Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 309, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1918 — STATEMENT TO THE PUBLIC [ARTICLE]

STATEMENT TO THE PUBLIC

There has been complaint made to the food administration and to the membetß of the county board of defense that we are still selling bread at the old price. To such complainants and to all others, we wish to state that we have put the matter before the Food Administration Board of -■ Indiana, and also the manufacturers for a decision whether we shoufd discontinue selling the bread. The manufacturers explained ’that he could not, with extra war taxes he had to pay, make a reduction in price. The Food Administration stated he had no jurisdiction over the price shipped from outside the state. We then put it up to some of our best customers whether we should stop handling this make of bread and take on some other, but they demurred to that manner of getting around the difficulty, saying that because of the superior qulaity of the bread they preferred it at the old price. The fact that our bread trade has not'fallen off is, we think, a proof that they do want the bread though higher in price. To those who object to the price, we say there are several in town that handle bread lower in price, and we find.no fault with anyone and recommend that they do so. However, we do not see that they are called upon to deprive others from the kind we sell, when they prefer to do so, and are at liberty to purchase any other kind they wish to do

so.

J. A. McFARLAND.