Show chain stores aim to stem price rise prices on a few baste basic commod ul haye have risen spectacularly despite authora tive assurances from high govern governmental mental quart quarters ers that there la is no no scarcity of food stuffs increases in retail prices of these items reflect only the rise in wholesale costs over which the food retailers have no control according to a report from utah chain stores association salt lake city the report also states that chain retail food store stord members of the utah association haye have not changed and will not change their policy of reasonable retail profit mar margins gifis As pointed out by secretary of agriculture vallace there Is an all abundance cfall of all kinds of foods in this country consumers way may assist materially in preventing unwarranted price e increases b by coni con I 1 tinning their purchase on oil a n nori or mal scale abnormal buying band and hoarding will exhaust retail and wholesale stocks thus creating an artificial scarcity which will re sult suit in ligh prices price s and without compensating benefit to producers consumers may rely on existing governmental machinery for stabilizing supplies and prices this may be called upon it if it should should become ne necessary ceary to employ these methods to protect consumers from violent price fluctuations I 1 in addition the chain food store retailers of utah wholeheartedly pledge their complete cooperation with governmental governmental agencies agen clea and with producers in all efforts to stabilize prices discourage profit bering and maintain facilities for orderly food distribution economic in highlights T j gh lights 1 F armageddon has haa come to europe again more ominously prophetic than everi ever seem the words swords of lord grey premier minter of britain spoken on that fateful night in iii 1914 when the start of the first world war war wa was but a few brief hours away the lights bare are going out one by one over europe they will not be ut lit again idour in our lifetime and uppermost in the mind of every american Is the role thae tha our nation can cah and should play piny in world affairs in this his t time of disaster abroad the president has appealed appeal ed by radio to the people to maintain neutrality ile he has officially proclaimed a state of oa neutrality and has as required by law declared effective the ahe general arms embargo imposed by we neutrality set act going by till all available evidence the american people sympathetic as the bulk of them are with the causa cause of britain and france are vigorously determined to rein remain aln neutral in fact it not in thought abe disillusioning 1 lessons learned from our participation in the last war have not been forgotten press polls of members of congress Cou gresa indicate practically unanimous opposition to again sending auary au AEY to other lands so bo do the editorial ex pres of leading news it to it thought certain that the president will soon call a special session of Con congress kress to reexamine examine re our neutrality legislation the administration firmly believes bellev ca that we e should sell arms arma and anything else to warring powers on a cash and carry basis to be transported in their own ships the principal conflict between white house and congress last session session was caused caused by this the isolationists conand aoa and the in toto embargo was retained up to the very moment when europe went to war isolationist tag ing was apparently on the increase but in these tragic anil and stirring tim times ei change in sentiment can and does come with lightning like rapidity late informs information tiou indicates that a number of senators and representatives who 0 opposed ap pp ased the roosevelt hull plan have now changed their position the vote wasa was extremely close when the bill came to the floor last session ead it Is possible that the cash and carry plan pian now hax baa a ma so rity the cash and car ry system la is a net neutral itral eneany nation can come to our shores get what it wants and take it home in 16 actual fact as everyone knows it would be of immense aid to the democracies england absolutely dominates the seas and the trade unes lanes in the first few days of the war england captured several german i man merchantman merchantmen men and faced forced others othera to seek hayen hayea in neutral harbora where they must remain rep dalri indefinitely british i in the view of military experts tah maks make it po isible for the allies A 10 lo to carry on trade with this country on a near normal baste basis ship seeking to make a run here and back would fare face atil almost lost certain destruction or capture there Is one less favo favorable rabie phase pathe qt the cash and carry plan so BO far ar as the british and french are cod concerned and that lies tn iz the belief cef held by a number of qualified men that we will be abler able to give the democracies relatively tow few military supplies that our own rearmament program will swallow practically all the arms find and rim au notions and planes we can produce remains to bo be seen looking at the war generally there Is one note of ho pethe opinion that it cannot lost last a very long 19 1 9 time because of germanys germanas Germ anys great economic weakness and the clear desire of the masses of hr her people for peace one of the best experts says that at germany might last two years if the french tight fight ii a defensive war and not mora mon hau one year if the french take the offensive first reports indicate the tha french have have chosen uie the latter course and are carrying tha th war to ta ifie the t enemy oa the western I 1 front bir ont tl babe united states news es a one certainty la in an uncertain world now Is this prospect ot of any return to normalcy at home or abroad is Is gone go ne thus the hazards of forecasting business become even more acute one thing seems to be true we will continue to rearm re arm on a gigantic scale and that la Is naturally a strongly favorable temporary factor building up the military establishment means more al ore business for practically evry every industry and trade we lye are better prepared for or trouble abroad than in 1911 1911 plans have been mad for imposing controls on thet tha stock exchanges to prevent disastrous rises or falls la in security quotations other plans have been made to help stabilize industry A bad economic factor Is that a lengthy war would undoubtedly result in a 4 british blackader black blac nde kade of central europe thiis inua cutting off oui our trade there 4 |