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Show MOTOTt TRUCK IS CUTTERDF COST Ranks of Rural Express Advocates Ad-vocates Grow as Investigation Investi-gation Proceeds. Living cost investigators, numerous editorial writers and many students of present-day distribution and transportation. transpor-tation. problems are lining up with sbip-by-truck advocates today in emphasizing emphasiz-ing the benefits that would accrue to the consumer through a network of motor express routes in all populous sections of tho United States. A general survey indicates that inadequacy in-adequacy of transportation facilities, particularly as to coal and graiu, and delays ruinous to perishable foodstuffs are cited in many instances as contributing, contrib-uting, to the existing marketing situation situa-tion as disclosed in reports received at the office of the Ohio attorney general. These were in response to the department's depart-ment's statewide canvass of county prosecutors regarding the underlyiug causes for the abnormal scale of living costs, and of reports of grand juries in those counties where juries were impaneled -to study the living problem. For Better Distribution. Edward E. Marsh, representing the Farmers' National council, declared recently re-cently before the senate committee on agriculture and forestry, at Washington, Washing-ton, that the farmers are not profiteering profiteer-ing and that to reduce the cost of living liv-ing there must be, among other things, improved methods of distribution. A news dispatch from Cedar Eapids Bays that Mrs. Earl Fry of West Luis township, Johnson county, Iowa, bought ia bushel of peaches for $o.60. in the I bottom of the basket she found a note from a woman in Texas, the report ' continues, saying that the basket had been sold for 50 cents and asking that she be notified of the cost price to the consumer. The bureau of crop estimates of the United States department of agriculture, agricul-ture, at Washington, in its weekly truck crop report dated September 12, 1919, says: "An auto truck was seen yesterday yes-terday with 10(10 cauteloupes . for a load: another had 50 dozen bushel baskets of tomatoes and 200 dozen ears of green corn and another auto went up to the naval base with 900 dozen ears. It is necessary now to cut the cost of transportation from farm to |