Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-07-24
THE PROBLEM or LIVING

Not in many years has the problem
of living had so much of interest in it
as it has held during the past few
years. 1t costs great deal to live to-
day-very much more than it has cost
in long time.
There have been explanations and
explanations of What the cause of the
increase in living expenses is attribu-
table to, but there seems to be more
back of the matter than has ever got
ten into print. 1t is true that the
price of beef, which for a time was
practically prohibitive, has gotten back
to a normal status, but the price of
general provisions is not encouraging.
The reports from the cold storage
warehouses of the New York district
are not encouraging. 1t seems that
more butter and eggs are already in
storage than at this period in any
preceding year. In the North to-day
it is said that the price of butter is
higher than in any July since the Civil
War. These conditions are battling
and rather discouraging.
AS usual, the storage of eggs began
in April, and there are now 2,23400C
cases in the warehouses, each case
containing thirty dozen of eggs, but
at this time last year the eggs stored
amounted to only 1,911, 900 cases. The
best grade of eggs going into storage
are quoted at % cents per dozen in
carload lots, while the price last year
was IS cents. The same facts are not
ed in the case of butter, of which 49,
$4,000 pounds are now in storage in
the New York district, and the price
is two cents higher than in July, 1909
Butter and eggs are two of the most
important articles of every day diet
| food products are placed in cold stor-
age at higher price than that which
prevailed last year they will command
still higher prices when they are plac-
ed on the market next winter. This
presents another problem to the CON
sumer who is interested in the solu-
ton of the problem of the high cost 9l
living.
The consumer here may think little
of the fact that these conditions exist
in New York, believing that they will
not affect him. This is hardly true
however, for those who buy eggs from
the grocers next Christmas will be
fortunate indeed if they are able to
get the home product. The chances
are that they will be sold cold storage
eggs at exorbitant prices, so that the
| matter comes home to practically ev-
cry one. 1t is an insult to offer a
cold storage egg to man who exer-
cises discretion in the choice of the
| food that he and His family consumes
but eggs are practically an indispens-
able article of our daily diet, so that
the consumer must not only take d
| food product which has been robbed
| by the cold storage process of a large
per cent of it's palatableness and nu-
triton but which is also sold at a
price that reminds a man of highway
| robbery.
There is but little virtue in decrying
the trusts that operate the cold stor-
age plants. The congested population
in many of our large cities makes nee
essary the storage of these articles
during the summer against winter con-
sumption. Conditions that exist leave
but little doubt that the operators OF
lie cold storage plants are endeavor-
| ing to monopolize these food products.
So far, however, no attack upon them
has proved successful Every farmer
has a solution of the question as re-
CARDS supplying himself and family
with the home product, and there are
many people in the cities who can ac-
complish the same end with but little
trouble Otherwise one can expect to
be at the mercy of the cold storage
manipulators until the government
perchance steps in and intervenes.