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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-08-19

the city's appropriation to buy coal
last winter, no time need be lost in
getting an order for the purchase OF
food through the city council.
The widespread interest in reducing
the cost Of living that has swept the
country within the past week has led
TO an attempt by the state Of New
Hampshire to discover why prices are
high and what can be done 10 lower
them, ii was learned here on Monday
The governor has asked the attorney
general Of that state to begin an in
curry at once.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-08-19
Must Know Terms of Peace.

There can be no confidence in indus
try, no calculable basis for credits. no
confident buying of systematic selling
no certain prospect of employment no
normal restoration of business. no
hopeful attempt at reconstruction or a
proper reassembling of the dislocated
elements of enterprise until peace has
been established, and. so far as may be-
guaranteed. Our national life has no
doubt been less radically disturbed and
dismembered than the national life of
other peoples whom the war more di-
rectIy affected. with all its terrible
ravaging and destructive force. but it
has been nevertheless profoundly af-
fected and disarranged, and our indus
tries, our credits, our productive ca
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-08-19

charged by the retailer are not justi-
fable, each factor in the industry adj
ding to the burden he had to bear be-
fore he passed it on to the next"
Means for reducing the present high
prices are recommended by the COM
mission in this paragraph:
"Some relief from the intolerable
prices paid by consumers for shoes
may be had by ID a rigid enforce
ment Of the laws against monopolistic
control of commodities, (2) legislation
foybidding producers Of hides engag-
ing in the tanning business"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-08-19

''The federal trade commission has
found that the high price of shoes
cannot be justified by underlying eco
nomic conditions. The commission
after exhaustive inquiry into the price
of hides. leather and shoes, is report
ing to congress that the larger packers
control the hide supply and have
taken excessive profits and passed in
creased costs TO subsequent steps in
manufacture and distribution that the
tanner has taken exceptional profits;
that the manufacturer of shoes has
taken unusual margins. and the prices
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-08-19
ALL TAKE EXCESSIVE PROFITS
Federal Trade Commission Makes
Public Facts Concerning Present
High Prices of Shoes

Washington.-The federal trade COM
mission, which recently conducted an
investigation into the leather industry,
inquiring especially into the prices of
shoes. made public summary of its
report to congress.
In its Introduction to the summary
the commission says:
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-08-19
How Food Prices Have Risen.

hingtOn.-Families of % cities
Of the country paid 10 per cent more
in June for % standard articles of food
than the average in 1913. according to
figures made public by the department
of labor. The average cost Of the same
foods per family in 1913 was 81 per
cent more than In 1913. The cost per
family in cities for 1913 is given as
S324. In June, 1919, it had risen to
$623. an increase If little more than
90 per cent. Since then prices have
gone even beyond those figures.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-08-19

between storage figures and prices IS
sued by the federal trade commission.
THE fact that stocks Of many i'm
portant foods were much larger June
1, this year. than on the same date
last year" said the commissions
statement, while prices we're as high
or higher. apparently means Thar they
are being withheld speculatively for a
world demand which Is not now here.
but which is expected when hunger-im-
PEELED strikers shall obtain higher
wages with which higher food prices
can be paid"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-08-19
Must All Work Together.

Threats and undue insistence upon
the interest of single class, make set
Element impossible. believe. as l
have hitherto had occasion to say to
the congress, that the industry and life
of our people and Of the world will
suffer irreparable damage if employers
and workmen are to go on in perpet-
ual contest, as antagonists. They
must, on one plan OF another. be effec-
lively associated. Have we not stead
mess and seIf-possession and business
sense enough to work out that result?
In the meantime-now and in the
days of reimbursement and recuperation
that are ahead of us-let US resort
more and more to frank and intimate
counsel and make ourselves a great
and triumphal nation, making our
selves united force in the life of the
world. It win not then have looked to
US for leadership in vain,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-08-19

Taste. IL 1t means anything but a
paltry connoisseurship, must mean a
general susceptibility 70 truth and no
bleness. a sense Ia discern and heart
10 love and reverence all beauty. order
and goodness. wheresoever or in what
Soever forms aud accomplishments
hey are to be seen.-Carlyle.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-08-19
Tines Changes.

