The Nevada County picayune., 1919-08-14
FOOD PROFlTEERS ARE DENOUNCED BY
 PRESIDENT WILSON
Comprehensive Extension of the Present Food Control Act
 Is Recommended.
SITUATION CRITICAL AND OtFFi- CULT AND MUST BE MET WITH
 COURAGE AND RESOURCE
Calm and Deliberate Consideration Rather Than Hasty Action Is Called For by the Present Stua-
 ton of the Country

ton of the Country.
 Washington of the pros ent food control net, both as to ifs De rfod of operation and to include all commodities indspuahly RccesSaries of life regulation of cold storage to define the limits within which food stuffs can be held marking of all goods destined for interstate com merce with the price at which they left the hands of the producer, fed erai licenses for all corporations and persons engaged in interstate com meree which will provide for com petitiyc selling, and passage of the pending bill giving the capital issues committee control of security issues. are the remedies proposed by Prest- dent Wilson, in his address to con gress to meet the existing high cost of living.
 The president said in part
 Gentlemen of the Congress;
 1 have sought this opportunity to ad- dress you because il 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 1t and bring ing 1t down.
 The prices the people of this country are paying for everything that 1t Is necessary for them to use in order to live not justified by shortage in supply, either present or prospective. and are In many cases artiticially and deliberately created by vicious practices which ought imme- tai, fn ho ,Ha CLyaI kts layN
 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 hy legislation.
 With the increase in the prices of the necessaties of life come demands for In creases in wages demands which are justified if there he other means of enabling men to live.
 Upon the increase of wages there fol lows close an increase Tn the price of the products whose producers have been ae- corded the increase-nat 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 Iaborers who do not get an increase in pay when they demand t are likely to strike, and the strikr only makes mat ters worse.
 It checks productions if t affects the railways 1t prevents distribution and strips the markets so that there is pres enty nothing to buy, and there is another excessive addition to prices resulting from the scarcity.
 Conditions Not "Naturaln
 These are facts and forces with which we have become only too familiar, bat we are not justified because of our famt1- iarity with them or because of any nasty and shallow conclusion that they are natural and inevitable. in sitting nae- lively hy and letting them work their ia tal results fl there Is anything that We can do to check correct or reverse them.
 Ne must. l think. frankly admit that there is no complete immediate remedy to be had from legislation and executive action The free processes of supply and demand will not operate of themselves. and no legislative or executive action can force them into fui! and natural operation until there is peace
 Must Know Terms of Peace.
 There can he no couffdcuec in indus try, no ea}cuIable basis for credits, no confident buying nf systematic selling. no certain prospect of employment no normal restoration ut business, no hopeful attempt at reconstruction or q proper reassemhliHs of th. dIslncated elements of enterprise untH peace has b, ? established. and so far as may be guaranteed Our national life has no douht been less radica3y disturbed and dismemhered than the national life af other peoples whom the war more di- rectN affected. with all its terrible ravaEine and destructive force. hut it has been nevertheless profoundly af- feeted ana djsarr4Hgrd. and our indus trles ear credits our productive ca raCtty, eur economic proCe-Ses are in eNtrlcahly lnterwovcn wltH these of other nations and peoples most iuu- Usttelv .af all Ntth the nations and pen# ples Upon whom the chief burden and confusion of the war fe1 and whe are no~ most dependent upon the co operative action of th, world
 Exports Greatest in History,
 We are just now shipping more goods out of our ports ta foreign markets than ever shipped hetur@-Uut foodstuffs merely, but staGs and materials of every sort bat this Is no index of what our foreign sales NH continue to he or of the effect the volume of eur exports Will have on supplies ani ppces- lt is impossible yet tu predict how far or row long foFCt4H purchasers Will be able 10 md the money or the credit to pay for or s.statn such purchases on such sra'c-#hcW soon or to what extent foreien manufacturers Can resume their f9rUer production, foreign farmers get thef accustomed crops from ther owr Hel1s. foreign mines res5rg tEcr former output forelsu merchants set up aE3u taeit old machinery If trme w1th the on3y Of tht earth AlI ta. f#ass must teiaatp T H'ceft3'n HAtl be- #estth lsned and tha notions at tae world have