Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-18
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
What Is There Left For the Garbage Can?

What Is There Left For the Garbage
 Can?
 Mir Editor: Those who have long regarded food as pur- chasable commodity. are some our thoughs have kept in the reSr of events. after we have applied at the provision dealers for the necessary means of life. The high cost of liv- ing absorbs every advantage in wages Of one place over another. Most peo- pie, whose fare has always been meaSre, adapt themselves more readily to changing conditions than the class es who have cultivated their tastes to e luxurious standard. Plain living, if sorry with most of us long before the war drum began to throb, so much so, that the bogus dignity of genteei pow efty is joke. So we await wish equa niinity whatever system of food control the government decides Is nec- essary for the security of the country. If Mir. Hoover can held most of the people, who accept their position be- always accepted. what God and man has put upon them to endure, by thwarting the plans of the gentlemen twho have been selected to store our food for us), who think it their inalien- able right to get all the food corner ed. and make pay their price for it or go without, he will have done a real service for mankind. And we will apologize for the remark, that the present price of food is ample insur- ance against wanton waste.
 Some of our metropolitan cities have completed food survey of storage plants, and found abundance in poulA try, meat and eggs, and everything etss enough that price boosts are not jus tifed by scarcity of anything also that the law of supply and demand does not enter into the extravagant costs fixed for everything.
 The plain every day truth is, that there is no limitation to the price fix ing of those who control the food sit uation and. unless they are curbed, they will Keep right on doing as they plea SC. To furnish questionable justification for this buccaneerins there is some demand that where prof it's havo not been made in the past. prices may be raised to make good what was lost during improbable years. This reckoning does not take into account the Nan wage years of the consumer nor does it intend to re- i,nbrIrse .him for loss of purchasing power due from any cause during that WE. have had thus far in the way of legislative interference with this wholesale plunder. We read a lot about war needs and sacrifices, but it seems. these sacrifices are made by the people tc satisfy the needs of the manufacturers and producers.
 We are advised how to save food, that there may be enough for our al- lies, but the advice might be devoted to a better cause, for the simple req sen that food-saving, what there is of it, is automatic, made so by exor- bitant prices and Jean pocket books. The drama of life enters the stage of absurdity. when we take seriously the kind, on the part of those who have the price. Doing their bit in this pro- granme of grandeur to save the nation consists principally, in telling the rest of ns whose earthly possessions. are an old knife or a stew pan, how to save what we have not We can not wreck our vengeance for all time, upon the garbage can, for consuming more than the nation, for that day is over. Even before the war. The cost of living has leeches of commerce thought it time to give the price machine another twist. And the war. was a valuable help to p,,ta price. boosting; without re. storage plants of the nation bear wit ness, and in a little while in accord ance with law and sanitary demand a great deal of this stuff will go to exceed the demand. It seems to be the inability of government to reach the depths of mischief. of this ques- tion that is to blame for the mis- chievous situation as we have it. And the while we listen to- and read, the finest line of bunk about what we will do to be saved from MT. Speculator.
 We are in the war, and what good does 1t do to talk about the right or wrong of it. The proper thing to do Is for our lawmakers and the whole nation to work that the end of khis war may speedily be brought to con- cl,ision with honor without unneces- sary sacrifice of men or money, at the same time Jet us bear In mind, above all else, we must not starve the non by allowing food pirates unlimited license to do it. While we have the food controller and the food control. 1t is going to take some time te ! set the machinery in motion, and l maybe longer time to jar the pirates and convince them 1t is a good law, ! SO let us hope.
 J. H. CUMMINGS
 Norwich. Sept IT 1917