Springville Herald | 1944-01-20 | Page 10 | Cost of Living has Advances about 26 Percent

COST OF LIVING HAS ADVANCED I ABOUT 26 PERCENT Miss .Frances Perkin3 tary of Labor, reports that four years of 1939-1943 sale prices have advanced cent and the cost of percent. fK. By comparison, she sav, in the comparable f0Ur Vo " the first World War prices rose 103 percent anf cost of living went up 62 ' For the year 1943, the tary of Labor reports that ""V of staple items which family ' in retail markets have had ' smallest advance for an since 1940. According to he ' tistics the cost of living Wt; about 3 percent in 1943" pared with nine percent and ten percent in 1941, Referring to wholesale y the statistics show they t only two percent in the t months of 1943, contrasted '-the '-the eight percent rise in lgj; the 17 percent jump in 1941' These figurs are based upc-erage upc-erage conditions throughout " United States. In certain 1-ties 1-ties and under certain cm" there may be variations, t ever, it is encouraging to that prices, both wholesale -retail, were relatively stab' 1943. Evidently, the various ei: to attain price control are fc-some fc-some effect. Rationing, price trol and the cooperation of : ufacturers and dealers are f credit for the record which surpasses that of the firsts-war.