Cost of Living Still on Upgrade

In the interregnum between no price controls whatever and the date when the new O.P.A. gets its mace of full authority, various new ceilings as adjusted by O.P.A. officials tend to make the buyer uncertain of any fact except the one that his cost of living is going up. Although increases now appear to have the sanction of law, many student budgets will have become inadequate unless buyers continue to restrict their demands to needed items and minimum quanties.

The following two complaints have been confirmed: Harvard Variety Store  cigarettes, $21 a pack, (general rise has been to $.20) Bill's Place  sandwiches and dinners, up average of 15 percent