The evening world. Newspaper, March 16, 1920, Page 19

a —™e \.. 242 Per Cent. Gre. World to-day continues a survey of engaged in the manufacturing and | fhe Evening World's articles. pany, probably the largest concern of ‘Unlike most other producers these erticles have dealt with, the United Drug Company retails as well as manufactures its products. Well known concerns which it controls are the Hegeman Drug Company, Jaynes Dmg Company, Riker Laboratories Company, United Candy Company, National Cigar Stands, Louis K. Lig- tt Company, as well as about a ; ‘other concerns. The total num- é ber of Liggett-Riker-Hegeman stores lecated throughout this country and - Canada is 200. yar years ago, or in 196, the T ‘Uni Drug Company had gross , wales of $33,404,000 In the following . ord they jumped to $40,716,000 and in Y 91% to $61,028,000. The increase in sales in this period was a litthk more than 65 per cent. But during this time net revenue from sales increased a 6. Oa cent. ¢ explanation lies in the fact that where the cost to the company of goods sold in 1916 was 66.7 per cent. of wales this ratio dropped to 63.9 Inasmuch as it is well known that prices of all materials, of labor, &c., were advanced very) substantially in ¢ years, the greater proportionate Increase in net revenue can only be ecounted for by the fact that prices finished goods were raised more sharply than manufacturing costs | | alone warrant: A more graphic illustration of the 7 results of this policy of price advanc- ing and the building up of profits at the expense of consumers is found in & comparison of the dividend balance earned in 1918 with those of 1917 and 1916. In the latter year the United Drug Company, fter paying taxes, making unusually liberal depreci dividen: oJ 1 | rae =e se) T With the cost of shoes and other necessities mounting higher and higher eighteen months after the armistice was declared, The Evening The attention of Attorney General Palmer especially is called to ‘That manufacturers and retailers of drugs, medicines, toilet articles and goods of like nature have fully held their own in the price-raising cam- m which big business interests have indulged in during the past three four years is indicated by the record of profits of the United Drug Com- {000 | trained ho’ ‘Telephone Ringing ater Than in 1916. the increased profits of corporations handling of clothing and food. IS THIS PROFITEERING? | UNITED DRUG COMPANY BUSINESS ~. SHOWS RECORD PROFITS OF | ** JTS EXISTENCE FOR 1919. Like Other Big Corporations, Its Earnings Have More Than Kept Pace With Costs— Nathan Zimmerman Exonerated. Nathan Zimmerman of No. 120 Tin- ton Avenue, Bronx, proprietor of the Bronx Terminal Warehouse, who was arrested Feb. 28, charged with receiving $3,000 worth of tires stolen from the | discharged. erling Tire Company of Rutherford, | N. J., and found in the warehouse, wi | ed yesterday by Magistrate Tobias in Ste tre its kind in the country, common share outstanding. In 1917 the common dividgnd balance Jumped to $10.40 per share and in 1918 to $17.50. And the accumu- lated surplus earnings at the end of 1918 were 242 per cent. larger than at the of 1916. Up to 1917 a dividend o} in that year 3% per cent. was paid. In 1918 the company paid a regular cash dividend of 5 per cent. and an extra dividend of 1 per cent. Last year the company increased the regu- jar rate on the common stock to 7 per cent, ed RINGLINGS READY FOR ANNUAL VISIT Regular Midnight Parade to Gar- den Set for Friday Night. Next Friday afternoon eighty-five ex- tra long railway cars made into special trains bearing the parapher and zoological collection Brothers, Barnum aud leave the shows’ sport, Conn. | of the R: | Bailey | winter quarters | the Ne : ford Railroad the fter detraining, vening. will be the an- ills Avenue | to zith Square D. welrd procession of animals and re the Garden shortly before mid- night and trained employees quick'y will establish the great show im ita met- ropolitan home, ery hour night and day thereafter to strenuous reheat Messrs. Ringling Brothers ise many innovations in this you orl | wing red and gold wagons will) | Sees en bt meas oe Foe ee #Bethea You will hear it in your telephone receiver after you have given the number to the operator and while you are waiting for the called telephone to answer. It is a low burr-r-ing sound lasting several seconds, followed by a distinct pause and then a re- newal of the burr-r-ing sound. It starts as soon as the connection is estab- lished and keeps up until the telephone you called answers or the operator tells you they do not