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Show H Fool) I'd I.I. A BUGABOO FK )M a casual reading of luch provision! t" the CovernnU'iit Food bill as have been given OUt by ib,.- (i.nly press, it would seem that those persons who BB have been looking to 'he government for some relief from the existing high cost of living, are likely to meet with bitter disappointment. About the most positive and prominent provision that Standi out in this master piece of legislation is the hSting of the minimum price to be received by the produ ei at $2.00 per bushel for wheat. That will h !p some, so far as the produeer of wheat is concerned, but will it be of any great benefit to the balance of the population Congress seems to have spent the most of the SCS sion in wrangling over whether the food situation should be placed in the hands of a board of three men. or with a single commissioner, as the president pro posed. It is encouraging, however, to know that this; important question has been settled, the President obtaining ob-taining the decision, and now if Congress can just reel enough harmless fabric to make an impressive piece of legislation, without reducing any body's profit or effecting any particular change in present conditions, condi-tions, that awful strain and worry will be off their minds. The dear people will get through some how, though the Good I.ord alone can tell how, but the grafters must not be interfered with. The BewSpipeTI Of the country can easily be silenced si-lenced and won over, if the price of print paper can be slightly reduced, and all will "go mcrrv as a marriage mar-riage bell." Perhaps it would pay Congress to grant a subsidy of five cents per pound, or such a matter, on print paper, in order to "keep peace in the family." t |