Show FOOD Pl lUtS UPS the decreases ot 15 conis cents per pound in butter and za centi ver per doz n a in eggs during he file yawl past ehr e I 1 months have been bolcome I 1 ions eions in the cost of living the geu I 1 ral decrease in food costs coats how hoai er x a slow the government Is maln main aaning ahe price of heat fixed last r year and tile the high price or of wheat lends ends firine a to gr erain oat at meat i and dairy iuis 11 II tho the government w lower wheat to per lushel hel there would be i deuling s in all or thee alie e other articles i of nf food this thih would baiten the to rp of iago and and 1 a larger movement ot of goods I 1 the government is being criticized i for maintaining the price of wheat i in the face of the undoubted benefits which would result its deduc i tion on oil the other oilier hand band there Is sota sol ehing nelling to he be said for for the 1 nance of wheat prices america its as a whole is well fed fd but there Is a shortage of food in ili belgium Holg Sum serbia ind and F france rance anit anil starvation in ru sia probable the exportation of food as an antio antidote lote to bolshevism in europe is a more important consid aeration in ili restoring the wor lila lils commerce than decreasing the cost of the loaf of bread in the united stale M 2 moreover moreover ore over altho the present prospects for the wheat crop are good and food conservation seems annee essry the results of the harvest will be uncertain until next august augusta 1 it also remains to be seen whether the harvests in europe will lie be adequate to feed the nations comfortably it would seem that the surplus in ili america argentina and australia will be adequate to teed leed tile the worl corll 1 I 1 bev but in india there is a wheat short oge ge of about bushels and a severe shortage of over pounds of rice to offset this shortage moderate amounts of australian wheat aro are heing being punch purchased as by india |