Show PRICE E OF LEATHER GOES UP TO BLAME Now if Chinese Begin to toI i I I Wear Shoes Expert I Lookout Says Ys Pray PIa that the Ht Heathen athen Chinee e Is convex converted ted quickly to Christianity but at the sam arne time Limo add ath a proviso iso that I he lie doesn't doen become home civilized cl 1 and addicted ad ad- I dieted to Vest Western ern manners rs till after r you OU are aie di dead sy T K Jl R. Carey GAre I leather t expert t t. and secretary tary anti and buyer buy buy- I er of the Joseph P P. Dunn Shoe hoe i Leather company compan t For when the Chink starts to wearing shoes you ou Americans will have to pay huge prices 20 a pair maybe for tor eV every r pair you bu buy When the Chinaman of him bin abandons his sandals he will require some billions billion's of shoes each year to warm hi his ft feet et A An And l even n now v theres there's theresa a a. scarcity of leather r to supply the worlds world's demand Prices are going up and are likely to keep moving The TheW r makes a big difference rence In shoe shot prices and each month of the European conflict makes the situation worse Canadian buyers are coming into the United d competing with us f for r leather st sending prices pric-es RI sky skyhigh skyhigh high in their search for harness shoe and ad ry material Leather Prices Soar The TIlt average life ife of a horse at the front Is seven days When he Is killed his hide is lost pel perhaps haps his hissa sa saddle dle Is lost lost and and the price of leather leath leath- er goes up The life average of a pair of ot shoes at the front is twenty-one twenty lays days which means that It takes fit fit- to In n pairs a year for a soldier where before he only wore three or four When a soldier Is Is' killed he is buried as he is Another r pair of shoes is lost and the price of leather still sun rises Alfalfa and feed are high and they boost booRt the price of cattle and leather Practically no leather Is coming from South America The great plains of or and Argentina still sun produce produce produce pro pro- duce cattle but ese tl nations sold largely to the Germans and they are cut off oft n now w from their customers They leave their cattle to roam the i pastures pasture and their hides are lost to the shoe tr trade de The autom automobile bUe has been boosting leather prices for many years till now it Is Impossible to buy enough light leather le-ather to supply the demand This class of ot leather has advanced 20 per percent percent percent cent in two years years ears Shoes Going Upward The biggest I increase crease has been one the customer wouldn't notice The wholesale price of shoe laces has lately advanced per cent but the retailers retailer's m margin was so great that prices were not raised The price of shoemakers shoemaker's thread has just been boosted 20 per cent because we cannot cannot can can- not readily ship flax from Belgium and Russia 2 h l C b bought at from 50 to 4 4 now are re retailing at 5 5 The wholesaler is losing m money ne by the change and the retailer Is benefiting The manufacturer manufacturer manufacturer has has' hasto to keep his price as low as possible and nd ha has advanced a 4 shoe say only about 40 cents but the re retailer re- re taller taUer promptly jumps his selling price t to tb the next st standard dard price pric which Is 5 5 |