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Regulating Living Costs
Getting a living bus always been
man's chief struggle, and, except
for a short period in the 70s and
again in the '90s of the last century
the cost of living has always been
relatively high. In these two
periods the cost of living was low
and business was stagnated, the
laboring man was out of work and
we bad our two greatest political
revolutions.
By 1897 living costs had begun
to rise again and at the beginning
of the war there bad been an aver
age increase of Dearly 70 per cent
on the principle necessities. Even
had. there been no war, with its gen
eral disturbance to production and
the opportunity it gave for artificial
ly boosting prices, probably by this
time we should have keenly felt the
effect of steadily rising costs.
While everything possible should
be done speedily to take excessive
profit and waste out of business, yet
we should realize from the outset
that we shall not again go back to
the level of pre-war prices and
wages. There is nothing new, then,
in the present situation and we
have thus far proposed no new cure
for it.
More than a thousand years be
fore Christ the KiDg of Babylon reg
ulated wages and the price of grain
and wioe As early as 1500 B. C.
Egypt had a "superintendent of
granaries." Before the time of
Aristotle Athens maintained the
college of sitophylacs or "food
watchers," who restricted the
amount of grain the dealer might
purchase and regulated the prices
to be paid. State regulations in
Greece prohibited the cornering of
the market in foodstuffs and pro
vided a maximum penalty of death
for profiteering.
Atnens at one time bad corn
commissioners," elected by the peo
pie, whose duties were to see that
the farmers sold grain to mills at a
fair price. That the millers sold
4he meal at a price proportionate to
that of the grain and that the bak
ers sold bread at a price propor
tionate to that of the wheat.
Before the time of Caesar, Rome
maintained vast public granaries
from which the government sold
grain at low cost. In the fourth
century the Roman guild of bakers
became entirely public servants. In
SOI A. D. the Roman emperor fixed
the price of more than a thousand
items of food and other necessities.
The schedule of prices was given on
stone and set up in all public places.
Philippi IV of France fixed the
price at which grain, beans and
bran should be sold, and half a cen
tury later King John fixed the
wage scale for all laborers and the
price and quality of bread, as well
as the profits which the merchants
might take During the Revolu
tionary War, the states of Connecti
cut, Massachusetts and Rhode
Island fixed prices for the common
necessities.
The effect of these and other sim
ilar . efforts generally was favored
temporarily, although in some cases
the regulations were carried so far
as to be hurtful by discouraging
production.
Everybody expected war' prices
in war times, and apparently every
body expected prices to fall the
moment the armistice was signed.
They forgot that, as a rule, follow
ing a great war. prices continue to
rise for several years, then come
down with a crash and bring on a
financial panic.
- Prices did not reach their maxi-
mum following the Napoleonic wars
until some six years after the bat
tie of Waterloo. Following the
Civil War, living continued to as
cend until four years after the South
had capitulated.
If we can bring prices back to
normal immediately following the
world war we shall be accomplish
in? something that has not before
been accomplished and if we can
bring about a readjustment of prices
without a financial panic, as we
should because of our improved
banking systems and the better or
ganization of all industries, then
we shall have reversed history.
The world's principle progress has
been made in periods of ascending
and relatively high prices. Distress
ing as the present situation is, no
one who has lived through the
period of low cost of living of the
'70s and the 90s would think for a
moment of exchanging times.
Accurate and unsparing publicity
regarding the costs and profits of
every necessary article we consume
will come nearer remedying the
situation without unduly disturb
ing the' normal course of industry
man any otner course we can pur
sue. n. j. waters.
Making Oshkosh Famous
Grass rugs are in as general us-
as swivel chairs iii the G ivt-rnment
buildings at Washington and whiie
swivel chairs have won fame iv,(
blame, grass rugs have soft dm:
and enriched the lanes ard corri
dors of war buildings, and the ptont
and marble edifices used by the de
partments of Government are also
adorned by Deltox, the rugs that
made Oshkosh famous.
