Show CLOTHIERS WARNED PRICES MUST DROP P Palmers Palmer's liner s Assistant Tells reUs Retailers Public Cant Can't Pay F Forever or ver Jan 16 CHICAGO Jan 16 Members Members of the National Association of Retail Clothiers were told Thursday by Howard Howard Howard How How- ard Figg special p fal assistant to Attorney General Palmer In fighting the high cost of living that prices prices prices' would have I j to come down The present level and any Increases ses could not be absorbed I by the thep p public bUc he said While I am not not predicting that I clothing prices prIces' are going down within the next six months I repeat that they must go down There Is something something some some- thing wrong somewhere just where I cannot say I will add this that the g government Is determined to find out just where the trouble is Is At the present rate of increase a asuit asuit asuit suit of clothes will be out of of reach I of the tle average person Prices today make It Impossible for many to buy buya a a suit It If prices dont don't go down the people will be unable to purchase and Industries will become Idle Notice was was served by Mr Figg that profiteering must stop He predicted a decrease of 25 26 per cent In the cost t of clothing If it all aU business agencies from sheep and cotton rai raiser er to re re- taller would cooperate with the gov gov- |