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FAYETTEVILLE NEWS, FAYETTEVILLE. GEORGIA. Hi PRICES DECLARED 10 BE ARTIFICIAL President Addresses Congress on Subject of High Cost of Living. LAWS ARE NOT ADEQUATE Chief Executive Declares “Vicious Practices" Are Responsible for Perilous Situation Which Faces the Nation—Makes Impor tant Recommendations. Washington. — Addressing congress and proposing remedies to check the high tost of living. President Wilson decrarea tnat existing laws were Inade quate and that high prices were not Justified by shortage of supplies, pres ent or prospective, but were created In many’ cases ‘‘artificially and deliber ately” by “vicious practices." The president recommended that the food control act be extended to peace time operation and that congress exclude from interstate as well as Intrastate shipments goods which did not comply with its provisions. His address was as follows: Gentlemen of the Congress: I have sought this opportunity to ad dress you because It Is clearly my duty to call your attention to the present cost of living and to urge upon you with all the persuasive force of which 1 am capable the legislative measures which would be miost effective In controlling It and bring ing It down. The prices the people of this country are paying for everything that It is necessary tor 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 Imme diately to be checked by law. They constitute a burden upon us which iSs the more unbearable because we know that it is wilfully Imposed by those who Have the power and that it can by vigor ous public action be greatly lightened and made to square with the actual conditions of supply and demand. Profiteers Lawbreakers. Some of the methods by which these prices are produced are already Illegal, soma of them criminal, and those who employ them will be energetically pro ceeded against. But others have not yet been brought under the law, and should be dealt with at once by legislation. I need not recite the particulars of this critical matter; the prices demanded and paid at the sources of supply, at the fac tory, In the food markets, at the shops, in the restaurants and hotels, alike in the city and in the village. They are familiar to you. They are the talk of every domestic circle and of every group of casual acquaintances even. It Is a. matter of familiar knowledge also, that a process has set In which Is likely, unless something is done, to push prices and rents and the whole cost of living higher and yet higher, in a vicious cycle to which there is no logical or natural end. With the Increase In the prices of the -necessaries of life come demands for in creases in wages—demands which are justified if there be no other means of enabling men to live. Upon the increase of wages there fol lows close an Increase in the price of the products whose producers have been nc- •c.orded the Increase—not a proportionate Increase, for the manufacturer does not concent himself with that, but an In crease considerably greater than the added wage cost and for which the added wage cost Is oftentimes hardly more than .an excuse. The laborers who do not get an Increase In pay when they demand It are likely ft® strike, and the strike only makes mat ters worse. It checks production; if It affects the railways It prevents distribution and strips the markets; so that there is pres ently nothing to buy, and there Is another excessive addition to prices resulting from the scarcity. Conditions Not “Natural.” 'These are facts and forces with which we have become only too familiar; but we are not justified because of our famil iarity with them or because of any hasty and shallow conclusion that they are ■"natural” and Inevitable, In sitting inac tively by and letting them work their fa tal results If there is anything that we can do to check, correct or reverse them. 1 have sought this opportunity to in form 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 supplied. 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 Corce them into full and natural operation until there Is peace. "There Is now neither peace nor war. All the world it waiting—with what un nerving fears and haunting doubts who can adequately say?-waiting to know ■when it shall have peace and what kind of peace It will be when it comes—a peace 3n which a nation shall make shift for itself as it can, or a peace buttressed and supported by the will and concert of the nations that have the purpose and the power to do and to enforce what is right. Politically, economically, socially, the world Is on the operating table, and It has s»t been possible to administer any anaes thetic. It is conscious. It even watches (the capital operation upon which it knows that Its hopes 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. Wheve there is no peace of mind; there csui be no energy in endeavor. Must Know Terms of Peace. There can be no confidence in Indus try, no calculable basis for credits, no confident buying of systematic selling, wo certain prospect of employment, no normal restoration of business, no hopeful attempt at reconstruction or a proper reassembling of the dislocated cements of enterprise until peace has been established, and. so far as may be. guaranteed. Our national life has no ejoubt been less radically disturbed and dismembered than the national life of other peoples whom the war more di rectly affected, with all Its terrible ravaging and destructive force, but It tias been nevertheless profoundly af fected and disarranged, and our Indus trie*. our credits, our productive ca pacity, our economic processes are In extricably interwoven