The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1919-10-30
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W by Living Is High.

"a HNiiSi Aii0S'
Inat me Nauons productive pow
erS have not oeen fuly utilized since
ne armlSuce.
that too few goods, notably the
necessities OF lire, have been pro,
daced, and that even some of these
goods have been withheld from the
market, and therefore from the peo-
pie,
That the high cost of living is due
in part TO unavoidable war waste
and increase Of money and credit.
That there has been and is con-
siderable prohteering, intentional
and unintentonal.
The Council believes that the
remedies for the situation are:
To produce more goods, and to
produce them in proportion to the
needs of the people.
To stamp our profteering and stop
unnecessary boarding.
To enforce vigorously present
laws and promptly to enact such
further new laws as are necessary to
prevent and punish profteering ana
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,
niands.
A few pointers on the present sit.
uation are also outlined:
Goods and not money are the
means Of life. Better standards OF
living are impossible without pro
ducing more goods. Man cannot
consume what mas not been pro,
duced.
At the wars end our Allies had
desperate need Of the essentials OF
life. We have had to share our re-
sources with them, but this drain viii
gradually lessen. In so far as our
shortage Of goods is due to this cause
We can we'll afford to be patient.
1t is just as essential that We have
patience with the economic situa-
ton here at home. The process OF
prediction requires time. If pro-
duction is rapidly increased, vastly
improved conditions will prevail in
America when the results Of present
and future begin to appear.
Team work is imperative. 1t is
just as essential between retailer,
wholesaler and producer as it is be
tween employer and employee. Onr
group Of producers can not wait on
another group. The manufacturer,
the farmer, the distributor must each
Immediately assume his part Of the
burden and enter upon his task. The
Nation cannot afford curtailm:.E If
goods vital to the people.
On American business rests a
grave responsibility for efficient CO.
operation in bringing about full and
proportionate production. On Ameri-
can labor rests an equally grave re-
sponsibility to attain maximum pro-
duction and maintain uninterrupted
distribution Of goods if 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 interests 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
save. In the words Of the President
in his address to the country on
August rs, 1919, only "by increas-
ing 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
weighs US down."
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