubt- less thousands of others will take the shock of disillusionment as women take shocks of all kinds, and weather the storm without harm, But there will be others. Are you quite certain about how your own daughter will come through this time of trial? Not all the daughters will go into nursing, with its glow of patriotic fer- vor to soften the sordid details of physical and moral strain. Thous- ands of young women, and even very young girls, are finding it necessary, in the financial emergency created by the bread-winner’s going to war, to go into offices, shops, and fac- tories. Many of these have been tenderly raised, carefully (and mis- takenly) protected from knowledge of the perils of the hard work-a-day world. The other day in a great factory I saw a really little girl working as a messenger amid a considerable group of boys. Something about her man- ner and dress told me that she was of a sort not ordinarily to be found in such a situation. I questioned her a little and found that my surmise was true. And I found, too—for I took a little pains to learn what I wanted to know—that she had come into that strange and perilous place without any of the kind of know- ledge and caution that I would want my daughter to have. She was ter- ribly pretty. And the boys with whom: she was to be associated al! day long, day after day, week after week, did not look to me like the kind of associates J would want my daughter to be thrown with for most of her waking hours. Women of all ages are going into a new set of relationships with the world. They will find their footing, and be, perhaps, the better and braver and stronger for it, But it has not been our custom to brace our daugh- ters for this sort of thing. Home- maker—think this over, if you have a daughter, or a girl under your in- fluence, who must shortly answer the call of the times to go out and battle with the world, whether in the soul- racking atmosphere of the hospital, in the cheerful service of the Soldiers’ Convalescent Home, or in the business and industrial world. The danger is not an imaginary one. Prudence Bradish. If I Where a Grocer I would try to educate my custom- ers in the use of starchy substitutes for sugar. In my window, for instance, I would arrange an attractive display of pota- toes, corn, rice, macaroni, beans, and bread, with the sign: “These foods turn to sugar in your stomach.” In talking with customers, and in my newspaper advertising, I would also emphasize this fact of chemistry and thus I would give my customers practical suggestions for conserving sugar. I might even, if I thought it wise, center attention on the potato, which seems to be unusually plentiful and cheap this year, as a substitute for sugar. James Mather Mosely. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Ma and I. Written for the Tradesman. Ma and I did lots o’ things we did S.e was left alone (I’s but a kid) With a little farm—for Pa ‘“‘was gone” ’N’ ev’ry morning we were up at dawn— Ma and I. Gee! but I jes liked to work with her She was on the jump—could make things stir; Often tho’ she’d tire and stop an’ cry Then I'd say ‘‘can’t I be dad—now why?” Ma and I. People said she made a girl 0’ me Doing housework; still I'd rather be In that cottage home with her—gee whiz Than in th’ Queen o’ Sheba’s palaces— Ma and I. On a farm there’s always lots to do Still she’d time fer flowers an’ loved ’em too. Winter mails brought catalogues of seeds We’d select the kinds for our spring needs— Ma and I:— Drummond's’ phlox, fine mixed, an’ mignonette, Balsams, candytuft; I'll ne’er forget Her china asters—we'’d poppies white and red, ‘N’ mornin’ glories climbing up the shed— Ma and Garden sass, pickles sour an’ sweet Jam an’ jell, and things yer like ter eat; Dried the apples for next summer’s need Quartered an’ strung ’em like you would a bead— Ma and I. By the fireside long we used to sit Visitin’ like; Ma would sew or knit Then she’d say—it always made me proud— “Read your Youth’s Companion please— aloud’’— Ma and I. Now those boyhood days are passed and : gone, In that humble home with shady lawn, Flowers in summer time, Mother there! Were the joys which still in dreams we share— Ma and I. Charles A. Heath. ——_>+>___ Just American. Just to-day we chanced to meet— Down upon the crowded street; And I wondered whence he came, What was once’ his nation’s name. So I asked him, ‘‘Tell me true, Are you Pole or Russian Jew, English, Scotch, Italian, Russian, Belgian, Spanish, Swiss, Moravian, Dutch or Greek or Scandinavian?’’ Then he raised his head on high, As he gave me this reply, “What I was is naught to me, In this land of Liberty; In my soul as man to man, I am just American.’’ 17 Times Have Changed A dozen years ago the lady in the picture ‘phoned to three grocers before she got “Yes” for an answer to her question, ‘“‘Have you got Jell-O?” Styles in grocers’ stocks as well as women’s gowns and modes of hair dressing have changed since the picture was made when the lady ’phoned first. Ask any grocer now, “Do you sell Jell-O?” and his an- swer will be, “You bet I do if I can get it.” Grocers understand that Jell-O is being produced un- der some difficulties owing to conditions affecting the sup- ply of raw materials. They now that while there may be enough Jell-O to supply everybody just now, they ought to order ahead to avoid disappointment. The retail price of Jell-O is now 13 cents for single packages or 2 for 25 cents. THE GENESEE PURE FOOD COMPANY We have just published a new booklet on mechanical refrigera- tion —it goes into refrigerating problems from the user’s point of view—it describes and illustrates the principles of refrigeration so that anyone can understand them. We think you will be interested in this booklet, and we’ll be glad to send youacopy. Just ask for it— that’s all. The subject of refrigeration is a most important one. Literally, millions of dol- lars worth of food products are wasted every year be- cause they are not stored properly. A Phoenix Plant will insure the safe keep- ing of your goods. Ask for the Phoenix Text Book. No obligation whatever. And we'll be glad to tell you how a Phoenix Plant will make: money—and save money for you. The Phoenix Ice Machine Co. 2702 Church Ave. Cieveland, Ohio ‘ i = 2 i 18 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN August 28, 1918 Meaning of Dollar in a Shoe Store. When I think of a dollar in a shoe store in famcy I wonder what dollar should represent the basis of this discussion. Is it the rich man’s dol- lar—is it the poor man’s dollar or is it the shoe man’s dollar that appeals to your heart or minet After all, this time | am going to consider Uncle Sam’s 100 cent dollar that en- ters your till and mine. Many a good shoe man looks upon the dol- lars in his till as 100 cent dollars when, in truth lots of them are only worth 60, 75 or 85 cents. After a capital stock of many dollars has been exchanged for 60, 75 or 85 cent dollars, many a shoeman steps down and out, because he failed to get the 100 cent dollars on every transaction. You who conduct successful shoe stores or shoe departments know that every dollar that enters your cash box would represent three distinct and separate values.. In other words, when you sell a pair of shoes you should have: First, net profits for dividends; second, enough money t9? pay all the expenses of the business, including a first class salary for the firm or department managers, and third, enough money left to go in the market and buy a similar pair of shoes to go back in your stock. The shoe business of to-day is just what you and I make it. Just as we conduct our businesses, so will our neighbors and fellow craftsmen be influenced to do likewise. Or, re- verse the argument, and just as our neighbors and fellow craftsmen con- duct their business we will be in- fluenced to do likewise. In our craft we have the wise men and the other- wise. We have the successful men and the unfortunate. We have men who ‘believe in straight forward profitable shoe selling, and we have those who would rather sell at a loss, and supply the wants of the commun- ity at cost or less than to see a neigh- bor or fellow craftsmen make the sale at a profit. It does not matter to me whether you are a $100,000 shoe merchant or a $10,000 shoe merchant. At this time the average of all the shoe mer- chants annual sales is near $25,000. If you are above the average we salute you, if below it you have our sympathy. For my purpose it mat- “ters little how much you sell, but the method you use is applicable to the big -man, the middle man, or the small man. If you have shoes that cost you $3.25, and you have marked them to sell at $5, and the market value is now $4 and you sell for $5, I claim you are selling the pair and taking an 81 cent dollar in payment, using a 35 per cent, gross profit basis to figure it out. If you don‘t ad- vance your retail prices to cover the market value, you will finally exhaust your capital stock, and take less than full standard dollars so often that you will be forced to sell two pairs of shoes to get enough money to buy one pair to go back on your shelf. Take 35 per cent. out of your $5 and ycu have only $3.25, which will not replace the pair of shoes with like kind and grade which now is worth $4. I wish you could all get to un- derstand that there are three dollars that should take care of themselves in a shoe store:—the dollar that you want to set aside for net profit or dividends; the dollar from which all expenses must come, and the dollar that replaces the stock sold with the same grade on your shelves. By the laws of average some men aim to sell one kind of a shoe as a leader, getting 60 or 75 or 85 cent dollars in payment for it, and then another shoe for $1.10 or $1.25 or $1.35 cent dollars, aiming to play the average and come out ahead in the end. I claim that the shoe business will never. be made a 100 cent dollar busi- ness until all shoe men refuse to sell a single item in their stores that does not bring them the 100 cent dollar. You who make leaders of certain shoes believe you are justified in do- ing it, but test it out if you please. Offer the factory some of the 75 cent dollars for your purchases and see if they are accepted. It seems to me that I could outline the general shoe policy of this great land of ours, I would immediately institute some radical changes in the conduct of the shoe stores. The minute a line of shoes is advanced in price at the usual source of supply, I think every man in America should go to his stock and re-mark the en- tire line on the new advanced price basis, and do this from time to time as every price advance is announced. Then, if prices are reduced at his usual source of supply, I think he should treat his stock to a reduced price. The point of this theory is this: You fjadvance, your ‘neighbor advances, throughout America this policy is followed out, and the retail buyers are satisfied, for all dealers show the same front to their cus- tomers. You shoe men know that almost the exact opposite of this plan is the usual rule, for the unspoken thought or feeling is expressed: “Now I have a good stock and I will sell it below the market and make the other fellow “eat dirt.” Your Big Demand To-day 1S Keds Our Stocks Are Very Complete Now. Send Your Sizing Orders at Once. Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie Company Grand Rapids, Mich. HOOD Has made a Wonderful Shoe in the New OUTLOOK TENNIS SHOE Don’t fail to see it, for you will want it. Salesmen will see you as soon as they can. * Grand RapidsShoe @ Rubber(o Largest Tennis Shoe Dealers in Michigan The Michigan People Grand Rapids necncenragemnceneed i A ne > ' August 28, 1918 Last January when the rubber lists were advanced 20 per cent. and hard- ly any dealer had stock on hand, or could get all he needed, what per- centage of shoe dealers had nerve enough to re-mark all their salable stock on the advanced basis? Would it not have been finer, cleaner busi- ness all around for the shoe man to mark his stock of rubbers on the new prevailing price basis, educating the consumer into the positive increase in price, and making it possible for the business as a whole to maintain an honest market standard of value? The time to remark stock is the very day one is in the possession of the information that the advanced prices are in effect. I realize there are many stores and as many plans, policies, or predom- inating ideas. Some shoe men have the idea that gross profit on sales should be 40 per cent., others 35 per cent., again 30 per cent., 25 per cent. and even 20 per cent. All I can say is that every dollar that goes into the shoe man’s strong box should have three distinct and positive ele- ments. In war times the business test is strenuous. Changing market values quickly effect every dollar. Bankers, who are recognized as top notchers aim to pay their stockhold- ers 12 per cent. net dividends on par value of stock. Are we, as business men, entitled to net dividends of 12 per cent. upon our capital stock each year? Many years I have spent in study- ing my business and that of the other fellows. Sometimes it occurs to me that I ought to let the other fellow study his own business, and just tend to my own, but I find in the other fellows some idea that just fits into my business and helps make it better. In my business I have rules that | absolutely refuse to alter. I buy shoes according to my best judg- ment, and every lot is bought with a positive purpose to produce a legiti- mate profit. Pardon me when I say that I go further, I recognize the shoe business of my city, country, state and Nation as a legitimate busi- ness, one deserving of proper manip- ulation so that it will produce for the owners a just amount for net profit after it has paid all expenses and left enough money to meet the require- ment of the capital stock. There are men operating shoe stores who try to make a reasonable salary and no more, Of such I say they injure the shoe business of the country. If they would wake up and get into the Association Band Wagon, I am sure they would begin to change their minds. If a salary is all you try to make out of your store sell the store, avoid the strife and worry, and hunt a live shoe man who needs some one to work for a salary. Finally, if you carry a line of shoes that fails to bring in 100 cent dollars, close out the line. Don’t handle it. If enough shoe men would refuse to buy lines that are offered for sale at about cost of stock and expense ac- count with no idea of dividends for the business, I am sure the men mak- ing them would soon adjust their game to fit our legitimate business conditions. S. E. Murray. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Fcod Waste At Camp Custer Neg- ligible. Battle Creek, Aug. 27—In no place in America is more respectful con- sideration given the United States Food Administration’s rulings than at Camp Custer, Battle Creek. The feeding of a camp the size of Custer is a revelation in detail. For example, every man in Custer was allowed in June 46.77 cents for his day’s rations. Few families could make the saving or live as well as these mess sergeants keep their men, and a soldier’s portion of food is not to be compared with that given youngsters in the average home. Of course the average big, red- blooded boy, true to his finer quali- ties, writes home that the cooking is not like mother’s; but, be that as it may, his food is at least scientifically correct both as to preparation and substance, and as for cleanliness the army kitchen has no superior in the land. There is plenty for all, but none to waste,” could be adopted as the of- ficial slogan of the army cooks. A sergeant is stationed in the mess hall to prevent the practice of taking ex- cessive portions and leaving a part of the food untouched on the plate. The daily inspection of the garbage cans from the kitchens, feeding perhaps 250 big husky boys each, will show far less waste than there is from the kitchens of a like number of civilians for the same period. At least one sanitary inspection of the kitchens is made daily by a commissioned officer attached to the school, and perhaps another inspection is made by a non- commissioned officer. Custer has its own storage and re- frigerator plant, which is sufficient to meet the complete needs of a city of 40,000. M. H. De Foe. _—_———.-o-_o Damaged Goods. Johnny was at the grocery-store. “T hear you have a little sister at your house,” said the grocer. “Yes, sir’ said Johnny. “Do you like that?’ was queried. “I wish it was a boy,” said John- ny, “so I could play marbles with him, and baseball.” “Well,” said the storekeeper, “why don’t you exchange your little sister for a boy?” Johnny reflected for a minute, then he said, rather sorrowfully: “We can’t now; it’s too late. We’ve used her four weeks.” For Bigger and Better Business Fire Insurance On all kinds of stock and building written by us at a discount of twenty-five per cent from the board rate with an additional discount of five per cent if paid inside of twenty days from the date of policy. For the best merchants in the state. No Membership Fee Charges Our Responsibility Over $2,000,000 Michigan Shoe Dealers Mutual Fire Insurance Company Fremont, Mich. Write us for further information. 