Show PRESS PARAGRAPHS The discussion of ot the high high cost cost of living living liv liv- l ing I is eg going l to make ake the newspapers and gw the people wise e Philadelphia Inquirer The farmer fanner gets a price largely dependent on the decree of the commission merchant or middleman middleman middle middle- man the retailer reaps a Ii profit that Is usually small but In between the farmer and and the retailer stands the middleman whose greed has become notorious He Is the man who ought to be with Cleveland Plain Dealer It is ia a hIstory making movement however else It Il is viewed Out of the tile agitation the tile Investigation gation atlon the boycott and kindred efforts to better Detter the lot of the millions comfort com cool fort depends upon the amount of food a Ii dollar will buy some sone measure of advantage advantage tage should come St St. Paul DI Dispatch patch We Ve may not be able to solve the high price problem and master master master mas mas- ter the situation created by the altitude of or cost but it Il will be he not because of study tudy and suggestions It Is absolutely certain moreover tha that t good goof will result from all of ot this agitation Something II Is radIcally wrong and It must be developed by the current discussion Atlanta Journal Journ While lI it Il is Is' Is well enough to talk economy In trying to solve the problem of the Increased IncreasE cost of living livIng livIng liv liv- ing it Is more Important to sound deeper and find the bottom cause for we surely cann t go on forever practicing economy If It we expect to move out of our present footsteps Baltimore Sun The adoption In this country of ot the Canadian governments government's plan of ot publishing weekly the list of wholesale and retail prices prove proves of substantial a advantage to the American I consumer s title He lie woUld Jl ken know know know-at at i least s ster after attar af at- ter tar the facts were laid before him whether er the wholesale dealer or the retailer gets the lions lion's share of the profits New Haven Register Register- There is room for Instruction all around There are I many sides to this great question of I which the country Is beginning to think I It is well that they are beginning n to I nl wW t think t It Is to be he hoped d th that many of those who control affairs In this country will get much nearer the bottom of things than they have ever done and act honestly honestly hon hon- estly on the basis of what they discover Boston Globe The Tise trusts make a 11 Tantalus of the tile Innocent and hungry mortal The goods are there and the food Is on the counter but when we reach for It Is hauled up far out of ot our reach And It will not come conIc down until we wo have not money enough to buy It at any price Somebody is having fun with us Yh Whether ther It Is the trust or the money expert or hath both Is not IlOt exactly clear Wa We shall find out some day and then we shall do something besides talk Providence Journal Journ l The truth Is that the rising cost of living has become an economic and political portent of ot the gravest kind It sharpens the weapons of agitation against combinations of capital and induces the tile temper of revolt among those classes that have hitherto been a conservative force In the tile community If the tile party In power becomes too closely related In the public mind to these un unpleasant unpleasant un- un pleasant conditions It may experience In Inthe Inthe Inthe the fall elections a II downfall stunning In effect I Indianapolis News There are all kinds I of jf theories as to the cause CRuse of high prices but ant In every case where facts are obtainable obtainable obtain obtain- able It is shown that prices are high because because because be be- cause somewhere between the time a commodity commodity com om leaves the producer and the time timet It t reaches reachE's tIle the consumer somebody through the force of r some combination Is making an Outrageous profit and until such combinations can be eliminated t lor or eon controlled trolled there Is little prospect that prices will be materially lower r The one rem remedy emedy y appears to to be official prosecution tion lon Watertown Times s The high cost of living Is going to to make malc economy the watchword in all aU American households and to see how economical e one can an an be rather than lavish one can be will become a a. of pride When the maJority majority ma- ma of people become economical al there will be a greater demand for economy In Inthe Inthe Inthe the profits of those who attempt to control control con- con rol prices A few less lass automobiles In beef eef trust a a. fewness fewless millions of ot surplus from rom enormous profits and a stoppage of the he accumulations of millions of dollars by v the few at the expense of tho the many will be another gu outcome come |