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Show Room For Saving In 1930, for the first time in the history of the nation, the Census Bureau sought to obtain some definite data in regard to the distribution of various products prod-ucts According to the figures obtained tho total merchandise business, including retailing and wholesaling amounted to $123,000,-000,000. $123,000,-000,000. In commenting upon the results re-sults thus obtained Dr. Juliu! Klein says: 'The first surprise Bprung upon all of us by this huge, nation-wide tabulation was ,- the unnecessary costs and wastes in our distribution system are not merely eight or ten billions annually an-nually as seme of us had supposed They are probably very much more. They may amount to as much are $100 to $500 annually for each of the 25,000,000 families in the United States. Just thin.-; of what you cculd do with thai in terms of new carpets, new radios, a new car. enc new furniture' And what It would mean in Jobs' It would put on the pav-roll millions mil-lions of workmen t nough to solve our whole unemployment problem. Is not this wortn striving for'"' The costs of distribution represent repre-sent an Item which can be reduced re-duced consideiably in the interest both of the producer and corsura-r. corsura-r. It is in '.his part of the cost? tht the attention cf business men is being directed in order that unnecessary wastes and duplications duplica-tions may be avoided. |