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the city, whose appetite has become dcbased
or degenerated by long course OF survival
or such menu as ordinarily is put forth at
hotel or public eating place, he has lived
on caviar or packing house products or
canned goods, or bread made from patent
Hour, or things that have as little nutrment
IN them as an Egyptian mummy. would Just
as soon go down to the Smithsonian Institu~
ton and eat mummy that was wrapped
4.6Uo years ago during one of the reigns of
the forgotten Rameses. Now we have eaten
that stuff until We have had our appetite
somewhat perverted. . The greatest
tribute to the toughness of the human race
physically is the fact that it can live On
what it eats and keep reasonable degree
OF health SO if we are going to come to a
cottage cheese basis the first thing we have
got to do is to cultivate the appetite of the
consumer. You will have to have lectures
dllatlng on the value of cottage cheese as 2
food product l can imagine having gen
tlemen of the kind that need these lectures
In hall, a thousand of them
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F. very Patriotic American
IL Must Applaud

The Albuquerque Morning Journal"
pronounced the report ''the most star
Ting accusation of big business profiteer-
ing ever made, and it is stanchily backed
oy evidence and added: EVERY Amer
ican who places patriotism above profit
cannot but applaud the commission
which so thoroughly dug into the mire
of profteering."
The New York World" is convinced
mat "a deep and lasting impression will
De made upon public opinion" by the re-
port. The San Antonio Express" IN
reading it, "is tossed between the waves
OF amazement and Indignation. The
amazement, after a while, subsidies. but
che Indignation remains
The report, however, has not met with
unanimous praise. Some papers object
10 It's tone, while others question the
sweeping character of it's conclusions
The Outlook" says that it's language
smacks in spots of the political speech"
and adds: at is unfortunate that this
report is prepared in such way as to
give the impression to the country thai
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prlce-fxing resulted directly in high profits
for many concerns"
"The Milwaukee Sentinel" pointed out
that the Sensational charges" as to
gross profiteering "cut two ways" and
added:
They hit not only the alleged and in
some instances specified profiteers, but also
the government machinery for price and
profit fixing.
"If the charges be true, the gov
eminent price controllers whose function
was to prevent such abuses of large scale
eHtortion will stand committed of lament
able nefficiency-possessing the large in
quisitorial and rectifying powers which
they do under the law, they must have been
sadly taken in and inadequate to their jobs )"
"The San Francisco Chronicle" calls
attention to the fact that some of the
accused firms have denied that the facts
are as reported by the commission and
is disposed to suspend judgment till fur
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ther evidence is accessible. Meanwhile
1t finds natural and wholly impersonal
cause for high prices;
But there is no doubt that a great part
OF the increased prices of all products rem
resent nothing but depreciation of cur
rency and credit. . That is a natural
economic law, constituting an irresistible
force against which it is useless to set up
ar''''clal barriers Nothing can stop
the increase of prices except stopping the
emission of credits"
The Omaha Bee" also points out that
the trouble flows from the prodigalitv
with which public money has been, is be-
ing and will be spent until Congress re-
vlses its way of making appropriations.
The commissions report singled out
the big meat packers as meriting the
palm for successful prohteering, and
that section of its report has been widely
discussed. The packers at once came
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\ IL You Have to Do
~ Is Let the Milk Sour

SENATOR SHERMAN-I do not know
whether some Of the degenerate tribe to
which l belong have too little respect for
these oldtlme food products not, but to
me tins item is ridiculous supremacy So
Why, what is cottage cheese? If you are
lucky enough to have milk in the crock
during thunderstorm it will cottage
cheese itself without an effort; all you need
IS to sour the milk, and either hot weather
or patience will do it, either one. Just let
1t alone for awhile, and after it is soured
all you have to do when it is reduced to
curd is to beat it up little, and, if you
IKE any kind of seasoning in it put it in:
II not, eat IN state of pu1'is iut2trabIe.
1t is nutritious. Just the same it is
good thing to eat 1t is said to be an anti
dote for old age, and it ought to be ex-
tremely popular in the Senate. The chem
lists some time ago down in the valleys of
the Ural investigated the great longevity
OF the people residing in that country 1t
led up to the fact that they were habitual
consumers of curds, sour milk. Then thew
went to analyzing and they found that it
had IN it what the chemists call beneficial
mlcrobe--lt made war on the microbe of old
age. 1t purified the blood, made it active,
fortified one against hardening of the ar
terles and softening of the brain and an
lndlsposltion to exercise and the tendency
to enlarge the waistband of the trousers
and keep you down to your normal siza
J. read a report that from a learned
chemist at one time that occupied me nearly
half day. 1t was full of information. but
the result of it was, eat cottage cheese or
drink sour milk or eat curd
Now as to the scientific name. notice
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"I Tried 1t Forty Years
L and 1t Won't Work"

