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Show profitable. If tho jobbers can not bi induced to keep out of the retail trad, a buyer?' exchange should bo formwd, as has boon done in San Francisco and Philadelphia, and kill the jobbing trade, but this course 6hould be resorted re-sorted to only In case of tho absolute failure of arbitration. In Mr. Newberg's opinion, one ot the greatest causes of loss to the retailer re-tailer and of Injustice to the consumer consum-er Is the carrying of "accommodation goods" at a loss. Those goods are chiefly sugar, coaloll, flour and packing pack-ing house goods. They are handled at a loss to tho retail merchant, and the public Is, In consequence, forcod to make good the difference In the prices it pays on other goods. It Is j obviously- through this Inequitable syt- tern of profits that the trusts, such as the sugar 'trust, for instance, securo transportation of their goods for practically prac-tically nothing. With regard to the present high cost of living, Mr. Newberg doclares that the retailers are responsible only so far as they submit without protest to the injustice thrust upon them b wholesalers and producers. As a matter mat-ter of fact, the responsibility for the Increasing cost of living lies with the manufacturers. This can be remedied remed-ied only by the close organization of the retailors and the jobbers for the purpose of restraining exploitation by the manufacturers. ; WHY PRICES ARE HIGH i A large number of retail merchants, jobbers and manufacturers In Salt Lake last week, listened to J. R. New berg, a prominent retail merchant and business man of Los Angeles. New. berg is on his way to Chicago to address a conference there, for the purpose of endeavoring to arrive at some agreement among mannfactui ers, jobbers and retailers whereby the manufacturer will manufacture, tho jobber will job, nnd the retailor will distribute. Mr. Newberg spoke upon much the same subjects as those which will en gross the attention of the Chicago conference He says that the prcsont problem of the retailers Is to enden or to ameliorate the sufferings of tho consuming public by ieeing that necessities ne-cessities of life aro distributed at a reasonable price to protect them, selves so that they may make a fair profit, and to place the responsibility for the present high prices where It belongs. In the first place, says Mr. New. berg, there are too many Jobbers and too many retail merchants. He doeh not at all favor the Idea of entirely doing away with the Jobber, or "middleman." "mid-dleman." tout declares In favor of a reduction of tho number, and says that "the time Is soon coming when mauy now engaged in distribution must turn to the ralsdng of potatoes Instead of continuing in tho sharing of graft." With the force of dlstrlb utera, both wholesale and retail, reduced re-duced to a number actually needed for the work of dlntrlbution, Mr. Newberg declares, a new arrangement arrange-ment and perfect understanding mirst he established between the retailer and the Jobber. Tho jobber must keep entirely out of tho retail trade, and la leturn the retafler must pay to the Jobber prlcef bin enough to make the jobbing buines reasonably |