The Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1920.1!)20. INFLATED PRICES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2096, 28 February 1920, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1920.1!)20. INFLATED PRICES.

THE biller cry against inflated prices copies from all parts of the world, and it seems move than strange that when it is the mass that suffer from these; what a .small (comparatively) class can slid go on in/laling. From Chicago comes the following: —16th December. — Attorney-General Palmer to-day pledged the full power of the Department of Justice in the prosecution of hoarders and profiteers in a talk in which he outlined to 499 city officials, heads of civic organisations, and club women of Illinois the programme of his. Department in combating the high cost of living. A, plea for the assistance of every man and woman in the country in a, national light against, high prices was made by Mr Palmer :1t the meeting, which was called by Governor Prank O. Lowden. Then again from Washington on the same date is an’account of what is being done. The writer says: —An army of 4,000,000 women, representing 19 national organisations, has been organised by the savings division of the Treasury Department to enter the fight against the high cost of living. Beginning January Ist, and extending to April Ist, a great thrift'campaign will be conducted in an effort to induce women to keep strict accounts of their expenditure in order to study of them-to eliminate unnecessary items. According to the plan, -amounts saved by this means Avould be. invested in Government securities. The following suggestions are made:“An organisation of women, organised as they never were before, will do more to bring down prices than any single movement. "When women make up their minds they will not buy at present prices, then prices will come down.” House to house visiting on an organised plan, whereby the suggestion can be carried round as to boycott of foodstuffs, which are undoubtedly, plainly subjects of profiteering.”