Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-02

in the West Some of it is shipped direct while the rest
of it is put into cold storage until needed. When we
get in the East pay for its killing its storage its
transportation and for the profits to which the men
handling it entitled. 1t is law of supply and de-
mand that the commodity is going to the place that
pays best for It, and that this "best paying section will
set the price in other parts of the country Wherefore
when longer raise beef in part of the country
must pay the other section for the trouble and the
work
In similar fashion, pay for eggs because the
housewife no longer raises hens matter of course,
to supply eggs for the table Many prefer to buy the
eggs from others who have had the trouble of tending
the chickens. Like conditions surround all other art
Giles of food.
Moreover in our evolution toward extravaganza and
indulgence want things ahead of time. Right here
is where willingly and gladly give up money not
for the product ITSELF but for the trouble and cost OF
getting it and preserving it at such time.
Our recent official inquiry into the subject OF cold
storage of oodstus has been amazing to the extent
and scope of this industry. 1t has come with the
increase of population and refrigeration is now one OF
the great world necessities 1t eveer of the seasons
and ought to be regulator of quality and prices Per-
haps the dweler the back street has concep
ton of effort than has the thoughtess and hppant
spendthrift in the princely mansion.
Let us take the hotels which now substantial
part of every great city question whether those who
the dead of winter enjoy the costly products OF spring.
have any notion of the vast expenditure OF intelligent
energy that has been employed from the farm to the
dinner table to supply the wants OF man. 1t may be
small to the dnerout, as he losses aside the
major portion of the decaces served IN nine-course
dinner in January to the employed to conserve
in good form and bring them upon the table with all
their MAY and June flavor and Succulence; but some
where and somehow through combination of effort the
supplies have been garnered and stored tor the hour OF
need Indeed SO vital to the sustenance OF the people
have the storage warehouses become that it question:
able whether any great city along the Atlantic seaboard
could support its people for single month in the dead
of winter without them.
1t does not necessarily follow that the people are ndl-
vdualy blame for the conditions that make it i'm
possible for them to live cheapy did their fathers
and mothers. But, general review OF the reasons
fort he hiOh Of living
facts unearthed: first, the extravaganza the growing
tendency to cast money to the winds OF caprice and
luxury; secondly the prosperity and business evolution
which have thrown tremendous percentage OF the
population into the cities leaving those on the farms
and in the country to do all the work of feeding the en-
tire nation.
TT has been claimed that revision of the tariff will
materially lower the cost of living and that the trusts,
now sufficiently regulated, initiating the prices OF
life necessares. In my opinion. the great body OF
trusts regulated sanely and wholesomely The tariff
argument is still in the air. But it will be surprise
beyond description if the cost of living is appreclably
affected without reform from the present habit of
throwing money away.
You cannot eat twenty-seven million dollars worth
beef for nothing pound. You cannot drink three
hundred and twenty million dollars worth of soda
and other drnkables every and expect your
vegetable to refrain from getting bigger profit on
his products Such expectations contrary to human
nature If you ready to waste your wealth. you will
always find people ready to help you IN the work And
if you have reached that frame of mind which leads you
to hire other people to do your work for you you will
always find those who will charge you good prices for
services rendered Occasionally Mr. Jones saves money
for Mr. JONES' but Mr. Jones not going to waste any
time in saving money for Mr.. Smith.
Pharaoh said of Joseph who stored up the food in
Egypt and brought all countries to his warehouses that
he discreet and wise So is the modern ruler of
his country of his household who encourages thrift
aBut if any provide not for his own said Paul in his
first epste to Timothy @and specially for those of his
house he hath denied the faith and worse than
an infdel."
1t may be that we have been pressing forward too
rapidly; that have taught ourselves to aspire be-