The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-08-08

GOVERNOR APPOINTS COMMITS
CT0M TO INVESTIGATE
z. C. OF L.

IN accordance with his announce
7nent made few days ago to appoint
2 commission composed of we'll
known Kentucky men and women to
investigate the high cost of living,
Gov. Black has issued proclamation
designating the following as members
of the commission:
Fred M. Sackett, Hon. w. o. Head
and NJ. B. Kendrick, of Louisville;
p. M. Hiett, of Midway; R. G.. Wells,
pineyille; w. c. Montgomery, Eliza
hethtown: Judge w. F. Hall, Harlan;
Mrs. Cora Wilson Stewart, Frank
fort. Mrs. Charles p. Weaver, Louis
vile; Capt. J. Frank Hawn, Barbour
vile; Abram Mercer, Merwick, and
w. G. Duncan, Greenville.
The Commission is to go to work
at once to investigate the high cost
of the necessities of life in Kentucky,
and to make recommendations as to
what action, if any, is possible, can
be taken to bring about lower
prices for food, clothing and shoes.
Prosecution in the courts, under the
Kentucky antitrust law, one Of the
most drastic laws in force in any
State in the Union, is one of the pos
sibilities, III case profiteering on the
part of business interests can be es-
tablished. The Governors proclama-
ton follows:
Commonwealth of Kentucky
"a Proclamation
1910 the People of Kentucky, Greet
ings:
The high cost of living is the re-
ally big problem of to-day, and it lies
very close to the unrest of the hour.
The situation is indeed serious.
There is no good reason, as I be-
lieve, to justify the enormous prices
the people are being forced to pay
for the necessities of life, such as
clothing and foodstuffs.
Il have the impression that there
exists combines whose purpose has
been, and is, to monopolize the distri-
button of the essentials which enter
into the needs Of the people, and 1
know the people ought to be liberat-
ed from all such injustice.
eff there is the unjust profiteer, his
manipulations should be thwarted so
that the common people may be saved
from his wrongs.
I'm order that the source and cause
of the evil may be located and proper
means worked out to remove such
evil I have thought it proper to ap-
point commission to make thorough
Investigation into the situation. and
to suggest such remedies as such in
yestigation may demand and justify.
And I request that all Commonwealth
and County Attorneys of the State
assist the Commission in the per-
Torrance of the work at hand.
THEREFORE, l, JAMES d.
BLACK. Governor of Kentucky, here
by appoint the following named Ken
tuckians to constitute a Commission
to Investigate the subject of the high
cost of living, and TO locate and de-
fine the cause thereof, and to ascer-
combines or monopolies controlling or
seeking to control the distribution of
the necessaries of life, and to ascer-
tain and report what they may con-
clude to be proper remedy for the Sit
uation, and for the best interest or
the people of Kentucky, to-wit:
IF. NJ. Sackett, Hon. w. 0. Head
and NJ. B. Hendrick, of Louisville,
KY; B. M. Heat, Midway, KY; r.
G. Wells, Pikeville, KY; w. Z.
Montgomery, Elizabethtown, KY;
Judge W. F. Hall, Harlan, KY; Mrs.
Cora Wilson Stewart, Frankfort,
KY: Mrs. Charles p. Weaver, Louis
vile, Ky; Captain ]. Frank Hawn,
Barbourville, KY; Alb Mercer, Mart
wick, KY, and VIC. Duncan, Green
vile, Ky; having. as | do, full faltn
IN their intelligence, PATRIOTISM
ability and desire to act with hdel'
ity to the best interests of the whole
people of Kentucky. And l request
that said named persons meet at suct
early time as may be practlcable 1ol
the purpose aforesaid, and, IN ordel
that the first meeting may be calico
I hereby designate Hon. w. 0. Head
chairman, to call such meeting.
Done at Frankfort, this the hftf
day of August, in the year of GU
Lord, One Thousand, Nine Hundred
and Nineteen, and in the One Hun
dred and Twenty-seventh year of thu
Commonwealth.
by the Governor,