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The Huron Expositor, 1929-08-30, Page 3L a'44%7 %Ti*,(ai3 lt?Q' qv ov, lnpnlri flag iatiyol &a eg gradated;rsA i1aa� vaeant, alli- FP 0 Q>yli, enuemfe idea Ailsa it; costing the e tlo deettatges thenit hail lieern Ovienetateeid r, MAO A high greeeiree asleettPale With =Plea" bl<e aolp al a, oa' 404 r teat lenge ea long on their slielwep t&a- t, tiNIFO c�as aro' pr Mt ih Skirts, wy (5401 toady they Were got >i'il lilt vv.a learcn- ed that ohne smmall grocer w hese aver- age versge daily stales ware 1 I which by the sway hi the average of 27 per cent, of the groe a's It the United State*, ¢9st thy• wWholesallers, whose representativez waited upon hinge, just $7.50 a day, meals:big allcreinuea ger their time and transport0ti®un. This was a striking example of too much selling or rather too esapensive ef- forts to secure a market that eould not be profitable. Another corner grocer had made it a habit of buying each week two cases of canned corn at $1.40 a case. One day a high pressure salesman had descended on him and sold him 30 cases, a stock sufficient to carry him for four months, and that without any special inducement as to price or terms. In addition, in order to remain on good terms with the other wholesalers this grocer had continued to buy his regu- lar two cases. Another store was found to be a veritable museum containing not few- er than 2,000 items, including such articles as "white tuna fish," a crea- ture that has not been caught for three years. There were other brands that had been discontinued for years, obsolete confections, specimens of long extinct soap and notions and small drygoods. This man waa also an obvious victim of salesmanship. In a wholesale grocery analysis one dealer was found to carry 2,100 items on his inventory, whereas his chain store competitors had only 700 items. They were securing 20 stock turns a year while the wholesaler had but seven. Another dealer cut down his items from 12,000 to 6,500, confined his sales territory to two-thirds its previous extent, eliminated halt his accounts and thus made a 33 per cent. increase in profits. One of the most successful grocery establishments in Louisville has an- nual sales exceeding $130,000 with only $3,040 inventory. Very few chain units make such a good showing with regard to stock turn. This business is conducted by a high-class business man who knows every detail of his business, and when his own fuini'y draws upon the stock of the estab- lishment a record and a charge is made. He allows for his own salary, makes allowance for depreciation of fixtures, interest charge on building which he owns and deterioration of slow-moving stock. The result of the survey shows that there is a definite place in the social economy for ',he corner grocery which need not be driven out of business by the chain store. It has its own special func- tions and if condueted on proper busi- ness lines should show a decent pro- fit. But the grocer must do more than wcrk. He must use his head, discover what is making him a pro- fit" and discontifeue items or services that do not contribute to his gains. Bit Blit 20 sett WNW �' II bare tame lir.rusehaza $alto for 2 rein', amd maims my photo at 20, to ash your °elflike of reze vee 8 eons 29, have 19 - alz mewled ane e' 4d and 20 moat e. r put down my youthful ogstaarezeo to !amebae Saito taisen each tatiming. II obould never Valais of starting the clay without talsine them. "1! am Sat. Esta. la height weight 119 pounds:. II can armee you any henbane to veryi roud Ian. A. '. Outimoi fettles ca filo nor tenDcatIca. nm yraoevaa vow youthful charm 'ou 91Mo2 tweuebae your healers. Charas and beauty ere tr..'ataaip a matter of health, ao are viadity and e0joae%- All will bo yours 'f you pin your faith in fibs " little daily disnaeful.' Start to -morrow, and ow win feel gem younger before you are many? ileac off. ltrusehen Salts is obtainable at drug mad department stores hr Canada at 75c. a bottle: A bottle contains enough to int aor 4 or 6 momt „°Cod kealt+le foe lnla-a-naut a dew CORNER GROCERY STORE NEED NOT PIERIISH When it was discovered some time ago that in the city of Louisville, Ky.. 30 grocers went out of business ev- ery month and 32 started up in the grocery business, the repercussions were akin to those that 'followed Watt's observation of the. tea kettle and Newton's