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Show PER MONTH MSgt." 7Sgt. SSgt. Sgt. " Cpl. Pvt. BasePc,y 38.00 114.00 96.00 78.00 66.00 50.00 ! Dependents Allowance , ! Wife and One Child 58.00 58.00 58.00 58.00 58.00 58.00 Clothing, Quarters, Rations Value (Est.) 43.50 43.50 43.50 42.00 42.00 42.00 ! Retirement or Widow's 1 Allowance Accrued (Est.) 42.00 36.00 31.50 31.50 31.50 31.50 ; Tax Savings (Est.) 26.50 20.00 14.00 4.25 2.25 1.65 Medical-Dental- . i Hospital Value (Est.) 8.50 8.50 8.50 8.50 8.50 8.50 pW3Sbi2ilm 316.50 280.00 251.50 222.25 208.25 191.65 Add 20 of Base Pay for Overseas Service 27.60 22.80 19.20 15.60 13.20 10.00 ??9OTa3tSli4iE 344.10 302.80 270.70 237.85 221.45 201.65 Accrued G. I. Education Benefits on Basis 18 Month Enlistment 21950 219.50 219.50 219.50 219.50 219.50 lll 5 A3 AO 522.30 490.20 457.35 440.95 421.15 (T i 'I'll! iiiWjiiiywwiiyiHMM k mm mm (m v4 ..n.,.,,,,, , M-a,;,4SL& .S T I T 7 I ttm H II fj 5a " 1 V'ages and materials consume What is vour 117 (Lyi x ai1 f eve y dollar Har f vester takes in from sales. A Gov- f ernment board has recommended and the Company has agreed to Otl OUT PrOJltS... W P & ge increase of 18 f cents per hour for Harvester tac- J tory employees. The Government . , . ..j i. t i t-u has also allowed price increases Sometimes, although an idea is wrong, it does no harm. Like ttu on materials which we pur idea that a square jaw is the sign of will power. That winters chase in large quantities. Steel aren't as severe as they used to be, or that red hair denotes quick has had an average increase of S.2. temper. But there are other wrong ideas, which are definitely harmful to iQV--- public confidence in and understanding of industry. One such 1340 j idea is the current "guessing" about profits made by large busi -MTG0y ness organizations. Many people are apt to grossly exaggerate the money made by g42-r II business. So Opinion Research Corporation (an independent JH organization) made a survey to learn just what the public thinks about profits. Compare these guesses and yours with the Inter Qurprices since they re national Harvester profit figures given below. . frozen by the Government early in 1942. So our situation today is that - - - -N rate of profit in normal times what we BUY costs us 1946 prices. (5)(5)(5)(5)(5)(5) Many large businesses, including We will be paying average hourly - - V-' ourselves, would consider it a wages 56 above 1941 For what Public guess on war profits .. 30.0? banner year if we could reach we SELL we get only 1942 prices. lln r this figure. Our average profit for This condition cannot long be .. r Jl nrnfit 4 94 the last ten years four war and met out of our present low rate average prof.t . . 4.3r six peacewas 6.43-more than of profit. a third less than what the public ..i this survey, the average ot the . . messes by the public of the war 'Xuttei figures show that our u Pris 1 H ProduC,S line profits made by industry was no(. high As a matter u plain that price relief wiU . . . thirty percent (30). ot-tnct the entire farm machinery needed to meet the increased But in the tour war veavs ot intlst'rv is a low profit industry Wage and material costs which 19 12, 1943, 1944, and 1945, the 7 e Fede?a, Trade Com- We must carry, prohtsot International Harvester mission published a list of 76 in- We regret this necessity. We Company averaged only . . . 4.9 dustries ranked in order of their prefer to lower prices, when pos- on sales Less than one sixth of q(. profitg to aales. The farm sible, rather than raise them and (i'.it the general public "guessed machinery industry was 57th on we know our customers prefer to tor all industry the list have us do that. We had hoped to For this period, the year by " ' be able to "hold the line," at least, year per cent of profits on sales current I H Prices ' But we do not see how we can was; 1942-7.34, 1943-5.59, What About Current oid operating at a loss if our 19443.95,19453.93. When the War ended and we prices continue to rem r. at their planned our peace-time produc- present frozen leveL We will tion, we had hoped to be able to jvJOT "cut corners" on any of our (5)(5)(5) M J serve our farmer customers at the products, because QUALITY IS W game level which has held since THE FOUNDATION OF OUR Public ?uess on peace profits 18.0 1942, regardl s of war time in- BUSINESS. creases in cos ... :t wages and ma- 0ur cust0mers can be certain If four pre-war year that we will seek no more than a W Vfii iverage profit . . 1.1 1? .NT F"5 moderate profit, both because of fn iiis,rtX our policies and because we have In the four peace years of 1938, - mpiowis jX ego V approximately 300 competitors 1939, 1940, and 1941, the profits 3g fighting us vigorously for your of International Harvester Com- -- R lK business Our request for price pany averaged . . . 7.17. This is mtintms nt relief will be no more than is nec- uvll under half of what the public t essary to insure continued service "guessed" for all industry to that time But re- to our customers, continued work cTn't developments have forced a for our employees, and . reason- FA'R CD ' " O ange in PlanS' 8 retUrn ' --"' "j inTERriATIOHAL n" I H ten-year average is less than If m m i, The survey indicates the public PIAFFPQTPFt I f knows that in our economy prof- L J ,i U I Uli 11 tsj its are indispensable. And the majority regard 10 as a fair " DEATH MDERFOOT That's what a good DDT insecticide insecti-cide means to many insects when rprayed or painted on w:ndow sills, light cords and other places where they like to rest. When DDT gets on their feet it paralyzes them; in a few hours the paralysis reaches the entire body and the insect dies. The surface painted with DDT remains re-mains "death underfoot" to insects for weeks. . .sometimes 'for months. It's the modern, convenient, economical eco-nomical way to control insect pests around the home . .and it's safe, sure and lasting if you get. . . . WATKINS INSECTICIDE PAINT It contains 5 D. D. T. Applied on screens, window sills, and light cords, it will kill flies for -weeks. It controls bedbugs, roaches, ants, fleas, carpet beetles, moths and many other insects. It is inexpensive inex-pensive and easy to apply. HARVEY A, DEAN RURAL WATKIXS DEALER Phone 36-J Milford WTOinllllJlH-ll .! Mr. and Mrs. A. Louder of Springville were week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Will Bond. AND Courteous Service I j New- Decorations Nice Furnishings Luxurious Baths ; MILFORD HOTEL j The Friendly Hotel i We're Planning 1946 SPEEDBOAT RACES for Beaver County g3S CHAMPION Outboard Motors are yj scheduled for delivery late in May CHAl.jPfnH r eSrl June- ORDER NOW V y 'I r I U 1 1 to be sure of getting yours there ' 'JTT I W lTl won-t be nianj. of them- Orders S filled in sequence first come, first served. 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