St. Tammany farmer., 1918-12-21
Food Control Rule Will Be
Strictly Construed
From Now On.
CLOSE UP PENALTY
INSTEAD OF FINES
Wilson, Hoover May Send
Messages from Europe
AS To Food.

Recent talks to wholesalers and
brokers by John NJ. Parker, Food
Admins. rator for Louisiana, and J.
NJ When, assistant food admins
traitor, intimated spectacular finish
for the department which has been
performing broad public service
since the beginning of the great war.
The addresses were more signiti-
cant because they followed immedi-
ately upon the visit of United States
Food Administration inspection par
ties from Washington. These went
over the records and transactions of
a number Of concerns, and while
they gave a gratifying general bill of
health they raised questions regard
ing number of practices which are
being passed upon at Washington,
and which may result in penalties
being imposed in high places.
Mr.. Parker struck the keynote of
the new order when he warned
wholesalers and retailers alike that
the Food Control rules would be
strictly construed 4fOm now on. In
stead of the payment of fines being
permitted, the sole and only punish
ment woHld~be the closing of the con-
Germs for the remainder of the inter-
val of the signing of peace with Ger
many, by revoking the licenses of the
wholesalers or placing the retailers
on the unfair list which would pro-
hibit them from obtaining supplies.
The Food Administration has al
ready begun the dismantling of its
machinery and there will soon be
very little of the paraphernalia kept.
Food control proper, however, will
continue until the very last moment
and prObabl for some time there
after. The district and parish food
administrators. as well as the nation
al and state chiefs. have pledged
themselves to serve until the receive
their honorable discharges from Her
bert Hoover, United States Food Ad
ministrator, and Woodrow Wilson,
President OF the Uniteed States, and
both these leaders intimate that
these discharges will not be granted
until the work is entirely at an end.
President Wilson and Mr.. Hoover are
both in Europe and may send mes
sagesffrom there as to the food con-
tribution and conservation required
of America in order to assure the
permanent peace which the chief ex
ecutive has broken precedents by
crossing the ocean in order to facili-
tate and guarantee.
One of the last local performances
promises to be as striking and last
ing in it's effect as the National Food
Administration finale. The women's
committee appointed by Mr.. Parker
to recommend fair milk prices and
reforms connected with the supply,
may soon be ready to report. The
committee has sifted the matter more
thoroughly than any previous volun-
teer body and is striving for some
permanent plane of public protection
as well as the encouragement and
improvement of production. 1t has
already announced that it regards
the purity and wholesomeness Of the
supply and it's effective safeguarding
as of equal Importance with the fix
ing of price which will make pro-
ducers content to remain in business.
1t is very likely that after the main
features of the report are agreed up
on, official and other interests will be
and asked to concur both
in the findings and their enforce
ment 1t is thought that this course
will quickly lead to the betterment
which has been the goal of long dis
cussion witho< achieving the very
valuable results