Ogden Daily Standard | 1920-01-29 | Page 2 | High Cost of Living Reserve Board Fault

Miga Cost of Living Reserve Board Fault CLEVELAND, Jan. 29. The high cost of living owes its existence In part to the federal reserve board, Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, national pure food expert, declared in an address before tho thirteenth annual convention of the National Gunners' association. The remedy, Dr. Wiley said, lies in tho gradual withdrawal of inflated currency and the establishment of food as the standard of value instead of gold. The pre-war standard will never return, he said. Canned foods received the endorsement endorse-ment of Dr. Wiley, but he said that many features of the pure food law are hold in abeyance. Sugar and milk absorbed the attention atten-tion of the convention today. Can-ners Can-ners were assured by Frank C. Lowrv of tho Federal Sugar defining company com-pany of New York, that tho high price of sugar is an effective "food adinluls-l trator" In making conservation inevlt-' nble. He predicted a large crop for i The present supply of fresh milk is more than sufficient for domestic consumption, representatives of some 1 of the country's largest condensaries ' announced. No change In prices is pre-' pre-' dieted. I oo