The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1919-10-17
Your Part In The H. C.. iii. War.

Economic experts estimate thai
some years must elapss before the
cost Of living is reduced to the basis
which obtained before the war
Prof Frank Taussig, of Harvard
former chairman Of the United
States Tariff Commission, fixes thai
period at ten years.
The various departments of the
government are using every effort tc
reduce both the high prices and the
period through which they must OBJ
tain To make the work. of the de
partment effective they must have
not only the cooperation but active
assistance of the citizens of the
country. President Wilson has
pointed out how that assistance can
best be given, through thrift, saving
and rigid economy coupled with in
crease of production and elimination
1of extravaganza and waste.
Opening of retail stores conducted
by the Army Quartermasters Corps
for the sale of army stores at low
prices has just been announced from
Chicago, st. Paul, Columbus, San
Antonio and New York. At Chicago
fifty thousand shoppers assembled
before the store at 8 o'clock on the
morning of the opening. At San
Antonio ON the first day, sales OF
| 1882 were recorded from the time
the store opened at 10 o'clock until
| it closed that evening.
In New York, rolling stores
mounted on trucks for the sale OF
eggs at reduced prices proved a
decided success and the State Mar
ket Commissioner followed this sue
cess by sending out trucks selling
army meat and other foods.
| These are some of the things
federal and state authorities are
doing TO reduce the cost of living,
but alone these efforts will not suf-
fee.
The National Association of Waste
Material Dealers estimates that
Americans throw away 100000, 900
worth of food each year. If only
one ounce of food is wasted or
spoiled in each of the 100000
homes of America, the total loss is
100000 pounds a day. AS much
coal is wasted annually as all the
mines of the country could produce
in two weeks.
LII III anu Tic ucCuGu uUI
only in materials but in labor and
money. Each added individual
effort will tend toward the increase
of production and consequent fall in
price of necessities but physical
idleness is no less an obstacle to the
reduction of living costs than finan-
cial idleness. There are millions Of
dollars idle in the United States
through lack of proper investment
which should be working for the
common good. These sums if put to
work would constitute the new CAPT.
tai so urgently needed to tide over
the period of reconstruction.
Tremendous needs for such capital
exists in one item alone, the prob
lem of adequate housing In an ad-
dress to the New York and New
England Brick Manufacture Co. AL
Ian Beals announced that the United
States needs 100000 homes, 100000
factories, 5000 schools, $4,000 apart
ment houses, 10000 theaters and
churches, 120 freight terminals and
$4,000 railroad stations and freight
sheds
Capital is needed for these pro-
jects and the projects if financed
would go far toward solving not
only the housing but the employ
ment and wage problems of the
country. This capital can be pro-
duced only by the people of the
United States. 1t can be most read
lily and quickly produced through
thrift, saving and safe investment in
government securities, War Savings
Stamps, Treasury Savings Certiff-
Gates, Certificates of Indebtedness,
and Liberty Bonds Therein lies
your part.