Caesar used TO walt days 10 hear
from the outposts of his empire. but
today the descendants Of his regions
who pillow the sunny fields near Ham
mond, La. get daily market news on
their strawberries FROM places thou
sands Of miles away. This news
comes over wires and is issued In Ital-
ian. as well as in English. by the local
office of the bureau of markets Of the
United States department of agricul-
ture.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-08-19
The Buyers
Guide

Tia firms whose names are repre-
scented Ia cur advertising columns
are worthy Of the confidence Of every
person u the community who has
money 70 spend. The feet that they
advertise stamps them Is enterpris-
ing, progressive men Of business. q
credit TO our town, and deserving Of
support Our advertising columns
comprise q BaJers' Grids to fair
dealing, good goods, ho1est prices
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-08-19

Before the war the VINEYARDS of Eu-
rope covered about 21.ooo.0ao acres
and the average yearly vine produc-
ton was 1,17o.000.0lO gallons.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-08-19

age for interstate shipment should have
plainly marked upon each package the
selling or market price at which they
Went into storage. BY this means the
purchaser would always be able to learn
what profits stood between him and the
producer or the wholesale dealer.
The world must pay for the appalling
destruction wrought by the great war,
and we are part of the world. We must
pay our share. For five years now the in
dustry of all Europe has been slack and
disordered. The normal crops have not
been produced: the normal quantity of
manufactured goods has not been turned
out
Not until there are the usual crops
and the usual production of manufactured
goods on the other side of the Atlantic
can Europe return to the former condi-
tons; and it was upon the former condi-
tons, not the present, that our economic
relations with Europe were built up.
We must face the fact that unless we
help Europe to get back to her normal
life and production a chaos will ensue
there which will inevitably be communi-
Gated to this country. For the present. it
is manifest. we mu.t quicken, not slacken,
our own production.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-08-19
Must Re No Threats.

There must be no threats. Let there be
only intelligent counsel. and let the best
reasons win, not the strongest brute
force. The world has Just destroyed the
arbitrary force of a military junta- 1t
will live under no other. All that Is ar
bitrary and coercive is in the discard.
Those who seek to employ it only prepare
their own destruction
We cannot hastily and overnight revo-
lutionize all the processes of our eco
nomic life We shall not attempt to do
so. These are days of deep excitement
and of extrava giant speech, but with us
these are things of the surface.
Everyone who is in real touch with the
silent masses of our great people knows
that the old strong fiber and steady self
control are still there, firm against vio-
lence or any distempered action that
would throw their affairs into confusion.
/ am serenely confident that they will
readily find themselves, no matter what
the circumstances, and that they will ad-
dress themselves to the tasks of peace
with the same devotion and the same
stalwart preference for what is right that
they displayed to the admira ton of the
whole world in the midst of war.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-08-19
Profiteers Lawbreakers.

Some of the methods by which these
prices are produced are already Illegal,
some of them criminal, and those who
employ them will be energetically pro-
ceeded against. But others have not yet
been brought under the law. and should
be dealt with at once by legislation.
/ need not recite the particulars of this
critical matter; the prices demanded and
paid at the sources of supply, at the fac
tory, in the food markets, at the shops,
in the restaurants and hotels, alike in the
city and in the village.
They are familiar to you. They are the
talk of every domestic circle and of every
group of casual acquaintance even. 1t Is
a matter of familiar knowledge also that
a process has set in which is likely, unless
something is done, to push prices and
rents and the whole cost of living higher
and yet higher, in a vicious cycle to which
there is no logical or natural end.
With the increase in the prices of the
necessaries of life come demands for in
creases in wages-demands which are
justified If there be no other means of
enabling men to liveE
Upon the increasesof wages there fol-
lows close an increase in the price of the
products whose producers have been &C
corded the increase-not a proportionate
increase, for the manufacturer does not
content himself with that. but an in
crease considerably greater than the
added wage cost and for which the added
wage cost is oftentimes hardly more than
an excuse.
The laborers who do not get an increase
in pay when they demand IT are likely
to strike. and the strike only makes mat
tiers worse.
1t checks production; If it affects the
railways 1t prevents distribution and
strips the markets; so that there is pres
emily nothing to buy, and there Is another
excessive addition to prices resulting from
the scarcity.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-08-19
U. S. Must Hold World Steady.

