Show VINC COST to 1 tJ REMEDIES J t PROPOSED It J I J f if Consumer and Procer Pro- Pro Together Advise J 4 Experts on Su Subject je t. t K HELP HELPIN IN MANY C CITIES TIES Sd d Smoot Tried to Cut it Expenses p S ln in Washington gt n But He Failed QuicKly BY y FREDERIC J. J HASKIN the toe firc fires rage e problem of the causes B 8 of the thelie lie of of many remedies for t th tho Ution arc proposed iJ Amon Among the tho jt f Lb of t. t these is t a reduction of tho ad ad- 1 dI large expense of distribution the tie he product 3 which go to il malio alio up be e e items which cost cit tho the consumer The Thc system of distribution has bas 3 COMO como Such that arc re a number distinct inet castes in n the fabric of com Coin racial rei l operation The he con consumer must tr ty nize the It Jt is impossible i r 1 m to wholesaler to sell P b to hit him If tho consumer goes wholesale store tor ana aul tries to buy Us' Us U ds s' s at wholesale bol prices h bo ho ib js 1 met t Ii answer that they Y can cau be bc sold old Detail r tai ian dealers only nl It is not a question of of- quantity i determines mines iDe w whether ether the b buyer bUJer Jill all 11 be be entitled to the thc privilege e lu of ofT T basin at wholesale There arc are Iny 03 cases on record where hero t the e coner con coner I mer er ha has hu approached cd tim tho wholesaler aler jling ln f fo to buy o en Hep a a. larger Jarger quantity in u n many JUana a retailer buys yet jet with with- perception u eption consumer is informed it r unless he be i is a a. a retail dealer ho he cant can can- t f thc DJ a a t of wb wholesale tS hi his to sell directly to thes the tho isumer s mer oli oi on the the part of the the- j mido do without it hout respect to persons v a United States senator goin vl wale dealer in in the city of of Wast Wash Wash Was Jon t n ami to buy U l bis his provisions pro prices is 15 m met t with n a refu refusal I a as Senator Smoot o oh of V h hat h ea aft at bear bear- witness Last year h he be t at be liC would o overcome cr ome sOme sonic some cos' cos of I in living i in Washing Washing- J 7 to the wholesaler f for r his es- es that He an nn ironclad rule a against tho ler aler selling directly to the bc conr con con- r. r H t of the same anle si situa- situa ua occurred ce rr d' d t to a pro prominent ut W Wa ng- ng w correspondent ro t. t TIC lie H c has JiRS family and dc decided that would endeavor to buy his bis housed house house- Id 4 d supplies at at wholesale H He went to tot jot tho leading e grocers ot oi the city does doe both a and rC retail sines and asked to Ito buy a large largo I ot oL ean calles J s. s He lie informed tho fak k that ha e wanted d to get a sufficient t y t to c entitle him hini to to wholesale Stations tat Lato ons s. s This bis clerk referred the tho ma matter tier to lo one w superiors is' who said id that he Jo to 8 sell JJ t the candles at thirty thirty- cents a pound wholesale cor cor- adent nd nt had been payin forty fort cents jn n s small smal quantities Ife He was wan t Drilling Ji Jo to 1 buy buya a lar largo large e amo at fa P. P a. a malI email reduction redaction so bo ho decided to to the St Standard Oil corn com Here ho be as given iven i n n n. price of oft Ity t v v i cents a pound on ou the tho can can- i would ba have eo cost t him fort forty U saV a at retailed retail ired ed to Retailers t all of or his attempts to buy at attempts attempts which h carried carded him bilO to wholesale dealers 4 Continued on page U. U h 1 LIVING COST REMEDIES PROPOSED PR POSED Continued from page pg 1 I in many cities this cities this cites this was the only ono one I in hicl ho was successful n in getting wholesale prices prices' e on goods lot for his hs own oW Almost without ex exception ho he was referred to hI his nearest st st. dealer ealer handling these goods and informed that ho could bu buy them there Thousands Tho of in instances of this lund kind might be cited to show the the tautly drawn lines beyond which tho consumer em cor er may amy not rot go o. o For instance if a n fanner desires so to bu buy bi a certain cerain brand of fertilizer and writes directly to the factory it snakes makes 1 him a price exactly tho the same as that which would bc made mude by its agent in the t territory In which tho the is farmer resides If I it sells sels directly to hint him hin the agent gets ets his commission just as as much mIch aa is if i ho had been tim tho in n- n through h which the tho sale On 01 all an patented and advertised adver d articles this procedure or r fome thin thing similar to it i. i is pursued The Thc wholesaler announces that be he IS IB powerless in n tho the m matter ter He Hc says that if f ho bo sells lens directly to th the consumer tho the retailers rs refuse to buy from him and his business business' is is in injured as asa a result The retailers have hac or organizations which practically blacklist wholesalers who caly attempt to bridge bril e the gap between them and tb the tho consumers But tho the retailer re reo taller is ia up a same samo difficulty when ho lie uJ attempts to wip wipe out out the wholesaler and arid buy direct from om the tho jobb jobber Ca Cant Can't t Buy From Jobbers A A. prominent prominent merchant of the city of Washington ton one whose store i is daily dail- filled with they tho of the elite of Washington ton and who bu buys buysman s man many of oC his In supplies b by the carload has frequently attempted to buy direct from tho the un manufacturer instead of patronizing pat pitt pa the time wholesaler In lit Ii man many cases cases' his orders