Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-08-26
FAVORs S|MPL|F|CAT|ON
OF CITY MARKETING
j. Frank Fooshe Says Those Who
Pay Cash and Tote Should
Get Cheaper Price.
DEFENDS RIDICULED PEANUT

DEFENDS RlDICULED PEANUT
Can Be Made Into Palatable Dish,
and He Secs No Reason Why Ma
tive Virginia Product Should he
Made Butt of Jokes.
Funny how some little things no
larger than q mole hill within them
selves are being made mountains out
OF these days" said J. Frank Fooshe.
director OF the garden club of the
American National Bank. yesterday.
Why, here is an Associated Press
notice from Canton. O., to the effect
that the women are taking the pro-
duce TO the market, while the men
stay at home and work the farms.
There Is nothing new in this. though
II may be new in that particular sec
ton II is something that has been
taking place here in Virginia for a good
many years. AT least there arc sew
ersl women in the Roanoke section who
have been doing the marketing from
their homes either alone or accom-
panied by a child or some one else
who was not needed to help carry on
their farm. Not only do these women
bring their produce to market. but they
sell 1t to the very best advantage. And
what Is more, they enjoy the very full
est confidence and respect Of every
ono and magnify in their business &C
tivities the high position of woman.
Then down at Norfolk they have
tho Same thing. though 1t is quite a
new proposition for that section as |
have been told. for nearly all these
women who do this selling on the mar
l.
Mennonitcs. who. wherever they are
found. are among the very best of
gardeners. this being just as true Of
the women as the men.
HAVE REGULAR PLACE
IN CITY MARKET
"A singular thing in connection with
these people who have been in the
Norfolk district only few years is
that they have been given a regular
place about the market square. while
the natives. both black and white,
have TO take theirs on the principle of
going to the mill; first come. first
served All OF which reminds m,
that prominent citizen OF Lynchburg
who visited Lancaster. Pa. which en-
joys market second TO but few, IL
any others. in America. wrote a friend
on his return: I was completely car
ried away with what saw on the mar
ket there. have seen what 1t would
mean II our city only had such a mar
ket which va r-obably could have IL
we only had these same Dunkards and
Mennonites1o
This novel suggestion about women
taking produce TO market, which
surely does not upset the old adaee
that there Is nothing now under the
sun. is somewhat in keeping with the
suggestion made by : high official
few days ago that the way to solve
the market problem is to have neither
the men nor the women come TO the
city. but establish a roadside market
out at some crossroads a few miles. to
which the city folks could go in their
autos.
SUGGESTS CASH DISCOUNT
FOR THOSE WHO TOTE
For 2 suggestion. that was fine, but
just how il would be worked out, when
these same people will not so to the
market in the city for their pr -duce
in their machines. or will not even
carry what they buy in them often
times. Is quite another question. Ger
tainly it takes no cognizance OF the
fact that II a market had to depend on
the people who came TO II in their ma
chimes. there is probably not a one
in the whole country that would re-
main open six months. Now. this is
not saying that these pleasure
ms machines should not be used for
practical purposes. nor that they should
not prove profitable. both TO their own
ers and TO those less fortunate But
IT merely presents what is fact-and
that Is 1t Is the laboring ihan who
maintains the public market and makes
1t possible. He is not too proud to
tote his market basket and his wife
too. is lacking this same putting up.
and SO they go and buy for themselves,
and the little they save in this way
helps their small earnings to so fur
ther.
CASH PURCHASERS GET NO
ADVANTAGE OVER CREDIT
Rather strange thing. but strik-
inEly true. none the less. that the peo-
pie who furnish the bulk of the cash
trade around the market house and
the grocery stores are the ones who
not only pay cash. but take a large
portion OF what they buy home with
them. And yet. stranger still. busi-
ness has never recognized the orinci-
Pile that these people who carry their
own purchases rather than have them
charged and sent up by special delivery
should have some concession in price
Only the mail order houses have gotten
on to the philosophy of making each
fellow pay his own delivery. and yet
there are thousands Of grocers and
others who wonder why 1t is that these
houses prosper as they do. These con-
Germs turn their deliveries over to
Uncle Sam, or to the express company.
who write the receipts. for delivery
charges at the other end OF the line
And this suggests that If Uncle Sam
will take their parcels across the coun-
try for a nominal fee, why is 1t he
will not do so in the cities? Why not
have, city parcel-post system with
at least two deliveries a day with such
nominal charges that 1t would be