' jKEDFORD MATE TRTBUJJE, MTOFQED. OREOON-, TUESDAY. 'APRTTj 27, 1020.
i
TEMPEST
IS
are to be
sistauee
tried here through the as-
was placed by an agent of t" t'niteil
States department of agriculture at
more than $1,000,000. In August,
1919, alone. $292,000 worth of food
was sold at prices under the current
list which governed retail dealers.
of public-spirited citizens.
I almost entirely on the c
I unit bust
niTW i l ellent record of a
Ul II ( w'1'1''1 uns lu'iintaine
CAUSED By GUM
TRIED
inblic market
ed for a six-
inoulli-' period last vear. The public
" t market was more or le-s an exchange
Conn., April '2ti.-! place for farm anil garden products,
'oiniuuiiitv bavin-;' The value of commodities exchanged
KILLING IN 1919
WATERVU'HY,
Get the papers to build tires, lOe
oar handle, this offlco. ti
Experiments in
LessThan A Nickel
a Week
This is all that Swift & Com
pany's profit cost the average
American family in 1919.
Here are the figures and author
ities for them.
The average consumption of
meat per person for a year is about
180 pounds (U. S. Government).
The average American family is
42 persons (U. S. Census).
Swift & Company's profit from
all sources in 1919 averaged less
than 4 cent per pound on all
products including meat.
This averages for the family less than the
price of
1 cigar per week for father, or
1 street car fare per week for mother, or
1 package of gum per week
for the children.
The complex service which we
furnish the public is efficient and
economical. The cost to the public
in the shape of profit is too small to
be noticeable in the family meat bill.
Swift & Company, U. S. A.
THE WORK WE
' ' TURNOUT
Is fully the equal of hand work
in all things except cost. You'll
be amazed at how much of both
the Interior and exterior portion
of a house we can supply; how
handsome they are and how
reasonably priced. See us before
building or remodelling.
.Medford Planing Mill
Xi:V YORK. April 27. Reeent no
tion bv the New York Hetail Shoo
Millers' association, for limitation
of profit on "standard" footwear
that is shoes sellint; for $10 or less
a pair anil which do not carry n lux
urv tax, has created what nii"ht be
called a "tempest in a shoe shop" nil
over the United States.
The tempest was caused bv a lit
lie item wired lrom Pew i ork on
March 22, to the effect that the fede
ral authorities had nnnoiinceil thev
had been informed bv John Slater.
president of the local retail dealers
association, that "standard" shoes
would be reduced during the sprir.tr
and summer. It was published in
mauy newspapers and pater ami
mater himilias, with lots of little feet
to bo shod, chuckled over the ttluil,
uooil news at ninnv a supper table
The item read :
"NKW M.WK, ftlnreh 22. I'necu
of standard shoes will bo reduced
during the spring: and summer. John
Slater, president of the Kctail Sho:
Dealers' association, announced to
day, in a communication to Arthur
Williams,, federal food adininistrator
lielnilers at a recent meeting de
cided to be content with a sninlle
margin of profit, Mr. Slater said. Ko-
duct'ons, however, will not applv to
'nil kinds of fancy and ultra-fasliion-
able footwear.'
"The action of the retail shoe deal
ers, Mr. Yilliams said, probably nro
saered the beirinnim; of a neneral nur-
rowinir of profit margins in other
wear'nir apparel." '
The news spread in the trade, how
ever, nnil soon dealers, jobbers and
manufacturers beunn to bombard Mr.
Slater with inquiries as to the basis
for his assertion. Meanwhile, Mr.'
Slater had been inlerroiruted here bv
the Associated l'ress retrardinc the
correctness of the statement attribut
ed to him and he declined to comment
on it. Whereupon Mr. Williams, for
merly Federal Food Administrator,
and Fair Price Commissioner, wus
visited, and he confirmed the state
ment sent out by the Associated
l'ress.
Mr. Williams explained that early
this sprina: the federal authorities
made an effort to reach ah under
stamliuir with New York retailers con
cerning the profits on footwear, in
his official capacity as Fair Price
Commissioner, ho said, he received on
March 22 last, a communication from
Mr. Slater as president of the New
York Hetail Shoe Dealers' associutvn
eontainine: a proposal for limitation
to a maximum of 21 to Hj per eenl
of retail profits on shoes sellinsr at
$10 or less per pair. Mr. Williams
said lie referred the pronosal to Unit
ed States Attorney Cal'fev. No action
on it has been taken bv the depart
ment of justice. Mi-. Williams has
since resinned and no successor has
been appointed. Meanwhile the re
tail price of standard shoes in' New
York remains as hiuh as ever.
NEW YORK, April 27 Xet profits
of the American Woolen eompauv for
1911) amounted to $1.'1:.41.i, Ir-ss
reserves for taxes and contingencies,
according to the annual report issued
today.
Payment of dividends on $2,800,000
of preferred stock- and $3,200,000 on
common and depreciation of $H,733,
011 left a balance of profit for the
year of $5,779.80 1.