arc larger than those of sm small l wholesalers yet h he him himself declares that h he hO has been as consistently consistently consist consist- turned down as the time consumer are turned down by the thc whole aler Whether there is any le legal al remedy against this sort eort of procedure is a a. question It I IS is n it system of distribution tion that has existed for so mau many years that many feel tho the courts would not hold hol it a combination in restraint restrain of trade trade- Yet there la have e been cas cases s where such combinations have ha been broken ill up DOs combination Back in iu the eary carb a tion was formed b by manufacturers of fl funeral ton supplies and the funeral di die rectors The lIme association of manufacturers was known as tho the National Burial Case Casc association and in in each state there vas as an association of funeral fu fn- director r Many ranJ of these associations associations asso asso- entered into agreements with ih the National Burial Case Cas n association providing that that the latter association would sell funeral s supplies onty only to to such funeral directors as were members of or ortho tho the Funeral Directors' Directors association In Iu one instance a house honse in Baltimore which was a member of the National Burial Ca Case c association hail had hai been patronized pat pat- for years b by a Virginia firm of ot undertakers undertaker Upon tim tho receipt of an au unc order for goods from froU this firm firm it was ad advised cc that in the thc future it could sell on only 1 to tho those thom c who w were rc members of the Funeral Directors' Directors Association of Vir Vir- glum ginia sinia Attempts on the tho part of the thu firm to buy elsewhere led to similar replies anI and anul I advice to the tho firm to join the tho Funeral Directors Directors' Association of Vi Virginia ii in This association proved to be a close corporation and ant only a few few- una undertakers tak cr ers could coul get ct into it At this juncture the undertakers a decided to e carry rry the thie case r to the federal courts couts under r the tho Sherman antitrust Jaw law A like liko procedure pro pro- pro had haJ been horn followed in RU Kansas ag and the thc association n. n tearful fearful of the tho penalty pen peum 01 al alt alty of the thc law Jaw entirely rescinded this restrictive agreement The Virginia association did dil sn so fO and ld from that that day to thus this no 10 att attempted d monopoly i of ol o burial supplies has ever er been made maiJo iu in il the United States The Tho wiping out ont of many man middlemen's profits p an and tho the bringing brine ing of or producer and consumer consume in closer contact is i be believed by by many ta y to o coser be one of the most effective remedies that could be bo ap applied plied Not ot only in Aurora 11 but InDe In m De Decatur atur loliet Jolet Rockford and aud in South Bend II lad Ind iJ public markets have havo been en established during the l past ast summer Here the tho producer and the consumer may meet It lids has as been demonstrated th that t a great geat saving m 3 has been effected Baltimore ns has as lou long followed out this idea and anel the cost ost of living is lower iea perhaps in Baltimore than in any largo large city in the United Sta States e In one big market alone vm wagons are aro accommodated I with curb space and this thus is is I oI only ly one of eleven large e markets distributed die dis over the city ar i Although u h char charges es to to the farmer are insi insignificant the total returns pay all aU the expenses of maintaining markets th city a e interest and nd t give c the handsome on the i million and a quarter dollars it itha ha has invested in them thorn Baltimore established its first market of this kind in iu 1751 It I raised the money moner for foi for it by h holding a lottery The Tho lexin Lexington ton market is ja said to be one of tho the largest in the world ord and it takes care of marketers ever every day It Itis Itis I is in reality the old village maRC market system expanded to to- metropolitan proportions pro pro- portions ns nl and perhaps more people go goto goto goto to market in ill Baltimore than in any other city cit in the country The farmers' farmers wagons 3 ons contain only a very cr small portion of the thc food f od supply and yet ret smal the they porton practically t I regulate food pric prices s in Baltimore False ase Weights Weight Another remedy proposed i is the elimination dim elim of false alse weights and amid measures s and nd the flue requirement that all aU package e goods shall have hae the true tnie weight ht of their contents printed on them It I has been esti estimated atc by the thc sealer scaler of weights and measures for the District of Columbia Columbia- Columbia and and it is ia probable that n nowhere where elso in America is the thc la law of weights weights' and measures better enforced that that tho acra average c shortage sh by reason rason of sh short rt weights and aud measures and light weight p packages cla s in tho district amounts to from 12 to 15 35 per pcr cent of tIm the total value of the products sold old This Thi process of charging the time consumer or for what he ought on ht to buy bup fora for a dollar dolar goes goca ou on i every line lino of f business and in spite spie of of one ono of the most thorough h crusades over made tho the sealer of wei weights and measures measures- of the tho district confesses that he is unable with with- the th means at hand haud to wipe me out this abuse Tomorrow THE TH MODERN DANCE |