Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-05 | Page 4 | When a Grouch is On

WHEN A GROUCH IS ON. When a man with a liammer misses the nail and hits a finger, he roundly abuses his little boy who is holding the lamp that is throwing light on the scene of action, and soon .the entire family is in an uproar, up-roar, and even the good wife, who had nothing to do with the misdirected misdi-rected blow of the 'hammer, is involved, and an otherwise orderly home is upset. There is somewhat of a parallel for this in our community affaire. af-faire. High Cost of Living not only hits the fingers, but batters the whole anatomy until a grouc'ii possesses every one. Then the employer em-ployer blames the worker and the worker blames his boss, and the charges and counter charges that are passed multiply until perfectly perfect-ly good tempers arc spoiled and amity and good understanding arc banished. IT The one thing troubling this community and all other communi-I communi-I ties toda' is the constantly increasing prices of everything entering into life's necessities, and the irritation will continue until some method is devised for stabilizing the cost of living. When wage earners receive $2 more a day and on pay day dis- cover that sugar, which once sold at 20 pounds for one dollar, is 141 cents a pound ; that shoes costing $3.50 in 1913 are $10 a pair and a suit of clothes, worth $.18 five year. ago, is $40, they ask themselves them-selves whether their dollars have become half dollars, "quarters" or "bit," and immediately dissatisfaction spreads, It would be well if employers and their workers could center their efforts on keeping prices within bound. When there comes a stabilizing of" prices much of the friction which now exists in industrial indus-trial pursuits will disappear.