Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-10-09
and Character
Facts and Philosophy in Feet
Set Forth by Ebert Hubbard
in 1.-The Fra"
An Advertisement.

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An Advertisement.
There ar four primal necessiies. in nfe-only four. These are food.
.othing. sheter-IOye Shoes and hats s. ARE ta q pa Of s u sSm s9enc asO "a y
ARE a.sn secondary AIRY Sc sexual paan manifestations e % mon ssG h shoss get stg more beautiful sauIi skirts
spirnless' detected" whippedout men advertise to the world their mental
condition by their shoes Hope, courage. animation G@saton ambition tNnta Are rr0e
Once there we're people in America who never wore shoes Now, " . all
io-a part Of the time, a least Americans s@a are the Des.s apm people ps. o. ! ea rar
three pairs to a person. twenty-five years ago it was two pairs a year per
person. We are getting more particular Also as the ears hae passed
our shoes have been behered in style and quality. Most Of us, even com.
feet, and better for our heads, as it lifts vi sefrespect When you change
your shoes you change your mind.
Prosperous Shoe Manufacturers.
shoemanufacturers arr a prosperous people; There is 10 Shoe noe Trust Trust
and there can't be. for there ire thirteen hundred shoefactones in the uSltea
st oMs !. n o.a more h are em oemg aorm rs have /, Au1 ome " ont S4 d on n narhcullar factory
and embarked in business o their own account And they are all making
Monopoly is out of the question in the shoe business. for the simple rea
outfit Of costly machinery. He can lease shoemahing machinery and get it
on exactly the sam terms that the biggest factories can.
thus keep abreast of the times it would require such a vast capital and also
rated in the hands Of a few. Instead Of thirteen hundred factories, there
and we would have a Shoe Trust" As It Is. We haven't
Today, the boot and shoe industry is the one large business left in the
world not u by a socaled Trust and the United Shoe Machinery Company
is responsible for that fact
out who the United Shoe Machinery Company is, what they are, and what
factories IRE at Beverly, Massachusetts, twenty miles out near where prest
dent Taft made his summer home The salt water comes right up to the
The Machinery Trust eugaboo.
We have heard about the increased cost to the consumer BY reason s Of
amount mount the owner Of leased shoe machinery would receive o. a pair If shoes
ould say IN, about forty Dr. nifty CENTS.
The real fact is that it takes fftydght different machines to make a
s snf fe s moauf ad 1n cases "a " ws9 fps the d9r entire nf t haty machines ma raeairss 'F r r tSnata
running up sometimes to five and onehalf cents a pair Where fewer ma
shoes is and onethrd cents a pair.
If this entire cost we're wiped out it would not make ne cents worth Of
One Iet it % % Eno wTaf teat n t ue r pfcSi SSa a pr ohs pUV COMPANY d not make
shoes, They simply manufacture machinery that is used by shoemanufac-
turers. They make upwards of three hundred varieties of machines. Different
babies, Shoes 'childrens shoes, women's shoes, mems shoes, shoes for bust
ness shoes for society shoesfor indoors and shoes for outdoors. Some people
different shoe in the evening.
The Lease System.
Most Of the principal machines made by the United Shoe Machinery
Company are leased to the manufacturers, although a great majority of the
machines h they make can be bought if the user 50 desires.
This custom has come down for the past forty years The reason is that so
inventions and improvements re happening every day Factories would not
the machine might have to be replaced any day with something better.
Things we don't know anything about, re arr moi aware of. Ninetyfve
per cent OF manufacturers today very much prefer to lease a machine rather
have to be "scrapped" This dread nightmare Of n obsolete machine carried
on the inventory has made many a good man turn gray before his time.
Successful Cooperation.
The business of the United Shoe Machinery Company is one Of the best
examples of successful cooperation in America. Inasmuch IS most of the
the machinery must be of a kind that will give a satisfactory service.
hundred travelling machinias, who arc constantly inspecting the installed ma
ohinery and seeing that it is kept up in perfect condition. Idle machinery,
The United Shoe Machinery Company keep constantly in their employ
ing On new ideas, or perfecing old nes. No machine is ever made good
There are no secrets around the United Shoe Machinery companys works.
You se the inventors, the chemists the workers in the laboratory, and the
seventyfve per cent of the walls being glass-the sunlight flooding everything
and in some Of the buildings ninety per cent is glass
These great works give employment to upward of five thousand people,
and nc mill in Massachusetts, o in the United States pays an equal wage, the
average weekly pay envelope being $3.50. @
/ have visited many factories, stores, mills, shops all over the United
States and in England, France, Scotland, Italy and Germany, but never have
l seen a big factory managed with the same superb attention to hyGenic and
sanitary conditions.
In way of factory equipment and socalled factory beHerments, no insu-
tuition in America surpasses this, but all of the betterment work is quite
incidental and is a matter of course without fuss, fnwl Or fummery.
I Service the Keynote.
Viewed from any and every possible standpoint the United Shoe Ma
chinery Company has made the world its debtor Consumers, employees, in
ventors, producers of raw stock. stockholders, management-an have pros
pered. because a great service has been rendered. Business nowadays is
based OF reciprocity mutually. cooperation. The United Shoe Machinery
Company is a splendid example of all three. 1t has made its wonderful sue
cess by making it possible for the consumer to buy today for three dollars a
better shoe than could be bought a quarter century ago for FIVE dollars.
And, after al, is not the test Of the worth of a corporation the service it
gives to the people?
Dangerous. Awful
What lis the charger" asked the Stela-I hear YOU had a terrible e-
Judge, Is the venerable person with perence,