Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 24, 1919, Page 2

i o R e R { T =0 ¥ i e i | SO ST FOOD PRICE IS GOING TO DROP 8o Says George N. Peek, Chaire man of the New Industrial Board. HOW STEEL PRICE WAS CUT Chiefs of industry Called in by Peel and Matter Is Finally Settled— No Government Control, but Purely a Voluntary Arrangement. Washington—"There 18 every rea- ®on to expect lower food prices in the relatively near future.” 8o speaks George N. Peek, chair- map of the new industrial board of the department of commerce. Peek describes the Industrial board as “the doctor to American business.” He bhélleves the patient should be well on the way to recovery within sixty to ninety days. “And after six months of conva- lescing, American business should be healthier and more prosperous than ever,” he asserts. “Doctor” Peek is now dlagnosing the allments of the Industries which produce the baslc necessities, such as steel, coal, lumber, brick and bulld- ing materlals. Already he and his as- gistants have brought about a reduc- tion of 10 to 15 per cent In the prices of steel. When the prices of these commodities have been brought down, then the board will go after food prices. i How the System Works. There's no governmept control about it; it's purely a voluntary arrange- ment. Here's about the way It works— not €0 informally perhaps, but along these general lines: Down in the wood-and-paper bulld- ing where the council of national de- fense has given quarters to the indus- trial board there's a committee room, with a long, plain table and a few plain chairs. Into this room Chairman Peek calls Judge Gary of the United States Steel corporation, Charles H. Schwab of .Bethlehem Steel and other steel mag- ‘nates. They all come willingly. 1 “Now, judge,” says Chairman Peek. “‘!ou know darn well steel prices are too high. Nobody's buying any eteel because they can’t afford it. Now it seems to me It would pay you to cut the price, even If you do lose a little by it, so that people would buy. What do you say?’ “Sure,” says Judge Gary, flicking the ashes off his cigar. “I'm willing. I'll cut prices 10 per cent, if that suits the rest of you.” “That's all right,” says Charlle Bchwab, “Put 1 think some things could be cut 15 per cent.” “That's too much,” says some other magnate. “T think 12 per cent would be better.” So they agree on 12 per cent. Then they take a pad of paper and a peneil and figure out just what they'll charge for varous commodities. This sched- ufe is put Into shape, and they all sign un agreement not to charge more than it s they'll charge—nnd there you are! One of the hest things about this new and novel method of price fixing is that labor Is perfectly protected. The industrial board looks after that, It will perm!t no cut in prices that will give the employers a chance to cut wages. So long as the cost of living vemains high, wages must re- maln high, the bonrd holds, so that the living standard shall not be low- ered. Business to Bear Shock. ¥ The theory underlying the whole ar- rangement Is that big business, still holding its profits made during the war, is in a far hetter position to stand the first shoek of readjustment than is the Amerfean workingman, “No one dares buy until prices fall, aud even then everybody will wait to sce how far they fall”" says Peek. “Individual action in lowering selling prices is therefore long drawn out and un«eientifie. It renders the market unstuble and dangervrus. “Ry sane and temperate action all this ean be avobded.” HUN °PY TRIED SOAP He Was “Dying of Con. sumption.” New York.—Herr Rintelen, head of the German spy system in this coun- try, tried to fool the doctors into think- ing he was dying of tuberculosis. Rintelen, soon after he was com- mitted to the Tombs, became peaked | and thin, coughed constantly, paled and cast up a foamy sputum. The doctors found no tuberculosis germs, | but the prisoner showed all the other symptoms. Eventually the trick was detected. It was the old soap game. Rintelen wasg eating soap. So Instead of get- ting to a hospital whence he planned to escape, he was sent to the Atlanta TRICK | { Rintclen Sought to Make It Appear | penitentlary and when deprived of | soap speedily recovered. Pleaded Self-Defense, Kansas City, Mo.—Frank J. Rady was six feet tall and welghed 212 pounds. His wife weighed 110. Rady pleaded self-defense when hauled info court on 8 wife-beating charge, XXX Gambling Common > on Berlin Streets Berlin.