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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-14

skin. The same thing is true, OF course. OF
other oils which in their natural state may
have valuable qualities Of their own
This leads to the subject Of the so-called
medicinal soaps. In a broad sense all pure
soap has medicinal effect, in that it is cleans
ing and prophylactc. For good health we owe
as ,arge debt to soap as to all the drugs in
the medical pharmacopGia. But the sospmaker
who claims for his product special medicinal
effects when used in the ordinary way trades
upon the thoughtlessness or ignorance OF the
public.
If you doubt this statement consider for
moment the fundamental property Of soap. 1t
is. first and foremost a cleanser; it removes
dirt; its Use leaves the skin clean, free from
matter that does not belong there. But, nat
urally, soap does not discriminate between
what harms the skin and what benefits it. II
a soothing oil or a healing drug is contained
in the soap itself it is rinsed off with the
lather that loosens whatever matter out of
place" it encounters in the fulhlment Of its pri-
mary duty-cleansing.
In justice to the manufacturers | should say
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right here that most of them have abandoned
the sweeping claims that made when
medicinal soaps were first put on the market.
Soothing" has taken the place of healing"
and we are cautioned that to get the real bene-
fit of these soaps it is necessary to let the
lathcr dry on the skin and remain some time
before it is washed off. / am speaking how
ever, only OF soaps used in the ordinary way,
as agents for the removal of dirt.
But here is fact that should no, be
looked: Regardless of whether or not the So
called medicinal soaps will accomplish all their
proprietors affirm, they without doubt en-
courage the soap and water habit, which is
one of the most distinctive marks of our mod
ern civilization Soap is such common house
house necessary that few realize how enor-
mously its use has increased even in the last
decade. This increase is due mainly to
change in our ideals about bathing; but has it
ever occurred to you that the great impulse
behind the growth OF these new ideals comes
from the soapmakcr himself? His motives
may be quite unaltrustc; he is thinking more
of larger sales and big profits than of benefits
to the human race; but even so we arc all of
us his debtors
We Americans are the greatest consumers
of soap in the world And when / say this
do not forget the Dutch and their national GUS
tom-fully attested by every traveller from the
Netherlands-of scrubbng their sidewalks and
paving stones. Nor the English and their tubs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-14
BY kINGSLAND CROSBY.
AVOID NttTCuET and o.ber =

AYOR Mitchell and other city guardians,
M who at present actively seeking some
~ means whereby to prevent the price OF
bread from floating higher and higher until 1t IS
lost in the azure of impapable space, may find
crumb of comfort in the fact that the existing
situation is no new thing In truth, something
e the same cutlery the supply and the cost
Of bread occurred right here on Manhattan Island
more than two hundred and fifty years ago, when
the population consisted of about one thousand
whites and six or seven hundred Indians and
negroes slaves, bondmen and free.
When this earlier shortage of bread was Gre
ating turmoil and apprehension among the sup
posedly placid Dutch ancestors of modern New
Workers the mighty palisade built along the
northern side Of Wall Street was barely year
old Life was complicated then as now; but IN
stead CT being complicated with such matters as
woman suffrage. tangoitis, prohibition ana war
fare between the movie palaces and the "legit
rs still performed in a few theatres II was cora
rlicatod bv such things as imminent danger from
Wildcats or even bears TO him who ventured INTO
tbc wilderness Of what is now Central Park; by
speculation as TO when the Indians would make
another raid New Amsterdam, and as to no"
many rocking scaps they would garner.
Such was the atmosphere hereabouts when IN
1915 an inquiry was ordered as to the supply OF
broad. about which the Dutch seem TO have been
,,orv particular. After lengthy and careful con-
sideration the City Fathers Of +hat day finally
odopted a special resolution, and enacted II INTO
law. under authority of the Director General ana
h. Councillors of New Netherlands. BE II
known" proclaimed these worthless. that by daily
and painful experience they have learned Una.
tho orders and procamations repeatedly lssued
and repeatedly revived" have had little or no
oeyect es to maintaining the quality of bread OF
Of regulating the price of loayes, or their SIZE
ord weight But the Director General ana MS
Councillors were not dismayed at this disregard
Of previous orders. They grappled heroically with
the situation.
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annual sales average $4,000, 900, showed an out
lay of 100000
Yet there is almost no call for unwrapped
Laundry soap outside of the large consumers,
such as hotels and railroads and steamship
lines.
So much for laundry soap A study Of the
relative qualities of the multitudnous brands
of toilet soap presents more complications, but
any one who understands the fundamentals of
soap making will indorse this conclusion: The
principal differences among score or more
toilet soaps now on the market are differences
only Of appearance, of shape and size and
color, and of smell. There is as great di-
versity of opinion about toilet soap as about
pea porridge Some like it round, some like it
cubical. some oblong some oval; some like it
odorless, some delicately perfumed and some
so heavily scented that its presence is appar-
ent anywhere in the house. Some cling to
soap because of its attractive hue; others in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-14
WHEN THE BEAUTY IDEA FIRST
SEIZED THE SOAPMAKER.

