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Show THE WEEKLY REFLEX, KAYSY1LLE, UTAH WOULD EXTEIID capital or put her restless, distracted the period of the war and becomes Inpeople to work until she knee exactoperative upon the formal proclamation ly where she stands in to of peace. But 1 should judge that It was peace; and what ne will do respect tor her clearly sit bin th constitutional power of the chief question upon which her quithe congress to make similar permanent etude of mind and corft.ience of e lth regard to provisions and itgulatlons depends While there is any all goods destined for interstate comthat the peace terms may- be merce and to exclude them from Interchanged or may be held long in abeystate shipment If the requirement of tb ance. or may not be enforced because law are not complied with. of divisions of opinion Some such regulation is Impeiatively the powamong er associated against Germany it is necessary Yoa Should Hava Ilia Bes! 1 ran coiitiiol pur-potpus-abili- OF ALL FOOD Idle to look for permane-i- t Tliat, and Provision of Penalties for Profiteering, Advocated by the President. By i I Addressing cofigrevs remedies to cheek the high cost of living. President WtNon declared existing laws were inadequate and high prices were not justified by shortage of supplies, present or prospective, but were created in artificially and deiilier-stelBiany cases by vicious practices." He spoke practically as follows: Gentlemen of th Congress: to adI have sought this opportunity dress you because it Is clearly my duty to rail your attention to the present cost of living and to urge upon you with all Washington. y -' the persuasive force of which I am capable the legislative measures which would be most effective In controlling it and bringing It down. The prices the people of thle country are paying for everything that It la necessary for thenr to use In order to live are not Justified by a shortage in supply, either present or prospective, and are In many case artificially and deliberately created by vicious practices which ought immediately to be checked by law. Profiteers Lawbreakers. Some of the methods by which these prices are produced are already Illegal, some of them criminal, snd those who employ them will be energetically pro-reed- against. But others have not yet been brought under the law, and should he dealt with at once by legislation. "With the Increase In the prices of the necessaries of life come demands for increases in wages demands which ere justified If there be no other means of enabling men to live. Upon the tncrease of wages there follows close an tncrease In the price of the 'products whose producers have been accorded the Increase not a proportionate Increase, for the manufacturer does not content himself with that, but an Increase considerably greater than the added wage cost an. for which the added wage cost la oftentimes hardly mors than an excuse. The laborer who do not get an Increase la pay when they demand It are likely to (triko, and tho strike only makee matter worse. It checks production; If It afreets th It prevents distribution and railway strips tb markets; eo that there is presently nothing to buy, and there la another excessive addition to prices resulting from . the scarcity. . ... f Conditions riot "Natural. are facts and forces with which I i we have become only too familiar; but we are not justified because of our famll- 4 lartty with thorn or becaus of any hasty and shallow conclusion that they are i "natural and Inevitable, In sitting inac- tively by and letting them work their fatal results If there Is anything that w can do to check, correct or reverse them. , We must, I think, frankly admit that , there Is no complete Immediate remedy j to be had from legislation and executive action. Th free processes of supply and demand will not operat of themselves. and no legislative or executive action can ; force them into full and natural operation until there Is peace. Must Know Terms of Peace. There can be no confidence la Indns- try, no calculable basis for credits, no confident buying of systematic selling, no certain prospect of employment, no normal restoration of business, no j hopeful attempt at reconstruction or a ( Proper reassembling of the dislocated elements of enterprise until peace has i been established, and. so fsr as may be. Our national life baa n f guaranteed. doubt been lee radically disturbed and I dlftmembered than the national life of other people whom the war more dl-- l rtctly affected, with all Its terrible I ravaging and destructive force, but It kas been nevertheless profoundly af-- , fected and disarranged, and our tndus- trie, our .credits, our productive ea-- l paclty, our economic processes are In uvtricably Interwoven with those of ether nations and peoples most Inti- mutely of all with the nations and peo-- r Pie upon whom the chief burden and nfuion of and who are now most the war fell dependent upon the co- Operative action of th world. I Exports Greatest In History. Just now shipping more goods y are our ports to foreign markets than s Them : J 5 F v ver shipped before not foodstuffs but tuffn and materials of every e Trt. but this is no index of what our 4 weigu sales will continue to be or of effect the volume of our exports have on supplies and , price. It Is fr impossible how far or yet to a hu one foreign purchasers will be 1 money or th credit to or -- sustain euefa- - purchase on '.Lor c . acal; bow soon or to what extent , , " n hlur " manufacturer can resume their ro5ucttox. foreign farmers get accustomed crop from their own oofn!'