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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-19
Aldermen Kill
Plan for City
Food Stores
They Limit Work to Sales
Of Milk by Health
Department
Board Played Politics,
Say Social Workers
Action Is Called a Slap at
Moskowitz for Not Con-
6ding in Members

Aldermen Of the board that ret.rrs
January killed the resolution yes
tertav which would have enabled the
DEPARTMENT Of Public Markets to es-
tablish municipal stores to check food
and fuel proftecring in the city. In
its place they substituted, By a vote
of 81 TO II. a measure offered by Nh
nicipal Judee-clcct Robitzck, chair
man Of the Committee on Public Wei
fare. which limits the city to the sale
Of milk at cost, and, instead Of the
markets department, names the De-
partment of Health as the milk sales
agency.
DR.. Haven Emerson, Commissioner
of Health. was astonished last night
whom told that his department had
been DESIGNATED. and said he was ut
terlv unprepared for the new duties.
Settlement workers who had urged the
municipal stores plan declared the
hoard had played politics and
Godred Il situation which was likely
to develop riots and disorders az any
time.
Sidetracked Hoarders'. Resolution
The aldermen also passed an ordi-
nance forbidding the sal: OF coal here
after except BY weight. There We're
eleven opponents Of this, although il Is
a measure aimed at the practice OF
selling coal by the bag and bucket,
through which, since the cold weather
began. small buyers have been forced
to pay as high as S33 ton.
But they sidetracked a resolution by
Alderman Dickstein calling Tor the
employment of the Police Department
in searching out hidden stores Of
sugar and coal, and reporting hoarders
TO the Federal fuel and food admins
trations Tor prosecution.
Mr.. Dickstein, whose district includes
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-19
Porkless Saturday Is
Urged for New York
City and State Food Con-
trollers Expect Order from
Hoover

To save all pork products, OF when
TIE country is short and Wnlch our
soldiers and our allies need almost as
loalv as wheat. the Federal foou
BOARD here Yesterday issued CAL ior
.,.oInrtccrs to enlist for pork prohlDi-
ton on Saturdays, beginning next 2 Sl
urday. IL is only a matter OF Jew
weeks. anyway, till the national 1000
administration will declare one PORE
less day a week. Chairman Mitchell or
the Food Board pointed out that our
tork production was 40 low ebD ana
needed immediate attention.
TcderaI Food Administrator arthur
Williams said that the new federai
food administration food card would
come ont January g with request to
the nation TO observe porkless Satur-
day.
The Federal Food Board yesterday
took under adyisement the offer OF
Hvman Borrok. arrested for boarding
sugar. to sell his hoard Of thlrty-tWo
barrels at five cents a pound 10 hospl-
tals. orphan asylums and other char
table institutions.
MIR. Mitchell and Mr. Williams, Of
the Federal Food Board, said that If
this settlement were accepted, il would
rot give Borrok immunity from pros
ecution By the United States District
Attorneys for boarding a food ncccs-
sIty. Mr.. Williams said that Borrok's
hoard amounted TO 1920 pounds, and
that he would lose $500 by selling 1t
at five cents a pound.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-19
Price Fixing Extended
To Small Retail Crocers
Food Administrators to End All Prohteering-
Chairman Mitchell Makes Public Rules Govern
inc Labels on Commodities

The small retail grocers and other
retail dealers doing business in a small
way, who have heretofore been told
that they were immune from the con-
troll exercised by the food administra-
ton over big retail dealers and all
wholesalers, will have to suffer the in
convenience of readjusting their ideas.
1t has been popularity believed that
the food administration could control
prices and business methods only in
the case Of wholesalers and retail mer-
chants doing a business Of more than
100000 a year. These have TO possess
Federal license, which the national
food administration may revoke when
ever the big dealer is caught boarding,
specializing or discriminating in his
dealings.
Laws Apply to Small Dealers
Yesterday Chairman John Mitchell
and Federal Food Administrator Ar
thur Williams declared that their
jurisdiction extended to small as well
as large dealers in food. under the
Tcuetdl STATUTES. -hi' NiitNllti' W. 10
also chairman of the State Food Com
mission, declared that the state food
act likewise provided him with club
over the small dealers.
1t is pointed out that Section 4 Of
the Federal Statutes provides that it is
unlawful for any person 10 destroy
food uecessaries 10 raise the price or
restrict the supply. the statute pro-
vides that it is unlawful 10 permit pre-
ventable deterioration Of food, to hoard
necessaries, or monopolize or engage
in any destructive, discriminatory or
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-19

