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Must Increase Production, U. S. Probers’ Warn
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BULLETIVSYST
“Hoarding and Profiteering Must Be Stopped,”
Says Council—Cut Down Luxuries and Speed
Up Necessities, Is Plea to Solve High Cost
Problem.
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@na clothing has suffered heavy cur-*
tallment for many months since the
#signing of the armistice. Boot and
shoe production for clvilian use has
likewise undergone extreme curtail
ment gince the sigreing of the armi
stice. Housing facilities, due to cur
tailment, for many months following
the armistice, of the production of
building material and of building con
struction, is still far below normal.
Rents continue to rise, |
RENTS RISING.
*B. The first half of 1919 shows di
minished production of raw materials
and subnormal construction of new
capital and thus indicates failure to
utilize an adequate proportign of our
productive forces in the preliminary
processes of provision to meet fu
ture requirements. In fact, due to
business uncertainty and hesitation
and tendencles to disagreement be
tween productive groups, there ensued
after the armistice a disuse of a large
proportion of America's, productive
capacity., Unless this slump in pro
duction is atoned for by consistent
future activity, and unless produc
tion is constantly maintained on an
adequate scale, reduced standards of
living will become inescapable, re
gardless of prices, i
“The very fact that prices of fin
ished, commodities, consumption
goods, so-called, have risen to an ex
tent out of proportion to the rise in
prices of raw materials and perhaps
out of proportion to the rise in gen
eral wages, indieates that produc
tion carried on under these conditions
&, in general, ylelding profits abnor
mally high”
MISTAKEN IDEAS.
The council's report points out that
one important factor in the high cost
of living lles in the mistaken idea
e e it
Few Pcopla Know MHow Useful It Is
in Preserving Health and Beauty.
Nearly evervbody knows that char
-1 i 3 the rafest and most efficient
E:lnfrrt-»m and purifier in nature, but
w realize Its value when takeén into
the human system for the same cleans
ing purpose,
Charcoal is a remoedy that the more
¥ou take of it the better; it is not a
g at all, but simply absorbs the
es and Impurities always present
the stomach and intestines and
earries them out of the system.
Charcoal sveetens the breath after
smoking, and after eating onlons and
‘lher adorous vegetables,
Charcoal effectually clears and im
nves the complexion, it whitens the
esth and further acts as a natural and
eminently safe cathartie.
It absorbs the Injurious gases which
eollect in the stomach and bowels; |t
&u.tnf.ru the mouth and throat from
I\mson of eatarrh,
All druggists sell charcoal In one form
or another, but probably the best char
gfl and the most for the money is in
ituart’s Charcoal Lozenges; th:l are
gomposed of the fineat Eowder wil
charcoal, and other harmless anti
fes in tablet form or rather In the
of large, pleasant tutlnl lozenges,
charcon! belns mixed with honey.
e daily use of these lozenges will
tel] in a muech improved condi
of the general health, better com
on, sweeter breath and purer
, and the beauty of It is, that no
zdbh harm can result from their
tinued use, but on the contrary,
great benefit. .
A Buffalo physiclan In speaking of
x‘benofltl of charcoal, says: *1 ad-
Stuart's Charcoal f»nnm ta all
‘!dknu suffering from gas in stomach
bowels, and to clear the complex
and purlrL(ho breath, mouth and
t: I also helleve the liver is greatly
efited by the daily use of them:
cost but twenty-five cents a box
at drug stores, and although in some
pense a patent preparation, yet I be
-1 get more and better charcoal
Stuart's Ch'r'oul Logzenges than in
of the ordinary charcoal tablets.'
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that an Increase in income, even
though accompanied by a real redue.
tion in the amount of the necessities
of life produced, should raise the in
dividual standard of living. The re+
port very carefully points out the fal
lacy of the belief of the individual
that a Yaise in wages or income un
der present conditions should alone
increase that individual's standard of
living. The public does not readily
realize an increase in their own in
come is a case of profiteering, but it
should be clear that increased pur
chasing power, derived from reduced
servige, {8 the very essence of prof
iteering. It is possible on no other!
basis than the deprivation of others,
while a general improvement of real
income is possible on no other basis
than Increased production or im
proved distribution. ‘
The report emphasizes the fact that
the deficiency of commodities, tu‘
compared with the volume of cir
culating credit and also as compared
with living requirements, has sfr
vived the duration of the war, nnd‘
the only safe and praeticable method{
of effecting a readjustment now Is
by the practice of genuine ecnnomy.‘
by increased production of the things
society needs, and by curtailment in
the consumption of those luxuries
which larger money incomes have
falsely led us to believe that we could
afford. |
“It does seem not s?o or practi
eable to initiate readjustment of
prices by a premature reduction of
credit for essential purposes, inas
much as the first effect of contrac
tion of such ecredit would be reduced
production—the intensification of the
fundamental cause from which the
country now suffers,” says the re
port. “On the other hand, it is quite
possible by increased production to
create such a volume of commodities
and wealth that the balance between
'phy-lcnl goods and circulating me
dium will be normal.
