Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 17, Hammond, Lake County, 8 July 1920 — Page 6

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and are sold at a loss. You exclaim with horror if you hear that a merchant has charged or au article three times what he paid for it. But when you pay fitteen cents fcr a quart of milk, you pay three time- wht the farmer got for that. milk. And milk is sold every day, a. soou as it is received. The merchant must buy in the early spring for sale the following Christmas. And he must buy at Christmas time for sale in the spring. All the cost of buying, the interest on money and all other ccsts, of cour&t, Ml'ST be added to the price of merchandise.

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Dangerous Powers of Blackmail and the Public Misinformed. Copyright. 1920. by Star Cerrp-ny

In various cities the department of justice, acting under the Lever Act, and doubtless with tha best of intentions and integrity so far as HEADS of the departmentare concered, has been arresting merchants on charges of profiteering and holding them under bail. It is important that the public should understand what this means. Ycu read an announcement, made with a great blast of trumpets, that such and such a merchant "has been caught making a profit of one, two or three hundred per cent." EVERY merchant of any consequence makes such profits on certain lines of goods, and loses money or makes nothing cn ether lines of good3. Conducting a big mercantile enterprise is complicated, not easily controlled, but very easily jeopardized by legislation half thought out, or the acts of officials based on whim, or other motives. As a general rule, large pre fits are made on luxuries; that is to say, on things net absolutely necessary. The feeling is that those who buy such things can afford, to pay tt prcfit. Small profit or no profit is made cn necessities. For years before the war practically every store cf any consequence sold sugar, for instance, not merely without profit, but at a loss. One big Etore in Paris always sold gloves at cost or less, thus attracting the woman who came to buy l'2eg!oves to stay and buy other things that DID pay & profit.

Each merchant figures out for himself as well as he can what charge will best suit his business, considering the customers with whom he deals One will make little or no profit on a line of goods upen which another Vill feel justified in making a big profit, and vice versa. Successful merchants, on an average, charge promts that at the end of a year are not very far apart for the total. And the difference in profit is often not by any means due to the fact that me man charges more than another for a certain article, but to he fact that one man shows greaer genius in buying. The merchant who is a very good buyer, and who gets for his customers, by quick action or foresight, bargains that another cannot get, feels. FROPRELY,

that he is entitled to additional profit. j For instance, there was a great flood at Dayton, ; Ohio. Men went through the streets in rowboats. One of the first men to appear in a boat was A. L. Ellinger, of Chicago, one of the ablest business men in the United States, now unfortunately, dead. This

man, who literally worked himseir to deatn in Hit INTEREST OF HIS CUSTOMERS, as soon as he heard of the Dayton f.ood went there on a special train, jumped into a boat and went through the streets buying Jrom the owners of local stores their goods lying on the counters BELOW THE WATER. His keen intelligence tcld him what goods he could safely buy. goods in bolts so tightly wrapped that water could injure only slightly, galvanized wear, etc. He bought everything he could, sold the goods to his public far below the original ccst yet made a big profit for himself. HE WAS ENTITLED TO IT. It might have been shown that he sold some of those goods at a profit of 100 per cent, and at the same time gave his customers extraordinary bargains. Under the Lever Act now he could be put in jail for that display of enterprise.

'OTUI.G would be gained therefore by E.Vt Ol BAGIXG the production of ANYTHING In the way of near-food. OIK observation has been that the DAME who had to advertise IN order to get a husband never held

him very Inns. ANY man w ho can live up to his WIFE'S expectations need not WORHY about his chances of getting Into heaven. LATEST grounds for divorce at our house THREE Imprints of strawberry t hortcake O.V clean tnble cloth and wife's refusing Y

REGARD as rertinent or admissible' DEFENDANTS counter claim that it'

is Just aa Mt Til his tablecloth aa It Is plaintiffs.