. 0,elkn mines resume their former thau1, ,oret1 merchants aet up again . ' 7 s t f " 1 .. ITr ItV - H hf, ! tinJ1 tk .,5 1 4 v machinery of trade with the ibe .earth. All thee things must certain until peace is estab-the nation of th world have fb methods by which normal Industry are to be restored. w ball do in tho mean- - profiteering aad put rtrir people a tolerable upon be makeshift sad prevt-tio- s be ne settled eondi- elsewhere until th treaty .ter .. Jr'40 la et of the way and tb w. comT .. I'enidatlsg the war has W- -' hief concern of our goveru- k governments of th world. Europ. wlU neC canned recoup her thr ; alltake excessive profits Fefier, Trad Commission Make ubilq Facts Concerning Present High Price of Shoe. 'Yahiugton. -- The federal trade receaUy conducted tn .nH ratl0 ,nt0 th lather Industry, J ncg especially into the trice of made public of Its nto congress. summary I. Introduction to the aummarr ttfiraUslon say; ". roro-Whic- r.'.ef Immediate Relief Measures. n av of immediate re! ef. s of tx.th food aid clothing inirpl,.a the hands of the got emment will h (,0id and of course sold at prices at huh tie-- e W no profit and bv of a more pr mar.eni correction of surplus stocks In private hands willprices be out ot storage and put upon the murket. Fortunately under the terms o' the act the hoard. ng of foodstuffs chet ked and prevented, and thev ian il; b vth the greatest Foodstuff, can be drawn out of eneigv and sold by storage ecal Hin t. H tit department of juMice ul Institute wberrtr Jt av soon h the situation is neoeary, svst, tuati-tad- v dealt w uli it is not likely that the courts Wilt often have to be trsoited to Mmh of the h'-- i.ti,u!ating of sl.x ks has no doubt be, i. due to the sort of which always result fro n uncertainty Would Have Prices Plainly Marked.. 1 would also recommend that It le requ.red that all goods d. Mined for interstate commerce should m every case where their form or package make it possible be plainly marked with th price at which they left the hands of the producer. tluch a requirement would bear a close analogy to certain provisions of the pure food act by w huh food-contr- Address to Cangres the Chief Ex- ecutive Makee Assertion That We Are Dealing With Very CritK cat and Difficult Matters." 1 ty SUMks FORCE SALE OF SURPLUS TO " If You Need a Mtdlclna h. much-neede- e object Immediately in hand, which is to lower the coat of living We are dealing, gentlemen of the congress, I need hardly say, with very critical and very difficult matters. We should go forward with confidence along the road w . hut we should also seek to comprehend the whole of th scene amidst which w act. There Is no ground for om of th fearful forecasts 1 hear uttered about me. but the condition of the world Is unquestionably very grave and w shoeld face It The eomprehendingly. situation of our own country is fortunate. We of all can afford to keep our heads and peoples to determine upon moderate and nenalbl courses of action which will insure us against the pass ions and distempers which r working such deep for sons of th distressed unhappiness nations on th other sid of the sea. But w may be Involved In their unless w help, and help with energy and Intelligenca. Disregarding the surplus stock in the hands of th government there was a greater supply of foodstuffs in this country on June 1 of thig yoar than at tha same data last year, in th combined total of a number of tho moat Important foods la dry md old storage the excess Is quite IS per cent And yet prices have risen. ly ea Law Department Active. Th attorney general has been making careful study of th situation as a whole and of tho laws that can be applied to bettor It nnd-- Is convinced that under tho stimulation and temptation of exceptional circumstances, combinations cf producers and combinations of traders have been formed for th control of and of prices which are clearly In restraint of trad, and against these prosecutions will be promptly instituted and d actively pushed which will In all have a prompt correctlva effect. There la reason to believe that th prices f leather, of coal, of lumber and of textiles have been materially affected by forma of concert and among the producers and marketers of these and other universally necessary commodities which It will be possible to redress. No watchful or energetic effort will be spared to accomplish this necessary result. I trust that there will not be many cases in which prosecution will be necessary. Public action will no doubt cause many who hav perhaps unwittingly adopted illegal methods to abandon