New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-24

aDle TO duplicate LneW Wnen CnlS craze
is spent, nor for months thereafter"
The article attacks the governments
position as absurd" and says there is
a general shortage of raw materials in
wool and cotton and that the recent
break in prices of raw silk, which 1t
attributes to unloading by overstocked
spectators, will not reach the retailer
until next year. The reduction move
ment has produced good results in so
far as it has put stop to extrav-
agance, the journal says, and advises
that the next step should be for the
Federal Reserve Board to restore credit
operations to normal in order to make
quantity production possible.
The government, it declares, should
cut expenses sharply and reduce taxes,
which are passed along in the cost of
commodities. The public should buy
the medium grades of goods and only
when necessary. There should be an
immediate resistance to and stoppage
of wage advances. The Administration
should be content to seek out and
prosecute the profiteers and at the
same time enable these postwar con-
ditions to adjust themselves by grad
ual process.
Zone Million Club" Formed
The very latest development in the
fight against high prices is the or
ganization of a zone Million Club"
which is described as "the opening gun
of the movement to break the vicious
circle of profiteering and extravaganza
through peaceful means by the people
themselves" It's aims are:
"To enlist the cooperation of one
million New Workers, adults and chill
dren, and to demonstrate through a
definite program what the profiteer
eventually may expect if manipulation
in necessities does not stop"
The Zone Million Club" has estab-
lished headquarters at 318 East Sixty
ninth Street. Chief among it's plans
is a demonstration week each day to
be devoted to some particular phase
Of economy. One day is set aside for
the eating of nothing but sandwiches
for lunch and dinner; another for alb
stention from buying Injuries of any
kind; third for avoidance of expen-
sive amuements, and on another day
the members will attempt to purchase
something worth having for one cent.
The Sunday of economy week is to wit
ness a refusal to ride in automobiles
on the part of the club members.
A drive against the upward rise in
coal prices, as it affects gas companies,
will begin Wednesday. when represen-
lALIVeS OIL l>lOO gas companies Will
meet at the Hotel Pennsylvania under
the auspices of the American Gas AS
ISOLATION. Officials of the association
say that unless the situation Is quickly
ameliorated, many gas companies will
be forced out of business.
Gas Famine Threatened
One of the measures urged to meet
the crisis which the gas men say exists
is the granting by the Interstate Com
merce Commission Of priority Of ship
ment and ALLEGATION to gas oil and gas
coal.
Oscar H. Fogg, secretary-manager of
the American Gas Association, said
yesterday the national committee on
gas and electric service had brought
the question of priority shipments be-
fore the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion. Mr.. Fogg said that unless relief
is speedily granted nothing can avert
shutdown of some plants.
"lf the situation does not improve"
said Mr.. Fogg, "the living conditions
of approximately forty-hve million per-
sons who are served by gas companies
throughout the United States soon may
be affected.
"Gas plants in some sections of the
country have been down to the danger
line several times during the last two
weeks and are struggling along from
day to day, hoping for coal. The eff
feet of even temporary Interrupt
ton of such an essential service as
gas supply would work irreparable in
Jury to the public"