The Coconino sun., 1919-09-19
TOPICS IN BRIEF ON
 HIGH COST OF LIVING

Our national slogan: Regardless oi cost. "- -Greenville (S. C.) Piedmont. When will an English statesman arise with sufficient courage to take the Irish bull by the horns ?-New
 York Evening Post.
 Berlin now has a trolley strike which indicates that the practices of civilization are being resumed in Ger many.-New York World. We have memories of a lot of cost of-living investigations that went into cold storage and never got out again. Minneapolis Tribune. The patient public is now appro- priating the squeal that the packers never found way to use.-Minneapo- lis Tribune.
 The best cut of the meat will be the price cut.--New York Evening Sun.
 Should the high cost of living keep mounting for twenty or thirty years, perhaps even the movie actors would strike for higher wages.--B Buffalo Commercial.
 The nearest we can get to a satis- factory reason for the cost of Living situation is that everything is going up because everything else is.-Roch- ester Times Union.
 Our statesmen, speaking of high prices, chide us for demanding the best regardless of price. This habit of ours doesn't apply to statesmen Greenville IS. C.) Piedmont.
 The official investigation will prob ably disclose that the high cost of liv- ing is caused by the high wages nec- essitated by the high cost of living Nashville Southern Lumberman.
 The soldiers who became disgusted at the French for gouging have re- turned home and become reconciled to their ers.while brothers-in-arms. Just about three touches by the American profteers make a French gouger look like a shrinking violet-The Houston Post.
 Hard words lower no prices.--The Greenville ~(S. O. Piedmont.
 From now on we may expect an increasing transfer of wealth from profiteers to their lawyers.-Green- vile (S. O Piedmont.
 Things have gone far enough to convince us that we do not like recon struction periods especially well.- Columbus (Ohio) State Journal.
 So long as people will pay $14 for a $7 pair of shoes, one great obstacle in the way of lowering the price re- mains to be overcome.-Indianapolis Star.
 J. E. Rank, of Atchison, proposes starting new war with some coun- try with view to reducing prices.-- Kansas City Star.
 We'll, we trust W. J. Bryan is sat- isfied. The 50-cent dollar is in our midst.--New York Evening Sun.
 The profteers are OF still hunt to see if the public sentiment which is brewing over the high cost of living has a kick in it.--Franklin (IndianaI Star.
 There was time when want of bread was destitution. Now they call it destitution if they haven't the price of new set of tires.-Greenville (S. C.) Piedmont.
 We don't know when we have seen the administration so delighted over as it is over it's newly dis covered cost-of-living problem.-The Kansas City Star.
 One government expert advises the people to eat more meat; another ad- vocates nation of vegetarians, and the prices of foodstuffs make it hard to be either.--New York Morning | Telegraph.
 One must agree with Senator Myers ] of Montana that "it is impossible to 1 zee where this endless chain is going | to end" Nor can we see more clearly | where the vicious circle" is going to Chicago Tribune.