The evening world. Newspaper, March 10, 1920, Page 17

ant = | the three years from 1916 to 1918. inclusive, net income aggregated In other words, net IS THIS PROFITEERING? | }) #iiidi"\tsite rs | ¥ three ended with the close PRGFITS OF THE PAPER TRUST zien th Pn HIGHER THAN RISING COSTS — AND INCREASE IN TAXATION In the Three Years Ending With 1918 Con-| cern’s Average Annual Net Income Has Increased 487 Per Cent. Wilh the cost of shoes and other necessities mounting higher and higher eighteen months after the armistice was declared, The Evening World to-day begins a survey of the increased profits of corporations engaged in the manufacturing and handling of clothing and food. The attention of Attorney General Palmer especially is called to The Evening World's articles. INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY There are few, if any, lines of business in which price advances during the past four years have been so pronounced as the paper business. Users of paper of all kinds are now forced to pay prices that make those which ruled four years ago seem insignificantly low. Close analysis of the, income and, ~ Anancial conditioy of paper manu- facturers makes it cleat that prosent t years, or before prices of paper along with other necessities made new altitude records @imost daily, the average annual net income of the Intern to $1,047,700. ended with the clo average annual net income was $6,151,300, an increase of 487 per cent. | In giving consideration to these flg- lures it must be borne in mind that before arriving at the net income for |the three years ended with the close, of 1918 the company not only oats | |care of all inorease in operating costs but allowed $3,600,000 for Federal in- come and excess profit taxes, deduc- | tions which it was unnecessary to | make prior to 1917. Whereas from the time of ongani- sation up to 1916 the company tailed to show any income available for common dividends, swollen profits of | 1916, 1917 and 1918 enabled the com- | y to show earnings aggregating | 74.15 for the common stock for those | years, | The report of earnings for 1919 is! _ | not yet available. It will not be made | public until April 28 next. But well informed Wall Street authorities ex- | pect that earnings will be so large as | to overshadow the big earnings of | stoc had dividend return. The $19, absolute! 008 common stock no prospect of a In fact, inability of record high prices have not been! the company to fully earn its pre- | 1918, and that the halance available forced by rising costs of manufacture | ferred dividéhd resulted in an accumu-| for common dividends will be shown nor by higlier. taxe On the con- | lation of 33% per cent. dividends due ed _ te. th it will hee “fia : Jon that issue. his proves tp be the case it will mean trary, it would seem that the bulk |", it International Paper's income | that $100 has been earned for the com- | of the increase in wone to fatten the surplus account of | Paper costs have | accounts for the past four years, |Mon stock in the past four years. thanks to greatly PSP ET = pA increased prices, | Various manufacturers. | present a sharp contrast with income | | Barem Blosveres carer aie | ‘ ccount@of preceding years, For in-|, Baron Blosveren, a well-known Man- An exce illustration of this bal bcortoa oot P i M- | nattan fur importer and manuta furnished by the a¢counts of the In- ternational Paper Company, common- ly referred to as the “Paper Trust.” In the brief space of three years it has risen from a position of comparative | poverty to plutocratic affluence. i The International Paper Company firet got its grip on the paper trade in 3898, when it acquired nineteen | in New England States. It la creased its hold by acquiring of eleven additional mills companies, power companies, this country and Canada. . In the eight years from 1909 to 1915, inclusive, net income of the company totalled $8,382,000. In long illness. atone Avenue, | vived by his wife and two sons. 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