Ogden Daily Standard | 1920-01-27 | Page 1 | Women Decline to Aid Fight Against Chicago Profiteers

MM 10 fight agist chicago profiteers: i One Protests High Cost of Humming Birds and Another j Objects to Cost of Skunks j CHICAGO, Jan. 27. The Illinois I women fair price commission, which j distributed 25,000 blank "complaint" i cards, received only ten replies from women who believed they were victims vic-tims of profiteers, Mrs. Joseph T. Bowen, head of the commission, announced an-nounced today. Twenty cards bearing vague information and charges were returned to the United States district attorney's office. One card carried n long complaint about the price of humming hum-ming birds and another protested against profiteering in skunks. "There are three reasons I can think j of for this poor response to tho complaint com-plaint campaign," Mrs. Bowen said. "First, public resentment over high prices may have been over-estimated; second, people who believe their dealer deal-er Is gouging them would rather pay the excess than run the risk of being called as a witness in a court protecu-' tion; third, dealers have threatened that informants will bo blacklisted and repaid for turning In complaints by having their service and credit cutj down. I "It Is disappointing to know that the public, seemingly so eager for action ac-tion against profiteers and high prices will not take the trouble to fill out and send in cards which must bo the basis for tho prosecutions." no