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THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1919.
HIGH PRICES -UNJUSTIFIED, PRESIDENT DECLARES
WILSON GIVES
PLANS TO GUT
COSTOF LIVING
Urges More Stringent Legis
lation to Control Al
leged Profiteers in
Foodstuffs.
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them. I have sought this oppor
tunity to inform the congress what
the executive is doing by way of
remedy and control, and to suggest
where effective legal remedies are
lacking and may be supplid.
We must, I think, frankly admit
that there is no complete immediate
remedy to be had from legislation
and executive action. The free
processes of supply and demand
will not operate of themselves and
no legislative or executive action can
force them into full and natural op
eration until there is peace. There is
now neither peace nor war. All the
world is waiting with what unnerv
ing fears and haunting doubts, who
can adequately say? waiting to
know when it comes a peace in
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which each nation shall make ahift
for itself as it can, or a peace but
tressed and supported by the will
and concert of the nations that have
the purpose and power to do and to
enforce what is right Politically,
economically and socially the world
is on the operating table, and it has
not been possible to administer any
anesthetic. It is conscious. It even
watches the capital operation upon
which it knows that its hope of
healthful life depends. It cannot
think its business out or make plans
or give intelligent and provident di
rection to its affairs while in such a
case. Where there is no peace of
mind there can be no energy in en
deavor. There can be no confidence
in industry, no calculable basis for
credits, no confident buying or
systematic selling, no certain pros
pect of employment, no normal res
toration of business, no hopeful at
tempt at reconstruction or the prop
er reassembling of the dislocated
elements of enterprise until peace
has been established, and, so far as
may be guaranteed.
U. S. Least Affected by War.
Our national life has no doubt
been less radically disturbed and
dismembered than the national life
of other peoples whom the war more
directly affected, with all its terrible
ravaging and destructive force, but
it has been, nevertheless, profoundly
affected and disarranged, and our
industries, our credits, our produc
tive capacity, our economic pro
cesses are inextricably interwoven
with those of other nations and peo-ples-t-most
intimately of all with
the nations and peoples upon whom
the chief burden and confusion of
the war fell and who are now most
dependent upon the co-operative ac
tion of the world.
We are just now shipping more
goods out of our ports to - foreign
markets than we ever shipped be
fore not foodstuffs merely, but
stuffs and materials of every sort;
but this is no index of what our for
eign sales will continue to be or
of the effect the volume of our ex
ports will have cm supplies and
prices. It is impossible yet to pre
dict 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
farrriers get their accustomed crops
from their own fields; foreign mines
resume tneir 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 es
tablished and the nations of the
world have concerted the methods
by which normal life and industry
are to be restored. All that we shall
do, in the meantime, to restrain
profiteering and put the life of our
people upon a tolerable footing will
be makeshift and provisional. There
cart 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 business will in
evitably remain w 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.
vJSurope Depends on U. S.
Europe will not, cannot recoup its
capital or put jts restless, distracted
peoples "to work until it knows ex
actly where it stands in respect of
peace; and what we will do is for
it the chief question upon which
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its quietude of mind and confidence
of purpose depend. While there is
any possibility that th peace terms
may be changed or may 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 per
manent relief.
But what we can do we should do,
and should do at once. And there
is a great deal that we can do, pro
visional though it be. Wheat ship
ments 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 thai. W?
cannot deny wheat to foreign peo
ples who are in dire need of it, and
we do not wish to do so; but for
tunately, though the wheat crop is
not what we hoped it would be, it
is abundant, if handled with provi
dent care. The price of wheat is
lower in the United States than in
Europe, and can, with proper man
agement, be kept so.
Surplus Stocks Sold.
By way of immediate relief, sur
plus stocks of both food and cloth
ing 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 pre
vtntedj 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 wherevet
necessary; but as soon as the situa
tion is .systematically dealt with it
is not likely that the courts will often
have to be resorted to. Much of
the accumulating r( stocks has no
doubt been due to the sort of specu
lation which always results from un
certainty. Great surpluses were ac
cumulated because it was impossible
to foresee what the market would
disclose and dealers were deter
mined to be ready for whatever
might happen, as well as eager to
reap the full advantage of rising
prices. They will now see the dis
advantage, as well as the danger, of
holding off from the new process of
distribution.
Significant Facts Disclosed.
