The log cabin Democrat., 1920-08-18
DALLAS FOREMOST
 IN CUTTING Il. (. 1.
QUERY BY UNITED PRESS
New Haven Leads In Food Costs, Fol lowed by New York-National
 Survey Completed.
(BV United PreSsA

(By United Pressl
 New York, Aug. 1S.-Go Dallas ward, young man-if you are seeking surcease from the high cost of living. For Dallas, Tex, today is fighting the most successful battle against upward trend of prices. It is the cheapest living city in the United States, out of twenty-six in which the United Press obtained figures on common commodities of living.
 And. strange to say, the investiga- tIon showed New York is not the highest priced town in the country as usually painted by visitors and na tives themselves. It does run close second to the "honor," however, but New Haven wins first place. On August 1 last the United Press asked grocers, housewives, ice dealers, coal dealers, dairymen, etc., in twen- ty-six cities of the United States and Canada for retail price quotations for that day on fourteen commodities that go largely to make up a days living. The articles quoted were as follows: Sugar, flour, butter, eggs, milk, po- tatoes, roast beef, ham, veal sirloin, pork chops, lamb, ice and coal. To arrive at a basis for comparison. so that it could be determined which IS the costhest city to live in, the prices per pound, dozen, or ton, as the case may be, were totalled for each city and that total used as the key to the city's costliness or cheap lness.
 The accompanying table gives the details of the research and shows the actual prices obtained by the United Press for the articles mentioned. The total cost for the IA commodities for Dallas was $15.97, while for New Ha- ven, Conn.,, it was $3408, or more than twice the cost for the Texas City. The average of all the cities, or for the United States, was $21O2. Chicago, second city of the country Tn population, stands fourth from last place with total of $18.S2. Phila- delpha, third city, has total of $19.- 66, while Boston. another eastern me tropolis, has $28.89 and ranks next after New York in responsiveness. Los Angeles and Washington, both of which made large gains in the 1920 census. take fourth and fifth places. and the commodities would cost there $27.66 and $25.32, respectively.
 Near the bottom of the list, there are, besides Chicago, such cities as Buffalo, Pittsburgh, and Columbus, where reports as gathered by the United Press show the articles quoted cost $14.44, $19.13 and $18.68.
 The average for the United States, as was expected, stands near the mid dle of the list, but there are fifteen cities where costs are above the aver age, while only eleven boast lower price scales.
 Milwaukee, Portland, Ore, Harris burg Po., Montreal and Oklahoma City occupy, the second five positions after Washington. Following immediately after them are to be found Indiana polls, St. Paul, Lincoln, Neb., New Orleans and San Antonio, Texas. The jprices for San Antonio, which ranks above Dallas in point of population, total $21.39, or $5.42 higher than the quotations for Dallas.
 Other cities below the average for the country are St. Louis, Cleveland, Danver, Philadelphia and Springfield, Ills. Among these cities the prices very between SEAS and $20.88. the totals for Springfield and St. Louis, which, it happens, lie only two and half hours apart.
 Efforts were made to make com parlsons as to the cost of rent, cloth ing, shoes, etc. Reports were gather ed, but on compiling the quotations, 1t was found they varied so materially that no fair comparison was possible. In some cities, for instance, certain grades of houses of apartments would be classed as tenements, while in another city similar buildings were listed differently.