Hardware merchandising September-December 1919 . nions. Mr. Whittall they would not get their wish. SEES HIGH PRICES FOR A LONGTIME YET The world must expect a higher levelof prices for a considerable time as aresult of currency inflation, and theimmediate problem to be attacked isthe financing of exports from theUnited States, said A. C. Bedford, chair-man of the executive committee of theChamber of Commerce of the UnitedStates and chairman of the Board ofDirectors of the Standard Oil Company,in an address Saturday night welcom-ing the delegates to the InternationalTrade Confere
Hardware merchandising September-December 1919 . nions. Mr. Whittall they would not get their wish. SEES HIGH PRICES FOR A LONGTIME YET The world must expect a higher levelof prices for a considerable time as aresult of currency inflation, and theimmediate problem to be attacked isthe financing of exports from theUnited States, said A. C. Bedford, chair-man of the executive committee of theChamber of Commerce of the UnitedStates and chairman of the Board ofDirectors of the Standard Oil Company,in an address Saturday night welcom-ing the delegates to the InternationalTrade Conference at a banquet at At-lantic City. The delicate machinery of interna-tional commerce, which had been grow-ing slowly through centuries, has beendisrupted by the war, Mr. Bedford said,and now, nearly a year after the endof the war, the nations are still farfrom a free interchange of commodities. The speaker said further inflation ofcurrency must be accepted as a fact forthe present, and will yield only to grad-ual remedies. tiO October 25, 1919. Bombing Firms Who Dont Advertise The Merchant Who is so Indifferent to Sales Possibilities as to Neglect Telling thePeople About the Paints He Has to Offer is Missing Chancesto Make Some Real Profits LAST week we referred, in this column, to the neces-sity of sledge hammer advertising: for the man whodoes not realize the value of painting his propertyand who neglects doing so. Scarcely was the ink dry on the last copy off the press,when it was proposed that a few bombs be prepared forthe paint man who does not advertise, to the man whodoes not use paint. Which provides a target for the other barrel of our gun. There are such an infinite number of chances for ad-vancing paint sales in every community and no excuseswhy every paint man should not advertise his line thatit is difficult to know What presentation of the case shouldbe made to arouse interest and action on the part of anindifferent dealer. In fact, if the writer were to lift th
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