Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-08-21 | Page 20 | Fears High Cost of Baby Food will Result in Race Suicide

Feats High Cost of Baby Food Will Result in Race Suicide INTIMATING that the high cost of baby food may result In race suicide, A. Schipper of Ogden writes to Attorney General Dan B. Shields asking for relief from the combination of wholesalers and retailers In the drug trade which has, he says, "boosted" the price of baby food 200 per cent in the interim between be-tween February and August. "What is a person going to do with children when he cannot afford to pay the prices asked for the food which will agree with his babies?" the worried father writes. Schipper is the father of three j children, and he relates that he has fed them all on a certain combination of food urged by his family physician. The food cost 50 cents per pound at the time of the advent of the oldest child, and gradually raised until, when he went to make a purchase for the last baby he was forced to pay SI. 50. The third offspring is out of luck, he alleges, because ho cannot afford to pay the prices asked for the food by the druggists.