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PAGE TWO . Rise In living Costs Appears Near Advancing Costs Seem Near As Ex penditures for the Defense Pro gram Mount Washington, July 26.—Sitting on the price lid grows tig'hter. The government started early in this war to thwart the' return of the hated monster of World war No. 1 days, old H. C. L.—high cost of liv ing. Latest statistics indicate that what it takes for the average man’s bread, board and normal require ments has not increased drastically— not yet. But food easts alone have taken a pronounced jump since spring; sensitive raw material prices gen erally, despite government pressure against individual items like steel and copper, have leaped upward, and government officials are freely pre dicting that from now on, drastic measues will be necessary. Figures Hard to Set Cost of living figures, statisti cians admit, are pretty sketchy, be cause conditions very widely in differ ent localities, and requirements of persons in different walks of life dif fer sharply. The most recent figure, the cost of living index for wage earners is sued by the national industrial conf erence board in New York, a private resealch organization which began to study such problems in the late World war period, shows for June a rise of i 1.3 per cent over May, and a gain of ! nearly 5.4 per cent since August, 1939, or since the World War No. 2 ; started. j Actually this brings the cost of what it takes for board and shelter and other essential items only back to where they were in 1937. It only cancels the slump from 1937 to 1939. Furthermore, it still leaves the cost of living a good 11 per cent under which it was in tre supposed palmy days of 1929. What is more, government statis ticians estimate that factory pay rolls, the whole national income, for that matter, is running at rates very substantially in excess of 1929. The national income is said to be running at an annual rate of about $86,000,- 000,000, some five per cent higher than in 1929. Of course, the popu lation has increased a bit more than that, but when ft is considered that a dollar earned will still but much more than in 1929, the comparison with trat year is scarcely black, even if prices rise some farther. Food Prices Up Food costs have set the upward trend recently, as it is shown in the charts and figures of the U. S. Bur eau of labor “'statistics. The latest bureau report of food market from midMay to mid-June said that food costs had advanced! 10.4 per cent in seven months and that the general level was 13.3 per cent above the level for August, 1939. Trere was a flurry of retail buying in the first month of the war that hiked the retail cost of food. House wives, mindful of the pice rises in the first World war, rushed out to buy certain table items. But the in crease was short-lived. The cost of living level, including food, dropped during the fall of ’39, but turned slightly upward again early in 1940. From then on through the first quarter of 1941 the cost of living fluctuated within narrow lim its. Defense and Rents An upward trend became more noticeable in the late winter and spiring of 1941, especially in food, al though rents in some places boundi- ed upward with the influx of workers for defense manufacturing and con struction. Last spring food prices began to move faster and from March to May jumped 3 1-2 per cent. In that per iod the general level of rents moved up less than one per cent, housing furnishings about 1 1-2 per cent and clothing about 0.5 per cent. Wholesale price advances for food —regarded as the most important item in the wage-earner’s budget— are being increasingly reflected in the retail markets. The retail price of eggs on the basis of reports from fifty-six cities increased 10.7 per cent from mid-June and was 34 per cent higher than in June, 1940. Index Shows Climb Pork chops advanced 9.1 per cent in the month and 30.3 per cent in the year. Coffee gained 3.2 per cent for the month and 7.5 for the year, utterwas up 1.9 from May to June and 25 per cent over June, 1940. Round steak advanced 1.1 for the month and 5.3 during the year. Po tatoes were up 31.8 per cent from May to June which was party sea sonal and partly due to smaller sup plies. The bureau of labor statistics cost of living index adjusted in relation to the average of 1935-39 prices as a base of 100 shows that living costs in 1923 and 1929 stood slightly above 122. By June 1933, the figrure hit bot tom at 90.8; climbed to 104.3 in Sep tember, 1937, fell off to 98.6 in June, 1939, and climbed up gradually dur ing the subsequent war months until it reached 102.9 last May. It has not yet been issued for June. At the 102.9 level, the cost of food was 22.2 per cent below what it was in June, 1929; clothing 11 per cent; Thinking of BUILDING Or REMODELING? % If You Are, Then You Will Want To Use ATHEY’S Paint If you are remodeling the old home, you will want to clean up and brighten up with a fresh coat of paint. Come to see us for Athey’s Paint We alto have a complete stock of paint brushes, builders hardware and tools. Hot Point Electric Stoves Wear-Ever Aluminum Ware Washing Machines Electric Refrigerators CALL ON US BEFORE BUILDING R. IH Lominack Hdw. 1409 Main Street Phone 13 LITTLE MOMENTS IN BIG LIVES Kessler WaRUTUERFORD EX-PmOPOT OF m RUBBER' WOCIATIOM OF AMERICA. STARTED ROUlWG DEWER. Pipep iio Akron, oma THE NEWBERKY SUV All Phases American Life To Be Affected By Trade Ban Washington, July 26.—The punch landed in Japan’s trade basket by the United States is liable to jar the American girl all the way from her silk stocking's to her hair curlers. Even the ardent patriots who al ready avoid American flags made in Japan, don’t drink green tea and wear cotton or nykm stockings are due for a shock with this government refus ing to let Japanese money out of Jap anese goods into this country any more. From a survey of government sources tonight showed everything from the tuna fish sandwich to sew ing machines, roach powder, sun glasses, toys, Ohristenas tree lights and ornaments, kewpie dolls and mink coats, are American blessings which are aplt to come with a Japanese trade mark. Putting the Japanese beyond the pale will not be as hard to take for America, however, as it would have been a few years ago. A moral em bargo has been effectively levied by many United States consumers who | have refused to buy Japanese goods and the ingenuity and industry of American manufacturers have