19 GRAYS and BROWNS with Military and Louis heels in Welts and McKays Widths: A, B, C, D. Sizes 2%-8. From $4.50 to $8.00. now on the floor. Order them now and have no re- grets. Our Stock is now complete. Hirth-Krause Company Tanners and Shoe Mfgs. Grand Rapids, Michigan The Economy Shoe is the “Bertsch” Goodyear Welt Shoe for Men High cost of labor and material make high priced shoes inevitable. For Real Economy—both for your business and for your customers you should sell the ““BERTSCH” Shoe Line. Its many style and service giving qualities are well known to its friends. Your opportunity lies in offering the “BERTSCH” Shoe to those of your customers who cannot pay the high price to which many lines have advanced. They will be pleased with the substantial saving on their first investment and the comfort and service derived from the shoes themselves will prove real economies, which will reflect favorably upon your store and service. Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co. Manufacturers of Serviceable Footwear Grand Rapids, Michigan OPT oar ROME EET 20 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN August 28, 1918 SIDNEY ELEVATORS Ses. 0 Will reduce handling expense and speed Knox Sparkling Gelatine goss up work—will make money for you. Easily ‘ i > y installed. Plans and instructions sent with A quick profit maker f = = = 2 3 ae sb enlgpens se roe A steady seller © Well advertised qi a : + 7 } wanted, as well as height. We will quote Each package makes BUTTER, EGGS 4x» PROVISIONS raat ee Fotki BS (qc (uli AW t LOTT ire mn & Michigan Poultry, Butter and Egg Asso- ciation. President—J. W. Lyons, Jackson. Vice-President—Patrick Hurley, De- troit. Secretary and Treasurer—D. A. Bent- ley, Saginaw. Executive Committee—F. A. mene Detroit; H. L. Williams, Howell; C Chandler, Detroit. Only Country Which Has a Cheese Card. Soon there may be a prize contest among nations, the one having the highest number of rationing cards receiving the prize. Switzerland is already doing her best to win the prize. At least, she has the distinc- tion of being the only country in the world enjoying a cheese card. However, this joy in the realm of cheese is not unmixed. The cheese card had its official birth June 1 and already has caused a lot of derision, mass meetings of protests, threats, political upheavals, strikes and little distribution of cheese to hungry con- sumers. Switzerland produced only 32,000,- 000 kilograms of cheese last year. That is only half the annual output in normal times. And what is worse, the production is dwindling fast. During the winter of 1917-1918 only 2,500,000 kilograms were produced, that is only about 5 per cent. of a nor- mal annual production. And what is still worse, the export of cheese has almost stopped. One of the richest sources of income for Switzerland has run dry. Last year only a little more than 6,000,000 kilo- grams wefe exported, against about 32,000,000 in peace times. And what was exported during 1917 was to a very considerable extent cheese that was left over from 1916. Domestic demands for cheese in- creased at a furious rate meanwhile, which is natural. Flour and meat be- coming scarcer and scarcer, the popu- lation took recourse to the famous national product, known all over the world as Swiss cheese, but called Em- menthaler at home. Swiss producers have an organization called the Cheese Union. This Union took mat- ters in hand to regulate the distribu- tion, but failed miserably, as unions always do when they undertake to do anything decent. Extraordinary demands upon its resources were made by the People’s Kitchens and similar wholesale feeding institutions. . The retail trade received only 50 per cent. of the normal supply, and less during the last two months. This, of course, led to discrimination and some people could get no cheese at all. In spite of rate fixing by the authorities, there were violent con- vulsions in the cheese market. Thus the card was at first hailed as a grand solution, as a gift sent by heaven. Every Swiss citizen, man, woman or child, would now be entitled to an equal share of cheese. Democracy was safe and the stomach satisfied with the prospect of being fed. Then the grumbling started. “Why should we get only as much cheese as the rich who do not work?” said the spokesman of the horny handed sons of toil. “The devil take liberty, democracy and equality; we -want more cheese!” Mass meetings were called and protests were filed. Poli- ticians and statesmen were appealed to. Legislatures and city councils discussed cheese. Cheese was the topic of conversation in the home, in the cafe and in the forum. The Reds decided to strike unless they receiv- ed more cheese. The men who used to do the haying in the mountains refused to go to work. Formerly they received their pay in the shape of cheese. When they were offered money they balked. They preferred the cheese currency, for cheese was scarce and high, while paper money is plentiful. A conservative statesman told his fellow citizens at a meeting attended by thousands to keep calm. It was their patriotic duty to keep calm, he said. He was confident the cheese crisis would pass. America was sending grain in shiploads. Hurrah for Amer- ica! At any rate, the Swiss were better off than some of their neigh- bors, the statesman continued. For instance, the Germans, “The Germans have no cheese cards,” the speaker gravely asserted, “because there is so little cheese in Germany it would not pay to issue cheese cards.” ——_+ o—___ Extra Precautions Pay. To keep flies away one dealer in food-stuffs at retail does not rely en- tirely upon the outside screen doors. Screens extend from the showcases to the ceiling. Little screen doors are placed in front of each butcher’ s block, through which the butcher hands out packages to the customers, In this way foods may be display- ed on the counters, and the custom- ers are thereby helped to make a quick choice. —_——_+--.—__— The Steak Was Safe. The serving maid was awkward and the steak fell on the floor with a sickening thud. The young mistress was upset, and shrieked: “Now we’ve lost our dinner.” The maid alone kept her head— and the meat. Like oil on troubled waters came the calm reply: “Indeed, then, an’ ye haven’t, mum. T’ve got me fut on it.” Sidney Elevator Mnfg. Co., Sidney, Ohio A Quality Cigar Dornbos Single Binder One Way to Havana Sold by All Jobbers Rea & Witzig Produce Commission Merchants 104-106 West Market St. Buffalo, N. Y. Peter Dornbos aes Cigar Manufacturer Established 1873 16 and 18 Fulton St., W. ns Grand Rapids 23 Michigan United States 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. . no other flavoring is as delight- Fancy creamery butter and ful, satisfying and economical as good dairy selling at full quota- y ‘mapley”’ tions. Common selling well. Crescent Send for our weekly price cur- rent or wire for special quota- ‘ tions. Map leine Refer you to the People’s Bank of Buffalo, all Commercial Agen- cies and to hundreds of shippers everywhere. For War Puddings and Desserts The Delicious ‘‘Golden Flavour’’ All jobbers or Louis Hilfer Co., 1205 Peoples Life Bldg., Chicago. (M-213) APPLE BARRELS Get our prices for prompt or fall shipment. Reed & Cheney Company Grand Rapids, Michigan SERVICE PIOWAT Y QUALITY Largest Produce and Fruit Dealers in Michigan PEACOCK—.4 BIRD OF A DRINK”’ (1 oz. with Carbonated Water—A 5c Drink) “The Taste is a Winner”’ Sold in 10 Gal. Kegs and Cans of 4-1 Gal. Glass. M. Piowaty & Sons of Michigan MAIN OFFICE, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Branches: Saginaw, Bay City, Muskegon, Lansing, Jackson, Battle Creek, Kalamazoo, Mich., South Bend and Elkhart, Ind. Special Sales John L. Lynch Sales Co. No. 28 So Ionia Ave. Grand Rapids, Michigan FRANK T. MILLER, Sec. and Treas Miller Michigan Potato Co. WHOLESALE PRODUCE SHIPPERS Potatoes, Apples, Onions Correspondence Solicited Wm. Alden Smith Bldg. E. P. MILLER, President F. H. HALLOCK, Vice Pres. Grand Rapids, Mich. We Buy We Store We Sell GGS GGS GGS We are always in the market to buy FRESH EGGS and fresh made DAIRY BUTTER and PACKING STOCK. Shippers will find it to their interests to communicate with us when seeking an outlet. We also offer you our new modern facilities for the storing of such products for your own account. Write us for rate schedules covering storage charges, etc. WE SELL Egg Cases and Egg Case material of all kinds. Get our quotations. Kent Storage Company, © Grand Rapids, Michigan % | August 28, 1918 Co-operating With the Government. The one big business of the coun- try is that of winning the war. Every American worthy the name is glad to sink his individual interest to help bring to bear on this great task the country’s entire resources. Retail merchants, in order that man power may be conserved, are now asked by the War Industries Board to do these three things: To make a rule that merchandise returned for credit be in the pur- chaser’s possession no longer than three days. To limit special deliveries to very urgent cases. To restrict delivery service to one trip a day over each route. Ready response will come as a mat- ter of course, just as in the many other unusual war time requests the Government has made. But if it is ‘the retailer’s duty to follow implicity the Government’s instructions, it is his privilege to an- ticipate the Government and to put into effect of his own accord many valuable conservation policies. We do this in our own business. We study not only to conform absolutely to all Government rulings, but to think ahead in an effort to know what the Government would like to have done. On this basis, we make four recom- . mendations to our customers: 1. Think twice before returning goods. The more you cut down on the matter of returned goods, the less freight space you use and make it just that much easier for the Govern- ment to ship war necessities. 2. Try to make each of your mer- chandise orders large enough to give your shipments reasonable bulk. Our stock is rich in bulky items that are staple every business day in the year. By ordering these with your lighter items you help the Nation by con- serving freight space and help your- self by econcmy in freight rates. 3. Order your goods somewhat farther ahead than has been your custom heretofore. This will help prevent freight congestion at critical periods and make it more certain you will get the goods when you want them, 4, Put your fall and holiday mer- chandise on sale much earlier than usual. By encouraging the people to buy early you will help avoid holi- day congestion of the mails and also get for yourself the larger sales that come from a longer selling campaign. We believe these four things will help your business as well as aid the Government. Unless the nation’s business goes ahead, the war cannot be financed. Your business is a part of the great whole. To keep it go- ing as prosperously as possible is your patriotic duty. Let us all strive together and work and think for the winning of the war. Butler Bros. 2-2 —___- _ Less Demand for Guineas. War conditions have had a peculiar effect upon the market for guinea fowls. Usually guineas are in de- mand at comparatively high prices for banquets and high-grade hotel MICHIGAN TRADESMAN trade. Their dark flesh and gamey flavor have made them acceptable substitutes for wild birds. But since the war, banquets and similar oppor- tunities for lavish expenditures are in disfavor. W. F. Priebe, poultry specialist of the U. S. Food Administration staff, states that owners of storage stocks of guinea fowls are offering them at comparatively low prices and now is a timely opportunity for the public to use guinea fowl for variety on the table and to conserve red meats. The producers’ chief interest in this matter is the knowledge of a reduced market demand for guinea flesh. The Food Administration’s broad recom- mendation urging the use of poul- try should, however, be met by grow- ing this year an usually large num- ber of chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys and other standard poultry. Every indication seems to show that there will be a strong and constant demand for all of the standard varieties of poultry. Continued reduction of red meat consumption should assure a continuance of this market at profit- able figures. The general trend toward more economical living, how- ever, will have its effect on the de- mand for fancy fowl, such as guinea and pheasant. ——_>-2 > Turn Rabbit Pests into Profits. Fully 200,000,000 wild. rabbits are killed in the United States every year according to estimates made by the Biological Survey of the United States Department of Agriculture. Many of them are jack. rabbits, the majority of which have not been util- ized in the past. If all the rabbits killed were consumed, they would represent between 200,000 and 300,- 000 tons of valuable food, and if proper measures were taken to en- sure the collection of skins, these alone would have a value of $20,000,- 000. The Biological Survey has fre- quently been called upon to help western farmers in coping with the rabbit pest. In view of the probable economic value of rabbit meat and fur in the coming few years, the energies of the farmers and ranch- men will be directed to the conser- vation of this important resource. Already a number of establishments for collecting, dressing, canning, and shipping rabbit meat are in operation in western centers. As in Australia the transition of the wild ‘rabbit in this courtry from“its status as a pest to source of profit is assured, it is believed. —_—— 2-2 Collecting United States Taxes. In the execution of the policy of paying as large a proportion of the expenses of the war by taxation as possible the Treasury is making every effort to collect all Federal taxes due to the United States. The department has evidence against many who have sought to evade taxes. Some of these tax evaders are American citizens resid- ing or sojourning in Canada. