390 This Concrete Road Makes possible efficient, economical operation of motor trucks between Dundee, Illinois, And continuous, successful and Chicago. motor truck operation requires concrete roads that will stand up under heavily loaded trucks traveling at high speed. There would be less likelihood of food or fuel shortages if concrete roads were everywhere, so that motor trucks could operate uninterruptedly between farm and town, town and city, transporting promptly as wanted the things needed by homes and industries. Hard roads vitally affect the wage earner, the business man, the farmer-YOU. They are a prime factor in fighting the high cost of living. They are essential to an early winning of the war. ATLANTA CHICAGO DALLAS DENVER Let us tell you where concrete roads are standing PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION CONCRETE FOR PERMANENCE HOARDING HIDES-A DISCLAIMER In The Outlook of February 6 there appeared, an article entitled "Hoarding Hides," in which reference is made to a recent preliminary report issued by the Federal Trade Commission, which is interpreted as indicating that the packers are illegitimately hoarding hides, and thereby increasing unnecessarily the prices of leather and shoes. The number of cattle slaughtered has increased greatly during the past five years, but the demand for leather and shoes, due both to foreign purchases and to unprece dented prosperity at home, had increased during 1915 and 1916 even more rapidly than the supply of hides. Our Nation's exports of men's shoes, for example, increased from 4,450,000 pairs in 1914 to 12,800,000 pairs in 1916. During 1917 the number of cattle slaughtered was the greatest in our history, and hence the domestic supply of hides was unusually large. On the other hand, the 1917 domestic demand for shoes did not keep pace with this increased supply of hides, and the British embargo and lack of shipping facilities cut down our exports. As a result, the prices of hides, except the heaviest hides, which are used for army shoes, fell appreciably during 1917. Leather prices did not advance during the past year, but slightly decreased. The packers necessarily have a large supply of hides on hand at any time, owing to the length of time it requires to cure these hides and to sell them. On the declining market of 1917 it was difficult for them to find a market for all their hides, although Swift & Co. actually sold twenty per cent more hides during 1917 than dur ing 1916. way that In other words, Swift & Co. has been hoarding hides about the Chicago has been hoarding snow and the freight yards around New York have been hoarding freight, and this is undoubtedly true of the other packers. Swift & Co. has no desire to keep capital tied up in hides any more than necessary, and sells them just as fast as the market can absorb them. The packers do not place values on hides in the sense that they control the price they have to be governed by the supply of hides on the one hand, and the demand of the leather and boot and shoe industries on the other. The article mentions that the price of hides has increased twice as much as the prices that we have paid for cattle. 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