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Show MM GIVEN I ADDRESS M FROM IDMO Statinr that a six hour day is rtdlCU-lous rtdlCU-lous and that inereafied production, and close eo-operation on the part of Sail is necessary to eliminate the United StatP" war debt and I bus brinp; an end to the- inflation nf prices, Joseph Vounp: or Poeatello, district povernor or Idaho, addressed Hotarians ol dpden. Sail l-ake -und Lopan at a meeting held last night in the Webei !uh rooms He aid: ' The present unresl needs the ealni of Rotary in rinding a solution of the high eosi of iivlng and the desire to st rike. "The solution of these problem will be found in ihe Individual rather than in govemmeni action. Congress i 111.1. (in ,uv lit " r ,,o.-i. .', ... . legal phrases will not reduce our war; debt nor produce new wealth to replace re-place that Which was destroyed during t lie w .ir "Fundamentally. Ihe high price level is the effect of two caust B nidation nida-tion and scarcity. "Credits due largely to 'be tise of Liberty bondr as collateral have expanded ex-panded si a terrific rate. We hae had the experience of money being very plentiful and good- verv scarce. When the war ended, (he shelves of the world wen bare, the product ie energies of almost every nation having hav-ing been devoted for more than four years to the manufacture of war ma-lerial: ma-lerial: therefore, we now have the Spectacle- of people with plentv of paper money I hiding against each other oth-er foi the necessities and luxuries of HIP. i Where will il end is the question heard from every quarter. "Naiurally. (here is n peak to even the Highest mountain, and it Is equally equal-ly certain there will be a peak to ihi-pii ihi-pii p level This peak will b reached ihe sooner and prices will start downward down-ward ih' more certainly In proportion to Ihe desreo we all apply ourselves i the problem of reducing inflation and ; inercasmg cur production of goods. There is woik for everj able-bodied person In the work! We. ncd a full i day's work for rj one, six days a , week. "Not until more goods come on 'he market Will prices begin to star: downward. "In the meantime, dally strike ar sinTpiy ppgravaUng the er thing icainFt wh-eh they are directed Ta'k of a six-hour day Is ridiculous at a time when the world is barely abb? to feed and clothe itself "As for inflation, that can only be overcome by Individual saving Wasteful Waste-ful expenditure is criminal in a lime I like the present The more quickly j we can pay off our net war debt of J twenty thousand millions, ihe better it I will be for us. in us nor lorgei mat 'nes ; bonds must be paid off with work-productive work-productive work, honest sweat. "Few of us realize how great a share of our energy went Into var during J i he last two years, and li is not until We translate this twenty thousand millions mil-lions info labor that we can comprehend compre-hend It. Look at it this way: Tn payroll of (46,000, Ave dollars a day men working Hon days a year for 3u '.ears, would be approximately twenty' thousand millions Contrast this with the population of the United states and 'line adjust to your own city. j Measured in money, this k the con-( trlbutlon we made to winning the ' war 'During the war, those of us at home frequently were told that the war would be won in th-' workshops Regardless Re-gardless of where it was won. we all knew where ii w ill be paid off and the big problem i.-, for each of us, as in dividuals. to realize our responsibilli "Produce! Troduce': Produce!!! shoubl be ihe cry every minute the sun shines on our part of the globe for only b increasing production m decreasing consumption can we cre.iie a surplus large enough to liquidate Hie war debt and al the same time bring price.- down to somewhere n;.i the former peace-lime prices. I Rotarian. let us apply ouiRelv"s nnd encourage olhcrs in this greaj i task " nn |