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Show i i f WASHINGTON. When you want to do a little Pollyanna stunt and bo glad, glad, glad after paying ?19 7o for a pair of shoes, just open a recent report of the Federal Trade Commission Commis-sion and sec what the "big five" packers do about leather a produce which sometimes enters partly Into the manufacture of shoes. "The packers' storage facilities and strong financial position make it possible pos-sible for them to manipulate tho markets mar-kets and dispose of their product without regard to supply and demand. It is admitted in the correspondence of the big packers that when leather iwas In enormous demand, certain of the 'big five' hoarded hides in such immense quantities for the purpose of inflating the already unreasonable prices that (to quote their own correspondence): cor-respondence): 'We are forced to pack them in our collars and outside In tha open, where we have no place to go with any more.' " ' W. Jctt Lauck is an industrious chap in the matter of figures. He just loves figures. He gets up in tho morning and has statistics for break-fust, break-fust, and then for dejeuner he fakes a bowel of statistics with a little sugar ..uu jwuii. uu muni, kuuu mis incu stastistlcs for lunch with a little fat entree lopped off with some statistcs a la mode and dollar signs noirB During the war he was secretary to the War Labor Board. Before that he was special statician for the organized railroad laborers Lately he has been again special statistical eounsol for railroad committees applying for In- j creases in wages. It is Lauck who shows that when a pair of shoes increase in-crease $3.60 labor only gets 15 cents of this Increase, less than one-twentieth of the advance, no |