Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-03-01

While mobs of rate housewives Food gamblers in New York, it is
storm the city hall of New York. raid said. have cleared at present prices
small stores n seize pushcarts of more than 100000 on onions, $500,
food, and while Joseph fIartgan, 900 o potatoes and S 1,000O00 on 9TH
commissioner of the city bureau of er vegetables and O. fruits. Almost
weights and measures, sees the neces- every mddeman who could raise the
sy of regulating farm labor in order cash OF obtain extra credit say the
to reduce retail price n the cities, al World, put away whatever potatoes,
few figures with regard o the food onions and cabbages could be coaxed
situation in the nations metropolis from the farmers.
nay b Of interest. In the wee end
ing January 27, in Manhattan, the fol. Another specimen of oure efficient
lowing quantities We're destroyed by and benevolent handling of food is
inspectors OF the health department. told in a recent aletter to Commis-
as unfit fol consumption: lsioner Eartigan Of New York. A
Fruit, 214y5s9 pounds; vegetables, ago ago in syracnse N v vas taken 10
$780, 49 pounds; beef in stores, f66004 BOSTON where a proft was pocketed
pounds; mutton in stores, 94I01 BY the buyer The party receiving it
unas meal IN a apaltohs $50 sliced off another margin by ship.
pounds; meat IN Wnolesae markets. ping it to Philadelphia. Next the car
g14 ~ ou manI INC MIX Ea 49, qu u is travelled to Chicago for another profit
IN the week ehonh eDuar o., IN and finally back to New York-where
Manhattan. alone the Inspectors con women with babes in their arm are
demned 174O49 pounds of fruit; 472- tipping owe pushcarts-to collect
W. POUNDS OF vegetables, and bOo still another profit.
pounds OF other foodstufs. Alto
gether in the last twenty weeks more And yet, says Commissioner Tartt
han hoooOW POUNDS o 1000, valued gan, the food supply must be in
at over s1000n00, arriving in New oroased We Mood - faderalh hoard f
York, have been condemned and de- cieaseu, " 9 neu d ieueiai ooau VI
troy by health department Of food control to regulate labor IN the
fdals. farm!
The situation is appalling, to say the least, IN a country that
has been free from war for many years past and which is occasionally
boastfully proclaimed the granary Of the world.
For the purpose of emphasis we wish to repeat that, altogether,
within the past twenty weeks, more than seven million pounds of
foodstufs, valued at more than a million dollars, have been con-
dernned and destroyed in New York-and this at a time when women
and babies, fguratlyely speaking at all events, are crying for bread
DDS of distribution and to the system by which we permit food gam
blers to manipulate our supply, so far as the consumer is concerned,
and at the same time to curtal the profits of the producer.
The Dispatch's Satire reference to the need of a federal board
OF control to regulate labor on the farm is particularly apt in view
OF existing conditions in New York @sMEE&#&## Es
What we do need, however, seems to be a board of some sort
that is empowered to grab the gamblers by the nape of the neck and
the seat OF the pants and hurl them into the briny deep-and then
proceed to eliminate a considerable portion of the private profit from
the system that lEteryenes between the producer and the consumer.