Show WHY FOOD IS HIGHER DUE TO PRIDE AND VANITY OF CONSUMER government statistic an declares even common people want best of evereth ng and pay for fancy packages washington pride and vanity on the part of the average individual rather than in increase in the cost ot raw products or manufacture are the causes for the present high price 0 foodstuffs according to dr le grand powers agricultural statistician of the census bureau people nowadays I 1 mean average people common people it you will in upon having the best of every thing said di powers the work ingman insists upon the finest cuts of meats and he buys better meat perhaps than the salaried or protes man he doean doesn t subscribe to the shinbone doctrine of edward at kinson he has a feeling that he Is as good as anybody else and this feel ing asserts itself in his purchases that Is vanity you remember the time perhaps when a man who wanted to buy a steak threw his basket over his arm and went to the grocery after it but he won t carry a bundle now his meat must be sent to him that Is pride it Is sate to estimate that it costs five cents a steak for every cut that Is delivered to the house the same Is true with other of every day necessia essit the man whose food Is delivered to nim by the grocer or butcha pays the freight you may take any article you please continued dr powers and you will find that the margin between the manufacturer and consumer Is constantly mci easing the middle man or dealer is the gainer to a con sid erable degree although he is not responsible altogether for the high prices of foods he must meet the consumer s fancies he must make his goods look attractive and he must lay them at the doorty the household all of this costs money and of course the consumer pays the freight people want prepared breakfast foods now where they used to be sat isfried with oatmeal and mush or pos sibly dishes or cakes made of flour flour costs anywhere from tour dol lars to six dollars a barrel ot pounds according to the price of wheat but people don t buy barrels of flour as of yore they demand it in fancy packages and sometimes get it in the form of prepared foods the flour that goes into a one pound package costs about a quartet 1 of a cent the consumer pays much more of course the price for this one pound package Is higher than it ought to be it probably costs eight or ten cents where it should not coat more than alve or six the higher price to the consumer is the result ol 01 the fancy package demanded by the widely spreading national vanity and further of the fact that the article must be delivered service that Is de banded by the pride of the purchaser people are spending money now and they are spending it fast our prosperity depends upon spend ing it everybody hoarded what he earned prosperity would cease we would fry in our own fat |