reflections upon the falling apple. That is to say, it set certain people thinking and presently certain people acting, with the result that the merchants of Louisville to- day have probably a better idea of ]business than the merchants of any other large city on the continent. It raised in menacing form the question "Why do stores fail?" and it also 'took a considerable step in providing the answer and suggesting the cure. The story is set forth in the New York Herald Tribune magazine by Dr. Julius Klein, assistant secretary of commerce of the United States, but we regret that Dr. Klein fails to state whether it is true to -day that every month 30 grocers go out of business in the city of Louisville and 32 start up in business. It may be so, for hope has a habit of triumph- ing over statistics, for the time being at any rate. When the original discovery was made and duly cogitated a number of the most progressive merchants in the city asked the department of com- merce in Washington to make a sur- vey of the situation and learn why so many grocers failed. So the de • apartment sent its experts and they were 'warmly received by the grocers who did most of the work. As Dr. Mein says, "It was no uncommon thing to find wealthy merchants work- ing until midnight in their shirt sleeves down in some dingy corner grocery tabulating the affairs of the establishment and going over its op- erations (or rather the lack of them) with its bewildered but grateful own- er." We may say at this point that what was discovered about the Louis- ville grocers -has formed the basis of similar investigations of other busi- riesses in other cities and probably, speaking generally, may be consider- ed applicable to retail business in both the United States and Canada. The chief thing found out was that maost of the small' merchants did not I Ogg r 0 Gp To gain thirty pounds in three months, and win back (health and strength was the happy experience of Mrs. Mar- garet Brethour of Corn- wall, Ont., who gives all the credit for it to Dr. iliums Pink Pills. "After the birth of my baby, II war in the hospital ffour months," Che wrote, "and came hone weighing only oirrty-five pounds. I began taking Dr. Williand Pink Pile and it wasn't long until II weighed ninety-five pounds and my general health woo of the bests (Every Spring °ince then r take the pillo no a tonic, and woudaln't be without them, no natter; what they coot; 1 otrongly recommend them to all mothero." riuy Dr. Williann' IPinim Mc to now at your drnggiwt'o or any dealet in medicine or by mail, 50 cents, posttDaia$, from The Dr. WillHHllamm° PJdediciree Co., Brockville, psi ®nate • .y; ti 0,90 50 . OtER LASS Vie'" im1PEPAEA re t "a sabeitenieeta teers0 t� G� reelSer sutras oases 4 t11i OW tfi rye tae lJ sugar ,a o> gs. Tl he feeraSel ua �)t�ua11. ; a 8,050k r ee era Who y annual fee t$1.22 r hila the latter claim maims, bassbip 0,0,000 with primal doles of $fi0. It teed scarcely he said that the average Chinaman sees no big immoral he dealings ba alcoholic lig- tore or opi era. In gambling they rsee only a natural and innocent diversion which has been amide .:, erime by the laws of the white man which ehey had no part in, framing. Their views about slave nixie are also extremely liberal. One of the tons' most not- clble fights was precipitated by one of these girls, the beautiful Bo bum. She was owned by a ' 'p Sing but tired of him and fled to New York and took up domicile with a member of the On Leongs. She was pursued and in the ensuing battle both of her masters mnet death. This was in 1910 and the fighting continued epor, adically until 1913 when another last- ing peace was signed. In one of these ttles two white bystanders were killed as a result of which three Chinamen were executed. It should be noted that Chinamen are rarely if ever executed for the murder of other Chinese. Generally, the New York fighting broke out because of gambling quar- rels. Tom Lee, chief of the On Leongs controlled the Chinese gambling priv- ileges in the city and fas proprietor of most of the. opium dens. He was called the "Mayor of Chinatown." and though he was surrounded by an armed bodyguard he went in mortal error of the Hip Sings. Time and again his life was attempted, but be- cause of the notoriously bad marks- manship of Chinese tongsters, be escaped). His leadership was chal- lenger by Mock Duck, a picturesque