Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-01-18


Nineteen million families United feel today this
towering the of living Many of them feel it as
harp necessiys pinch To it only more frugal
management lowering of their life standard
step backward the they have been struggling for
And Others hunger and cold and bitterness.
Everything affected by this increased cost in foodstus tor
life after all largely bread and translated into those diff
phases of vitality which call Drawn and BRAIN politics.
society happiness The kitchen the heart OF
civilization So far this world goes, must eat to live
daily advance within less than de-
cade all the from twenty hundred and ten or even two
hundred per the entire of life modified
wonder then scientists statesmen housewives
everyone asking why this gigantic has and how
may 1t is of the biggest problems
that in American history
There least degree of satisfaction in knowing that the
problem receiving attention The president who
first casually dismissed the question by saying that the people
whole lived avishy than they used to- has now sug
gested that up investigation The department of
agriculture weeks past has been conducting such IN
curry In have directed the legislature 10
investigate local conditions Governor Harmon of Ohio did
day yesterday Most significant of all the people themselves
beginning investigate They beginning speak out by
millions.
would logically SEEM therefore the increased cost
of living due altogether part artificial conditions which
unusty remedy will be found later 1t is the
opinion of students that such conditions responsible in
but that there also certain underlying natural causes
which we shall find more difficult to
statement American people have to live
exaagan that they have made their chief motto Il want
certainly the sole the principal fact in the The truer
statement would be that the people whole have to de-
mand better food and clothing and houses And if they are not
be given chance of improving their food and clothing and
then what for social This desire
for better living thing be condemned but to be encour
aged said that the wokngman home has
Queen Elzabeths palace had That al
together and desirable Two hundred
hence the wOrngman home should be brighter and
comfortable by today He should
be given every chance make He should be
encouraged in utvatng higher tastes and desires 1t
the duty of society to
that he wider and wider opportunities for gratifying such
and desires.
That not extravaganza simply progress and until the
of the people have economic right of for improving
their condition such thing as real national progress is pos
end Unless ugaty forefathers had led to
something beyond ITSELF should still be in the seventeenth
While therefore it is enough talk economy trying
solve the problem of the increased of living i'm
porant sound deeper and find the bottom for surely
cannot forever practcng if expect to
out of our present footsteps.
There is question, however that intelligent
methods of living would do something to remedy the situation
frequently than to extravaganza The fault often lies not in the
fact that dollar for luxure and gewgaws
but that goes absolutely for who would
spend his hundred dollars water color and leave nothing for
his groceries would show Judgment but he would have his
color In many the hundred dollars goes without
either groceries the color remaining show for it.
Aside from such however, there thousands
thousands of families the United States who thrifty but who
scale of prices is for relief needed
How the relief to II does? In this
Exorbtant prices evidently due first
tons in production and trade Governor Harmon
his to the legislature of Oho eff be found that there
laws which put the people the power by
taking advantage of their necessities that there lack of
laws such mpOstion that existing
that end already enforced in either
relief in Or if the fault lies partly the laws of
Judgment to their effect the people of Ohio
will have great weight
There be doubt that considerable portion
creased of living does from the transportation
nipuatOn of commodities rather than from their original
ton The caemen the west declare for instance that they
being paid little for their beef than they
and inquiry has shown that they But the
anywhere from fifteen sixty Necessarily
then the increase between the period when
the producer and reaches market baskets
that made possible furthermore unfair combinations
Nor does that such combinations limited
ing houses
The truth has combined and the
only practicable combination be effected
the That the business democracy That the