COST OF LIVING
NOT LIKELY TO
BE LOWERED
PHILADELPHIA, July 30 (by As
sociated Press).—The cost of living is
likely to stay high for a long time to
come, in the opinion of the Philadel
phia Board of Trade. This view is a
result of a compilation of statistics
from many lines of trade and industry.
According to these figures the ad
vance in prices in this country since
1914 has been about 107 per cent; in
Canada, 115 per cent; Great Britain,
133 per cent, and in France, 235 per
cent. It is pointed out that, in spite
of material reductions in the price of
steel, the advance in other commodi
ties since the armistice has been so
great that the average price schedules
have been reduced but 5.7 per cent
below prices prevailing October 1,
1918.
. The following are given as reasons
why wages will not be much less for a
considerable period of time:
Practical stoppage of immigration
since 1914, depriving this country of
several millions of workers who would
normally have come to us, and thus
have relieved the labor shortage which
confronts American industry upon the
resumption of capacity operations.
Retention in the government mili
tary service of nearly 2,000,000 work
ers, which, it is declared, will doubt
less continue an indefinite period.
Creation of new industries, such as
shipbuilding, manufacture of chemi
cals and dyes.
Urgent demand for building and con
struction of every class, due to their
having been forcibly held back for
several years.
Shortage of world food supplies and
uniformly high prices.
Proportionately higher levels of
commodity prices existing throughout
Europe.
IREPHLES ARE
COLLECTED BY
LOS ANGELES, July 30 (by Asso
ciated Press)*—Jobbers’ prices for
reptiles, f. o. b. Los Angeles, quote
rattlesnakes at 40 cents a pound (more
than some cuts of beef); Gila mon
sters, $10 a dozen, and lizards, $3
a hundred.
Needless to state, these creatures
are not in demand as food, but, ac
cording to Frank Weinberg, who fur
nished the quotations, as additions to
collections of reptiles in Europe,
where many individuals, as well as !
■ menageries, keep them both as fads j
! and as a business.
Like almost everything else, the '
reptile market suffered because of the '
war, but now i that it is ended, Mr.
Weinberg says, the demand is on the
! increase.
He and as many small boys as care
to engage in the hunt search the hills
and valleys of Southern California
for the harmless “things that crawl
with legs,” but he goes alone into the
desert for rattlers and Gila monsters.
He keeps his stock in his back yard,
where his wife handles the creatures
and helps in their care as fearlessly
as does her husband.
A dangerous business? No, accord
ing to Mr. Weinberg.
“No more dangerous than driving
an automobile,” he declared. “Of
course, you must be careful in han
dling the poisonous ones. But most
of the reptiles people fear are not
dangerous, after all.”
He reached into a glass box, thrust
his hand under some dry leaves and
brought out a large lizard, squirming
and trying to bite. He held its head
to his lips. It closed its ugly mouth
there.
“Perfectly friendly and harmless,”
said Mr. Weinberg. “See how it kisses
me.”
A long rattlesnake, which had been
sounding - a warning, struck, but
stopped against the glass side of an
other box.
“He’s a little nervous,” said the rep
tile market man. “He hasn’t been
handled for some time.”
He opened the box, tossed a hand
kerchief over the snake’s head and
quickly clasped the creature behind
where its ears would have been had
it had ears.
“He’s a pretty good rattle,” said
Mr. Weinberg. “Worth two dollars,
anyway.”
Talking of the reptile demand, he
said:
“It’s like everything else—there is
more demand for imported serpents
| than for home products. In Europe
! they want American snakes. In Amer
j ica they want European reptiles.”
UNIVERSITY GIRLS
BEING TAUGHT HOW
TO PLAY BASEBALL
LOS ANGELES, July 30 (by Asso
i dated Press).—Baseball is being
' taught a class of young women at the
i summer school of the University of
i Southern California.
| There are sixteen young women in
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the class, all of whom are physical in-!
structors in various institutions. They
are learning baseball so they in turn
can teach it to their pupils.
Their first lesson was attending a
game here between the Vernon and
Sacramento clubs of the Pacific Coast
league, after which they returned to
the class room for discussion.
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LABOR ORGANIZATIONS
TO ERECT ELABORATE
.TEMPLE IN LONDON
LONDON, July 1 (by mail).—Repre
sentatives of the principal labor or
ganizations have taken steps for the
erection in London of a building in
tended to be the finest headquarters
of any democratic movement to be
found in the world, as Arthur Hender
son, labor leader, explained to the
meeting which launched the project.
It is to be erected in Westminster
district, near the parliament houses,
and will contain the headquarters of
the Trade Union Congress, the Brit
ish Labor party (which is a political
party with an organization distinct
from the trade unions), and the co
operative trading bodies, which are
powerful in the industrial centers.
There are to be committee rooms,
offices for the staffs, reference library,
reading rooms, hotel and restaurant.
It is proposed to establish a perma
nent exhibition of co-operative prod
ucts.
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asked him, of course, if he ever used our
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while he was up there, and he said—
“Say, those are some shoes you people make.
, Why, I remember one time when my part
ner and I went over the hills and I wore a
pair of your Goodrich White Pacs. He
didn’t! And he wore out six pairs before
we got back—I still wore my first pair.”
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