character who joined the Hip Sings and made war on Tom. This was in 1900, and for months there was not a week which did not see the slaugh- ter of some Chinamen, usually the victims of the hatchetmen, the hat- chet being a favorite weapon of the tong warriors. Mock Duck helped gradually reduce Lee's power by ir- forming the police, who closed down one den after another. In the course of his crusading Mock Duck received a bullet wound in the stomach, but survived. He is supposed to be nsw in Chicago. Tom Lee died peacefully in his bed in 1910. From October, 1924, to March 26, 1925, a tong war raged wherever in the United States members of the rival gangs came into contact. In the course of the fighting more than 60 Chinamen were killed and many more wounded in New York and the authorities seemed powerless to end the strife. It was then that the aid of the federal government was sought and several hundred Chinese were de- ported. This quelled the rest of them who had no liking for the idea of re- turning to China to live for the rest of their days on rice and bird's nest soup. As before noted it is the threat of deportation that ends tong wars and not the fear which the rival ose ganizations have of each other. It is interesting to note that while the cause of the various outbreaks are almost always obscure the police are generally given warning when fight- ing is about to break out. With their innate love for ceremonial the rival tongs never fail to remove from their headquarters the peace flags which fly as long as the gangs are on good terms with each other. Roaches live in colonies. If you see one you know there are many. Roach- es are loathsome vermin. Prolific breeders. There- are medical authori- ties who declare seventeen different diseases are transmitted by roaches. Roaches must be killed. Spray FLY - TOR into cracks, crevices, around water pipes, faucets and other plumb- ing. Simple instructions on each bottle (blue label) for killing roaches and ALL . household insects. INSIST on FLY-TOK-. It is the scientific insec- ticide developed at Mellon Institute of Industrial Research by Rex Re- search Fellowship. FLY-TOX is safe, stainless, and has a perfume -like fra- grance. Easy to use.—Adv. TONG WARS FLARE AND END SUDDENLY Once more the rival Chinese tongs in the United 'States have signed a lasting peace, in succession to the other lasting peace which was signed in 1927. Lasting peace between these gangs is something like farewell con- cert tours of a popular prima donna. It is impossible that it should be otherwise. It is not for man to know permanence. There is a quarrel be- tween two Chinamen and one of them kills the other. The rumor spreads that the Chinaman was killed because he was a member of a cer- tain tong and the murderer the mem- ber of another. In any event, the slain man is likely to have friends and kinsmen, and they feel it a d•ity to avenge him, knowing that in Chinese killings the police are not likely to be very enthusiastic or effective. So the shooting breaks out wherever there are tongs or friends of the par- ties involved in the original quarrel. It continues as a rule until the po- lice heavily guard .the districts where the Chinese congregate and the fed• eral attorneys announce that if there is any more shooting there will be deportations. It is this threat that has ended all recent tong battles. Tongs have been fighting each other in the United States for 60 years or more. We understand that like chop suey the tong is unknown in China: It is an invention of Chinese in a foreign pountry. They say that the tong is really a fraternal society like the Masons or a social organization like the Rotary club. Its main pur- pose is to assist its members and defend and advance the interests common to all Chinese earning a liv- ing far from home. Its critics say that the tongs are merely criminal gangs. They organize to protect members engaged in bootlegging, the smuggling of opium and aliens and dealings in slave girls. The reason that tongs are brought into a riv- alry that produces bloodshed is pre- cisely the salmi reason that White racketeers tight over nggelle beer and other spoils of the underworld. But the causes of conflict remain obscure. The Chinese refuse to take the Jat iesa- sian into their confidence. They pre - .ih SAVE THE CHILDREN n Summer When Childhood Ail- ments Are Most Dangerous. ijQta sin