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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1919. PAGE SEVEN

FOOD STOCKS WILL BE SOLD BY GOVERNMENT Millions of Pounds of Armj Supplies to be Sold to Municipalities.

By WILLIAM R. SANBORN The surplus foods held by the War department are finally to be put on

the market, not however to all comers but to "municipalities." The city authorities buying same must agree to resell to the public at cost, In markets established by the city, and the pales must be handled by the city, which for the time being becomes a retailer for the benefit of the citizens. The relief that this will bring to the people in cities where the officials take proper action will be but temporary at best; but It will help. The canned meats and cooked meat rations in cans were not prepared for family trade, and Uncle Sam will take a net loss on these of about 20 per cent, Bimply because of that reason. There is also a considerable tonnage of f-moked and salted meats, which must be sold quickly to prevent deterioration. The meats include bacon in cans and crates, roast beef in cans, corn beef and corn beef hash; all good and palatable and packed under government contracts and supervision. As to canned vegetables, consisting of tomatoes, stringless beans, peas, corn and baked beans, the government expects to get cost prices for these, which should be quite a saving to consumers, as the inference is that prices

paid were below the wholesale quotations. Cities making purchases will be given credit until the goods are sold, so that no municipal appropriation or investment will be necessary; the cost of selling will also be added to the goods presumably, but that need not be high, as buyers will quickly absorb supplies on a cash and carry basis. Sells Salmon and Sugar. The government has been a large holder of canned salmon of various grades and packers have feared the effect of dumping this surplus on the home market, even at cost to the War department. It now appears that a large percentage of this salmon has already been released to wholesalers for export, some of the canners also taking over a share of the pack to be marketed abroad. It would never do, of course, to cut in on the profits of the autocrats of the west coast fisheries for the benefit of the man who has a lot of hungry mouths to feed, regardless of how many millions these fisher folk have made on army contracts. The beef barons are also cannery barons, though they do not as yet control the fisheries and canning plants. But they are on their way to do so, as owners of a great deal of stock in such concerns. The Chicago packers who furnished the army canned meat rations, bacon, etc., have been protected as broadly as possible in the sale of this surplus, which, it will be observed, is not to be offered to the trade to interfere with retailers'

demands and prices, but to the con

sumer, mainly in the large cities, where it is to be hoped the poorer classes will be really benefitted, in-so-far as the supply will permit. In order to protect, home consumers the government will now put 210,000 bags of sugar on the market, a total of 21,000.000 pounds, with the proviso that none is to be exported. This seems like a lot of sugar, but it is only about 3 ounces per capita, or one pound to every family of five persons. Food Supply Problems There is a Surplus Sales department in Washington, of which C. W. Hare is Director. The subcommittee of the special house committee has in

formed Mr. Mare that it favors bringing all possible supplies which will not sell for an adequate price abroad, back to this country, in order to alleviate the situation as to food. The committee also favors the return of machinery and work animals that can not be sold to advantage across the sea. Before this subconicommlttee Mr Hare said: 'If the better market is here, not in price alone, the goods will be returned home as the patriotic thing." Mr. Hare further stated that it was not his policy to preserve high prices for the benefit of manufacturers, but to prevent unnecesary industrial disturbances and sacrifices that would result from dumping all surplus goods, including foods, on the markets. As to to the canners and packers, Director Hare said: "We have told them that we don't intend to save them, but to play the same for the best of all." It is more than interesting to note i hat the surplus food stocks now to be disposed of aggregate $150,000,000. 'Of this great total $50,000,000 is in meats and $100,000,000 in canned vegetables as previously described. There is also an almost unlimited supply of canned salmon. A Pertinent Question The house committee on disposal of surplus war food, has been anxious to learn why this food has been held for so many months, when it was known that it must finally come on the market. Director Hare stated that It had been difficult to obtain