wasteful practice, cor make any un-
Just or unreasonable rate or charge in
handling or dealing in any necessaries."
The state law goes further than the
Federal statute IN that it gives the
State Food Commission authority to
enact rules for the correction of any
practices (which interfere with the
distribution or sale of any necessaries
at a reasonable price" Such rules, ac-
cording 10 Chairman Mitchell, can be
adopted by the State Food Commission
and have the effect of statute ten
days after official publication by the
commission.
Rules Governing Labels
Mr.. Mitchell made public set of
rules governing labels on foods exposed
for sale or sold. The rules have been
and, according to Mr.. Mitchell, they
probably will be passed at the meeting
OF the commission Friday.
These rules provide:
That food commodities. which are
to be selected by the State Food Com
mission. shall be Labelled as 10 grade
and retail price. and the label shall be
written or printed so that it may be
read ut a distance of ten feet.
That ip cases of food sold in con-
tainers the label shall be affixed to the
container with the grade. price and
net amounts of the contents.
That in case the food is kept in a
container, but not sold in one, the label
shall be affixed 10 the container.
That such labels and signs shall be
plainly written or printed in English.
and If one-third cr more of the retail
er's customers speak and read some
foreign language, the labels and signs
shall be in that language also.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-19
Turkey and Fixin's
Endorsed for Xmas

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1S.-The "old-
fashioned" Christmas dinner was in
dcrsed tonight by the food admins
tration.
Turkey. goose and vegetables, on
which Americans dine at Christmas, ac-
cording to ancient custom said the
statement, care the very things the
food administration wants them to eat,
as they conserve wheat, red meats, fats
and other needed war foods.
"Fittingly enough, this Christmas
falls on meatless Tuesday, the day on
which no red meats are to be eaten.
Serving the cldtime Christmas dim
ner on that day could not be more
appropriate. No red meat, Of course,
should be used in mince pies"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-19
Sugar Profiteering on Large Scale
Disclosed by Restaurant Men Here

Evidence of indiscriminate specula-
ton IN sugar and total disregard on an
extensive scale Of the Federal Food
Board. the National Food Administra-
ton and all food price control agen-
cies in the city was disclosed last night
at meeting of the Association of Res
taurant Keepers in the Broadway Cen
trail Hotel.
Scores OF restaurant men, most OF
them proprietors of lunchrooms, told
City Market Commissioner Henry
Moskowitz, whom they had asked 10
attend the meeting. that they had
been forced to pay from - TO Is cents
a mound for sugar last week. This
was al about the time when the Fed
cral Food Board was pluming itself
on stamping out profteering by revok-
ing the licenses OF two East Side deal
ers who had charged is cents a pound
and forced their customers to buy
large bills Of other groceries WITT
their sugar.
The day the Federal Food Board had
big signs nailed on the doors of the
two East Side proftccrs, with the leg
end. CLOSED by the Federal Food
Board" Chairman Mitchell said he was
confident that sugar proiteering was
at an end in New York City.
Last night the proprietor OF the
Gruber chain Of lunchrooms told Com
missioner Moskowitz that he had been
forced to pay IS cents a pound for
sugar a few days ago. Leavitt's lunch
room, p Second Avenue, paid II cents
n mound for sugar. Dubow Brothers,
400 Fifth Avenue. reported that six
DAYS ago they paid the same price.
The proprietor Of the Golden Restau.
rant. 6 East Thirtieth Street, managed
to get his sugar cheap. The product
offered him was not OF the first grade.
II was classcd as "B," 80 all he had to
raw was u cents a pound.
Commissioner MoskowitZ advised all
the lunch room men to form a coOpera-
tive association for sugar buying, and
10 buy directly from the refneries. He
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-19
Do You Read the Table?