Mr.. SHhRMAN-On two occasions in oral
conversation with ladies and their hus-
bands from agricultural districts in the
West and Northwest, they have spoken Of
this great desire to illuminate the farm
kitchens of the country. | refer to the
women who came here, the farmers wives
the ones who do not keep house by proxy
by servants; with them it is matter Of
supreme love. One old lady who was here
said: They came out into my kitchen and
began to tell me about things which | knew
were not so, for l tried it for forty years in
my kitchen and know it viii not work"
Now here is something that is Of very
great advantage in the cottage cheese end
OF 1t, Ii We are going to have any genuine
conservation OF food products so as to util-
ize the milk, Mr. President, the first
thing we have got to do is to take the dill
cttanti Of this country in tow and cultivate
their appetite5. There viii be no consump-
ton OF cottage cheese unless there is an
appetite for that brand of edible. To the
average man looking over bill of fare iu
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BY Ralph Block
Washington, July II.

washington, July II.
f Theocritus and Virgil are shades
in the dim stygian land there is no
H. need to mourn, for among the living
bucolic rhapsodies there is still
Senator Sherman. Out from somewhere
near the Spoon River country Senator
Sherman brings the scent of clover.
makes audible the humming of bees and
the low cry of the cattle; envisages con-
tented fields burned under a bronze sun
and rudy maidens bearing pals of
foamlng milk. Doubtless this is not a
picture of Illinois to-day, but it is the
picture that Senator Sherman-who does
himself remind you of Masters's line
"he heard Abe Lincoln speak"
mates and makes pulsate in the rare at
mospheres of the Senate II am plain
man is the burden of the voice that cries
out of Senator Sherman, but it is mod
esty that projects him so, for his mind
has no plalnness in it. 1t is mind rich
with the plentitude of prairies, and so
delIcately set to the task of being a Sena-
make jewelry that will hold the calloused
Senators for hours
Nothing will abash Senator Sherman.
He sets every impossibility at naught
and makes magic before the Senate's
very eyes. He juggles lightly, produces
ladders to heaven, flowers out of barren
pots, whole landscapes in mirage and
talks for hours at a stretch.
He did so on Tuesday. There was the
emergency agricultural BILL win-the-
war bill, and Senator Sherman, agile,
with furrowed brows and tossed gray
hair, gave a complete picture of what a
Senator may do to befriend Senate
that is still in the process of making up
its mind that it must lose it's summer
leisure
1t was not large audience, but it was
a sufficient audience. There were Mel
son, Brandegee, Smoot, Warren, Hard
ing, Kenyon, Sterling and Lenroot, with
Penrose, commodious under spreading
vast waistcoat, sitting by his side The
other side Of the chamber was almost de-
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they do not call it cottage cheese.t They
cal 1t by dignifed name. | resrnemb Der
when the Senator from Alabama Mr. I'm
uerwood) once spoke of oleomargarike he
wanted to leave the "oleo' Off That means
on ana 1t seemed to be little bit too thick.
lie wanted to leave it off and lust call #
margarine; it was more euphonious.
There is a good deal in a name. and If
sometimes improves the appetite to have
an euphonious name on the bill of fare
Otherwise, we would not want to have n
waiter translate the French term for us so
OFTEN when we want something nice. If we
Just knew what it was we would have plenty
OF it and need not know it.
Mr.. NELsON-May | ask the Senator
from Illinois question?
MIR. SHERMAN sir.
Mr.. NELsON-Will he please inform the
Senate the distinction between this COTTAGE
cheese and lmburger cheese?
Mr.. HERMAN-There are two vital
points Mr.. President, in which they differ
and by which novice would not mako a
mistake 1t is the age and the odor. You
might mistake one, but you can never mis-
take the other
Nh. Nelson apprises Mr. Sherman that
agents have been travelling through the
farm districts educating the people in the
ways Of cottage cheese Mr.. Sherman is
already informed He enlargcs on the
matter.
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1t is not so much report as an arraign