with those of other nations and peoples—most Inti mately of all with the nations and peo ples upon whom the chief burden and confusion of the war fell and who are now most dependent upon the co operative action of the world. Exports Greatest in History. We are Just now shipping more goods out of our ports to foreign 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 estab lished 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 mean time to restrain profiteering and put the life of our people upon a tolerable footing will be makeshift and provi sional. There can be no settled condi tion here or slsewhere until the treaty of peace Is out of the way and the work of liquidating the war has be come the chief concern of our govern ment and of the other governments of the world. Until then business will Inevitably 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 sys tem Is on a war basis. Europe Must Know Situation. "Europe will not, cannot recoup her capital or put her restless, distracted peoples to work until she knows exact ly where she stands in respect to peace; and what we will do Is for her the chief question upon which her qui etude of mind and confidence of pur pose depends. While there is any pos- ability that the peace terms may be changed or may be held long In abey ance, or may not be enforced because of divisions of opinion among the pow ers associated against Germany, It is idle to look for permanent relief. Points Out Present Duty. But what we can do we should do, and should do at once. And there Is a grbat deal that we can do, provision al though it be. Wheat shipments and credits to facilitate tihe purchase of our wheat can and will be limited nnd con trolled In such a way as not to raise hut rather to lower the price of flour here. The governrrrent has the power, within certain limits, to regulate that. We cannot deny wheat to foreign peo ples 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 with proper management can be kept so. Immediate Relief Measures. 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 *io profit. And by way of a more per manent correction of prices surplus stocks In private hands will bo drawn out of storage and put upon the market. For tunately under the terms of the food con trol 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 as soon as the situation Is systemati cally dealt with it Is not likely that the courts will often have to be resorted to. Much of the accumulating of stocks has no doubt been due to the sort of specu lation which always results from uncer tainty. Great surpluses were accumu lated because It was impossible to foresee what the market would disclose and deal ers were determined to be ready for whatever might happen, as well as eager to reap the full advantage of rising prices. They will now see the disadvan tage, as well as the danger, of holding off from the new process of distribution. Significant Facts Quoted. Some very Interesting and -significant facts with regard to stocks on hand and the rise of prices in the face of abund ance have been disclosed by the inquiries of the department 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 commodi ties effective means have been found to prevent the normal operation of the law of supply and demand. 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 mat ters very fully for the District of Colum bia, where Its legislative authority Is without limit. Would Have Prices Plainly Marked. I would also recommend that It be required that all goods destined for In terstate commerce should in every case where their form or package makes It possible be plainly marked with the price at which theV left the hands of the producer. Such a requirement would bear a close anald'gy to certain provisions of the pure food act. by which it is required that certain detailed in formation be given on the labels of packages of foods and drugs. And it does not seem to me that we could confine ourselves to detailed measures of this kind, if It Is indeed our purpose to assume national control 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 hesitate to handle a national question in a na tional way. We should go beyond the measures I have suggested. 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 regu lations designed to secure competitive selling and prevent . unconscionable profits in the method of marketing. -* Law Would Do Much. Such a law would afford a welcome op portunity to effect other much-needed re forms in the business of interstate ship ment and In the methods of corporations which are engaged in it; but for the mo- metit I confine my recommendations 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 fradulent methods of promotion by which our people are an nually fleeced of many millions of hard- earned money. I refer to the measure proposed by the capital issues committee for the control of security Issues. It Is a measure formulated by men who know the actual conditions of business, and its adoption would serve a great and bene ficent purpose. We are dealing, gentlemen of the con gress, I need hardly say, with very critical and very difficult matters. We should go forward with confidence along the road we see, but we should also seek to com prehend the whole of the scene amidst which we act. There Is no grqund for some of the fearful forecasts I hear ut tered about me, but the condition of the world Is unquestionably very grave and we should face It comprehendlngly. The situation of our own country is excep- tionately fortunate. We of all peoples can afford to keep our heads and to de termine upon moderate and sensible courses