dupli cated much of the imports ait com parably low prices and given the buyer superior quality and work manship, as well. Imports Take Drop Japanese imports, generally speak ing have dropped off noticeably dur ing the past few years because of the anti-Japanese sentiment and the improved mass manufacturing here. But there are many things which still cannot be made here—chief of which is silk. Nindty-five per cent of the silk imported to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars is supplied by Ja pan. All pyrethrum flowers, which make insect powders and sprays, "re shipped from Nippon and eigthy .ive per cent of those inexpensive ana 1 be loved sundries found in the five and ten and the comer drug store, until recently, at least, owned' their exist ence bo Japanese ingenuity. A vast supply of toys, dolls, And adored gimmicks are made in Japan. Ohinaware and porcelain as well as many of the housewives’ little help ers in the kitchen are likely to have come to her by way of Japan, now that Germany and Czechoslovakia are busy with something else. Cam phor and castor oil, from which low- yl sources come oils essential to cos- ettos, perfumes and medicine, have formerly been imported from Ger many, France and Spain as well as Japan; and if Japan can’t export them now American beauty and allure will have to alter itself accordingly. Japs Faster ion Feet Chinese may be clever, but the Japanese, judging from the endless list of imports, are faster on their feet in world trade. America is the only country where feminine millinery is not only chic but cheap and this distinction and de light to the ladies is due in no mean part to the Japanese hat forms im ported by tne thousands of dozens at a piddling price. Traders of Nippon ese also have taken as much as 5 per cent of all of American cotton, turn ed it into material and sold it back be us at prices which allow AmerTcans to be well dressed in infinitesimal clothes budgets. The American vogue for sunglasses was helped along because Japan made attractive ones at very low prices. In the field of twenty-five-cent sunglass es, Japanese products started without rival. Many of the miniature incan descent bulbs that light the path of automobiles, boy scouts and farmers and also shine from the Christmas tree are made in Japan. Cutting the trade ties between this country and Japan will have an ef fect ore manufacturers as well as the buying public here. When Japanese silk is gone with the war, synthetic and nylon silk will be used or such defense necessities as ammunition bags, and parachutes. Present manu facturing setup of these synthetics is not large enough to fill both de fense ad civilian orders and the cur rent shortage in certain textiles will be heightened to a point where many Americans may welcome hand-me- downs. Flatware is Cheapest Even as every American family owns or is in the process of owning a radio so does almost every home boast a few pieces of sbining silver ware. Even those with very small in comes have been able to brighten up life with a little silver in the past few years, because of the importation of extremely cheap tfnd effective silver plated bowls, vases, platters, and flatware from Japan. With careful handling the low priced Japanese sil ver plate gleams handsomely a long time and if not as durable as cheap est British and American counter part looks like it, which is more than half of the point. Sewing machines and-bicycle parts, pencil sharpeners, compasses, fancy tinned crabmeat, rice, inexpensive vegetable oils, lily-bulbs, linens, gloves and imitation velvet are just a few of the other hundreds of niceties imported from the land of the rising sun and sold in the land of the free or sensationally low prices. And let us not forget all the tea in Japan—which we import by the millions of pounds, artificial lowers, Obic “junk” jewelry, and all those thing® given proudly as bridge prizes and birthday presents which didn’t set the donor back much more than a dollar and looked like a five-spot rent 25.2 per cent; fuel, electricity and ice, 9.1 per cent and house fur nishings 7.9 per cent. The government’s cost of living index for Minneapolis, to take an in terior city, stood at 103.7 in May, as compared with the national average of 102.9. Since December, 1937, the Minneapolis index has been slightly higher than the national average. The bureau of labor statistics of fers a cross-section picture of the annual outlay which a four-person manual worker’s family must make in & year for the necessities of liv ing. VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL AND PEACHING MISSION AT MT. TABOR LUTHERAN CHURCH The Vacation Bible School and Preaching Mission of the Mt. Tabor Lutheran Church will be held from July 27 to August 3. The school will begin at seven-fifteen o’clock each evening with a brief devotional and song period. The study period will follow with classes for all ages. Those serving in the school as offi cers and teachers are: Prof. J. W. Ballentine, Otis Shealy, Benson Shealy, Lester Bowers, Rev. D. 'M. Shull; Mrs. Sara Lou Shealy, Mrs. Anna Shealy, Miss Mamie L. Shealy, Mrs. Ruth Counts, Mrs. Rosine Shea ly, Mrs. Hettie Lindler, Mrs. Mary Shull, Mrs. Wennie Boland, Miss Marie Shealy, Mrs. Rosabelle Shealy, Prof. Clyde Singley, W. D. Shealy, Prof. F. E. Metts, Franklin Mayer, Herman Kibler and Martha Mayer. Certificates will be awarded. At eight-thirty o’clock preaching services will begin. The Rev. J. Le Grande Mayer of Clinton will bring the messages. Pastor Mayer will use the following sermon themes: "The Christian and His Bible”, “The Christian and His Home”, "The Christian and His Church”, "The Christian and His Country”, "The Christian in Need of Prayer”. A question box will be held in connec tion with the service. All our members are urged to at tend every evening, visitors are most cordially invited. K)2JDEFENSE BUY UMTED STATES SAVINGS BONDS AND STAMPS ON NAIF AT WIR PUNT OFFICE OR HANK AMERICA ON GUARD! Above is a reproduction of the Treasury Dept i tment’s Defense Savings Poster, showing an exact duplication of the original "Minute Man” statue by famed sculptor Daniel Chester French. Defense Bonds and Stamps, on sale at your bank or post office, are a vital part of America’s defense preparations. SICMNERVOUS PDAUlfV“ EVERY 9 blfAHI\I MONTH” i Then Read;WHY Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Is Real “Woman's Friend”! 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