1t is not so much report as an arraign-
ment.'
1.-The Indianapolis News" also thinks
that it "reads more like soap-box ora
tory than a government report of facts"
and it finds in it "the same spirit and
the same inaccuracy that used to mark
the outgivings of the muckraker of
other days
Many papers make the point that the
large profits of numerous companies re-
suit naturally from the fixing of maxi
mum prices by the government, and are
thus involuntary, so far as the recipients
are concerned; the companies, say these
papers, only take what the government
gives them, and you cannot expect them
to take less.
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I title Mercy Is Shown
- the Packers

In dealing with these statements and
with the utterances of the commission
regarding the packers the press of the
country has shown little mercy for the
packers. "The Portland Daily Eastern
Argus" said: "That meat has advanced
several hundred per cent means nothing
less than that the packers of the West
were flying the black flag of the prof
lteers' After replying at length to the
statements of the packers, ''The New
York Evening CALI (Socialist) reached
this conclusion:
The packers have had wide experience in
dealing with cattle, and we are inclined tc
think that IN issuing their statement they
are testing our endurance, just TO see
whether we possess the same docility that
our four-footed kin have always displayed"
'The New York World" rejects J. Og-
den -Armour's plea that "profts which
seem huge when described by the COM
mission appear in their true light when
brought down to the basis of dollars
worth of business" and rejoins:
They do appear in their true light
and in that light still seem huge If the
vast economies OF great-scae enterprise are
not fairly shared with the consumer; if
they are not even to be RENTED when the
nation IS engaged in a lfe-and- death strug
gle; II they are so swollen as 70 suggest
that to many applies the commissions in
dignant scoring of 'inordnate greed to
some OF 'barefaced fraud then the case of
Big BUSINESS falls to the ground 1t is on
the defensive without Defence
"The Evening Public Ledger" of Phil
adelphia discusses the case of the pack
ers under the caption, Hale Them into
Court" and says: "The beef packers
must defend themselves before iurv
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against the damning charge of profiteer-
ing"
With remarkable unaqimity the news
papers of the country find in heavy tax
alton the appropriate remedy for. the
war profteering shown by the commits
sion. Utterances in that sense are so
numerous that quotations filling pages
could be reproduced here. 1t would ap-
pear, too, that the heavier the taxation
upon the big profteers the better pleased
will be the press. Many editorials re-
produce with approval President Will
sons words in his recent address to Con-
gress asking for increased revenues:
"The profteering that cannot be got at
by the restraints of conscience and love
of country can be got at by taxation"
"The New York Evening Post" thinks
that consumers would not grow so in
dignant at the high profits of the meat
packers if they knew at once that "thc
government will by tax take something
like 80 per cent of this war profit"
"The Providence News" would also
take "at least 80 per cent of all profits
earned above the average of the three
years prior to the entrance of the United
States into war"
THE Baltimore American" has no
doubt that the new tax will be drastic.
for Congress is back of the Executive
and the country is back of Congress for
the squeezing out of all unlawful or dis
honorable gains through the war;
I ct There Be No
l. Fiscal Lynching"
"The Milwaukee Sentinel" wants a
heavier tax, but mo fiscal lynching."
"The Kansas City Star demands
high excess profits tax and "The Min
neapolis Journal says: "The profteer
must be taxed into reasonableness in the
matter of profits. But let Congress be-
ware of taxing so blunderingly as to in
jure legitimate business"
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The Relatively High
Z Maximum Prices

