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...come in for much merited abuse. The more thoughtful part of the press, as well as all the prominent educationalists, have been outspoken in their condemnation of it. But, to our knowledge, no one has arisen in its defence. In fact even the publishers, who might be expected to profit by the measure, have declared their disfavor...
Total sales during this period amounted to $450,317.15, of which $335,985.04 represents business done at the Main Store, and $114,332.11 the sales at the Technology Branch, the total net profits for the six months, at both stores, amounting to $52,625.53. There is every reason to expect, according to the Board of Directors, that the Cooperative Society will be able to show at the end of the college year, a sufficient amount of net profit to pay the present rate of dividends with a substantial margin to spare...
This condition results from two main causes: our ship owners insist on a large profit, and our operating costs are greater. For the first there seems to be no remedy until more of our owners are willing to take the four, or five, or six percent profit with which Europeans are content, instead of usually insisting upon the ten or fifteen percent which the same capital would bring in certain other businesses. As regards the second evil--high operating expenses--the usual proposal is to offset them by some form of ship subsidy. But experience testifies that a subsidy...
...wheat or corn becomes so high to give them ample remuneration for the production of grain on such valuable plots. In the case of Japan the question is not whether she has more land for cultivation but whether she could produce more products from the new land with reasonable profit to both farmers and consumers. By borrowing the technical term of political economy, the question is whether she has reached the point from which the law of diminishing return begins to apply...
With such small shares of cultivated area they must exploit every inch of ground just as long as they can reap any profit from their efforts, and all means are to be tried in order to produce as much as possible from the small improved land of their holdings. Readers who see the following figures will not be surprised to learn the superior yields produced from Japanese fields as compared with others, if they keep in mind this statement regarding the Japanese farmer. The figures below give the comparative yields in various countries with the average value of the yield...