The first carpet was created, not
made; and Adam and Eve used to
stroll across its velvety surface.
while they looked into one anoth
er's dreamy eyes and saw apples.
Thus the first parents were the orig
inal discoverers of grass carpeting?.
In succeeding centuries people went
out into the deserts and waste
places where they lost the art of
joy-walking. But the time came
when inquiring intellects solved
the problem as to why the marshes
of Wisconsin and Minnesota were
luxuriant in vegetable growth
known to botanists as carix stricta
and to the home-folks as wire
grasB. The answer was grass rugs.
Deltox, as it develops through the
surveys made by the Agricultural
Department, which has prepared
interesting thesis on the subject of
carix stricta, is as logical to com
merce and industry as was the fall
of the Kaiser to the higher civiliza
tion of the Universe.
Most natural products that grow
in profusion have a definite place
in the scheme of Creation, which
eventually inventive genius unfolds
and we may expect that some day
somebody will answer the demand
of a big clientele by selling cactus
to
The other evening we saw i
henryford with this legend display
ed bo the wind-shield "Prepare
Meet Thy God." The way sorne
folks drive 'em, wouldn't it be
good idea if that were made part of
the factory equipment?
Time was when men could get
their shirts over their heads, but
now they have to have 'em made
like coats.
done up in pa kages de luxe, thus
separating t hit wasteful product
from hi exclusive place as the back
ground for movie films. Wire grass
was nearly as far removed as cactus
from the useful purposes of society
hefore the grass rugs were perfected,
ready for offices, homes and bunga
lows, by the inventive creations ut
0hkosh.
Ordinary liraqs had joints and
branches, and will not stand fric
tion, cruinDling, or wear it is s
sort of staff of life, or bread and
cake for live stock. But carix
stricta, despite the attempt to con
ceal its identity under an elusive
botanical name, is all different. It
is a long, slender, jointless vegeta
ble growth, and grows as high as
timothy or oats, in a single stem.
The fibre is round and is encased in
a hard outer wrapper, which is re
moved in the rug-making processes
Wire grass is as essential to making
good gpass rugs as broom corn is to
the grocer who now sells brooms at
a dollar apiece as a means of hard
ening his conscience before sanding
the sugar and watering the gasoline
out in front. These are high spots
concerning grass-rugs that have
excited the attention of the Govern
merit because of their splendid
progress in commerce; rugs that
have flattened themselves out so
extensively as to prove their su c
cess beyond all question. And at
the rate these floor coverings are
winning their way, the cycles of
time may find grass rugs used as
exclusively in buildings as were
grass carpets out of doors when the
first man and woman kept house
and were afraid of other things be
sides the dark.
. Demobilized! It is a word with
which we are all familiar. It means
the turning of men from paths of
war to paths of peace, and every
body is for demobilization. But
there is danger that our soldier
boys may carry the demobilization
idea too far. They should not de
mobilize discipline and self-denial
and the habit of taking and obey
ing orders. They should not de
mobilize athletics and training and
health rules They should not
demobilize the spirit of patriotism
and love of country and the princi
ples of demoracy. They should not
demobilize the courage to stand up
against tyranny and for freedom
and humanity and civilization It
is all right to demobilize guns and
gases, camp and canteen, battles
and bullets, but it is all wrong to
demobilize the fine impulses and
habits that came into your life
during the war that tend to make
you bigger and better men. Let
your enlistment in these heart and
mind and body qualities be for life.
Centralia Courier.
It is said that Carranza has a
habit of pulling his whiskers when
perplexed or in trouble. Peculiar,
isn't it, that he has any of 'em left.
The laws of health are simple It
is the complicated lives of folks
that keep getting them into
trouble.
The railroads didn't have a deficit
in July. But it won't be long until
somebody starts to talk rate reduc
tion. No negatives for Christmas de
livery will be made after December
1st. Miss Belle Johnson.
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