IT doesn't do much good for the (iOR.UC N T to tell us not to speculate AS everybody thinks, for awhile THAT what he's doing Is Inv.ting. SO)lKBt)HV whose innocence Is amazing INQ11RES what congressional pork is IT is where a ten cent clapboard town f.KTS a $200. C'OO marble postoffioe Too many of our allegf-d Christians IMAGINE that a man HAS r.o business enjoying himself INSTEAD of being miserable. THE rtetchbors little boy who believes in taking THINGS as they come and being

It is Impossible to say justly that a man who charged $10 for a certain article would be a profiteer and another man an honest merchant if he sold the tame article for $7. It depends on the "overhead expense" and the trverhead" deffends not merely on rent or on salaries, but on what is actually cost to do one dollar's worth of business. You might say, hastily, that, of course, a man paying a very big rent on a very expensive street must charge more for his goods to pay hfs rent. The aseumptlon is false. If his better location enables him to sell three times aa many dollars' worth of goods per square foot of store space, he may be able to charge one-half the profit charged by a stcre in a poor neighborhood and yet make more at the end of the year than the poor neighborhood store. Every merchant is compelled to arrange his socalled "profits." That is to say, the amr.unt that he adds to his retail prices over and above his wholesale purchase prices, according to the KIND of business he does, the greater character cf his CUSTOMERS, his location and many other things. What a man adds to the prices does not mean, or cc;rse, his profit. Every big merchant charges for certain articles a hundred per cent more than what he paid for them. But no merchant makes a profit of 100 per cent or 50 per cent or even 20 per cent on the total business that he does. If a very big store does a business of thirty millions a year, that is to say, if the total amount cf money taken in. from the public amounts to thirty millions a year, the store could consider itself well off If It had a profit of 10 rer cent of the gross, or three mlllicns, at the year's end. And very few do as well as that.

The trouble with the Lever Act is that it undertakes to deal with merchandise as the government dealt, with the sale of wheat, fixing the price absolutely. That price-fixing was unjust to farmers In many regions. Such a system would be absolutely destructive of general business. A way MAY be found, and if possible should be found, to prevent profiteering. The problem cannot be solved by saying, "You shall add only so much per cent to the cost of goods This would kill enterprise, close many stores, increase retail prices everywhere and stop absolutely all dealings in certain lines. A bad feature of the present law is the danger of blackmail. There is probably in the United States not a merchant of any consequence that does not habitually sell certain articles for 100 per cent'or more above the prices at which he purchased them, while selling ethers for a trifling profit or none. Practically every merchant, therefore, is constantly ope nto a charge of profiteering and open to blackmail if anybody chooses to practice it. This is written for the information of the public, which should do its shopping intelligently, read the different advertisements, test fcr itself the prices, remembering that a man who buys tens of millions in

I EXPENSIVE goods can sell them more cheaply than

another who buys but few expensive goods, and a man who buys and sells tens of millions of INEXPENSIVE goods can tell those more cheaply than they can be sold by the man whose principal dealing ig in goods high priced. .The important thing is that people of small means, housewives, mothers with children, should acquaint themselves with VALUES, study advertisements in which merchants compete with each other and go to the stores and study values there.

When you buy goods at a big modern store, you ar, of -course, not merely paying for the goods delivered to you. You pay for the rent, for the high insurance rates, for the taxes, fcr a sufficient profit after income tax is deducted, the salaries of clerks. the losses on goods that lose their freshnes or timeliness

To say that a man who sells candy on Fifth avenue for $2 a pound, the ingredients costing not as much as forty cents, is profiteering may not be accurate. The greatest jewelry shop in the world may sell diamonds at a price that some small store cculd not possibly match, not having the buyirffe facilities. If the store charged you more than the great store for the same diamond, it would not necessarily be guilty of profiteering. Commerce that has grown up along a thousand paths through thousands of years cannot be covered as regards extortion or profiteering by a law such as the Lever Act, hastily concocted for certain purposes in war and now out cf date. CAVEAT EMPTOR, "Let the buyer- beware." must, with due punishment for misrepresentation frau

dulent weight' and measure, etc., continue to be the rule in mixed commercial transactions.

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