Show PACKER REGULATION URGED BY WOMEN New Voters' Voters League Asserts Food Prices Are Being Manipulated WASHINGTON March 6 The G.-The The re recently recently recently re- re organized Lea League ue of Women Voters Voters' presented its views on a legislative legis legis- l tive question to con congress ress for the first time me today when Mrs Edw Edward rd P. P Costigan Denver a of the league and vice of the National Consumers' Consumers league appeared before teh house a agriculture committee to urge federal regulation of the packIng packing packing pack- pack Ing Industry About children Jn in In this country countr are not getting sufficient food tood Mrs C Costigan told the committee commit commit- te tee The price of Jf f living has kept In advance of wages through all the years Meat and meat substitutes disappearing from the tM tables of the poor After Atter studying the situation we have come to the conclusion that be behind be- be hind the retail trade exists a manipulation manipulation lation of bf food supplies sUPPlies' and prices that Is a mena menace e to this country A few people control the markets In which they buy and the m markets In which they sell Miss MIs's Helen HeIer Smith o of Ot the Womans Woman's Trade rade Union league tres presented a resolution resolution reso reso- lution passed by her org organization fa favoring fa- fa a- a enactment I t of ot the Kendrick Kendrick- K Anderson Anderon No bills for tor regulating the packers Dackers v |