Show HARD TO GUESS G TUE S S HAVE VE prices reached bottom are they ahey going to climb from froin now on if so how bow high if not how far will they fall before settling at the new price level these are mighty important questions to all of us if you can guess the answer ou will not have much trouble planning 5 our money affairs for the next decade prices of lea leading leading Zing commodities at wholesale now rivera age about 38 per cent higher than before the war the tendency is tap upward tva rd but is it a temporary or permanent perin anent tendency economists are divided ro into two school on this letin one school is headed by halbert P gillette guiette editor of engineering gi and magazine agazine ni this school that the new price level will be 60 per cent higher than in 1913 the nr other school of economics suggests that prices may ultimately tilli go back nearly as low as before the war they point out that prices travel in 50 amr waves up ti for 20 years then down for 30 years and so on repeatedly for instance average wholesale male prices at their world I 1 war pak peak vere were almost exactly the same on the average aa I 1 the price peaks of the civil war period and the war of 18 and wholesale prices in 1913 were verc about the same afia 1842 and 1878 according to charts compiled byh federal reserve bank of ne new yolk A about six months ago an old account ak was found in a farmhouse attic at gardiner mass blass it hows that sugar ini in 1816 retailed at 40 cents a pound corn a nia 2 a bushel wha at 20 a bushel busho 1 butler butter 24 cents a polled po id paying interest on the big war d and gradually re tiring it 14 may keep prices higher than giftie 0 ir historic normal other like most forecasting one guess gum fely is 13 as good aa 86 aaa aa |