Some very interesting ahd sig
nificant facts with regard to stocks
on hand and the rise of prices in
the face of abundance have been dis
closed by the inquiries of the De
partment of Agriculture, the De
partment of Labor and the federal
trade commission. They seem to
justify the statement that in the
case of many necessary commodities
effective means have been found to
prevent the. normal operation of the
law of supply and demand. Disre
garding the surplus stocks in the
hands of the government, there
was a greater supply of foodstuffs
in this country on June 1 of this
year than at- the same date last
year. In the combined total of a
number of the most important foods
in dry and cold storage the excess
is quite 19 per cent. And yet pric.es
have risen. The supply of fresh
eggs on hand in June of this year,
for example, was greater by nearly
10 per cent than the supply on hand
at the- same time last year and yet
the wholesale price was 40 cents a
dozen, as against 30 cents a year
ago. The stock of frozen fowls had
increased more than 298 per cent,
and yet he price had risen also,
from 34 V2 cents per pound to
37 1-2 cents. The supaly of cream
ery butter had increased 129 per
cent, and the price from 41 cents to
S3 cents per pound. The supply of
salt beef had been augmented i per
cent and the price had gone up from
$34 a barrel to $36 a barrel. Canned
corn had increased in stock nearly
92 per cent and had remained sub
stantially the same in price. In a
few foodstuffs the prices had de
clined, but in nothing like the pro
portion in which the supply had in
creased. For example, the stock of
canned tomatoes had increased 102
per centKand yet the price had de
clined 25 cents per dozen cans. In
some cases there had been the
usual 'result of an increase of price
following a decrease of supply, but
in almost every instance the in
crease of price had been dispropor
tionate to the decrease in stock.
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Combinations Formed. .,
The attorney general has been
making a, careful study of the situa
tion as a whole and of the laws that
can be applied to better it, and is
convinced that under the stimula
tion and temptation of exceptional
circumstances combinations of pro
ducers and combinations of traders
have been formed for the control of
supplies and f prices which are clear
ly restraint of trade, and against
these prosecutions will be promptly
instituted and actively pushed which
will in all likelihood have a prompt
corrective effect. There is reason to
bel eve that the prices of leather, of
coal, of lumber and of textiles have
been materially affected by forms
of, concert and co-operation among
the producers and marketers of
these and other universally neces
sary commodities which it will be
possible to redress. . No watchful
or energetic effort will be spared to
accomplish this necessary result. I
trust that there will not be many
cases in which prosecution will be
necessary. Public action will no
doubt cause many who have, per
haps, unwittingly adopted illegal
methods to abandon them promptly
and of their own motion.
Publicity Can Accomplish Much.
And publicity can accomplish a
great deal. The purchaser can often
take care of himself if he knows
the facts and influences he is deal
ing with; and purchasers are not
disinclined to do anything, either
singly or collectively, that may be
necessary for their self-protection.
The Department of Commerce, the
Department of Agriculture, the De
partment of Labor, and the federal
trade commission can do a great
deal toward supplying the public,
systematically and at short jinter
vals, with information regarding
the actual supply of particular com
modities that is in existence and
available, with regard to supplies
which are in existence but not avail
able because of hoarding, and with
regard to the methods of price fix
ing which are being used by deal
ers in certain foodstuffs and" other
necessaries. There can be little
doubt that retailer! are in part
sometimes in large part respon
sible for exorbitant prices; and it is
quite practicable for the govern
ment, through the agencies I have
mentioned, to supply the public with
full information as to the prices at
which retailers buy and as to the
costs of transportation they pay, in
order that it may be known just
what margin of profit they are de
manding. Opinion and concerted
action on the part of purchasers can
probably do the rest
That is, these agencies may per
form this indispensable service pro
vided the congress will supply them
with the necessary funds to prose
cute their inquiries and keep their
price lists up to date. Hitherto the
appropriation committees of the
houses have not always, I fear, seen
the full value of these inquiries, and
the departments and commissions
have been very much straitened,
for means to render this service.
That adequate funds be provided by
appropriation for this purpose, and
provided as promptly as possible, is
one of the means of greatly amelior-J
auiig me jicsciii uiscrcssing conui-
tions of livelihood that I have come
to urge, in this attempt to concert
with you the best ways to serve the
country in this emergency. It is
one of the absolutely necessary
means, underlying many others, and
can be supplied at once.
Many Other Ways.
There are many other ways. Ex
isting law is inadequate. There are
many perfectly legitimate methods
by which the government can exer
cise restraint and guidance.
