Bisbee daily review., 1917-10-28
the War Cloud
 c SilUer Lining?

There are times when looking over the latest bill for groceries. that some new rise in the price Cf a commodity sets Us to computing the increase in the present cost of living over that of a year ago; and We sadly remem- Der that sugar, once five cents pound, is now ten; that potatoes, which we formerly despised for their very cheapness, now are classed as luxuries; while milk has doubled in cost if not in value. Then we com. pare our husbands present income to that of previous years and find that, while it has increased considerably, still, owing to the increase in our needs as well as to the higher cost of necessities, the problem of making both ends meet is very discOuragins.
 Of course. the immediate result of this little example in proportion is an enforced economy that is making itself felt all over the nation. Let those who can afford it, feel the sat isfaction of obeying voluntarily the in functions of the food commission. For the majority of us. it has not been necessary to tell us to substitute the cheaper shortcomings for butter in cook ing, and with some of us a meatless Tuesday, as well as other meatless weekdays, were an actual necessity long before fashionable New York dis covered sthat it could get along on shell fish one day in seven. Not liv- ing near the coast, We even elimin- ated the shell fish.
 The indirect result of such economy whether enforced or voluntary is the satisfaction of doing ones little best to help conserve the food supply. When we read of the starving hordes of Flu rope, we are anxious to make any sac rifice required of us, knowing that even the most trivial will help in some way, and surely in comparison with their condition, our own is almost lux urious.
 Through sacrifice and self-denial, we women of the nation are learning the lesson of infinite patience, oi hope and of faith in the ultimate tri- umph of Right.
 The efforts of the government to- ward preserving a proper balance be- tween wages and food prices are very encouraging, in spite of the determ- ined opposition of farmers in certain mid-western localities. The wheels of government grind slowly, but we may rest assured that when our govern ment has once started a movement in certain direction it will not cease to progress until it has attained the desired goal.
 We have been promised a reduction in the price of such commodities as flour, sugar, coal, kerosene, etc. Let us not be discouraged if the imme- diate results have not been as favor able as We had been led to expect. Rome was not built in a day. The { law for the abolition of child labor was under discussion for several years before it was finally passed. The gov ernment. in pursual of it's plans for doing away with disproportionate pro fits and establishing balanced prices, has to contend with the inordinate de- mand from abroad for our foodstuffs and the inadequate supply. This in- verse ratio of supply and demand in evitably results in inflated prices. Other drawbacks have beer the wide spread strikes and the scarcity of skilled labor, owing to the selective draft, as well as the attitude of the wheat growers who fed their wheat to the hogs, saying that it was cheaper than selling it at the government