them own motion. of and their promptly The department of commerce, the department of agriculture, the department of labor and th federal trade eonmitsiea cas do a great deal toward supplyiag the - public systematically and at short Intervals with Information regarding the actual supply of particular commodities that is In existence and available with regard to supplies which ore in existence but not with regard to the methods of price fixing which are being used by dealers In certain foodstuff end other necessities Retailer la Part to Blame. There eso be little doubt that retailers are In part sometimes in large part responsible for exorbitant prices; and It Is quite practicable for the government through the agencies I have mentioned, to supply the public with full Information a a to tb price at which retailers buy sod as ta the costs of transportation they pay la order that It may be knowa just what margin of profit they are demanding. Opinion and concerted actios u the part of purchaser can probably do the seat Lot me urge. In th first that th present foodstuff control place, act should be extended both as to tb period of time during which It shall remain la operation and as to th commoditise to which It r shall apply. Its provision against hoarding should be made to apply not only to food hut aloe to feed stuff, to fuel, to clothing, and to many ether commodities which are Indisputably n seen arlea of life. As . It stands now It la OmHsd la operation to aup-Pi- likell-hee- "The federal trade commission has found that the high price of shoe cannot be Justified by underlying economic condition. The commission after exhaustive inquiry Into the price of hides, leather and shoe. 1 reporting to congress that the larger packers control the 'hide rrpp!y and Lave taken excessive profits and passed Increased costs to subsequent steps In manufacture and distribution; that the tanner has taken exceptional profits; that the manufacturer of shoes has taken unusual margins, and the prices le you ever stopped tek reason why t hat art tv so many proiluft that is . to sworn statements an According vciitied testimony of thousands who hue used the preparation, the sihip-- s of IV Homer's Swamp Root is due to the fact. so manv people claim that it f u1 tills al tn, -- t even wish tu ovetionung kidntv. lver std bladder ailment. conet uri nan troubles and neutralises the u: ic Tender 1 ihe-imati- rev-ev- e s bolls., '1 , Host prow iomsi-- jjo- col EhaSffwaJaflltAs Libby, McNeill A Libby t while Vt'l.llld.) fist I nd pi, ho gull' ov I (u tlu ho -- - PvONt.ui Us . 1 I i i ul I Nothing to Show for It. Mr Jones n turned home tho n'lur Mv evening In line splnis suld he to his wl(e this ifiemoon I losed the deal for the new house lilt,, pt Shave With Cuticura Soap And double your rnxor efficiency a well as promote skin purity, skin comfort and akin health. No mug, no slimy soap, no germs, no waste, no Irritation even when .shaved twice daily. One soap for all uses aiming, bathing aud shampooing. Adv. Courier-Journal- GENUINE m Aeld-NoRiff- rh friends Gave Her Indl-geatlo- n. Up Mrs. Hoffmans Recovery From Dropsy a Surprise. She Used Doairs. . "BAYER CROSS" ON h," I was in dreadful sajs Mrs, Y. R. Hoflmsn, QH9 Oakley Av., Hammond, 111. "There was a sukrning pain ASPIRIN serosa tb small of mv hack and when I stooped over! knife-liktwinges nearly drove me wild. 1 had large puffs under my ejes and my body bloated badly all over. My feet wer swollen to twice their natural six and the akin looked tuny. When I pressed it down, it left a dent there and I knew I was bad off wilh dropsy. Mrs. HWf e A teAVQl$ B. "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" to be genuine, mnat be marked with the aafety "Bayer Crowi." Alwaya buy sb unbroken Bayer package which contains proper directin' to safely relieve Headache, Toothache, Earache. Neuralgia, Colds and pain. Handy tlu boxes of 12 tablets coat but a few centa at drug stores larger package also. Aspirin la the trade mark of of Monoaoetle- Bayer klanufhcture acldevter of Ballcyllcacld. Adv. Lucky Foot. "How was the show last night, old man?" "Miserable My foot west to sleep and I eovted tt. 1 Must All Work Together. Threats and undue Insistence upon the Interest of a single class, make setI believe, aa I tlement Impossible. have hitherto had occasion to any to th congress that the Industry and life of our people and of the world will suffer Irreparable damage If employers and workmen are to go on In a perpetual contest, as antagonists They must, oa on plan or another, be effec- ms jjy friends didn't think I would live very long. I doctored with three different physicians snd they didnt help me snd I wt discouraged. Nobody knows the torture went through. decided to try Doan't Kidney Pillt. I used three boxes snd I was cured. I felt fine. Aa the swelling went down, my sppetite picked up and I wae soon perfectly healthy. My color came back and people said I looked as well as ever. IKMing Kidney Pillt saved my life. 1 "t j Sworn to brfort me, MABEL T. BHERBY, Notary Public, Gel Dess's a Aar Star. Me Bes DOANS