Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-11-02
FOOD CONSERVATION
IS MADE COMPULSORY

day one of the few arguments of some
housewives against home food conser-
walton by making food conservation
compulsory on manufacturers, jobbers.
wholesalers and many retailers of the
country's basis food products.
The plan became effective yesterday
by presidential order
Coming at the height of the Food
Pledge Week campaign, it is consid-
cred by the food administration Il
conclusive answer to the housewives
who haye said;
why should ! si3n the food pledge
to conserve food in my home when
the manufacturers are wasting it, spec
ulators are boosting it's price, and
anti-Americans are boarding 1t in enor-
nous quantities?'
There will be no more OF that. All
the great manufacturers and whole
salers who have been accused of con-
ItOllluS tle Aldlh net arc liOW A+o' bluuSli
to 90 busin SIS, except under govern
ment license.
This includes those engaged in
;.the import. manufacture, storage
ard distribution" of thief fundamental
foodstuffs named. It embraces meat
packers, cold storage warehousemsn
nillers, Gamers, elevators, grain deal
ers and retailers doing a business CT
more than 100000 a year
These dealers have been warned
that any one of them who is found
| manipulating or specializing in these
foods. who boards them, who EFFORTS
unreasonable profits, or who INDUCES
IN discriminatory practices in handlin9
them, will be subject to two years i'm
prisonment or fine of $4,000, or both.
Hoarded food will be seized by the
government.
Conspiracy on the part of dealers 10
defeat the purposes Of the food law is
punishable by fine of $4,000, or two
years Imprisonment, or both.
The government will watch these
dealers and consider them as patriot
ically living up to the provisions OF the
license until by their own acts they
prove that the confidence is misplaced
Such cases will be dealt with summa-
rily
No firm in the list can do business
without a government license during
the continuance of the war. And un-
der the license, each firm or person
licensed must report what has been
going on in his business since the lats
report A special legal department
has been organized in the food admin
istration to enforce these regulations.
Dealers affected are those packing
or handling in large way, wheat,
wheat flour, rye, or rye flour, barley,
or barley -four, oats, oatmeal or roll
ed oats, corn, corn grits, corn meal,
ihominy, rye -four, starch from corn,
oil corn syrup or grucose, rice and
rice -four. dried beans, pea seed Or
dried peas, cottonseed cake or cotton
seed meal, peanut oil or meal, soy bean
oil or meal. palm or copra oil, oleo-
margarine, lard, lard substitutes, oleo
oils or cooking fats, milk, butter or
cheese, condensed, powdered or eVap-
GRATED milk, fresh, canned or cured
beef. pork or mutton, poultry or eggs,
fresh or frozen fish, fresh fruits CT
vegetables, canned peas, tomatoes,
corn, salmon or sardines, dried
prunes, apples, peaches, or ralsins'
sugar, syrups or molasses.
This, Food Pledge Week campaign
ers pointed out, puts the housewife,
the packer and the dealer in food on
par in the saving campaign. With
this distinction, the housewives are
being asked to conserve voluntarily
the needed war foods, meat, wheat,
fats and sugar The packers and
rralers have accepted restrictions
aimed to adjust exorbitant prices at
the sources.
Replying to the further criticism
that leaving retailers doing less than
$1OO 900 worth of business a year I'M
licensed doesn't help in the hight retail
price situation much food admins
tration official today said:
eve were not authorized by con
gress to license retailers doing less
than 100000 year business. How
ever, the control of retail prices real
lly is in the hands of the housewives
We now control the basic products up
to the small retailers door. We viii
tell the public what price the retail
or rays fer those products. Then It
will he up to the buying housewives
20 see that no retailer sells to them
for more than fair margin of profit.