A Camden event which will be heralded from coast to coast opens tomorrow. "Co-operation Days," a unique and timely sales festival originated by Camden retail merchants in co-operation with local industries, will be opened officially by the president of the New Jersey State Senate, Senator Emerson 
L. Richards, who will speak from the City Hall Plaza at noon. 
Following Senator Richards' talk, the band of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Camden Post No. 980, will give an unusual program. 

For a half hour preceding Senator Richards' address, Clyde Beatty, famous wild animal trainer of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, will tour the business district, dressed in the uniform he wears in his daily battle with 40 lions and tigers at the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus. Beatty has a remarkable following 
among the younger folk and promises to draw a large crowd of young and old who are anxious to get a close-up of this fearless personality. 

The "Co-operation Days" event will be held for the remainder of the week and all participating stores, which include the leading retail merchants of this city, will remain open each evening to accommodate industrial workers who do not find time to shop at other hours. 

Through co-operation of local industries and the foresight of these retail merchants, the South Jersey public is offered seasonal merchandise at pre-inflation prices. The committee, in charge announces their sincere belief that prices will be the lowest in 20 years and that this event unquestionably will mark the final opportunity for purchasing at such levels.

The upward trend in wholesale prices, since last March, is known to everyone and it is inevitable that retail prices must soon follow, because merchants must replace their stocks at much higher costs. 

"Other entertainment features are being arranged for the succeeding days of the sale;" said Harry A. Moran, chairman of the "Co-operation Days" committee, "but we frankly advise the public of South Jersey to make it a point to attend on the opening day when stock selections are at their best, as, unquestionably, many items will be sold out before, the final day."

Camden business organizations participating in the "Co-operation Days" Sale and whose sincere support has made the event possible are: American Stores Company, Auerbach's Walk-Over Shop, Baker-Flick Company, Barrett, Bon Ton Millinery, California Giant Market, William E. Cross, Di Julio-La Sala Company, N. Fuhrman Company, Futernick's, Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, Horn & Hardart Baking Company, Hurley's, A. Kobus Sons, Lester, Myers & Lappin, The Naden Store, Parkway Baking Company, J. C. Penney Company, Public Service, Quaker Stores, Joseph Ruttenberg, Sears, Roebuck and Company, Simon's, Inc., J. B. Van Sciver Company, Walt Whitman Stores, Western Auto Stores, F. W. Woolworth Company. 

American Stores Company
All Camden Stores 

Auerbach's Walk-Over Shop
217 Broadway

Baker-Flick Company
Market Street, Near Third

Barrett
500 Broadway 

Bon Ton Millinery
709 Broadway

California Giant Market
Admiral Wilson Blvd., 1/2 Mile West of Central Airport

Wm. E. Cross
929 Broadway

Di Julio-La Sala Company
700 Broadway

N. Fuhrman Company
933 Broadway

Futernick's
300 Broadway

Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company
All Camden Stores

Horn & Hardart Baking Company
16 and 1138 Broadway

Hurley's
Broadway at Pine

A. Kobus Sons
932 Broadway

Lester
936 Broadway

Myers & Lappin
24 Broadway

The Naden Store
773 Kaighn Avenue

Parkway Baking Company
Ninth and Elm

J.C. Penney Company
Broadway & Federal

Public Service
418 Federal Street

Quaker Stores
"Where Your Dollar Buys More"

Jos. Ruttenberg
428 Kaighn Avenue

Sears, Roebuck and Company
Admiral Wilson Blvd. 

Simon's, Inc.
305 Broadway 

J. B. Van Sciver Company
Market Street Ferries

Walt Whitman Stores
All Camden Stores

Western Auto Stores
1030 Broadway

F. W. Woolworth Company
15 and 1130 Broadway

Today opens what probably will be the greatest community sales event in local history. It has been planned for many weeks by a number of prominent retail merchants and local manufacturers on a basis of seasonal merchandise at prices which prevailed prior to the recent advances in wholesale costs.

