Show S. S L. L L Women Hit Butter Boost Housewives See Hike as forerunner To in AU food Prices The old quip What do you OU think about the high price of butter butter butter but but- ter which often supplants the saw about the weather had a meaning Friday and women were giving their opinions on the high price of the dairy product Butter is going to jump to a ri pound In retail cost beginning Nov 8 said a a- federal government announcement T Thursday h u r s d day a y and housewives were very unhappy if ifa ifa a survey made by The Telegram is any criterion Cancellation on Oct 31 of ot a government subsidy of Sc a pound which has been paid to processors for what government officials say was part of the wartime program to hold down food prices is given as the reason for the increase to take effect next month The price as of Friday was a n pound Opposes Hike DIke We Ve have been trying to hold down living costs and now Is not the opportune time to increase cost of at living said Mrs Grant Gregerson Greger- Greger son president of the Salt Lake Council of Women whose organization she he explained is interested in such discussions J 1 think it is too bad to have to raise butter prices at this time The Jump in inthis inthis inthis this one commodity may have a tendency to start other food costs upward In my opinion passing the 50 subsidy on to the public is the wrong thing to do It makes for inflation at a time when we are trying to keep down prices Said Mrs Mu W. W R. R Carter president of the Salt Lake district Federation Federation Federa Federa- tion Uon of ot Wom Women's s 's Clubs I If they keep on raising prices of food commodities or any other prices for that matter it will mean more strikes more labor troubles es Consumer lilt Jilt Dairy producers have been getting getting getting get get- ting top prices and I dont don't see seewhy seewhy why the government has ha to p pass ss the extra cost to us Increases In prices such auth as this means more mor I strikes The government wants I all to help In the Victory loan i drive but if it food costs soar how howare howare howare are some people going to help The government must stop higher prices of commodities Butter is 13 essential for children and large families are going to feel the increased cost sa said d Mrs Frank Eastmond president of the Salt Lake Mothers' Mothers club I do think it is too bad butter has to tobe tobe tobe I be raised because growing children children children chil chil- I dren should have it and people with larger families will have to cut down on its consumption Wages Vage in many instances will win willbe willbe be going down and it will be hard to get food prices to do like like- wise lise 1 I hope it is true what the government says about the subsidy subsidy subsidy sub sub- sidy keeping over all food costs down Aid Farmer The processors had one woman to take their side in Mrs Edmund P. P Evans president of or the Women's Worn Wom ens en's Conservation Council of Utah and past president of the Utah Congress of Parents and Teach Teach- ers I do not think we should sacrifice sacrifice sac sac- the quality of at dairy products products products prod prod- such as butter and that is what would happen if the farmer has to accept lower prices she asserted I helped work to get a dairying bill through the state legislature designed for or the protection protection protection pro pro- of our childrens children's health to help stamp out undulant an andy and rheumatic fever Farmers are entitled entitled entitled en en- titled to t the e raise if they are are areto to maintain top quality products I I do not believe in being penny penny- wise and pound-foolish pound and endanger endanger en en- I d danger Ser the health of our childr children I |