1t is further shown by such papers,
and the commissions report itself en-
phasizes that point-that the govern
ment had to fix the maximum prices rel
atlvely high in order to render it pos
slble for establishments with high costs
OF production to produce goods at a
proft, or even to encourage the founda-
ZION OF new concerns with high initial
costs. Only by such policy, it is fur
ther argued, was it possible to secure
the increased production that everybody
recognizes as necessary. And some of
the papers which write in this sense
thlnk that the commissions report has
not been wholly fair in it's complaints of
undue profiteering.
The case for the manufacturers was
thus put by "The Detroit Joumal":
PROFESSIONALLY, large number of COM
mod1tles have been boosted in price for
reasons quite justified by conditions. The
!aoor TO produce the commodities may have
oeen high and scarce. To obtain a LARGE
production necessary for the war it has
been advisable in several instances tn hold
out the inducement of unusual profit De-
mand has far exceeded supply in certain
wares and competition for these wares has
made high prices Unavoidable"
Yet this paper does not doubt that Gin
the case of a large class of commodities
there is no excuse for proft-grabbing."
The New York Evening Post" said
this
mo one can carefully read the report of
the commission without perceiving that a
good part OF its complaint really lies against
government regulation 1t explains, with a
kind of innocent pain that government
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-14
The Three
L Outstanding Facts

The conclusions reached by the Fed
eral Trade Commission showed three
outstanding facts, namely, that where
the government has fixed prices very
large profits were made by concerns
which are able to produce at low cost;
that heavy profits were made by the
meat packers and those allied with them.
and by the -four millers, and that the
trade tendency is to increase and main
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$3S,0O0,000, on which it's profits in 1917
were only 14A per cent.
The five big packers also issued a
joint statement, which was extensively
circulated in the form of large adver-
tlsement in many of the more important
newspapers of the country. In this they
alleged that the commissions estimates
of profit of these companies were mis-
leading, and denied that they have
monopoly of the meat business of the
country, but have, instead, only one
third of it in their hands. They further
asserted that they "can sell dressed beef
for less than the cost of the live animal,
owing to utilization of the by-products."
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"The st. Louis Post Dispatch" thinks
that the interests of the public will not
be adequately secured by mere increase
of taxation. 1t writes:
sin order TO be effective the system to
control profiteering should rot onlv fax .he
excess profits in every line of business due
to the war, but it should so CONGO. produc-
ton and price making as to insure that the
additional taxes would not be unloaded on
the public"
Other papers hope that the new tax
law will simplify the income tax. re-
placing the existing laws altogether with
one of uniform terms. so that the diff
ficulties at present encountered by tax
payers in making their returns shall be
wholly done away with
A few Of the papers call for more rig
orous measures than increased taxation.
The Baltimore Sum-" for example. saws
that the me- responsible for 1.-The bare
faced fraud" charged by the commission
should be sent to the pententiary."
The Detroit News" is of the same mind.
writing:
And there must be prosecutions. The
men who have used every device that ia
useful to them without regard to law a.
the Federal Trade Commission says. must
be brought into court and shown 10 the
public in their true colors.'
Finally, Mr.. Hoover issued state
ment concerning profiteering, in which
he said that in his opinion large per-
centage of excess profits should be ap-
propriated to the public treasury through
taxation. He began by asserting that
because of the considerable emotion often
introduced into tax discussions, Il seems
worth while to distinguish between tha
moral and economic phases. On the moral
side the nation IS endcavoring to draw q
distinction between d profit commensnra.e
with the effort or capital employed and
sumulatlVe to enterprise and production
and the profit that is abnormally large. due
to war conditions. The latter. take it, is
what IS meant by proiteering Too often
they are confused in discussion
Extra profits out of war are hurtful
That any man takes profit in greater meas
ure because the goods he produces are
needed for or because of the scarcity
created by war is abhorrent 20 all decent
people. do not think it Will be de-
MED that our whole production and distrbu-
ton system is based earning of profits.
and that it is primary thing TO say that
the distribution system has got to proceed
on this basis, and that therefore. normal
profits are not immoral.
The government is. through many de-
partments, endeavorng TO reduce profiteer-
ing through regulation and trade agree
ments, and with a great measure Of success"
Mr.. Hoover said that as to the food
trades generally he was convinced the
unreasonable profits, since regulations as
to reasonable margins on various com
modify operations were established. have
greatly diminished And, summarizing.
he declared:
My view is that broad regulatory re-
stralnts now in force are essential in COM
modify handling in the face of shortages
am equally convinced that large percentage
OF extra normal profits earned out of wsr
conditions, whether by more fortunately
situated members OF regulated trades or
otherwise. should be appropriated to the
public treasury through taxation"
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themselves at the expense of the people
while engaged in great war. There is,
however, marked tendency to try to
see beyond the mere findings of the COM
missions report, and to comprehend the
facts set forth in it as the necessary re-
suit IF the trade situation created by the
abnormal conditions under which we are
now living That great evils exist, how
ever, and that these should be corrected
so far as possible seems to be the unani-
nous view Of the press.
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tain prices against the forces of compe-
titon.
This general statement was also
made:
The commission has reason to know that
proflteering exists. Much of it is due to
advantages taken of the necessities Of the
times. evidenced in the war pressure for
,eavy production. Some of it is attributable
10 inordinate greed and barefaced fraud"
Some of the details of the report were
striking even to the point of being SEN
sational. Thus it was declared that
four of the five big meat-packing firms
"pocketed" in 1915, 1916 and 1917 profits
Of $4,000, 900, and that "these packers
nave preyed upon the people unconscion-
ably 1t is charged that certain con-
Germs IN other lines, whose names are
given, artificially padded their accounts
IN estimating costs Of production One
OF these, it is claimed, did this by pay
ing remarkably high bonuses to some of
their officials and agents, over and
above their salaries. Enormous in
creases in net profits even where the
prices of goods were fixed are regis
tered by the report. The United States
Steel Corporation is said to have had net
earnings last year of $478,2OO,O00,
against S97,967 900 in 1915.
OF the report "The Houston Chron-
lcle' said that it Caused veritable SEN
satlon," and "The Philadelphia Public
Ledger remarked that at fell like a
oombshell on the breakfast tables of a
reading community who had been pinch
ing It's domestic expenditures for long
months to help win the war and who here
round food profteers charged by this
government commission with pocketing
uhholy millions out of their swollen re-
celpts on these very articles"
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tites are radically changed Certain people
in the city want it. They get it, some Of
them, from the regular dairy driver. who
brings it around for them, but only by spc-
clal arrangement. Everybody cannot get it
IN Washington, for you have to make
special arrangement for it, If you 20 into
the bill OF fare and look at it at any place
1t is very seldom You find it, and it is
chlefy some very frugal cook who takes the
sour milk that is waste product otherwise
OF the establishment and converts it into
cottage cheese
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LIow the Taste for Brick
L 4 Cheese Was Cultivated

