Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 318, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1920 — HIGH PRICES WILL REMAIN [ARTICLE]

HIGH PRICES WILL REMAIN

Expert Declares He Sees Little. Prospect for Lower Costs. Washington, Jan. 5. —Although Attorney General Palmer, generalissimo of the government’s fight on the high cost of living, has predicted that his campaign will begin to get results this spring. Royal Meeker, United States commissioner of labor statistics and official keeper of all records bearing on prices and costs, declared in an interview that he sees no prospect of any considerable fall in prices for several years to come.