The soapmaker who first saw the value OF
making his product visbly attractive -four
ished nearly hundred years ago. This pio-
neer astonished the trade in 1890 by cutting
his soap into large rectangular cakes and
packing it in boxes with loose paper wrappers
so that the retailer could sell it wrapped or
unwrapped, as he preferred. Up to that time,
apparently, soap had been sold in only one
way. The manufacturer delivered it to the
shopkeeper in great slabs or bars which the
retailer sliced of to suit the demands of his
customers. just as an Amsterdam Avenue del
catessen dealer sells cheese The next inn
portant step was the invention OF machine
which pressed the soap while still soft and
warm into cakes bearing the makers name.
In few years nearly all toilet soaps were thus
prepared; but until generation ago, or even
more recently the laundry soap men chung to
the old-fashioned cut bar, which the house
keeper chopped into convenient pieces and set
on the shelf to harden.
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and expensive. The main sources of animal
fat-the previous generation called it soap
grease-ar, the abattors Of the great packing
companies. The vegetable oils most widely
used come from the cotton seed, the olive and
the palm.
DISAPPEARING DIFFERENCES BE-
TWEEN TWO KINDS OF FAT.
Right here, should Judge, is the place to
impale another popular fallacy. / am speak
ing now of toilet soaps. Some persons have
prejudice against soap made of animal fat, and
manufacturers have laid stress upon the fact
that their products contain only vegetable oils
The truth is that in the process of manufact-
u-e the oleagnous elements. whether their
sources be animal vegetable undergo
change which practically destroys all differ
ences Of origin. The basis Of some of the
finest toilet soaps in the druggists showcase
is lard. Others, equally good, are made of beef
fat or mutton tallow. But doubt if you ever
saw these facts mentioned in soap advertise
ments. So much for the force of a mistaken
prejudice. On the other hand, buy soap that
contains olive palm oil and you certain
to find this information conspicuously printed
on the wrapper
This prejudice is easy to account for. Olive
oil and palm oil have been used as ointments
for so long that our prehistoric ancestor who
first discovered their pleasing properties had
not acquired state of civilization that
abled him to leave any record of his discovery.
In soap, however, the well known emollient
properties OF these oils have little or no ef
feet, simply because they are washed off al
most as soon as they come in contact with the
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O MATTER WHAT THE SCENT OR HUE--SOAP is 50
Pay Five Cemtfo =
~ the Are <N$S4
the of Full of ( X

fierce competition owe their prosperity mainly
to ingenus selling methods which have kept
their wares continually before the public eye
They are the worlds greatest advertisers
Several of the leading soap corporations ex-
pend in advertising more than hall million
a year.
The fortunes Of the soapmaker lie IN the
hands of the individual consumer Soap is
bought in wholesale quantities by railroads
and steamship lines, by hotels and Office build
ngs and laundries and by employers of great
numbers of workers. but these are not the au
dence to which the soap manufacturer ad-
dresses his advertisements. Thew buy their
soap by grade and deal through statesmen d.
rectly with the factory.
THE ORDERS OF A SOAP SALESMAN
FOR ONE YEAR.
One soap salesman l know took orders last
year for nearly one thousand TONS at an aver
age price of $50 ton. Sixty dollars may seem
little to pay for whole ton Of soap, but the
kind this man sold was a low grade, used MAIN
ly for cleaning floors and walls. 1t was pow
dered and put up in barrels One of the larg
est office buildings in New York, famous sky
scraper that houses nearly seven thousand ten
ants, uses $500 worth Of this powdered soap
yearly. Its miles of tiled corridors must be
cleansed every night but Sunday.
This salesman l speak of works on a COM
mission, and his yearly income averages be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000. His sales, enormous
as they are, constitute only small fraction of
the business of the corporation he works for.
1t makes and sells $4,000, 900 worth of soap
year. This company pays its advertising man.
ager salary of $4,000, and its president,
who devotes most OF his time to the selling
end of the business, draws annual recon-
pcnsc of $4,000, in addition to his dividends
on a handsome block of stock My object in
comparing the earnings of these three men is
10 illustrate the relative Importance of their
Jobs The president pays little attention to
the actual manufacturing OF soap, but he is the
most valuable man in the organization, because
he furnishes most Of the ideas which attract
the individual customer. This corporation, enc
OF the three largest in TIE worla, could stop
advertising probably and retain three-quarters
Of its business for it is one Of the oldest houses
in the country, and its momentum would carry
it for a long time. But il is the 81, 100000 or
so derived from annual sales, due to skilful
advertising, that pays the dividends.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-14
MGARIES OF SOAP TRADE PUZZLE
EVEN THE INITIATED.

