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Show WHO'S THE VILLAIN? The Sherman 'Rogers Publics-! tions"has issued an amusing and informative booklet, done in cartoon car-toon style, called -Who's Profiteering Profi-teering in Food?" It deals with the search of an irate housewife, Maude Murdock, for the villains who are responsible for running! her meat bill up. The pot roast that cost her 33 cents a pound in 1939 costs her 69 cents now and she means to find out why. i First she levels her guns on the butcher only to learn it isn't his fault.' Back in 1939, butchers received 26 cents of each meat dollar spent by consumers ! now they take less than 16 cents. And but of it they must pay today's high taxes, wages, rents and so on. They handle a lot of money, but very little of it sticks to their fingers. Maude then advances on the packers and again she learns she's chosen the wrong victim. In 1939, packers received 16 cents of that meat dollar today their share is under 14 cents. And that isn't "profit it's their gross. Their actual profit averages about one cent for each dollar of sales and works out to a fraction of a cent, for each pound of meat we buy. That leaves the farmers and'1 the ranchers, and, Maude's dead sure 'he's on the right track at . last. But again she gets some tremendous surprises. The farmers farm-ers are doing well, as they should j but they aren't pfCfittering andi few of them are getting rich. |