Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1915-03-24
WE ARE PREPARED TO
MAKE FARM LOANS.
Phone Us, No. 20.
r. n. M. MILLS & SONS,
Sd Floor, Citizens Blk. Bldg.

is to blame, while others declare if
every woman would arise at in the
morning and do her own marketing
the price of food would drop to
normal.
The Housewives league Is COM
posed of women who aim to encour-
age economical housekeeping, and
one of the means adopted is to train
housewives to buy intelligently ana
economically. The formula the
league has found successful for re
ducing the cost of food is brief. Here
il is: Compel the grocers to adver-
tise, thus insurng real competition;
pay cash and take your bundles
home.
Houston, Texas, has branch OF
the league that has been active IN
the last few months. The following
extracts from a letter written by the
president Of the league, published in
the Shreveport Times shows the
practical results of the campaign o.
the league:
Last summer when sugar advanc-
cd to 8 1-3 cents per pound and beef
to so cents, a few of our women got
together, talked the situation over
and decided that something must be
probed and investigated and were
forcibly convinced that women as
buyers needed to be organized and
because the Housewives league was
already established, we joined hands
with them.
"Since that time we have accom-
plished the reduction of beef from 20
and 30 cents to Is cents for the
choice cuts and less for other parts.
We have reduced fish from 10 cents
to Z, 8, and 8 cents.
eve have inaugurated the use OF
pennies in buying our food stuffs'
Our clothing stores have always given
penny prices and now nearly all our
food stores do so. !.
"Houston food merchants have
never advertised prices--told us en-
phaticaliy they never would. But inc
| first man to reduce meat mad the
nerve to advertise his prices. others
do now. We can take the morning
paper and inform ourselves as t.
prices before going marketing. ln''
creates real competition.
I'VE have insisted also on ne
sixteen ounce pound Of butter, not u"
fourteen ouacas We got when w
started our work. BY constant aglta
ton we have convinced the deale
that to get the trade he must put II
a sixteen-ounce pound of butter.
Our plan for reducing prices wa
was not to hammer the merchar
down nor to ask him to cut III
profits unduly, but to try the Gas
Over the Counter system and to ac
} yertise prices in the daily papers
:, least once week.
E This idea was the result OF u
| general claim of merchants int
l viewed that delivery cost, charge a
= counts and the incidental bookkee
t inn expense, bad debts and slow ps
- customers, we're SO heavy as
y nccessitate the high prices.
y leash Over the Counter,
G rather, Pay cash and take vo'
', bundls home does away with II
l. expense and loss to the merchant
5 we ask him to share the saving Wi
u the Housewives
1.-THE best part OF our work
e Houston. we feel, has been the
1t velopment of wide-awake self-co
n GUS housewives. We are dlgnlfyi
N scious housewives. We are dignity
81 basis of i. profession.
10 slogan-'Pay cash and take 70
lie bundle home; our policy-a sm'l
nj our Chword-frugallty.
This plan would doubtless prove
ls successful in Pine Bluff as 1t mas
at Houston, Texas, and it is surprlsl
OF that, despite the complaints OF
5. high cost of living, none of the II
Nv Eluff housewives has undertaken
Gu nromute ORGANIZED effort TO redl
-, food prices.
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