| In some Of the Southern states you can
;ny. all Monday morning without finding
more than one kind of soap in the family
vsshtubs. This brand is just as good as
md no better than-half dozen others that
lave as large a sale in other parts OF the coun-
ry Its popularity in the South IS not due 10
lpa manufacture or to any peculiar adapta-
tr to needs below the Mason and Dixon line
hi manufactured, in fact, in New Jersey, ana
il neighbo1hood where nine-tenths OF the
hous.wives use laundry soap that comes
ton factory on Long Island.
Tn. vagaries of the soap trade the manu-
acturers themselves sometimes ind hard 10
aplain Most of them agree, however, that
70 far as laundry soap is concerned the geo.
raphical divisions Of the business are due
aanly to efforts made by the leading manu-
acturers years ago when the trade was hrst
s.pt by the premium idea. The territory
| Ein.d in those early campaigns has under
g:ns little change except where few new
timers in the business have made local IN
nads by concentrated advertising.
The premium system costs the soap consum-
~ Of the United States probably S2,ooo,ooo
year and benefits nobody excepting the hrmS
tat manufacture the articles used as pre-
huns. Since practically all makers OF yellow
a'ndry soap give premiums and their offers
ne about equal in value, the possibilities OF
a' system as a trade getter are exhausted
Nest manufacturers would be glad to aban-
''n the custom, but dare not unless all could
'sF.. to take such a revolutionary step stimuli
ansously
HE PREMIUM SYSTEM OF THE VEL
LOW LAUNDRY SOAP.
This is how the premium system works out
Collars and cents: All yellow laundry soaps
W Tor about the same price. If Mrs. Jones
w Mrs. Robinson are thrifty and buy their
"0rte brands by the box they can get eighty
''unds for about So, provided they will take 1t
wrapped. If they insist upon having wrap
N's to exchange for premiums the same
mount Of money will buy only seventy
"uhds In return for the wrappers from
"shty-pound box they can obtain cheap
una tea set or a pressed glass pitcher or a
S4uioid manicure set, which they could buy
'e'aii for from IS to so cents and which
'S the soap manufacturer, buying in inn
- ''Se Quantities, about half that sum. For
- premium they sacrifc an honest so cents
s'm OF soap The arrangement doesn't ben
., "e manufacturer, because his saving on
Ss SeVenty-pound box, represented by the
eence between the cost of the premium
o,r ~n pounds of soap, is less than enough to
~. '"'n Tor the cost Of maintaining and adver-
,e,,t, MS Premium system. in addition TO the
Yea, cost OF the premiums themselves. Last
old.,. e Premium department Of one of the
n'ms in the business, concern whose
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-14

yHEN Mrs. Jones needs soap, does
A she say to her little boy. ALBERT,
w run out and buy me a cake OF
soap?"
yot BY month of Mondays!
Albert" she commands, in earnest tones
.-,,,sized by a poised forehrger, Albert go
.S,b,;tzelhein's grocery and get a cake OF
T,.- Lilv soap: and be sure not to let them
:. YOU that horrid Nasturtium soap they've
~, irving to introduce lately"
". are speaking now Of laundry soap. MIS-
,,,., is definite about her preferences, al
aoush her reasons might prove rather vague
~, n. kind I've always used she probably
you'd say; and chances are she would add that
., mother always used Tiger Lily, too. Her
,.,.ons on the whole, would be about the
,,-. ,s Won would hear from Mrs. Robinson,
vso is equally certain that Nasturtium soap IS
4, only kind any self-respecting woman would
lave the house.
The noteworthy thing however IS not that
Vx Iones and Mrs. Robinson are such ardent
artisans each of a particular brand of soap,
tu that if their laundry work is done with
scus skill their results are equally good.
III. manufacture Of laundry soap has be-
o;u. 50 standardized that there is little TO
astnguish one kind from another, except the
SAP. Of the cake and the color of the wrap
pei. The popularity Of particular brand is
natter Of local custom and prejudice and OF
snliul salesmanship.
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We let our municipalities clean our streets and
cur baths are routine we don't consider It
necessary to talk about, but we just revel in
soap. Last year we used billion pounds OF it,
more than ten pounds for every man, woman
and child between the Rio Grande and the
Great Lakes. Cleanliness is national char
acteristic, ard the American soapmaker de
serves credit for rendering it the easiest of all
virtues to acquire.
THE DAYS WHEN CLEANLINESS WAS
A STERN DUTY.
This could not have been truthfully said two
generations ago. In those days cleanliness
was a stern duty soap painful necessity. In
those days most families made their own and
kept it in an earthen jar, clammy mess from
which the flesh instinctively recoiled Now
cur soap comes so neatly shaped and so en-
trarcingly perfurned that even the junior males
Of the household yield to its allurements.
The manufacture of soap is comparatively
simple process, but the successful management
of soap business is quite another matter.
The manufacturers who have survived the
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ANNUAL MEETING

OF the Stockholders of the First Am
eriean Savings and Trust Company
Of Hawaii, Ltd.
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LEGAL NOTICES.

