The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-01-24
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Monies of meat packing In which by
products produce the profits, have
been given standing as real conserva-
tlon. There Is no industry in which
the selling price follows the cost
more closely" Louis Il. Swift said
In his report as president of Swift &
Company at the recent annual meet
ing of that company. Swift & Com
pany's result sheets show less than
8 per cent profit on sales during 1910.
A profit is madeI ,op 3 bysproducts,
which were wasted ''before we had
learned how to utilize them by the aid
OF modern machinery and scientific
handling" That high prices penalized
the packers was the aspect put upon
the cost of living by his explanation
for the increase, OF capital from $780,
100000 to- $75.0O0,0O0 by MIR! Swift who
said: I'VE. are obliged to pay high
prices for raw material than for
merly and IL takes more money to do
business. now than In times past. II
also takes more capital for construc-
tion of plants and buildings and the
operation of facilities necessary to
handle and keep our various products
up to the high standard demanded by
our customers and government re-
quirements. During periods of plen-
teous supply, and lower prices for
live stock and finished product, the
producer may be dissatisfied, and
criticise the packer. During periods
of short supply, and consequently
higher prices for live stock and
Anfuhn1 D..
dissatisfied and criticisc the packer
Thus 1t is seen that the packer Is in
| deed 'middleman, but the fact is
lost sight of that with varying costs
and varying selling prices the packer
receives a uniformly small margin Of
profit on sales."In the controversy
over efficiency OF railroad operations
the rule was conceded that OF all
possible causes of high prices waste
is the most potent; that scientific
management has disclosed waists
| reaching an enormous aggregate, even
now little realized; and that scientific
management has presented the only
| workable means yet devised for avoid
ing the greater part of this waste.
| The need of automatically stopping
trains when stop signals are dsre-
garded or not seen by engineers has
been given renewed attention by Chi
-cago railway officials as result of two
disasters recently on eastern roads
equipped with automatic block sig
nails. In the wreck at Batavia. New
York, on the New York Central sys-
TEN, due to fog which obscured the
cautionary signal 1000 feet from the
| station, the engineer saw no warn
ing until the tail-lights of the wreck
ed train were only a few hundred feet
away. Six dead and score seriously
injured were the victims in that case
Near Nevada. Ohio, on the Pennsyl-
vania railroad wreck in which six
died and many were seriously in
jured was officially ascribed to the
dlsregarding of visual signals by one
engineer who passed three sets OF
black signals without obeying them
During a general powwow, in Chica.
go of officials of the Pennsylvania
system, A. NJ. Schoyer. general super.
intendent west of Pittsburg. was ap.
pointed a committee to secure from
the League for Public Safety informa
tion concerning automatic stop equip
meDt which in service tests was found
to avoid the dangerous emergency
stop which has condemned stop de.
vices with operating railroad men
Distance, fog, storm, low burning o
the lamp, all make the reading o
visual signals at night one of OK
treme difficulty for the engineer, bu
the Block Signal and Train Contro
Board of the Interstate Commerc'
Commission in its search for prac
teal stop has made little progress
owing to the great number of i'm
. practical ideas which II has had Il
consider. The use of colors for nigh
. signals recently wns condemned b,
Professor George M. Stratton, of Johl
Hopkins University who suggested tn,
use Of lines of light the position o
which instead of the color. woul,
serve as signal indication. white
says Prof. Stratton, "in houses, shin
ing through windows, and hanglnI
lanterns on gates at street-crossings
are often mistaken for safety signal
, with disastrous consequences. Green
Is no more trustworthy. Smoke has
serious effect on this color. Red /
also Objectionable. The ruby glas
by permitting none but the passag
of reddish rays greatly reduces tn
brightness of the Signals
Argentina has the United States ia
outdone in civic pride, public works
and municipal Improvement. accord
Ing to Charles IL. Sheriff.. Unite
States Minister to Argentina, durin
"A banquet in Chicago. He is MAXIM
tour of 2S cities, to urge the posi-
billties of South American trade an
gave the members of the Associa
tion of Commerce something to thin
about. Talk about Chicago energy.
he said. "I don't depreciate II bi'
but here is what Buenos Ayres di
when tho people demanded gree
places in the heart Of the city, Eigh
whole city blocks of five and si'