A 11 L ER OF THE SUMMER ITY OF MICHIGAN. d Saturday Afternoons. ding, Maynard Street. Editorial, 2414. JRS: Daily, except Saturday. ords, if signed, the signatures rnt, but as an evidence of published in The Wolverine or mailed to the office. eive no consideration. No writer encloses postage. endorse the sentiments ex- naging Editor .Business Manager 2738. STANTS iel, Jr. Robert S. Kersey n Cochran 1920 ;ION )n Hamilton di- :cording to their -a lower class, s. "The lower iose people who ect in question; Zose people who tot much; and lose people who single individual n one subject, a d an uyperclass e things, he may and he knows [amilton applies and the drama. 1walks of life, ss of people are ways the middle majority enter- y in the world, doctrines. The subject usually while those who ally silent in the ire the cultured, he- than conflict ers, the general attitude of the people and greatly increased wages played their, part. While Europe was at war, American labor secured employment at high prices, due to the increased demand for our goods, and it was immediately found that the buy- ing power of the laborers increased. Money came easily in those days, and many of them, who were not used to it, spent it more easily than they got it-on luxuries, for which they were willing to pay excessive prices. They got their wants satisfied undoubtedly, but this new burden upon the demand schedule, which was already way above supply, re- sulted in even higher prices. Throughout all this period there was a spirit of optimism in greater wages and more profits, and people sehed to think that the time would never come when they would hiave to pay the piper.. Noth- ing was too costly to -buy, aid they had the money to pay whatever prices weer asked. It seemed to be too much trouble to look for cheaper things; and if an article did not increase in price 25 per cent every three months, the people regarded the atricle as an inferior good. Whatever is said to the contrary, it seems to us that higher prices were demanded by the buyers, and if the merchant want- ed to sell his goods, he had, to comply with this whim of his patrons. These three things, the war which brought de- creased production, the.increased buying power of the people, and their attitude toward prices strike us as being responsible for the high cost of liv- ing. For each onoa of these things the people are at fault, and as soon as they realize and remedy their evils, the high cost of living will become a myth. Editorial Comment A SQUARE DEAL' AL ROUND In this business of the 'increased railroad rates it will be remembered that the eat American pub- lic will accept the verdict of the Interstate Com- merce Commission as final as to the necessity for such an increase. Moreover, it will be demonstra- ted that the same great American public is willing to pay a rate that is just. The American public does not ask and will not ask that the railroads run at a loss, for the people of this country are as fair as justice itself.; a Bute in return for just and fair treatment of the railroads the people will demand a square deal from the railroads. They will remand that the 'railroads get out of the coal business ad the lumber business and the banking business and out of all other businesses except that of a common carrier. They will de- mand that all enterprises be protected from com- petition with a railroad and from the unfair col- lusion of railroads. That much theywill demand and that much they will have, and the railroads can depend upon it. The enormous fortunes piled up in the oil busi-- ness, the express business, the coal business and in some other activties have been possible only through a use of the railroads not opep to all on even 4erms. That has got to stop. We are told it has stopped and will remain stopped. That is not altogether true; but it has got to stop, and if it does not stop the railroads may rest assured that there the great American public will begin fir~st to consider serious- ly the project of stopping the private operation of railroads. The public will do this not because it wants to but because it"has reached the point whert it must and will have all nien on equal footing in their relations with the common carriers of this country. Let private railroad management see that I this is done and it will be as safe as a church.-The De- troit Ne-s. Abaft the News AMY LOWELL IN WEST HALL The trees and buildings shimmer, Shuddering in the heavy heat of summer, The classroom is a cubicle, White, black, and dingy.' Like the continuous strident rasp qf the locust The voice of the professor burns in inward ear, Then sweetly slowly As the- full moon glides Over horizon edge .to her haven heaven A low threnody from tall organ pipes, Leaving a golden track that none- may see, Steals over the (pen window casement And-bathes the (dessicated brains With liquid tones. Next to the ugly. pile of bricks that holds the class- rooms There stands an even uglier edifice, It- is a church, a Baptist church, And there the hushed dull sobbing ebbs ;nd flows Beneath the cool wax white hands of him who' plays. Mfaythe Baptist God be good to him For there is no Baptist music in those mourning chords. Meanwhile Elihu Root is doing great work to establish a world court, which was the thing most needed for world peace, after all. As soon as ouija boards go out of use, the lumber supply will be materially helped. England said nix to Archbishop Mannix. SAUNDERS' On tle. 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Only a few reach the heights. there should be none are in the lower hers are the middle class-and that t most of us can hope for. But our should be to have. an upper class I9i9 Wolverine. HIGH COST OF LIVING ist of living is merely an actual re- aotic set of'economic. conditions, for ple, themselves, are directly respon- the lest few years they thoughtlessly a state of affairs which at the pres- aking them all howl without cause, ie people are basically at fault. Un- realize that they are responsible for sorder, the world will remain in its on, but it now seems as if they were ng to their senses. biggest single reason for the present iton is the recent war. In producing is, and other war supplies, men were the regular channels of industry, ers were 'taken away from fields of hese two things inevitably meant a ction of goods for the public, while rnained the same, perhaps increased. urse than a rise could prices take, nd suddenly became so mucfh in ex- ? 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