VSSY FOSTOtMUURN J not stead- J iness aad self possession and business sens enough to work out that result? Ia the meantime now and In the daye of readjustment and recuperation that are ahead of ua let us resort more and more to frenk and intimate counsel and snake ourselves a great and triumphal nation, making ourselves a united force In the Ilf of the world... It will not then hav looked to ua for leadership In vain. -- CO BUFFALO. K. X (Vir-V- T. ae are other elfiia of KATOM the marvelous modem tomarh remedy, brings quick relief from tong these atomech miseries which lead to train of aliments that make life mtoorabte If not corrected BATONIC literally aheerbe and carries away the eacess acid. Makee the atewiach strong, cool and comfortable. Helpa dtgee-tloImproves the appettts and yet tbsa get full etrength from your food. Thooeeeds say that IB ATONIC ta the meet effective stomach remedy In the world It ta tha help toll need Try It on ourAt alt draff lata guarantee Only 10 cent a for a big bot. bloat and add-tomar- h ATONIC Every Woman Wants FOR PERSONAL HYOLLNE Dtushtd hi water tor dsachss step polvio (sUrti,lrtllMsa(lianaw marie. Rscaiiasad4 by jdi E. C. Pinkham Med. for Us year A healing wsadsr lor nasal catarrh, sore throat and sera eyes. Economical. Hss i ishi iftmr An m4 ommidAA sr. tuts OfitMt nil broker In Fort Hrf bank her. Fiw WMblg Market Lettersejcsubllehed each hlsrttr. Olvre ilMelli all oil development la Teres Oil Fields Write for free ropy t Baa O. Smith a Hon. 10! Clah Bid, Ft. Wort. Tex. T Worth w. N. U .7 $ aitLk CI ty, Now J D some today! (ET Youre going to call Lucky Strikes just right. Because Lucky Strike cigarettes give you the-go- od, wholesome-flavo- r of toasted Burley tobacco CJ Ouytoe4 ty J j -- ! !"-C- True." We ought to have something in w ." Yep; might haw- - a.lzz himditti. lit Caused by had the title examined, and found Acid-Stoma- ch pet feet ly clear. The examination cost me n hundred dollais. hut If who r MlloUft "Now, isn't that a peifeit shame 1" (n local lymptoRiff thy aildom VH exclaimed hN young wife "All that rordlnit h better Whtvr relief vry inui ta usually temporary. Trace fctltoa toon Mn garlne mind money waited nma to its aottree and remeve the eaoaa M the chamea are that tha patient will main iirnfii and haalthv. lkxrtora aay that mora than ?l hob traced tn ata ortanir dtaeaaea can ha HtHouaneae la one of them heartburn, belchln. eour etojnech, Male. i BILIOUSNESS 1 Something Different. Operatic t obi mts mid lingMiiiN are our producers, our middlemen and our merchants to deal fairly with th people. It la their opportunity to ahoW that they comprehend, that they intend to act justly, and that they hav the public Interest sincerely at heart. Labor Must Consider. more exI believe, too, tbat th treme leaders of organised labor will presently yield to a sober second thought, and like the great mass of their associates, think and act like true Americans. They will see that strikes undertaken at this critical time are certain to mak matters worse, not better worse for them and tor everybody els,. worst thing, th most fatal Th now ia to atop thing that can ba done or to Interfere or interrupt production, with th distribution of goods by th railways snd tb shipping of tb country. There are many things that ought to be corrected In tho relations between capital and labor, in respect of wage and conditions of labor and other things even more and I, for one, am ready to go into conference about these matter with any group of my fellow countrymen who know what they are talking about and are willing to remedy existing conditions by frank counsel rather than by violent contest. General Interest FlrsL. No remedy is possible while men are in a temper, and there can be no setdoes not have as Its tlement which d'oioTlvFTiftJ-standarlbs generrla-teree- t , J It. Do II, ov dot's r, Sinister Influences at Work. charged by the retailer are not Juath Cable, each factor In the Industry adding to the burden he Lad to bear before he passed It on to the nexL" Means for reducing the present high prices are recommended by the commission in this paragraph: "Some relief from the Intolerable prices paid by consumers for shoes may be had by (1) a rigid enforce- ment of the laws against monopolistic control of commodities, (2) legislation forbidding producers of hides engaging In the tanning budne&s." l Chicago Lets George And I enter another .confident hop. I. have spoken today chiefly of measures of Imperativ regulation and legal com-- , pulsion, of prosecutions and the sharp correction of selfish processes, and those no doubt are necessary. But there are other forces that w may count on besides those resident In tb department of Justice. W hav just fully awakened to what has been going on and to th influencoa, many of them very eeifish and sinister, that hav been producing high prices and Imposing an intolerable burden on th mass of our people. To hav brought It all Inte th open will accomplish the greater part of tha result we seek. I appeal with entire confidence to Have w tefiStS of chilled Reef ami steamed