men and equipment to handle such a vast quantity, and that this resulted in five months of delay in the preparation for sale. Two letters from the quartermaster corps to officials of the National Canners' association have been read into the record of the committee, and one of these, dated December 6, 1918, referring to canned tomatoes, said: "It was not intended to offer the surplus that the army owns to domestic trade during the present season." Another letter, dated March 17, 1919, and written to the president of the canners' association, stated that the writer was "glad to be able to relieve your mind on the subject that any surplus of canned vegetables may be dumped on the market." What's that? What does the writer think of it? Well, really, gentlemen, we shall have to let you draw your own conclusions as to this whole matter; and you have already done so. Here, however, is one statement which surely calls for an explanation which actually explains. Director Hare stated before the committee that when congress appropriated $100,000,000 for European food relief, he vainly tried to sell some of the army bacon to Mr. Hoover's New York agent, because a "better cut" was bought from the Italian government. Chairman Reavis of the committee, asked at this point: "Any reason to buy better bacon than we are feeding to our soldiers?" To this, Mr. Hare replied: "I know of none -whatever." Nor does anybody else know of any such reason. Wonder where the Italian government, now having food riots in various cities, got that better bacon in the first place; most likely from Chicago or Kansas City, U. S. A.

Dublin, Ind.

First Wheat Received Is

Poor, Say Local Millers Wheat, grown in Wayne county, and brought to the millers here, is not coming up to standard, say local elevator men. Although the moisture test is low, there has been as high as three per cent of straw ond dirt in some of the loads brought in, which is a very high average. Neither is the yield per acre coming up to expectations. Fields that

should average twenty bushels to the acre are in some cases, averaging as low as ten. This is due largely to the fact that the heads are not matured properly and the grains, instead of being plump and hard, are shriveled and soft, say the millers. This is thought to be due to blight, but is yet unexplained. Flour has not been made of any of the new wheat, so it i snot known how it will work up.

MUST WORRY ALONG ON $15,000 A YEAR

Bide a Wee club met Tuesday evening of this week with Mrs. Fred Shroth Mr. and Mrs. George Brown and Miss Marie Good of Indianapolis were guests of O. H. Morris and family Saturday and Sunday Mrs. Green and children of Terre Haute came Saturday for an indefinite stay here with friends Rev. Mr. Stoner, Mrs. C. F. Herbst and Mrs. Isaiah Fricker attended the centenary at Columbus, Ohio, last week. ...Mrs. Park Swartzel of California was a guest of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Needham last week Ralph Champe and family of Richmond were guests of rela

tives here from Friday until Sunday

evening Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bell and two children of Flora, Ind., came Saturday for a two weeks' visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis

Bell Mrs. Ellen Ratliff and daughter Cora returned home Saturday

from a week's visit with Mr. and Mrs

Faucett near New Lisbon Harry Marshall left Monday to take up his

old position as fireman on the C. & O

railroad from Logansport to Cincin

nati Mrs. Catherine Lockhart of

Boone, Iowa, and Mrs. Alice Myers were guests of Mrs. Henry Myers and

Mrs. Lydia Reiser, Monday Mr.. Bunner and baby of Charlottsville,

spent a few days here last week with

the parents and other relatives dur

lng the absence of her husband, Rev. Mr. Bunner, who was in Columbus,

Ohio Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Sparks, Mrs. John Champe spent from Saturday until Monday near Okeana. . .Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson entertained at din

ner Sunday Rev. Mr. Zeigler and family, Rev. Mr. Rector and Mr. Smith.

John Cox and sister. Miss Lina Cox, arrived home from California last week.... Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ab bott of Hartford City spent Sunday with John Shaller and family Delbert Smith returned to Ft. Benjamin Harrison Monday Mrs. Curtis Grooms and children of Bradford, O , spent the latter part of last week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Huddleston Mrs. H. C.S mith and children of California arrived here last week for an indefinite visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Needham. . Mrs. Sherman Jeans accompanied by her sister, Mrs. Virgil Templeton, returned to her home in Battlecreek, Mich., after a few days' visit with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. John Marshall Mrs. Harry Ridenour and children returned to their home in

Spiceland Sunday evening after sev- The Chinese bride-to-be has to stand

eral days' visit with her mother. Mrs. j in a round, shallow basket while she

Elizabeth Wilson Mrs. Martha dresses for the wedding, in order to Shute of Richmond was Sunday guest make her of a good temper and amlaof Mr. and Mrs. William Hunnicutt ble disposition.

Indiana News Brevities

MICHIGAN CITY The state prison has 800 acres of wheat at the Hubbard farm near New Carlisle. The yield is expected to be near 35 bushels to the acre. BLOOMIXGTON Members of Psl

Iota Xi Sorority will raise money for J

the new city hospital sun parlor they are to donate by selling junk. ANDERSON Attorneys for Judge W. S. Ellis rested in the circuit court, and L. E. Kimberlin's lawyers will take up their side of the case in which KImberlin is contesting the election of Ellis to the office of superior Judge.