Let me urge, in the first place, that
the present food control act should
be extended both as to the period
of time during which it shall remain
in operation and as to the commodi
ties to which it shall apply. Its
provisions against hoarding should
he madeto apply not only to food,
but also' to foodstuffs, to fuel, to
clothing and to many other com
modities which are indisputably
necessaries of life. As it stands now
it is limited in operation to the
period of the war and becomes in
operative upon the formal proclama
tion of peace. But I should judge
that it was clearly within the consti
tutional power of the congress to
make similar permanent provisions
and regulations with regard to all
goods destined for interstate com
merce and to exclude them from in
terstate shipment if the require
ments of the law are not complied
with. S;ome such regulation is im
peratively necessary. The abuses
that have grown up in the manipu
lation of prices by the withholding
of foodstuffs and other necessaries
of life cannot otherwise be effective
ly prevented. There can be no doubt
of either the necessity or the legit
imacy of such measures. May I not
call attention to the fact, also, that,
although the present act prohibits
profiteering, the prohibition is ac
companied byyno penalty. It is
clearly in the public interest that a
penalty should be provided that will
be persuasive.
Would Regulate Cold Storage.
To the same end I earnestly
recommend, in the second place,
that the congress pass a law regu
lating cold storage as it is regulated,
tor example, by the laws of the state
of New Jersey, which limit the time
during which goods may be kept in
storage, prescribe the methods of
disposing of them if kept beyond
the permitted period and require
that goods released from storage
shall in all cases bear the date of
their receipt. It would materially
add to the serviceability of the law,
for the purpose we now have in
view, if it were also prescribed that
all goods released from storage for
interstate shipment should have
plainly marked upon each package
the selling or market price at which
they went x into storage. By this
means the purchaser would always
be able to learn what profits stood
between him and the producer or the
wholesale dealer.
It would serve as a useful example
to the other communities of this
country, as well as greatly relieve
local distress, if the congress were
to regulate all such matters very
fu'.ly for the District of Columbia,
where its legislative authority is
without limit.
I would also recommend that it
be required that all goods destined
for interstate commerce should in
every case where their form or pack
age makes it possible be plainly
marked with the price at which
they left the hands of the producer.
Such requirement would bear a close
analogy to certain provisions of the
pure food act, by which it is required
that certain detailed information be
given on the labels of packages of
food and drugs.
Need Not Hesitate.
And it does not seem to me that
we can confine ourselves to detailed
measures of this kind, if it is indeed
our purpose to assume national con
trol of the processes of distribution.
I take it for granted that that is
our purpose and our duty. Nothing
less will suffice. We need not hesi
tate to handle a national question
in a national way. We should go
beyond, the measures I have sug
gested. ' We should formulate a law
requiring a federal license of all
corporations engaged in interstate
commerce and embodying in the
license, or in the conditions under
which it is to be issued, specific reg
ulations designed to secure com
petitive selling and prevent uncon
scionable profits in the methods of
marketing. Such a law would af
ford a welcome opportunity to ef
fect other much needed reforms in
the business of interstate shipment
and in the methods of corporations
which are engaged in it; but for the
moment I confine my recommenda
tions to the object immediately in
hand, which is to lower the cost of
living.
May I not add that there is a bill
now pending before the congress
which, if passed, would do much to
stop speculation and to prevent the
fraudulent methods of promotion
byN which our people are annually
fleeced of many millions of hard
earned money. I refer to the meas
ure proposed by the capital issues
committee for the control of secur
ity issues. It is a measure formu
lated by men who know the actual
conditions of business, and its adop
tion would serve a great and bene
ficent purpose.
Proceed with Confidence.
We are dealing, gentlemen of the
congress, I need hardly say, with
very critical and very difficult mat
ters. We should go forward with
confidence along the road we see,
but we should also seek to compre
hend the whole' of the scene amidst
which we act. There is no ground
for some of the fearful forecasts I
hear uttered about me, but the con
dition of the world is unquestiona
bly very grave, and we should face
it comprehendingly. The situation
of our own country is exceptionally
fortunate. We, of all peoples, can
afford to keep our heads and to de
termine upon moderate and sensible
courses of action which will insure
us against the passions and distem
pers which are working such deep
unhappiness for some of the dis
tressed nations on the other side
of the sea. But we may be involved
in their distresses unlesswe help,
and help with energy and intelli
gence. The world must pay for the ap
palling destruction wrought by the
great war and we are part of the
world. We must pay our share.