i of action which will Insure us against the passions and distempers which are working such deep unhappiness for some of the distressed nations on the other side of the sea. But we may be involved In their dis tresses unless we help, and help with en ergy and intelligence. Disregarding the surplus stock In the hands of the government, there was a greater supply of foodstuffs In this coun try on June 1 of this year than at the same date last year. In the combined to tal of a number of the most important foods In dry and cold storage the excess Is quite 19 per cent And yet prices 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 of eggs was 10 cents a dozen, as against 30 cents a year ago. The stock of frozen fowls had increased more than 298 per cent, and yet the prices had risen also from 34Mi cents per pound to 37V4 cents. The supply of creamery butter had Increased 129 per cent and the price from 41 to 53 cents per pound. The supply of salt beef had been augmented 3 per cent and the price had gone up from $34 a barrel to $36 a barrel. Canned corn had Increased in stock near ly 92 per cent and had remained sub stantially the same In price. Few Price Drops Not Enough. In a few foodstuffs the .prices had de clined, but In nothing like the proportion in which the supply had Increased. For example, the stock of canned tomatoes had increased 102 per cent, and yet the price had declined only 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 Increase of price had been disproportionate to the decrease In stock. Law Department Active. The attorney general has been making a careful study of the situation as a whole and of the laws that can be ap plied to better.it and Is convinced that, under the stimulation and temptation of exceptional circumstances, combinations of producers and combinations of traders have been formed for the control of sup plies and of prices which are clearly In restraint of trade, and against these pros ecutions will be promptly Instituted and actively pushed which will In all likeli hood have a prompt corrective effect. There Is reason to believe that the prices of leather, of coal, of lumber and of tex tiles have been materially affected by forms of concert and co-operation among the producers and marketers of these and other universally necessary commodities which it will be possible to redress. No watcKful or energetic effort will be spared to accomplish this* necessary re sult. I trust \jflk rio^pe many cases in which prosecution will be neces sary. Public action will no doubt cause many who have perhaps unwittingly adopted illegal methods to abandon them promptly and of their own motion. Publicity Will Do Much. And publicity can accomplish a great deal. The purchaser can often take ca:e of himself if he knows the facts anu in fluences he Is dealing with, and purchas ers are not disinclined t.o do anything, ei ther singly or collectively, that may be necessary for their self-protection. The department of commerce, the department of agriculture, the depart ment of labor and the federal trade commission can do a great deal toward supplying the public Systematically and at short intervals, with Informa tion regarding the actual supply of particular commodities that Is In ex istence and vtfivallafte with regard to supplies which are in existence but not with regard to the methods of price fix ing which are being used by dealers In certain foodstuffs and other necessities. Retailers in Part to Blame. There can be little doubt that retail ers are in part—sometimes In large part—responsible for exorbitant prices; and It Is quite practicable for the gov ernment 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 mar gin of profit they are demanding. Opin ion and concerted action on the part of purchasers can probably do the rest. Congress Must Supply Funds. That Is, these agencies may perform this Indispensable service provided the con gress will supply them with the neces sary funds to prosecute their Inquiries and keep their price lists up to date. Hitherto the appropriation committees of the house 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 ren der this service. That adequate funds be provided by appropriation for this pur pose, and provided as promptly as pos sible, Is one of the means of greatly ameliorating the present distressing con ditions of livelihood that I 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. There are many 1 other ways. Existing law is inadequate. There are many per fectly legitimate methods by which the government can exercise restraint and guidance. Let me urge, In the first place, that the present foodstuff control act should be extended both as to the period of time during which it shall remain in operation and as to the commodities to which It shall apply. Its provision against hoarding should be made to apply not only to food but also to feed stuffs, to fuel, to clothing, and to many other commodities which are In disputably 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 proclamation of peace. But I should Judge that it was clearly within the constitutional 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 Inter state shipment if the requirements of the law are not complied with. Some such regulation Is Imperatively necessary. The abuses that have grown up In the manipulation of prices by the with holding of foodstuffs and other necessaries of life cannot otherwise be effectively pre vented. There can be no doubt of either thhe necessity or the legitimacy of such measures. May I not call attention to the fact, also, that, although the present act prohibits profiteering, the prohibition