Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1919 — SHOE PRIORS UNJUSTIFIABLE [ARTICLE]

SHOE PRIORS UNJUSTIFIABLE

Kays Report of Government <k>mmlMion After Investigation. An exhaustive government investlgationof shoe and leather prices by the federal trade conumisslan in its report to congress declares that the high price of shoes is due to excessive and unprecedented profits taken by every factor in the shoe production industry. The report says, in brief: "Taking into consideration all the circumstances, especially the circumstance that the United States was engaged in war, the large profit taken by slaughterers for hides, by shoe manufacturers and retail shoe dealers can not be Justified, and there is consequently no Justification for prices that consutners have been compelled to pay for shoes.’’