t N74L3\ fro tar 44' t eEl° raorRg 4Call .for a arol teat to slot lino an +4ghborbapod will rem eViia a4 ' irsa, ma hos in haurJlbs , wonnan urn' )titled to local Zvan the civ - Walla tendency o grovel shroud fails to deter some o • 144%3e American cb lit ions aid a Taw Yerl err, T�Dr, 'Rshsrt. IE., bore, l .,about to shirt frailest Paris. for Berlin' driving a ginlf 'brill before `pian Tl distance lei ,i�a74 miles and the docti►ri calculates that he will egranire abed 7,000 strokes to ,complete it. Ifs fever his score is we do not doubt that nest year somebody else will snit out to beat it. Another New York citizen named Albert Baker retails his title as champion coffee drinker, he haviaig been able to swallow 250 cups in four hours. He survives, and in this re- spect has a slight edge on anotner gastronomical monstrosity, Sallie Rope, of Kansas City. 'Sallie had heard of some strange assortment re- moved from the stomachs of goats and ostriches and having been told that man was the chief of animals, determined to prove it in her own person. So she set out to consume a considerable part of the stock of a hardware store and the autopsy re- vealed the fact that she had stowed away 1,551 items, including 453 nails, 42 screws, nine bolts, five spoons, a nail file, five thimbles, 63 buttons, 115 hairpins, 136 common pins, 52 carpet tacks, 57 needles, 85 pebbles and a four -foot string of beads. Looking over the menu we find ourselves at a loss to say what; particularly dis- agreed with her or caused her death. The soup -sipping title remains un- challenged this year, for the record was set in 1927 by a citizen of Red Wing, Minn., who got away with three and a half quarts before showing any signs of repletion. A still older re- cord is that of consuming hot dogs. It was set by a man named John Hin- sin, who ate 53. His nearest compe- titor recoiled in horror when offered his 419th. In the New York erald Tribune it is recorded that in 1814 two Eng- lishmen set out to determine whether a man could drink a greater quantity of wine than water. The wine drinker won, though he did not know it until a couple of days later, while the wa- ter drinker was with difficulty rescu- ed by a passing coast guard. Si far as the records show the best single performance of a trencherman was given by a man named Dalton in New Orleans. He put away 12 dozen eggs, eight oysters, three and a half quarts of wine, one box of crackers, two slices of jelly cake, one bottle of sauce, three bananas, four onions ani six green peppers. He promised to exceed this record the following day. but for private reasons did not do so. To eat 51 flapjacks at a sitting was the feat of a man named .Car- ter, in South Dakota. But the very next day it was surpassed by a man named Meyers who, though he ate only 43, was adjudged winner because his flapjacks had two inches more diameter. A companion picture is that provided by Dan Henderson of Jonesboro, Ga., who chewed a qaid of tobacco for 69 hours. Unfortunately the number of expectorations are not given so the record is incomplete. Two men in St. Paul staged a stav- ing awake contest. The loser hung cn for 72 hours. In Grinnell, Iowa, there is an annual husband -calling contest, suggested by the earlier hog -calling competitions. Last year there were eleven competitors who yelled, yodel- ed, shrieked and 'barked. The winner emerged in a lady who cupped her hands and thrilled in a refined man- ner. Jim Brown of Kansas City, laid 36,000 paving blocks in a day, which is 11,000 more than a freight car holds. The beer drinking cham- pionship is held in England by T. M. Jones, of London, who imbibed sixty- seven steins for breakfast. But we are obliged to admit that practically all the freak championships are held in the United States. One of the most curious of them, which is being added to weekly, is that of Louise Moody, of Goshen, New York, who has been a church member for thirty- five years and has never been at a church service. ani tents of Unld Mothers who keep a box of Baby's Own Tablets in the house may feel that the lives of their little ones are reasonably safe during the hot wea- ther. Stomach troubles, cholera in- fantum and diarrhoea carry off thou- sands, of little ones every summer, in most cases because the mother does not have a safe medicine at hand to give promptly. Baby's Own Tablets relieve these troubles, or if