For five years now the industry of
all Europe has been slack and dis
ordered. .The normal crops have
not been produced; the normal
quantity of manufactured goods has
not been turned out. Not until
there are the usual crops and the
usual production of manufactured
goods on the other side of the At
lantic can Europe return to the
former conditions; and it was upon
the former conditions, not the pres
ent, that our economic relations with
Europe .were built up. We must
face the fact that unless we .help
Europe to get back to her normal
life and production a chaos will
ensue there which will inevitably be
communicated to this country.
Must Quicken Production.
For the present, it is manifest,
we must quieken, not slacken our
own production. We, and we almost
alone, now hold the world steady.
Upon our steadfastness and self
possession depend the affairs of na
tions everywhere. It is in this su
preme crisis this crisis for all
mankind that America must prove
her mettle. In the presence of a
world confused, distracted, she
must show herself self-possessed,
self-contained, capable of sober and
effective action. It szrved Europe
by its action in arms; it must now
save it by its action in peace, in
saving Europe' it will save itself as
it did upon the battlefields of the
war. The calmness and capacity
with which it deals with and mas
ters the problems of peace will be
the final test and proof ot its place
among the peoples of the world.
And, if only in our own interest,
we must help the people overseas
Europe is our biggest customer. We
must keep it going or thousands
of our shops and scores of our mines
must close. There is no such thing
as letting it go to ruin without
ourselves sharing in the disaster.
In such circumstances, face to face
with such tests, passion must be dis
carded. Passion and a disregard for
the rights of others have no place in
the counsels of a free people. We
need light, not heat, in these solemn
times of self-determination and sav
ing action. There must be no
threats. ,Let there be only intelli
gent counsel and let the best reasons
win, not the strongest brute force.
The world has just destroyed the
arbitrary force of a military junta.
It will live under no other. All that
is arbitrary and Coercive is in the dis
card. Those who seek to employ it
only prepare their own destruction.
Self-Control Present.
SVe cannot v hastily and over
night revolutionize all the processes
of our economic life. We shall not
attempt to do so. These are days
of deep excitement and of extrava
gant speech, but with us these are
things of the surface. Everyone
who is in real touch with the silent
masses of our great people knows
that the old strong fiber and steady
self-control are still there, firmt
against violence or any distempered
action that would throw their affairs
into confusion. I am serenely con
fident that they will readily find
themselves no matter what the cir
cumstances, and that they will ad
dress themselves to the tasks of
peace with the same devotion and
the same stalwart preference for
what is right that they displayed to
the admiration of the whole world
in the midst of the war.
And I enter . another confident
hope. I have spoken today chiefly
of measures of imperative regulation
and legal compulsion, of prosecu
tions and the sharp correction of
selfish processes; and these, no
doubt, are necessary. But there are
other forces that we may count on
besides those resident in the Depart
ment of Justice. We have just fully
awakened to what has been going on
and to the charges, many of them
very selfish and sinister, that have
been producing high prices and im
posing an intolerable burden on the
mass of our people. To have
brought it all into the open will ac
complish the greater -part of the re
sult we seek. I appeal with entire
confidence to our producers, our
middle men and our merchants to
deal fairly with the people. It is
their opportunity to show that they
comprehend, that they intend to act
justly, and that they have the pub
lic interest sincerely at heart. And
I have no doubt that housekeepers
all over the country and every one
who buys the things he daily Stands
in need of will presently exercise a
greater vigilance, a more thoughtful
economy, a more discriminating care
as to the market in which he buys or
the merchant with whom he trades
than he has hitherto exercised.
Strikes Do Harm.
I believe; too, that the more ex
treme leaders of organized labor will
presently yield to a sober second
thought and like the great mass of
their associates, think and.,act like
true Americans. They will see that
strikes undertaken at this critical
time are certain to make mat
ters worse, not better worse
for them and for everybody
else. The worst thing, the most
fatal thing that can be done now
is to stop or interrupt production or
to interfere with the distribution
of goods by the railways and the
shipping of the country. We are
all involved in the distressing re
sults of the high cost of living and
we must unite, not divide, to cor
rect it. There are many things that
ought to be corrected in the rela
tions between capital and labor, in
respect of wages and conditions of
labor and other things even more
far-reaching, and I, for one, am
ready to go into conference about
these matters with any group of my
fellow countrymen who know what
they are talking about and are will
ing to remedy existing conditions
by frank counsel rather than by
violent contest. No remedy is pos
sible while men are in a temper
and there can be no settlement
which does not have as its motive
and standard the general interest.
