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Show CHAIN STORE WAR ON Retail Parasites of Wal Street Money Powers Soon to Get Jast Desert . . The nation-wide protest against the principle of the chain store is finding concrete expression in several of the states where organ-ized organ-ized efforts are being made to lead the people away from the penny-wise and pound-foolish poli cy of patronizing chain stores to the detriment and ultimate destruction des-truction of home town merchants and community institutions. In other words, the people are at last becoming aroused to the real dangers of these insidious retail stores and a chain store war is im States Take Action i In the states of Minnestota, Kentucky, New Hampshire, Indi ana, Lousisiana, Texas,, Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, West Virginia, Michigan, Maryland,, Wisconsin and Illinois as well as in many other states, organized efforts are being made to bring about the necessary legis lative control of chain store a cti vities within those states. Pre ltninary investigations are now being carried on, and salary evi dence is being accumulated that the chain stores do not bear their fair share of the burden of government, gov-ernment, pay low salaries and wages, wa-ges, sell inferior goods, 'give short weight and measure, invest in no property, and prey upon the.peo pie "in divers and sundry ways. The Protest spirit - is growing rapidly tinder- efficient leadership, leader-ship, the thing which has been lacking in the past sporadic attempts at-tempts to curb this growing menace men-ace to independent business and the people. The national house of representatives repres-entatives recently unanimously voted an appropriation of approx imarely $150,000 to finance an in veatigation of chain stores by the Federal Trade Commission. A spirited denouncement Was made on the floor of the House of the enroachment of the chain stores upon independent merchants and business men. It was pointed out that the states have failed to relate re-late the chain stores by taxation, an dthat it is the duty of the fed eral government to do so under the anti-trust laws. |