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Movement To Repeal Bankruptcy Law. About every two or three years somebody rises up in Congress and proposes to repeal the Torrey Fed- eral bankruptcy law. The movement has more lives than a tomcat and “killing” it only causes it to subside for the time being. During the past month talk of re- peal has become current at the Cap- itol and the prediction is made that a measure striking the law from the statute books will be enacted before adjournment. Noses are said to have been counted in both House and Sen- ate, and it is declared there is a safe majority for repeal. Whenever this movement is re- vived its promoters invariably have a peg of some sort to hang it on. This time it is said the country is so prosperous there is no longer any need of a Federal bankruptcy law and that it only serves as a tempta- tion to the unscrupulous merchant to defraud his creditors. Curiously enough, the advocates of repeal appear to be large jobbing in- terests. And thereby hangs a tale. Before the Torrey law was passed the bankruptcy legislation of the country was a fearful and wonderful crazy quilt of state laws, no two alike, and some of them so obscure and ambiguous as to require several Philadelphia lawyers to construe them. In those “good old times” the small creditor who sold goods out- side the state in which he was lo- cated kissed them good bye, and when he got a letter from his customer he was afraid to open it, not knowing whether it contained a check or the pleasing intelligence that the writer had just made an assignment to his wife or to some preferred creditor. To meet this situation the big man- ufacturers who sold direct, and many of the leading jobhing houses, organ- ized regular departments to look ai- ter their accounts, usually employing a lawyer in each State whose business it was to keep an eye on. all bank- ruptcy proceedings with instructions to rush in at the first word of alarm and gobble up the assets of every delinquent debtor. A swell chance the small creditor had who couldn’t afford to employ forty or fifty lawyers to look after his business! Here, then, was the milk in the cocoanut. It explained the opposi- tion of certain manufacturers and jobbers to the enactment of law in the first instance and you don’t need to look any further for the origin of the present movement. It is true that once in a while an undeserving debtor obtains a_ dis- charge when he really ought to go to jail but rotten assignments and crooked preference are rare, indeed, to-day as compared with the days be- fore the Torrey law was passed. And don’t forget that in those days not only many dishonest deals were put over by debtors in their own interest but also many reputable creditors of limited means were cheated of every dollar of their claims. - To-day a bankrupt’s assets stand a good chance of being fairly dis- tributed among the people he owes, little fellows as well as big ones. That’s a big improvement over the “good old times,” isn’t it? We are apt to think only of the fact that an occasional retail mer- chant without business ability and sometimes none too honest gets a discharge from his debts when he ought to be punished in some sig- nificant way. We ought to remem- ber the conditions that existed be- fore the passage of the Torrey law, when we had a half a hundred State bankruptcy statutes, and_ realize what reforms in commercial prac- tice have been brought about under the Federal enactment. _—_ oo One kind of curiosity is a small boy with two grand mothers who isn’t spoiled. Protect Yourself by Using -EGG CANDLING CERTIFICATES See advertisement on page 21. the close at popular lakeside resort. Even the crickets are chirping that the season is near RAMONA and that the feast of good things will soon end at the ‘Just a Little Better Than Last Week,”’’ is the sea- son’s slogan at Ramona and the management is living up to this spirit by seeking to outdo the previous week in the strength of its vaudeville offerings. and a novelty in itself. A bunch of bright acts have been grouped for the en- tertainment of visitors this week, each one a “headliner” . Remember that Ramona is where people go to have a good time at small expense. Will stimulate your trade DUTCH MASTERS SECONDS G. J. JOHNSON CIGAR CO., Makers GRAND RAPIDS Handled by all jobbers MICHIGAN TRADESMAN August 28, 1918 = = = => = — — le MUTT E COMMERCIAL TRAVELEB rece Weg BO — = — = 7 BAe dN NNN ww Grand Council of Michigan U. C. T. — Counselor—W. T. Ballamy, Bay ty. Grand Junior Counselor—C. C. Stark- weather, Detroit. Grand Past Counselor—John A. Hach, Coldwater. Grand Secretary—M. Heuman, Jackson. Grand Treasurer—Lou J. Burch, De- troit. Grand Conductor—H. D. Ranney, Sag- naw. Grand Page—A. W. Stevenson, Mus- kegon. Grand Sentinel—-H. D. Bullen, Lansing. — Chaplain—J. H. Belknap, Bay y. Wherein Salesmen Frequently Fall Down. Probably the hardest thing a sales- man has to contend with is getting an opportunity to present his propo- sition to all the persons concerned in a transaction. A young salesman visits a prospect and gets an audience with an assis- tant of the man who has the final say. After a careful demonstration of the merit of the proposition, the as- sistant is enthusiastic and asks the salesman to drop around the next day. In the meantime he promises to take the matter up with his boss. The salesman leaves, buys a fat cigar, and figures up his commission. Next dav he drops around for the o. k., but instead he gets word that the boss has turned the proposition down cold. The reason for this is obvious. The assistant did not present the proposition as the salesman did. How could he? Psychologists have figur- ed out that we retain only about one- tenth of what we hear. The chief of the department got a 10 per cent. demonstration. When the boss began offering objections the assistant wilted, because he did not know how to answer them, and because he did not care to assume the responsibility of trying to sell his chief something he did not want. “It is surprising how many of the smaller merchants take up with their wives the question of investing money in a new device, such as a pair of scales, a cash register, an adding machine or a show case,” said _an old-time specialty salesman to the writer. “When I was ‘green’ I would call on a merchant and apparently convince him of the merit of my goods. He would tell me to drop around the next day, and as often as not he would be thoroughly cold on the idea. It took me five years to learn that the wife was the deciding factor. “Women are, fundamentally con- servative. Most men are about ten years behind their wives’ desires in the matter of income. When the husband comes home and talks of ee a spending $200 for something he has been getting along without, the wife cautions him to go slow. “To-day, you can bet I take my selling argument right into the man’s home whenever I smell a rat. I don’t permit the woman of the house to get a 10 per cent. demonstration.” In a majority of lines a sale is in- fluenced by any one of a dozen per- sons. A concern is playing safe when it tackles all all parties to a transac- tion either with advertising or selling talk. Remember how Miles Standish bungled when he sent John Alden to ask for the hand of Priscilla? —_++.—___ How Germany Proposed to Grasp World Trade. The rise of Germany as an eco- nomic power, her peaceful penetra- tion of commercial barriers to the uttermost parts of the earth, would in a few years have made Germany sole mistress and dictator of the economic forces of the world even before 1914. Germany was already at war with the world and on a fair way to vic- tory—a victory which would have been as fatal for the democracies of the world as a victory by force of arms. Why then, with the world power already within her grasp, did Ger- many in August, 1914, resort to force of arms? The position of Germany economically in 1914 might be com- pared with the position of von Kluck at the Marne with regard to Paris. World domination was within reach of Germany’s commercial machine, just as Paris was within reach of von Kluck’s military machine, when his arm was shattered. Germany was at the height of her commercial offensive, apparently on the eve of bending the whole world to her economic will, when the whole fabric of Germany’s commercial and industrial supremacy and_ prestige was threatened with bankruptcy and collapse. So rapid had been Ger- many’s advance, so infinite and com- plex had been the ramifications of her economic system, that the roots were unable to furnish sap to the branches, leaving Germany financial- ly much like von Kluck’s forces be- fore Paris with a battle line too far flung to be supplied with ease or de- fended against an unexpected assault upon any of the weak links in the chain. There was one way, and only one way, by which Germany could save her face, and that was by war. The taking up of arms is only another phase of the German war, waged for the sole purpose of bringing indem- nities and—what was more urgent for industrial Germany—annexation of territory to provide needed raw materials, the lack of which had been largely responsible for bringing Ger- many to the verge of an economic collapse. The whole of Germany’s industrial and economic fabric had been reared on a gigantic bluff. Every known business precedent had been violated. Credits had been advanced and ex- tended on the flimsiest security. The state had lent assistance beyond the remotest bounds of safety, to foster and bolster up industrial activity. As a result overproduction had increas- ed to an alarming extent. But the bluff almost went through. Had Germany had better access to raw materials there might have been no war, but the world would have been as subject economically to German control as if conquered by German arms. Even if Germany is utterly defeat- ed in the field her economic machin- ery is still intact; indeed has been so thoroughly overhauled that after the war, with Germany driven beyond the Rhine, Berlin and Potsdam de- stroyed, Prussian militarism van- ished, a greater Poland established, with Serbia restored and the Berlin- Bagdad menace removed and _ her colonies lost, Germany will yet have industrial weapons in her hands. Industrial Germany is not dead, nor is she sleeping. Throughout the neutral countries her agents of peace- ful penetration are busy taking orders for deliveries after the war, and even acting as agents and making deliv- eries of goods for firms in the Allied countries, thus keeping in touch w’th their customers and their competi- tors at the same time. How are we to meet the German menace, to fight the powerfully or- ganized German industrial and eco- nomic machine? The answer is sim- ple: We must organize exportation, as in the midst of battle we have had to organize war. The establishment of a systematic customs policy on the part of the Allies is essential if the world is to be saved from German commercial rule. It is not a matter of declaring for or against a certain theory; it is a matter of defending oneself against an adversary who is always on the watch, and always ready to have re- course to every method to evade in- ternational law. We can see only one means of acting with efficacy, and that is not to act alone. To boycott Germany is the first duty of every liberty lover in the world. We must see to it that Ger- many is shut out of every civilized country on the globe; that she is ef- fectively kept from securing any raw materials which would enable her to re-establish the industries she has stolen from other nations; that her war ships be all destroyed and that she be not permitted to tie up her trading vessels at the wharves of any nation where the people are hu- man and civilized. If we are inspir- ed by this policy, not only will France regain the place to which her position on three seas, the wealth of her soil, the qualities of her inhabi- tants and her history entitle her, but we will have also restored to every nation, to the small as to the great, the means of developing freely the resources which they derive from nature and from their genius. HOTEL HERKIMER GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN European Plan, 75c Up Attractive Rates to Permanent Guests Popular Priced Lunch loom COURTESY SERVICE VALUE OCCIDENTAL HOTEL FIRE PROOF CENTRALLY LOCATED Rates $1.00 and up EDWARD R, SWETT, Mer. Muskegon t-3 Michigan Corner Store For Rent Corner store in well-established hotel. Suit- able for cigar, soft drink and drug trade. Will turn over established cigar trade to tenant. MERTENS HOTEL, Grand Rapids, Mich. HOTEL GRANT Mrs. W. Boosembark, Prop. Newly Furnished New Management Everything First-class GRANT, MICHIGAN Beach’s Restaurant 41 North Ionia Ave. Near Monroe GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Good Food Prompt Service Reasonable Prices What More Can You Ask? LADIES SPECIALLY INVITED CODY HOTEL GRAND RAPIDS $1 without bath RATES } $1.50 up with bath CAFETERIA IN CONNECTION THE SHORT LINE BETWEEN GRAND RAPIDS AND CHICAGO FARE—$3.50 one way via MICHIGAN RAILWAY Co. (Steel Cars—Double Track) Graham & Morton Line (Steel Steamers) *_. CONNECTING Boat Train FOR THE BOAT Leaves Grand Rapids Station Rear Pantlind Hotel EVERY NIGHT AT 9 P.M. acl ants Biante on Sa i i onesie an eanacas August 28, 1918 HUCK TOWELS IN DEMAND. An increasing demand by the Gov- ernment for huck towels has been the feature of the linen trade during the past week and the indications ac this time are that this demand will widen still more, with the result that it is felt that within sixty days there will be an acute situation ruling in this merchandise. Supplies are none too large, and with the wide demand that the Government is making, tak- ing “anything and everything,” as one factor in the trade put it, makes it seem certain that supplies will soon be exhausted. Advices from Belfast report that enquiries continue to come through for supplies, chiefly for cotton sub- stitutes, and mills able to take civilian business are not without orders. During the latter part of last month there was some noticeable demand for cottons for the South American trade, and this quarter seems to be coming into the market for larger and larger lots of merchandise. It is gen- erally felt that good prospects are to be found there for continued business. Duplication of the better known brands and patterns of all linens con- tinues in cotton for the export trade, and in view of the situation buyers are more than willing to take what they are able to obtain. Unions to some extent are available, but the proportion is decidedly small and in favor of all cottons. —_~+-->—___ Non-Essential Industries. The following industries have been declared to be non-essetnial in the District of Columbia, which may be given similar designation elsewhere in the country, have been announced by the Community Bureau of the United States Employment Service, under direction of the Department of Labor: Automobile industries accessories; drivers of pleasure cars—cleaning, re- pairing, and delivery of same; sight- seeing cars; automobile trucks en- gaged in work other than fuel or Gov- ernment work; teaming other than delivery of products for war work; bath and barber shop attendants; bowling alleys, billiard, and pool rcoms; bottlers and bottle supplies; candy manufacturers, cigars, and to- bacco; cleaners and dyers; clubs; con- fectioners and delicatessen establish- ments; builders and contractors not engaged in the erection of structures for war work; dancing academies; mercantile stores; florists; fruit stands; junk dealers; livery and sales stables; pawn brokers; peanut venders and establishments; shoe _ shining shops; window cleaners; soft drink establishments; soda fountain sup- plies. : ——>--2 Late News From the Celery City. Kalamazoo, Aug. 27—Word has been received from Delmar Cook, at Elk Creek, Iowa, that he had reached that point on his trip by auto to California, without mishap. Mr. Cook has been employed at the M. H. Harris grocery, on Douglas avenue, for the past twenty years and has been a life-long resident of this sec- tion. His new home will be at Santa Anna, California. A. L. Growden, druggist at 629 South Burdick street, has installed a MICHIGAN TRADESMAN beautifal new soda fountain up-to-the-minute drug shop. M. Ruster & Sons have recently added a new ford delivery car to their serivce. William S. Cooke, Manager of the local house of the Worden Grocer Company, returned Monday from a two weeks’ vacation trip to Grand Rapids and Northern Michigan points. M. H. Miller has returned to this city from Toledo, where he has man- aged the Armour & Company ware- house the past year and will take up his old position as Manager of the Kalamazoo warehouse. L. J. Wills, who has handled the business here, is transferred to Toledo. Frank A. Saville. ——_.--- Married Men in Class 1. Four classes of married men will not be entitled to exemption or de- ferred classification and will be sub- ject to first call in the new 18 to 45 draft law, according to a recent state- ment by Secretary of War Baker. Married men to be placed in Class 1 include: First, married men who do not support their wives or families; second, married men whose wives support them; third, married men whose wives have adequate independ- ent means; fourth, married men en- gaged in useless occupations and who are not the main or principal support of their families. in his ————_>-2.-> Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Beans and Potatoes. Buffalo, Aug. 28—Creamery butter extras, 46@47c; firsts, 44@45c; com- mon, 41@43c; dairy, common _ to choice, 35@40c; packing stock, 33@ 34c. Cheese—No, 1, new, fancy, 26@27c; choice, 25@26c. Eggs—New laid, 50@55c for fancy and 45@4’%c for choice. Poultry (live)—Old cox, 25@26c;: fowls, 34@38c; chicks, 34@40c; ducks, | 32@B5c. Beans — 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. —_—__.-.