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Show CITY HALL SQUARE AS PUBLIC MARKET SITE Ogden Is to have a groat public market for food products from the farms and gardens, through tho progressive pro-gressive efforts of the Safoty committee commit-tee High cost of living and tho cost of high living wero discussed with a view to immediate improvement by the Safety committee last night, when all sub-committees reported tho progress of their work in many practical directions. di-rections. General Chairman Charles C. Richards Rich-ards presided. Each ' sub-commlttco was asked to report and make suggestions sugges-tions for betterment and the progros-sive progros-sive mobilization of all food and Industrial In-dustrial resources. Lack of financial ability In managing a household was argued by one sub-chairman sub-chairman as the principal causo of tho high cost of living. One family, ho said, managed ably, could llvo comfortably com-fortably on $50 a month, whllo another an-other family of the same sizo runs behind $25 a month on an Income of $100 a month. Thrift and economy wore, therefore, there-fore, considered chiefly necessary. A member said It should be considered a sin for anyone to waste anything of value. Another Original idea. "Vanity, expressing itBolf In a desire de-sire for show, to excel and outshine one's neighbors," said a manufacturer's manufactur-er's agent, "Is at the bottom of tho present dangerous soaring of prices." Young folk especially, lie said, are satisfied sat-isfied with nothing except tho best and their idea of the best is that which costs tho most. A prominent school teacher said that If the maximum production of crops wero obtained from lands now Indifferently cultivated, and If all idle lands were planted to food crops, the abundance would bo so great that cost of living would tumble downward 50 per cont, A Farmer's Opinion. A leading farmer said that if the 50 per cent cost to the consumer, now going to middlemen, should be eliminated elim-inated by the substitution of co-operative marketing and distribution "We order a dozen eggs and a loaf of bread of telephone," he said, "and ask for immediate delivery by automobile. A grocory store or meat market which did no delivering could sell for at least 10 per cent off." O. J. Stllwell, chairman of the high cost committee, said tho "praiseworthy "praisewor-thy sanitary handling of foodstuffs demanded de-manded by tho public adds a big percentage per-centage to tho cost We can now buy a pound of crackers for ten cents, but we prefer paying 10 cents for eight ounces In a sanitary carton. For this feature there is and should be no com-pleto com-pleto remedy." Final Recommendations. After the discussion tho committee recommended "that the farmers and gardeners of Weber county be invited to bring their produce to the city hall square, back their wagons against tho , south and west curbs surrounding the city hall and sell to whosoever wants to buy. "This arrangement," said the committee, com-mittee, "would make it possible for the family of small means to cut out each one of the six above mentioned elements of tho high cost of living and this could be done without the expenditure expen-diture of a dollar, unless, as is done in European market places, city scavengers sca-vengers were detailed to clean up the litter." |