Show I j The Middleman P PROFOUND conviction that the middleman is is primarily r responsible for the high cost of lhing living liv liv- ing mg has ilas become widespread Amateur and professional professional professional economists ss bristle with devices to eliminate him the goal foal for which the they strive e is a return to the primitive e methods that obtained when there were few railroads no ito telephones and no delivery automobiles The eye of the nation is turned for forthe forthe ithe the moment from the he great question of production to o that of distribution from one ono to the other of the lie two great forces forc-es that ha have c to do do with ith the he feeding feed feed- ing ng ing of a numerous people The middleman reached his present great reat status latus in iii our modern life because he was as needed the ic producer bus busy at his task of growing rowin that upon which which Inch the worM world feeds needed a representative The he consumer unable to present him himself elf personally before tho the producer and purchase his hh wares wel- wel the producers producer's representative I Like iko the astute as- as ute tute money monc lender who collects collect a commission Commission from hit his us employer as well as the borrower the tho greedy middleman has gradually extended his field until he 10 absorbs as ns his liis fee many times the original cost costor or of f the article handled The middleman is is a n. condition and not a a. theory If f he is eliminated s something must take uke his place Are t we o able abe to return to the tho good old lays days when mother coer covered d her unkempt back hair with a n sunbonnet sun- sun bonnet sr grasped a n market basket hasket and hi hied cd her forth to o purchase the famil family supplies And if we could do o u we wish to do so J i I I In Iii the days of th the old old fashioned fashioned mother she carried her purchases and the bill came by mail K Nowadays 0 S 'S the goods floods are arc brought by bJ a 1 boy and the nil bill in a n delivery ery wagon Can Cnn we e hamstring the middleman and reinstate mother on her throne JIrM |