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Retail Food Prices Showing Declines. Washington, June 17.-Retail food prices to the average family declined 4.8 per cent in May as compared with . April, while wholesale food prices dropped 5 % per cent in the same pe riod, according to statistics made public today by the department of la bor. General wholesale prices, includ mg farm products, food, building ma terials, metals,, house furnishings and miscellaneous commodities declined approximately 2 per cent during the month. The decline from the peak prices of May, 1919, amounted to 33 per cent in retail food prices and 44% per cent in general wholesale prices. The drop in wholesale prices includes a 53% per cent decline in manufactur ed food poducts and a 52 per cent re duction in the prices of farm, prod uites, the statement said. ? Prom April 15 to May 15 i;he re tail price of butter declined 24 per cent; cheese, 16 per cent; sugar, 13 per cent; lard, 9 per cent; porkchops and oleomargarine, 5 per cent. Smaller reductions were noted for many other commodities. Retail prices of three articles which Increased in price during the month were onions, 44 per cent; cabbage, 10 per cent, and oranges, 5 per cent. Wholesale prices of farm products reacted from the low level reached .in April, the statement said, with a : /gain of 1% per cent. With the ex ception of metal and metal products, j prices of which have remained the same for two months, there was a de- . ?cline in all wholesale prices, food '. products leading. Wholesale prices . of house furnishings dropped nearly i 4% per cent during the month; cloths : and clothing 2% per cent; fuel and lighting materials 2% per cennt and i chemicals and drugs 1 & per cent, i .Wholesale building material prices j ^declined about one-half of one per i cent during the month. Changes from wholesale peak . prices of May 1919, include declines 1 in cloths and clothing amounting to ' 48 per cent; building materials, 41 < per cent; metals and metal products, ' 28% per cent; chemicals and drugs, ' 22% per cent and house furnishings < 22% per cent. Fuel and lighting ma- ' . terials dropped 17% per cent during ? the year. M "The average family expenditure * for food decreased from April 15, 1 1921 ,ta May 15, 1921, in all of the 1 fifty-one cities from which monthly * prices are secured," the report said. * "The greatest decrease, 8 per cent, was shown in Milwaukee and, St. Paul. In Jacksonville and. Savannah the de crease was 5 per cent; in Atlanta, Charleston, S. C., it was 4 per cent, and at Richmond 3 per cent." '? i Accidents Kill 83,000 in U. S. 1 Washington, June 15.-Accidents j kill more people in the United States ^ in one year than the much dreaded ^ scourge of cancer, according to a . compilation of statistics just com- j pleted by the American Red Cross. The toll of accident deaths in 1918, ( the latest year for which figures are ,t now available, was 83,000 the an- j nouncement stated. j Automobile fatalities have increas- j ed tenfold during the last decade, the statement continued. Ninety people \ out of each million of population j were killed by automobiles in 1918 as compared with?ten per million an- ( nually from 1906 to 1910. While ; slaughter by automobiles had thus in creased, it is" pointed out, the safety movement in America has appreciably reduced the number of deaths cn rail road and trolly tracks. "The control of accident fatalities and injury is one of the outstanding problems in the movement for longer and healthier lives," says the Red Cross statement. "Life-saving and first-aid instruction, which the Red Cross povides through chapters scat- . tered throughout the country, has in the last seven years helped lessen the drowning accidents. If the drowning death rate of 1906-1910 had prevail ed in 1918, for instance, there would have been 2,100 more deaths than ac tually occurred." The following table, prepared from mortality statistics of the bureau of census shows the number of deaths from accidents of various kinds in the United States in 1918: Cause of Accident No. Total accident deaths __ __ 83,852 Poison_ 2,787 Conflagration-,_j._ 1,799 Burns -1. 8,318 Absorption of deleterious gas es __- 4,247 Drowning- 6,952 Firearms_ - - __ 2,561 Falls-13,070 Mining and quarrying_3,293 Machinery_ ._.1_ 3,002 Railroad and street car ,_13,762 Automobile __ __ __ __ 9,445 Other vehicles_ 2,797 Other accidents_11,719 Mr. Porter Urges Summary Ac tion Against Sims. Washington, June 15.-Represen ative Porter of Pennsylvania, chair man of the house committee on for eign affairs, personally protested to Secretary of the Navy Denby today regarding the utterances of Rear Ad miral William S. Sims in London. Mr. Porter urged Secretary Denby to take summary action against the naval officer's activities. "I wanted to see if there was not some way in which Admiral Sims' ut terances could be suppressed while we in congress try to maintain peAe at home," said Representative Por ter. "I don't see any way that congress can do anything. I called upon the secretary of my own accord and did not recommend any action. I made the general proposition to the secre tary that utterances of that character by an officer of his standing would hinder our foreign relations. "I called Secretary Denby's atten tion to the fact that this was Admiral Sims' third offense, and that I be lieved it was time something was done about it. "The foreign affairs committee has received many inquiries about Admir al Sims' statement. But these inquir ies did not cause me to go to see the naval secretary. I went to. the navy department because I believe the statements of Admiral Sims were in such devilish bad taste.. I simply ex pressed my personal opinion to Mr. Denby. "For instance, Admiral Sims said that he was pro-British and pro French. He ought to become pro American or resign his commission in the navy, especially since hg was born in Great Britain. "If these few indiscreet utterances af which we have heard are a fair ex ample of his opinions, he is not the proper man to have at the head of ihe naval war college." .Secretay Denby admitted that Representative Porter had brought jp the Sims question referring to the ?ffect of such speeches upon the gov ernment's effort in the maintenance >f international relations. However, ie insisted that the foreign affairs committee chairman has not presum id to point out any course of pro cedure. "Incidental to some other conver sation, Mr. Porter mentioned the 3ims matter to me, particularly with .eference to foreign relations, but I ;old him that in my consideration of he Sims case I was dealing only with i navy department problem," said' ;he secretary of the navy. Good Luck With the Good Worker. Farmers do not need special leg slation and patronage from the poli ticians as much as they need to do something for themselves. "Heaven lelp those who help themselves." The prosperous people in this world are Jie people who help themselves and ire wiling to help others who deserve t. There was a time in Biblical his ;ory when the manna of Heaven fell ind sustained the hungry. That day has passed never to return. It takes [abor to earn and a desire to render service for men to prosper these days. 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