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Show WHAT CEILING PRICES MEAN TO CACHE The President in his Labor Day address demanded legislation legis-lation to freeze farm prices at parity or to the level of I some recent date. Immediately those engaged in agricul-1 tural pursuits had their memories go back to depression levels which obviously obscures the picture of what the President had in mind. LOW FARM COMMODITY PRICES ARE EQUALLY AS DANGEROUS TO THE WAR EFFORT AS INFLATION LEVELS. The President is aware of this FACT. As we have gone on during the past eighteen months everything has climbed in price far beyond a desirable balanced economy. There seems to be no stopping price once competition bids up the cost of consumer goods and the wages paid to labor. Twenty dollars a day for a semi-skilled carpenter at Brigham City is identically the same danger signal as $3.50 for a bushel of peaches. We went through the experience ex-perience in the last war of $27.00 sugar, $2.50 wheat and : 72c butter fat and everyone knows the consequences. The farmers are not singled out, for the President has declared that he will place a ceiling on wages as soon as he can be assured that the cost of living is going to be held in check. . There are millions of lads who will come home to find economic disaster if prices are not . held in .check, just as they did after World War Number One. There are other millions of workers who are on fixed incomes who are having the struggle of their lives to maintain anywhere near a decent standard of living. Small business concerns never before were pressed as they are now. Cache farmers will not be rendered penniless because of ceilings at parity. The fact is that the farmer buys so many things that also will be frozen in price that his relationship re-lationship as a buyer and consumer together with his functions func-tions as a producer will be knit more solidly there in assuring as-suring stability impossible during periods of uncontrolled price rises. Not a single soul is entitled to profit because of war, whether he be a farmer, a laborer or a business man. Cache county will be best served if a sane price formula can be devised. The farmer will not then have to bid against such unreasonable wages for hired help. Our business men can plan their future and the fixed salary worker can be assured of due consideration. |