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AM i' AKA~ I, -rvRKIS 1TU!5%L.4D~ ci 0^P. 18 cents a packag Camels are sold everywhere a Sienotfially' sealed packages of3 ciigarettes; or ten packages (20 ctanrettes) in a glassine.papea covered carton. We strongly rev onmraend this carton for the hon oroflce supply or when you trave LABOR, CAPITAL AND PRICES (From the Springfield Republican) Labor Day this year is notable not only because it is a reminder of the unprecedakntel power of labor, organ ized to express itself collectively, but also because all economic classes are undergoing a process of education based on it remarkable economic ex perience. When the economic history of these times comes to be written August, 1919, may appear a turning point-of what sort only a prophet could now say. But at least high prices then reacnad their peak, if present evidences are to hold good, as the result of a governmental drive against them, initiated under the spur of labor union representations, yet coneur red in very generally by capital a.; a sound policy. The price level ItO Father may he or croquet base ball ai is a unit wi motor picn If you want t< a 8turdy fi' will mean ones-a < forms of r satisfactior America."' PAIGE-DETRO Carol ii 1 igar They Win You 1 o Your enjoyment of Camel because their refreshing f and mellowness is so entic never tasted such a cigar nated and there is a chee unpleasant cigaretty afte pleasant cigaretty odor I Camels are made of an e) Turkish and choice Dome; smooth and mild, but hav body and certainly hand generous measure. You v blend to either kind of toba Give Camels the compare them v the world at ai flavor, satisf how .libei Camels t] your taste. R. J. REYNO Winstc in August has fallen somewhat under the concerted attacks made upon it and this fact has probably done more than anything else to weaken the ten dency t' ward strikes. The President of the United States, as in.his Labor Day message, speaks with more influence in labor matters and the more conservative labor lead ers themselves are strengthened in their efforts to restrain the more rad ical labor groups. The past week has been conspicuous for such develop ments. The heads of the railroad shop unions have advised a waiting policy rather than walkouts and tie ups., The sporadic railroad strike in soutlhrn California was suppressed by the railroad brotherhoods cooperat ing with the government. Mr. Gom pers' latest, utterances indicate that his influence is, being thrown on the side of moderation. The disturbim of 7osI Beazdry id afin/mer altivates Family Spi partial to golf- Mother may pi the youngsters probab'ry go in Id "prisoner's base." 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C. fects upon general business of recent developments cannot be ignored, but the securities market late in the week reflected increased confidence by a sharp rise in railroad and industrial shares and by a considerable abate nient of the selling pressure in the bond market which has been notable for a month past. The threatened strike in the steel industry remains a (lark cloud on the industrial sky, how evr, and it is yet to be seen wether an accommodation can be brought about that will not result in an in dustrial setback. Capital is getting educated these days as much as labor. It has learned that a high-price movement sooner or later reaches a point where its own security is threatened by social and labor unrest. As Prof. Nicholson, the British economist, recently said in a lecture to London bankers: "A a rit efer tennis strong for Ltire family around and services of. lappens. It. your loved rfect of all e p ride and Eul Car in MICHIGAN nanv. -dangerocus to capital, anee It may, )rn social i eolduri it 1 t range of practlcal politis." This les son was 'Suddenly impressed on Amer ican capital last month, the lesson being dramatized for capital's benefit by the coincidence of the railroad brotherhoods' demand for railroad na tionalizatjon with their representatins to the President concerning wages and the, high cost of living. It is no far fetched conclusion that the fall in prices during August was partly clue tothe prompt recognition by the most powerful financial producing and1dis tributing interests that the upward price movement had reached. the ut most limit of safety. Capital in short, sees that a fall in prices is now .to its own advantage as well as to so ciety as a whole, and it now hesitates to raise prices even when technical market conditions might warrant them. As for labor, its education,, from current experience should not end with the discovery that it is useles3 to force higher wages if the higher wages are absorbed in a higher cost of living. It is more important to labor to get prides down than to get we.ges up. As a rule, economic his tory teaches that wage labor gains from falling prices and loses by ris ing prices, provided that the fall in prices is not attgnded by unemploy i ent. Even before the wvar prices had been rising for osme years and wagea had not risen in proportion to the rise in the prices. of the things labor most needs to live on. During the war and after,hvages in certain strategic lines where labor was strongly intrencherd for collective bargaining were forced up to profiteering levels but the mass of unorganized wage-earner sand sal aried people were cruelly pinched by the extreme cost of living. The real causes of the great rise in prices in war-time are now of vital interest, to labor, if labor's influence is to be used rightly in hastening the restora tion of normal conditions instead of being used to strengthen the forces of disintegration. One of the most essential things ahead of us is the increase of the pro duction of the necessaries of life, hence strikes are a calamity because they hinder production and increase prices., The Pennsylvania coal miners won't help the world along or labor in general by demanding at this time $ 60 ier cent increase, in wages and a six-hour (lay. The practice of thrift and saving is today an economic vir tue o' the value in all classcs. 'Thrift and saving force prod)ncti' out of unessential lines, and thus le duce the prices of the necessaries by making them more abundant; thrift and saving also increase the public's capacity to loan real money to , government and reduce the inC:iti which has attended the govern- ' financing of the war. The mt.et c' inflation hdis a direct bearing on hit ' piices, and labor canna: know :o' much about it for its own sake. There is a real price infation in this country, as there is in other coun tries, dlue to the enormous war bor rowings and expendlitures of the gov ernment. Thue government borrowed heavily by an extension of credit and it spent the moiney thlus borrowved at very high price levels for destruc tive purpposes. In his recent statement on inflation Governor Iharding, of the federal reserve board, recognized the truth in saying that the credit ex pansion, wvhich many identify as in flation because of its effect on prices, is measured by "the difference be tween the total of the wvar expendi tures of the government on one hand, and on the other the total amount raised by the government through tax ation and by the sale of its obligations so far as .paid for out of savings." And to remedy "the present situation" not only must we "produce and dlis tribute the largest possible volume of commodities" and "exercise reason able economies" in consumption, but also the government's "obligations, so ,far as they are carried by the banks must be absorbed" by the people out of actual earnings. We have also a greatly expanded currency, directly the result of the rise in prices, yet combing with credit inflation to maintain prices at a high level. Labor ought to see its owvn advan tage in reducing this inflation, which is more fundamentl than profiteering in keeping up prices, by insisting on nll possible curtailment of government expenditures, especially of borrowed money. In the next place, labor m~y fairly ask if a lower pice level may not be legitimately forced gradually, of course, by deflating the currency of the country. 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