Show furd RESUMES PREWAR PRE WAR INAR PRICES detriot midi sept 21 the ford car company lias has reduced the price ot of all its cars and tractors to prewar pre war levels the reduction amounts to an average ot of on every vehicle the company sells high prices impede progress said henry ford in announcing the drop and it is time we got back to a prewar basis the war is over prices must come down wages will not be affected by the reduction they will remain at their present level the new prices go into effect immediately although the company has orders for cars on hand the reductions follow stripped chases from to runabouts from to runabouts with nith starters from to touring car from to touring car with starter from to truck chasis from to coupe from to sedan from to and fordson tractor from to in announcing the cut mr air ford said pie war Is over prices must come down there is no sense or wisdom in trying to maintain an artificial I 1 standard of values for the best interests of all it is time that a real practical effort was made to bring tile the business ot of the country and the life of the country down to normal inflated prices always retard progress we had to stand it during the war although it was not right so the ford motor car company will make the prices of its products the same as they were before the war this in the face of the tact fact that we have orders for immediate delivery of cars and tractors we must of course take a tern tem horary loss because of the stock or of J materials ou on hall hand bought at inflated i pr prices ices and until we ve use that stock up v if we wi wil e 0 o loss but we take it willingly in order to bring r about a going state of business thru out the country there is a lull in general business we ve are touched by the waiting period that always proceeds a reaction people in every walk of life are walting waiting for prices to become lower they realized that it is an unwholesome unnatural unrighteous condition produced by the war in every line of activity there is growing idleness because the demand is not there raw materials are being stored manufactured goods are being stored because the volume of consumption is growing less through the self denial of the people many of whom w would not pay the high prices because they felt the injustice of the situation I 1 manufacturing plants are being shut down all over the country labor is being thrown out of employment yet the cost of living has seen very little reduction our country is rich beyond measure ur e in natural resources rich in all immaterial material things that go to make a great nation and yet its progress is being held practically at a standstill because of the greed of the profiteers now is the time to vail call a halt on war methods war prices war profiteering te tc war greed it may be necessary tor for everybody to stand a little sacrifice but it will be roost most profitable after all because the sooner we get the business of oe the country back to a prewar pre war condition and the lives of our people become more natural ress prosperity and contentment will occupy the attention 0 of the people tribune |