The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-09-11
HE TACKLES THE FOOD
QUESTION AND FINALLY
GETS INTO & RAGE

looked blank. Nobody ever buys them
that way now-a-d days. Can't afford to-
Look at the outrageous prices we
pay for the staples on this table. Milk
gone up, YOU said. TO ten cents and the
dealers claim it's the Increased cost OF
production and because they've got TO
have IL clean. Nothing OF the sort
They want enough profit out or every
gallon they sell to buy house anu
lot What's sugar. Fourteen POUNDS LOT
a dOllary Saw IL advertised at twenty
pounds for a dollar i'm a Detroit paper
last week. And it's one Of the leading
Industries OF Utah. home product TOT
home consumption and all that sort OF
tOmmy-rOt. Buffers been tWentN-nihe
cents all summer back east. cartons anc
all. and we've paid forty. Grandmoth-
CT used TO salt down CROCK OF u AZ
time and it kept sweet too. Why. m
had one years contents OF the attic anu
cellar on the old farm 20 market here
could retire with an independent Tor
tune.
That Dear Ole Attic.
do YOU remember. Maria the things
that were i'm that attic in winter tloct
covered with butternuts and walnuts
and hickory nuts and the rafters hung
with popcorn and herbs. And the Sl9he
Jars hidden away under the caves filled
with bars OF real maple sugar tnal YOU
Couldu'; buy for their weight IN gold
today. And the cellar with bins full OF
potatoes and turnips ana barrels OF AZ
pies and hOme-Cured corn beef ana Sait
ami preserves and home made wine and
the cider vinegar made from our own
apples and tne Lord knows what a'l
We had a smoke house FOR ham and
bacon and dried beef. and made cur
own soft soap and tried out the lard.
| OF. OF course Il wasn't so refined as
things are nova days. but nobody ever
got poisoned on adulterated tood or
| starved because he couldn't afford a
I square meal.
"Chewing gums about the only thing
/ they haven't raised the price on. Kept
lit down out Of consideration for the
clerks and telephone girls that couldn't
exist II their jaws weren't going mile
a minute. Wish they'd organize trust
and raise Il out Of sight. 1t makes
me so darn mad to have a girl wait
| on me that can't talk until she's dis
posed OF n wad Of gum. Won't have a
| girl in my office that's got the gum
/ habit"
Driving to his downtown office an
! hour later Mr.. Crouch met fruit
| grower with whom he was accustomed
] to deal. Want to get some peaches
/ for the missus 20 put up, he called
| to the man in his wagon. "How's the
''roo good replied the man gloom
] lily. Had to dump a wagon load In the
! lake yesterday. Couldn't market them.
What I'm thunder was that for ex-
/ claimed Mr.. Crouch. You coul0 have
/ got something for them
/ 1T wouldn't do" said the fruit
I grower. We've got to keep tine price
]
/ market now. I'll get good price OF
| don't sell a bushel. See"
| I see it's a criminal waste and you
/ can so to perdition befo~e / take dol
| lars worth" said Mr.. Crouch gngrily.
I as he continued on his way to the Of
] flee BY the time he reached it he
/ had formulated some definite opinions
/ on the reasons for higu prices in Utah
| which ne proceeded 60 unCOli TO small
! group or friends which had gathered
there.
/ There are too blamed many middle
men, He stated. "and each OF them
/ has TO get his rake-off from every
article Of food that's sold. The rest
/ OF it's just pure combination OF dealers
/ to keep UP the prices. Whoever gets
/ 40 cents worth OF value out OF one little
| pound OF bacon or eats a gold brick
| with every pound OF butter? BY heck.
| n IL weren't for the climate and the
people and the lively little old town
we've got here I'D pull out and grub
! stake myself somewhere I could afford
| 60 live. Think TIL shop In Murray after
| this. Everything from to 10 cents
| cheaper there. they say. No. OF course
l they won't deliver. but I'm not proud.
/ Just as soon carry sack OF potatoes
as a beauty bag and it's blamed sight
/ less expensive.