CHAPTER IV
A REMEDY
1. Remedies Which Have Been Proposed
We are now ready for the practical question for which this book was written, "What are we going to do about it?"
The following is a list of the measures to stabilize prices which I have seen in the last ten years, a few of which have, in some places, been adopted: parcel post; farm loan facilities; workmen's compensation; other forms of social insurance; Government ownership of public utilities; socialism, of every variety; reduction of human disease and disability; prohibition; "the simple life," including abandonment of social obligations and "emigration" to a different part of town (as in the book, "One Way Out"); housekeepers' market clubs; municipal slaughter houses; state bakeries and butcher shops; trolley freight service; coöperative selling by farmers; utilization of empty city lots; municipal markets; scientific management; reduction of middlemen; coöperation; profit-sharing; publicity as to prices and profits; the single tax; lower tariffs (in the United States and Germany); higher tariffs (in England); better supervision of weights and measures; use of bulk goods instead of package goods; use of "cash and carry" system, instead of "telephone and deliver"; repeal of tax on
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