is accompanied by no penalty. It Is clear ly In the public Interest that a penalty should be provided which will be persua sive. I lt would materially add to the serv iceability of the law, for the purpose we now have In view, If It were also pre scribed that all goods released from stor age for Interstate shipment should havs plainly marked upon each package the selling or market price at which they went 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. The world must pay for the appalling destruction wrought by the great war, and we are part of the world. We must pay our share. For five years now the In dustry of all Europe has been slack and disordered. The normal crops have not been produced; the normal quantity of manufactured goods has not been turned out Not until thfere are the usual crops and the usual prsductlon of manufactured goods on the other side of the Atlantic can Europe return to thd former condi tions; and It was upon the former condi tions, not the present, 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 communi cated to this country. For the present. It is manifest, we must quicken, not slacken, our own production. U. S. Must Hold World Steady. 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 supreme crisis—this crisis for all mankind—that American must prove her mettle. In the presence of a world confused, dis tracted, she must show herself self-pos sessed, self-contained, capable of sober and effective action. She saved Europe by her action In arms; she must now save it by her action In peace. In saving Europe she will save herself, as she did upon the battlefields of the war. The calmness and capacity with which she deals with and masters the problems of peace will be the final test and proof of her 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 her going or thousands of our shops and scores of our mines must close. .There Is no such thing as letting her go to ruin without ourselves sharing In the disaster. In such circumstances, face to face with such tests, passion must be discard ed. Passion and a disregard for the rights of others have no place In the counsels of a free people. We nepd light, not heat, in these solemn times of self- examination and saving action. Must Be No Threats. There must be no threats. Let there be only intelligent 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 ar bitrary and cSercive Is in the discard. Those who seek to employ It only prepare their own destruction. We cannot hastily and overnight revo lutionize all the processes of our eco nomic life. We shall not attempt to do so. These are days of deep excitement and of extravagant 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- eontrol are still there, firm against vio lence or any distempered action that would throw their affairs into confusion. I am serenely confident that they will readily find themselves, no matter what the circumstances, 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 the” displayed to the admiration of the v hole world In the midst of war. Sinister Influences at Work. And I enter another confident hope. I have spoken today chiefly of measures of Imperative regulation and legal com pulsion, of prosecutions 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 department of justice. We have just fully awakened to what has been going on and to the Influences, many of them very selfish and sinister, that have been producing high prices and Imposing an intolerable burden on the mass of our people. To have brought It all Into the open will accomplish the greater part of the result we seek. I appeal with entire confidence to our producers, our middlemen and our merchants to deal fairly with the peo ple. It Is their opportunity to show that they comprehend, that they in tend to act justly, and that they have the public Interest sincerely at heart. And I have no doubt that house keepers all over the country, and ev eryone who buys the things he daily stands in need of will presently exer cise a greater vigilance, a more thoughtful economy, a more discrimi nating care as to the market in which he buys or the merchant with whom he traded than he has hitherto exer cised. Labor Must Consider. 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 matters 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 Qr 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 dis tressing results of the high cost of living and we must unite, not divide, to correct it. There are many things that ought to be corrected In the relations be tween 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 matter with any group of my fellow countrymen who know what they are talking about and are willing to remedy existing conditions by frank counsel rather than by violent contest. General Interest First. WOO WANTED FOR PRICE PROBE SECRET SERVICE MEN ARE TRAIL ING PROFITEERS—INVESTIGA TION IS PROCEEDING APPROPRIAT!ON^ASKED FOR Heavy Penalties Proposed For Hoard ing And Profiteering By Federal Trade Board Washington.