With thousands of South Jersey people recently re-employed and many factories working with capacity forces, in some instances on all overtime basis, the offering of merchandise at pre-inflation prices is performing a worthy service for many who have, for some time, been without employment. To all others, the "Co-operation Days" sales event presents an opportunity to get the utmost value for their dollars by exchanging them for all types of commodities on which wholesale prices have materially risen.

An excellent idea of just how substantially wholesale costs have increased- and why, of necessity, such increases must be quickly passed along to the retail buyer, is evidenced by the fact that woolens are quoted 50 percent higher; printcloths, 75 percent; copper, 60 percent; and so on throughout the whole range of raw and manufactured materials that enter into practically everything used in daily life.

Price Rises General 

Coupled with these rising wholesale costs, and of course responsible for them is the tremendous demand and the spirit of co-operation with the policies of President Roosevelt. Substantial wage increases have been put into effect in textile mills and many other lines of manufacturing endeavor.

Activity in cotton mills was reported, last week at the highest level in years and compared favorably with the best employment records in the history of the industry. Steel mills are operating at their highest level since 1931 and freight car loadings are exceeding last year's figures, Building activity is at the highest level since 1931. Grain prices have shown a tremendous rise, as have beef, sugar, coffee and a score of 
other commodities. 

More than 500 banks have been reopened throughout the country, many with restrictions lifted; during the past six weeks. All of these things are rapidly restoring public confidence and pointing the advisability of purchasing the things needed, or wanted, before prices go higher. 

Camden is particularly fortunate in having a group of far-seeing retailers who, in the face of constantly lowering price levels for the last few years, were still willing, during this event, to continue to sell their present stocks at the lowest level of prices which have prevailed during the past 20 years.

'Aid Horne Industry' 

One of the popular slogans. of the "Co-operation Days" event is "Buy What Your Neighbor Makes," and is a feature worthy of the most sincere consideration of everyone living in South Jersey. The more of those things made in local factories that are purchased locally, the greater the rate of employment and scale of wages paid to residents, friends and relatives employed by these industries. Their salaries and wages are in turn, spent for merchandise and services of local business people thus creating an endless chain that works for the greatest good of the greatest number at all times. 

It is anticipated that the sales volume recorded in the stores of the merchants sponsoring this event today, Friday and Saturday will exceed the best three-day period in their history. Entertainment features are being provided to give a holiday atmosphere to the Camden business district. Street flags are being put up and participating stores are well decorated with "Co-operation Days" window cards and pennants. 

At 11.30 today Clyde Beatty, famous youthful wild animal trainer of the Hagenbeck-
Wallace circus will stage a wrestling match with a "Depression" Tiger on the steps of City Hall and will tour the Camden business district garbed in the uniform he wears when staging his famous daily battle with numerous lions and tigers. Senate President Emerson L. Richards will deliver an opening address on the City Hall plaza at 12 noon and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Camden Post No. 980 popular band will play a number of selections. . 

Merchant Leaders Promoting Camden's 'Co-operation Days' Sale

The above business leaders welcomed State Senator Emerson L. Richards to Camden yesterday when he sounded the keynote for the opening of the biggest merchandise sale in Camden in 20 years. 

Left to right, back row: Cutler A. McGrew, manager of the J. C. Penney Company; Frank J. Kinsella, advertising director, 
Courier-Post Newspapers, Edward Callow, district manager Stanley-Warner Theatres; Joseph Murdock, manager Stanley Theatre.

Middle row: W. L. Tushingham, business manager, Courier-Post Newspapers; Samuel Auerbach; Russell Gibbons, Baker-Flick Company; William Rothman, Barrett's Tire Shops; Joseph Kobus

Front row: M. Futernick; Harry A. Moran, chairman Merchants Committee; S. Lester; J. Price Myers, and S. Abrahamson. 

At right, Senator Richards is shown addressing merchants at the court house plaza. 

"Old Man Depression" went down for the count before the skill of Clyde Beatty, famous wild animal trainer, on the Court House plaza yesterday. 

