The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-03-19

beyond all reason OF justice.
Now, they'ar hghting against any
reduction.
Announcement has been sent
broadcast by an association OF mems
clothing manufacturers that the
price of mems summer clothes will
not be lowered this year
w. ]. Dixon, of the National AS
ISOLATION Of Mems Straw Hat Manu-
facturers of America, says Htraw
hats will not be cheaper because, at
the time the armistice was signed.
manufacturers either had contracted
for their material up to next July, or
had received large part of it.
The New York Times announces
that New York landlords have
agreed among themselves to demand
decided" increase in nat and
apartment house rentals next May
and October when the majority Of
leases are signed.
In the New York Legislature last
week Assemblyman Fertig, speaking
Of the profteering of~iandlords, said
people from all over his district were
coming to him and saying, You are
driving us into the camps of the So
cialists because you do nothing to
protect us against these unconscion-
able landlords"
Brooklyn assemblymen said the
trent gougers'' had made the situa-
ton in that part of New York seri-
Gus.
In Washington throughout the
war house owners, hotel proprietors.
restaurant keepers and suppliers of
public needs generally engaged in a
carnival of polite criminality hold
ing up" the public and stripping
them of their money no less in effect
Z than the highwayman does the job.
A division chief in one OF the de-
partmeuts at Washington told the
present writer that six of his female
clerks, who had come to Washing
ton in response to a patriotic ap-
peal for workers, issued by his de-
partment, were lodged in one large
room In a rooming house and were
charged $16.66 week apiece for the
privilege Of sleeping there.
II such treatment would not damp
en- the ardor of an earnest young
woman eager to serve America she
would get more of the same kind n
restaurant, in shop or wherever she
went for human needs.
Today Washington is not over
crowded, but in other congesteC
cities the game of plumber still is ac
tive. In Philadelphia hotel lady
i'll with influenza had eggs and mill
prescribed by the physician Fol
raw eggs the hotel people in whose
establishment she was strickeI
charged her 10 cents apiece--$ L. 81
dozen. For second grade mill
they charged her so cents a quart
The house is 40 or so years old, We
for one room and bath the charge i
$50 a week. The furniture is old
the plumbing not above reproacl
and everything except the charge
antiquated. But the prices are RICH
up to date If not a bit in advance
In fact, in the restaurant of thi
particular hosiery they have beel
boosted within the last week.
1t is idle 20 inquire, why don
you 30 elsewhere Every hotel o
apartment hotel is packed and has
waiting list. 1t seems. Because o
that fact the public has no efiectiv
recourse.
Landlords who r,ise rents beyon
a just figure simply because tn
stoppage of building operations 70
p the last four years has caused
shortage of habitations are visitin
hardships upon the people.
Clothing men who are trying t
, continue wal prices are rank prof
. teers,
q Food suppliers who overcharg
filch from the people in the guis
: of business.
The people are in a state of un
S rest the world over.
J. There is less of It In America thai
y elsewhere, but there is considerable
! of it here Injustice breeds unrest
There will be little danger of Boil
shovism in America IL the Bolshev
lists of business are brought to book
Richard Spillane in Commerce an
Finance.