The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-01-24
LOCAL FOOD ADMINISTRATOR.
Attorney John R. Jackson, Of McCOu.
nelIsburg, Appointed to Handle The
Work 10 Fulton County.

istrator for Pennsylvania, has
confirmed the appointment of
Attorney John r. Jackson of this
place as his Food Representative
for Fulton county, who is au-
thorized to handle the work of
the Federal Food administration
in Fulton County.
An act of Congress makes it
unlawful for any retailer or dis
tributor whose business is less
than $l00. 900 a year, or any 9th.
er person (a) to destroy any ne
cessities for the purpose of en-
hancing the price; (b) to permit
waste or permit deterioration of
any necessaries, (c) to hoard any
necessaries; (d) to monopolize
any necessaries; (e) to engage in
any discriminatory or unfair
practice; (D to make any unjust
or unreasonable rate of charge;
(g) to combine or conspire with
any other person in any way to
enhance the. price of any neces-
saries.
If, then, the small retailer
does any of these things which
are prohibited the rules and reg
ulations for the license system,
provide that no licensed dealer
shall knowingly sell any food
commodity to any yerson engag-
ed in the business of selling such
commodity who is violating the
provisions of the Food Adminis-
tration Bill by making any un-
reasonable rate of charge in sell
ing or otherwise handling or
dealing in such commodity, or by
holding back such commodity be-
yond his reasonable requirements
or by boarding.
When it comes to the acknowl-
edge of Food Administrator
that a retailer is making an un-
reasonable charge or is carrying
on an unfair practice or is hoard
ing or is accumulating a stock of
goods beyond his reasonable re-
quirements, he can shut off
the supply of the retailer by
notifying the wholesalers or the
manufactures not to furnish him
with goods. This would mean
that unless the retailer changed
his practice he would soon be
put out of business, because he
could not get any goods to carry
on his business.
1t is the duty of the local food
administrator, as the representa-
tive of Mr.. Hoover, to see that in |
his district the law is obeyed.
1t is his duty to see that food
stuffs are not boarded either by
the distributors or the consumer;
in other words, that no one shall
accumulate a stock of foosstuffs |
beyond his reasonable needs. 1t |
is his duty to see that the small
dealers make no unjust or un-
reasonable charge, and they do
not engage in any conspiracy or
any attempt to increase the
price in any way.
1t is his duty to prosecute per-
sons who willfully destroy any
necessaries for the purpose of
enhancing the price or restrict
ing the supply, the penalty being
a fine not exceeding $1,000, or
imprisonment for not more than
2 years, or both.
1t has been decided by the
food administration that a useful
function of the local food ad-
is the determining
from day to day as to what the
reasonable prices are for goods
in his district. This does not
mean that he has the authority
to fix price. He can, however,
easily determine what the reason
able retail prices of the staple
goods are in his district since the
wholesale prices which are to all
purposes controlled bv the Gov
ernment through its licensing
system, are practically fixed and
easily ascertained by him.
No law is stronger or more eff
fective than the public opinion
that is behind it and no move
ment can succeed without the
full cooperation on the part of