The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-01-28
HOW ENGLAND Pun
|SHES.HER V|OLATERS
Of THE FOOD LAW

Washington, Jan. 27.-Some hint of
what America will come to if volun-
tary food conservation fails is con-
tained in these authentic cases of
prosecution of individuals and real
ers for food violations in England
Joseph Hall, market gardner, was
hailed before the magistrate at Big
gleswade Petty Sessions and fined
$1S,9l5 and sent to prison for two
months for selling potatoes at higher
prices than the food controller author
lied.
That happened recently; and it isn't
an isolated instance of the way Great
Britain squelches her profiteers, eth
er. A potato salesman at Spitalhelds
was fined $500 and sent to prison
for six weeks for vercharging for po-
tatoes. 1t was shown that he had
bought $4,000 farm, $4,000 and
$4,000 house with his illegal profits.
The magistrate condemned his as a
| "conspirator attempting to starve the
public"
Two tradesmen at Merthyr were
fined $50 each for failing to exhibit
retail price-lists on meat. The mag
istrate warned that class of buccan-
eering butchers, bakers and grocers
that he considered them the country's
worst enemies at this critical time"
Nor is food boarding among the
titled gentry counenanced a bit more
than it is among the less we'll off or
the dealers. Lady bring, teephill
Lodge, Shanklin, near Ryde, was
fined $50 for burying more table
syrup than she had right to.
! Antonio Galanti, ice cream dealer
and Tom Salkeld, grocer of Cleveland
were fined 5000 each for telling the
sugar controlled hbs about how much
they had.
Bill Pearce, of Stonehouse, was
fined $40 for leaving two pounds of
bread untouched on the pantry shelf
of his little home bakery, when he
moved away.
Abraham ePters and several other
farmers near Caergwyrle were fined
$3.50 to $500 each for selling milk at
more than the law allowed.
Five thousand dollars in fines was
collected in two days at Thames Po-
lice court from retail grocers who lied
about the amount of sugar they had
on hand when the controllers man
called on them
Hettie Pugh, who runs the George
Hotel at Shrewsbury, was fined $500
for using too much meat, $50 for
using too much sugar and SIS for not
keeping public register of the num-
Der of meals.
Al Hoyle, of Lycombe Hill, was
fined $3.50 for selling 81 of his sheep
after the government told him not to
do it.
May Hunt, who runs a boarding
house at Godalming, was fined SIPS
tor boarding sugar. She had 103 IL
legal pounds under her bed and 40
pounds hidden in the dining room.
BERTHE Whiteway, of Kingston, an
underwater for Lloyd's, was not only
fined $50 for keeping 90 much sugar
IN the pantry, but lost his job when
his boss found it out.
These are just few scattered ex-
amples of the way England is doing
it.
That Americas voluntary method
has not been entirely successful and
that legislation is needed looking to-
ward more rigid control of Americas
food supplies, was stated by Presi-
den Wilson. In his last message to
dent Wilson. In his last message
to congress he said:
Recent experience has convinced
me that the congress must go further
in authorizing the government to set
limits to prices. The law of supply
and demand, am sorry to say, has
been replaced by the law of unre-
strained selhshness."