The evening world. Newspaper, March 30, 1920, Page 9

ROCKWOOD & CO.’S PROFITS ON COCOA AND CHOCOLATE Prices Advanced Faster Than Operating Ex- pensés—Dividend Balance Jumps From $2.84 to $31 Per Share. With the cost of shoes and other necessities mounting higher dnd higher eighteen months after the armistice was declared, The Kvening World to-day continues 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 catled to The Evening World's articles, ROCKWOOD & CO. Since the Federal Prohibition Law was enacted by Congress there has teen a large increase in demand for sweets of various kinds, and, with this! increase in demand, prices have risen perpendicularly. Manufacturers have advanced the explanation that they have been forced to advance prices because of higher cost of sugar and higher wage costs. Yet, if the accounts of Rockwood & Co. may be accepted as an accurate gauge of how other man- | ufacturers are faring, it appears that prices are being advanced faster than increased operating expenses warrant. Rockwood & Co, are one of the|~ ere eeeenee ae three largest umanufacturers and re- | sales reached a new high record mark. finers of chocglate, cocoa and cocoa! Rack in 1916, Rockwood & Co. did butter in the United States, Its plant | $ 8 of business, out of which in Brooklyn at present contains over d $217,789 for net earnings 450,000 square feet, or more th after paying expenses of every kind. eight acres of floor space, with large!In 1919 its sales amounted to $12- additions nearing completion |797,084, an increase of 253 per cent. Since higher prices for cocoa andjover 1916, and its net earnings chocgiate were put in force on the |amounted to $1,608,655, an increase of pretext that such advanced prices |595 per cent. over those of 1916. were made necessary by higher costs| As indicating that chocolate and of labor and raw material, profits of)}cocoa prices have been advanced | Rockwood & Co. have shown phenom-|more in the last year than higher mal expansion. = + operation costs alone warranted, it Not only have gross sales shown a/miglt be pointed out that while gross remarkaivle increase with each suc- 8 for 1919 showed an increase of ceeding year since 1916, but in 1919, per cent. over 1918, net earnings after higher prices for cocoa and|after allowing for increased expenses chocolate had full effect on earnings,| rose 180 per cent. The margin of the margin of profit on each dollar of| profit on each dollar of business in Why Pi Chinese | Womens > when the pointed-toed, high heeled shoes that American women wear are scarcely Jess barbar- ous? They bend the toes into an unnatural sha, Unless branded onthe sole, it is net an Educator bunions, ealiseeed) arches, ingrowing wea nails and other foot miser- ies are the inevitable results. Put your feet into shoes shaped to fit feet — good looking, conservative Edu cators, that “let the feet grow as they should,” wh) rigen to $10 per share for 1918 and in| $1. SHOW PERPENDICULAR RISE) st 223s 2.28 Pa | rece mana eo graphically shown by the following’ tabulation: available th All of wre tends to explain | Mobile highwaymen, chocolate candy now costs @ pound. nish the bail, Give Concert. give a concert (o-morrow evening, at} the 8 o'clock, in Wi School at Irving Place and 16 Miss Carolyn Cone Cate Guerrier, Margia Rarned ton Net Franklin Simon 8 Co. Fifth Avenue, 37th and 38th Streets MISSES’ NAVY BLUE TRICOTINE OR POIRET TWII L SUITS 59.50! Suits which would be excellent at a much higher price. suits which are doubly excellent at this particularly low price ROUTH longs always to achieve two things - to be vividly alive to the latest whims A of fashion, and, at the same time, to retain its own bright individuality. These suits meet both demands. ETON JACKETS, PONY MODELS, BELTED STYLES, SKIRTS PLAIN OR PLEATED They offer, each and all, the perfection of Franklin Simon & Co. tailorin}, in the most favored materials, at a price whose moderateness speaks for itself. Sizes 14 to 20 years MISSES’ SUIT SHOP—Second Floor shapely and healthy. Then you can forget foot ills. For your protection re- member, when buying, that unless the shoe is branded EDUCATOR on the sole, it is not an Educator. Mace by Rice & Hutchins, Ine Reston, Mase. ne 2 SHOE® . FOR MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN “creme iim aA) EXTRA BIG SPECIAL 1250 MEN'S Rain Coats Be Very Fine Quality. Latest Styles. GOODYEAR WATERPROOF G Guaranteed Waterproof. All Sizes. 840 Broadway, peg NEVER SOLD $ 10° SPECIAL AT Corner 13th St. OUR ONLY STORE. No Mail Ord. rOR BALANCE OF WEEK West 42nd Street MISSES SUITS 3) 24): Stern Brothers (Between 5th and 6th Aves.) GIRLS’ APPAREL This Department—now at the height of completeness with its Spring and Summer styles—-will feature from its extensive assortments Two Remarkable Values for To-morrow’s Selling: (Regularly up to $75.00) Attractive models developed in Poiret ‘Twill or Tricofine; smart belts and pockets; sizes 14, 16 and 18 years, (Regularly up to $26.50) A variety of styles fashioned in Tan or Copenhagen Blue Polotone; circular and waistcoat model Capes, one style with shaw] collar of Checked Angora. Coats, are fashioned in Navy Blue Wool Serge, Polotone or Polo Cloth for Juniors or Girls; sizes 8 to 16 years. THIRD FLOOR Lecked Up After Robbery Charge Agsinest Them Is Dismissed. Miss Mary Baker and Mrs. Mildred Brazer, both twenty-two, who were ar- rested with six alleged Brooklyn auto- were freed from he rothery charge to-day, but held in 000 bail a» material witnesses in the the girls were locked up, Bail was fixed by Magis- ‘The Police Band of New York wifl|trate Geismar in the Flatbush Cour uest Of Assistant District At- West 43rd Street ‘MISSES’, JUNIORS’ and Special at $49.75 GIRLS’ CAPES and COATS...Special at $18.75 Janitor Who Broke Up Crap Game TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 1920. IS THIS PROFITEERING? 14 eaten a eee pet GIRLS HELD AS WITNESSES) SHOT BY BOY GAMBLER. is Fy have expended since much higher pea chocolate and cocoa prices became effective is given by the balance available for common dividends. In Loses Bye Sight. Shot in the right eye by a four- teen-year-old carious condition boy under suapicton promise to turn him over to the police when he re- turns to his home. ing since Janitor Hess had been annoyed for o'clock boy whore gam craps he had interrupted, David Janitor of the house at No, 225 Hast 110th Str was reported to-day to be in a pre- six-atory FE Hees raleed ‘his pital it was op the was a ad grave in, Deared throi charged an Mystertously Shety Dies. ‘William Olsen of No. tenei Wite. He and three companions were ding the identity of| orm the Lebigh Valley Ratlroed & young woman asphyxiated at No. al shots from behind Pelton Avenue, West New Brighton, |Qlsen was the ony one Staten Island, last Friday, may be ii Me ead detentiven; cleared up by the arrival here of Pri-/nave been part of a ‘The parents of the trele it, The He has been misa- Jast night, ~ Stern Brothers! 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Specialat $9.50 Value $13.50 REEFERS — Full belted | BOYS’ NORFOLK SUITS with fancy Wool Mixtures extra knickerbockers; neat assort- Blue Serge; sizes 8 to 8 ment of colorings; well tailored; sizes 7 to 17 years, Special $11.75 $21.50 Jorsey City, died in the Union Hospital Dead Woman 1s| {here this morning from a dullet wound,