Show GET READY nEADY FOR BUSINESS The decline In wholesale commodity commo commo- prices for 18 consecutive weeks leaves no doubt that the peak of high prices has passed Everything is is dropping from milk to automobiles In spite of the strenuous protests from certain sources that reductions in prices at this time are impossible From Akron Ohio an automobile tire manufacturing center way one-way tickets out of the city were sold during September due to un un- un employment Minneapolis Oct 1 Flour l.-Flour Flour 12 a barrel lowest since Oct 1919 Wichita Kansas 10 per cent cut in pork prices by packers Seattle Canned Canned milk reduced from 6 to per case I New York Reductions Reductions of 15 per percent percent percent cent to 20 per cent In price of Lee tires announced Columbus Ohio Timken Timken Roller Bearing Co lays off fC 1600 employees Indianapolis A A A general red reduction reduction uc- uc tion of 1 a sack wholesale on on- sale price of ot potatoes Kansas sas City Two Two most fashionable fashionable fashion fashion- fashion I able hotels announce food price cuts of f from 15 to 35 per cent Toledo O Ohio String String o of restaurants restaurants rants here cuts food prices 10 to i iper per cent Steaks red reduced ced from to 25 and I Retail Chicago Retail clothing house I announces drop of from 20 to 25 per percent I cent in mens men's clothing and further reductions possible Pianos drop on all styles Brass Br ss plumbing supplies cut 10 to 25 p per r cent The foregoing are merely samples of price being made Competition Competition Competition Com Com- petition has been restored and stan nan agers are after the business and tryIng tryIng try try- Ing fug to get the jump on the other fellow fellow fel fel- low We have haye seen seen conditions change from a sellers to a buyers marked market mar mar- ked ket The readjustment taking place does not Indicate hard herd times coming coming- The Manufacturer and Industrial News Bureau predicts that within a afew afew afew few months month's this country will see the greatest buying movement of raw materials and manufactured d goods 1 that we have ever witnessed ed Millions 1 of people have been going without necessary articles for years waiting for more normal prices The effect of the present movement movement move move- ment will be to freeze out the pro pro- and inefficient manufacturers ers and the lazy and inefficient workmen work work- men Production per power man-power will increase which In Itself will enable enable enable en en- able reductions In the price of ot ma manu manufactured mans mans- l goods We Ve will again se see se competition for jobs just as we will see competition to sell goods This is as It should be and will do away with the up up Irold-up tactics we have been subjected to from both laboring men and manufacturers The price of labor will not fall tall in proportion to the decline in commodities but labor labor labor la la- bor will produce more which will offset offset off oft set the difference There Is absolutely absolutely absolutely no occasion for fora a panic Never was there so much building and construction construction construction con con- work to be done In this country and the rest of the world and never before was there such a WaitIng waitIng waiting wait wait- Ing demand for various lines of manufactured goods With a generally higher wage schedule it Is Improbable ble that prices will drop to war pre-war figures and in seeking the new level they may advance advance advance ad ad- vance a little above the readjustment drops which will take place A declining declining declining de de- clining labor market will eliminate strikes which will materially help In 10 reducing the cost of ot living |