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Show TOO MUCH GOLD HELD CAUSE OF HIGH PRICES By Associated Proas. NEW YOniC. .May 7. Mayor Gaynor sides with thoEO who declare that the high cost of living- Is due chiefly to Increased In-creased production of gold. A delegation representing sovoral hundred Italian butchcr.s called on him to protest that they aro not responsible for the high prion of meal and to urge him to say a good word for ihem to the public. "Aro you not responsible for the high prices of nicat7" ashed the mayor. "No." replied the butchers In chorus. "Well, who Is?" "Perhaps It's the farmers," ventured one- "Xo, It's not the farmers," he said. "It's the overproduction of gold and that's Fomothlng neither you nor .1 can control." |