Show THE CONSUMER president roosevelt deserves for sidetrack sidetracking drig the bill 1111 which louia linao nindo drieu maintenance a binding lit h inter interstate etu merce says saya the cottage grove sentinel these price fix ing ik laws wrongfully called fair trado laws extending over a num her of mates aro arc an all active threat to to consumer cons lIllier purchasing power aliey tho the manufactures who ficco account lint for about half the cost of mi all article to set tho the entire price of the product tho the dis ter who through efficient ea s keeps ills ilia cost of doing business tu to say 20 per cent must charge the iho minimum prim as the less of efficient fOlet who cannot ge get t tits lila cost iw lidlow low 40 per cent instances of what legalized price fixing docs to tho the consumers consume re pocketbook are aru on oil record for example the head of nt oito of the nations lending leading department stores says that sinco the pios passage sago of price fix ing laws lit in ills his state lie he has been forced to increase the retail price of 1107 trade marked items an av errigo of 21 per cent thus it if you liny buy those items five dollars got get you leys less than four dollars did ho be fore the law went into effect IA gallad price fixing Is just ono of several kinds of legislation now in it tho tl which directly pen alho tho the consumer laws which unfairly restrict certain kinds of merchandisers merchandise rs are equally eri nally costly so 0 o fire arc laws which pena lizo mercha ii practices ih which make it possible Ims sible to uni row the spread between wholesale ani ami retail prices of our states have havo have gono on it veritable tible it legislative rampage agonist tho the consumer president Roosevel ts of the fliller tydings bill has i temporarily eliminated the threat of national price fixing legislation states tt iten should li follow ahn that t example and defuso to enact any law which interferes with tile the healthful pro coss of hottest couppe competition tit in manufacturing und retailing |