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Show .::,- ... drs.-l l.f to th rtailfr rtw!'iil on an av-r:if.! ..f : !r cent at p-jii : t -i fritn Julv 1 to July U, u was m, n .-rige ii.-erei,s- of only 8 per ,-,-.:t itl rue pri. . to the consumer. -Til. f.gur-s ,-!.-i:'I'.' eh-.w." In'.or-j In'.or-j 1 s-nai. r rafter .f Kan.-a.-', a mm-n.-r of Hi. ceri.-.:' ' that the retiitb-r. or the i;ia:i -a 07 is silhtig over the counter, coun-ter, is profit--.-:'-!-..-'." COMMITTEE GETS MORE EVIDENCES OF PROFITEERING WASHINGTON-. Julv 31. Figures shewing that retail meat dealers in "Washington are averaging 100 per cent profit on all saies of meat were cited '! before a -senate District of Columbia Colum-bia subcommittee investigating living costs in the district. K. .V. Calvin, representing the cotton slates official advisory marketing board, toid the c-.iumittee that while, on July 1. retail dealers in "Washington, according accord-ing to figures of the department of agriculture, ag-riculture, were paying from IS to 'l9 cents a pound for dressed beef, thev were disposing of the entire carcass at an averaga price ot" not less than 40 cents a pound. The witness said the same pr-.fits were being made today. The butch-T or retail dealer, said Mr. Caivin, when selling at 100 per cent pr.'fit. adds more to the est of the meat io the jon-umer than the combined pri.tits i.-iken by the tanner, th live-st-a k deab r, and the packer, with trans-P'Ttai trans-P'Ttai lull and storage charges included. And be asks that profit, said Mr. Calvin, Cal-vin, for "sinioiy cutting the meat and handing it over the counter to you, assuming as-suming no risk whatever." The witness also cited beef ciuotatlons at H.'ston. rh-.lud-'phia. rittsburg and other -urge cities, sin, wing that, although |