Show i Dont Don't Blame Bame the Grocer I IBy By Herbert Kaufman L ONT blame blanie blan e the grocer for your he he has has' hasa a pain in DONT DON'T D his till loo too Its It's a hard enough business in normal years ears but the present market situation will bankrupt thousands of the smaller lailer 1 retailers if conditions do not soon change No branch of trade knows such intense rivalry Relentless competition keeps his profits down to the minimum Its It's his misfortune to be the last link in the chain of distribution distribution tion but in no other way y is he connected with the brazen conspiracy against the dinner table They're 1 making him hull pay through g the nose and he cannot charge less and pay his operating expenses His gains are not greater than usual No matter how much he obtains from you the manipulators who have succeeded in creating a false famine in turn take all 11 but a few pennies on the dollar away from him You'll find your hard earned wages in the pockets of certain middlemen when the guilty guilt crowd are scotched Speculators and commission men are the boosters The grocers grocer's simply pulling the chestnuts out of the fire for them I Copyright ht 1917 b by Herbert K Kaufman Great Britain and alt all other ether rights reserved I |