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ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT ON HIGH COST OF LIVING; i | Places Several Proposals Before Congress.?He Expresses Opinion That Results Can Not Be Expected Now. t Washington, Aug.?President Wil- j 8011 laid several specific proposals be-; fore congress today for checkng the j high cost of living, but at the same \ time declared permanent results! could not be expected until peace times bases were fully restored by Tatification of the peace treaty. High prices, the president told congress, were not justified by shortage of supply, either pre-^nt or prospective, but were created in many cases ""artificially and deliberately" by; "vicious practices." Retailers, he' said, were responsible in large part j lor extortionate prices. < Strikes, the president warned the i labor world, would only make matters j worse and those \vh-> sought to em-1 ploy threats or coercion were only j ''preparing their own destruction." i Leaders of organized labor, the pres-! ident said, he was sure would present- j v ly yield to second sober thought. ' Illegal" and "criminal" were the j words the president used in charac- j terizing the methods by which some ; present day prices have been brought j about. Present laws, he said, would be en-j oforotiVnllv pTvsnlnved to the limit to : VAJjV-VWV...^ ~ r - ~ -- force out food hoards, and meet the J situation so far as possible, but to j supplement the existing statutes he J specifically urged the following. Use of Licenses. Licensing of all corporations engaged in interstate commerce, with specific regulations designed to se-' cure competitive selling and prevent j "unconscionable profits" in the method of marketing. Extension of the food control act to peace times an,d the applications j. of its provisions against hoarding to fuel, clothing and other necessities j. of life as well as food. J j A penalty in the food control act; for profiteering. j' A law regulating cold storage, lim-1, iting the time during which goods j may be held; prescribing a method of I' ' disposing of them if held beyond the , permitted period and requiring that ^ when released goods bear the date of storage. * ? ?j. 1- j ' Laws requiring mat guuua icicmcu i from storage for interstate commerce ', 3bear the selling prices at which they J went into storage and requiring that; ^ call goods destined for interstate com- j imerce bear the prices at which they j. 3eft the hands of the producer. Enactment of the pending bill for ; the control of security issues. Additional appropriations for gov- ?1 ernment agencies which can supply 1 the.public with full information as to ' prices which retailers buy. j' Early ratification of the peace ( treaty so that the "free processes of .supply and demand" can operate. i Steps to be Taken. J ' ^ * 4 "Immediate steps by executive agen- * cies of the government promised by ^ the president included: ^ i. The limiting and controlling of ^ wheat shipments and credits to facili- j tate the purchase of wheat in such a j way as not to raise but rather to , lower the price of flour at home. j Sale of surplus stock of goods and 5 ?ifViVio-nrlc n-T t.Vip crrwern ' . 111 tllV 11U11UU VA V?< w t ment. The forced withdrawal from stoiage and sale of surplus stocks in . private hands. General recommendations include: Increase of production. 1 -"Careful buying by housewives. ' 'y 'Tair dealing with the people on the ' part of producers, middlemen and merchants. 1 That there be no threats and undue insistence upon the interest of single ^ ] classes. ! Correction of "many things" in the i relation between capital and labor in ] respect to wages and conditions of 1 labor. 1 I i in concluding the president made a plea for deliberate, intelligent action, j1 reminding congress that an unbal- ' anced world was looking to the ] United States. "We and we almost alone," he said, ' "now' hold the world steady. Upon ^ , our steadfastness and self posses- _ sion depend the affairs of nations everywhere. It is in this supreme crisis?this crisis for all mankind? .that America must prove her metal." i' rrites iiui The text of the president's address follows; | \] ^Gentlemen of the Congress: I have sought this opportunit to address you because it is clearly my; *duty to call your attention to the ! Mr. Vaughan, Farmer, Tells How Hei. Lost All His Prize Seed Corn. j "Sometime ago sent away for some pedigreed seed corn. Put it in! a gunney sack and hung it on a rope j suspended from roof. Rats got it all', ?how beats me, but they did because I got 5 dead whoppers m the morning after trying RAT-SNAP." Three , sizes, 25c, 50c, $1.00. Sold and ( guaranteed by Newberry Hardware Co., and Gilder & Weeks Co. present cost of living and to urge upon you with all the persuasive force of which I am capable the legislative measures which would be most effective in controlling it. and bring ing it down. The prices tne people of this country are paying for everything that it is necessary for them to use in order to live are not justified by a shortage in supply, either present or prospective, and are in many cases artificially and deliberately; created by vicious practices which | ought immediately to be checked by j law. They constitute a burden upon | us which is the more unbearable be-1 cause we know that it is wilfully im- j posed by those who have the power! ot?