The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-26
Urge State Appropriation of
One to Ten Million.
School Children Strike Threat
ened to Emphasize Conditions.
FIND NONE STARVING IN N. Y.
Economy Campaign for House
wives Advocates Rice Diet.
Woman March Leader Beats up
Her Grocer Husband.

New York. Feb. 26.-Representa-
tiyes of 1926 unions and socialist ana
women's organizations today planned
to urge upon Governor Whitman
legislative appropriation CT one to ten
million dollars to be used for the pur-
chase of food which would be sold at
Gust to the poor.
while officials predicted break in
ysr,ces soon. and city investigation
showed a constantly increasing pres
SIRE on families with small incomes
+s,e army of protest continued it's cam
paign today.
A school strike to center attention
on the hardships endured by the ciil.-
d,en of the east side was proposed.
The boycott plans in the east slde
were SO tightly drawn that retaii
noultrv dealers decided to close shoP,
when slaughter house owners Voteu
against this procedure, women VINO
have been picketinG retail stores Were
shifted to slaughter mouse Piche'
duty.
wife and Hubby Disagree.
D1rs Ida Harris who was a leader
i, nc march on city hall last Week'
,,,ade a spirited attack on het lAu9
hand. a grocery proprietor, Wiz -. ~
snolxe against closing OF grocery s.oI g
1ofnro the Hebrew Retail Grocers d.
PERU ebe led the women present
tbe meeting from the nan III d
- THE erOcers voted agalnSl CLOS
80 INT, approved the boycott VI Po
tatoes onions and lima Deans anu
chickens. .5 that his in
,ioators found no actual starVd-
t,oy, conditions. Health CothI,lls9iotti5
Irnerson in a statement toHS' ga
that unless wages are ral9eu ~ -, -
A,editions bettered, there VIII We {.
cenoltloI ;,creasing number of peo-
~ hose health will be Jeopardlzeu
Pc 4Tniy inability to buy sufficiently
pS,risbjoe food at the present prices
ceud out Million Circulars.
campafgn of education against
1ieh food prices was eA tenueu 1o &C..
taT,, several avenues. rms pan &c
dnn+ed nv the board of health AFTER
- i,,,estigatiOn to ascertain just no"
11ucb suffering existed among me
49,. and by the mayors food supply
pernr1ittee. 1t was endorsed py Gov
ernor Whitman VINO suli .llts! Up ..t itio
;a1v of the situation by saying the
aonIe have simply got to eat what
theY can afford to eat. ,.4 TO
homes thruout the city by means Oh
nublic school children one HllIlloIl GU
eriars urging citizens to eat rice IN
stood Of potatoes, onions and CABBAGE.
Ttaorea w Perkins, chairman OF TINS
committed asserted that New YORK
C,ftv might expect only sllght reduc-
fions in food prices unless the peoPle
made up their minds to adopt SUD
stitutes for expensive foodstutfs.
Enough rice is available at low
price, he said, to afford rellef uhtli
legislative action can be taken.
ON Wednesday it was announced,
Dublic hearings will begin at Albany
on the Wicks bill creating state de-
partment of foods and markets.
Starve on $500 Incomes.
Governor Whitman received per-
souaf proof of advancing prices yes
terdav when he found many dishes
on the menu at the hotel where he
is staying cost 10 cents more than
on Saturday.
The department of health in re-
port to the mayor found that a
Il marked increase in the export of
staple foodstuffS had great influ-
ence in raising prices but declared
nevertheless that there was less de-
tendency and real need in the city
Than had been common for many
Years past. At the same time, the
department reported that families
whose incomes were $500 a year OF
r less would suffer by their inability
4, buy sufficiently nourishing food al
4 the present prices. The report urged
that the poor be educated TO buy food
4 more intelligently and said that the
II welI-to-do might contribute toward
a this education by altering habits OF
81 carelessness and extravaganza in theil