Show f PRESIDENT SENDS SPECIAL T WOULD PROBE HIGH COST Of liVING Urges Appointment of Federa Federal Fed Fed- era eral Commission to MaRe MaKe Searching Inquiry SAYS MATTER ONE OF GRAVE CONCERN Rising Prices Are General Throughout t Civilized World WASHINGTON Feb 2 President 2 Taft in A message messa-ge to congress today urged an arm international inquiry into th the high cost of living The Time president asked authority to invite tho the nations of ot the world to a a. conference In this thi city or elsewhere to make plans for tor the th investigation of the high prices th that tha t have so C distressed the people of ot th the world Mr Taft also urged the appointment of or a a. federal commission to make snake a searching inquiry into the subject o of industrial relations For For some somo yea years hia past said th the tho president the high hith and steadily increasing in in- creasing nl cost cost- of livin living has been a 2 r of such grave rave public concern that I de deem m it of great public interest that an sn international conference b bo be proposed at this time f for r the purpose of preparing plans to be submitted t to thc various governments for an international international inter inter- national inquiry into the hi high h cost o of living its extent causes effects an and nd possible bl remedies Might l Shed Valuable Light There Thore is no do doubt bt but that a commission sion could bo be appointed of such unprejudiced d. d d and d impartial l persons on e experts ft e O O ta tsi t. A Frt reat at a deal 1 of en v lu lH light ht could coul be bed bd the rca sons eons for for- forthe the Ibe hi high h Pric prices price that have havo s so ell the people of the world am and information given iven upon which action mi might bt bo ho taken ito to o reduce the cost cost- o of living Those who have bave con conducted ucto invest imeRti investigations have found that the phenomenon non noa of rising prices is almos almost if no not quite general throughout t hol tb tho world I but the they arc are baffled in the at attempt empt t to trace the CRuses causes by br the impossibility of 01 making any accurate international comparisons comparisons' onS nS' nS This is is because in p to of of- the number o. o of investigations in ai al al- II read ready realy made we c are still without ado ade I quarto lJ to data and and because as aF yet no two countries estimate their pr price e levels on the same basis or b by tim the same math meth od ode A As to the commission on industrial industria relations the president said Favors Industrial Inquiry There should be an inquiry by the tho f federal era government oY into tho the general genera conditions ons of f labor Jabor ii If the United States notwithstanding the fact that some of the tho remedies will lie with the separate states or oven entirety entirely y outside out outside side Ride tho the sphere phero of activity ity in the hands bunds of private individuals a and l of voluntary r a agencies One le legitimate mate object of such an official investigation investigation inTes ti and and report is to enlighten 1 and suit inform public opinion which of itself will ivill m often iu induce lure or compel the time reform of unjust conditions or ho abatement of unreasonable demands I Unquestionably tho time Hmo is now BOW ripe f for a n. carch n inquiry into jato th the tha subject of industrial trial relations which shall II he be official aut authoritative he balanced bal hal and amid well 0 rounded such as is l only onh the tho f federal government can an successfully successful s1 l J ly undertake Th The presen wid widespread in the subject subeet ct makes this an opportune time for an au investigation ti which in any event cannot lon Jon long bo ho p post t. t It ft should b be nonpartisan comprehensive com corn c thorough h patient and cour ageous I |