Arizona republican., 1919-10-09
TELLS PEOPLE WHY COST IF
 LIVING |S HIGH
Careful Study of Causes of Condition Has Been Made By the Council of Ma tional Defense for the Public

In an educational campaign in con- uection with the high cost of living and to further an intelligent. under standing by the people of the causes of the high cost of living in order that intelligent steps may be taken toward remedying the situation. the following has been received by Governor Camp bell from the Council of National De- fense with request that it be given wide publicity:
 To the Public:
 The United States Council of Ma tional Defense, composed of the secre- taries of war, navy, interior, agricul- ture, commerce and labor, has made a careful investigation of the high cost of-living problem, and finds:
 That the nations productive powers have not been fully util- ized since the armistice. That too few goods, notably the necessities of life, have been produced, and that even some of these goods have been withheld from the market, and therefore from the people. That the high cost of living is due in part to unavoidable war waste and increase of money and credit That there has been and is l considerable profiteering, inten- 1 tional and unintentional.
 The council believes that the reme- dies for the situation are: To produce more goods, and to pro- duce them in proportion to the needs of the people.
 To stamp out profiteering and stop unnecessary hoarding
 To and promptly to enact such further new laws as are necessary to prevent and punish profiteering and needless hoarding.
 To bring about better cooperation and method in distribution and marketing goods.
 To keep both producer and consumer fully informed as to what goods are needed and as to what supplies are available, so that production may an tcipate the country's demands.
 Goods and not money are the means of life. Better standards of living are impossible without producing more goods. Man can not consume what has not been produced.
 At the wars end our allies had des- perate need of the essentials of life We have had to share our resources
 
 lessen. In so far as our shortage ot goods is due to this cause we can well afford to be patient
 It is just as essential that we have patience with the economic situation here at home. The process of produc- tion requires time. If production is rapidly increased, vastly improved con- ditions will prevail in America when the results of present and future labor begin to appear
 Team work is imperative. It is just as essential between retailer, whole saler and producer as it is between employer and employe. One group oi producers can not wait on another group. The manufacturer, the farmer the distributor must each immediately assume his part of the burden and epteI upon his task. The nation can not ~af ford curtailment of goods vital to the people.
 On American business rests a grave responsibility for efficient cooperation in bringing about full and proportionate production On American labor rests an equally grave responsibility to at tain maximum unit production anC maintain uninterrupted distribution O goods if labor is not to suffer from fur. ther rise in the cost of living. The entire nation-producer dis tributor and consumer alike-ShoulC return to the unity that won the war Group interest and undue persona gain must give way to the good of tn, whole country if the situation is to b. squarely met.
 Our common duty now fully as mucl as in the war, is to work and to save In the words of the president in hi address to the country on August 25 1919, only by increasing production, ant by rigid economy and saving on tn part of the people. can we hope fo large decreases in the burdensome cos of living which now weighs us down. Work, save. cooperate, produce.
 (Signed)
 NEWTON D. BAKER. Secretary of war and chairman of th' council
 JOSEPHUS DANIELS,
 Secretary of the Navy
 FRANKLIN K. LANE,
 Secretary of the Interior
 D. r. HOUSTON.
 Secretary of Agriculture
 WILLIAM C. REDFTELD,
 Secretary of Commerce
 W. B. WILSON,
 Secretary of Labor
 G. B. GARRISON,
 Director of the Counci lh|0pK 0[ nITI7[Mc