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Show TRUCK TRAFFIC REDUCES PRICES If 65 cen's out of each dollar the ultimate consumer now pays for food go to those who have handled this I foodstuff since the producer was paid i his 86 cents for it. can this charge for' handling be reduced in a great degree j by requisitioning ihe motor truck on a larqer scale in the present system of i jistributlon' Ship-by-truck advocates fire erv jphatic In answering in the affirmative The facts ihey muster to their support are set forth in a letter sent out by j E. Farr, chief of the Firestone sblp-y- ; tiuck bureau, of Akron. Ohio, which has a branch in Salt Lake at 31 West Fourth South street. "The system at present used in rair-keting rair-keting food Is glaringly expensive nrd therefore wrong," says Mr Farr "New and better conceived methods in the distribution system are necessary, 'he ( problem involved without doubt ?ur , passes every other In the economlt field at this time of general business l econstniction. "The trend of the time is to give the producer a greater share of thdt Which he produces. This applies :o the farmer as well as to the mechanic At the same time, the chief effort la put forth to reduce the cost of living to the consumer Between producer and consumer lies the distributor. A study Of the lacts and statistics BhOWS that he and they who assist him are taking an undue share of the morv thrown into the market, at the expense ex-pense of producer and consumer. j "John Dlllan, bead of the bureau of foods and markets of New York Cit) I declares Chat ihe ultimate consume gives two-thirds of his dollar to the! system of distribution That Is, i' I costs not less than 6r cents to han.'le ; 35 cents worth of foodstuff. "k has been mentioned In several reports that the California Fruitgrow-.trs' Fruitgrow-.trs' association has received on an av-; av-; cragc during the past four years $1.60 8. crate for oranges. During this same period the average paid by the cor-sumer cor-sumer has been $4 80 a crate " no |