given oc- casionally to the well child they will prevent their coming on. The Tab- lets are guaranteed to be absolutely harmless even to the new-born babe.. They are especially good in summer because they regulate the bowels and keep the stomach sweet and pure. They are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brock- ville, Ont. SOME STRANGE RECORDS: BELIEVE IT OR NOT Perhaps it is because insanity shows itself more frequently in sin -- mer than in winter or it may be that newspapers are able to give more space to the trivial so long as it i3 eccentric. In any event freakish peo- ple get more attention this time of the year than any other. For ex- ample, in Baltimore there is an epi- demic of flagpole sitting among chil- dren. One juvenile half-wit, with the approval and co-operation of his parents, has sat on top of a platform a considerable distance above the ground for more than a week. In the course of this time he was visited by the mayor, who praised him fez- his elhis fortitude and the fine spirit of American pioneering that he was found to have displayed. When he descended from his perch he was hail- ed generally as a hero, and several excitable ladies kissed him. Other children, fired by his example, have announced their determination of go- ing after his record and no doubt as we. write these words his supremacy is being challenged. Butcompared with some of the freakish performances of recent weeks the flag pole sitters appear to be almost important searchers after truth and useful members of the com- munity. There is, for example, the Texas plasterer who consumed a month in the exciting business of pushing a peanut with his nose along a 22 -mile route leading to the summit of Pike's Peak. Last year he push- ed a peanut along 11 mites of maca- dam near his home. Ire wore knee MAKING DETECTIVES BY CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL There are agencies which for $15 promise to teach the art of the de- tective. It is a profession that has its lures for romantic youth for, since the decay of the fiction in which the Indian hunter or the cowboy was the hero, the favorite idol of youth has been the mysterious detective. The vogue of the Sherlock Holmes stories had much to do with the popularity of the profession, but before Sherlock there were the dime and half dime novels describing the adventures of Old Sleuth, Old Cap Collier, Nick Carter and dozens of others. J. 5 Fletcher, Agatha Christie, S. S. Van Dine and Edgar Wallace have all con- tributed to the spell which they pri- vate investigator casts over boys and young men. We are bound to say that in real life we have heard of few private detectives who would he rec- ognized among the i;alaxy of heroes that the authors have created. Private detectives, as Babe Ruth recently re- vealed as regards baseball players, are just human beings. Some of them we fear are fakers, and others not far removed from sheer swindlers. Some of them in time run foul of the law for it is vio- lating no confidence to say that pri- vate detectives as a rule are not r'- garded with any enthusiasm by tle, official detectives whose satisfaction when they lay one of the irregulars by the heels is hut imperfectly con- cealed. Nevertheless private inquiry agents as they prefer to call them- selves, are necessary in modern so- ciety. There is a vast deal of epion- age necessary which official pollee have no authority to engage in. There is the collection of evidence which is necessary if facts jutiitifying a divorce ane 'to be established: This evidence cannot for obvious reasons ibe Collect- ed by the person about to sue for divorce and the business is likely to F1) t_J CODOR l:{ eauty --Rich f a>.bnic --3L IMU111101 Trimmingsg I�e— Stunning Ap „ ayranee=toes i the joys of havingga coat from OW advance displl:: y. Rich I:,flachs, Delightful (.,Rues, Warm Reds, Autm- Dal Browns and &:rinds, Arra ctive Greens. i1:xquisflte indeed are the gorgeous shadings offered in these pop- ular colors. Fabrics with :t loveliness that will appeal to partic- ular women. Vo➢Cups, Chinchillflss, Whitneys, Irroad- cloths are all strongly represented. FUR TIIII YII E][NGS— Iarndlelfl, Thibetine, Oppos- um, Sable, French Deaver, harmonize attractively with each coat. And the most attractive feature of all is the reason- able easonable prices. $1.5o00 to S55000 o f Advcc kcwng off tJll ew 1111 . Ir