Quarterly dividends running high as 20 per cent or 80 per cent a year have been voted by boards of directors to stockholders and while government investigators and other seekers for facts connected with the high cost of wearing clothes have been gunning after retailers, the fabric producers have been quietly "getting theirs" the while production costs have been explained above.

Dividend 70 Per Cent, One concern, the King Philip mills of Fall River, Mass., in addition to a $53 extra dividend of 50 per cent, bringing the rate upon its capital stock to 70 per cent for the year. Thirty-nine Fall River cotton mill corporations have this week declared quarterly dividends of $2,385,338.50. The quarterly dividends rang from 1 1-2 per cent to 20 per cent and average for the 39 concerns 7.73 plus per cent, or about 27 per cent a year ago. These dividends which smashed all records for high profits started tailers wondering when the government's calcium lights would be turned off their establishments and directed toward the King Philip mills corporation, with its 5 per cent quarterly and 50 per cent extra dividends, and others who have broken records.

If it was not for greatly increased volume of business, many retail dealers in the day would be "wheeling" with the retailers it attacks. This is a seller market and today that stands firm with our customers. 