Mr.. NELSoN-speaking about the cnlti-
vatlon OF the appetite, there is kind Of
cheese they call bricl. cheese The Senator
has probably heard about it, That was in.
PRODUCED and the taste for it was cultivated
over the lager beer counter. Could NOT
something of the kind be done with COTTAGE
cheese?
Mr.. SHERMAN--If we had something. and
it is possible
Mr.. PENROSE-How can that happen if
we get national prohibition?
Mr.. SHERMAN-Of course that presents
an appalling possibility
Mr.. PENROSE- 1t shows that prohibition
is menace to cottage cheese
The Senate, what there is of it. laughs.
Mr.. SHERMAN is also a menace to
the pretzel, but really the only thing often
s!ve III the pretzel is its shape like some
human beings 1t is really nourishine
product. People could very we'll exchange
their cereal food and put pretzels on the
table. lhey are unpopular now because OF
the nature OF our public enemy. Along with
sauerkraut 1T has become almost a prohibit
tive article. Anybody who would say
good word for either might possibly he
given trip on rail
Mr.. PENROSE Twenty years
Mr.. SHERMAN-Yes But the cottage
cheese item of s52,950 ought to be stricken
out, Mr.. President. 1t serves no useful pur-
pose. People Will not eat cottage cheese
outside OF limited few, unless their appe-