Show Spoiled Melons T a and d Profiteers I IA A HOUSEWIFE in n a large Ohio city asked her neigh A Li grocer time the price of half a n watermelon Seventy Seventy five cents lie he told her Oh Ohm Id I'd never nc pay that she hie replied Well you could sla stand it he lie retorted re re- re- re Mone Money is plenty To which the housewife I r replied plied H That maY be but hut I have moral scruples about paying such a n. price In n this same city on the time same day lay nineteen carloads for the tIme flies flics to of watermelons were thrown on cm a dump eat cat nt These melons melons- had been consigned originally to Cleveland but hut because of fear th that thit t they might break the themar mar market ct n a cent or two they thoy had been turned away and sent to lo Buffalo On reaching Buffalo they had been rejected again nain for the same reason The insufferably high Ii market pric must be maintained at all costs Then their to Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pitts Pitts- of melons wended wendell way the thc nineteen cn cars bur burgh h to be turned awn away a again Back to Cleveland they were sent t lJ and amid by this thi time the shipment limit had spoiled Who ho will pay IY the tIme freight on these melons for tile the believe that course of their wanderings Docs Does anyone the consumers will vill be allowed to escape This incident illustrates the downright criminality of the profiteers who prefer throwing away food that is I desperately needed rather than allow a plentiful supply to in Vcr lower prices It is a matter of general knowledge that surplus foods that cannot he be put awa away indefinitely in cold storage warehouses arc being destroyed or allowed to rot The most pressing issue in in America today tOlay is iS the thc cost of living The league of nations is of the tile most remote academic interest in the mind of the householder in comparison soll with the problem of slinking shaking off the strangle stranglehold hold of abnormal profits in fl lifes life's plainest necessities The problem must be he solved in some wn way Y Wages have gone up lip because of the time need of the time workers worker's family to eat cats lf r they go up indefinitely time the industrial fabric will crack The place to arrest the tile whole vicious tendency toward further inflation is in iii the traffic in foodstuffs The Time attorney general of Ohio has called for grand jury investigations in investigations in- in in all nil counties lie He will endeavor to make the movement wide pai U Pa te teA A Texas convict who won on a Victoria cross has been granted ranted a pardon In n Utah the double cross is sufficient sufficient sufficient to reclaim lost liberty Rl ra Pa |