—___ Almost coincident with Mr. Hoov- er’s return to this country and his optimistic statement as to food pros- pects in Europe, comes the Italian Food Controller’s proclamation in- forming the Italian people that the worst of their hard times has passed, and that they will, in the coming year, have plenty to eat. It was not a twelvemonth ago that Italy’s food crisis gave her defeatist agitators the chance they were looking for; lack of bread made possible Caporetto. The possibility of any recurrence of such conditions seems to have been de- finitely removed. Mr. Hoover tells us we have been doing well in our ex- portations to the Allies, but that, with a little more economy, and, thanks to our bumper crops, we shall do a great deal better yet. Meanwhile, Eng- land’s wheat deficit has been reduced by the diligence of her non-combat- ant population in extending her wheat acreage. Therefore, the three mil- lion tons of cereals Signor Crespi ex- pects from this country will be forth- coming. —_—_»---<- Don’t try to work all day and play all. night. The combination won’t work out well. It has put many a good man before you out of business. The Hole in the War Pocket. For two or three years the press has been full of discussion of “rising prices,” rising cost of living and “falling value of money,” as if these three expressions all meant the same thing. In point of fact, however, they do not mean the same thing. Before we can say that we have ris- ing prices we must look not only at commodity prices at wholesale but also at prices of stocks and bonds, of lands and houses and of labor. The rise in wholesale prices has been very considerable. It reached its crest for 1917 in July, when the price-average of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (called an “index number’) showed a rise of 85 per cent., or in other words stood at 185 per cent. as com- pared with 100 per cent. in 1913. From July to December the average of wholesale prices fell to 181 per cent. of pre-war prices. Since De- cember there has been a rise to 187 per cent. in March, But there has been no such rise as this in what is called the cost of liv- ing. The cost of living is not con- cerned with wholesale prices, but with a special set of retail prices, with house rents and other things that en- ter into the budget of a_ family. Moreover, when we speak of the cost of living we commonly have in mind the laborer’s family. Investigations of the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that the average cost of living for laborers’ families in the ship- building‘ districts in New York City rose about 44%4 per cent. for 1917, as compared with 1914—just about half the rise in wholesale prices by July of 1917. Clothing for these families had risen 54 per cent; furniture and furnishings 5614 per cent; food 55 per cent; fuel and light 20 per cent., but house rents had risen scarcely at all—much less than would ordinar- ily be the case in a three-years’ per- iod in New York City. The rise in house rents had been from the mid- dle of 1914 only 2.63 per cent. B. M. Anderson, Jr. —— Business Still Lives. The supreme factor in American business to-day is the government. Through its power to regulate the distribution of fuel and materials it controls practically all the industrial activity of the country. Through its military and industrial powers it af- fects all labor. By price-fixing it controls mining and important agri- cultural operations. By licensing and priorities it controls traffic on both land and sea. It operates railways, shipyards, munition plants. It owns navy yards, armories, gun factories, powder plants, a security-issuing cor- poration. An unprecedented degree of the power of industry has, because of a people’s passion for victory, been willingly given up to those in author- ity over us. Yet business lives. The government desires it to live. The government calls upon it to preserve, to strengthen its own organizations. The government urges it, not only to make its voice heard now, but to take serious counsel regarding the future. This work has begun. Parliaments of business are gathering daily at Washington. Upon the calendar of their deliberations is written: First, how can we help win the war? Sec- ondly, what is our program, once the day of victory has come? Harry A. Wheeler. a a The bumper British crop is one of the bonuses declared by Providence in favor of those who help them- selves. It has, for more than half a century, been the theory of English statesmen that England never could and never again would feed herself. Yet, after three short years — for very little was done in this line dur- ing the first year of the war — the United Kingdom is producing enough wheat to see her through forty of the fifty-two weeks of the coming year. And in many other crops a corre- sponding improvement has been shown. Painstaking hard work, by organizers, by the whole population, men, women, children, and furlough- ed soldiers, the introduction of ma- chinery on the farms, all these have contributed to the present gratifying result. And now nature, for once, has turned pro-Ally ,and capped meri- torious effort with her blessing. English food is the Kaiser’s Birnam Wood going to Dunsinane. When England feeds herself at the same time that she is waging world war, then must be at hand the day of Hohenzollern despair. —_——_» +2 What will become of automobile advertisements, with passengers in the latest modes, ladies of super- earthly beauty wrapped in eddying veils, young gentlemen with perfect- ly creased trousers, and chauffeurs ot super-chauffeur grace—what will be- come of these beautiful works of art, now that the manufacturers are told to quit making passenger cars? “The car without a murmur,” “the car that runs like a sixteen-karat watch,” “see that vanadium-steel percolator, it dis- tinguishes the Lightning car from all others,” these inscriptions were not really what attracted purchasers. It was the beautiful harmony between the lady passenger’s complexion and the maroon tint of the auto that lur- ed prospective buyers. These gor- geous posters caused them to forget that tires blow out, that roads are hot and dusty, and that gasolene costs a lot. With their passing will pass one of life’s brightest features, even for those who never could afford to run so much as a ford. A When one salesman calls upon a new prospect, he tears one of his business cards in half. Then he pre- sents one of the pieces with the re- mark: “This is only half of my story. Will you permit me to tell the rest?” The oddity of the plan usually ap- peals to the man about to be inter- viewed, and thus breaks the ground for business. The corset trade is conserving by adopting new standards for the. steel stays. they use and. also by dispensing with some of the fancy boxes that they have heretofore used. ——_e+>___- Eagles on the coins should remind us that riches have wings, MICHIGAN TRADESMAN = ne — AZ aE aos ae |) ncn & DRUGS~»DRUGGISTS S = — — <= = = - NDRIES | 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 i ~ apace Associa- tion. President—J. H. Webster, Detroit. Secretary—F. J. Wheaton, Jackson. Treasurer—F. B. Drolet, Kalamazoo. Michigan Pharmaceutical Travelers’ As- sociation. President—-W. E. Colims, Detroit. Secretary and ‘Treasurer—Walter S. Lawton, Grand Rapids. Witch Hazel Extract in Universal Use. The Red Indian himself is no more peculiarly American than Witch Ha- zel. In fact( it was he who first dis- kovered the virtues of Hamamelis and passed his knowledge on to the Whites. It is related that the Petti- paug Indians of the Connecticut Val- ley were well acquainted with Witch Hazel as a sedative for external in- flammation, and that they ascribed their strength and longevity to the use of a decoction of it. Hamamelis is derived from the bark of the Witch Hazel tree, which grows wild \throughout Eastern North America. The Connecticut Valley virtually supplies the entire world with the extract, although rel- atively small quantities are obtained from parts of Pennsylvania. The tree is of the oak family and has rather unusual characteristics of habitat and development. It is found, not in meadows, but in the depths of woods, At its best it oc- curs among rocks at the edge of swamps, although never growing in actual swampland. It sometimes at- tains a thickness of four inches, but is most desirable in the normal di- ameter of two inches. Its branches and twigs shoot out at many angles, producing a strange zig-zag effect. For commercial use the tree should have attained a four or five years’ growth. This tree is further notable for the late appearance of its yellow flowers, which bloom in October and Novem- ber, after the leaves have fallen, and remain in bloom until the very cold weather. The fruit, edible and sim- ilar to the Hazel Nut, ripens in the following Autumn. The bark is dark grey. : Witch Hazel Extract is distillable at any other time but Summer, dur- ing which season saps present in the tree make the process impracticable. Thé bark of the small twigs is the source of supply. The brush is haul- ed to the distilleries, ox teams replac- ing horses on account of the almost inaccessible nature of the country. These twigs are chopped by a cut- ting machine weighing about a ton into very fine particles, and after maceration are distilled and run off into barrels. The resultant product, a clear, colorless liquid with a char- acteristic odor and taste, neutral or only faintly acid to litmus, is the official Witch Hazel (U. S. P.) when it contains not less than 14 per cent. of absolute alcohol by volume. A ton of the brush yields about 4% 50 gallon barrels of Extract, a gen- erous quantity in comparison with say, Oil of Birch, of which only three barrels are yielded to the ton. The total annual supply is estimated at something between forty and fifty barrels. The use of Witch Hazel, long uni- versal in American barber shops and homes, has spread all over the world, enormous quantities being consumed by foreign countries. We know Hamamelis mainly as a shaving hour acquaintance. Those minute razor scratches are immediately closed by the albuminous matter which is such an important constituent of Hama- melis and which is so noticeable to the lay eye in Witch Hazel that has spoiled. The presence of tannic acid adds much to its styptic properties. The writer has not observed a widespread internal use of Witch Ha- zel, although he has known of .one woman who was convinced that it produced great relief from indiges- tion. A certain doctor tells of ad- ministering it effectively to a child, born with imperfect kidneys, which passed blood. This condition was arrested, the doctor states, within a week by the styptic virtue of Hama- melis. But there is no hearsay about the extract of this typically American citizen of the woods being a friend to the human exterior. Every shaver knows. E. A. Child. ee heatless Paste. From Ohio comes this suggestion to solve the problem of wheatless paste for paperhangers. The substi- tute should be made 1 part by weight of dried glue in 10 parts by weight of water, melted in a glue pot sur- rounded by boiling water. To this should be added slowly 4 parts of laundry starch stirred up with 10 parts of warm water. This is said to produce a perfectly smooth paste, the consistency of which can be varied by changing the proportion of water used. If. the paste is to be kept for any length of time some preservative such as oil of cloves, oil of wintergreen, or oil of sassafras, should be used. Says Detroit Drug Firm is Profiteer- ing. Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 27—I wish to make known to readers of the Tradesman a spirit of one of De- troit’s citizens which seems out of place in a public servant. Yesterday, I called at a Detroit drug store and showed the clerk a pocket knife hav- ing the emblem of the Order of the Mystic Shrine in the handle, and asked him if he had a knife just like it and he showed me one in stock. I enquired the price and was told it is $3. I told him that I only paid $1.50 for the knife I had, which I had broken, and asked why he charged double the price for the same knife. He. told me that the knife was made in Germany and as .they had become unobtainable that the price had been doubled and they were now worth $5. I had been unaware that my knife was a Gérman product and I told him that I would not carry a German-made product in my pocket and more than that, I would not hesi- tate to prophesy that a “Made in Germany” knife would not bring him any trade say nothing about a red- blooded American standing for such profiteering as he was doing. This clerk had a decidedly German accent and I told him he could best serve the Kaiser by going over where all the Huns belonged and get his just deserts. If the knife de- scribed was made in Germany, I call on every Shriner to refuse to carry the knife with our emblem—Crescent and Scimeter. Noble W. D. Anderson, Indianapolis Consistory, Murat Temple. ——_o-2- ——— An Old Idea in New Form. An advertisement, that was at the same time an order blank to leave with the salesman, marked the open- ing of an unusually large sale in toilet preparations in a Cleveland store. August 28, 1918 Thé@ advertisement was simply a list of the articles for sale, grouped with the regular price and the sale price in columns to the right of each item. A blank space was left in a column to the left of each item for the quan- tity desired. At the top were lines for the customer’s name and address. As the advertisement prohibited telephone and mail orders, each cus- tomer who wished to buy called at the toilet goods department, and pos- sibly at other departments, which were also advertised; the written or- ders saved the salesmen’s time, and at the same time brought customers into the store to see other goods which were not on sale. M. K. Powers. —_—_+-.—____ To Remove Carbon from Motor Cylinders. A correspondent tells us that the following makes a good preparation. He found it in a journal, the name of which he cannot recall, tried it, and found it satisfactory: Denatured Alcohol ...... 30 parts. Benel 666s eas 18 parts. Ammonia Solution (3%)..52 parts. Mix by shaking. Pour one-half ounce of this mixture into each cylin- der and leave it over night. a The Store Thermometer. That druggist who gets and places in a conspicuous place the best and largest thermometer in town will have a store whose name will be mentioned more frequently by the public during the hot days of the summer than that of any other estab- lishment in his sizzling bailiwick. their requirements. and times. prompt shipments. 1918 Holiday Goods Druggists’ Sundries, Books, Stationery, Etc. UR entire line of samples covering holiday goods, staple sundries, books, stationery, etc., will be on display in our sales room in Grand Rapids on and after September 5th. The very large and well assorted stock is not only the best that we have ever displayed, but the magni- tude of the same and the quality of our purchases will convince our customers and buyers that we were never better prepared than today to meet As previously announced this line was bought with the keen appreciation of present conditions We ask our customers to make dates with our salesmen as has been the custom during the last few years. We advise early buying and Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. Grand Rapids, Michigan han eae: han eae: August 28, 1918 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN No More Sugar During the War. Jackson, Aug. 27—Drastic action as the result of the failure of two gro- cers to live up to the sugar card reg- ulations in mak.ng sales, was taken recently by County Food Adminis- trator C. J. DeLand, who, in com- pany with Deputy Sheriff Hale, visited the stores of the two merchants, and seized their entire stock of sugar. The store of Peter Olesky, 726 Page avenue, was the first place vis- ited, and here sixty pounds of sugar were seized and certificates issued at Lansing calling for 300 pounds of sugar were also taken up. Zanczur Teske’s store, 604 Page avenue, was next visited, and an in- vestigation disclosed sixty pounds of sugar, which was taken possession of and the proprietor, who was absent, has been ordered to turn over the sugar certificates he has on hand. According to the county food ad- ministrator Peter Olesky, despite the repeated warnings issued, failed to obtain any sugar cards for the sale of sugar to consumers, and he has been selling it without these cards. Teske, on the other hand, obtained sugar cards, but failed to issue them to his customers. The. action of the County Food Administrator was taken by author- ity of Federal Food Administrator Prescott of Lansing, and means that neither of the two grocers, who were deprived of their stock of sugar will be permitted to sell sugar for the duration of the war. An illustration of the necessity for severe measures where the sugar card regulations are violated is shown in the fact that i nthe cases of Olesky and Teske complaints were received by the county food ad- ministrator from other grocers that they could not enforce the regula- tions owing to the fact that their cus- tomers refused to sign sugar card applications, saying they could ob- tain sugar at these two stores with- out this formality. A strict watch is being kept for violations, and in every case brought to the notice of the County Food Administrator the stock of sugar will be seized and all certificates for sug- ar taken up. ————_+ +> Business Day May Be Shortened. Detroit, Aug. 27—Shoe merchants of Detroit, Cleveland and other cities of the West are deeply interested in the proposition of the National Fuel Administrator that a 6% hour busi- ness day be established as a means of saving fuel. It is understood that the Wanamaker store of Philadel- phia has blazed the way in this re- spect. . A prominent Detroit shoe man to-day said: “Wie have heard nothing officially regarding a 6%4-hour business day up to the present time, but of course if such an order is issued, we shall patriotically comply, although we may not do so gladly. At present we are on a summer schedule, but as to fall so far no changes have been made in our opening and closing hours. The 6% hour day announced by Wanamaker we regard as a patriotic act, not only conserving coal and re- lieving congestion, but also conserv- ing the health of his employes dur- ing the warm months.” ——_—_—~2-->-o—__-- No More Limited Prices on Dutch Cleanser. The Federal Trade Commission has ordered the Cudahy Packing Co., of Chicago, to discontinue, as being un- fair, its practices of compelling deal- ers to maintain its fixed resale price in the sale of Old Dutch Cleanser, one of its products. The corporation, in a formal order by the Commission, was prohibited from making agree- ments with dealers for the mainte- nance of the price, and from dis- criminating in price or refusing to sell dealers who resell at any price they choose. The Commission’s order re- quires the Cudahy Co. to “cease and desist from directly or indirectly recommending, requiring or. by any means whatever, bringing about the resale of Old Dutch Cleanser accord- ing to any system of prices fixed or established by respondent,” and more particularly by means of contracts, agreements or understandings with dealers, or by refusals to sell, or by discriminations in price because of failure to maintain resale prices. It is provided that the company is not prohibited from issuing price lists or from printing prices in its advertising or upon. containers and cases con- taining Old Dutch Cleanser. ——___-2--—>-—————— You may be a genius, but don’t ex- pect to win on that account. Good, hard work will beat out mere genius every time. —_++>—__-— From an Indian’s standpoint, it’s America for everybody but the Amer- ican. COLEMAN ®rand) Terpeneless LEMON and Pure High Grade VANILLA EXTRACTS Made only by FOOTE & JENKS Jackson, Mich. 