Surplus for 1919 amounted to $12.-029,80-1,
which ndded to that of 1918
brings the total surplus to $31,754,
42(i. lteviewinir the activities of the com
pany for 1919, President William W.
Wood said in part:
"The year 1919 has been a suc
cessful one considering the very un
usual and disturbed conditions, and
the reail.iustinir of industry to a pre
war or civilian basis. At the first of
the year the cancellation of govern
ment contracts with no civilian orders
in sight left n great deal of our mfi-chincry.
"One of the tcatures oi the year
has been the ereat deniantl for fine
wool and cloth made of lino stock.
This unprecedented dcinunil for fine
wools has resulted in tremendous in
creases in prices of fine stock. Since
Febrarv, 1919, prices of these wools
have risen thirty per cent to fo'tv
per cent and at the close of the. vear
were still advancing."
Referring to the foreign business of
the company' Mr. Wood said its
port agency and . subsidiaries had
maintained branch offices in Argen
tina, Ilrazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru,
Cuba, Mexico and the countries of
northern Kuropo as well as in Ens
land, France, Helgiinn, Spain the
Philippines and South Africa.
Fiftk and North Riverside Tolephone 11
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We deal in all kinds of feeds and
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Rogue Valley Milling Co.
"Margaret Anglin is always good,
and always surprising. She Is good
because she is a natural and finely
trained artist; she is surprising be
cause she never uppears to bo what
she is, a high tension dynamo of
dramatic emotion. Her appearance
is not so much disappointing as mis
leading; she has none of the physical
embellishments that go to make up)
the conventional sex tragedienne, so
the first acquaintance always expects
the very reverse of what he finds,
and Is invariably mystified thereby.
That is he Is mystified when he
wakes up. lie wonders how she did
it. Certainly she hasn't the langor
ous eye, the pantherino lines, the
Hps of romantic experience," nor
even the orthodox wardrobe or phys
ical proportions, but how she .puts
It over! Not only puts It over but
rubs it In, and sends the onlooker out
into the night under the distinct im
pression ho has just come thru a new
and rather appalling experience.
It's art. That's the answer to Mar
garet Anglin. She is the supreme
emotional artist, as contrasted with
the supreme emotional genius. She
gets her results through brains, tech
niquc, sincerity, In spite of nature
rather than because of it.
In the Woman of Bronio, Miss
Anglin not only has a part which
peculiarly suits her but is surround
ed by a company of artiHts who at all
times render her position secure and
commanding, the sort of support
that enhances the chief role by per
fect characterization subordinated to
it. The playwright of course, con
tributed a large share to this.
All in all one of the best dramatic
offerings seen here this season, not
the most exhillrating or pleasant,
but in its genuine artistry and ap
peal, unequalled and with a perfectly
proper moral lesson attached thereto.
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ETHEL CLAYTON VIEWS
ON THE IDEAL WIFE
r.thel Clayton is one ot tho lew
motion pictiiro stars who takes
deep interest in the preparation of her
pictures into continuity form. She
has an expert knowledge 6f motion
picture technuiue mid while the scen
arist was adapting her latest film
"The Thirteenth Commandment" from
Rupert Hughes' famous novel of the
same name, Al ss Clayton was Ire
ciuently consulted. In this way the
pretty favorite, became intimately
acquainted with the story before she
started work on tho picture. Inci
dently she developed some pretty defi
nite ideas of her oVn with regard to
the, heroine, whom Mr. Hughes sets
up as the ideal modern wife.
"Mr. Hughes decries the idle and
extravagant wife," said Miss Clayton
recently, "who forces her husband
into debt in order to satisfy her
whims and considers it enough to look
pretty and dress well.. Deplume V
the heroine, is a woman like that at
first, but she sees the light, starts a
little shop of her own, und comes to
her husband-to-be only on condith n
that she bo financially independent
nnd continue to earn her own way.-
"The Thirteenth Commandment" is
shown at the Liberty thoatrc for thre'o
days, eommenc'ng today.
"Shore Acres" at Rialto.
"Shore Acros" the immortal stage
play of New England life that made
James A. Heme famous the world
over, w'll he the feuture attraction
al the liialto theatre, beginning to
morrow for tho remainder of this
week. This unusual feature is a pie
turizution of the celebrated stage
drama, which James A. Heme wrote,
produced nnd starred in throughout
the civilized world. It is a superb
picture of rural life in n sleepy New
England village on the noast of Maine,
and introduces Alice Lake as u star
in her first starring vehicle. The
management assumes its patrons f
unusual entcrluiniuent in this extra
ordinary feature which is 'a faithful
picture of New England sea-coast
life, tense with stirring drama, and
tender pnlhos. ' . .
U. S. MEMORIAL SERVICES
TO BE HELD IN FRANCE
PARIS, April '27 Atemorial day
exercises will be held at American
cemeteries in France by Paris post,
American Legion. This organization
has 100,000 francs in its treasury and
expects contributions from tho Unit
ed States to assi.-t in the purchase of
flowers and provide for other ex
penses of the dav.
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