Show I AND Sf Ni lUI US In the thu of titus the th high COAt of ot living which Ilko ilke Iko the tho poor Is II always with us UI the th lon of weights unI and measures Is nn an II Important factor A contributor to 10 tho of He views takes up that phase of tho the problem and gives some Porno startling Information ton He lie le claims for tor instance that more moru than of oC all 11 the tho used ud In n Ni iw w York Yori pro 3 per Ier cont fit t or ur worB Tho rho minimum deception of oC 3 tier per Ier cent elt Is IB alone equivalent to the In Iii Interest terest paid by savings banks on first tnt clasH bonds A Nal V of ot 0 Interest the cummon common Jo p Industry U is I therefore ho says counted PI against t tho the purchaser before beCore lie Ito enters enter the tho store The rine fh annual lops lors to the consumer ogre aggregates aggregates gates lale tens tons of ot millions of dollars In other countries the manufacture In Ju other countries the manufacture and punishable crime butt but In this country the apparatus for fo fraud Is II advertised unblushingly and on Fold on Its Is fraudulent merits mel Tho rho scales that buy thorn them themselves th r selves selI or on that Ih t pay uy for Cor themselves or some ore similar t motto moto tells tel the buyer buer what ho he buys bUI v 0 Another method of or cheating the con consumer COl sumer Is 1 tt ix tampering with wih the thus mean menta uns r 1 J the says some Home drIve through the side al of and bend bedd down tile the tie points Inside A more mor skilful merchant inserts u a I false Tim ho tin rna mea urIs ls deeply dely dented Invariably In oil 01 tim tho Inside Whether such luch a a be used for apples potatoes el or sonin sonino I II It I of or course 1111 gives short hort meas meol uro uno In II direct ratio to to the depth of oC tile the II ntH Tho Tile extent to 11 which such practices are carried care out nut may ra be Judged from thus the III figures supplied su During a a careful Investigation of ot conditions In Now 0 York city in n it places were svere visited vi 8 ICI and anul como somo 2037 sets sel of or scales weights or nr measures re were reme examined It was wall found that per cant nl of the tho scales were vore woe 10 JO JOr per net r cent or more moro short hort 17 per cent of the II were short hort 10 JO per cent centor or more and Ml Hl p pr per r cent of or tho the weights were 10 I per r cent cont or more moro oft off of offA A very er trilling proportion of these thue er em errors Ir was accidental The he percentage of or weight and nd a al I 0 l Id i t h 63 whIle I fi of IC to the dealer Iller was n suggestive contrast on Int would w uld seem scout to be bo room for Cor competition on the t e basis of ot absolutely ob l tely fair weights and measures There would be bl If to so 0 many consumers were not nb mb Indifferent to their thelt own Inter Interests oils ests |