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 Acids Boric (Powd.) 18@ 25 Borie (Xtal) 18@ 25 Carbolig: 26.2.4. 5. 66@ 70 CURIS cs ene 1 10@1 15 Muriatic ........ 34%@ Nitric ......... 10%@I15 OMMEO oes e ccc es 538@_ 60 Sulphuric ....... 34@ 5& TartariG <.is. 12@1 20 Ammonia Water, 26 deg. ....12@ 20 Water, 18 deg. ..10%@ 18 Water, 14 deg. .. 9%@ 17 Carbonate ..... -- 19@_ 25 Chloride ....... 1 90@2 00 Balsame Copaiba ....... 1 40@1 & Fir (Canada) .. 1 26@1 50 Fir (Oregon) .. 40@ 560 4 75@5 00 1 75@2 00 ee eeroeases Barks Cassia (ordinary) 35@ 40 Cassia (Saigon) 90@1 00 Elim (powd. 85c) 30@ 35 Sassafras (pow. 40c) @ 35 i Cut (powd.) BO aa cece Berries Cubeb ..... eoeee 1 60@1 70 Fish @ 60 Juniper 12@ 18 Prickley Ash .... @ 30 Extracts ’ saceecese 60@ 65 Licorice powd... 1 05@1 10 ee Licorice Fiowers ALNiC&® cecccesce Chamomile (Ger.) 7 Cnamomile Kom. 1 76@2 00 Gums Acacia, Ist ..... 15 80 Acacia, 2nd ...... 66 % acacia, Sorts .... 40@ 60 acacia, powdered 60@ 70 Aloes (Barb. Pow) 30@ 40 1 50@1 75 70@ 80 Aioes (Cape Pow.) 30@ 35 Aloes (Soc Pow 1 25)@1 20 Asafoetida 2 75@3 v0 PGW. ween seccsc @3 00 Camphor. ...... 1 47@1 50 GUBIOE. oes iin device « @1 75 Guaiac, powdered @2 00 WGHIG: Soc ccccsce ce @ so }kXino, powdered .. @1 00 MYITH cocccceess @w 70 Myrru, powdered @ 7 Opium ....... 28 50@29 00 Opium, powd. 30 00@380 50 Opium, gran. 30 00wsl 5u bSnellac .....-ceee sbw WwW Shellac, Bleached 90@ 95 Tragacanth .... 3 50@4 00 Tragacanth powder 3 00 Turpentine ...... 15@ 20 insecticides Arsenic .....-e0s- 15@ 20 Blue Vitriol, bbl. .. @11l% Blue 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@ 36 Paris Green .... 484@54% Ice Cream Piper Ice Cream Co., Kalamazoo Bulk Vanilla ........... 95 Bulk Special Flavored 1 00 Brick, Plain .........- 1 20 Brick, Fancy ....--+-:- Leaves 1 60 Buchu ......... 1 8@2 00 Buchu, powdr’d 2 00@2 Bs Sage, bulk 67 Sag > dered “ % wi in fetta Alex eeoeed 40@1 50 Senna, sees oe 45 Senna, Tinn. pow. &0 66 Uva Ursi ........ 45@ 50 Olle Almonds, : Bitter, true ........ 18 50@18 75 27 WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURREN! Prices quoted are nominal, based on market the day of issue. Cubeps —.....; 10 00@10 25 Capsicum ....... @2 15 keigeron , ...6.s 3 25@3 50 Cardamon ...... @2 10 Eucalyptus . 1 25@1 85 Cardamon, Comp. @1 60 Hemlock, pure 2 00@2 25 Catechu ........ @i 60 Juniper Berries 17 50@17 75 Cinchona ....... @2 36 Juniper Wood .. 2 75@3 00 Colchicum ...... @2 40 Lard, extra .....1 95@2 00 Cubebs ........ . 2 3 Lard, No. i .... 1 86@2 00. Digitails ........ 1 90 Lavender Flow. 7 00@7 25 Gentian ......... @1 60 Lavender, Gar'n 1 35@140 Ginger .......... @2 00 EQMON 2c. eccsce 2 00@2 26 Guaiac .......... @i Linseed, boiled, bbl. @2 09 Guaiac, Ammon. *°@1 30 Linseed, bld less 2 19@2 24 Iodine .......... 1 50 Linseed, raw, bbl. @2 07 Lodine, Colorless @1 75 Linseed raw less 2 17@2 22 Iron, clo. ....... 1 60 Mustard, true, oz. @2 26 BME noch cucieecn 1 66 Mustard, artifil oz. @2 00 Myrrh ........... @2 60 Neatsfuot ...... 1 80@1 96 Nux Vomica .... @1 75 Olive, pure 10 00@10 50 Opium .......... @9 ov Olive, Malaga, Opium, Camph. @1 35 YVOHOW coc 5 85@5 60 Opium, Deodorz’d @? 50 Olive, Malaga, Rhubarb ........ @1 6 Pe ae ceawenes ; ee a range, Sweet .. 3 25@: Origanum, pure @2 50 joaa 5 —— Origanum, com’‘l o ™ toe red dry .... 14@14% Pennyroyal .... 2 50@2 75 oo white dry 14@14% Peppermint .... 6 00@6 25 Gone white oil 14@14% Rose, pure .. 30 0v@sz 00 OS re yellow bbl. | @ ly Rosemary Fiows 1 60@1 75 eee yellow less 2, @ 5 Sandalwood, E. =k Vo seseeeeaee 4344@ 7 es. 18 50@18 75 Hed Venet’n Amer, 2@ 5 Sassafras, true 3 00@3 25 be Venet’n, Eng 24%@ 5 Sassafras. artifi’l 75@1 00 a Amer. 25@ 30 Spearmint ...... 5 25@5 50 he BOR cc: ( 3 SOON oa. cosess 235@8 00 [Whiting ........ 34 6 BREE cos cis caaes 4 25u4 60 | H. P. Prepd. 2 90@3 10 Pear, USP... .sces 45@ 60 Turpentine, Ep @ 7% Miscelianeous Vurpentine, less 75@ 80 Wintergreen, tr. 6 50@6 75 Acetanalid ..... 1 10@1 20 Wintergreen, awoet “ A oe ei ce. 1b@ 18 FOR cccccese Alum, powd Wintergreen art 1 26@1 50 couens _— “ Wormseed 15 00@15 25 Se ene e es 16@ 20 Wormwood 6 00@6 25 Bismuth, Subni- trate ........ 4 00@4 10 Potassium Borax xtal or Bicarbonate .... 1 2° 30 powdered ...... 10@ 15 Bichromate ...... 60@ 70 Cantha 3 Bromide ......- (ae oo tee Carbonat e...... CCE CO oe eee 2 69@2 75 Chlorate, gran’r 65@ 70 Capsicum. .......; 38@ 45 Chlorate, xtal or E Carmine ........ 6 50@7 00 DOW. wevseeees - 60@ 65 Gassia Buds 45 7 CYaniGe ..ccccss ee ide G0 ee es 5@ 50 lodide ......... 4 69@4 66 — ttt eeeeeeee 77@ 85 Permanganate 2 50@2 75 alk Prepared ..123@ 16 Prussiate, yellow @1756 ¢ ; : : Prusmiate, red ..8 76@4 00 ae Precipitated 12@ 15 Supuate .......66. oe Soret e+ 97@1 04 - Chloral Hydrate 2 32@2 42 eote ee Cocaine: ,<...; 14 30@14 85 AWRanet css ccc 3 25@3 50 Cocoa Butter 60 60 Biood, powdered 46@ 50 Corks, . list less 40% WAIGINUE 5 icv sik 60@4 00 Copperas, "pbis @ 3 slecampane, pwd. 15@ 20 Copperas, less ..' 3% 8 Gentian, powd. 27@ 35 Copperas, powd. .. «o 10 Ginger, African, : Corrosive Sublm. 2 35@2 40 _ powdered .....- 25@ 30 Cream Tartar ... 86@ 92 Ginger, Jamaica 3)@ 40 Cuttlebone ..., 75@ 80 Ginger, Jamaica, Dextrine ..,..... 10@ 16 powdered ...... 22@ 80 Dover’s Powder 5 75@6 00 Goldenseal, pow. 8 50@9 00 Emery, All Nos. 10 15 Ipecac, powd... 400@4 25 Emery, Powdered 8 10 Licorice ....+.++. 50@ 55 Epsom Salts, bbls. @ 4 Licorice, powd. 50@ 60 Epsom Salts, less 5@ 8 Urris, powdered Oe Se Erect 2... oie. @1 50 Poke, powdered 20@ 25 Ergot, powdered 1 75@2 00 Rhubarb: .....0-- _@1 00 Flake White .... 15@ 20 Rhubarb, powd. 1 25@150 Formeldehyde, lb. 19@ 25 Rosinweed, powd. 25@ 380 Gelatine ........ 1 75@1 90 Sarsaparilla, Hond. Glassware, full cs. 68% ground ........ 7%@ 80 Glassware, less 50% Sarsapar exi Glauber Salts, bbl. @ 2% ground ........4 00@1 10 Glauber Salts, less 34@ 7 Squilis .......... 36@ 40 Glue, Brown ..... 25 36 Squills, powdered 45@ 65 Glue, Brown Grd. 25 35 Tumeric, powd. ’ 25@ 30 Glue, White .... 80 36 Valerian, powd, .. @1 00 prin White Grd. 30 35 uNyvGEriNe .,. 3.1 .: 71@ 90 Seeds AGE so cckcea ices 0@ 76 BONGO oo. casccuce 42@ 45 Iodine ......... 5 60@6 90 Anise, powdered 47@ 50 lIodoform ...... « 6 59@6 14 Bird, Js .......... 18@ 19 Lead, Acetate ... 25 30 COBBEE ois ccencds 20@ 25 Lycopdium 2 25@2 60 Caraway ....... 18@ 80 Mace .......2.--. 3 90 Cardamon ..... ae 80@2 00 Mace, powdered 95@1 00 Celery (Powd. 65) 55@ 60 Menthol ...:..<. 4 75@5 00 Coriander ......5. 27@ 30 Morphine 15 45@16 00 TE 4 ons ccc cce cass s0@ 385 Nux Vomica ..... @ 30 Wennell .. 22... 1 00@1 20 Nux Vomica, pow. 28@ 385 ES oe a aha ees 11%@ 15 Pepper black pow. 538@ 55 Flax, ground 11%@ 15 Pepper, white ..... @ 60 Foenugreek pow. 22@ 30 Pitch, Burgundy @ 15 Hemp .....-.++e++ S@ 15 Quassia .......... 12@ 15 Lobelia ....cceees 40@ 50 Quinine ........ 1 28@1 72 Mustard, yellow .. 388@ 45 Rochelle Salts 59@ 65 Mustard, black .. 25@ 30 Saccharine, ozz. .. @8 35 Mustard, powd. .. 35@ 40 Salt Peter ........ 36@ 45 Poppy ..-.-- ewe @1 00 Seidlitz Mixture ..48@ 55 Quince ........ 150@1 75 Soap, green ...... 20@ 30 Ee 5.65 esse --- 15@ 20 Soap mott castile 224%@ 25 badilla ....... @ Soap, white castiie Sabadilia, powd. 385@ 46 OMAR oi vesseus @35 00 Sunflower .......-. 10@ 15 Soap, white castile Worm American .. @ % less, per bar .... @3 75 Worm Levant .. 1 20@1 25 Soda Ash .... Almon - artifi ccoee 1 OOQT 30 Almonds, tPUG) ciscctees 3 00@3 25 Almonds, Swee' imitation ...... 75@1 00 Amber, crude .. 3 00@3 25 Amber, rectified 3 50@3 75 Anise ......... 2 00@2 25 Bergamont .... 8 00@8 25 Cajeput ........ 2 00@2 25 COAG ©... crcceue 25@ Camtor 56. osncss @ eceee 1 TEQ@B Citronella ..... 1 00@1 Cloves ......... 45 Cocoanut ....... # Cod Liver ...... 5 60@5 76 Cotton Seed .... 2 05@2 20 Croton ......... 2 00@2 25 Tinctures aad Spirits Camphor .. 1 26 Sulphur, roll .... 4% 10 Sulphur, Subl. 61-10@ 106 Tamarinds ...... 16@ 20 Tartar Emetic .... @ 90 Turpentine, Ven. 50@4 75 Vanilla Ex. pure 1 60@2 00 Witch Hazel .... 1 35@1 76 Zinc Sulphate ... 1 18 ~. 4% Soda Bicarbonate 349 s @ MICHIGAN TRADESMAN August 28, 1918 GROCERY PRICE CURRENT These quotations are carefully corrected weekly. within six hours of mailing. and are intended to be correct at time of going to press. Prices. however. are liable to change at any time. and country merchants will have their orders filled at market prices at date of purchase. ADVANCED Lobsters Brick Cheese O. & L. Molasses DECLINED Hemp Seed Se ane Corn CHEWING GUM retic ran Bl wcccccscccesece 12 oz. 16c, 2 doz. box 270 Good ......... seco 185 Saeme en page 8 16 oz. 25c, 1 doz. box 1 75 32 oz., 40c, 1 doz. box 2 85 AXLE GREASE Diamond, 1 Ib., 4 dz., dz. 55 Mica, 1 Ib., 4 dz., dz. 1 10 Mica, 3 lb., 2 dz. dz. 2 75 Mica,:25 Ib. pail ...... 1 40 BAKED BEANS No. 1, DEF GOB. ...cccs0 1 No. 2, per doz ..... oesn 2D No. 3, per doz. .......3 60 BATH BRICK eee paccseees Oe BLUING Jennings’ Condensed Pearl ee Small, 3 doz. box .... Large, 2 doz. box .. 7 30 BREAKFAST FOODS Cracked Wheat, 24-2 Cream of Wheat .... Quaker Puffed Rice .. Quaker Puffed Wheat Quaker Brkfst Biscuit Quaker Corn Flakes .. Saxon Wheat Food .. Shred Wheat Biscuit Triscuit, 18 ...c..ee- Pillsbury’s Best Cer’l Kellogg’s Brands English DW PhD PS PATS © o Toasted Corn Flakes 4 20 Toasted Corn Flakes 4 20 Toasted Corn Flakes Individual ........ 2 00 Krumbles .......cc.0- 4 20 Krumbles, Indv. .... 2 00 ie oo. cesses oe 2 00 Deneet 45. e sss nc > 2 60 Peanut Butter ..... * 4 40 A oo cies eccecshe es 3 60 BROOMS Fancy Parlor, 25 Ib. .. 9 Parlor, 5 String, 25 Ib. 8 75 Standard Parlor, 23 lb. 8 50 Common, 23 Ib, ...... 8 00 Special, 23 Ib. ...... 7 15 Warehouse, 23 Ib. .. 10 60 BRUSHES Scrub — Back, 8 woos 2 00 d Back, 11 in. .... 1 25 Pointed Ends ........ 100 Stove MoS 2 vckevccve 2 OP BEG. B nccccccsesccsoss 2 OO ID. 8 oacccescscsescos = OO Shoe BH. 4 gis secers-sessse No. 2 No. 3 BIO; SD ce ewetccavcesce BUTTER COLOR Dandelion, 25c size .. 2 00 CANDLES Paraffine, 6s ........ 14% Paraffine, 12s ........ 15% CANNED GOODS Appies 8 Ib. Standards .. @1 60 No. 10 ........-.. @Aé 15 Biackberrles a cscewsccesecss @2 25 2 Ib. Standard No. 10 .. @9 50 Beans Baked ......... 1 25@2 25 Red Kidney .... 1 25@1 35 String ooee ee > 1 50@2 00 ee - 150@2 00 Blueberries Standard ..........- @2 50 BG: 40) oo ocsn kk @9 50 Clams Little Neck, 1 Ib. .... 1 60 Clam Boulllon Burnham's % pt. cone BaD Burnham’s Lo ecss oon P Burnham’s qts. ...... 7 50 Fancy ..cccccceccce French Peas Monbadon (Natural) per GOR. .52ssseeess oT No. 2, WA 2. ss0ces : No. 2, Fancy ......see- Hominy Standard ..........-. 1 26 Lobster a, 9h 2 00 Me A, ccc eb ees eee 3 25 Picnic BIAS. a veeee 3 75 Mackerel Mustard, 1 1b. .....2:. 4 80 Mustard, 2 Ib. . oo 2 80 Soused, 1% Ib. ....... 1 60 Soused, 2 lb. ..... Koee tO Tomato, 11D. .....255 2 OU Tomato, 2 lb. .. Mushrooms Buttons, %s Buttons, lis .... se Hotels, 15 os sescsecae Oysters Cove, 1 ib. .-....0. Gove, 2 Wb. ...----. @i 80 Plums 4. 50@2 00 Pears in Syrup No. 3 can per dz. 2 50@3 00 Peas Marrowfat ...... 1 35@1 55 Early June ..... 1 60@1 70 Early June siftd 1 70@1 85 ee Pip 45.55 eeeeee 1 50@1 75 No. id” size can pie @4 50 Pinea pple Grated sioccncce 1 75@2 10 Bliced ...<2s00 -- 1 45@2 60 Pumpkin Bir uc ccccsccccsesces 3 OR a00n =... .ceccnsecess 3 OP BABICY cc ccaccoeccsoas 2 Ne. 40 5 cis ccucoss-sse OP Raspberries No. 2, Black Syrup .. 2 40 No. 10, Black ...... 5 No. 2, Red Preserved 3 00 No. 10, Red, Water .. 10 50 Warrens, 1 lb. Tall .. 8 36 Warren’s, 1 lb. Flat .. 3 45 Red Alaska ........+. 3 85 Med. Red Alaska .... 3 60 P pascbssce' eB oP Sardines Domestic, %8 .....--- 6 50 Domestic, % Mustard 6 60 Domestic, % Mustard 6 50 Norwegian, 4s ..... 15@18 Portuguese, 4s .... 30@385 Sauer Kraut No. 8, CanS ....e.eee0 1 65 No. 10, Can® ..ccccones Shrimps Dunbar, 1s doz. ...... 1 60 Dunbar, 1%s doz. .... 2 80 Sucootash Fair .ccocccascces 90 got 6 oso lec osscccs 8 Fancy eeesoseseoeseoe Strawberries Standard .......+...- 2 50 BPAncy ..ccocsscscccees 2 WO Tomatoes he Bib cccncossssecce + 39 B ccccccccsccocccs 1% Ne. BD ccsccscees cecese 8 OO Case 48, 4 doz. in case .... 4 50 1s, 4 doz. in case .... 7 50 is, 4 doz .in case ....10 00 CATSU Van Camp’s, % | es 1 90 Van Camp’s pints .... 2 85 CHEESE Peerless ........ @28 Back |. 3s; @32 ROE > oon ca ou os @ Limburger ..... @30 Pineapple . @ Edam ...... @ Sap Sago ....... @ » Domestic @ Beeman’s Pepsin so 90 Beechnut ..... os 0 Doublemint .. aos lag Spruce ... eee 65 Hershey Gum ........-. 55 Juicy Bruit ..ccccsccccs 40 Sterling Gum Pep. .... 70 Spearmint, Wrigleys .. 70 Spearmint, 6 box jars 4 00 WUCHEON .. sscnsessdcass (0 WOOO sine csssccsas case ec: 00 CHOCOLATE Walter Baker & Co. German’s Sweet ....... 24 PrOMBM ..sccceccca ses BD COIBCRR coccc cc sssccece: BO Walter M. Lowney Co. Premium, %s8 .......... 35 Premium, 48 .....e.e- CIGARS Peter Dornbos Brands 5c Dornbos Sin. Bdr. 40 00 bc Dornbos Perfecto 40 00 6c Van Dam ........ 42 59 Johnson Cigar Co. Brands Dutch Masters Club 75 00 Dutch Masters Bang 75 00 Dutch Masters Inv. 76 00 Dutch Masters Pan. 72 00 Dutch Master Grande 72 00 Dutch Masters Lond. 72 00 El Portana ......-0++ 42 50 Gee SRY. csccccinscce Se BO Dutch Masters Six .. 42 650 Dutch Masters Hand Made sheseccecs SBD Dutch Masters Baby Grand ....... 42 50 Little Dutch Masters 42 60 Ss. C. -ésnscseeks Se eD Dutch Masters Seconds 37 50 Worden Grocer Co. Brands Boston Straight .... 40 00 Trans Michigan .... 42 00 AS. Bs BK pccceecascs coun OO Court Royal ....... - 4 Hemmeter’s Cham- DION scccvcccccccssccta BD Iroquois .......0...+-42 50 La Azora Agreement 42 00 La Azora Bismarck 70 00 Whaleback ....... 42 50 oe s Hand Made 36 00 De. ones cose seeee 40 00 Gsm. & Co. Brands ‘Ox since seeessssens Bt Oe Miss Detroit See sec ae Special deal in quantities. CLOTHES LINE Per doz. No. 40 Twisted Cotton 1 80 No. 50 Twisted Cotton 2 25 No. 60 Twisted Cotton 2 90 No. 80 Twisted Cotton 3 00 No. 50 Braided Cotton 2 25 No. 60 Braided Cotton 2 60 No. 80 Braided Cotton 3 10 No. 50 Sash Cord .... 3 25 No, 60 Sash Cord .... 8 75 No. 60 Jute .......... 1 50 No. 72 Jute .......e.. 1 75 No. 60 Sisal ......... 1 75 Galvanized Wire No. 20, each 100ft. long 1 90 No. 19, each 100ft. long 2 10 No. 20, each 100ft. long 1 00 No. 19, each 100ft. long 2 10 eeeceseeso COCOA MOMOr Dn. ccc ecsdvpnccs 0 Bunte, 10c size ........ 88 Bunte, % Ib. ......... 2 20 Bunte, 1 Ib. .......... 4 09 TAOVHIANG a ccccccccsescs Sh Colonial, %3 .......+.-+ 35 Colonial, %s ........... 33 TODDS <5 05s cas eee’ péceses ae Hershey’s is Sdcceeesss Om Hershey’s %8 .......... 30 TAUVIER 4... vc ccscces Sacvee ee Lowney, %8 ...cesececes 38 Lowney, US ...ccseeceee St Lowney, %s Be NOVEMY o.2sccsccncne SO Premio Creams boca WE Royal” & eos cs ccese ies ee BHCC cocci cccsccs: BE xL siboe sus eens sss ee Specialties Pail: Auto Kisses (baskets) 26 Bonnie Butter Bites.. 27 Butter Cream Corn .. 30 Caramel Bon Bons .. 25 Caramel Croquettes .. 25 Cocoanut Waffles .... 24 Coffy Toffy .......... 25 Fudge, Walnut ...... 28 Fudge, Choc. Peanut 25 Fudge, White Center 25 Honeysuckle Candy .. 25 Iced Maroons .....+ce Iced Orange Jellies .. 22 Italian Bon Bons .... 24 AA Licorice Drops & 1b. DOK 6605230555 2 25 Lozenges, Pep. ...... 