We, and we. almost alone, now hold the
world steady. Upon our steadfastness and
sen-possession depend the affairs of ma
tons everywhere. 1t is in this supreme
crisis-this crisis for all mankind-that
American must prove her mettle.
In the presence of a world confused, dis
tracted, she must show herself self-pos-
sessed, self-contained. capable of sober
and effective action. She saved Europe
by her action in arms; she must now save
1t by her action in peace.
In saving Europe she will save herself
as she did upon the battlefields of the
war. The calmness and capacity with
which she deals with and masters the
problems of peace will be the final test
and proof of her place among the peoples
of the world
And, if only in our own interest. we
must help the people overseas. Europe is
our biggest customer. We must keep her
going or thousands of our shops and
scores Of our mines must close. There is
no such thing as letting her go to ruin
without ourselves sharing in the disaster
In such circumstances. face to face
with such tests. passion must be discard
ed. Passion and a disregard for the
rights of others have no place in the
counsels of free people. We need light
not heat, in these solemn times of self
examination and saving action.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-08-19
HIGH PRICES
DECLARED To
Be ARTIFICIAL
President Addresses Congress on
Subject of High Cost
of Living.
LAWS ARE NOT ADEQUATE
Chief Executive Declares "Vicious
Practices" Are Responsible for
PeriIous Situation Which Faces
the Nation-Makes lmpor-
tant Recommendations.

Washington. - Addressing congress
and proposing remedies to check the
high cost of living, President Wilson
declared that existing laws were made
quate and that high prices were not
justified by shortage of supplies. pres
ent or prospective, but were created in
many cases ''artificially and deliber-
ately" by vicious practices"
The president recommended that the
food control act be extended to
peace time operation and that congress
exclude from interstate as well as
intrastate shipments goods which did
not comply with its provisions.
His address was as follows:
Gentlemen of the Congress-:
have sought this opportunity to ad-
dress you because it is clearly my duty
to call your attention to the present cost
of living and to urge upon you with all
the persuasive force of which am capable
the legislative measures which would be
most effective in controlling it and bring
ing it down.
The prices the people of this country are
paying for everything that it is necessary
for them to use in order to live are not
justified by a shortage in supply. either
present or prospective, and are in many
cases artificially and deliberately created
by vicious practices which ought imme-
diately to be checked by law.
They constitute a burden upon us which
Is the more unbearable because we know
that it is wilfully imposed by those who
have the power and that it can by vigor-
In hn iprh tam cd q nd
made to square with the actual conditions
Of supply and demand
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-08-19
Few Price Drops Not Enough.

In few foodstuffs the prices had de-
clined, but in nothing like the proportion
in which the supply had increased For
example. the stock of canned tomatoes
had increased 102 per cent. and yet the
price had declined only % cents per
dozen cans. In some cases there had
been the usual result of an increase Of
price following a decrease of supply, but
in almost every instance the increase of
price had been disproportionate to the
decrease In stock.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-08-19
General Interest First.

No remedy is possible while men are
in temper. and there can be no set
Element which does not have as it's
motive and standard the general in
teraat
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-08-19
Sinister Influences at Work.

