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Show x Why Compare Beef and Coal Profits? i Swift & Company has frequently stated that its profit on beef averages only one-fourth of a cent a pound, and hence has practically I no effect on the price. Comparison has been made by the Federal Trade Commission of this profit with the profit on coal, and it has pointed out that anthracite coal operators are content with a profit of 25 cents a ton, whereas the beef profit of one-fourth of a cent a pound means a profit of $5.00 a ton. The comparison does nof point out that anthracite coal at the seaboard is worth at wholesale about $7.00 a ton, whereas a ton of beef of fair quality is worth about $400.00 wholesale. i To carry the comparison further, the 25 cent profit on coal is 3y2 I per cent of the $7.00 value. The $5.00 profit on beef is only 14 per cent of the $400.00 value. The profit has little effect on price in either case, but has less effect on the price of beef than on the price of coal. Coal may be stored in the open air indefinitely; beef must be kept in expensive coolers because it is highly perishable and must be refrigerated. Coal is handled by the carload or ton; beef is delivered to retailers by the pound or hundred weight. Methods of handling are vastly different. Coal is handled in open cars; beef must be shipped in refrigerator cars at an even temperature. ul Fairness to the public, fairness to Swift 8c Company, fairness to the packing industry, demands that these indisputable facts be considered. It is impossible to -Hi, disprove Swift 6k Company's statement, that its profits on beef are so small as to have practically no effect on prices. Jf Swift & Company, U. S. A. 4 Salt Lake City Local Branch, 335 So. Third Street, West A. Gavin, Manager ' EglP 8111 Sgg Ssgg?" BBSW SS ggr 55 SW S9V 33 a. jffi J " a " " . - .. "" " heeis put on in'Nj( lj LcaICC 5 minutes A l OU not'ce at yur neels are worn out. l fcf fir T Vou want new ones and you want them now. I I j. jfjTSsl a OU aVe Ve minutes to spare, step il A- W - 3j into a repair shop and say, "I want a pair of j I fi W 'Usco' rubber heels." ! v k r" . " . rLjr . That's all it takes five minutes (the old P .JTX kinds require nearer thirty minutes) and almost like magic, the repair man with a j" l -!Ll" :3'::Jr ew taPs. of his hammer will reheel your Wt ,s-g snoes wim these staunch, long wearing, tf h i' never-pull-loose rubber heels Ij i-- "But," you say, "it takes longer than that A fej -sasxw or tne cement to dry." a ft "Usco" heels require no cement. A llf . )ll w ew nas anc yDu nave wat Il $9 an yU n6Ver had before rubber heels that ! 9 scarcely show the joint a permanent, prac- R j W tically invisible joint that will last as long as !i 1 J TKPL the heeL . i! ; There is a sure footed satisfacnon in the 1 kl tTW broad, flat, tread of "Usco" heels. You will " ! KvCMMai llkr their yie'ding comfort and their tough ! Fj ---f resistance to wear. j -- -L Ymr rePair man has them in black, tun and whit.-. A J Look for the U. S. seal. J fiPro United States Rubber Company fi Mechanical Goods Division Ji |