| Show I What We Think By Frank Franl Dixon With the order to close up ration ing and price control offices throughout the tile country and to dis dis- dismiss dismiss miss the personnel comes an end to most of the effort at war time price control by the government Price control now passes into the hands of the people and out of the time hands of the government What What- Whatever Whatever ever 11 of price control remains will be that which the th people want The I whole responsibility is now in their hands If the people choose the country will continue to have hale price control If they do not choose and permit themselves to pay pa any price asked for lor any commodity we are going to have inflation and aud run run- runaway runaway away prices We cant can't escape it An example of the time tendency of prices to skyrocket upward imme imme- immediately immediately controls are arc lifted liLted was seen fien in the case of meat Though the country had fretted itself to a n point where here it imagined ima ined it was starving stan and famished for meat the booming prices met with cold reception and even hostility The remark of one housewife Ill starve before r I pay those prices reflected the sentiment of most of the housewives of the country A Agard ABard gard Bard for their fellows paid the high prices but it can be said to the credit of most American house housewives housew housewives I wives w es that they exercised their good judgment jud ment and refused to be stampeded into paying pa excessive prices The effect was almost in in- evitable All over the country meat prices began to go down until de de- de decent cent levels were reached The example is a suggestion to the American people It shows to them that they can if they wish to prevent spiraling prices and inflation merely by using their good judgment and refusing to pay more than item is i legitimately worth I doubt if the buyers the housewives and others of this coun try realize the full extent of the power they ther have in this matter It is almost unlimited They can stage a buyers buyer's strike that will bring down prices pric's in a n mutter matter of days liven Even the best organized inflation spiral will give ivr way b before fore this force foll and back down As in the tu case IS of meat so it can lan be bt with ans' ans item manufactured and sold old I think that there is in nt existence to quite qUilt a 1 degree ti u wide nation strike t against unduly high prices There TIlt has been no visible form of effort or 01 organization against it but it is in existence xi t in every 1 lo- lo n emit in ill this country The evidence of it is to be bt found in every ry store stole in nl this country today One has to 10 but visit sit his grocery grocer store or OJ other type of store to discover that the items that are art priced too ton high are lire not nol moving mo The es are alt aI passing them up because prices i are too high In my m mown own town 1 I have r noticed td that a certain brand of If salmon packed a n less few ounces in a 1 can HI wits us priced at nt 54 cents a u can all Although there lr hits has been no salmon on the shelves s of any store stun in ill my town for fol well over a n year yUI and aud and notwithstanding notwithstanding standing the fact fad that t salmon is isone isone one of the must most popular and wide widely widey ly h used foods in sections where good fresh fish is not readily avail ail available available able abl this salmon has not noted mold mo ld But a few cans ans of the case caSl have o been sold The he reason is not because be be- because beaus cause aus people do not have l the th money mane They do have ha hait it but they th feel that the price pr tl is too tOll high for forthe forthe the food value contained onta in such sucha a n small can lU and with one accord Iloni do dl donot donot not buy LilY |
