Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1918 — OFFICIAL FOOD NEWS [ARTICLE]

OFFICIAL FOOD NEWS

Ford & Moore, bakers, of Red Key, Ind., have been ordered to close their doors’ for ten days dating from September 24. The firm had been warned previously for not using wheat flour substitute as required. Christian Bliss, a baker of Valparraiso, was permitted to pay into the Red Cross fund $25 for failing to use the required substitutes. A record sorghum yield in Indiana is looked to to materially relieve the sugar situation, especially in rural communities. County food administrators are asked to urge farmers and growers of sorghum who have been taxing the capacity of the few mills in the state to permit their crop to stand in the fields as long as such action is safe. When conditions are such that it becomes necessary to cut the stalks, the producers are requested to store the crop, if possible, covering it carefully against the effects of uniavorable weather conditions. The Booker Packing Company, which, until recently, operated a retail market at 310 Massachusetts Ave., Indianapolis, will not be privileged to deal with any wholesale firm that holds a federal license, during the period of the war. The effect of the order also is to prevent the firm from re-engaging in business anywhere in the nation. It was alleged to have violated a number of official regulations relative to the handling and sale of food. Indiana school children have been asked to lake a census of the live stock on Indiana farms, on October 15, for the use of the United States Food Administration. An appeal has been sent out to the teachers by State Superintendent of Public Instruction Horace C. Ellis, asking that the teachers divide the territory In their school districts, so that there will be no duplications or omissions in the tabulations to be prepared by the pupils. The census is for the purpose of assisting in a nation wide food survey, which is essential to the successful prosecution of. the war. Figures for

By Dr. Harry E. Barnard,

Federal Food Administrator for Indiana

1917 and 1918 will be asked and It i* contemplated making the census • semi-annual affair. It is to be emphar sized by the teachers and pupils that the enumeration has absolutely no relation to tax assessment, and the figures are for the sole purpose of as* sisting in making intelligent calcula* tions for the conservation and distribution of the meat supply upon which America and her associates in the war against Germany may depend. Advertisements calling attention to a probable increase in retail prices of coffee are tabooed by the Food Administration. It is not denied that there have been increases in green coffee prices in Brazil for “unknown reasons.” However, the Food administration has been able to stabilize prices and will continue to be able to do so, it is thought, if there is no abnormal demand, due to a panicky misunderstanding of the price situation. Cash-and-carry retailers may have a profit of 5 cents per pound on butter; credit and delivery stores, 8 cents, according to an official bulletin from Washington. September 23-28 I* investigation week, when an intensive effort will be made to ascertain the reasons for present high retail prices of butter. The action of the government in commandeering a large per Ornt. of the storage supply, while creating the appearance of. a shortage, is not legitimately subject to such construction. The federal inquiry takes in state inspectors who are authorized to examine wholesalers, brokers, commission merchant* and others, with a view to ascertain-* lug costs and margins of profit, particularly with a view to restricting resales withih the trade. J. W. Strauss of North Manchester sold sixteen sacks of wheat flour without substitutes and admitted hla guilt. He was permitted to pay S2OO to the Red Cross Society and will not be allowed to retail flour for the remaining period of the war. Charles Delauter, who bought the flour, was allowed- to pay the Rod Cross SIOO and the flour was confiscated by Scott Davis, federal food administrator for Wabash county.