Some 1000 Camden citizens watched the death throes as "Co-operation Days" -a three-day community sales event- got under way.

Beatty, in Camden with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, staged a wrestling match with a man dressed in a tiger's skin and bearing a banner across his chest reading "Depression." Beatty won in one quick fall. Beatty was introduced by M. L. Gates, general manager of the Sears, Roebuck store. 

Richards Makes Speech 

This horse-play followed a speech by Senate President Emerson L. Richards in which he declared the way to lick the depression is to "go out and fight." He urged citizens to co-operate in the three-day sales saying that prices are more attractive now than ever. 

Walter L. Tushingham, business manager of the Courier-Post Newspapers, presented Richards to the crowd. 

Before his speech, Richards went to the seventeenth floor of city hall to pay his respects to Mayor Roy R. Stewart. The mayor was not in his office and his secretary said he did not know the mayor's whereabouts. Gosch was prepared to present a flag to the city, through the mayor, but no city commissioners could be found to accept it in his stead. 

A bugle corps of V. F. W. Post No. 980 played martial music between speeches.

Epochal Sales Expected

Merchants are confident the affair will be the greatest community sales event in local history. It has been planned for many weeks by a number of prominent retail merchants and local manufacturers on a basis of seasonal merchandise at prices which prevailed prior to the recent advances in wholesale costs. 

With hundreds of South Jersey people recently re-employed, and many factories working with capacity forces, in some instances on an overtime basis, the offering of merchandise at pre-inflation prices is performing a worthy service for many who have, for some time, been without employment. To all others, the "Co-operation Days" sales event presents an opportunity to get the utmost value for their dollars by exchanging them for all types of commodities on which wholesale prices have materially risen. 

An excellent idea of just how substantially wholesale costs have increased, and why, of necessity, such increases must be quickly passed along to the retail buyer, is evidenced by the fact that woolens are quoted 50 percent higher; printcloths, 75 percent; copper, 60 percent; and so on throughout the whole range of raw and manufactured materials that enter into practically everything used in daily life.

Wage Increases Made 

Coupled with these rising wholesale costs, and of course responsible for them is the tremendous demand and the spirit of co-operation with the policies of President Roosevelt. Substantial wage increases have been put into effect in textile mills, and many other lines of manufacturing endeavor. 

Activity in cotton mills was reported, last week, at the highest level in years and compared favorably with the best employment records in the history of the industry. Steel mills are operating at their highest level since 1931 and freight car loadings are exceeding last year's figures. Building activity is at the highest level since 1931. Grain prices have shown a tremendous rise, as have beef, sugar, coffee and all sorts of other commodities. 

More than 500 banks have been opened throughout the country, many, with restrictions lifted, during the past six weeks. All of these things are rapidly restoring public confidence and pointing the advisability of purchasing the things needed, or wanted, before prices go higher. 

'Buy South Jersey' 

Camden is particularly fortunate in having a group of far-seeing retailers who, in the face of constantly lowering price levels for the past few years, were still willing, during this event, to continue to sell their present stocks at the lowest level of prices which have prevailed during the past 20 years.

One of the popular slogans of the "Co-operation Days" event is "Buy What Your Neighbor Makes," and is a feature worthy of the most sincere consideration of everyone living in South Jersey. The more of those things made in local factories that are purchased locally, the greater the rate of employment and scale of wages paid to residents, friends and relatives employed by these industries. Their salaries and wages are in turn spent for merchandise and services of local business people, thus creating an endless chain that works for the greatest good of the greatest number at all times. 

It is anticipated that the sales volume recorded in the stores of the merchants sponsoring this event to day, Friday and Saturday will exceed the best three-day period in their history. Entertainment features are being provided to give a holiday atmosphere to the Camden, business district. Street flags are being put up and participating stores are well decorated with "Co-operation Days" window cards and pennants.

Today, Sears, Roebuck and Company in co-operation with the city of Camden will play host to Nancy Garner, Jack Benny, Mary Livingston, Donald Novis and Welcome Lewis; stage and radio stars, in conjunction with the Camden Co-operation Days' jubilee. 

