Show DOESN'T HELP THE CONS CONSUMED CONSUME ME Price Prices Have Havo Dropped on but Ultimate Consumer Continues Con Con- to Be Bo Nicked j jNo to i I INo No matter how the stock markets flu fluctuate Ul and d sag the ultimate con com sumer Burner goes right on paying ln observes the Pittsburgh Lender Leader I t This Is one of ot the tits Ironies of ot the situation sit sit- nation created by the tine flurry lurry In hi Wall I street and the Chicago grain pit Every ery day we read in the n news wl reports reports re ro- ports forts from fOlD tho the exchanges that wheat that Wheat has bus drop dropped dour flour Is selling at figures sugar declines corn Is Is' down I i. i and practically all tho the commodities that enter In Into o the high cost of living of-living living h these days are hit lilt by the news new I I. I 3 Europe llOpe 11 i And at first glance we heave SI a l sigh of relief and say f At last I i. i But the tho relief I Is only mow momentary and we are quickly undeceived a tl I lWe l We go to the thc store and the marke with the Idea of ot finding that lint prices have havn gone down to something f near I aj reasonable figure re and aud we prepare t toj get n l lot for our hard earned dollar d S I But the storekeeper and ami the the market market market- V i 1 man man haven't heard a n. n word about ant decline J I the price of ot things i j iLlk LIt LIk as not lie be he will tell you OU th thai tha flour Is up today or that sugar laj going t a bo be dearer tomorrow J t. t He lIe doesn't rend read the newspapers ev evidently evi dently when things are going golDS dO dowa 1 H merely knows that the whole wholesaler saler 1 J Is charging him more moro for tew wha he buys and he be must muS of ot co coat course ME MEat at higher figures I The stock markets have line a p PC regulating effect when prices are 01 the upward trend Wholesale and rind r tall prices quickly follow any chronicled from the stock ticker But they ther seldom if It ever show how UK same degree of ot sensitiveness to th Uw downward movement when prices gin to tumble Its It's tho the old old game game b IIlO of heads I w win tails you lose I and ond the ultimate c co Sumer- Sumer goes rl right ht on playing the tM fellows fellow's game o |