Show I Timely Topics THE GOAT It appears that the profiteers are not to be blame blamed d 1 tor high prices on all aU commodities during the war ant an d especially soon after atter the armistice Not r the profiteers profiteer s who filled their pockets not the ravishers who d goods and raw materials to Europe diminishing the th e ee supplies on local markets No r-o. the laborers are to b bl e blamed It was they who raised the prices because the y wanted higher wages And now again it ft Is th the laborers who prevent lowerIng lower lower- Ing the prices The manufacturers do everything in theli thet power to bring the prices down their only thought i ii IJ how to serve the consumer but the damned laborer wit wll not agree to lower wages And they tell all that Just at the time Ume when th thE New r York transit companies are trying to double th tb fare tare when the railroads are cutting w wages 25 per cent without indeed lowering freight or passenger rates Well Fell let It be so The main consumer in America i ii iJ r he who sells ells his labor on the market not the employer If the question concerns the consumer there consumer there he Is is ans am ane s he objects to cutting down his wage wago while the manufacturers manu mane and big capitalists continue to fill their pocket Just as before oye o If It the Jobs hold bold out Marion will soon be a village village Baltimore Evening Sun The allies aUles e e evidently dently regard Germany as a a- Norfolk Norfolk Virginian Pilot e We Ve object to hearing a woman referred t to as t skirt There Is very little reason for tor such Buch a name g Wheeling Intelli |