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Show HOLDING DOWN PRICE OF COAL, Secretary Hoover, wideawake 'o his duties;, hae announced plans tor co-op- eeration of the department of com merce, the Interstate commerce com Li mission and the department of justice to prevent a boost in the price of coal, while controlling its dlfltrlbu- Hoover plans to make an example ot the profiteers i ho will start in those districts where coal prices have been increased to almost a prohibitive price at the mines. Our government should proceed with great vigor t0 prevent this form of robbery. When the coal operators, taking advantage of the dire necessities necessi-ties of the people, send the price of fuel to dizzy heights, the should be ' handled with the same firmness as Is I manifested by constituted authority when the holdup brought In from the highway is being dealt with. Thro! (a no great difference in the method; employed by the coal operator who exacts an exorbitant figure and the' highwayman. The one., without personal per-sonal risk, takes the last dollar from bis victim, the other, with some ele-1 ment of danger to hlmsdg, does the j same thing Of the two, the least' contemptible Is the highwayman. |