Show STIMULUS NEED NEED- FOR MORE GOLD GOLDI st I Committee Points to Cause Caust of Reduced Output of r Precious Metal l l i I h t of Washington Jan Elimination 5 S o otho tho the exec excess pro profits tIts tax on gold minin and tho the privilege of or fro roe exports export and of ot sale salo to manufacturers as us a a. means of t stimulating gold production were recommended re rec recommended In a a. report today of ot the special ape ape- cial committee appointed by Secretary Lano to investigate the tho cause causo of ot the thc decline In tho the output Gold mining has hns been beon seriously In In- In juror by th the war said the report i and d dhas has been discriminated against for tor th the protection and benefit of the treM treasury ry In that tho the export of gold an and even In Internal In- In tornal free freo trade In tho the metal metat w was s in interrupted in- in n- n The cause given by the com committee committee com com- for the falling 1 off ort In output w was a the Increase In operating costs from 57 7 cents for a dollars dollar's worth Q of gold i hi 1 1917 to 70 cents in to 1918 1018 The present decrease In gold pro pro- pro rt j t Is serious said the report a atho asi 5 tho maintenance of ot a a. sufficient gold 01 1 reserve Is essential to our national I finances and err I Possible moth methods s of maintaining tho the visible gold old tho the committees committee said would be tn to the curtailing of the I use us use of old gold for tor manufactures and in a n. call on the pu i public to turn in 1 hoarded boarded gold bold Further Belief might be bo obtained It was said b by amending the war min orals bill hill to gold and the ing InS of ot an appropriation to bo be bo used tit lilt t i directing tho the sr sf search for tor now new deposits r 11 conn connection Uon tho the committee d declared declared de de- that the future of gold l rg in the world was problematical t tho the gold output of the world seemed med to have ha pas passed rL Its zenith |