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Show SALESMAN PREDICTS OVERALLS WILL GO TO $5 A PAIR SOON. Hast seen the huuftde overall? 'Tis good. Mark it well. In fact, mark it up. For, like the sun on Great Britain's possessions, 'twill never go down. It seems something like this: D. W. McAllister, one of the traveling trav-eling men who keep Salt Lake on the map of the best state on earth, was speaking .of the war and trade the other day. "Yes," he remarked, "war is playing play-ing havoc to put it politely, havoc -with our grand old profession. Pry goods is my line. And the way in which this cruel war has handed the Last D wallop to our line Is similar to the same thing the Y'ankees. handed to the Hindenburg line one morning in France. "Prices of goods are playing high,-with high,-with the fixed and determined effort to go higher. There isn't a traveling man in the country but knows that we are in a war and he knows it through the periscope of the market. "Take overalls. The day of the dollar overalls is past. I expect to see the day when a pair of overalls over-alls will be wrapped up and delivered deliver-ed only after a five-dollar bill has been thrust into the cash box no change. ' "Same way with the 50c work shirt. It, too, has sounded its swan song or sweat band. Yesterday Yester-day had such things. Tomorrow will have the dollar-aud-up variety, of work shirt. "But let us not think at all that these things presage unmingled grief and gloom. The pay check will never shrink back to its former shy and unobtrusive corner In the big game. The war god of Mars has raised with level hands the price-tag price-tag and the pay check. So goo" times are coming. For everyone knows that we will win this war. If he doesn't, he's in Teuton witn the chef, that's all." |