Gamble Haynes, Earl H. Ryed and George Fulton. FORT WAYNE The Rev. S. F. Stock has resigned as pastor of the St. Martini church in Adams town-

only Newcastle man to fight the Bolshevik! in Russia. He was in the service for over fifteen months and during that time was on the Russian battlefront for six months. Haynes

left Newcastle April 26, 1918. with

ship, after serving for 53 years In the j contingent of draftees for Camp Taysame church. lor.

MARION Jacob M. Brown, of the Soldiers' Home at Leavenworth, Kas.. while on a visit to the National Military home here, met John E. Smith, a civil war comrade whom he had not seen in 54 years.

Miss Lorena Carroll. This poor little rich jjirl has only $15,000 a year spending money. She wants $20,850, but the court has decided $15,000 is ample to spend on perfume, theater tickets and the like. Two years hence when Miss Lorena Carroll becomes twenty-one she will come into $1,750,000 of the estate left by her father, Joseph D. Carroll, Tammany politician ana horse dealer. Until then she is to exist, the will dictates, on the income of a trust fund. Her father died in 1912.

MICHIGAN CITY Geo. Farlow, 41, serving a life sentence for the murder of William Walter Johnson of Indianapolis, escaped from the state prison here. ANDERSON James M. Sullivan, 74 former mail wagon driver, is in a serious condition from the bite of a poisonous bug, which bit him on the face. His face is swollen twice its normal size.

ROCKVILLE Floyd G. Hayden, returned overseas soldier, was electrocuted in a bath tub in the Park Hotel

barber shop. It is believed he was changing the current of the electric

fan when killed.

. . . .Mrs. Margaret Binkley of Indianapolis spent the week end here with relatives and friends Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Champ spent from Thursday until Monday with relatives at Bloomington Dolph Morris and Marshall Steffenson arrived home from the service last week.

JEFFERSONVILLE Miss Julia Wlllinger, who was employed during the war In the quartermasters' depot, and Fred L. Bethards, inspector in an

electrical works in Springfield, O., were married, culminating a romance started through correspondence after the bride had placed her card in a soldier's blouse.

GREENCASTLE Twenty-eight suits were filed in the Putnam circuit court here against the Farmers State Bank at Bainbridge by the men and

women who lost Liberty bonds when

the vault of the institution was robbed

last December. SHELBYVILLE George Kessler,

charged with the murder of Minnie

Mae Wllkins, is to be locked on an inside corridor when brought to the

county jail here. A guard will be con

stantly on duty.

SOLDIER BACK FROM RUSSIA

NEWCASTLE. IND.. July 10. Corp. Harvey L. Haynes, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Haynes, of Lewisvllle, Ind., who returned home Sunday, is the

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Clothes Valued At $500 Loot Of Newcastle Robbers

NEWCASTLE, Ind., July 10. The Boston store here was robbed of merchandise to the value of approximately $500 Tuesday night, and the barber Bhop of John Niles, 1601 G avenue, was entered and robbed of $5. There is uncertainty as to whether there is any connection in the two robberies. Entrance to the store was gained by forcing open a small door in the rear of the store. The loss consists of silk shirts, work shirts, underwear, hose, caps, hats and other merchandise. An invoice may reveal a heavier loss, but R. F. Albright, manager of the store, said that a conservative estimate was $500.

Masonic Calendar

Friday, July 11 King Solomon's Chapter, No. 4, R. A. M., Stated Con

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OWENSVILLE Henry Kelsomer, 72, has shocked 90 acres of wheat and 40 acres of rye this season without assistance. In addition he assisted a crew of harvesters in grubbing out fence corners for three days.

INDIANAPOLIS Fraudulent use of the United States mail was admitted by George F. Wareham, his daughter and son, Edna Hancock, Florence

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THE FEDERAL SYSTEM OF BAKERIES Announce they will open 60on a branch selling station for Federal Bread at Vigran's Variety Store (Iliff's Old Stand, 6th and Main) Watch this space Friday night for exact date.

Please Notice My Dental Office will be closed from July 26th until September 1st. DR. E. J. DYKEMAN

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