The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-18
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||v|NG COST SCARS
.ase of IS Per Cent In
\ Year Shown By Gov
|ernment Statistics.

IsHINGTON. = Poor old Mr.
NOR is in for a hard winter.
kob cost of living has him in its
IL and is squeezing him tighter
iobter. He may squirm and
he but he can't escape the pres
I IF he struck against the high
LII coal he would freeze to
If he refused to pay two
for clothing he would have to
kad and the cops would get him.
6sn't able to foot outrageous
Ear foodstuffs he must starve.
Is he could bear his ills better
.new that deliverance was prom
4 the near future, but there is
III promise. The price Of al
every commodity used by the
Ian citizen and his family is
KIN higher to-day than it has
gor many years, but according
hest authorities it is due to
n mounting. When it will come
kgain only the gods know-and
kmain silent.
4 man 90 into a clothing store,
I'M a quarter and tell the clerk
Ms a couple of collars and the
Hi say, another nickel, please,
not two for a quarter any
they're IS cents straight.
les which would formerly re-
be pristine freshness of these
linen for two and a half cents
harg three cents apiece. Thus
housewives who used to send
ID number of collars to the
to save the extra half cent
|eved of that phase of domestic
IN. There has been a 20 per
Grease in both the original cost
4 upkeep, which shows only one
which Mr.. Consumer is getting
ae neck. For the countless
Ids who do not wear white col
ill be no comfort to learn that
Ind wooden shirts have scared
kher.
od Famine a Possibility.
urse neither collars nor shirts
Initial to life. Men have been
10 get along without either.
men, so their husbands say,
Iii economic on hats and
Ind silk stockings and face
Ind a hundred other feminine
ies." But the real danger
tuation lies in the possibility
famine in standard foods.
no general alarm because
ave gone up so per cent.
b usually tell breakfast time
whistles of nearby fac
But beans have advanced
to Is cents a quart. Meat
higher when the COW jumped
moon. The five-cent loaf of
disappearing in the big cities
of the smaller ones, and
ers predict a 20-cent loaf if
doesn't put an embargo on
tation of wheat. According
nited States department of
the general cost Of living
ced 35 per cent within the
nerican people are face to
problem whose serious
hardly be exaggerated.
ask the average man the
ll this he will say "the war"
reason given him by the
he coal man, the baker and
else with a finger in his
ope. He accepts the YER
takes his punishment. He
stop to analyze or go into
minor causes. No doubt
reason for the present price
bis country is the war, but
tand the situation clearly
get little nearer specific
y Meat Is a Luxury.
FIR. Consumer goes to mar
Rys from 26 to 35 cents a
a piece of beefsteak-an
approximately 80 per cent
year-he hands over this
30 per cent for four rea-
abnormally large export OF
this country because of the
n Europe. This exporta-
a smaller amount of beef
able for Americans.
decreased production of
United States, which fur
ses the shortage.
flood of gold that has been
America to pay for goods
This increase of gold has
the dollar so that it is not
uch beefsteak as formerly.
fly increased expenditures
the United States as a re-
austrial expansion, or, in
DIS, of our prosperity"
sion has caused a stronger
all kinds of commodities
fials and fnished), it has
Pages or buying power and
p place in spite of strong
on the part of Europe for
Is used. Thus the law of
demand causes a tendency
reases in virtually every
oes into the production of
beefsteak.
e to figures just made
ne National City bank of
exports of meat have
E the beginning of the war
of fresh beef are greater
N-fold. This in spite of
ecrease in the number of