The index number of farm prices as reported by the Department of Agriculture went down from 96 in December 1938 to 88 in August 1939. In sections of the United States sharecroppers are living outdoors. with no school facilities for their children and no shelter for themselves against the approach of winter. Civilians hurrying home from wartorn Europe are not the only refugees. And yet when the products of the farmers toil advance a few cents above the inadequate price he has been receiving the cry of "profiteer" goes up over the country. and Congress is asked to take drastic steps to prevent further increases. The United States Conference of Mayors. wellintentioned gentlemen as they are. announce that pending "legislation to prevent Europes war from being used as an excuse for unconscionable profiteering on foodstuffs" the cities which they represented would consider "establishing a clearing house in Washington where information regarding commodity prices could be exchanged and bulletins issued" with a view to preventing profiteering.
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