answer. This ringing signal is designed to give the calling party definite audible notice that the work of putting up the connection has been performed by the operators concerned, Complying with the request of the Newspaper Pub- lishere’ Association to cooperate in the conservation of newsprint during the present emergency, this adver- tisement has been reduced from the usual 3-col. 10-in. size to 2-col. 10-in. size, ————— NEW YORK TELEPHONE CO. ; Morrtsania St. Ni in” con: Neighbors! Unton New York's first THE EVENING WOR Police Court. that the tires were stored by who called himself Max and said represented the Bronx Trading Com- ham ‘Kempel of No NAME “BAYER” ON Tt appeared | wilt meet to-night at the The union was ‘organ’ auspices of the Bridi Counell, and It includes one on Henry Si Catherine and Market 8t Sommittee has he tenements on the o! er Con 695 the t ™ To-Night. Neighbors’ Union De lems will be discussed. GENUINE ASPIRIN Prescribed by physicians for over eighteen years—Always say “Bayer” | r The “Bayer Cross” marked on tablets means you are getting the genuine “Bayer Tablets of Aspirin,” proved safe by millions of people. In the Bayer package are proper directions for Colds, Headache, Toothache, Earache Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Lumbago, Neuritis and for Pain. Handy tin boxes of twelve tablets cost only a few cents. Druggists also sell larger packages, Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticacidester of Salicylicacid The largest electric sign in the world advertises WRIGLEYS At Times Square, Broadway NEW YORK CITY 250 FEET LONG—70 FEET HIGH MADE UP OF 17.286 ELECTRIC LAMPS The fountains play, the trade mark changes, reading alternately WRIGLEY’S SPEARMINT, DOUBLEMINT and JUICY FRUIT. and the Spearmen “do a turn.” This sign is seen nightly by approximately 500,000 people, from all over the world. Sealed Tight- Kept Right! WRIGLEW'S JUICY FRUI CHEWING GLM “. panei nse te gee pln —aemne neni teense LD, TUESDAY, MARCH 16, Jacob Riis ‘@ man /| Settlement House, No. 48 Henry Street. e; under the nunity of will be awarded to the best kept building. Neighborhood prob- 1920. “ANNIVERSARY SALE Of My Brooklyn Store, The Adler Bidg., 44 Flatbush Ave. SOUVENIRS TO THE LADIES A handsome pair of Tailor Shears will be pre- sented to all accompany- ing ladies on this First Anniversary of my Brooklyn Store — The Adler Building. This anniversary sale will be celebrated at all my New York Stores, including idl Tied S. HENRY ADLER A Real Honest-to-Goodness Money Saving Event—the good old-fashioned kind that will give every man an oppor- mediate clothing needs. A Sale that everybody will be talking about—no thrifty man should miss— there is every indication that men’s clothing prices are going higher, Now is your time tomake a SAVING. Come in tomorroy EARLY. And Hundreds of Other Makes and Styles * Thousands of yards of these HIGH GRADE WOOLENS AND WORSTEDS that are new Spring designs and styles, this the GREATEST SALE in history of the Tailoring Business I will make to your order a Three-Piece Suit at this $25 00 Suit to order ... Me This range consists of Blues—Tweeds, Cassimeres, Cheviots : and Fancy Worsteds. THE GREATEST READY-TO-WEAR CLOTHING Ready-to-Wear | OPPORTUNITY in yeurs starts here tomorrow. I Overcoats | **t side several hundred models of new Spring de- York | this past dull season and place them on sale begin- ning tomorrow at prices less than cost to make now. $35.00 Values, My Price . 17.50 my New Store at Newark Mr. Reader— FT tunity to actually save money on his im- especially when everybody knows that sold for $35, $40 or more by all other tailors, and to make extremely remarkable low figure. signs made in my own daylight workrooms during York Wear and called for Over conta Gaia $37.50 Values, My Price . 21.75 $40.00 Values, My Price . 25.00 price as towns | $45.00 Values, My Price . 27.50 | $15.75 | $50.00 Values, My Price . 30.00 S. HENRY ADLER 44 Flatbush Avenue, Nr. Nevins St., Brooklyn, N. Y. OPEN EVENINGS UNTIL 60 P. M.—SATURDAYS UNTIL 48 P, mt. Daylight Workrooms, 505 STATE ST., Brooklyn, N. Y. \NEWARK: if MY NEW STORE—186 Market Street, where Murray’s used to be. = i 1432 Broadway, Nr. 40th St., next door to Empire Theatre HO Nasseu St, Corner John 3 Church St. Ne. Liberty 10.7 P. M.SATURDAY OPEN UNTIL 7 P. mM. Oren ONT 8 Pw The twice baked values:of wheat and matted barley, blended into-a cereal that is full of flavor-and prime nutrition. A scand-by for the businessman as well as. the little folks at home GrapeNuts Needs No Sugar Made by Postum Cereal Co. Battle Creek, Mich,