/^ thot if r>Q-n hv vicnrnna ! action be greatly lightened and made I to square with the actual conditions! of supply and demand. Some of the methods by which these prices are produced are already illegal, some j of them criminal, and those who em- j ploy them will be energetically pro- j ceeded against; but others have not yet been brought under the law, and j should be dealt with at once by leg- j isl-ation. i I need not recite the particulars of this critical matter; the prices demanded and paid at the sources of i of +V10 -fopfnrv in t.ViP "food j c* V bliv xwwvfc j j ? . market, at the shops, in the restau- j rants and hotels, alike in the city and in the village. They are familiar to \ you. They are the talk of every do- j mestic circle and of every group of: casual acquaintances even. It is. matter of familiar knowledge, also,! that a process has set in which is like-! ly, unless something is done, to push ! * J 1 - 1- - 1 - i. ! prices and renis ana xne wnoie cust. of living higher and yet higher, in a ; vicious style to which there is no logi- | cal or natural end. With the in-1 crease in the price of the necessaries of life come demands for increase in , wages?demands which are justified ' if there he no other means of enableing men to live. Upon the increase there follows close an increase in the ; price of products whose producers! have been accorded the increase?not j a proportionate increase, for the man- j "w nrtf pnnf.pnt. himself UWC AiVW VV?*?vuv svith that, but an increase consider- j ably greater than the added wage j cost and for which added wage cost' is oftimes more than an excuse. The j laborers who do not get an increase' in pay when they demand it are likely ' to strike and to strike only makes \ matters worse. It checks the railways it prevents distribution and strips the markets, so that there is presently nothing to buy, and there js another excessive addition to prices'resulting from the scarcity. Work of Executive. ?% ? AT/?AC TlTlfV) 1 HCdC <L 1C iatuo anu ivivvm ?? av4* which we have become only too familiar; but we are not justified be-j :ause of our familiarity with them or because of any hasty and shallow conclusion that they are "natural" and inevitable in sitting inactively by and letting them work their fatal results if there is anything that we can 3o to check, correct, or reverse them. # I [ have sought ?,his opportunity to in- 1 form the congress what the executive :s doing by way of remedy and con- j ;rol and to suggest where effective egal remedies are lacking and may 3e supplied. We must, I think, frankly admit ;hat there is no complete immediate *emedy to be had from legislation ind executive action. The free pro-' .'esses of supply and demand will not >perate of themselves and no legislate or executive action can force i hem into full and natural operation intil there is peace. There is now leither peace nor war. All the world s waiting?with, what unnerving 'ears and haunting doubts who can idequately say??waiting to know vhen it shall have peace and what dnd of peace it will be when it comes ?a peace in which each nation shall nake shift for itself as it can, or a 3eace buttressed and supported by ;he will and concert of the nations ;hat have the purpose and the power to do and to enforce what is right. Politically, economically, socially the svorld is on the operating table, and it has not been possible to administer my anaesthetic. It is conscious. It aven watches the capital operation under which it knows that its hope of healthful life depends. It can not think its business out or make plans or give intelligent and provident direction to its affairs while in such a case. Where there is no peace of mind there can be no energy in en-' TVior<? can he no confidence UCaYUi. AAAV4.V in industry, no calculable basis for j credits, nor confident buying or sys- 5 tematic selling, no certain prospect of ' employment, no normal restoration! of business, no hopeful attempt at1 reconstruction or the proper reasem-! bling of the dislocated elements of enterprise until peace has been established and, so far as may be, guaranteed. Great Change Comes. li-fo Vine no doubt UUI llettiunai nxv *A??W _ been less radically disturbed and dis-' membered than the national life of other peoples whom the war more directly affected, with all its terrible ravaging and destructive forces, but it has been, nevertheless, profoundly affected and diarranged and our in dustries, our credits, our productive ' capacity, our economic processes an inextricably interwoven with those of nations and peoples?most inti | mately of all with the nations anc peoples upon whom the chief burder and confusion of the war fell anc I who are now most dependent upor ! the cooperative action ol the world [ We are just now shipping more goods out of our ports to foreigr markets than we ever shipped before ?not foodstuffs merely, but stuffs and materials of every sort; but this is no index of what our foreign sales will continue to be or of the effect the volume of our exports will have on supplies and prices. It is impossible yet to predict how far or how long foreign purchasers will be able to find the money or the credit to pay for or sustain such purchases on such a scale; how soon or to what extent foreign manufacturers can resume their former production, foreign farmers get their accustomed crops from their own fields, foreign mines resume their former output, foreign merchants set up again their old machinery of trade with the ends of the earth. All these things must remain uncertain until peace is established and the nations of the world have concerted the methods by which normal life and industry are to be reA 11 fUof ttrq cV>oll a in oLUICU. All tJiai/ vy ^ onuxi uuj 111 wiiv meantime, to restrain profiteering and put the life of our people upon a tolerable footing will be make-shift and provisional. There can be no settled conditions here or elsewhere until the treaty of peace is out' of the way and the work of liquidating the war has become the chief concern of our government and of the other governments of the world. Until then * *ii business win mevnaDiy remain speculative and sway now this way and again that, with heavy losses or heavy gains as it may chance, and the consumer must take care of both the gains and the losses. There can be no peace prices so long as our whole financial and economic system is on a war basis. Indecision in Europe. Europe will not, can not recoup her capital or put her restless, distracted peoples to work until she knows exactly where she stands in respect of peace; and what we will do -- 4-Via nnoofinn nnnn 13 1UI tin U1C Llli^x v^uwovivu u|/v?4 which quietude of mind and confidence of purpose depend. While there is any possibility that the peace terms may be changed or many be held long in abeyance or may not be enforced because of divisions of opinion among the powers associated against Germany, it is idle to look for permanent relief. But what we can do we should do and should do at once. And there is a great deal that we can do, provis ional thought it be. Wheat shipments and credits to facilitate the purchase of our wheat can and will be limited and controlled in such a way as not to raise but rather to lower the price of flour here. The government has the power, within certain limits, to regulate that. We can not deny wheat to foreign peoples who are in dire need of it, and we do not wish to do so; but, fortunately, though the wheat crop is not what we hoped it would be, it is abundant if handled with provident care. The price of wheat is lower in the United States than in Europe, and can with proper management be kept so. By way of immediate relief, surplus stocks of both food and clothing in the hands of the government will be sold, and of course, sold at prices at which there is no profit. And by way of a more permanent correction of prices surplus stocks in private hands will be drawn out of storage and put upon the market. Fortunately, under the terms of the food control act the hoarding of foodstuffs can be checked and prevented; and they will be, with the greatest energy. Foodstuffs can be drawn out of storage and sold by legal action which the department of justice will institute wherever necessary; but so soon as the situation is systematically dealt with it is not likely that the courts will often ,have to be restored to. Much of the accumulating of Vioo T-i/-Irnihf- hppn nne t.o the OtVV. AO liuo 11 w v* vv* w wv. - ? sort of speculation which always results from uncertainty. Great surpluses were accumlated because it was impossible to foresee what the market would disclose and dealers were determined to be ready for whatever might happen, as well as eager to reap the full advantage of *? ? nnu ? nnnr cna rising prices, xucy win uuw occ mc disadvantage, as well as the danger of holding off from the new process of distribution. Stocks and Prices. 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