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Show I . DOWN TO A TWO PER CENT BASIS ' The packers Insist that their net pront. all things Included, Is less1 than tw'o per cent on Ihrlr turnovor, and hne submitted prnnf that havo not yi t lieon refuted by any ono. It does not seam oxcesslvo. Commenting on this the Spoknno Spokesman Itovlew, nn Independent, piogrosHho nowspapor, says: "Cor tulnly It would ho a rino thing for tho public If It woro possible to bring i I lines of business down to a two per ,cent margin. It tho country could ,do that It would solvo tho problem of tho high cost ot living" A recent roport of a chain rotall .store company shows It mado thirty per cent last year on Its turnover. Tho federal trade ' commission Is palpably trying to play on tho prejudices pre-judices of thoso people who aro against big business simply because It Is big buslnes, tegnrdlesss of how It Is conducted, how seivlccable It has become to tho public, and how nanow Its mat gin ot profit on each dollar or business handled, Senator Geuiald or Maine speaking In the pen ale opposed ilio Kunjon and Kendrlck hills for governmental supervision sup-ervision nnd dlieetlnn of the packing , Industry. These measures he said, weio examples or stifling, tlriottllns legislation, nu extension or tho policy which had railed In the railroad aim wire communication Industries. Tho public, ho derlnred would suffor from hlghor cost nnd pooler sorvico should : theso bills bo enacted. . i |