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Show COST OF LIVING IS CAUSING DIVORCE Philadelphia. Feb. .". The high cost or lhlng Is responsilde for the majority, of marital troubles and divorces," di-vorces," declared Mrs William R Derr, president of the Housekeepers league, in an address yesterdav before the home and school league ''Nothing leads to divorce so quickly os the squabbles and quarrels which arise in a home because the money doesn't reach," continues Mrs Derr "Women, as a rule, do not know-where know-where to bUy and thev are easily gulled on prices." The speaker advocated a system of co-operative stores as a means of reducing re-ducing the cost of food products "Conditions In this country have reached such a point, ' said Mr?. Derr, 'that co-operation among consumers con-sumers jn the purchase and sale of food products is absolutel) necessary !f prices are to be lowered. A cooperative co-operative store puts the profits in the hands of the people who should benefit At present the food supply passes through too many hands before be-fore it reaches the consumers " Sh said the Housekeepers leasuo has under way plans for establishinc I i stores on a co-oprat e basis j throughout Philadelphia and "del hope interest similar organisations in I other cities in the movement" , The Housekeepers league undei the (direction of Mrs Derr reeentl eon-I j ducted a campaign against, the "hieh ' I price of e!;eg in this cltv during i which hundreds of thousands oi dozens doz-ens of storage eges were disposed of I , by the league at 24 cents a do.en She I declared tonight that consumers haJ 1 been saved nearly $::oo.ooo bj the "crusade." |