The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-01-09
LICENSE SYSTEM
FOR HOTELS Is
LADD FORECAST
Advocates Method rs Most
Efficacious Way of
Conserving Food
FLOUR PRICES
ARE TOO HIGH
Food Administrator Says
Bread Should Sell at
8 Cents In State

Grand Forks, NJ. D., Jan. Sugar
bread and -four cards for North Da-
ko.uns, unless there is a very decided
| change in conditions, were predicted
by DR.. Il. II. Ladd, state food ad-
ministrator in an interview here.
The license system for hotels and
all public eating houses also was
| predicted. DR.. Ladd advocated the
latter method as the most efficacious
way Of dealing with the food situa-
| ton.
He also declared that every mill
and every one who handles mill prod
ucts should be placed under federal
control, just as the railroads have
been.
"Inasmuch as the government has
stabilized wheat prices he said,
''the prices Of other products should
be stabilized, for only in this way
can the food situation be properly
handled"
Bread at Eight Cents.
Flour prices, he declared empatic-
ally, are too high, and this Is keep
ing the price Of bread up. Recently,
the federal food administration at
Washington issued a bulletin to the
effect that bread should sell in North
Dakota at cents.
II endorse that" he said. eff bread
can be sold at cents, cash and car
~, in New York, there is no reason
why it should not sell at cents in
North Dakota, where the wheat is
raised It can't be sold at 8 cents,
however, with -four prices as high as
they are. 1t is being SOLD at 10 cents,
but anything above that price is
profiteering."
In discussing the situation in North
Dakota at present, he said:
License System For Hotels.
Il see no reason why the license
system should not be extended to
hotels and all public eating houses.
The failure of some to comply with
the spirit, anyway with the intent,
to observe wheatless and meatless
days seems to make this necessary.
1t is very probable that, with present
conditions, all will be placed on the
card system for the purchase of
sugar, bread and -four"
In speaking Of the sugar situation,
Dr. Ladd said that anything below
10 cents now was not an unfair price. |
The retail price, he said, was g1s \
cents. There has been every effort, he |
said, on the part of the wholesalers
and retailers to observe the Fegula-
tons regarding sugar but they are
meeting with outside competition
which has brought about an unfair
situation.
Discrimination Noted.
He produced a record, provided byl
the Great Northern railroad, showing
the shipments Of sugar by one OUT
side firm to North Dakota customers.
Many of these customers, the record
secured many more sacks of
sugar than they were entitled to. In
some cases, DR.. Ladd declared, the
high number was not ordered. In
some cases, small dealers in small
towns received as high as Is sacks,
while larger dealers in the same town
secured only or sacks from North
Dakota houses.
At present, an investigation of flour
prices is being made, DR.. Ladd said,
This also includes an investigation
into the prices Of feed. DIR. Ladd de-
,lares that one Of the most important
problems at present is that of secur
ing a fair price of feed for the farm
Or, for upon it depends the cattle
raising industry.
With wheat at $2.05 a bushel, as
t is costing at the mill, bran ought
not to sell in carload lots to exceed
49," declared DR.. Ladd." There should
DO added to this, according to esti-
mates at Washington, so cents per
ON if sold in less than carload lots.
Il sold in sacks, then the cost OF
Iacking should be added. but, alto
yether, It should not exceed $40 a
on.
ut takes four and one-haIf bushels
# wheat to make a barrel of -four
1t sos, this would mean 1923 as
he cost of wheat at the mill. The
government has said rs cents is
rood price for milling and rs cents
,er barrel as the profit to the miller.
rhis makes $10.23 as the cost OF flour,
ran, shorts, Ted-dOg and all that
las come. Deduct the cost of the
ran, shorts and red-dog and we
ught to get a price of less than 1928
S the wholesale price Of -four at the
mill door. If we add to this amount
0 cents for the retailers profit
which is twice as much as the
gets), we ought to get
9.75 as the price the retailer should
ell the flour in the same town"
Violating u. s. Days.
DIR. Ladd declared that there are a
lumber Of reports regarding violation
f wheatIess and meatless days. From
ne or two towns, he said, have come
eports. of non observance on the part
f hoteIkeeper or restaurant man.
rhich has worked a hardship on the
ian who observes them.
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