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Show High Prices to Continue Report of Calif ornians By Associated Pres., SAN FRANCISCO. May . Wsr or no war. prices generally will not fall within the next two years. Fsrmers must expect to pay higher wages than ther have ever paid and. equally Important, Im-portant, .provide bettr living conditions condi-tions for their help. Some of the current cur-rent talk about a farm labor shortage la due to a chronic state of mind on the part of large emoloyers. These are some of the findings of a food survey in California, Just complet-ed complet-ed by a committee of the state council of defense and brought together in a report by Dean Thomas Forsythe Hunt of the College of Agriculture of the University of California. Never before, aay. the report which was made public today, has so much capital or labor been expended In the production of farm crnns In California ss tlfis vesr. Because of deficient rainfall rain-fall and cold weather, however, the total to-tal crop yield of the state will be below be-low normal. This does not apply to the bean crop, which la expected to be the largest yet. nr.r to sugar beets. Everyone who goes Into the ooen country this summer will help relieve the food situation, by living on simpler fare and by saving the coat of transporting trans-porting food to the city. Another Interesting finding of the report re-port is commendation of the householder household-er who buys "his family food In large Quantities, popularly called "hoarding food supplies" Bush wholesale purchases. pur-chases. Dean Hunt asserts, reduce the cost of retail delivery, thus helping to reduce the cost of retslllng. which eats up approximately one-third of every dollar the consumer paya for food. Measures being made tb promote the conservation of food are then listed and the report concludes: "The pity of It all Is that very little attention will be paid to most of the recommendations made aa to the prevention pre-vention of waste. There will be In the hands of the American public during the next two or three years more money mon-ey and Instruments of credit per capita capi-ta than ever In the history of any nation na-tion of the world, and there Is every reason to believe that this country is to witness the most prosperous times snd the most riotous living that tt haa ever known. In the meantime, our allies al-lies will suffer. Whet doth It profit a man to gain the whole world If he thereby loseth hi. own soul?" |