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Show I WHAT'S THE ANSWER? I When the wholesaler raises his product a few cents to the retailer, the latter raises rais-es a few cents and the customc. accepts the explanation and is satisfied. When the laborers explains to his employer lhat groceries and clothing cost him more and , he will have to have higher wages to get I by, the employer takes it as an accepted fact and .raises wages without complain-IJng. complain-IJng. . The 'retailer in every line of business jAmcreases prices simply because the ijjrjKolesaler or producer force him to do &jb and the public pays it and takes it as Fa pure business proposition. T But let the editor of your newspaper Iask for an extra fifty- cents on the year a mere matter of less than a cent a week and you hear a complaint. Let him ask , for a few more cents an inch on advertising advertis-ing and the retailer, the same man who has raised his price to meet increased costs declares he "can't understand it." Don't you, good' people of Logan, know that papa is scare and harder to get jhan it was a year ago? That u.-interV. link, type metal, wages and everything lhat enters into the production of a news-tfpaper news-tfpaper are from 40 to 80 per cent higher Mthan evcy ? Why suppose that everything tolse goes up in price but printing material. mater-ial. And why suppose that the editor is Mill buying food and clothing at the same 'price he did before the war? Look at this : ;hing in a sensible light. Quit imagining hat the newspaper the one institution hat has the individual interests of every j 'citizen in this community at heart can ixist today as cheaply as it did even o.ic 3 ear ago. ' And then try to remember hat if newspaper rates had increased m l.-oportion to everything else you'd be paying twice as much as you did a year go. dJkijiii'ikHfM h to te |