Show BIG PROFITS MUST STOP SAYS CAPPER Middlemen's s Gan Gani of Poker r. r rt J Still Raises Raises' Consumers fc f. f Senator Writes nr Br T ARTHUR C. States State Senator Se From Written ritten for tor Universal l Service Washington June S. S Tho s.-Tho Tho bluest biggest t thing thine we wo have to work out in this country Is IB In my opinion the control of ot of big big- business in such a 0 wa way as ns will not Injure Its Us efficiency or Initiative but ut will effectually curb Its Us overweening InS ing greed for to huge pro profits tits It Is not Iso so 0 much tho Individual good or bad business man who Is responsible for tor this rank unk exploiting of ot the people as asIt asit tit It Is tho bad system which permits It iUnd and has permitted It for y years eats the evils of ot i The t The more I look Into profiteering the tho more convinced I am am that the tho ono one thing which will do more moret t to cure thIs tills abuse than any other Is Isto isto to require tho the actual cost price to be marked cd on every product of ot ture un Profiteering Spirit l. l t The profiteering spirit seems to be rampant In tho the nations nation's capital and tho the demand now of ot 17 per cent in- in oase In the price of bread amounting to 10 about a n year car that will iio bt exacted from the consumIng public of at Washington Is unreasonable Espe- Espe daliy 1 Is this true when whon the tho leading baker l of ot the city cleared third one-third of or ofA A i million dollars in one ono year car as LS was proven n before the high cost of ot living committee last summer The committee brought out nut some very rY Interesting Information at this hearing showing that tho chief of ot the profiteers In Washington was as a man r I b by the name name of ot Corby Corb who had in a D. avery avery very short sp space ce of ot time become a n millionaire In the bread baking bustness bust busi ness Wo We should have hoo proceeded further In our Investigations If It wo we had not been informed that the department of oC Jus- Jus tico was going to take hold of ot tho the elt- elt situation sit eIt- in a n vigorous way by appointing appoint appoint- ing InS a i fair price orga organization l t to Improve improve improve im Im- im- im prove conditions condition 1 Ac eed Ml tl Action Not Talk Vocal ocal war against profiteering Is of or orno no avail naU but If It the department of ot Justice Justice Jus jus- tice will come to grips with the gougers gougers gougers ers It will do more to stop strikes and restore peace and order In tho United States than all the propaganda ever evor uttered or printed Tho The secret service could g get t these spoilers on short notice and should recognize that the they are a 1 thousand times more potent for tor harm than all aU of or tho the reds In or out of or Russia The situation demands sincere activity by this thit government against Its itA enemies enemies- tho the profiteers and food gamblers We forbid gambling games with v cards but do not interfere with gambling in sugar sug BUg sugar ar Rr which affects every home homo In the land I If the law enforcement officers of tho the government cannot enforce th the raps raws the they should hould let more able men take tako their places Tho The sugar gambling gambling gam gam- bling bling- is the tho most brazen challenge of ot the tho government we have had in a lon lonor long or orgy orgy- of ot profiteering Wo We are told the refiners are aro unable to provide for tor the enormous new stocks of ot sugar But Buta a corner in sugar is formed right under under un un- der dor the eyes of ot the department of or just Justice too Tho The profiteers profiteer's game of ot draw poker lIs is approaching a showdown but he I IB is still sUll going ahead d raising the con con- sumer Rumer This Thin Is la the profiteers profiteer's handl- handl w wk rk and the tho legitimate result of or the weakness of or a a. government that could lick Germany but hut can be thrashed by byan an any profiteer with one hand tied be behind behind behind be- be hind him The golden rule role of or true prosperity In is live and let live and no country or orp p people ople can prosper by gouging or ever did Tho The sugar speculators blandly predict predict pre tire dict that sugar ar will sell een at 30 cents canning or more a Do pound when whon tho the season opens and conservative wholesalers whole whole- salers sabre say aay the price will exceed BO 60 cents before It closes One billion pounds of ot sugar have re recently recently ro- ro t been exported to Great Grent Britain from our shores In addition to millions of ot poun pounds s shipped shortly before The Thc government owes It to the American people to declare at once nn an embargo on sugar Bugar and to selzo seizo Immediately every stock of ot this commodity for distribution distrIbution distribution dis dis- to the consumer at cost Because a government that l. is la sworn to protect its Ils people permits this robbery robbery robbery rob rob- bery and puts put no curb upon it this profiteering campaign surpasses In nationwide nationwide na nn- na- na wide tion-wide grand gland larceny any brutal de demand demand demand de- de mand yet made The government nl while conducting a a. war on profiteering profiteering- has for five years allowed them to double their fortunes Even after atter the war Ith it h has been strangely mindful and tender tonder of oC them as If It they were public bene bene- factors The government finally did permit certain stores to be sold to the public after pressure but for forthe forthe the tho most part billions of ot dollars worth paid for tor by the people has been al allowed allowed al- al lowed lowd to go to ruin or sold back at Lt a aBong song Bong to the tho very men who vho originally sold Hold It to tho government at quadruple rates or has beon bean held heM off ott of or the market market market mar mar- ket and out of ot the consumers consumer's hands to keep up prices Should Start at Top Any activity against the profiteers Is commendable What it costs costa to buy bUT a Do suit of ot clothes or two good pairs pt of shoes would keep the average family In bread brend for nearly two years It Is s the ZOO per cent increase ns in clothIng clothing clothing cloth cloth- ing ing- per por cent increase in to sugar Us and shoes the per cent Increase In cotton cotton cotton cot cot- ton goods that are the cause caUS of thousands thousands thou thou- sands of or strikes If It tho the government wl wishes hes to encourage encourage encourage age us it is only capable of or limited action against tho the gougers let it make a drive at ot the worst offenders start offenders start at atthe atthe atthe the top and come como down the lino Uno In Instead Instead instead In- In stead of at working from the bottom up up- up ward So far tar the efforts of or the to put down the gouger would make moke good material for a comic cornia opera If the tho results were not so tragic |