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Show ADJUSTING THE ECONOMIC ECON-OMIC LAW Tho good news has been going round and round that prices are tumbling down, and everyone except someone wha sees his own profits cut Is happy over tho announcements that appear dally In tho newspapers If It weret ruo that t ho sellers had this whole problem In their keeping as many suppose, then wo would find commodity after commodity bo life raised in prlco with tho new freight rates being offered as an excuse ex-cuse But It Is a mistake to supposo that manufacturers and wholesalers control the situation, for they In turn havet o deal with new labor problems, now methods of marketing, market-ing, Increased charges for their supplies sup-plies and conditions In Industry that they could not have dreamed ot when they engaged In business. Tho economic law Is a good deal like tho digestive apparatus ot a human bo-Ing, bo-Ing, and no one will assumo that tho latter Is ablo to function naturally natur-ally when It Is being stuffed to with stand trenches and service. But the economic law, like the digestion, usually us-ually adjusts Itself some way or other. Just now tho country Is witnessing wit-nessing the struggles of tho economic econ-omic law to regulate and adjust Itself It-self and there Is every evidenco that tho American people are coming out of the present era of high prices all right. In tho process It behooves them to abldo by tho old advlco to "keep their feet warm and their heads cool," and Incidentally tho more calamity howlers they swat day by day, tho sooner will the coun try get back to an economic condition condi-tion that is good for everybdy. |