And ! enter another confident hope. /
have spoken today chiefly of measures
| of imperative regulation and legal COM
| pulsion, OF prosecutions and the sharp
correction of selfish processes; and these
no doubt are necessary.
But there are other forces that we may
| count on besides those resident in the
department Of justice. We have just
! fully awakened to what has been going
| on and to the influences, many of them
| very selfish and sinister, that have been
producing high prices and imposing an
! intolerable burden on the mass of our
| people.
| To have brought 1t all into the open
| will accomplish the greater part of the
| result we seek.
1 appeal with entire confidence to
| our producers, our middlemen and our
| merchants to deal fairly with the peor
| pie. 1t is their opportunity to show
that they comprehend that they in
| tend to act justly, and that they have
| the public interest sincerely at heart.
And 1 have no doubt that house
| keepers all over the country and ev-
eryone who buys the things he daily
stands in need of will presently exer-
else a greater vigilance, a more
| thoughtful economy, a more discrimi-
mating care to the market in which
he buys or the merchant with whom
| he traded than he has hitherto exer-
| cised.
Labor Must Consider.
1 believe, too, that the more ex-
| treme leaders of organized labor will
presently yield to a sober second
| thought, and like the great mass of
! their associates, think and act like
| true Americans. They will see that
! strikes undertaken at this critical time
are certain to make matters worse,
not better-worse for them and for
everybody else.
The worst thing, the most fatal
| thing-that can be done now is to stop
or interrupt production, or to interfere
| with the distribution of goods by the
railways and the shipping of the
| country.
We are all involved in the dis
tressing results of the high cost of
living and we must unite, not divide,
to correct 1t.
There are many things that ought
to be corrected in the relations be-
tween capital and labor in respect
of wages and conditions of labor and
other things even more far-reaching,
and /. for one, am ready to go into
conference about these matter with
any group of my fellow countrymen
who know what they are talking about
and are willing to remedy existing
conditions by frank counsel rather
than by violent contest.
General Interest First.
No remedy is possible while men are
in temper, and there can be no set
Element which does not have as it's
motive and standard the general in
terest
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-08-19
Law Would Do Much.

Such a law would afford a welcome OPP
portunity to effect other much-needed re-
forms in the business of interstate ship
ment and in the methods of corporations
which are engaged in it; but for the mo-
ment 1 confine my recommendations to the
object Immediately in hand. which is to
lower the cost of living.
May 1 not add that there is a bill now
pending before the congress which, if
passed, would do much to stop speculation
and to prevent the fraudulent methods of
promotion by which our people are an
nually feeced of many millions of hard
earned money. / refer to the measure
proposed by the capital issues committee
for the control of security issues. 1t is
measure formulated by men who know
the actual conditions of business. and its
adoption would serve great and bene-
Scent purpose.
We are dealing. gentlemen of the con-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-08-19
Significant Facts Quoted.

Some very interesting and significant
facts with regard to stocks on hand and
the rise of prices in the face of abund-
ance have been disclosed by the inquiries
of the department of agriculture, the de-
partment of labor and the federal trade
commission.
They seem to justify the statement that
in the case of many necessary commodi-
ties effective means have been found to
prevent the normal operation of the law
of supply and demand.
1t would serve as useful example to
the other communities of this country, as
we'll as greatly relieve local distress if the
congress were to regulate all such mat
tiers very fully for the District of Column
bia, where its legislative authority is
without limit
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-08-19
Publicity Will Do Much.
Retailers in Part to Blame.

There can be little doubt that retail
ers are in part-sometimes in large
part-responsible for exorbitant prices
and it is quite practicable for the gov
eminent through the agencies I have
mentioned, to supply the public with
full information as to the prices at
which retailers buy and as to the costs
of transportation they pay in order
that it may be known just what mar
gin of profit they are demanding. Opin-
ion and concerted action on the part of
purchasers can probably do the rest.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1919-06-05
Thursday, June 5, 1919
BRITISH WOOL GOODS.

