The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-18

printers have increased rom ZO per cent to so per cent, and the same ad- vance has been made in the press room Linotype metal has gone from cents a pounds to 127a cents pound, and it takes mighty little of it to weigh a pound. There is not an item in connection with the paper that has not increased Ink, metals, Chemicals, all have gone up. Postage that for merIy cost s175 a week now costs s350.
 THE PRICE OF COLLARS
 Ira Arms trong of the Armstrong Hat Company-"Why l am selling collars at 25 cents apiece now when I sold the same collars at two for a quarter in 1914. There is the answer In 1914 I bought collars at $110 a dozen and sold them at $1.50, making a gross profit of 40 cents. I now am paying s225 a dozen for the same collars and selling them at s3. making a gross profit of 75 cents. The cost has more than doubled, but the retail price has not The percentage of profit is less on the dozen collars today than it was six years ago, when we sold two col lars for a quarter"
 QUININE EXPENSIVE John w Patton of the Patton-P Pope Drug Company-"The wholesale price of quinine has gone up from 25 cents an ounce in 1914 to $1.5o an ounce to- day while we have advanced the re- tail price from 50 cents to g. Tn 1914 we made 15 cents profit on each ounce | of quinine sold and to make the same percentage of profit today we would l have to sell it at about 2.40 an ounce'i BARBER SHOP EXPENSES William Layton. Manager of Glover and Kincaid Barber Shop No. 2,-"Jt I won't take me 'long to show you why
 the price of the haircut, shave and 1 other business of the tonsorial artist has gone up. Let's walk right down the line while I elucidate several facts First. the face towels that formerly cost 39 cents dozen are now cost l ing $1,25. Next, the hair tonies that | you see standing there on the shelf could be bought sometime ago for s5 or s6 gallon; now it sells for SIP ] and $15. Rent is exorbitant Why l rhree years ago this stand could have 1 been leased for $25 a month. Can you realize that we are now paying SITS month? The barbers are not 1 getting any increase. They are all ways paid 60 per cent of the proceeds. 1 Of course. their remuneration is great
 CT on account of the higher price that 1 the customer pays The only way we break even on the laundry question is 1 the fact that we launder all our own I | in town was too much, and we had to resort to our own laundering. And now the health officials have burd- ened us with a number of appliances 1 that face us every time we turn around. The barber shops held out as long as they could but the raise in prices had ] to come"
 STARS COME HIGH
 l William Mudd Motion Pictures, | 1 when I tell why movies have gone ur to the present prices. The stars have l to be paid their salaries. Thet may be l true. some one might say. but it is very l evident that they don't realize what prices these stars draw. When Mary Pickford. Norma Talmadge or some oi the other actresses or actors are talked to about contracts, the figures don't run in the hundreds. They demand the high salaried contracts. and as a result
 the films come to us at an immense
 price for release. It is this high price
 for the rights to show these films that
 has principally caused the price of ad- l PLUMBER CHARGED BPS Citizen, this from Col T. L.. Hobart
 manager of the Morris hotel. Listen.
 We have refitted the hotel recently
 and have had to make our prices in ac.
 cordance with the cost of the new fix II tures The cost of operation has greatly ir creased Formerly we bought sheets for $500 a dozen. The same goods cost us 5000 now. A pipe under a washstant
 broke during the recent cold spell Ths plumber charged $2S. % to mend it. Ina is more than the original cost of tn, whole washstand. Laundry rates hay,
 been going up for some time. Two months ago they went up 60 per cent ove I what we had last been paying. If hotel combined as other institutions are doins our rates would be way over what the, l are, from s1.50 up. lower than any othei t hotel of this class in the south
 fl Plumbing costs POO per cent more thai Il it did a year or two ago. The city hal
 raised our license s25 "
 : Now let's see another drug store. let r talk to Morris Levy of Letaws Pharm r acy. under the City Hall.
 How about it. Morris?
 We raised prices on some few article
 because the manufacturers charged u
 more. The cost of sugar has raised can 1 dy about 15 per cent. Cigars have gon ! up because the cigar makers got nor
 money. Old prescriptions are filled a
 the original price.
 SLIGHT ADVANCE IN JEWELR, j. William Bromberg, Bromberg Jewelr :. Company: Gold jewelry has gone u Il very little comparatively, I am gla e to say. The price of gold. as every on
 knows, is standard, and the only in
 crease is in the fancy articles whic r have to be touched and for which pro : duction labor is charging more. Silve t articles have gone up considerabl, : however, as silver bullion has increase
 in value. It is the articles like watche and clocks which take a great deal c T skill to produce that are costing nor, and it is on account of the labor condi '- tions in the factory. The demand owe d production is having a slight effect o ei prices, but hardly enough to mention
 Summing it all up, jewelry has ad ;+ vanced because labor is charging more. ''ss MATERIAL AND WAGES GO LII " August Hirsch of the Hirsch Mill ,- nery Company. stated:
 Q We have balcony departmer '' where we sell no hat for more than s and are selling today for that price a
 good as we ever have sold. For thes
 hats we are paying in New York frol
 10 to l5 per cent more for this mel
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