The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-08-29

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~ Phiiadelphia rusiic
{ IAis nation i IA rcushly patriosic 49,
s9uil 6k WI. ths-war defAl nninAti 10 doWN
70 the last hoy Scout, Tlaere Il nothino
weW ~ not 40 or endure Or psy 10 znA1l1.
the trA&io acrifice OF our spiendid me-
at-arms toll stcs8 the last Cartridges. ~
Aro not counting our trouble depE1va-s
make light 81 ghastly wound 49,
death daily with the flnesa b1l9zlk eyl.9
courage OF the free born; q
But, II spite of the a. IN After Az
remain Amer icans II 81 xkacnaity stnI.eo
eibls Tor III % stop thln,etnp here ~
there IL nothing more dangerous to our
complete hrotherly cooperat ion IN the
great task ct shattering forever the GeE-
man sword than 70 ignore M an,iliaR
forced TO the lips OF every hotsewtfes
however loyal. and every purchaser Of the;
Necessities Of life. however ardent his
belief In the allied Gauss q.
We Americans VIII fight to Q finish an0
swe. win fight With A lptslligsncs and
serent nations can possibly equal -
are permitted to give our Intelligence FREE
play and are not asked to endure IN the
dark buffetlnss Wiaoss cause - eannes
conceive.
10 come. right down Is BRAS tacka.
there II one big. pressing and psfsistene
question which every man and every
woman especially every w0man--wh0oo
duty Il ID to make frequent purchases q
the necessities of life Il constantly 49,
sing, and that question is:
S Why Il. II that our various war authorf.
ties, who intervene sdictatoriAliy- ana
rightly so--ins almost every other activity
OF life, cannot protect the domestic pur.
chaser from what sesmss systenhatic sxtee-
tIon1" s
We regulate very nearly everything In
this country now, Save and except the
most important thing Of All-the cost o.
our living expenses. It may be ecOnon-
ically impossible to regulate that Tho
the family dinner ana finds that sysfy
mortal item on her list has gone up sinco
last week Ii quite willing to be shown
that the government can re8ulRt 49,
the coal man can chargef w. ~ what
what the, farxnSr can charge Tor wheat
what thu railway can charge Tor tran1
.nortation. who shall get steel when ~
shall eat beef, what we shall eat IN
place OF wheat. and 2 thousand other
delicate points in our daily life. but cannot
regulate what the grocer shall charge her
for butter and eggs. or what the butcher
shall ask for lamb, or how much the
nshmonger shall get for fish. She Ii NOT
only willing-she asks nothing SO vehem-
emily as that she shall be shown.
When the good word mes that We
have met the demand for meat and that
we can now eat II again. does the price
of fish fall? Not so you'd notice. Once
q price gets up 1t seems utterly unable to
climb down again. II goes UP joyously
like skyrocket but 1t makes it danger
ously dizzy even to look down.
We are going to have a fine opportunity
now to judge the exact relation In these
cases between supply and demand. Hoover
has sent over the happy word that we
need no longer deny ourselves wheat.
While we were saving wheat to feed
Europe-and we did 1t magnificently ana
effectively-the price for what little we
were permitted to buy awaited ana the
portions of wheat products served In the
hotels and restaurants approached the
vanishing point. Bread became luxury.
WIN bread now become cheap? Will the
cost OF wheat products go back to the old
figures? Will the portions served return
to tire good old wholesome sizes7
4 The housewife win believe 1t when she
sees It,
Naturally the housewife asks qucst.ras.
The housewife is the purchasing agent OF
the home. Men make money come, but
women make It go-and they are COM
PEELED to make 1t go a very, very long ~ky
these days.
The housewife wants to know:
Why prices always go up and never
come down.
Why. when the government commands
her to eat certain foods, 1t does not take
any visible steps to prevent the vendors
of these foods from making them SO dear
that she simply cannot buy them.
Why foods which are not put on the war
index seem mysteriously to become ~
scarce and costly as those which are.
Why the substitutes she is compelled
to take In order to get a small allotment
of what she really wants go up in price
like an American aviator trying to gee
above Hun raider when we are not
shipping pound Of them to Europe and
are presumably producing 1T least -
much as ever.
why the prices of articles already manu.
featured and In stock go up, though the
merchant would have sold them gladly at
the old price II they had not been men
toned in some way in government
order.
why the government cannot prevent
this when they know they are about to
issue an explosive order.
Why the government can regulate the
things that the government buys but not
the things that the unknown housewife
buys.
Why the government can regulate the
prices and the distribution of some things
but not Of others-apparently not the
very things she, the noneconomic, the
aonprofiteering, the unOrganiZed house.
wife wants to buy.
It will be good tactics to answer before
40 start another Liberty loan campaign.
for not a few people are feeling that their
Incomes are first taxed and then mort
gagged for Liberty loans, but that the
residue on which they must live Is not
protected from the profiteer, petty as well
as prodigious, who pliers the lean houses
keeping purse of 100000 hardworking
families.
Not For Him.
From the New York Tribune
The colorful war classic, anent the
ebony recruit who spurned the cavalry
because horse would impede his retreat,
has been prolific of SEQUEL Following hfa