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By Mary Latham
Every person who boys apparel *
household goods made of textile
knows of tho trssniws incrn*
in prteee of thsso itsn.
Tho prices tho cmuumi hps to pa;
have gone op to an alarming exten
in the last three years. Bat the eoi
ton farmers and the cotton taannfa<
turers are not to blame.
Last December, the Boreas of A|
Mljcniturel Economies of the Unite
State* Department of Agriculture n
leased figure* showing the approx
mate distribation of the dollar spec
by the consumer for apparel an
household goods made of cotton I
the United States in 1939.
Here are the figures: Farm produ<
tion, 7:5 cents; ginning and balinj
0.7 cents; merchandising raw cottoi
2.1 cents; spinning yarn and wdtvin
cloth, 10.5 eents;dyeing and finishin
cloth, 8.5 cents; manufacturing sppi
el and household goods, 20.9 cent)
wholesaling, 8.2 eentso retailinj
32.6 cents; total, $1.00.
These figures, which apply tods
just as they did in 1039, show thi
only 19 cents of each dollar spei
gov? to those who manufacture ai
finish the cloth. They show, 4oo, thi
even in 1939, the cotton farmer ai
the cotton manufacturer were g?
ting little of the price of the finish:
textile product.
8ince 1939, much has happene
There ha* been Pearl Harbor ai
there ' has been the war which wi
won in Europe a fea weeks ag
There is today the war with Japa
There wan July, 1941, when the fit
textile ceilings were fixed, and the
was May, 1942, when the ceilin
were frozen.
A study of the history of text!
ceiling prices shows that from Mi
1942, to December 1944, the eoti
mills were allowed to advance th<
prices by only 6 per cent. The Off!
of Price Administration's rigid ee
ings on the textile industry has he
thesf prices down to this low ta
of increase. But the OPA's effect <
other costs has not been no stroi
Statistics issued by the Bureau
Labor cost of living.index show th
i_ AL . - % -
a me wme .jpenoci ? rrom tffl
1942, to Deeeraber 1944?the jeti
price of men ' shorts 'jumped up- 1
41.1 percent, the retail price of p
jamas went up .32 percent, tho rei
nrice of undershirts went up 15 p?
eent, the reta^L.priee of women
house dross*: Jjfjnt up 39.2 ppreer
the retail pries.-jigi street dresses we
up 33 percent,'<$(>3; the retail priee <
* nightgowns went--mp 37 percent.'
4 The consumer, of course, needs i
such figures to convince him of tl
advance in prices. He sees evident
of it e\ery time bp goes into a stoi
and glances at a fe-hr price tag
Sometimes, though, he doesn't undo
" tend the reason for it and, beir
uninformed, blames the cotton fan
er or the cotton manufacturer. F<
those who might believe the farme
or the manufacturers are getting hi
increases in prices for their pro<
ucts and are responsible for the la
ge costs they have to pay for the
shirts or their eotton dresses, it
Interesting to etady the history i
these priee boosts and-to tears - ju
where the tronble Ilea. The.'rhal fae
will show that the extra .pr^a thi
the eotton manufacturer is getting t
day ?- la comparison with ^thoae^l
received in May 1943?-are "so ami
that they are only an insignif^ai
percentage in relation to the ova
11 increase of coat* to the consume
The record show* that while to:
til*, product* in the finishing stat
or in garment* have been rising i
coat* by leaps and bound*, the Uafii
ished fabric*, known as gray good
have gone np only an averagh of 01
and one-half e*nt* a yard sine* tl
first textile price ceying* war*
tablished in July, 1941. A woman
dresa can be made from four yard* c
material and often from less. Mult
ply the four yprda by the price ii
| crease of 1 1-# cent* and yon has
6 cents, the manufacturer's inereai
in price for each dye** tft a perio
|[of four year*. Jook ft
a eotton dree*' up enl
0 cent* ih that yra he
tainly won't ' find *iytc>y-' - v
Women's driMp 'ato good Items t
study if you want to 'oee how moc
price* have gene up and just ho
little the cotton manufacturer has 1
do with it. A purchase of four lewt
prised garments from a Souther
store and aa 'analysis of these ga
meats shew* that the mill man ' pai
st the-final cost is remarkably sstal
One ed these draeaee wns a taller*
Ueeienekhr price* Jit f7J*. " It wi
maiii from four yard* o& - materii
WUjtl U? a?a?feet?Mr Mi4 to tl
droto' auutHMir for S8 efnU
yard,** a total of $1.40. Y
wkU? waffl
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r ocotive. bought^ a njmb*i of stand
. >' triKod their vf abricqj""
e beck to the mitt selling priced
There wm a rpn" ' while shirt prie-lei
Y ed at $2.98, which wm made of ?