Threats and undue insistence upon
the interest of a single class make
settlement impossible. I believe, as
I have hitherto had occasion to say
to the congress, that the industry
and life of our people and of the
world will suffer irreparable dam
age if employers and workmen are
to go on in a perpetual contest, as
antagonists. They must, on one
plane or another, be effectively as
sociated. Have we not steadiness
and self-possession and business
sense enough to work out that re
sult? Undoubtedly we have, and we
shall work it out. In the meantime
now and in the days of readjust
ment and recuperation that are
ahead of us let us resort more and
more to frank and intimate coun
sel and make ourselves a great and
triumphant nation, both making
ourselves a united force in the life
of the world. It will not then have
looked to us for leadership in vain.
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of Value-Giving Furniture
eliminates many qf the acute spots in the high cost of
living. A moderate amount of money judiciously spent
for furniture at Bowen's, will furnish your home to your
entire satisfaction.
Study Each and Every One
of These Furniture Values
It means more than simply buying furniture; it means prac
tical economy in furnishing the home.
Cat Leg Tables in both
Walnut and Mahogany,
William and Mary de
sign $24.50
Serving Tables in Walnut,
Mahogany and Oak,
$31.00. $24.50
and $22.50
Tea Carts in Walnut, Ma
hogany, Oak and Reed,
glass top trays, sub
stantially made and
well finished, $24.50,
$18.00, $12.00
and $9.00
Bowen's Buffet Values
are exceptionally good. Be sure to see them at the
store selling Value-Giving Furniture:
Walnut Buffets, Queen .nn design, highly finished and pol
ished $65.00
Mahogany Buffets, Adam design. These Buffets exemplify the
best of the craftsman's art beautifully finished and polished,
at $75.00
Fumed Oak Buffets, Wil
liam and Mary design,
at $39.50
Fumed Oak .Buffets,
Queen Anne design,
at $35.00
China Cabinets in Mahog
anyvnd Walnut, splen
didly finished and pol
ished, William and
Mary design, $42.50
and $39.50
Dining Room Tables
of exceptional beauty in construction and finish at
Bowen's. All woods, all finishes; all right. See dis
play on third floor.
Golden Oak Extension Tables,
42-inch top $14.50
Fumed Oak Dining Tables,
42-inch top $16.50
Golden Oak Dining Tables,
48-inch top, 6-ft. extension,
at $33.00
Jacobean Finished Dining
Tables, William and Mary
design, 54-inch top, 6-ft. ex
tension, for $32.50
Mahogany Dining Tables, 54
inch top $39.70
Dining Room Chairs Different designs and finishes, $2.50,
$4.25, $6.25, $7.50 and up.
Big Values in Linoleum
Remnants Offered You Saturday at the Greater Bowen Store
Odd pieces priced from
50c Per Piece
and up '
Both Printed and Inlaid Lin
oleum pieces in sizes from a
square yard to pieces 6x12 feet.
If you need any Linoleum, buy
Saturday at Bowen's.
Articles to be Placed on Your Shopping
List--Bowen's Prices Make This Possible
Electric Irons
Don't iron any longer with the
old-fashioned Sad Iron. Get
an Electric Iron and you will
find the work dane easier and
far quicker. Bowen's Value
Giving price enables every
body to have one. Get one
Saturday 2 Q(J
Fumed Oak
Foot Stools
This small, though useful article-should
be in every home.
Has imitation leather seat and
the Bowen Value-Giv- IP-
ing price is only .T'iJC
Xhe first time you are down
town shopping come to the
Btore and get one. No deliv
ery at this price.
Flower Logs
With chains ready to hanr on th
porch or sun parlor. Logs pa mm
like Illustration, only ... JjJjQ
Brooms
Full size well made
dies Bowen Value
Givins price, only. . . .
strong nan-
35c
Coca Mats
Fine for the porch or automobile.
Several hundred just received in a
great number of different size.
Coca Mats size 16x24 in.... $1.25
Coca Mats size 18x30 in....$1.7S
Ironing Boards
Made of seasoned lumber full six
smooth finish. Bowen Value-
uivinn
price
$1.25
Adjustable
Porch Gates
For the little child's protection.
These gates are in natural finish
and well constructed. Two sizes,
priced at
$1.25 "$1.75
Aluminum
Roasters
If you want a Value-Giving Alum
inum Roaster, then buy at the
Bowen price
of 4.
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$2.95
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1313-13 HOWARD ST.
On How ai d. Between IStb and lth Street
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