—An appropriation of five hundred thousand dollars for in vestigation of the increased cost of living by the federal trade commis sion is asked of congress by Acting Chairman Murdock of the commission in a letter to Speaker Gillett. Funds for the commission already authoriz ed are insufficient to conduct the pro posed inquiry, the letter says. Chairman Murdock, who is a mem ber of the sub-committee named by Attorney General Palmer to submit recommendations for reducing living cc-sts, set forth in his letter that the commission proposed to conduct fur ther investigation as to the produc tion, storage and distribution of food stuffs with aim of arriving at figures on the real cost, wholesale and retail prices. So far as known the president ha3 not directed any additional investiga tions, but bills now are pending in the house for inquiries into the sugar and shoe industries. The communication from the trade commission chairman reached the house at the close of a day during which both branches of congress gave much attention to cost of living prob lems. Appropriation of $175,000 was asked that in authorizing the appropri ation a clause be inserted to permit the use of the service operatives in running down food hoarders and prof iteers. Hoarding and profiteering were the subjects of two measures presented in the house. A bill by Representative .Gard, Democrat, Ohio, would provide $10,000 fine or five years’ imprison ment for hoarding, profiteering or mon opolizing the production of foodstuffs, fuel or clothing. Representative Goodykoontz, Republican, West Vir ginia, presented a resolution to di rect the judiciary, committee to frame a legislation to eliminate hoarding and to reduce the amount of currency in circulation. Mr. Goodykoontz also in troduced a resolution requesting the secretary of war to sell the surplus stocks of automobiles and motor trucks. Representative Keller, Independent. Republican, introduced a bill to au thorize creation of a national board of conservation headed by the pres ident and composed of members of the cabinet; five senators and five rep resentatives, which would have power to regulate wholesale and retail prices of food and clothing. CORRUPTION CHARGED TO RAILWAY MANAGEMENT BY BROTHERHOOD COUNSEL Washington—The railroad brother hoods through their counsel, Glenn E. Plumb, laid before the house inter state commerce committee their charges of corruption in the manage ment of the railroads under private control. The charges, announced as forthcoming some time ago, were that many of the great railway systems had been plundered systematically by the financial interests and that the railroads illegally held millions of acres of public lands. Eighteen representative railroads of the country, the brotherhood attor ney asserted, issued stock aggregating $450,441,000 between 1900 and 1910 as bonuses and paid millions of dollars in dividends on these bonuses. These same railroads, he further charged, were “controlled in whole or in part by the Morgan interests, the Rocke feller interests and th_e Gould inter- 6StS.” Coupled with the charges which came just before the house commit tee closed its hearing on organized la bor’s bill for elimination of private railroad ownership, was the demand by Mr. Plumb that congress make a thorough investigation of the matter so that the “American people may know to what extent it is sought to subject the into exploitation.” U. S. Dead 49,498; Wounded, 205,690 Washington.—Final casualty reports from the central records office of the A. E. F. in France, made public by the war department, gave the total bat tle deaths as 49,948, total wounded 205,G90 and prisoners 4,480. “Only friends Gave tier Up Mrs. Hoffman’s Recovery From Dropsy a Surprise. She Used Doan’s. “I was in dreadful shape,” says Mrs. W. B. Hoffman, 689 Oakley Ave., Ham mond, 111. “There was a sickening pain across the small of iny back and when I stooped over, knife-like twinges near ly drove me wild. I had large puffs under my eyes and my body bloat ed badly all over. My feet were swollen to twice their natural size and the skin looked shiny. When I pressed it down, it left a dent there and I knew I was bad off with dropsy. “My friends didn’t think I would live very long. I doc tored with three different physicians and they didn’t help me and I was discouraged. 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Samples of "Cattcure,Pep*.E,Boston.” No remedy is possible while men are In a temper, and there can be no set tlement which does not have as its motive and standard the general In terest. Must All Work Together. Threats and undue Insistence upon the Interest of a single class, make set tlement 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 damage if employers and workmen are to go on In a perpet ual contest, as antagonists. They must, on one plan or another, be effec tively associated. Have we not stead iness and self-possession and business sense enough to work out that result? In the meantime—now and In the days of readjustment and recuperation that are ahead of us—let us resort more and more to frank and Intimate counsel and make ourselves a great and triumphal nation, making our selves a united force In the life of the world. It will not then have looked to us for leadership in vain slight revisions” will be made in this report, A is announced. Recent cor rections in the list of missing have reduced the number to only 127 names, as compared with 264,000 for France and 121,000 for England. Some Teeth Lost By Bor.e Dry Bill Washington.—Prohibition enforce ment legislation advanced another step in congress when the senate judiciary committee began consideration of the bill passed by the house last June as amended and liberalized by the judici ary sub-committee. Although the gen eral house plan for enforcement of war-time a-nd constitutional prohibition remains in the bill, the sub-committee eliminated several drastice house pro visions and modified others. ANTISEPTIC POWDER FOR PERSONAL HYGIENE Dissolved in water (or douches stops pelvic catarrh, ulceration and inflam mation. Recommended by Lydia E. Pinkham Med. Co, (or ten years. A healing wonder (or nasal catarrh, sore throat and sore ayes. 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