w re expect any read the table Of quotations from sn
w though it thriller though the facts
by no lacking thrills if not scared oil BY the
tabular
hoped knowledge of what the prevailing prices are
stores different foods Of different grades will give
houkeeper basis for her market list and sprnsboad OF fac
from which she can leap retailers throat with uneng
he does overcharge.
An intelligent buyer makes at least cautious and respectful seller
reading table is to look the prices Of the
staples these prices in the market The
nearby high and to base selection
abundant seasonabe and cheapest Sometimes The
cheaper just desirable the expensive to w
conditions transportation temporary shortage Of supplies have
given a fictitious value.
be predestinaed home these days. should
expediencies of the moment The market
these dozen busy half y
gathering these figures needless shopping and comp
you you them? they not disable or helpful let
know why
buying backed by intelligent knowledge Of conditions makes
proferng affords definite ground for refusing
prices This only profit yourself but is an mpo
the of the food administration supervising TIE
retailers. will help meet abnormal
with maximum of fairness and and minimum Of
necessary and improbable irritation.
COMPARISON WHOLESALE PRICES N TYPICAL
AND LOCALITIES DECEMBER 49, 1910
prices in per pound nless otherwise stcted)
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-19
Suggestions

Don't chops unless aspire cover the top Of all food prices
it beef CASSEROLE Loaf
lamb Is % pound instead
paying other expensive places.
Founders the only thing that approach bargain in fish, with cod
and whiting next choice
Cheese and cold within reach but butter and fresh
for those prefer the last favor Thrift
Stamp.
asks lettuce cauower 10 80
throw when cabbage cents
pound?
Something with the editorial The that
the
the Consumer the baker and ask
why?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-19

the Rivington, Ludlow and East nous
ton Street sections Of the East Side, DC.
clared he had conclusive evidence OF
general boarding. one case, he said
involved a wealthy Socialist who TOOK
9 prominent part in the Hillquit cam
pairn. which. besides pacihsm, was
based on the pledge 90 lower food
prices His appeal for immediate ac-
ton, however, resulted only IN a de-
cision TO consider the matter az the
final meeting Of the board on Deem
Der 2S.
After the meeting several aldermen
declared that DR.. Moskowitz mad made
tactical error in declining TO take
the board into his confidence regard
ing his plans 20 beat down the prof.
toers Dr. Moskowitz replied that 20
have revealed details would have given
the profteers a chance 20 take eitcc-
tive counter measures.
The RobitZek substitute not only lin
its the city TO the sale Of milk, but
does not empower the Department OF
Health 20 seek funds with which 20
carry out the project. although IT au-
lorizes the employment Of any add
tional help that may be necessary "fo
cfectuate the purposes OF this reso-
luton"
The substitution of the Department
Of Health for the Department OF Pub
lie Markets apparently was a belated
aftcrthoucht. for as drawn by the
Corporation Counsel the Robitzek res
olution designated the markets de-
vartment as the milk selling agency,
and this was crossed out and the
words department OF Health inter
lined with q pencil.
DR.. Emerson was plainly astounded
last night.
"Oh. no. you mean the Department;
Of Public Markets" he exclaimed.
"No, your department was suosti-
tuted." he was assured.
"WeH. am sorry" he replied, and
went on 10 say that he had not been
--.....1..I
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-19
Asks Farmers to Hold Hogs

CHICAGO, Dec. 1S.-A warning to
farmers not to ship hogs but to hold
them back for the present, in order to
avoid falling prices, was sent out to-
day by j. C.. Cotton, head of the meat
division Of the food administration.
In a written statement he said:
"Hold back your hogs. On November
] stated that the prices Of hogs. so
far as this division could affect them
would not fall below about $3.50 a
hundredweight for the average of the
packers droves on the Chicago market
until further notice. That statement
make again.
"The packers inform me they are
doing their best TO aid us in that pol
icy, but largely owing to transportation
difficulties in the East there is now
glut Of hogs on the Chicago market
and more hogs than the packers can
kin and handle. Do not sacrifice your
hogs by dumping them on an over
crowded market"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-19
Mrs. Hoover Urges Saving