t Himalaya cloth oh which the gray 11
t- cloth setting ia 14.8 eoata a yard.
i. This ahirt took ft 8-4 yard* of cloth ?
aad brought the mill a total price of
r- 48 cents. : " ' -I . . >
J There was a pair of men's short* ' e
h selling at $2.00, made from broad- t,
1. "loth on which the gray ceiling is t,
it 12.44 cents a yard. One and a qnar- e
d ter yards went into the shorts at a . t
n coot of 10 cents. J ?
. * A woman's print dress was priced I j,
?. at $29.96. It was made of threj i e
j) yards of material for which the gray '*
1> goods ceiling is 46 cents a yard ? t
g $1.38 for the dress. I,
g A woven plaid seersucker dress-j
kT bought at $14.95 was made of clotn '
tl.l L. - - - ..I
i< ttimvu mv * jliuujicu pn?e 11 1 me
z> mill of 51.5 ceiyts a yard, it required t
3 1-8 yards, a total of $1.61 for the]
material.
kt There was a teen age cotton dress '
made of sheeting on which the grey <
,j ceiling is 14.569 cents a yard. This
lt dress was made from two and a half
yards of material bought at the mill
,t> at a cost of 37 1-2 cents.
Another dress, a junior miss, made
of combed lawn on which the mill's
d gray price was 15.73 cents a yard
|(j was made of two and one-half yards
M of material, costing 40 cents, but it
,0_ sold for $15.95.
^ Shirts and shorts and cotton dreeses
are typical items in the story of
M the small part the cotton manufacture
er plays in the rising eoefs sf textifee
Not because it is typical but be
cause it emphasises the fact that the
production of raw cotton and the
- manufacture of the initial fabric re^
present a very small portion of the
ee total dollar value of the goods as
I], they reach the consumer ? here is
t some infbrmation on the returns from
,el handkerchiefs, handkerchief cloth
Qn and the cotton used in the manufaeture
of handkerchiefs. Cotton used
0f for making handkerchief cloth brings
a premium. To illustrate in round fig
T | area, the manufacturer who buy*
' $150 worth 1of raw eottoa . for unflaj_
iihed handkerchief cloth spins It in>a.
to yarn and weave* the yarn into the
ljj unfinished cloth and get* for hi*
work $300, Of the $300 he ha* paid
^ $150 to boy the cotton. He pays the
lt( ether $00 for;7ab?r and other elent
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kick sell at $3,000. These figures,
tppecsimats, *rr? to show
i?t how prices ta one item go op m
top proceed from the producer to
ho maaafhetorer and then on to
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Almoet nay textile item examined
'ill -reveal the aamo big eproad beween
the prieea of the cotton fannr
and cotton maaofaeturer and the
oat to the eoaaomer ae that ahowa
i.eottoa dream, ahlrta, ihorte,
ightgowaa, pajamas and other marhawdiao
oa which the figarea have
oea qaotod hero.
That the cotton farmer and the
otton manufacturer are aot making
>ig profits nod that their. price*
ave not shot up daring the war is'
vident The consumer who etadie*
he problem will soon realise that
alatakee of the OPA in textile pHcng
are responsible and that the'aoon
9 ?Vaoa mUaha. ?a mm. a.jVaV.
. .mvwv sMsvwaeanW MO tUIICVtCU, IDP
ooner will the eouantr be able to
>uy hU cotton gpparel and housdiold
good* at many reasonable prices.
The United States has produced a(out
50 percent more food annually
luring the present war period than
n World War I.
Dr. Mike
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