New Britain herald., 1917-02-26
EAST AND WEST ON
 TRAIL 0F GAMBLERS Rice CatholiCan for Sick Pocket
 book, Dr. knickerbocker Says FRISCO WAREHOUSE PACKED

Products Needed For Human Con-
 sumption Found in Barge Quanti-
 ties-Chicago Trying to Solve Car
 Shortage Problem.
 New York, Feb. 26-A campaign of education against high food prices was extended today through several avenues. This plan was adopted by the board of health, after an investi- -gation to ascertain just how much suffering existed among the poor and by the mayors food supply commit tee. It was endorsed by Governor Whitman, who summed up his view of the situation by saying:
 '"The people have simply got to eat what they can afford to eat.''
 The food supply committee sent to homes throughout the city by means of public school children 100000 circulars urging citizens to eat rice instead of potatoes, onions and cab- bage. George w. Perkins, chairman of the committee, asserted that New York might expect only slight reduc- tions in food prices unless the people made up their minds to adopt sub- stitutes for expensive foodstuffs. Enough rice is available at a low price, he said, to afford relief until legislative action can be taken.
 Whitman's Food Cost More.
 On Wednesday, it was announced, public hearings will begin at Albany on the bill creating a state depart ment of foods and markets. Governor Whitman, who has been here since Friday night, received personal proof of advancing prices yesterday when he found dishes on the menu at the ho- tel where he is staying cost ten cents more than on Saturday.
 The department of health, in a re- port to the mayor found that marked increase in the export of staple foodstuffs had a great infiu- ence in raising prices but declared, nevertheless, that there was less de- pendency and real need in the city than had been common for many years past. The report urged that the poor be educated to buy food more intelligently and said that the well to do might contribute towards this education by altering habits of carelessness and extravagance in their homes"
 A number of retail grocers today joined consumers in the boycott against potatoes, onions >and chickens and agreed not to sell these articles. Cold Storage Plants Filled. San Francisco, Feb. 26.-The entire force of the city administration was enlisted today in an effort to find out what foodstocks are being held in cold storage. City officials said they had been informd that local cold storage warehouses were packed with the very products that are being sold at famine prices on the plea that the l supply is short.
 At the city attorneys office it was said that wherever it is found that accumulation has been made for the purpose of cornering food, measures will be adopted to force that par ticular product into the market at a reasonable price.
 Chicago Conditions Reported Worse. Chicago, Feb. 26.--Officials of the Chicago board of trade, attorneys for the board of representatives of grain houses met today to discuss the car shortage situation, particularly as it affects the grain business and to de- wise means of obtaining more ears for the movement of the product. Ac- cording to board of trade officials, conditions are growing worse instead of better, as regards grain shipments
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