29 Lozenges, Pink ...... 29 ManchuS ...ccccceree Molasses Kisses, 10 ib. Ox 365-5; 26 National Mints 7 Ib “tin 30 Nut Butter Puffs .... 25 Star Patties, Asst. .. 29 Chocolates Assorted Choc. Amazon, Caramels .... 30 Champion 28 Choc. Chips, Eureka 26 Klondike Chocolates 33 Nabobs Nibble Sticks, box ..2 00 Nut Wafers ......... 33 Ocoro Choc. Caramels 2 Pails 7 Peanut Clusters ...... GAME OITO 45 oe oa ce es 3 PROMI 6 oso es as os se 27 Sitar Chocolates ...... 29 Pop Corn Goods Cracker-Jack Prize .. 5 60 Checkers Prize ..... . 5 60 Cough Drops oxes Putnam Menthol .... 1 50 Smith Bros. <......-. 1 50 COOKING COMPOUNDS Crisco 36 1 lb. cans .... 4 9 lb. cans .... Mazola 5% oz pores 2 doz. 2 S Pints, tin, 2 doz. ..75 Quarts, tin, 1 doz .. 7 0 % gal, tins, 1 doz. Gal, tins, % doz. .... 12 80 5 Gal. tins, 1-6 doz. 18 50 NUTS—Whole s. Almonds, Tarragona 21 Almonds, California soft shell Drake .. BASU... cocssccesses 18 Filberts ............ -. 20 Cal. No. 1 a8 42: uM Walnuts, Naples pec ee Walnuts, Grenoble ...22 Table nuts, fancy ....16% Pecans, Pecans, Er, Large .. 20 Shelied No. 1 Spanish Shelled Peanuts ...... 16 @16% Ex. Lg. Va. Shelled Peanuts ...... 16% O17 Pecan Halves ...... @90 Walnut Halves .... 710 Filbert Meats ...... 42 Almonds .......... 60 Jerdan Almonds ..... Peanuts Fancy H P Suns Raw .......e004. 18@18% Roasted ....... 20@20% H P Jumbo Raw ......... 19%@20 21144@22 Spanish Shelled, Now 1 ......+2---18@18% CREAM TARTAR Barrels or Drums ..... 8 Boxes DRIED FRUITS Appies Evap’ed, Choice, blk a Evap’d Fancy bik.. Apricots California ....cescee. @2i ; Citren California .......... @30 Curra Imported, 4) i ee: ie Imported, b' Seeswe 28% Peaches Muirs—Choice, 25 Ib. .. 12 Muirs—Fancy, 25 Ib. .. 13 Fancy, Peeled, 25 Ib. .. 16 Peel Lemon, American ..... 27 Orange, American ..... 28 Raisins Cluster, 20 cartons ... Loose Muscatels, 4 Cr. Loose Muscatels, 3 Cr. 9% L. M. Seeded 1lb. 10% @11 Cailfornia Prunes 90-100 25 lb. boxes oe 80- 90 25 Ib. boxes ..@09% 70- 80 25 lb. boxes . 40- 50 25 Ib. boxes ..@13 FARINACEOUS GOODS Beans California Limas .... 15% Med. Hand Picked ... 15 Brown, Holland ...... Farina 25 1 Ib. packages .... 2 65 Bulk, per 100 Ib. ...... Original Holland Rusk Packed 12 rolls to cane $ containers (36) rolls 4.3 Hominy Pearl, 100 Ib. - veces OU Macaro' Domestic, = = . -. 130 Imported, 25 Skinner’s iis. aaes i 87% Pear! Barley Crester. 2c. 64 3.25 < 6 00 POLES ee i cco ks 6 00 Peas Green, Wisconsin, Ib, 11 Split Wes 2.6 e ees ss 1v Sago East Inala ....... oe ee. eo German, sacks ........ 15 German, broken pkg. Tapioca Flake, Iv0 lb. sacks .. 16 Pearl, 100 lb. sacks .. 16% Minute, luc, 3 doz. .... 5 av FISHING TACKLE Cotton Lines No. 2, 15 feet .......... 1¢ No, 3, 15 feet ......... aoe No. 4, 15 feet .......... 12 No. 5, 15 feet .......... 14 No. 6, 16 feet ...ccsceee 16 Linen Lines Small, per 100 feet .... 60 Medium, per 100 feet .. 6a Large, per 100 feet .... 60 Floats No. 1%, per dozen ’..... 13 No. 2, per dozen ..... - la No. 3, per dozen ....... 20 Hooks—Kirby Size 1-12, per 100 ...... 8 Size 1-0, per 100 ....... 9 size 2-0, per luv ..... - lv Size 3-0, per 100 ....... ll Size 4-0, per 100 ....... 14 Size 6-0, per 100 ....... 15 Sinkers No. 1, per gross ..... -- 60 No. 2, per gross ....... 60 No. 3, per gross ....... 65 No. 4, per gross .....0. 7 No. 5, per gross ....... 80 No. 6, per gross ....... 90 No. 7, per gross .......1 25 No. 8, per gross ..... 1 65 No. 9, per gross ..... 3 40 FLAVORING EXTRACTS Jennings D C Brand Pure Vanila Terpeneless Pure Lemon Per Doz. 7 Dram 15 Cent ...... 1 25 1% Ounce 20 Cent .. 1 80 2 Ounce, 35 Cent .... 2 70 2% Ounce 35 Cent .. 2 85 2% Ounce 45 Cent .. 3 10 4 Ounce 55 Cent .... 5 20 8 Ounce 90 Cent .... 8 50 7 Dram Assorted .... 1 25 1% Ounce Assorted .. 2 00 Moore’s D U Brand Per Doz. 1 oz. Vanilla 15 Cent 1 25 1% oz Vanilla 25 Cent 2 00 3 oz. Vanilla 35 Cent 2 7o 1 oz. Lemon i5 Cent 1 25 1% oz. Lemon 25 Cent 2 00 3 oz Lemon 35 Cent 2 75 FLOUR AND FEED Valley City Milling a Lily -White. ........% Rowena Rye, %s .... Graham 25 lb. per cwt. 5 35 Rowena Bolted Meal, 25 lb., per cwt. .... 5 35 Golden Granulated Meal, 25 lb., per cwr .... 5 63 Rowena Pancake 5 lb. DOP CWE oss ee secs Rowena Buckwheat Comp. 5 lb., per cwt. 6 85 eeeeees Watson —" Milling 0. New Perfection %s .. 11 40 Worden Grocer Co. Quaker, ¥%s cloth .. None Quaker, %s cloth .. None Quaker, %s cloth .. None Quaker, %s paper .. None Quaker, %s paper .. None Kansas Hard Wheat Worden Grocer Co. Pa per American Eagle, 4s it 75 American Eagle, %s 11 85 Spring Wheat Worden Grocer Co. Wingold, %s cloth 11 70 Wingold, 4s ,loth 11-80 Meal BIOULOG cscsisosesccee 4 Golden Granulated .. ' Wheat ROG ccccccccscccsscece White ......ccccccees Oats Michigan carlots ..... Less than carlots ... Carlots ...cccccccsece Less than carlots .... Hay Carlot®: .cisccccscciae 2 Less than carlote .. ‘ Feed Street Car Feed .... No. 1 Corn & Oat Fd Cracked Corn ...... Coarse Corn M FRUIT JARS Mason, pts., per gro. Mason, ats., per gro. Mason, % gal. per er. 1 Mason, can tops, gro. won suse rar f. So, SIRO Rosieasecsenaaicc ante wens ead ret ee ce ed August 28, 1918 eee MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 29 GELATINE PETROLEUM PRODUCTS R Cox’s, 1 doz. large ... 1 46 Tron Barrels Fancy pecemcte Johnson's Fine, 48.2 5 75 ee — Cox's, 1 doz. small .. 90 Perfection ........... 12.7 Blue Rose ........ 10@11 Johnson’s - 100... 5 76 White Wine, 40 grain 18 Magic, 3 doz. ........ 1 16 Knox’s Sparkling, doz. 1 90 Red Crown Gasoline 23.7 Broken ........... Rub-No-More =e 5 50 White Wine, 8 grain 23% Sunlight, F GOR vised 1 00 Knox's Acidu’d doz. .. 190 Gas Machine Gasoline 44.2 OA Nine O'Clock 1.0...” White Wine, 100 grain 26 Sunlight, 1% doz. .... 50 Minute, 1 dos. ....... 1 36 M. & P. Naphtha 2.7 ysonath cee, oaTs 10 25 Lautz Naphtha, Gda'. Oakland Vinegar & Pickle Yeast Foam, 8 doz... 115 Minute, $ do. ........ $78 Capital Cylinder, Iron Rolled Avena, bbis... 10 6) Oak Leaf Soap'Fowder, | Co.'s Brands Jaa tem 1 oS Sige: Peer es om : a ss: ghland apple cider ica ae tae ce ee en ne Moeneeh th. wee. & 20 oak Leaf f Soap Powder, Oakland apple cider .. woul pe Ga Plymouth Rock. Plain Winter Black, tron see 69% Quaker, 18 Regular .. 1 95 100 p coeceeese-» 5 50 State Seal sugar ..... : Se Waukesha <-.1..--, 160) Bbls “2 Queen’ Ae 80 806 Scbuae ein pekiy coccsececee 160 _ DUIS. ..-0- esses * tetas and white pic ee Polarine, Iron Bbis. .. 44.4 oie pine ssn 3 as Old oo Cleanser, a Packages ieee is SPECIAL Ss Columbia. t ie 00 e@eevreeeeeeeeeeer Helle os PICKLES ee Price Current : Medium Durkee’s large, 1 doz. 5 25 SODA WICKING joa Teavek Barrels, 1,200 count 1200 Durkee’s med., 2 doz. 6 80 Bi Carb, Kegs ...... 3% No. 0, per gross ...... 50 ~~ er Senna Leaves... 4g. _Half_bbls., 600 count 6 §0 Durkee’s Picnic, 2 doz. 2 75 No. 1, per gross ...... 65 SALT sesvecence 5 gallon kegs ....... 260 Snider's, large, 1 doz. 2 40 SPICES No. 2, per gross 90 Snider’s, small, 2 doz. 1 45 Whole Spices No. 3, per gross oo 45 Diamond Crystal Small SALERATUS Alispice, Jamaica ..9@16 4 HIDES ac Barrels ..........,.. 1400 | Packed 60 Ibs. in box. Alispice, Ig. Garden $11 WOODENWARE Green, No. 1 16 Half barrels ...@... 750 Arm and Hammer .. 3 25 Cloves, Zanzibar .. @55 Baskets Groan, Mo. 2 -........ 5 5 gallon kegs ...... 280 Wyandotte, 100 %s .. 300 Cassia, Canton .... @20 | Bushels ............. 1 75 Cured, No. 1 ........ 18 SAL SODA Cassia, 5c pkg. doz. 38 Bushels, wide band .. 1 85 Gured, No. 9. co.cc ss 17 Gherkins Granulated, bbis. .... 180 Ginger, African .... @15 | Market, drop handle .. 70 Callukin ereen Wo. 1 & Barrels 6006055025. 25 00 Granulated, 100 Ibs. cs. 190 Ginger, Cochin - @20 Market, single handle — 75 Cuitakin. seek, Sta. 9° ss Half barrels ........ 1800 Granulated, 36 pkgs. 200 Mace, Penang ..... . @90 Splint, large ......... 5 Galtekin’ cured’ No. 1 23’ § gallon kegs ..... ... 4 50 SALT Mixed, No. 2 Bees 17 oe ous Calfskin, ; : x o. geeeeee 16 . Horse! NO 2... BO Sweet Small Gunpowder Red Hen, No. Sco. 280 T Swift & Company Moyune, Medium .. 28@33 Washboards Red Hen, No. 2% .... 3 40 ripe Swift’s Pride ..... .. 5 00 Moyune, Choice ... 35@40 Banner Globe ........ 4 Red Hen, No. 5 ...... 3 49 Kits, 15 sseeeeees 98 White Laundry ...... 565 Ping Suey, Medium 25@30 Brass, Single ........ 7 Red Hen, No. 10 ..... 330 1% Dbbis., 40 Tbs. ....-- 1 @0 Wool, 6 oz. bars .... 560 Ping Suey, Choice 35@40 Glass, Single ........ 5 Uncle Ben, No. 2 .... 2 80 % bbis., oe” 300 Wool, 10 oz. bars .... 9 40 Ping Suey, Fancy .. 45@50 = eee : Sai aca Uncle Ben, No. 2% .. 3 30 single fFeerless ..... fecnins-s ous! Hogs, per Ib. .....-.... 3 Tradesman Company Young Hyson Northern Queen 5 “Fzparace BES! Uncle Ben No. on oe : o Beef, round set... 19@2@ Black Hawk, one box 875 Choice .........---. 28@30 Good eaeee ee . zrarach BR Ginger Cake, No. 2 ..3 30 Beef, middles, set .. 45@55 Black Hawk, five bxs 870 Fancy -.--+---++++- 45@56 Universal ........--- 5 Ginger Cake, No. 2% 430 Sheep .......... 115@1 85 Black Hawk, ten bxs 3 65 Oolong Wind cl St ap is ake, No. 5 .. 4 15 Uncolo Ol Formosa, Medium .. 25@26 ndow Cleane & L, Open Kettle, Solid Date OO in tat acct aan Hormoes, Choice .. $2995 12 in. ............0+ $* a a a ae OS. Ct eoe 5 65 Country Rolls .... 38 @29 and tease remover, with. Formosa, Fancy 50@t0 “ > geet ee ences : = — ae ury to. the skin. English Breakfast a a ae MUSTARD Canned Mea AXLE GREASE Corned Beef, 3 _ .. 650 Scouring Powders Congou, Medium 25@30 Wood Bowls % Ib. 6 Ib. box ..---.. 80 Corned Beef, 1 Ib. 75 Sapolio, gross lots .. 9 50 Comsou, Choice .... W@%* 13 in. Butter ........ 1 90 PEANUT BUTTER Roast Eas ib. ae se pone pee lots 4 3 Canada. Ex. Fancy By 4 15 in. Butter Sieicies 1 oa ee! Ib. oll ae » 8 OXes r n cocecce Bel-Car-Mo Brand Potted Meat, Borge a ee gee < Ceylon 19 in. Butter ........ 11 00 6 oz, 1 doz. in case .. 2 90 Flavo' ue feaeers< ueen Anne, cans 80 .see 28@30 120. 1 doz. in case .. 250 Potted Meat, Ham Queen, Anne, 60 cans 3 60 Dri Bekos, Choice’ 30035 _ WRAPPING PAPER 24 1 Ib. pails ......... 5 75 Flavor, %8 ......... now Maid, 30 cans .. 1 80 iowery O. P. Fancy 40@50 ‘Fibre, Manila, white .. 6 12 2 Ib. ails ie onaie 5 75 Deviled Meat, Ham Snow Maid. 60 cans .. 3 60 se Fibre, Manila, colored we . pails, n crate RVOT, MG ie ccsccsee SR Washing Pee Tw No. 1 Manila ...... 10 Ib. pails ........... 21 Deviled Meat, Ham : Snow Boy, ag pkss . 5 65 Cotton, 3 ply .......... 67 Butchers’ Manila .... 6% 5 15 Ib. pails ......... AVOr, %S8 ......<.. 100 Snow Boy, 60 pkgs. .. 3.55 Cotton, 4 By T° Watt. oo ee ieee cs ve ll es 25 ib. pails ..... 1805 % “Potted Tongue. \%s .. Sf Snow Boy, 24 pkgs. .. 5 00 Hemp, 6 eeey Wax Butter, short c’nt 20 1 Ib. boxes, per gross 11 40 60 Ib. tins ............ 20% Potted Tongue, %s .. 168 Snow Boy, 20 pkgs. .. 5 25 Wool, 100 baies vee. 20. Parchm’t Butter, rolls 22 3 Ib. boxes, per gross 29 10 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. August 28, 1918 BANKRUPTCY MATTERS. Proceedings in the Western District of Michigan. Grand Rapids, Aug. 27—In the matter of Rudolph Kapff, bankrupt, the first meeting of creditors has been held. Claims were allowed, but no trustee was appointed, as there were no assets in the estate. The estate will therefore be closed at the expiration of thirty days. In the matter of the Ludington Manu- facturing Co., bankrupt, the final meeting of creditors was held. The trustee’s final report and account approved, and an or- der for distribution of the cash on hand was made. A final dividend of 2.4 per cent. was declared. The meeting was adjourned and held open until the out- come of certain suits in Chicago courts were decided. In the matter of Nels J. Larson, bank- rupt, the meeting for the purpose of de- claring a first dividend was held. Claims were allowed. The first report and ac- count of the trustee, showing cash on hand of $691.04, was considered and ap- proved. Order for a first dividend of 5 per cent. was made. A further hearing was called for the purpose of having Christina Johnson show cause why she should not reconvey certain property received by her through avoidable pref- erence. In the matter of Charles S. Foster, bankrupt, an offer for the assets had been received, and hearing held on such offer, and the sale was confirmed to Rogers & Neeley, of Gladwin, at $1,300 for all of the assets, except those with- drawn because of petitions for reclama- tion filed thereon. In the matter of Matthew Williams, bankrupt, an offer for a certain account receivable was received, and hearing held thereon, and the account, aggregating $625.32, was sold to Thomas P. Bradfield for $85. The sale was confirmed. In the matter of Frank P. Hakes, bankrupt, a final meeting of creditors has been called for Sept. 4. The trustee’s report shows cash on hand amounting to $25.21, and the same will be considered at such meeting. It is probable that there will be no dividend. In the matter of Horace W. Hakes, bankrupt, the final meeting of creditors has been called for Sept. 4, at which time the final report and account of the trustee will be considered, said report showing a balance on hand of $68.95. There will be a final distribution, but it is not probable that there will be any dividend. : In the matter of Joseph J. Klaassen, bankrupt, the special meeting has been called for Sept. 4, at which time the first report and account of the trustee, show- ing total receipts of $537.49, and no dis- bursements, will be considered, and a first dividend will pronapdly be dec'ared. In the matter of Peterson & Bryant, bankrupts. a hearing was called for the purpose of considering the exemptions of the bankrupt and his wife and also for the purpose of considering an offer for the assets. In the matter of Shifting Sands Sana- tarium, bankrupt. a final meeting of the ereditors was called, at which time the final report and account of the trustee, showing balance on nana of $324.10, will he considered, and an order for distribu- tion made, and a probable dividend de- clared. In the matter of Kent State Garage & Supply Co., bankrupt an offer was received from C. J. Van Dusen for the assets of this estate. Hearing will be held thereon on Sept. 5. In the matter of Herbert Porter, bank- rupt, a final meeting was called for Sept. 5, at which time the trustee’s final re- port and account, showing no receipts and disbursements, and showing certain right in the estate of Alice Wilkins, deceased, estimated to be worth $250, and for which an offer has been made, will be considered, and the sale of such right considered and the sale confirmed to the highest bidder. There will be no dividend. In the matter of Otto Ream, bankrupt. the final meeting has been called for Sept. 6, at which time the final revort and account of the trustee. showing balance on hand of $193.18, will be con- sidered, an order for distribution made. and a probable first and final dividend declared. In the matter of Fred Steinke, bank- rupt. a special meeting has been called for Sept. 6, at which time the first report and account of the trustee will he con- sidered, which shows total receints of $454.09,( and no disbursements: an or- der for distribution will be made, and a first dividend to creditors declared. In the matter of C. C. Bratain, bank- rupt. the final meeting has been called for Sept. 6, at which time the final re- port ard account of the trustee wiil be considered, showing balance on hand of $305.30. Order will be made for the pay- ment of certain administration expenses and a final dividend will be declared. In the matter of Yhe Fair, bankrupy, the final meeting of creditors has been called for Sept. 6, at which time the final reports and accounts of the trustee wilt be considered, showing balance on hand to be distributed amounting to $1,946.25. They will consider and determine what action shall be taken by the trustee to recover certain alleged unpaid stock sub- scriptions from John W. Kingsbury. A final dividend will be declared. In the matter of Simon Olthof, bank- rupt, a special meeting of the creditors has been called for Sept. 9, at which time the first report and account of the trustee, showing balance on hand of $196.40, will be considered and a probable first dividend declared. In the matter of Fred Sikkema, bank- rupt, the final meeting has been called, at which time the final report and ac- count of the trustee will be considered, showing balance on hand of $90.95. Or- der will be made for the payment of certain administration expenses and a probable dividend will be declared. Charles La Rue, bankrupt, filed his petition in bankruptcy. Adjudication was made and the matter referred to Referee Corwin. No meeting nas as yet been called. The bankrupt’s schedules show the following: Liabilities, $2,268.08; assets, household goods which are exempt and debts due on open ac,,ounts, $8. Following is the list of creditors: Secured Creditors. Donovan Brothers, Grand Rapids $ 24.00 Heyman Co., Grand Rapids ........ 