The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1919-11-19
STATEMENTS THAT WILL
APPEAL TO PATRIOTIC FOLKS
National Defense Body Issues State
ment of Facts and Advice for
Public Guidance

United States Council of Defense,
Washington, October 6, 1919.
A Statement Concerning the High
Cost of Living.
To the Public:-The United States
Council of National Defense compos-
ed of the Secretaries of War, Navy,
Interior. Agriculture. Commerce, and
Labor, has made careful investiga-
tion of the high-cost of-living prob
lem, and finds:
That the Nations productive pow
ers have not been fully utilized since
the armistice.
That too few goods. notably the
necessities of life, have been produc-
ed and that even some of these goods
have been withheld from the market,
and therefore from the people.
That the nign cost of living is due
il part to unavoidable war waste
and increase of money and credit
That there has been and is con-
siderable profiteering, intentional
and unintentional
The Council believes that the rem
edies for the situation are:
To produce more goods and to pro-
duce them in proportion to the needs
OF the people.
To stamp out profiteering and stop
unnecessary boarding.
To enforce vigorously present laws
and promptly enact such further new
laws as are necessary to prevent and
punish profiteering and needless
boarding
To bring about better cooperation
and method in distributing and mar
keting goods.
To keep both producer and con-
sumer fully informed as to what
goods are needed and as to what sup
plies are available SO that produc-
ton may anticipate the country's de-
mands.
Goods and not money are the means
of life. Better standards of living
are impossible without producing
more goods Man can not consume
what has not been produced.
At the wars end our allies had
most desperate need of the essen
tials of life. We have had to share
our resources with them but this
drain will gradually lessen. Insofar
as our shortage of goods is due to
this cause we can we'll afford to be
patient
II Is just as essential that we have
patience with the economic condition
here at home. The process of pro-
duction requires time. II produc-
ton is rapidly increased vastly inn
proved conditions will prevail in this
country when the results of present
and future labor begin to appear.
Team work is imperative. 1t is
just as essential between retailer,
wholesaler and producer as it is be-
tween employer and employe. One
group of producers will not wait on
another group. The manufactures,
the farmer the distributor must each
Immediately assume his task. The
nation can not afford curtailment OF
goods vital to the people.
On American business rests grave
responsibility for efficient coopera-
ton in bringing about full and pro-
portionate production. On American
labor rests an equally grave respon-
sibility to attain maximum unit pro-
duction and maintain uninterrupted
distribution of goods il labor itself is
not to suffer from further rises in
the cost of living.
The entire nation-producer, dis
tributor and consumer alike-should
return to the unity that won the war.
Group interest and undue personal
gain must give way to the good OF
the whole country If the situation Is
to be squarely met.
Our common duty now, fully as
much as In the war, is to work and
IN save In the words of the Presi-
dent In his address to the country on
August 25, 1919, only 'by increasing
production and by rigid economy and
saving on the part of the people, can
we hope for large decreases in the
burdensome cost of living which now
weighs us down"
Work, save and produce.
Signed: Newton d. Baker, Secre.
tary of War and Chairman of the
Council; Josephus Daniels, Secretar,
as xha Nayv. Franklin X Lana See.