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Show OVERALL ( IAI1S FALSE MOVE Some people are raving over the overall craze. To my notion it is o-'.e of the foolest moves ever made. Do you know what the inevitable re-.-ult will be? An increase in price of overalls and the price is high enough now so high 1 cannot afford to buy them for my boy. The millionaire who is adopting i he fad is plenty able to buy hundred hun-dred dollar suits( no matter at what price they sell, but the poor printer has been in the habit of buying overalls ov-eralls because they were cheap and now by creating an abnormal demand de-mand for the humble overalls the price is rapidly going out of sight. The same applies to the cheaper meat campaign. Let the rich woman and the foolish man continue to buy i lie poor man's meat and pants and soon the poor man must pay the rich man's prices. Already the false fal-se demand has caused a scarcity of the cheaper cuts of meat and that means the prices of cheaper meats will go up to the added expense of (lie poor man's living. Let the rich have their broad cloth clothes and porter house steaks, no matter if they are expensive but let the chuok and overalls be sold as cheaply as possible. Since the above was written the following appears in the Salt Lake Herald: The overall campaign in America s the biggest publicity stunt ever milled off It originated in the fertile fer-tile brain of a New York reporter, who seeing the possibilities of the 'story' went to the biggest overall firm in the country and put the scheme sch-eme in operation. He got $10,000 for the idea and was given a job at the head of the firm's publicity department. de-partment. The stock of the company bounded bound-ed from 4 3 to 600 in a few days after af-ter the idea was sprung on the public. |