Miss Garner, who is a first cousin to the vice president and one of his official hostesses, begins a nation wide tour in the interest of the "new deal" policy and begins this optimistic drive from Camden so that she may officially open the city's prosperity trade revival.

Arriving in Philadelphia at the Broad Street Station, she will be met by representatives of Sears, Roebuck and Company and Camden and escorted to Camden City Hall, where the entire entourage will be welcomed officially by Mayor Roy R. Stewart. Proceeding from there after addresses have been made and news reels have been taken, the party will go to the Hotel Walt Whitman for luncheon. However, present plans signify that a parade through Camden will possibly precede the luncheon. 

Although these people are the guests of Sears, Roebuck and Company, that store does not lose sight of the civic significance of the occasion, in view of the fact that Miss 
Garner will act for the vice president in presenting to Camden his best wishes for the success of Camden's jubilee.

Voices of the air materialized into voices at first hand for many persons Saturday, when five radio stars come to Camden as a feature of the closing chapter of '''Co-operation Days." The group, guests of the Sears, Roebuck Store, are seen assembled here on the steps of the courthouse just prior to their official welcome by Mayor Roy R. Stewart. Left to right, 
back row: Edward Callow, district manager Stanley­Warner theatres; Charles Gates, local manager Sears, Roebuck Co. Middle row, Martin A. Gosh, Harry A. Moran, chairman Merchants' "Co-operation Days" committee; Louise Zenike, N. B. C. star; Mary A. Dickinson, Sears, Roebuck Co.; Donald Novis, Welcome Lewis, Nancy Garner and Conrad 
Thibault, all radio stars. 

The "Co-operation Days" jubilee of the combined merchants of Camden ended Saturday with a visit to this city by stage and radio stars as guests of Sears, Roebuck and Company and the city.

The group of celebrities included Welcome Lewis, Nancy Garner, and her daughter, Louise Zenike; Donald Novis and Conrad Thibault. Nancy Garner is a first cousin of Vice President Garner, one of his official hostesses and is now beginning a nationwide tour in interest of the "new deal" policy. 

The group was met at Broad Street station where they arrived in a special car with Martin A. Gosh, of the Sears publicity department, as host. They were escorted to Camden City Hall and welcomed by Mayor Roy R. Stewart. 

The merchants' committee presented a large flag to the city, which was received by Mayor Stewart. The visiting stars were then guests at a luncheon in the Walt Whitman Hotel. In an address at the luncheon, Mayor Stewart lauded Camden as the "Centre of the Universe" and praised the Courier-Post Newspapers for the part they have played in trying to restore normal prosperity. He thanked all interests for their contribution toward the success of the "Co-operation Days" sales events arranged by the city's stores. He gave special praise to Sears, Roebuck and Company for its co-operation with the city and its merchants. 

Response to Mayor Stewart's address was made by Howard Thurston, district manager of the Sears stores; Charles Gates, manager of the local store, and Gosh, all or whom assured co-operation of the store in any civic enterprise. 

The dinner guests, included the radio stars and Mayor Stewart, D. Minard Shaw, district advertising manager of Sears; Thurston Gates, A. Gosh, R. J. Mitchell, assistant to the district manager; Mary A. Dickinson, Mrs. M. Loether, all of the Sears, Roebuck official family; Harry A. Moran, chairman Merchants Committee: William Wallace, Ida Laurlck, E. Howard Broome, secretary to the mayor; Samuel Auerbach, William Rothman, Simon Abramson, Joseph V. Haas, S. Lester, M. Futernick, Charles F. Knapp, manager Walt Whitman Hotel and Walter L. Tushingham, Courier-Post 
Newspapers. 

Following the dinner, the radio stars and guests were whisked with motorcycle escorts on an inspection tour of Central Airport, and then to the Sears store where a vast throng was on hand to see the noted artists. All the stars made brief talks over the air and then made a tour of the store.