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Show fj OF LIVING fffS OUTER 4e in Year Is Only h per Cent, Hoover's Office States. Department of Labor, ;ever, Places Rise at 15 Per Cent. 'j By JOHN L. MURRAY, al service Staff Correspondent. r,iNGTOX. Sept. 22.-The in- t'ro't of livlns in the ,a!i-t twelve .- "j 1-2 per cent, according to d states food administration, or jnJaccordins t lhc department "simultaneous announcements of administration and the labor de-1.' de-1.' bareau of labor statistics, with ' considerable discrepancy, is t 'coincidence; it is the result of snced difference of opinion and ii ! Mis at the food administration ex-rthe ex-rthe major part of the increased "'.living is due not to food but to "' ui,in transportation and other Y$ especially due to the ad- U!Lndara of living. The food ad-Hn ad-Hn compilations are based sole- Statistical basis of the nations wes for food at wholesale. The ''-Tmrtment's figures are based on ,ion of family budgets in various ;m Increases. en-Ve increased cost of living .' io inclusive of all the items of """race family budget of a work-'f work-'f was stated recently by the 31V Df labor statistics on lnvestiga-Srvarious lnvestiga-Srvarious Pacific coast cities. Com- Hth costs six months previously of all essential living expenses 4aed In Seattle IS. 16 per cent, ,;:ima 20.37 per cent, in Portland U:tr cent in San Francisco 10. S6 in Los Angeles 11. S9 per cent. m 0( clothing, taken separately, for the same period in the same at respectively 25.fi 2 per cent, 30.92 '7.SS per cent. '2S.59 per cent and fOr cent. The increase since then, lias been enormous, '"tod administration in its report, there has been more than a 35 ilt increase In prices paid to the ' i but contends that this is re-jjp re-jjp actual household purchasing by - lion of speculation and profiteer-itTnarrow profiteer-itTnarrow margins between farmers jJolesale prices under food regula-l.Jjat regula-l.Jjat is, that the food administrate administra-te been able to make a 33 per jrrrease to the farmers only a 3 1-2 nt'4l increase to the consumers. ."'juents Compared. 'paring again the two statements of IK5i administration and the labor.de-i, labor.de-i, Jcompared with a year ago: Department of Labor. n:i and flour (no figures) decrease. 25 increase. 7jr, (no figures), decrease. . ''"b, chuck roast, 30 increase. steak. 29 Increase. ..'.roast. 2S increase. j.b sieak, piate boiling beef and '!) Increase. . I SS. increase. Food Administration. Irfctuffs. 9.3 increase, n: tables, H3.1 decrease. g!:f, 7.1 decrease. iiJ i, 30.5 increase, tititnd nuts, 54.3 increase. rji 6.9 decrease. ), SO.ns increase. in:y and eggs, lfi.05 increase, at 3' products, 6.3 increase. .Increased retail prices of all food SScnmbined, retail figures for Au-Kctfompared Au-Kctfompared with July, was 2 per ,'e labor department says, owing :lo the decreased costs for the Ti'ior beef. ham. lamb and navv SlV'Pork chops and eggs show the FOlit increases. Bread, potatoes and . M not change in the month. r"ice Is Great. (to a comparison of costs now lit-its five years ago, the labor de-lefcient de-lefcient finds a combined increase ( Sin cent on seventeen staple articles ni-m prices have been obtained svs-inr-illy in the last five vears. All' of ii-flnles show increases of 52 per feM more, and four of them in-Cnrnore in-Cnrnore than 100 per cent, as fol- 'M'27 per cent: lard and flour. 1.1 -Tent e.iih: potatoes, 105 per cent. "r the disparity of the in- I tost of fnod between the labor fta ,an'1 "le food administration. 1 "1 fstnblishments attrihute 'L ,a(lrmi"nal living expenses S f n"0t "'andard existence bv m King classes. wi'?n.'l ",is is one of the serious 1 derartment of labor, the W 'l ",on of aspirations without f H i tlmo lallor. so that workers ,-! " lay.off part of the week as lLW"rh thcrc has Pw" P i , ? or. raste 'hat no longer ! ilwlt will, Indicating Its new ci"' statlla bv botter food. ni(et? una chcan Jewelry, hut inr t doen , T "rosoerity bv showing nrJWsnt have to work." |
