The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-07-01
Last Six Months Has Brought Wonderful
Change in Daily Living Methods
Of People in Merry Land Of
Tommy Atkins
ALL FOOD GOES TO
OUTRAGEOUS PRICES
BeefsIeak is az Cents Per Pound and
Other Things in Advance in Pro-
portion; War Taxes Of Dozen
Kinds Boost Burden
(By United Press staff Correspond

Wy united Press Staff Correspond
ent)
London, June 20.-(By mail.)-
has all happened SO gradually in Eng
land that no one has particularly no
ticed it, But If you have been away
from London for six months you find
upon your return that the last half
year has utterly changed the lives OF
Englishmen. e.
Suppose for instance that your Town
were London. What would the war
have done to it? Or to your home
life? And how would you take these
changes?
Would you be satisfied If half the
matches you bought didn't Light be-
cause the sticks broke or the sulphur
tips We're absent? And "a the price on
matches went up, in spite of this?
Or how would you take it if the coal
man didn't make his deliveries and
you found your home coalless some
raw morning?
Or suppose the government put IL
cense tax of S95 year on your little
family automobile for which you had
paid only $500?
And gasoline went up to s5 cents a
gallon.
Suppose your morning newspaper
kept getting smaller and smaller, week
hy week, because the newspaper sup
ply was getting low?
Suppose for every dollar you made
you had to turn over dime to the
government for war purposes, just as
an income tax, not including the many
small taxes you would pay on almost |
everything consumed in your home?
Would you be bothered?
Strangely enough, if you had the
spirit of this new England you would
not Your whole idea would be to
beat Germany and that idea would
keep your attention so closely riveted
to the lattlefields that details of homo
inconvenicnces would largely escape
you. ~
At least, to a neutral onlooker, they
rave escaped the folk Of London.
It is difficult for a neutral to under
stand this unless he is on the ground
hut il 70 lad the new English spirit
land such a spirit has grown up with
in the isst six months and icacnes
down to the very core Of Engen life
and your tn II were London, yo. wos,l
he end, ring inconvenien rs that ap-
pear almost unbelievable to you.
There's beefsteak, at for.vtwo cents
pound. Beefsteak, in your home in
Missouri or Kansas, would become a
luxury.
There wouldn't be many eggs for
breakfast at z cents apiece
Suppose as an Easter treat, you
planned to have eggs anyhow, and
then were faced by this announcement
in the newspapers:
Please don't eat eggs for Easter: =
our soldiers need million eggs" i
Would You go without eggs? !,
You would. "
II YOU We're a subordinate and found
4 government tax put on your com
mutation ticket so that your morning =.
md evening rides would cost you an !
additional seventy-five cents week. 2 2
f telephone calls went up to seven
'ents from five. If your Havana ci- -,
sars were not even permitted to enter =
he country. If your few daily drinks /,
we're raised in price from % to 35 per =.
ent. II shaves went up from ten -,
ents to fifteen cents. If you wife \,
ould buy only one pound of sugar at Il.
time at the grocer's and then the
rocer insisted that she must make -,
ther purchases at his store If she =
anted him to sell her sugar-if you -
link that you would be annoyed by -
Il these things you are wrong.
Britons within the last half year.
re doing and enduring all these 81
lings with great satisfaction and IL
ride.
Under ike conditions folk in Ameri-
IN towns would do the same
Other things that are being under I
me by Londoners. almost without pol
include: Of
Watching the birth-rate fall so that tina
ne babies are nov born where ten kee
ere born before. it
Riding in street cars and buses that son