While keeping his regular 95-cent dinners at their former price, the manager of the Oxford Grille explained the 30-cent rise in deluxe dinners as being the amount of lose he had previously been taking, when the items were available. He said that his price range would not allow him to buy steaks through "independent," high-priced meat stores.

Hamburgers Up

Asked if their former ceilings were still on view when they maintained a five-cent rise in hamburgers would have been allowed anyway, Hazen's failed to produce the evidence.

Howard Johnson's on Memorial Drive gets 30 cents for a hamburger and 90 cents for a dinner of two scrambled eggs and bacon.

In reply to an investigation of a complaint that Fiske's charged 15 cents extra for pie-a-la-mode, Mrs. Fiske said that she had to pay $4.00 more a jug for cream, raising her bulk price of ice cream to $1.00 a quart.

Crimson Urges Customer Caution

The Board of Editors of the CRIMSON reported on its investigations as follows:

"Our findings indicate that most shopkeepers depend for their livelihood on their good standing with their customers and that they cannot force down wholesale and producer prices without support from customers in the form of an obvious intention not to pay higher prices.

"The country's economy is at a stage where patience on the part of the consumer and a refusal to submit to price rises, by doing without certain kinds or grades of products, will soon dampen any inflationary tendencies. Many producers are holding back on their stocks. If they can be convinced that prices will not go higher, the resulting sales will relieve the most critical shortages.

"Wherever a price rise is noted, buying at another store or conscientious refusal to purchase the item at all, if the rise is general, will eventually benefit everyone. Continue to leave your complaints at the CRIMSON.