Arizona republican., 1919-12-24
MORNING. DECEMBER 24 1919
It is good to be childrensometimes, and never better than at Christmas when it's mighty Founder was a child Himself. Dickens.
The Only Way

Within a week. Attorney General Palmer has made two suggestions for the reduction of the high cost of living. In the wild of suggestions which have swept country, they believe. only sensible ones, When neglect them and clamor for this and that we running madly around in circles, getting nowhere. The plain. in escapable, unmistakable fact that in comparison with supplies when things cheaper, there is a shortage of things and and of things with which to build. Things never be cheaper until have much larger supply of these articles. There is only to get larger supply of them and that is to make of them That greater production. The accumulation of a larger supply may be hastened by conserving these articles make them; that Is wasting them using of them than may be necessary. That economy, the curbng of extravaganza.
 It is insane folly to look anywhere else for lief The politician who bIames other politicians the trouble and who promises that his party will fix things all right, is fool who thinks talking to fools and he may be right in that surmise people believe him.
 Neither production economy be forwarded by legislation There is nothing the uplifters to help- They only add to the senseess clamor and create further confusion The people themselves, each acting for himself and all a great many of them together bring about lower cost of living and there is no other way given under heaven and among ty which can be done Let us have some sense when complain about high cost of living.
 Profiteers? Of there is profiteering- some Human selfshness still rife as it always has been and will always be We might known there would be profiteering in this time as dhere has been in all other times We know that there will be murders and burgIaries and other crimes But all the profiteerng has added measurably to the prices of things cases All the murders committed country in year do not perceptibly increase the mortality rate.
 Let quote from editorial by John s. Cap per of Capper Capper, Chicago:
 "The world is hungry for the things eat, wear and Stark hungry! The cupboard is bare bone Prices mount to staggering figures and the of our workers is-nore pay; shorter hours and then shortage shoots the price of things up other notch; again the cry-rnore pay less hours. Ye Gods, Must the vicious circle continue? Shall never that it is more hours need; that to duce the cost of things must produce, less, but I just received a cabIegram from my brother in London reading. bare prices aw- ful, hopeless. sailing home Oh, if Americans would grasp their opportunity
 .The writer sympathizes with those who work. He understands what hard work privation and the struggle of life is-he has lived it. He has walked eight miles day fifty cents. carrying water for the workers who built the town of Pullman He has gotten out of bed milk 15 a winters morning He has put in Is hours a day in a store. He Is natural born plutocrat rather. he the of steel worker. He feels that he knows the needs of those who struggle but one would be foolish who fails that the waste of time by carpenter, a plumber raised the price of rent raised the price of clothes the worker himself wears, and everything used by his fellow workers.
 @Short hours in the city have made the worker restless; he too wants shorter hours and increased pay. May kind Providence preserve us farm workers insist A hours week or an eight day. You I. my friend, will I and I L~aovy rnatS hours the city doing for the farm"
 But the worker is not alone to blame Like the of us, he wants all he get. But he must learn as must all learn that it is costing far than 1t is worth to get all we think ought have. We must learn that all make concessions production and all join in restraining wants. before times get better