' “While the close of the war found
America tending to run short of
clothing and houeing, and behind in
its program of highways and trans
portation facilitles, it is a remarkable
truth that we passed through the war
period with a general tendency toward
considerable Increase in our producs
tion of foods, |
“The wheat crop of 1918 amounted
to 917,000,000 bushels, as compared to
an average for 1910-14 of 728,000,000
bushels; and the probable harvest in
1919 is 1,236,000,000 bushels. Our
supply of wheat in elevators and mills
on May 9, 1919, was 96,600,000 bush
els, as against 84,000,000 bushels the
vear before, Notwithstanding large
exports, our wheat and flour supply
ia obviously adequate, while the situ
ation with respect to the other cereals
is generally very good.
“Though the sugar stocks . °
somewhat low in the United State.
the future is normally provided for.
MEAT SUPPLY LARGE.
“America emerged from the war
producing meat at a rate far above
pre-war figures, and yet possesses in
reserve a 4 larger number of animals
on the farms than we had before the
heavy war drafts upon our supplies
began,
““The report of goods in cold stor
age shows an increase in the quan
tity held on July 1, 1919, as against
the same date & year ago. Taken in
connection with the evidence of rela
tively abundant reserves of live ani
mals and large creps for the current
year, it would seem that some rellef
rromb:nxh prices of food should be
po,# e.
“Present food prices are not to be
accounted for largely on the basis of
heavy exports, BExports of pork and
beef, canned, fresh and pickled, for
example, have been less for 1819 than
in the previous year, the total
amounting to 1,090,600,000 pounds In
1919 as against 1,122,000,000 pounds
for the corresponding period of 1918
Jess than the amount of all meats in
cold storage on July 1, 1919, which
was 1,336,000,000 pounds.
FOOD PLENTIFUL
“It is true that food is, by compar
ison, plentiful. But it is also true
that money or other cifculating me
dium 18 unprecedentedly plentiful,
~ “These conditions are highly favor
able to both speculative profiteering
‘nnd wasteful distribution, through the
intervention of supernumerary mid
‘dlemen and caterers. It should, how
ever, be remembered that even though
it may smack of profiteéring to pro
duce a very large crop and sell it
at abnormally high prices, this is a
kind of prof{tearln. which deserves
unstinted praise as compared with
that other species of profiteering
which deliberately reduces output in
the expectation that the extortionate
prices which the reduced product will
command may more than make up
\0 the producer or speculator for the
portion of production withheld, or the
poreentage of hoarded goods con
deraned to spoil and be lost to the
nation,
“Consider wool, for example, The
most obvious explanation of the high
‘prices of woolens is the glaring fact
of the extreme reduction in output
which ensued after the signing of
the armistice and the completion of
army orders, which practically ended
In January, 1918, !
| WOOLEN MILLS IDLE. ‘
~ “The war came to an end with the
supply of civilian woolens unprece
dentedly low. The total quantity of
wool available for o'vilian hbflu be
tween April and November, 1018, way
probably somewhere in the neighbor
hood of 76,000,000 pounds-an amount
perhaps a little more than sufficient
to meet the demands of normal ltfl »
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HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN —— A Wewspaper for People Who Think —- SUNDAY, . AUGUST 31, 1919
shortage of goods, the total con
sumption of wool in manufacture
during the first five months of the
nresent year amointed to but little
more than one-half the amount con
sumed during -the corresponding
monihs of the previous year. In the
meantime an extraordinary nymber
of textile workers were cnndr-mn:-d}
to idleness, their produciive capacity
perizhing’ day by day and week by
week, while thé deficiency in the‘
supply of clothing was developing m‘
such a point that it became possihle
for the wholesale index number of th'-\
prices of cloths and clothing to rise
to 250 in June. Industries may take
on periods of activity after months
of stagnation, but the publie can not
be asgured of adequate commoditics
at fair prices on such a basis of op+
eration, nar can labor on guch a basis
be expected to hs econtented.
“In respect of wheat, we have noted
a wide foresight and a provident at
fitude on the part of the producer.