—Gambling has so in- creased here since the armistice that the widest opportunity and license are not sufficient to sat- I1sfy the passion of the residents b of Berlin, who have taken to ,:. playing games of chance, even roulette, in the open streets In certaln sections. Certain streets are lined with tables, edge to edge. The bets have been in- creasing gradually in size until men and women, apparently of the poorer classes and often “workless” and drawing govern- ment support, wager 25 marks at a time, The scene is enlivened fre- quently by bettors who, after losing, snatch money from the table and dash through the crowd, to the wails of the cheat- ed gamester. Bad as Is the gambling in the open streets, that in the “clubs” is declared to be far worse. Street gambling is not always with cash, stolen valuables of va- rious kinds often being put up as stakes. 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The shifting of the course of the erratic river places Mr. Cantu and much of his property on the Merican side of the stream, and, according to the Mexican authorities, he 18 now amenable to the law and texes of that country. HONOR SOLDIER WITH TREES Colleges to Have Plantings as Part of Commencement Program This Year. Washington. — Commencement day at many colleges will have for part of the program this year the planting of memorial trees In honor of former students who gave their lives or of- fered their lives to their country in the world war. Arbor day will be more widely marked this year than ever be- fore. In Atlanta a memorial group plan is belng worked out at “Pershing Point,” where memorial trees will be planted. Minneapolis wilh have a “Memorial drive” three miles long which will be part of a park systqn 40 miles long. At St. Louls beautiful Lindell boule- vard I3 to be planted with memorial trees, Camp Bowle, Texas, will be marked with a memorial boulevard plant&d with memorial trees. There will be much planting of trees to honor those who died [n the w »\ says the Ameri- can Fore on. .-. kS K gt P> % <] K e % " kS "t K bl e K " o | | THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER “ROOSEVELT LAND” IN ARCTIC New Polar Discoveries Made by Bart lett to Be Named for For- mer President. New York.—The expedition which Capt. Robert A. Bartlett will lead next June to make an aerial survey of the North pole will be known as the Roose- velt memorial expedition, according to an announcement by the Aero Club of America, which is financing the trip. Any land discovered will be named “Roosevelt land.” Officials of the club explained it was fitting that this tribute should be pald the former president, as it was he whe gave Rear Admiral Peary leave of ab- sence to head the expedition which dis- covered the pole, and Captain Bartlett commanded Peary’s ship, the Roose- velt. Club officials also emphasized the fact that Colonel Roosevelt had been one of the first “patrons of aero- nautles.” Theaters in Ocean Liners. A favorite project of the late Charles Frohman, which he did not live to see fulfilled, the establishment of theaters in ocean liners, is being revived as an outcome of entertainments given to soldiers in troopships. The New York officials of the Cunard line have re- suscitated the scheme. They are res ported to be considering plans for the construction of stages in the saloons of their Atlantic vessels with complete sets of scenery. Inaddition, every ship is to carry a stock company and a di- rector to produce plays selected from the latest London and New York suc- cesses, Ta 1343 Sir Arthur Garrod proved ihat in gont (also true in rheumatism) here i3 deficient elimination on the part of the kidneys and the poisons within are not thrown off, Prof. TI. Strancs atiributes a gouty c'tack to the heaping up of poisons here there is an abundance of uric acid which is precipitated in the joints ond sheaths, setting up inflammation, att Before the matism {} ks of gout or rheu- b metimnes headache, cr what is to be neuralgia, or themmatic con Luons, euch as lumbago, nain in the back of the neek, or =cxauca. s Prof. Strauss says, “ The excretion i uric acid we are Mhle to effect by xciting diuresis.” Lrink copiously of uter, six or eight glasses per day, hot cr before meals, and obtain Anuric nblcts, double strength, for 60 cts., at the nearest drug storo and take them three times a Gay. 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