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT
Court for the Territory of Hawaii.
Action brought in said District
Court, and the Petition filed in the
office Of the Clerk of said District
Court, in Honolulu.
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERI.
CA, Plaintiff, VS.. LUCY PEABODY.
ct ais, Defendants.
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNIT
ED STATES OF AMERICA, GREET
ING:
LUCY PEABODY; GRACE KAHos
ALI; THE PROTESTANT EPISCo-
PAL CHURCH IN THE HAWAIIAN
ISLANDS, corporation organized and
existing under and by virtue Of the
laws Of the Territory OF Hawaii; ST.
ANDREWS PRIORY; HENRY BOND
RESTARICK; SISTER BEATRICE.
whose full and true name is unknown;
SISTER ALBERTINA, whose full and
true name is unknown; THE
QUEENS HOSPITAL, "a corporation
organized and existing under and by
virtue Of the laws of the Territory of
Hawaii; BRUCE CARTWRIGHT,
Trustee under the Last Will and Tes-
lament of EMMA KALELEONALANI,
deceased; THE TERRITORY OF HA-
WAII; G. H. BELLINA; HONOLULU
PLANTATION COMPANY, a corpora
ton organized and existing under and
by virtue of the laws of the Territory
of Hawaii; and JOHN BROWN,
JAMES BLACK, MARY DOE and
JANE BLUE, unknown owners and
claimants,
You are hereby directed to appear
and answer the Petition in an action
entitled as above, brought against you
in the District Court Of the United
States, In and for the Territory of Ha-
wall, within twenty days from and
after service upon you of certified
copy of Plaintiffs Petition herein, to-
gether with a certified copy Of this
Summons.
And you are hereby notified that un-
less you appear and answer as above
required, the said Plaintiff will take
Judgment Of condemnation of the
lands described in the Petition herein
and for any other relief demanded in
the Petition.
WITNESS THE HONORABLE SAN
FORD B. DOLE and THE HONOR
ABLE CHARLES F. CLEMONS, Judg-
es of said District Court, this 10th
day of June, in the year of our Lord
one thousand nine hundred and fifteen
and of the independence of the United
States the one hundred and thirty
ninth.
(seaD (signed) A. E. MURPHY.
Clerk.
(Endorsed)
mo. 81, UNITED STATES DIS
TRICT COURT for the Territory of
Hawaii. THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA vs.. LUCY PEABODY, ct
ais, SUMMONS. JEFF McCARN and
j.. w. THOMPSON, Plaintiffs Attor-
neys.
United States of America, District Of
Hawaii, IS.
!, A. E. MURPHY, Clerk Of the Dis
trict Court OF the United States of
America, in and for the Territory and
District of Hawaii, do hereby certify
the foregoing to be full, true and
correct copy of the original Petition
and Summons in the case of THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA vs..
LUCY PEABODY ct ais, as the same
remains Of record and on file in the
office of the Clerk of said court.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, l have
hereunto set my hand and affixed the
seal of said District Court this Gath
day of June, A. D. 1915.
(Seal) A. E. MURPHY,
Clerk of United States District Court,
Territory of Hawaii
BY F. L. DAVIS,
Deputy Clerk.
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NOTICE.

My wife, Annie Starke, having left
my bed and board. will not be re-
sponsible for any debts contracted in
my name without my written consent.
Dated at Honolulu, this It'll day of
July, A. d. 1915.
(Signed) F. STARKE.
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Miss Jane Adams Of Chicago. ac-
companied by several Of the women
delegates to the recent congress At
The Hague, was presented to Prest
dent Motta of Switzerland. by the
American minister at Berne.
The British Home Office gave per-
mission for the landing Of American
passengers from the steamer Potts
dam, New York for Rotterdam, which
is being held in the Downs that her
cargo may be examined for contra
band
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Dispatches from Morocco declare
that an expeditionary force has taken
two positions occupied by Moorish
rebels near Moulouya, in the Spanish
zone.
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Call at 500 Lunalilo street. opposite
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Notice is hereby given that the an
nual meeting Of the First American
Savings & Trust Company Of Hawaii,
Ltd, for the election of officers and
directors, and for the transaction of
such other business as may be brought
before the stockholders win be held
at its place of business on Fort street
in the City of Honolulu, on Tuesday,
the 18th day of July, 1915, at 8 p. m.
L. T. PECK,
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