The AAA promises to keep the consumer posted
concerning future changes in retail food prices and
their relation to prices actually received by the
farmer. This information will be given out regularly
through the press and radio. Officials of the AAA
believe that its publication will help to hold retail
costs approximately in line with prices of raw
materials. In addition, the Government has power
to reduce tariffs on competing foreign food stuffs
by as much as 50 per cent, and this authority might
be used to advantage in some cases in the event
that widespread “profiteering" should actually de
velop.
It has also been suggested that the Government
invoke drastic licensing powers against distributers
charging "unnecessary high prices." But this is a
policy of doubtful wisdom. Any attempt to enforce
licensing provisions in the case of individual sellers
in thousands of food markets, each essentially local
in character, would seem certain to involve the
Government in complications compared with which
enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment would
seem simplicity itself.
How sad and sorrowful the fate
Of the defeated candidate!
But to the fellow who has won
How brightly shining is the sun!
— (Ohio State Journal.)
Of course, if shorts are more generally worn, our
golf courses may begin to look again a good deal
like the calf pastures they once were.—(Boston
Herald.)
“The desire for a new model explains much of
our private indebtedness,” says a critic. It also
.xplains most of the divorces— i Akron Beacon
Journal.)
European diplomacy is Just a game of putsch
;nd take.—(Boston Globe.)
r~
20 YEARS AGO
Prom The Empire
SEPTEMBER 8, 19X4.