Washington June 3.-(Specal correspondence 1.-The
New York Journal of Commerce quotes the Bulletin the
National Association of Wool Manufacureres'' saying
with reference to tariff revson at all the desirable
that adequate protective tariff should replace the present
inadequate unjust sectional arrangement without delay IF
President Wilson fit to veto next year weconsdered
proectonst measure very definite and significant issue will
be drawn"
The Bulletin moved make this comment by the
port of recent of the wool stocks taken in Great
Britain which showed that with the close of last year that
country had hand For immediate expectation about $780,
100000 yards of wooden and worsed ssuescoths dress
goods and Innings Notwithstanding the terrific demands
which have been made England for wool manufactures
by army, appears that of such goods
manufactured for export than could be shipped hence
tie accumulation
Due to British forest htedness Englands principal
mercal steamship lines reesabshed Immediately upon
the cessation of hostes she has lack of ships to
distribute her textiles while administration, always
jealous to favor the foreigner at the of the American
has compelled than 100000 tons of American shipping
to in carrying food to the relief of Europe where it
is disposed of at less than pay at home for similar food
products So far the only thing apparently which has saved
this country from flood of British wool textiles has been
exceptionally keen demand for them in other markets of
the world notably France where prices in of those
current in the United States temporarily the rule But
it will require only short time before the immediate needs
OF France and other European buyers supplied that
it highly probable British competition will develop in
American trade considerably earlier than had been
ticipated
Importance in successful competition is the lowering of the
unit cost of production and the minimum can best be acev
ed by capacity operation of the mills Whenever domestic
market is controlled by foreign competition degree which
puts mills less than 100 operation unit
cost and with each point of increase the possibility of
successful competition in export trade dwindes accordingly
In this increased exports depend largely upon increased
control of the domestic market That why the early pas
sage of protective tariff law is important both to
control of the home market and coroary to the enlarge
ment of our export trade
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1919-06-05
WHY PEOPLE LIVE IN CITIES
Subject Discussed in Way That May
Please or Not, According to
Ones Disposition.

In the American Magazine, Bruce
Barton says. In talking about his old
home town:
Rousseau once remarked that he
had never lived in Paris, except for
one definite reason-Io get money
enough to live somewhere else. There
are times when / nave had a similar
feeling toward New York. Times when
the stress and strain and fretting of
the job grew wearisome; when my
cylinders all are full Of carbon, and
my valves give forth leaky sound !;
when the white lights are only an i'm
pertinence, and the noise of motormen
tramping on their bells is madness In
my ears.
when that time comes. as every
spring it does, go home, and, speak
ing with my wife privately, say: My
dear, why linger we longer In a world
like this? We are but strangers here at
best; Foxboro is our home And we
I'LL up the cold coffee bottle and place
the ham sandwich in the bag, nesting
II tenderly beside the fishing tackle,
and HE us to a land that Is better and
purer and sweeter; where the straight
and narrow way takes the place Of the
way called Broad, and there is no
white light but the evening STAR
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1919-06-05

In the campaign of 1920 you will be able to count the
thumbs of one hand all the candidates who will gov
eminent ownership platforms.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1919-06-05
PASS THE BILL.

When Representative Macarthur of Oregon introduced his
bill in the last Congress to provide for session of Congress
Immediately after the fourth of March following election there
widespread commentator of its purposes Under pres
cnt conditions there demand for its enactment for
the long delay in calling Congress together has resulted
great waste of time graphing with the reconstruction prob
lens which confront the country Everybody knows that Con
should have been session the Congress
siona term began March The absence of the President
caused the delay Hereafter the people should have
that when they vote for change they will get it. This
be accomplished by the enactment of the Macarthur bill Con
show its efficiency by passing the bill without delay
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1919-06-05

Surety Bonds-H. Rothwell.