The San Francisco call., 1913-09-11
Shoes and Character
[EIbert Hubbard in The Fral
An Advertisement.

n Advertisement
vzHERE are four primal necessities life-only four
These are food. clothing. shelter-love. Shoes and
are part OF clothing they
ondary sexual manifestations Herbert Spencer.
Spencer bachelor and he And as women's
shoes beautiful. skirts and short
spritless. detected, whipped-out advertise to
the world their mental condition by their shoes Hope
animation mrrored in shoes
Your feet feature the facts Shoes tel-tale
Once there we're people in America
shoes Now, we all do-a part Of the time at least
Americans are the best-shod people earth
Our consumption OF shoes is hundred seventy
million pairs year-three pairs to person Twenty
five years ago it was two pairs per person We
getting particular. Also, the years have
passed shoes style quality
Most Of folks. have different shoes
for different occasions It's better for feet and better
for our heads It lifts selfrespect When you
change shoes you change your mind
Shoe manufacturers are prosperous people. There
h no Shoe Trust and there can't be- for there thir-
teen hundred shoefactores United States, ana
more are being formed know Of six hoefaetories in
out OF particular factory and embarked in business
on their own account And they all making money
Monopoly is out Of the question in the shoe business
is not obliged to buy outfit Of costly ma
i on exactly the that the biggest factories
own machinery and thus keep abreast Of the times it
would require capital and also such corps
oenrated in the hands of few. Instead Of thirteen
onT Ttesn hr h oa @ s erd and
would have a Shoe Trust AS it is, haven't
Today. the boot and shoe industry is the large
business left in by so-caed Trust,
and the United Shoe Machinery Company is responsible
a couple OF days of find who the United Shoe
Mae5inery Company is what they are and what they
Boston but their factories at Beverly
Summer home. The salt right up to the
We heard about the increased cost to the
sumer by reason Of the socalled Machinery Trust
suppose the average person If asked what amount the
OF shoes would say "oh, about forty fifty cents"
The real fact is that hftyeight different
@ 70 maze shgle shoe and IN cases wnere me en-
Of shoes the Of the machines royalty
Where fewer machines are used it runs as low as half
cent pair and the average for most shoes is and
one-third cents a pair
this were wiped out it would not make
one cents worth Of difference the in the price
Let it be known that the United Shoe Machinery
Company do not make shoes. They simply manufacture
make upwards Of three bundred Vareties Of acbins
Different styles weights kinds require
shoes shoes shoes for business shoes for
society shoes for indoors and shoes Some
in the afternoon. and different shoe in the evening
Most Of the principal machines by United
turers although great majority Of machines they
make can be bought II the user so desires
Practically the shoe-factores In America lease
past forty The IS that many different
FACTORIES would not RIM the r,s, nf nntti5e ~ new
invention especfaIlv in view Of the fact that the ma
chine might have to be replaced day with something
better. cheaper and more effective
Things we don't know anything about we are not
very much prefer to lease machine rather than to pur
outright Because use
doesn't have to be ~scrapped" The dread nightmare
many good man turn before his time.
The business Of the United Shoe Machinery Com
ton in America tnasmuch of machinery
leased and pays return only when used il is selfevi
satisfactory service
The United shoe Machinery Company employ
constantly inspecting the Installed machinery
machinery, like idle men, Yields no income.
The United Machinery Company keep constantly in
their employ force Of about hundred highly skilled
: perfecting ones No machine is ever made good
enough It must be made better
There no secrets around the United shoe Ma
chinery company's works You the inventors
chemists the workers in the laboratory thou
sands OF hearty happy people IN these wonderful
sunlight aooding everything in some of
the buildings ninety per cent IS glssG.
many factories. stores mills shops all
over the United States and II ENGLAND France Scotland
managed with the same superb attention to hygienic ana
sanitary conditions
In OF factory equipment end so-called factory
betterments, institution surpasses
betterment quite incidental and is
matter of without fuss. fryol funlmery.
Viewed from any every possible standpoint the
United Shoe Machinery Company has the its
debtor Consumers. employers producers of
stock Stockholders have prospered
because great servfse has been rendered. business
nowadays is based reciprocity mutually cooperation
The United Shoe Machinery Company splendid ex-
ample of all three Ii has made success
by making ii possible the
three dollars could bought quar-
ter-century for five dollars
And after all. of he worth OF a cor
poration the service l. gives to the peopIo7