As regards cotton, the opposite ap
pears to We the ease,
“When the war ended the world's
cotton supply was below normal. The
supplies of cotton goods were algo
low. 'The acreage planted to cotton
was this year approximately 9 per
cent less than for 1918, The present
prospects are that the cotton crop
will be small, and published articles
are appgaring expressing gratifica
tion over the prospectively large com
mercial returnss which the eotton pro
ducers may be able to command be
cause of the high prices which may
be had for the reduced cotton output.
COTTON SUPPLY LOW, |
“In the cotton industry, as in.most
of our industries, the ,econom!cl
watchword .of wartimes, which was
‘Output, and more output’ (the nec
essary conditioh of full prosperity In
peace), was not heard after the ar-‘
mistice. There soon developed, on
the contrary, hints of unhealthy tem's‘
of ‘overproduction.’ j
“Notwithstanding the release’ ot‘
labor, if it were needed, by demobil
jization, and notwithstanding adequate |
supplies of raw cotton to meet the
season’'s requirements, and the lack‘
of any important difficulties in the
way of reconversion to peacetime
products, and with low supplies of
finished goods in stock, the couon|
industry kept more spindles idle
during the frrst five months of I§l9
than were idle during the correspond
ing period for 1918, |
“The production of boots and shoes
for the first quarter of 1919 was re
ported as about 60 per cent below the
production for the last quarter of
1018, Plants were practically closed
and in some cases it is reported that
machinery was returned to the Shoe
Machinery Company. In all, there
were 175,000,000 less pairs of shoes
produced in the first quarter of 1919
than in the last quarter of 1918,
“It has been estimated that the
United States was short 1,000,000
homes at the end of the war. A cam
palgn to stimulate and encourage in
creased building was begun soon
after the end of the war and carried
on during the first half of the present
year, and the national need of in
creased building became thoroughly
advertised. In the meantime, how
ever, those industries whose activity
is a prerequisite to building, such, for
example, as brickmaking, lime, ce
ment and lumber production, re
mained rolatlvelxl stagnant or tied up
with price and labor disputes until
late in the spring. The period of high
and increasing rents and of high and
ascending prices of houses appears,
therefore, to be fairly certain of con
tinuing for some time to come.
“The example of coal production
furnishes another instance of the fact
that America was able with depleted
man power and in the face of other
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handicaps during the war to set her
self an example of increasing output
such a 8 she has not demonstrated the
ability or disposition to parallel in
the returning times of peace, The
total amount of coal produced up to
July 5, 1919, was 261,000,000 tons, as
compared with 364,000,000 long tons
for the corresponding period of 1918,
STEEL SLOWS UP, |
“The record of our after-war steel
and iron output furnishes us with
another warning that we have been
neglecting to keep pace with the es
tablished Amewican rate of industrial
improvement and expansion and fore
sighted preparation for future re
quirements and progress. . |
“The iron and steel business was
considerablyr stimulated by wartime
requirements, There was a govern
mental agency whose business it was
to foresee the war needs, and to place
orders 80 that those preductive forces
which are wrapped up in the steel
industry might be utilized to capac
ity., For want of soms {adustrial ad
ministrative. insight which might
utilize our maximum productive pow.-
ers the steel industry's activity has
since the armistice greatly declined,
“When one contemplates the bil
lionsg which have thus been lost
thrm’zh lack of co-ordination of our
productive powers, one is moved to
appreciate the urgent need of some
loeal ageney through which might be
promptly and regularly gecured and
disseminated a knowledge of all of
the important facts of our economic
life and progress—requirements, rates
of production, stocks on hand and
prices—in manner similar, for exam
ple, to the official collection and an
nouncement of information which is
now being effected with regard to the
slaughter of animals, the tanning of
hides and skins, and the amounts n
stock and in transit. It lis beyod
question that lack of real inlonra
tion gives rise to the major portion
of the unnumbered industrial uncer
tainties, hesitations, misunderstand
ings and conflicts which constitute
the Ghief interference with the reali
zation of the highest potential eco
nomic welfare of the American peo
ple.
INFORMATION AND CO-OPERA
TION.
“Information was obtained and co
operation achieved during the war,
But when the war came to an end
the agencies collecting information
were discontinued, and the focusing
agencies were demobilized. llf, dur
ing the war, discrepancy threatened
to occur, measufes were taken to
stimulate increased productive activ-
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ity, or, if it were beyond question that
productive powers were already be
ing utilized to their maximum capac
ity. an educational campaign was un
dertaken to bring about retrenchment
in the use of the commodity. Thus
regquirements were zurtatled by dis
pensing with those kinds of consump
tiond whose elimination would impose
the least social burden, to the point
where requirements could be fully
supplied by the employment of the
country’'s maximum productive ca
pacities.
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