Show HIGH PRICES the poor common people are vic ce ones who suffer every time the pries on any commodity goes up they are the ones who ultimately have to pay the profits of the merchant man jac Vac broker and every oter other middle man and the increased price tacked on in order to overcome situations caused by influences over which none of the legitimate dealers have control for instance the war it fr europe is simply increasing the price arico of things in this country beyond 1 all I reason food products have gone sky high common necessities and commodities such as tools clothing machinery etc etc have also taken tile the aero aeroplane plano route and prices hav increased amazingly now comes the commonest perhaps of all comodi comandi ties paper with a big jump and very good prospects of oe an out and out aarn art ine just to illustrate bleach Clea cli is used in the tha manufacture ot of purer pi to give it the white shade cost 2850 a ton ten before the war began vow now it costs and cannot be obtained from the great european which formerly supplied this lucio largely all dye stuffs used in the manufacture of colored paper have advanced as much as per cent in price and then they cannot be obtained the result is paper has laifed in price and every ever time one reads a newspaper or writes a letter ile he handles handies a product that Is worth real loney u today because of those conditions the printers and stationers stationery station ers have to raise their prices and tile the people pay it just as they do th advanced price of sugar and so the illustration bilg might i nt be carrie carried d on farther the common people ale are the tha ones who bear the real burdens they are the bulwark of our civilization and yet they get lear cc consideration than any other class let us hope that in the millennium things will be reversed and somebody else will have to pay the high |