Show REDUCING FOOD PRICES high prices for food tend to create high prices on everything else the cost of producing any article is largely determined by the cost of subsistence of tho the workers who creato it when food prices are high the ultimate result is to check consumption on the part of large classes of people who have not had bad corresponding advances in wages export trade Is restricted construction work held up business suffers and unemployment results jo to relieve the present high cost of living the first thing to do Is to produce I 1 reasonable food prices some people seem to think that government price fixing will do it it may help in extreme cases yet in the long run you cant heat beat the law of supply and demand the at present insufficient for the demand aggravated as this is and will ho be by the disorganization of Europ european can industry the farmers interest must be considered in the past the small farmers profit didiot fairly compensate him for his effort and investment it if he is not able to secure a fair return people will not stay on the farms so either p production i rd must be made more economical on the present aggregate of product or a greater product must mist be turned out on the present level of expense it will take the best scientific and organizing ability in the country to solve this problem the ordinary observer however can see many ref aspects in which the work of foa production is not efficiently or organ hiir UL U iced the past fifty years have seen a complete revolution in most lines of industry laborsaving labor saving machinery systematic organization of units of production technical education foy managers training of workers in 1 scientific methods effic efficiency bency systems these have kept down the cost of factory I 1 production labor is paid a great deal more than formerly but in most cases costs less than it did fifty years ago can these modern scientific methods be applied to the business of 0 food production A leading agricultural authority said the other day that if the farmer could have the same access to the markets for capital and labor that other industries have the production of food in this country could he be increased f four our times even half of that result would enormously improve living conditions |