Wheatlcss days are all well enough,
but the only real way for the women
of the country to conserve wheat, ac-
cording to a statement issued yester-
day by Mrs. Hoover, wife of the United
States food administrator, is to create
such a demand for bran, whole wheat
and corn breads that they will appear
on the table seven days a week instead
of one. She added that if people would
eat the coarse grained breads more
often they would acquire a liking for
them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-19
Wednesday, December 10, 1917

These retail and wholesale prices offered basis for
making up an economical market one that will help
the buying the selling and the Food Administration
couang prices endesvors put the be-
hind the facts and to help in their practical application
any points that not plain, or you have
marketing problems the quoted do not hold true
your Dealers telephone lbs Tribune Institute
Beekm,n 10000 and shall be glad in
We
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-19
Thrifty List
Total

We do not maintain that delicious grapefruit
that whiting will taste like haut There be who prefer n
veal loaf that the thrifty list will afford
wholesome appezng food and that might like just well
It's less provident companion, which half times much
These not deadly parallel columns but comparison full OF
suggestion and hope for those who struggling with fixed income
and increasing scale of prices
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-19
Federal Food Boards Price List

The Federal Food suggests the fooHg prices o" op
commodities SLoDper find their grocers charging mdtefoV
more for their groceries notify the Fedeol Food Board Com
mimi ;reio ego Vest FyseUenh street. Manhattan, gtoing INC
name and address Of the grocer.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-19
Two Market Lists-Thrifty and Thoughtless

the marketing might be Gu
buying these two lists have been compiled based OF
quotations:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-19
=. Market Quotations
q Mg for the 5W "a
L..,1@IHousewife@ sRxz
Edited by
Director of the Tribune Institute

WIN Of Tho T. Department Of hgreHurS Bures
Markets, yes0 York O6ee and the Bureau Of Foods and
Drugs of the City Board Of He1h
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-19

Dozens Single unit o.
ABINDANTSpnah cabbage caulhowe
quasi
kale pumpkins
apples and
cormea ucumber eggpants
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-19
Thoughsless List

Grapefruit a. .1S. ........ S0.5l
10 cornmeal % OF. .01
quarts milk a. .14...... az
dozen eggs "a so. ...... SO
loaves bread @ 10. 80. 20
10 tomatoes at "a .25.,.. 20
head lettuce "a 10. ..... 10
lbs halibut "a .50........ 20
10 butter "a .55. .6o
10 s potatoes "a DID,. 10
dozen oranges "a H.. 20
ID bunch carrots @ .08.. .os
lbs lamb chops a .40... SO
ID sugar a 10. ...... ~
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eg AZ
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-19

re DO not expect any read the table Of quotations from
M to finish as though thriller though the facts
h no means lacking in thrills you scared of The
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-29
W. u. INNOCENT
Members Testify to Ignorance
of Anti-Draft Movement.
Working Glass Onion Merely a
Farm Upiift Organization?

Enid, Okla, Sept 29--Lawyers for
the defendants in the draft resisting
and conspiracy cases on trial before
Judge CotrilPs federal court here are
making desperate counter-attacks on
the testimony of D. O. Barton and j.
H. Holmes, two government witness
es Both of the men are members of
the Working Glass union and gave
damaging evidence against the elev-
en- defendants.
The defense has been alternating
between character witnesses and tes-
timony from the defendants. Ac-
cording to these witnesses the far
mers in the vicinity of Tecum-
sch from where the defendant came,
were totally ignorant of the l. w W.
organization. The w. c. U. in their
neighborhood was never intended as
draft resisting organization. The
object of the local was for the better
ment of the farmers. 1t met irregu-
larry up to April this year. Meetings
became more frequent from that time
on. None of the defendants had ex-
pressed an opposition to the draft,
after it had become a law A petition
circulated by some one unknown to
any of the witnesses so far placed on
the stand, asking congress to put the
draft question, to a vote of the people,
had been generally signed by mem
bers of the w. C. U. before that meas
ure became a law. This petition stat
ed that a similar one had been cir
culated in Australia. That when the
Australian people voted on it they beat
it. The only mention of resisting the
draft law was made by D. o. Barton.
Clure Isenhour, defendant CORE
spending secretary of the Pottawato-
mic w. c. u. organization, denied
writing letter shown him by District
Attorney Fain to "Rube" Munson. He
copied the letter from dictati0n by
Fain. The two will be compared.
Isenhour was badly confused by Fain
before he was dismissed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-29
THIS YEAR OR NEXT
Brother of TOpekan in France
Writes of Victory.
$50 to Rhine When Time
COmeS'-Lieut. Swends0n.

