Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 186, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1917 — High Ante and No Limit in Food Game. [ARTICLE]

High Ante and No Limit in Food Game.

Some time ago a story was printed of a man who lived 30 days without eating. It went on to say he dieted thus every year. He certainly believed in preparedness, for if prices keep soaring many will have to accomplish the remarkable feat, but not from choice. Eggs are going to take another leap skyward, so an Ohio farmer says, and meats are growing scarcer. The poor housewife with hubby’s pay check is in a delemma. Friend Herbert Hoover, new' food chancellor, is going to ballast prices, it is said, and the housewife is eagerly awaiting the time when she can stretch a dollar bill as she did a few years ago. Flour for instance has shot up to around $3.75 per 50 pound sack and a year ago the same-sack sold for $2 and a bit before that the price was much lower. King potato Jias been dethroned for the time being but you can’t tell just how soon grasping food thieves will store ’em away again for the price to rise, and rise back to $4 a bushel.