Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1918 — CUT OUT MIDDLEMEN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CUT OUT MIDDLEMEN

Mrs. Georgia June Pratt, well-Known society woman of Chicago and Benton Harbor, Mich., is on the* eve of organizing an anti-middle-man association as a result of her gardening experience the past summer. Her farm, just outside of Benton Harbor, produced some of the finest corn to be seen anywhere, corn vihich her friends were buying at 40 cents a dozen. Commission merchants offered her seven cents a dozen for her product. She brought her story to the National Emergency Food Garden Commission in Washington and was referred to-Mr. Hoover to the answer, If he hasn’t it she is determined to get satisfaction herself.