9.00 W. E. Gibbs, Grand Rapids ...... 12.00 Unsecured Creditors. G. Kananaviez, Grand Rapids ..$ 15.00 Neil Malloy Estate, Grand Rapids ‘onan Ray Peasley, Grand Rapids ...... -00 G. J. Ross, Alpine Station ...... 98.00 Mr. Limburner, Sparta ........... 36.95 Charles Momber, Belmont ....... 42.70 Louis Schaidel, Comstock Park .. 36.95 O. Wiersma, Grand Rapids ...... 9.00 W. H. Misner, Grand Rapids .... 22.60 George Wolford, Grand Rapids .. 33.25 F. Finkler, Grand Rapids ........ 12.00 j.eonard Prince, Grand Rapids ... 30.25 John Zimmer, Conklin ............ 24.64 Harry Christensen, Plainfield .... 21.80 Harry Baldwin, Grand Rapids .... 275.00 A. J. Stryker, Grand Rapids ...... 55.00 Mrs. Thole, Grand Rapids ........ 40.00 Dr. Cornell, Grand Rapids ........ Brummeler-Van Strien, Grand Rapids 3. 80 H. B. Elkbart, Grand Rapids 35.00 John Kamstra, Grand Rapids ......18.00 Jennie Church, Grand Rapids .... 24.00 E. A. Prange, Grand Rapids ...... 18.00 George Boltwood, Grand Rapids .. 10.00 William Timmer, Grand Rapids .. 6.00 Farmers & Merchants Bank, MSASH ONES os ue acs aa « 76.31 Jonn Bullis, Cannovia .........2... 76.31 G. Van Putten, Holiana ......... 42.00 H. A. Harrington, Holland ...... 9.00 Isaac Kouw & Co., Holland ...... 9.00 games Bole, Peuand .......0.-08s 2.50 Steffern Brothers, Holland ........ 16.00 Knites Meat Market, Holland .... 7.50 Hartman Furniture Co., Chicago 3.00 Quaker Mig. Co., Peoria, Gl. .... 7.00 Henschell Hotel, Muskegon ...... 105.00 Dr. Hoxie, Grand Rapids ........ 15.00 Dr. Sevensma, Grand Rapids ...... 2.50 Dr. Jarvis, Grand Rapids: ...... 12.00 Dr. Van Der Stolt, Grand Rapids 12.00 Jacob Souffrouw, Belmont ........ 22.00 Mr. Church, Englishville .......... 30.00 G. R. Press, Grand Rapscs ........ 15.00 Bell Telephone Co., Grand Rapids 14.00 Commercial Printing Co., Grand Raps (2. oes ee ee a es 12.00 Leonard Visschers, Holland ...... 28.00 Home Supply Co., Grand Rapids .. 8.00 Plainfield Produce Co., Grand Rapids 25.00 W. H. Priest, Grand Rapids .... 85.00 H. Skutt Transfer Co., Grand Rapids 50.00 Schlitz Brewing Co., Grand Rapids ms 00 P. B.. Waish, Grand Rapiags. ...... 00 John Ley, Grand Rapids ........ 30,00 Samuel Haney, Grand Rapids .... 13.00 Mrs. Stonehouse, Grand Rapids .. 5.00 Ide Tea Co., Grand Rapids ........ 3.00 F. A. France, Grand Rapids ...... 4.50 Keyers-Longwood Co., Casnovia .. 145.00 Estlow & Reed, Casnovia ........ 22.00 gonn Tull, Bavey . ......-55.35-5, 50.00 J. L. Norris & Son, Casnovia .... 10.00 . AW Brott, Casnovia. ......,...<% 80.00 J. Wretick, Casnovia ......54..... 25.00 Mr, Fiutson, Casnovia | .......... 15.60 Black & White Taxi Co., ; Grand Bapigs 2... oo ieee oss ces 9.00 F. G. Milch, Grand Rapids ...... 4.00 Charles S. Holt, Grand Rapids .. 4.00 In the matter of Snellink & Son, meat dealers, co-partners, bankrupts. The above named have filed their petition in bankruptey. They were adjudicated, and the matter referred to Referee Corwin. A first meeting of creditors has been called for Sept. 9. The bankrupts’ schea- vies show the _ following: Liabilities, $785.66; assets, stock in trade, $50; ma- chinery and tools, ere., $100; debts due on open accounts, $347.16; total, $497.16. They filed a pauper petition, and do not claim any exemptions as copartners. Their creditors are as follows: Morris & Co., Grand Rapids ...... $145.44 Wilson & Co., Grand Rapids ..... 125.00 Swift & Co., Grand Rapids ....... 152.40 Plankington Packing Co., Milwaukee 85.97 Mills Paver Co., Grand Rapids .. 12.45 Central Michigan Paper Co., rand Ramis oo coe. oes cca tk as 20.92 Collins Ice Co., Grand Rapids .... 32.81 Citizens Telephone Co., Grand MRO sg as gt 3.00 Jorn Brower, Grand Rapids ...... 112.20 John Burwalda. Grand Rapids .... 48.38 Wilson Spice Co., Toledo ........ 13.80 Worden Grocer Co., Grand Rapids 30.00 Peter Lafave, bankrupt, kas filed a petition in bankruptcy and the matter has been referred to Referee Corwin. No meeting has as yet been called. The bankrupt’s schedules show the following: Liabilities, $266; assets, $250; household goods, which are exempt. Following is a list of the creditors: Buckley & Douglas Co., Manistee $ ~ 00 G. F. Macklin, Grand Rapids vas 4.00 Dr. Paul Jensen, Manistee ...... 100.00 G. Knowles estate, Manistee ...... 14.00 Thomas Morris, Manistee ........ 13.00 Albert Kruger, Manistee ......... - 10.00 ——_—_.>2———_—_ Woman Writer Who Has No Use For Dogs. St. Ignace, Aug. 20—We always look forward to the coming of the Tradesman. The articles on organ- ized labor have been of especiaé in- terest and for a long time we have been looking for something just like the article written by B. B. Yankee on Dogs and Cats. We happen to be living at present where it is a case of dogs and still more dogs, many of them sleek and well cared for, more of them always hungry. We know of two big dogs in one family which take turns wearing the one dog license tag. At present the female is wearing it for obvious reasons. The woman who does our laundry work, not always sure where the next meal is coming from, feeds a large dog. Some are ugly, but, of course, they are some one’s pets. There are so many beautiful mild song birds here, unless the cats are done away with, their days of song and freedom are numbered. Why are dogs not more heavily taxed? This would seem to us to help to remedy this unneces- sary evil. We doubt very much if B. B. Yankee will receive very much encouragement from the Food Com- missioners, for when the heads of the Government or our politicians rather in Washington refuse to grant the petitions of the better people of the whole United States to conserve food, labor and life, what will they care how many thousands of dogs wax fat on the food human beings ought to have instead? May we quote here a little of an article in a recent leading publication: “To continue to manufacture liquor now seems to be the essence of wastefulness. Why our churches and schools must be closed and our busi- ness and factories shut down to save coal and the scarcity of food made a matter of conscience with all our families, while our transportation facilities are being overtaxed, over 3,000,000 tons of coal are consumed each year in the manufacture of liquor and 68,000,000 bushels of grain turned over to the brewers. This is an inconsistency for which there is no real logical explanation—although there is a reason”. No mention is made of the swells used which are worse than wasted. We live where before May 1 men women and young lads were always in evidence, intoxicated. Since May 1 only one drunk has been seen-—and that from Wisconsin beer. We are thankful for small favors anyway. And olad to number ourselves among RB. B. Yankee’s friends in the Clover- land. Regular Reader. —_»->—___ Waste. “Extravagance costs blood, the blood of heroes,” says Lloyd-George. War savers are life savers. The sinews of war are gathered largely from thrift. The war perhaps can be won partly by stored-up resources. We must save out of the present products of labor. The British peo- ple had to learn, as we must learn, that goods and services must be saved by all. Saving must become a habit. For war is a battle of re- sources. Germany saves with effi- ciency because she saves scientifically. She conserves her resources. To waste in these times is to fight on the side of the Kaiser. Employers Watching War Labor . Board. Some of the recent performances of the National War Labor Board are causing employers throughout the country a great deal of anxiety. This is especially true of manufac- turers in the iron and steel industry, which in the past has been compara- tively free from union dominatiion, Unless all signs fail—and the indi- cations are so clear they can hardly be mistaken—before the war is over practically every establishment in this influstry will have been unionized from top to bottom and that, too, as the result of the war emergency! This extraordinary situation is due to the general policy of the War Labor Board, the creation of which had for its chief object, according to official announcement, the holding of an eVen balance between employers and employes, between capital and labor, for the duration of the war. The National War Labor Board was appointed as the result of a labor conference, participated in by representatives of both employers and employes, for the purpose. of agreeing upon a so-called “declara- tion of principles,” the execution of which would prevent either capital or labor from using the war emergency to secure any advantage. The impor- tance of the movement was apparent to all and the desirability of a clear understanding was universally con- ceded. Summing up the “declaration of principles” as briefly as possible, it contemplated the maintenance of the status existing at the beginning of the war. There were to be no strikes and no lockouts; union shops were to remain closed and open shops were to remain open. This seemed to be eminently fair, and when it was announced that the members of the labor conference had been appointed a National War Labor Board, there was general sat- isfaction, as everybody assumed that, being familiar with the “declaration of principles,” they would be in the best possible position to interpret and enforce the agreement. While the radical pro-labor views of Frank Walsh, one of the joint chairmen, were well known, the conservative leanings of ex4President Taft, the other chairman, were counted upon to keep the balance fairly even. Reviewing the work of the Board since its organization, however, indi- cates that it has become little else than the organ of union labor and that its future activities may be re- lied upon only to exténd labor or- ganization and to boost wage scales to the extreme limit. In every con- troversy of importance that has been referred to the Board, it has decided in favor of the workers and in not- able instances it has gone outside the record and beyond the claims of labor to saddle upon the employers heavy burdens in the shape of wage increases that will not only serve greatly to augment costs of produc- tion but to upset local economic con- ditions and produce widespread de- moralization. Se RET RR eee Be a ce a amma a Seema aa tad August 28, 1918 Most important of all, it has con- strued the “declaration of principles” to mean that, while employers must not attempt to break up the union shops, there is nothing to prevent labor from completely unionizing all open shops. In addition, the strictly non-union shop no longer has any status, for the labor leaders are held to be perfectly free to unionize it whenever they choose to do so. To call such an agreement a “main- tenance of the status existing at the beginning of the war” is a ghastly joke, and the joke is altogether on the employers. It can have but one result and that is an enormous acces- sion to the ranks of union labor, for the influence of a great National or- ganization like the War Labor Board, operating under the wing of the Fed- eral Government, will be far-reach- ing and potent beyond any estimate that can be made to-day. As illustrating the methods of the National War Labor Board a few instances may be cited of its recent decrees. They are illuminating and appear to be based on the broadest and most comprehensive of policies, all in the interest of labor. Not long ago certain controversies in the town of Waynesboro, Pa., were referred to the board for set- tlement. Men engaged in unskilled common labor were receiving 23 cents per hour and demanded 30 cents. Skilled workers asked for proportion- ate increases. The Board gave the skilled work- ers what they asked and then pro- ‘ceeded to boost the wages of the common laborers to 40 cents, or 10 cents per hour more than they had demanded. The employers—half a dozen manufacturing concerns having contracts, chiefly with the Govern- ment—seeing their small profits dis- appear over night, filed an appeal from the Board’s ruling on _ the ground that it was “absolutely im- practicable,’ but the Board refused to entertain the appeal “until the em- ployers should put the decree into force!” The low wages prevailing in Wiaynesboro for unskilled labor were based on a cost of living much below that of the big cities in Penn- sylvania, a fact that appears to have been wholly ignored by the Board, which gave common labor there a rate as high as any it has decreed in the largest manufacturing centers of the country. Of course, all other manufacturers in Waynesboro will be obliged to raise the wages of their unskilled workers to the same level in order to hold them and, of course, this will greatly increase the cost of living in the town and its vicinity, thereby inflicting great hardship upon all who are not the beneficiaries ot the Board’s action. The ruling of the Board in the Waynesboro case was understood to be based upon its intention to adopt a “standard minimum living wage” for both skilled and unskilled labor, but after several futile conferences the announcement was made that the attempt to fix a standard minimum wage had beem abandoned. Of course, this determination has not MICHIGAN TRADESMAN relieved the situation boro. One of the most amazing decisions of the Board was recently made in the case of a few employes at the plant of the Bethlehem Steel Com- pany at South Bethlehem, Pa. The strikers constituted so small a pro- portion of the company’s force that the managers of the plant declared that,. practically, no strike was in progress and declined to submit the controversy to the Board. The Board, nevertheless, took jur- isdiction of the dispute and handed down a ruling holding against the company on every count and not only applied its decision to’ some 26,000 workers, the great majority of whom were not on strike at all, but abol- ished the company’s bonus system of rewarding special industry and faith- fulness. Incidentally the Board ap- pointed a special agent to reside at the South Bethlehem works and see to it that all the terms of the award are enforced. While the Bethlehem case was pending, a “business agent” of one of the unions telegraphed the Board that the union could not lease a hall in South Bethlehem in which to hold a meeting of protest and demanded that the Attorney General of the United States interfere at once to secure the desired hall, threatening: “bloodshed” if this were not done at once. Instead of bringing this out- rageous threat to the attention of the proper authorities, the secretary of the War Labor Board at once appealed to the Attorney General to assist the local union in obtaining the hall, declaring that it was one of the most conservative and law-abiding labor organizations in the country! Is it any wonder the employers are fast losing confidence in the impar- tiality of the National War Labor Board? —>-->___ If You Sell Seasonable Goods. When fresh eggs were selling at their lowest, one merchant conceived an idea which enabled his customers to buy their eggs the year round at practically the low price. Hundreds of dozens were disposed of under this plan, and the merchant had the satisfaction of rendering his com- munity a service it will not soon for- get. The merchant first’ laid his plan before the local food administrator, who gave his consent to it. Then the merchant advertised that he would sell eggs and hold them in storage until fall at the current price, plus the actual storage cost. The eggs, he said, could be delivered at any time during the fall months. The merchant’s profit, of course, was made at the time of the sale. He handled the merchandise but once, when he delivered it from the storage house to his customer. Comparisons with the previous year's prices showed that the mer- chant’s customers paid exactly one- half for their eggs that year. Charles Chase. in Waynes- _—_—_—— You can never tell what a woman in love and a balky horse are. going to do. 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 ail orders. No charge less than 25 cents. Cash BUSINESS CHANCES. Eighty-three and Bound to Quit. Write for a bargain or better come and see it. Stock of drugs, books, paints, glass and sundries. Frank Smith, 104 Michigan Ave., Ypsilanti, Michigan. 887 For Sale—$18,000 stock of dry goods, furnishings and shoes, mostly at the old prices. Established business in good manufacturing district in Detroit. Seven year lease at cheap rent. Good reason for selling. Address No. 888, care Mich- igan Tradesman. 888 For Sale—Good established grocery business lodated on \one of the best corners on Gratiot avenue, Detroit. Rent reasonable. Will take $2,000. Reason for selling, am expecting to be in one of the next drafts. Address No. 889, care Michigan Tradesman. 889 Bakery, Confectionery and Soda Foun- tain—Only bakery in granite manufactur- ing and college town of 3,500. For par- ticulars, write J. J. Sawyer, Northfield, Vermont. 