Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 245, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 February 1931 — Page 24

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SENATE REPORT WILL NIT MILK, BREAD PRICES Distribution Costs Are Responsible, Capper Finds. By United Preen WASHINGTON. Feb. 20.—A report stating In effect, that retail prices for bread, milk and meats have not reflected fully the decline In prices paid producers, will be submitted to the senate before the end of the present short session, It was indicated today. . The report.is being pnlpared by the Capper agriculture subcommitlee, which yesterday concluded its food price investigation with presentation of a mass of statistics covering meat prices. Testimony that retail meat, prices have not followed. closely the re. duction of cattle prices was given by F. E. Looin. secretary of the American Livestock Association. He said this was due to a rigid and expensive system of distribution, and explained the cost of distribution had been "-increased by over-ex-pansion due to sharp competition between chain and independent stores. Apparently the public is bearing t he burden,” Chalrtnari Capper commented. “The common theory is that competition is tho lifo of trade. Capper previously had cited what he termed “disparity of prices” in the milk and bread Industries. CITY TO SPEND $60,000 Boulevard Extension Will Give City Jobless Work, Park commissioners today were ready to continue Pleasant Run boulevard, from Washington street to the Pennsylvania railroad, using Indianapolis unemployed men for the project. The board has decided to use $60,000 surplus and build the boulevard rather than award a contract, thus giving the work to men assigned by the Chamber of Commerce made-work commissloh.

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for food, rent, fuel, medical attendance and other necessities. “Almost two-thirds of the families reported the illness of disability of one or more members during the time the father was out of work. In one-fourth of the families the mother was pregnant. “In some of these families the money for the family food was obtained at the cost of permanent injury to the health of the mother and neglect of tha children. “The most important feature of unemployment is its effect upon the family morale—the father idle about the house, unsettled, disheartened; the mother going out to work if she

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