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Title: The Forum
Year: 1886 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York, N.Y.: (Events Pub. Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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r situation. Into manufacturing go three elements, raw material,labor, and overhead. He must definitely know what theseare, in order to arrive at a selling price that will take care ofhis administrative expense, meet mortgage indebtedness, andpay dividends to his shareholders, as well as taking care ofdepreciation, repairs to and obsolescence of his machinery.Knowing these things, he then knows where to increase, andwhere to decrease, if he must, to meet the labor increase, andat the same time maintain his same selling price. Or, if de-ductions in raw material or overhead are impossible, heknows exactly to what extent he must increase his sellingprice in order to meet the increase in labor. Just as the out-come of a battle in war depends upon the amount of informa-tion of the enemy obtained, so does a battle in business dependupon the amount of information in the hands of the manu-facturer. With a cost-finding system, he has that informa-tion ; without it, he is powerless. THE COURTIN
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He stood a spell on one foot fust Then stood a spell on tother,An on which One he felt the wust He couldnt ha told ye nuther.—Lowell. 67 a PROIIBITIOMDEW BNSWEHS Pertinent Questions on the Battle Against Alcohol An interview with WILLIAM H. ANDERSON (STATE OF NEW YORK SUPERINTENDENT OF THE ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE) Because twenty years ago William Hamilton Andersonbelieved he had a divine call to make America dry, Americais, today, dry. Anderson did it. The liquor interests say so,and the liquor interests ought to know. That roughneckAnderson, they rave; for Anderson fought them in a slam-bang, two-fisted way; fought Satan as he says with hisown fire. Anderson is State Superintendent of the Anti-SaloonLeague. So spectacularly has he battled with the Wets that his name is in danger of becoming as well-known asHoovers—and as popular. For William H. Anderson isone of an organization which has just been formed to makethe whole world Dry! American money, American ob-servers, American methods

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