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Plain Facts About the Meat Business
M. FK K ID'S
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I ho Kedi tuI Tr;ulr ( 'iiiiirnisBion iii its rcct'iit report on w ar
proliis, stiiti'il Unit tlic tivi' luri! incut (Kickers liuve lieeii prof
itceriiiK ami that thrv Imve a monopoly of tlie market.
These conclusions, if fair anil just, are matters of serious con
cern not only to those ciikmkviI in the meat packing IjiisincHt. but
to every other citizen of our country.
The figures given on profits are misleading ami the statement
that the packers have a monopoly is unsupported by the facts.
The puckers mentioned in the report stand ready to prove
their profits reasonable and necessary.
The meat business is one of the largest American industries.
Any citizen who would familiarize himself with its details must
be prepared for large totals.
The report states that the aggregate profits of four largo
packers were $14o,0iin,(iui.i for the three war years.
This Bum is compared with $l,noo,ooO as the average annual
profit for the three years before the war, making it appear that
the war profit was Sl'Jl.uoO.OOO greater than the pre-war profit.
This compares a three-year profit with a one-year profit a
manifestly unfair method of comparison. It is not only mis
leading, but the Federal Trado Commission apparently has
mado a mistake in the figures themselves.
The aggregate three-year profit of $1401011,000 was earned on
sales of over four and a half billion dollars. It means about three
cents ou each dollar of sales or a mere fraction of a cent per
pound of product.
backers' profits are a negligible factor in prices of live stock
and meats. No other lurge business is conducted upon such
small margins of profit.
Furthermore and this is very important only a small por
tion of this profit bus been paid, in dividends. The balance has
been put back into the businesses, It had to he, as you realize
when you consider the problems the packers have had to solve
and solve quickly during these war years.
To conduct business in war times, with higher costs and the,
necessity of paying two or three times the former prices for
livestock, has required the use of two or three times the amount
of working capital. The additional profit makes only a fair re
turn on this, and us bus been stated, the large portion of the
profits earned bus been used to finance huge stocks of goods
and to provide additions and improvements made necessary by
the enormous demands of our army and navy and the Allies.
If you are a business man you will appreciate the significance
of these fads, If you are miacipiainled with business, lalk this
matter over with some business !ic(iiuiiitauco with your bank
er, say and ask him to compare profits of the packing industry
with those of any other large industry at the present time.
No evidence is offered by the Federal Trade Commission in
support of the statement that the large puckers have a monop
oly. T'liD Commission's own report shows the large number
and importance of other puckers.
The puckers mentioned in the statement stand ready to prove
to any fair minded person that they are in keen competition
with each other, and that they have no power to manipulate
prices.
If this were not true they would not dere to make this posi
tive stuteineat.
Furthermore, government figures show that 1 1 10 live largo
packers mentioned in tho report account for only about one-third
of the meat business of the country.
They wish it were possible to interest you in the details of
iheir business. Of how, for instance, they can sell dressed beef
for less than the cost of the live animal, owing to utilization of
by-products, and of the wonderful story of tho methods of dis
tribnt ion throughout this broad laud, as well as in other coun
tries. The five packers mentioned feel justified in co-operating with
each other to the extent of together presenting this jiublic state
ment. They have been abb; to do a big job for your government in
its time of need: they have met all war time demands promptly
and completely and they are willing to trust their case to the
fairmindnesfi of the American people with the facts before them.
Armour & Company
Cudahy Packing Co.
Morris & Company
Swift & Company
Wilson & Company.
THE ROANOKE NEWS
Thursday, July 18, 1918.
Published Every Thursday.
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I pledge allegiance 10
MY FLAG and 10 the
Republic for which ii
stands, one nation in
divisible with Liberty
and Justice for all.
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THE NEORO.
The Negro is making good in
the war across the sea. A tele
gram today shows where two of
them chased forty Germans across
No Man's Land and received spec
ial mention for iheir bravery. This
should be an inspiration to ihe col
ored man who receives praise
when praise is due him. Every
thing. Revenge is the only debt which
ii is wrong 10 pay.
NEW TEN COMMANDMENTS.
President Wilson is about to sign
a bill which will take iis place in
history as the most liberal legisla
tion in protection of a nation's
fighiers ever known. I.t is good
enough, strong enough, 10 be call
ed the National Ten Command
ments and in ihe effect thus:
Thou shah not evict, for non
payment of rent, a soldier's de
pendents, under penally of $10,
000 fine.
