Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-02
FooosTuFEs HIGHER
 MEANS LESS USED

MISS OnaIIotIe MOlyneuA HollOWaV industrial investigator for the state the price of foodstuffs has risen from 50 to 56 per cent. and the decrease in it's consumption is around S5 per- cent. since 1914 in this state.
 The details of the increase in price show that certain qualities of meat now cost more than double what they did in 1914 and the increase for others has been 150 per cent. Butter is more than 55 per cent. higher and the in- creased price plus the decreased nu- tritive value makes eggs about 100 per cent. more costly to the consumer. Milk has sne from eight cents a quart in 1916 to sixteen cents now. Miss Holloway states. and condensed milk has also increased considerably.
 The decrease in consumption is seen most clearly in meat butter, cheese. eggs, potatoes and milk.
 You want me to give you an idea about the high cost of living, do you ?' said Miss Holloway in discussing the situation in the state of Connecticut. l "A comparison between the food price of 1914-16 and 1918 is not wholly just unless we om3rehend that l the 1918 Der cent. includes noto nly
 
 retrenchment. I am holding to the price of food because I believe that while civilized man can do without l learning and books he cannot exist without food. Clothing and heat are 1 factors which are not vitally pressing for some months to come.
 Milk is the most essential food to the part of our population which we should protect and develop. Milk has gone from eight cents a quart in 1916 to sixteen cents for plain ordinary milk without any blue ribbons on it's bottle, and consequently the people are using less. When commodity increases in l price, the consumer protects himself by using less without considering that he may be really lowering his own vitality.
 The use of skim milk has been rec commended. While I have read some interesting instructions regarding it's substitution for the richer lacteal, know nothing about its value It seems
 to me that only a physician could tel
 what systems could assimilate and
 what would reject it.
 There should be something done tc
 lower the price and allow milk to be
 used in it's former abundance It k the cheapest and most widely use6 food value for children. I do no think the farmer should bear the brun of its high price He should receive
 some concession which would aid 1T lowering it's price. and there should bt
 some arrangement so that it could b. ,, marketed without increasing its price l bought a quart of milk in a city ir July for sixteen cents. Not fifteen mile. : from there I bought another rich witt
 cream, for eight. There are man, communities where this can be paral
 leled. There are some where quanti
 ties of milk go to waste because O
 lack of transportation facilities. Ther are many families who go out in ma chimes and bring home gallons fo themselves and their friends" h dealing with the decrease in con
 sumption, Miss Holloway stated tha the amount of ice cream and cand used has been decreased. People wh have never let a Sunday or holida pass" she said. without making ic
 cream a necessary part of the mea 7 could not locate the ice cream freeze today without the aid of a trained in vestigaSer." The reduction in the con " sumption of these things Miss Hollo way believes means the removal of
 definite food value. The nutritiv P value of chocolate candy" she contin
 ued, lis demonstrated by the war an Q that of the candy bought today ha :, decreased by over so per cent ? Fruit. which has medicinal a . we'll as food value, is not seen at a
 on the tables of the majority of tn !. people. Sugar is a diminishing quan " tfty, but can be so within certain linn . it's as We have eaten too much of it i . the past. What concerns me most
 the prohibitive price of the actus foundation of body and mind and tn > manner in which people try to retrenc :. without regard to the values of tn . food they decrease.
 Meat. butter, cheese. eggs, potatoe
 milk, are the principal articles GU
 down.
 Comparison of the decrease in con E sumption in the northeast and th a southern parts of the state shows ths .- tn eforn1er have an adv-antage as the g have gardens to furn:eae them with a a abundance of food. Because of lac n of space. at least this is one of tf h reasons, little is raised in the souther ,f part of the state Consequently the IS are more dependent on the staple s. milk. butter and meat.
 Ie 'Tt is our legally authorized duty IS look afte& the workingman Tn; Id means his family as we'll as himsel
 The foreign born who constitute u
 larger part of our workers are tf
 the larger part of our popula So
 Many of these people conserve III l- economically. And many of the T. housekeeper lessons in conservat;R ,n SEND THREE coLoRED