Show SOME DANGERS FROM HIGH PRICES P R I C E 8 An interesting on the U present cost ot 9 i living appears In the tho January American Magazine It IB is written by hy Elizabeth Howes HoweR und ond nd Is le a 1 record of her hor personal observation She Sho writes Eiery E ry our ono Is talking high prices B But my topic Is 16 different 1 I wish to talk not on the high prices them themselves themselves selves tut ut on 01 their dangers the chief dangers being ot pf o course courso to that trunk class of a nation the aried man the clerk the Tho The present high prices are affecting this class In two ways waI first they are arc tending to force torce them down rather rathor than up In the tho social scale scab second they the are arc putting thorn them to such stress that they are tending to become an nn underfed class undernourished and anti certainly the tho danger daner of having ha the great trunk class elMs of a n nation unde under undernourished nourished cannot be Well I dont pretend to know tho the cause of high prices but this I do dol know that I 1 am today toda paying S cents more for fot my mr steak 7 cents more for eggs 7 cents more moro for buttor butter than I Iwas IWas Iwas was lost last year that a better bolter class of ot people leople than heretofore Is beginning to try tr and evade the compulsory edu edit education cation law and nd that certain shop girls whom I 1 know have reduced their lunches from Irom chicken on toast with rice border herder to an eclair and a acup acup acup cup of o coffee corree In other words our great prosperous country countr stands at tho the parting of the ways A little littlemore littlemore more and you ou will have the trunk class of America an underfed class being slowly but surely forced down downIn In the social scale The Tho laboring man manthe mantho manthe the tho minor miner the servant girl who are arc being paid more will force Corce their chil children children dren up into tho the clerk class only to have their theil children stick there or re return return turn to them thorn This would no longer longcr bo be American This that 1 T say sa is true truc and It seems seams to me to merit the tho attention of oC nil all thoughtful Americans who curl care for tor their country |