The evening world., 1913-01-11
FEDERAL EXPERT
TRAILS HIGH COST
| AND CAN'T FIND It
v. Holmes Says Food Price
Burden b Nonsense and
Imagination.

s-s-sti d. George X. Holmes Of the
peoartm0t q Agriculture, sumshoe
IN Of he FEDERAL Government e.
signed 70 tran ths high cost Of living
= ~ nest and psf salt on its tall. has
>oms to town 10 tell ~ that Tiers v
! - high cost Of Twins.
Wherever Doc Holmes has heard Of .
nigh cost Of living clue he has hastsned
= that spot He has run down rumors.
8e has wrsstled with grim figures that
would have downed an ordinary man.
he has Investigated all sorts Of dark
eernsrs. Nov he declares that the
eish cost Of living 10 . mere super.
ssition. like the od-fangisd ahsstsd
Ohost. the pot Of gold At the far end
OF the rainbow and the theory tha&
pubic ONCE 10 . public trust.
furthermore. Doc Holmes was ~ .
meeting OF the PAtria Club at the
Aeeea Manhattan last night. The Patria
Club members have sworn by the high
cost Of living. They have fairly
gloatsd over old High Cost.
But Doc Holmes stood right up and
told them that the bugaboo that has
called Into being DO much activity In
scenomio societies. women's clubs and
POLITICAL conventions. 10 q mere shadow
without solidity or substance.
oo9o NOT CARE A RAP WHAT
CONSUMERS THINK.
Doe Holmes did not seem to care Q
rap Il anybody did call him q hereto.
He went after the high cost OF living
hammer and tongs. Said ne:
"a may sSem IKE telling h child not
% cry when he 10 hurt. but nevertheless
ne fact 10 that tho present high price
Ssvsl 10 big only by comparison with the
extraordinary low depths Of the price
levels Of the later years OF the eighties
ead througtout The ninettea Even the
NhsO peSee q bsef was higher from 1881
b u and from lSes to 1900 than In any
SUBSEQUENT year except la1l and 1914
We had become 70 accustomed to the
unusually low prices for . period Of
twelve q dftssn years that We foraot
49, those prices were exceptional n
sus experience and srsw into the 81.
peetAtien that they would eontnus In
es0aiesly. Nevertheless the rs-establish.
osnt q former pricss - painfui"
1Asa hs actually had the tsrmerity
. - AFTER our old friend Consumer.
knock him down and stand with one
foot on his neck. Listen. Consumers
Doc Holmes aetuaily said these vsry
wse1a .abeas you:
cuRG 70 PLGAoUaE MUST WAIT
ON INCOME.
~ - about time for the consumer
- stop paying the part OF . man With
oOFtsvanes. Nearly all his grievances
mat eaa - correoesd can be corrected
~ himself. He can buy with greater
economy In prices through cooperative
efforts and By paying cash and BY
aveiding the sxpsnsiveness Of petty dis
tribution BY not buying things In small
Saoksgss. Then there are the costs
Of plsasurs. and Il may be that the sit.
uatiou y % bad that pleasure should
harksn 70 income
Consumers seem TO be taking II fol
erentsd that everything In the way oil
iAvors should be coming their way with
eat any effort on their part TO procure
them. They are making most radica
0istake and In consequence are getting
the worst effects OF . period OF high
Drces."
a when the doctor had lambasted tbs
SSsh cost OF living and grilled the con.
3UBmsr to his hearts content. Miss Ellen
HLouise johnson got up and said he hat
overlooked one thing. He should have
scolAsd The housewives. she thought. fol
their ignorance and wastefulnsss ir
marketing.
But Doc Holmes thought he had done
enough for one evening. He let thu
housewives Off.