ET5 EMILL S that even y man 2ozAd me OUT Nc W-Fdf Sta- The cloths ans on oeadoarna. k wezain i and oha.pe arc taIlth g quaIli- tiie6o The pa -Items sine NeW FE Colloa imge are frau y End d law t©m will h©w yam m. °tock ao Egv and we:: zsootr ed. ALL the beat makes zrc°e Teprresemaed Macre° SP -QC k CE $15,10 to $3o o tewut BICD3o, Sed frff he distasteful to friends, however warm their sympathies. In such cas- es the services of a private detective are plainly indicated. There is also necessary a good deal of supervision of men under bond, and there is the gathering of facts which often leads to business or political scandals, which if it is not to be garnered by newspaper reporters naturally de- mands the services of the private de- tective. But we think that most of the victims of the quacks who pretend to give complete instruction in the art of detecting crime in sixteen lessons are callow persons who think that to be) a private detective gives them some special authority, and who de- light in the sense of secret authority they feel when they are pursuing their prey. One of the schools that makes detectives by a correspondence course was recently closed by the New York police. Its head was not a de- tective nor a former detective. There was no expert advice given, but mere- ly the commonplaces that anyone night utter if asked to give his opin- ion as to the qualifications necessary in a detective. This correspondence school after receiving the fee from the applicant would forward him a list of questions which he was suppos- ed to answer. Then he would send hack his answers, and would present- ly receive information as to the num- ber of points he had scored, which would tell him how fast he was ad- vancing as a Hawkshaw. Tice kind of student enrolled by this school might be inferred by some of the vol- untary testimonials it displayed. One read "I think your lessons are just grand, and I am positive I can be- come a first-class detective by con- sistent study." Another said "I have received my certificate to -day ani am certainly proud of it." Here are some of the hints given to would-be detectives:— "A detective should not wear loud clothes." "It would he well for the detective to provide himself with a cap or soft hat and have it in his pocket ready for a change while on the job. The change should be made while no one is looking." "If the subject (being shadowed) hires a taxi, hire another as quickly as possible." "When on secret work always keep cards indicating various occupations, such as insurance agent, salesman, etc., in your pocket, in case you are asked shout your business." "The detective should carry a small pocket camera at all times." "Neglect no details. A single hair may furnish a clue in unraveling a great mystery." "The secret investigator never lets anyone know what he is doing." "The trained detective should be able to recognize a liar at once. A liar hesitates in his speech and tees not look you straight in the eye." "Persons who resemble one ascot ar are usually alike in character." "A low forehead, square head as bull neck indicate a brutal and sav- age person. A high, wide forehead in- dicates intellect" "A blond person is changealble, fund of variety, and is inclined to be lis wanderer and a fighter. A brunette io usually serious, steady, responsible, industrious, etc." "Signs of degeneracy are a IoW brow, big ears, `ratty' eyes and >a soft voice." "A wild expression often indicates insanity." Reputable private detective agen- cies report that they never accept re- cruits who have graduated from the: detective correspondence school on the ground that they are probably weak-minded. They say that they em- ploy applicants on the same basis AD any other business house for speciaf aptitude, intelligence and character- One would suppose that qualifieatioss as to character especially necessary' since naturally opportunities gore blackmail are presented and frequent chances to sell out the employer tos the person being investigated. Ono general rule among private detective agencies, hinted at be the advice istaa saint wearing .loud clothes, it neba> r to employ big men or men wire might, look like policemen or regular datst Lives. The man of medium sine rio nondescript appearance, Itro 'di has the keenest intelligenrce, TA,t,thi est standards of probity and r energy, is calculated to Matte'thne to private dctive. i'