The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-01-03
Readjustment.


has given up his attempt to make
this a German world. In the words
of the late Grover Cleveland. he has
relapsed into innocuous desue-
tude
The American stay-at-homes have
been most liberal in their support of
conditions a. they found them; they
have unhesitatingly raised money
for the support of the various war
relief funds. and likewise endeavor-
ed to raise the cash to meet their
own families demands for food and
clothing When the little miss went
to her father for a new pair OF shoes
he shelled out s. for a pair inferior
to ones he bad paid 50 for in ante
bellum days, TO himself: ] must
do it because leather is scarce-be-
cause the boys oyer there need it for
their leggins and army shoes" When
his wife asked for a dollar to get
nine pounds of sugar, he produced
the cash. although before the boys
at the front needed sugar he used to
get Is pounds for the same amount
of money,
~.And so with calic1 f"- aprons,
ginghams Ion baoy's slips. dads
own trousers, which used to cost
S4.9S, he willingly paid 1915 for.
because the sovernment needed the
cloth or materials for its fabric. and
that made it scarce and hard to get
In fact, everything to eat and
wear went up in price from 30 to
300 per cent. The purchasing value
of "A dollar became about 35 cents.
Yet the old man never grumbIed.
The soldier boys were getting the
benefit, so he was told. and so he
believed
But the war Is over, now. And
prices, instead of gradually getting
back to somewhere near reasonable,
are rapidly going higher Dad is
wondering. He reads in the Times
Herald a couple of weeks ago where
the government had released three
hundred million pounds of wool to
the trade, and in the same article
he saw that spring suits would
probably advance in price to a con-
siderable degree" ." He sees by the
papers where the enormous sugar
production has resulted not in low
ering the staple, but in removing
the restrictions placed upon it," In
the, meantime sugar is still nine lbs |
for dollar or thereabouts. Dad |
went uptown yesterday and found |
eggs zoe dozen. with every mer-
chants counter loaded with eggs Il
Higher in price by 30 per cent than
ever known in holiday times, when |
eggs were as scarce as the teeth of |
the hens who lay them. Dad is
sort of old-fashioned But he has a |
pretty good education. Studied |
economics at school. dad did, and
he was taught that supply and de-
mand regulated the price. SO he
Is wondering why, since the war is
over. and the boys are on their way
home, that he has to pay 10 cents
apiece for apples, 5 cents apiece for
oranges and 40 cents a pound for
grapes, and 30 cents pound for
nuts at Christmas time. In fact,
dad is beginning to grunt a little.
Somebody says: But dad is
getting much higher wages than he
used to get; he can afford to pay for
these things at these prices Yes.
dad used to get 50 a day and now
he is getting 81. Getting double,
you see, what he used to. But he
is paying four times what he used
to pay for meat. four times what he
used to pay for butter and eggs, five
times what he used to pay for calico
and gingham. more than double for
his clothes and shoes; so dad amt
very proud of his recent raise in
wages. Not so az you would notice |
It, Yep dad is wondering West
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