The Calhoun chronicle

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rying. A compilation by the foreign

trade department of tin* National City

bank of New York shows thut prices

in the world’s markets have advanced

in general from 50 to 100 per cent.

Even the most backward peoples arc

taking advantage of the war situation

to exact enormous profits. For -ex

ample, the natives of Haiti and Ja

maica, Charlton Hates Xtrayer writes

in Leslie’s, are demanding and get

ting three times ns much for their

logwood as before the war, while the

indigo growers and merchants of In

din, Java and San Salvador are even

more grasping and nre getting ten

times tlie former price of Indigo. It

is in foodstuffs, however, that the

shoe pinches the tightest. In the Unit

ed States the high cost of food Is the

most pressing problem of the hour.

The New York Association for Improv

ing the Conditions of the Poor hns

found that the price of 25 staple foods

shows an advance of 30 per cent, from

November, 1015, to November, 1910.

There had been, of course, a consider

able advance prior to 1915. The Na

tional Association of Master Hakers

of America announces ttint of the 30,

000 bakeries In this country 20 per

cent have been compelled to go out

of business since the outbreak of the

war on account of high prices of

grains. Flour at $20 a barrel is pre

dicted before the winter is over.

Paradoxical Praise.

“That little fellow deserves great

credit for the wujr he does his work."

"Hut how can you give credit to n

cash boy?”

Somehow we can’t help feeling sor

ry for an ex-hero.

There a little lawyer mu, who gently eouled aa

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

The Calhoun chronicle. (1916). Grantsville, W. Va., 1916-12-28. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85059591/1916-12-28/ed-1/?sp=4

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The Calhoun chronicle, 1916-12-28.