Cities in France are being destroyed
by German guns, rebuilt by the French
and English military and civilians
only to be again destroyed, according
to a letter received today from S. A.
Swendson, in the Santa Fe hospital
department. from his brother, Harry
Swendson, a lieutenant with the Brit
sh-AustraIian armies in France. The
letter is censored. The writer is an
American and expresses pleasure at
the news that my people are going
to take hand
Swendson declares he has nc doubt
of the outcome of the war. "be it this
year or next
AT present" he says, I'VE are
holding on with enough supports to
go to the Rhine when the time
comes"
The letter in part follows:
Dear Brother: | am very glad my
people at have at last decided to take
hand in the game, for the sake OF
humanity and the right of existence
for small peoples.
I'VE have in hand rather a large
contract but one that has required
attention for some time. Our father
saw it coming when l was boy NO
doubt it will be satisfactorily COM
Am pleased to learn that some OF
our boys discounted the draft and
volunteered.
Just now. we are in what was the
heart of fertile Europe-very thlckiy
populated, with towns and villages
overlapping boundaries. To the NORTH
and to the south of US a big 'stra1e
is on At present we are holding
with supports enough to go to the
Rhine, when the time comes. How
ever. complications do arise in the
handling of such masses cooperative
w. | have no doubt of the ultimate
outcome be it this year~or next.
"A large town just behind us has
been receiving the particular atten
ton of a very large long range gun
for several days past 1t was shot
to pieces, partially rebuilt, and is now
being riddled again, which rate IS past
history to many fine towns here
Magnificent spectacl are common.
Anti-air craft guns, directed by
numberless searchlights trained on
Boche planes, furnish wonderful
sight by night. The work of the
artillery is simply wonderful the CO
operation marvellous. War is indeed
a great game, but it trains us to be
casual. Human life is of small value.
'TiS the only way. Remainder carry
on" could continue, and continue to
the finish we must and will. L am
luck Have been with this battalion
more than a year. Our brigadier is
(Toronto) Yankee, my company
Yankee, my company sergeant major
is a true Yank, and many more are
here and there thru the armies.
"a bundle of P. c. snaps sent at
the same time were returned to my
address. Sorry they too did not reach
you. However, censors must be re-
spected.' HARRY.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-29

a more extensive record in this re-
spect owing to longer connection with
the senior league. Since 1876 the
club haSw seven league champion
ships and three world series, and its
average position for SO seasons is four
and a very small fraction. Chicago's
showing in this department of the
records is even better, the White Sox
having gained the high average of
ga over a stretch of Is years.
Giant Pennants.
remnants rewarded the work of the
New York club players in 1888, 1888,
1904, 1905, 1911, 1912. 1918 and again
this season. In 1888 the Giants de-
feated the ST Louis American. asso-
citation team in the world series of
those days. ten games to four, and the
following season won from Brooklyn
of the same circuit, six games to
three In 1905 they defeated the Phil
adelphia Americans four games to
one, having refused to meet the Bos-
ton Americans the previous year. The
Philadelphia Athletics secured re-
venge when the teams met in 1911
winning four gam les to two. Boston
Red SoX maintained the American
league record by defeating the Giants
four games out of seven in 1912 and
the next season Philadelphia repeat
ed at the New York clubs expense,
winning four games to one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-29
1T is WRONG TO HOARD, BUT
WISE TO STORE!

Don't clutter up your kitchen and
pantry with staples bought in fear of
rising prices. That only makes prices
rise.
Store foods that would otherwise
rot-the products of the season.
There are many vegetables that will
keep without canning or preserving in
your own cellar, if you know how to
store them. Perhaps these vegetables
are growing in your own garden. If
not you can buy them cheap.
How to store vegetables for the win
ter is told in an illustrated pamphlet
published by the United States govern
ment.
Just fill in the attached coupon and
mail with a two-cent stamp for return
postage, anG a copy of this pamphlet
will be sent to you at once.