The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-23
In PItsburg and Milwaukee
 the tf5ct Is Felt
PROSPERITY IS TOO GREAT
In Most Places Where Crusade Is Started There Has Been No De- cline But Movement Ia
 Growing Fast.

Chicago. January 22.-While the
 movement to combat the high price of
 food continued its spread today, there
 Is only little information to show any
 effect toward tho decrease Of the price
 of meats There was drop of two
 cents aspound in the prices of pork and
 veal in Pittsburg, Pa, the reduction
 being made by the retail butchers, and
 not by the wholesalers.
 Milwaukee, which reported @ de- crease in the prices quoted by two
 butchers yesterday, today showed 8 general reduction In many other places. None of the other cities in which the movement has been started reported any reduction.
 The most notable acquisition to the
 ranks of the anti-meat cause came from Louisville, where 21 lodges of a fraternal organization adopted reso-
 lution asking all members to abstain
 from eating meat more than once a day during February. The Union Trade league and the Building Trades council of St. Louis announced today
 that they would take action against the
 high price of meat next week.
 Indianapolis. st- Paul and Toledo
 reported that the attempts to launch crusade against prevailing high prices in those cities have failed. From St. Paul came the report that Labor Commissiqner McHwen has made the statement that the inhabi- tants of Minnesota are too prosperous to feel the effects of the high prices. Apropos of the movement, the Orange Judd Farmer, a journal makes the statement that 1909 was the most pros
 porous year ever known in the live stock industry as revealed by the an nuai census reviews of stocks. Tho total value of all classes of live stock In the country January 1, 1910. was s4,8S0,088, ,000," says the peril odical, and the increase during 1909
 was the greatest ever recorded In 12
 months. amounting to $56,000, ,000. There is an increase of numbers of all classes of animals except beef cattle and hogs. showing an increase in num- bers and heavy advance in average valuation per head at the same time. Cattle. other than milch cows, total 4S,7S0,000 head, worth on an average of s20.76 each. The number of sheep Is increasing rapidly and stands at 647.- 1 000, 900, worth $4.07 each. Hogs showed. marked decline in number. reaching only 44.9s6.o00, but the price per head, $9.16, is the highest on record" With tho exception of beef cattle, receipts of animals showed the highest average price ever recorded" concludes the organ.
 Race of MolIycoddIes.
 Washington. January 22.-(Special.)
 "A race of mollycoddles will probably
 be produced by an abstinence from tbe
 use Of meat declared Harvey w. Wiley, the eminent food specialist and chief of the bureau of chemistry of the department of agriculture, today. in commenting upon the proposed general
 boycott upon meats.
 T do not know why I should deny myself meat 50 that persons who con tinue to eat meat may purchase 1t at lower prices. In other words. I do not propose to cut off my nutritivs nose to spite my financial faca
 The human race has been a meat eating race from the beginning. What 1t Is physically therefore has been made largely By it's food Any sudden change in the food of the nation might not produce any immediate results, but 1t would do so in four or five million years or even less time," said the doc tor, smilingly.
 AI am not vegetarian. A vegetable
 diet is all right, but there should also be meat diet to go with it. Disease is owing largely to the diet. which must
 be generous and well selected if we
 are to avoid disease. We should have
 . proper mixture of animal and vege- table food and 1t must be used in Quan-
 titles larger than that necessary for
 the ordinary function in order to have
 a factor of safety. The human organism
 combats infectious diseases just in pro-
 portion to the magnitude of it's factor
 of safety"
 Big Company 10 Sued. Columbus, O.. January 22.-{special.) Attorney General Denman today directed Prosecutor Stevens of Elyria to begin criminal action against the Washburn- Crosby company for compelling retail
 dealers to- maintain high prices for flour. Letters secured by Denman show agreements between the company and It's customers whereby tho latter are bound to charge the prices set by the company. He demands immediate action.
 Investigation Asked. Joliet, H.. January 2.--(Special.) )- Prompted by reports that prevailing high prices. due to the greed of pro- ducers, Pomona Grange. representing ell sections of Will county, at meet ing today passed . resolution calling on the state legislature to institute an investigation in order that responsibil- ity for the suffering may be fixed. Comparison of Prices. Detroit, January 22.--The News to- day made an exhaustive canvass of the 
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