greens garnished with egg here is a dinner our family wiHask for again nd again ' Ask your grocer for a pa. kage f I ibbvs famous Corned Berf today. self-contr- ol tively associated. slices lobbys Corned vv huh causes 1 1 u may if a sample bot-lAd ln-Pvvan p Root bv Pal, els Post . IV kilim r A Co , R nghamton, N and enclose ten ctr.ts alo mentn n this lairge and medium sire bottle paper. for sale at all drug .stores Adv. ac tr it is required that certain detailed information be given on the labels of packages of foods and drugs And it doe not seem to me that we could confine ourselves to detailed measures of this kmdrtT rt Is Indeed our purpose to assume national control of the processes of distribution I take it for granted that that Is our purpose and our duty. Nothing less will suffice. We need not hesitate to handle a national question In a national way. We should go beyond the measures I have suggested. We should formulate a law requiring a federal license of alt corporations engaged In Interstate commerce and embodying In the license, or In the conditions under which It Is to be issued, specific regulations designed to secure competitive selling and prevent unconscionable profits In the method of marketing Law Would Do Much. Such a law would afford a welcome opd reportunity to effect other forms In th business of shipment and In the methods of corporations which are engaged in It. but for the moment 1 confine my recommendations to the excep-Monate- It would materially add to the .serviceability t,f the law, for the purpose we now have In view, if It were aleo pre-s- i nhed that ail goods released fiom storage for interstate shipment should have P'ainiy marked upon each jiatkage the selling oi market pile at which thev went n to Mot age B this mean the purchaser wouid always be able to learn what profits stood tetween him and the prvuluier or the w liulesal dealer. 'I he world must pay for the appalling de-iturn wrought b the great war. and we are pat of tha woild. lie must pay our shate I ot five yeais now the of ail Fuioe has been slack and d virdered The normal crop have not been pioduced the norma! quantity of matiutHi. lured goods I .a not Urn turned out Not until line aie tie usual crop un.i (he u..al produ non of manufactured tlanu.-in- i gisiris on t,ie other side of tiie K'.rope leiutn to the former condi-- t ot s and t was upon the Punier condi-- t no! the resent, that our economic 'iii nel itions with himqe were hu'H up lie mu, fate the fait tha. unless we normal help Kuiope to get bat S to lite and production a t iiaos will ensue there width will inevitably lie coinmunt Tated to this count! v Koi the present, II Is manliest, we must quicken not slat ken cur own prod uM ion U. S Must Hold World Steady. tie and we sohom alone, now hold the world steadv Ipon our steadfast nesa and the affair of nadtnd tion eveiy where It ly In this supreme crisl this trials foi all mankind that American must prove- - her met! !e In tite piesenee of a world confused, distracted, she must show lieiseW capable of sober and effective action tihe saved Kurop by her at non In anna she must now save It by heT action in peace. In saving Europe she will save herself, as she did upon the battlefields of the war. The calmness and capacity with which site deals with and masters th problems of peace will be the final test and proof of her place among th peoples of the world. And, If only in our own Interest, we must help the people overseas. Europe ta our biggest customer. We must keep her going or thousands of our shops and score of our mine must close There la no such thing as letting her go to ruin without ourselves sharing In th disaster. In such circumstances, fsce to face with such testa, passion must be discarded Passion and a disregard for th rights of others have no plac in th counsels of a free people. We need light, not heat. In these solemn times of and saving action the Everyone who Is In real touch silent masses of our great people knowrs that the old strong fiber and steady are still there, firm against violence or any distempered action that would throw their affairs into confusion. 1 am serenely confident that they will readily find themselves, no matter what the circumstances, and that they will address themselves to the tasks of peace with the same devotion and the same stalwart preference for what la right that they displayed to th admiration of th whole world in the midst of war. 1 i litre tensivelv advertised, all at oni-- e drop ou' Th. of sight snd are soon forgotten reason is plain the article did not fulfi' Thu t.f the manufacturer the pr..mi-- e ;p! ,o mo-- f particularly to a medicine A medic. ns! preparation that hss ren! cm ative value almost sells itself, as likt an endless .!hi mo'cti the tome ! i re bv those who hue be leneti'ed to those who are m need of it prominent druggi-- t save ''Take f i a example IV Kilmers Nwamp Root pt.TaMi.,n 1 lave soil for m.vnv tiv and never hes tate to recommend f i n amost e,t , e it rhow rxcelVn i te-iMill, as manv of tnv No ilher retneJv hs l.u,c nn L Intel-stat- it tilllYL K |
