Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-05-07 | Page 4 | Who is Responsible?

I1 I WHO IS RESPONSIBLE? 1 Our great legislative body is congress. Now, if any other branch m government is neglecting to do the right thing in order to prevent Profiteering, why does not congress act? As a matter of fact, neither congress nor any other governmental j ibody knows how to get at this most vexatious problem. One school ,5C economists holds that the best regulator of prices is an unrestricted unre-stricted play of supply-and demand. Other students claim that excessive ex-cessive prices can be legislated out of necessities. Wherthere is I Siouopoly, regulation, no doubt, should be applied, but. even in that "case, with a world demand offering a market which cannotvbc satisfied, satis-fied, no one country can reach the seat of the trouble. Vj 5 A speeding up of production would offer much relief and the practicing of thrift would bring results, and both remedies today , "are in the hands of the people themselves.