Thou shall not cut offa soldier's
life insurance because of delayed
premiums.
Thou sh-alt not foreclose a mort
gage on a soldier's property.
Thou shah not lake away a sol
dier's home on which he has made
part payment.
Thou shah not sell a soldier's
property because of his failure to
pay the taxes, national, State or
local.
Thou shall not seule a law suit
against a soldier during his ab
sence. If a soldier sue ihe court shall
postpone action until he can attend
to il.
If a soldier have mine or limber
or farm claim, assestmenis on
which are overdue, it shall be held
for him.
Honor thy soldier and thy sailor
that thy days may be long in the
land of liberty.
No man has greater love than
he that offereih his life for the
world's sake, and it is commended
thai neither lawyers nor the loan
sharks nor the gathering of the
tithes shall fatten on him. Cedar
Rapids Gazette, i
The fact that a new star found
ample space and opportunity 10
appear among the others and out
shine many of them goes to prove
that there is always plenty of room
at (he top.
THOSE WHO CANNOT 00.
Are you sorry ? Or are you
glad? Perhaps you would go if
you could, but you must stay at
home.
You cannot be a hero at the bai
ilefront, but you can live heroically
wherever you are.
Ii takes five men at home to keep
one man in the trenches.
You belong to one of these groups
of live.
The five men at home must
stand together and do the things
thai count most for the one man at
the from. For any one man to
fail is to pby false to the cause for
w hich we work and ihey fight.
You cannot tight, but you can
work and pray; you can love and
serve; you can save carefully and
give sacrificially. Above all else
you ought to worship in limes of
war.
We believe our cause is righte
ous. Our faith is justified. Our
human instincts are not lying to us.
The lofty ideals for which our
brave boys are fighting are ihe
ideals for which pure Christianity
has stood for nineteen hundred
years. When the Church has
been blind to the vision of (he ideal
she has grown weak and unworthy
of the great Leader. We stand
with Him today for the sanctity of
womanhood and the protection of
children; for justice and mercy,
truth and righteousness; for indus
trial, political and social democracy;
for international law and universal
brotherhood; for the establishment
of the Kingdom of God on earth.
These are ihe great ideals which
carry with them freedom, peace
and happiness for all ihe future.
After all, true religion is the
real conservator of civilization and
ihe ultimate unifier of humaniiy.
The future of democracy and civil
ization is bound up with Chris
tianity. E. A. G. Herman, of the
Vigilantes.
ANSWER THE HUN.
Answer the Hun! Build a gold
en bridge lo Ihe Rhine, and crowd
il with liberating armies until
France is clean and Albert may go
home to heal his mangled realm.
Show the Kaiser thai we mean
to keep on launching ships, raising
regiments, and financing the gov
ernment. Tell the vandal kings that they
"shall not pass."
Let the fortunes and the savings
and the wages of native-born and
emigrant cry across seas that we
are money-mad fighting money
mad that we'll empty our pockets
and our veins to avenge and pledge
the world lo peace.
The billions of the millions whose
sires endured humiliation and hun
ger of body and soul, yonder in
Europe, must now end the brutal
autocracies from which they fleiL
Herbert Kaufman in May Cos
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LADIFS ANI) GUNT'S OUTFITTF.U,
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The cotton stocking is really
more patriotic than the silk stock
ing, although some people consid
er it little slacker.
(ARTIES that want good flour can get same
by carrying their wheat to Slagle's Mill at
Emporia, Va. We give quick service.
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EMPORIA, VA.
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service which Is faithful, efficient, obliging, correct and re
liable. That Is why our banking service Is termed by customers
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There is no excuse for any man these days not to be neatly dress
ed, because there are clothes to suit any pneketbook.
Although prices have advanced and are still advancing, and will
certainly be very high in the Tall, we still have some good looking
garments at reasonable prices that will save you money.
There are clothes for the civilian, the kind that will keep him
cool and comfortable, during the hot months to come, and we have
a large assortment of Cool Cloths and Mohairs that fit with I hut
smartness that a man admires, and puts "pep" Into his stride.
We have other things that help lo make up the man's wardrobe.
FARBER & JOSEPHSON.
Mens and Boys Outfitters
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