The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1920-01-09
LIVING COSTS
MOUNT HIGHER
Foods Go Up 2 Per Cent in
November Despite Sham
Battle of Palmer.

While L. S. Attorney General Pail
mer is conducting his sham fight
against the h'.., cost of living by stag
ing few spectacular investigations"
prosecutions and seizures" and adj
wishing the women 10 boycott high-
priced goods, his efforts are being
turned each month into greater
liasco ky The steadily mounting cost
of living, thus bringing the people
nearer and nearer to the enactment
of fundamental legislation and the es-
Enlistment of cooperative and public
methods of distribution
Big Increase for Month.
According TO reports received by the
Bureau of Labor Statistics of the u. S.
department of labor from retail deal
ers i'm 90 cities, the retail cost of %
staple food articles increased two per
cent in November as compared with
October. The foods upon which this
comparison is based are: Sirlon
steak, round steak, rib roast, chuck
roast, plate beef, pork chops, bacon,
ham, lard, hens, -four, cornmeal, rolled
oats, cornflakes cream of wheat, cab
bage. Canned peas and tomatoes re-
manned the same price as in October.
The following articles decreased in
price; Pork chops, ) per cent; ham,
I per cent; bacon. 3 per cent; round
steak, plate beef, hens, navy beans,
and oranges, . per cent. each; sirloin
steak, rib roast. chuck roast, lamb,
baked beans and canned corn, ] per
cent, each
Changes in One Year.
The average family expenditure for
these % articles increased 5 per cent
during the year from November 1918,
to November 1919 The articles which
increased during. this year period
wele Onions, rs per cent; prunes,
Ga per cent; coffee, 50 per cent; rail-
sins, Al per cent: rice, 26 per cent;
potatoes, is per cent; sugar, 16 per
cent; canned salmon and storage
eggs, ia per cele, each; butter, 13 per
cent; flour, 10 per cent strictly fresh
eggs, 8 per cent; fresh milk, cheese
and lard, 6 per CENT, each; tea, 5 per
cent; bread, per cent; and cornmeal,
= per cent. The articles which de-
creased We're: Navy beans, "a per
cent; plate beef, 1S per cent; bacon,
is per cent; chuck roast, u per cent !;
round steak and rib roast, G per cent,
each; lamb, 5 per cent; ham, per
cent; sirloin steak and pork chops,
. per cent, each; and hens less than
five-tenths of per cent.
Changes Since 1918.
For the siX-year period, November.
1913, to November, 1910, the increase
In the cost of the % articles of food.
combined, was 81 per cent. Articles
which increased more than 100 ner
cent were: Rice, 1O2 per cent; bread.
lO4 per cent; potatoes, 1O5 per cent:
cornmeal, 113 per cent; flour. 124 per
cent; lard. 100 per cent; and sugar
131 per cent.
Based on the average price for the
year 1913 as 100, the retail price index
number for the % articles of food.
combined, for the United States, was
1888 for October and 1872 for Noyem-
per, percentage Increase of 2 per
cent.
Harcourt, Brace and Howe have in
press an account of The Nonpartisan
League" by Herbert CASTOR. Tho
author was connected with the
Leagues publications for three wears.
and in this book gives the first author.
itative and unbiased account of the
Uncle Sam through the o. S. Grain
corporation is now selling limited
quantities of flour to bakers and re.
tailers at $12 a barrel, which is some
what under prevailing prices. The
government formerly planned to ham
die all the flour of the nation while
the wheat price guaranteed to farmers
during the war remained in effect. Its
failure to do SO is attributed to the
Influence of big business.