Evening star., 1915-01-07
Action of Senate in Providing
$500, 600 for New Munich
pal Market Praised.
SHERMAN GIVES PLANS
FOR eliminating WASTE
Superintendent of Weights, Meas
ures and Markets Says 1t Will Take
Five Years for Completion.

That the inclusion in the Senate DIS
trict appropriation bill of an item
100000 for the building of new mu
uicipal market marks the first step II
the CARRYING out of Il plan designed u
reduce the cost of living in Washing
ton was the statement today OF JONI
II sherman, superintendent of weights
measures and markets.
Five wears will be required for tn
fruition of the plan and each step VII
he a separate and self-suporting one
declared the District official. At thu
end of this time the District, he pre-
diets. should be equipped for eiimlnat
ing wastes fast enough to offset tn
inward tendency of basic production
and transportation costs.
"Ry the inclusion in the Senate ap-
propriation bill of an item of S2Oo,eot
for a new terminal market for whole
sale business on the site OF the pres
ent municipal fish market the Senate
committee has made possible the most
important single step in the con
structive reorganizat ton of Washing
toms food redistribution system for the
elimination of the enormous wastes
which are now one of the greatest
single causes of the eXorbltant prices
the ultimate consumer has to pay,
said Mr. sherman.
First of improvements.
This item is the first in series
of constructive improvements mapped
in a comprehensive plan of develop
ment which we hope to have approved
item by item during the coming five
years This is to be a systematic de-
.velopment. along logical economic
r-l, ,irh ha
the help of the federal authorities in
the fields affected. and have received
their approval as now planned.
Each step is planned as complete
item in itself. and each follows logi-
cally from the one preceding, so that
Congress or the Commissioners may at
any time suspend or change, or abandon
the complete scheme if it seems well
to do so. without impairing the effective
ness and value of what has already been
done.
These improvements will pay for
themselves as they are developed. This
department has always turned over to
the Treasury surplus over all rum
ming expenses, while contributing large
Iy- to better conditions of living in the
Dktrict. and IT is intended that 1t shall
continue to do SO as long as Congress
desires.
Expectations of Mr.. Sherman.
We expect TINS HfSt Improvement, tne
terminal market. with necessary storage
facilities (tiia only real difference, you
know, between a wholesale and retail
market, is that the former has large
cold storage facilities and transportation
facilities, while the latter has not), to
pay the Treasury per cent yearly on
the investment, while directly and indi-
rectly making possible savings to the
people of the District which will prob
ably soon aggregate several million dol
lars in every year.
The tendency of basis prices every
where is upward. We recognize that.
but we believe we are safe in predict
ing that if Congress approves this item
and permits US to follow the plan we
have outlined for the future we can
eliminate wastes fast enough to offset
this upward tendency of basis produc-
tion and transportation costs. And in
doing so we will also eliminate much
of the violent fluctuations of market
prices that are now potent cause Of
distress to consumers, producers and
deals alike"