891 Farm For Sale or Trade—137-acre farm, lays practically level, 50 acres cleared, good water, lots of wood, some large timber, running water, fairly good house, small barn. We will sell or trade for stock of groceries or general merchan- dise. Call or write. Thomas & Bassett, Cedar Springs, Michigan. 892 Your window is your greatest asset, our colored current event cartoon service attracts 200% more people to your win- dow, it brings you greatly increased pub- licity which results in increased sales. Write for particulars. Experienced ad- vertising men, write us regarding our salesmen’s proposition. Paramount Ad- vertising Corp., 1475 Broadway, New ork City. 894 Store For Sale—The Hub clothing, gents’ furnishing, store. Up-to-date. One year old. Duwn-town location. Reasonable rent. Good reason for selling. The Hub, 119 Michigan Ave., Detroit, Michigan. 896 Wanted—A good reliable clerk for grocery store. Address No. 883, care Michigan Tradesman. 883 Good Opening For Restaurant Man— Confectionery in connection. All equip- ped. Practically no capital required, ex- cept for current expenses. Building steam heated; good location; business estab- lished; rent reasonable. If you mean business, apply to M. Vanderbilt, Grand Ledge, Michigan. 8 Exchange—Very desirable residence with eight lots for stock of merchandise in Northern Michigan. Address P. O. Box 196, St. Louis, Michigan. 885 Fine bakery; two good restaurants for rent or sale (terms). Splendid locations, modern equipment, living rooms. Write now. Box 127, Chrisman, Illinois. 873 Wanted—Registered pharmacist or ex- perienced drug clerk. Good wages, hours ang steady position for right party. Schrouder’s, Grand Rapids. 877 For Sale—General merchandise and hardware stock; general merchandise in- voices about $15,000; hardware, $12,000; will sell separately; either one or both can be reduced $5,000; will sell or rent buildings, furniture and fixtures. Retir- ing from business. Write for particulars. Bohnet Bros. & Co., Fessenden, North Dakota. 878 For Sale—To close an estate, we offer for sale our established business in the heart of the resort region. First-class stock of general merchandise; also build- ings for sale or rent. Stock and fixtures will inventory about $6,000. Estate of F. E. Martin, Indian River, Mich. 865 For Sale—My stock of implements, har- ness, hay and feed. Will invoice about $4,500. Located in good territory with no competition. 1917 sales were $42,817. Health conditions, reason for selling. In- vestigate if interested. J. M. McFarren, Rapid City, Michigan. 879 Will pay cash for whole or part stocks of merchandise. Louis Levinsohn, Sagi- naw, Michigan. 767 Collections—We collect anywhere. Send for our ‘‘No Collection, No Charge” offer. Arrow Mercantile Service. Murray Build- ing, Grand Rapids, Mich. 390 Pay spot cash for clothing and fur- nishing goods stocks. L. Silberman, 106 E. Hancock, Detroit. 608 Wanted—First-class meat cutter. Not in the draft. Must furnish references. Good salary. Address Sanitary Cash Market, Junction City, Kansas. 864 To Rent Or _ Sell—Two-story brick building, 24x 110 feet, with full base- ment and heating plant. Warehouse in rear. Store equipped with counters, shelving, electric light and power. Best location, Main street. Address Farmers & Merchants State Bank, Carson City, Michigan. 882 Safes Opened—-W. L. Slocum, safe ex- pert and tocksmith. 128 Ann St., N. E., Grand Rapids, Michigan. 104 Cash Buyers of clothing, shves, 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 Cash Registers—We offer exceptional 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 We can sell your business for cash, no matter where located; no publicity. Describe fully in first letter. Ali corre- spondence confidential. Herbert, Webster Bldg., Chicago, Illinois, 872 HELP WANTED. Wanted—Clerk for general store work; from 4 to 6 years’ experience or more. If within draft age must be classified in class 3 or 4 or later. Position steady. Salary $100.00 per month. Give refer- ences. C. E,. Murray, Midland, South Dakota. 890 Wanted—Rug and carpet salesman. Excellent opportunity for advancement. Paul Steketee & Sons, Grand Rapids, Michigan. 293 POSITION WANTED. Wanted—Position as traveling sales- man after Sept. 10. Tobacco line pre- ferred, but other lines considered. Not in draft age. Best references. Address No. 895, care Michigan Tradesman. 895 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 Michigan Tradesman. 762 SEE NEXT PAGE. Advertisements received too late to run on this page appear on the following page, Labor Saving Devices Low Cost Feeds Low Cost Operation of Plants Will be some of the things the United States Govern- ment Officials are going to exhibit and demonstrate at the National Dairy Show Columbus, Ohio October 10th to 19th The show should be a pa- triotic rally of all dairy peo- ple of America this year. SG RARER LN a AE Te MIS: Sa RRR a ase ig prego wiser 4. tetigas iT aacillp pales some pig henna Say aaron acres ane rarrabeatich MICHIGAN TRADESMAN August 28, 1918 Japan’s Dependence On Rice. Those who have been surprised that a people so orderly as the Japanese should come to riot over the rice supply should remember that there is no food in America ex- actly analogous in national demand to the rice of the Japanese. We speak of wheat bread as our staff of life, but we do not lean on it as the Japanese lean on rice. When our white flour was shut off we turned with ease to other grains, for we make meats and vegetables the most important part of our diet. This the Jaapnese have not done. They have not even tried to make wheat, the grain of the world at large, share the burden of their sacred rice. A Japanese workingman will eat in a year five and one-third bushels of rice and a little less than a bushel of barley; 200 pounds of radishes, 120 pounds of potatoes, 50 pounds of fish, a dozen or two of eggs, 30 pounds of fruit and only 3 pounds of meat. Meat and bread, the mainstays of the Occidental, are practically strangers to the Japanese. It is a common mistake to sup- pose that the Japanese eats rice be- cause it is all he can get in the way of grain. He eats it because he likes it, just as the American eats wheat bread. In Japan it is a sign of pov- erty to eat grains other than rice. In the prosperous cities rice is eaten “straight”; in the rural districts large quantities of barley are mixed with the rice. Our American rice is not good enough for the Japanese of moder- ate means. It shares with the rices of India and China the name of “for- eign rice,’ a term implying poor quality. Foreign rice sells in Japan at a price lower than the native rice, and only the poor will eat it. What is considered good rice in Japan is that which is grown in the main and the southern islands. The product of the fields in Formosa and Corea will not do for the well to do persons. Americans are likely to think of the rice of the Orient, as a cheap product. The cost of its production, says Dr. Kokichi Morimoto, asso- ciate professor of economics in Tohuku Imperial University, is great- er than that of wheat, for the reason that large scale machine cultivation, such as is common in wheat coun- tries, cannot be applied to the wet rice fields. Rice culture is a matter of human labor, and that means high price. Another point made by Dr. Mori- moto, who has been advising his countrymen to use wheat as well as rice when the world’s wheat supply will permit of it, is that the cost of preparing rice for the table is high. A bread diet can be prepared more cheaply than a rice diet. The prep- aration of the latter requires more time and labor than the former. In the ordinary household a_ maid- servant, whose chief duty is to make boiled rice at least once or twice a day, must be hired. called in Japanese the meshifaki- onna, meaning “girl to cook boiled rice.” The American housewife sends to She is rightly ~ the bakery for loaves, but the Japa- nese madam must do her own cook- ing or hire it done. Co-operative rice kitchens have been tried in Japa- nese cities, but they were a failure. The rice was not kept warm enough to suit the customers. —_—».-o oo What has become of the financial and industrial aid which the United States was to extend to Russia? This was an essential part of the President’s original plan. In- deed it appeared to be the main part. The military expedition was to be subordinate, merely furnishing a kind of police force to accompany the commission of philanthropists and experts in industry and transporta- tion and farming who were to bear our large offers of assistance. It was understood that many names_ had already been canvassed, and that the commission or commissions would soon be appointed. But nothing has been done, and now the Sun’s Wash- ington correspondent states that the project has been indefinitely post- poned.” This appears to be limited to the so-called ‘civic commission,” it being added that the President is still determined to send business men and authorities on agriculture and railroading, etc. Even so the delay has been unfortunate, Those famil- iar with conditions in Russia and most sympathetic for her people have felt that an American delegation bearing help would be full of promise. The President seemed to think so when he announced his Russian pol- icy. But the wheels of that chariot have driven heavily. We can but hope that something will be done speedily, both for the sake of carry- ing out the published plan, and with the object of giving relief to a peo- ple in dire need of it. —_--+2———_ Mr. Hoover announces in London that when arrangements already made between the Allied food controllers are fully carried into effect, there will be a universal war bread of bet- ter quality than last year for all those fighting Germany, and this practical- ly without rationing. The method by which this result is to be achieved has been pretty fully revealed. There is to be a standardized flour for America and the Allies; it will be a scientific mixture of wheat flour with the common substitutes, as cornmeal, potato flour and rice flour, and it will be practically the only flour availa- ble. The mixing will be done at the mill, not in the kitchens, thus ending the present plan of requiring house- wives to buy a certain amount of substitutes with each sack of wheat flour. In this way the estimates of the food controllers in building up a reserve of wheat—Mr. Hoover de- clares that we must carry over a stock of foodstuffs next year that will form positive .insurance against. any climatic eventualities—will be made more positive, and both merchants and housekeepers will be saved much inconvenience. That next winter New York, London, Paris, Lisbon, Rome will all be eating the same bread will be striking evidence of Allied unity in food consumption. Mr. Hoover Again. Honored. As a national acknowledgment of service rendered, United States Food Commissioner Herbert C. Hoover has been named an Honorary Citizen of Belgium and Friend of the Bel- gian Nation. While a guest of the King and Queen, King Albert pre- sented his photograph “To Mr. Hoov- er. With my feelings of deep grati- tude for the eminent services ren- dered to the Belgian people,” and signed it “Albert.” Mr. Hoover first solved the prob- lem of feeding starving Belgium in 1914, and later extending his work, nourished the destitute of the Ger- man-occupied part of France, where, because of malnutrition, the death rate was staggering. His greater responsibility as chief of the Com- mission for Relief in Belgium and Northern France and as ration pro- vider for all the Allies has not em- barrassed him. He tells us that the danger of famine for any of the Allies is now behind us. Although Mr. Hoover is optimistic about the har- vests in France, England, and Italy, he emphasizes the fact that we must not and dare not relax our efforts to save enough to help our Allies. By reflection and because of the homage paid “to the part taken by the United States” in Brussels in those fateful days of 1914, Americans may well be proud of the latest hon- or accorded to Mr. Hoover. They welcome back to our shores the man who can say, “We have to make good!” ———>-+->—___ Late in the fall of 1917 there ap- peared a series of articles in the daily papers of this country, predicting a revolutionary upheaval in Germany, with the implication thata maximum war effort on the part of the United States was not essential. Deputy At- torney-General Becker’s account of the origin of these articles, inspiréd directly from German official sources, bears strongly on much that is now being cabled from the front concern- ing the decline in German morale. When the German chief censor caused to be sent abroad stories of threatening revolution, it is obvious that at Berlin the deception of the Allies outweighed any risk at home arising from such uneasy rumors, In other words, the German govern- ment has never had any fear of the morale of its own people, in the sense of the German people getting out of hand. The Germans might be confident or despondent, but the ancient discipline would hold under all circumstances. For the German government this subtle kind of prop- aganda abroad was not the double- edged weapon which it presumably would be. This confidence in the completeness of German discipline shows in the license Maximilian Har- den enjoys. And it is reinforced by the record of recent military events. The morale of the German soldiers is not perceptibly broken. The rear- guard battles which Ludendorff is now delivering show no signs of panic. If anything, the traditional German discipline is now being re- inforced by the element of fear. SD ia acne leo A Clemenceau may be right in assert- ing that victory is now assured. But there is some very bitter fighting ahead of us. There is no use in look- ing for German collapse in the Bolshevik manner. ——_-_+ > —___- Some of the detailed testimony taken in the Senate’s aeroplane enquiry is sor- rowful reading. The very devil of mis- understanding and cross-purposes seem- ed to have got into our manufacture of aircraft. Orders given only to be coun- termanded, then issued again to be re- called once more later; specifications made, changed, cancelled, reissued, al- tered, tinkered with; contradictory ca- blegrams from the army in France; fatuous efforts to make the right motor fit the wrong plane—in this general and seemingly inextricable confusion lies the chief explanation of the exasperating de- lays and the substantial failure of the whole original air programme. Gen, Kenly gave it explicitly as the main trou- ble. Whether there was anything crim- inal in the hugger-mugger, we shall not know until Mr. Hughes makes his report ; but as the record stands it is painful enough. That it relates largely to the past and that things are marching much better now, itisa comfort to be assured. But past experience makes one shiver a little at the announced plan of assuring Gen. Pershing that he may count upon having 11,000 aeroplanes by next July. Might it not be better to be less definite and generous in promises, but more ef- ficient in producing the actual machines? e+ “Only wholesome pictures are to be produced,” says the Priorities Commit- tee in ruling that “movies” are an essen- tial industry. Is this an underhanded attempt to control the freedom of thought and the revolutionary influence that have been wont to frequent the “movie” palace? One of our greatest didactic institutions, one which has done more to foster progressive ideas, push our intelligent citizenry toward revolt against social injustice, introduce the new morality, upset staid family life, and bob the hair of our young women. has been the film drama, the Wild West picture, the animated representations of conditions on the Chapin front. The Priorities Committee may imagine that by the word “wholesome’ it will be able to censor the motion-picture industry. But in this it will be deceiving itself. The film will continue to exercise its great stimulative influence, will contin- ue, as usual, to make the masses think. --_—_.- 2 Eight hundred , Arizona ostriches > will have reason to hide their heads in the sand, but to no avail. The Food Administration has granted per- mission to J. E. Cogdell, manager of one of the largest ostrich farms in America, situated near Phoenix, to slay all of his birds. They are in excellent condition for eating, he re- ports heartlessly. They will be dress- ed and placed on the market at fifteei cents a pound, and represent 25,000 pounds of dressed meat. The os- triches were imported from Africa several years ago, but, although poul- try is scarce enough, who buys os- trich plumes now? There is material for the student of esthetics here. ! on 1! 00 OS- ica ul- OS- ‘ial PTT omg Mr. Retail Grocer: . 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