The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-01
ARGUMENTS FOR
CONSERVATION
Answer to Housewives Civ
en- i'm a Statement of the
l.. S. Government
TO BE PATRIOTIC
DESPITE DEALERS
That Is the Attitude That Should Be
Taken-Conspiracy to Defeat the Pur
poses Punishable by Fine of $4,000
or Imprisonment or Both.

or Imprisonment or Both.
WASHINGTON. Noy. l. The Unit
ed States government today answers
one of the few arguments of some
housewives against home food conserva-
tion compulsory on manufacturers,
wholesalers, iobbers and many retail
ers Of the country's basic food prod
uctS.
The plan become. effective today under |
presidential order.
Coming at the height Of the food I
pledge week campaign. it is considered |
by the food administration conclu |
siyc answer To the housewives who |
have said:
"Whv should | sign the food pledge
To conserve food in my home when the
manufacturers are wasting it, spccu
lator~ are boosting its prices and anti
Americans are boarding il in enormous
quantities.
! There will be no more of that. All
the great manufacturers and wholesal-
/ r> who have been accused of controll-
ine the market are today forbidden to
do business except under government
license.
This includes those engaged in 1.-The
import, manufacture. storage and dis
Itributiou of the fundamental food
stuns named. II embraces meat pack.
crs. cold storage warchouscmen, millcrs.
Gamers. elevators, grain dealers. and
retailer, doing a business Of more than
100000 year.
These dealers have been warned that
4
mtra or Specializing in these foods.
who hoard~ them, who cNtorts nrcaSon-
able profits, or who INDUCES in dis
crimiuatory practices in handlm. them.
will bc subject to "a fine Of $4,000 or
two years in prison or both. Hoarded
food will hc seized bv the government.
Conspiracy OH the part of dealers to
defeat the purposes OF the food law is
punishable 10y SlU,oOp fine or two
NcarS Imprisonment, or both
The government will watch these
dealers and consider them as patriot
icaIly living up To the provisions Of
the license until bv their own acts they
| proye that the confidence is misplaced.
| Such eases win be dealt with sum
marily.
No firm in the lis, can do business
1
| day. And under the license each firm
| or person licensed must report what has
| been going on in his business since the
i last report. \ special legal department
II ha, been organized in the food admin
II isrlation to enforce these regulations
II Dealers affected are those packing OF
II handling in large way wheat, wheat
IL flour, rye or rye flour, barley or barley
III flour; oats. oatmeal or rolled oats: corn
II corn gritS, cornmcal, hCminv, corn flour
II starch from corn, oil. corn syrup OF
II glucose; rice or rice flour dried beans
II pea seed on dried peas, cottonsecd, cot
II tousccd oil, cottonsced cake or cotton
u seed meal; peanut oil or meal; SOY
: bean oil or meal. palm or copra oil
olcomargariuc, Hard, lard SUBSTITUTES
cleo oils or cooking fats; milk, butter
;, or cheese, condensed. powdered Of
: eNaporated milk; fresh. canned o.
8 cured beet. pork or mutton; poultry Of
: eggs; fresh or frozen fish, fresh fruit,
. or vegetables. canned peas, tomatoes
=, corn, salmon or sardincs; dried prunes
z apples, peaches or r2iSins. sugar. svrup
Z or molasScS.
) This, the Food Pledge Week cam
Z pai@ncrs pointed out, puts the house
4 wife. the packer and the dealer in foo,
= on par in the saving campaign. Witt
= this distinction; the housewives are he
= ing asked 10 conserve voluntarily til
II needed war foods, meat. wheat, fat
and sugar. The packers and dealer
le have accepted restrictions aimed to ad
70 Just cSorbitant prices at the source.
Replying TO the further criticism tina
IS leaving retailers doing less than Sl0l
! GOO worth of business a year unlicensc
\ docsn t help the high retail price SIT
y luation much, Food Administrative
Official today said:
We are not authorized by couares
- To license retailers doing less tha
I 100000 a year business IIoweve
: the control Of retail prices really IS
I the hands of the housewives We no
control the basic products up to II
! small retailer ) door We will tell II
public what Price the retailer paws t,
- those products. Then ii will be up
the buying housewives to see til;
10 retailer sells to them for more tina
a fair margin of profit.
But, added the official. 1--WE fc
sure that no housewife will use any +
taller 5 unpatriotic attempt at profitcc
ing rs reason for not doing her b
toward war food conservation.