New Britain herald., 1918-12-31

com btnation sales Of sugar (prohibitedM
December s, 1910 and reflections ~
| carloads of foodstuffs. Very man
! complaints were mveStigatad buM
| about so per cent. failed to warra i 81
| action. II was in Connecticut how IN
| ever, that the United States Food Adj "a
| mtnistration scored its first arrestW
prosecution and conviction for hoard
| ing. 4 prominent farmer Of New
Haven County was arrest ed on a FED
eral warrant and presented before thcA
United States Court, in Febrl1ary8 IL 81
on plea of guilty of boarding suea NJ
and flour. Efe was scored nv Judga HI
Edwin S. Thomas who in imposin eM
the fine of 800 and costs, said tluafW
he was reluctant to follow the UnitedN
States District Attorneys lenient re-
| Communication that, because it was IA
first offense, the penalty should be a&
fine rather than a Jail sentence. Again w
in June, 1918. when numerous com @a
plants were received that certainW
families appeared to have plenty of
sugar, while others did not the Food
Administration sent secret servicaN
agents to the home of a Hartford
citizen and there an excessive quaint IA
tH of sugar was discovered with tho
result that the man and his wife were
arrested by United States marshal
After publicity which covered uQtS
only the entire state, but was pro1nt-
nently published in New York papers,
the case was quashed in the belief
that sufficient good results had been
secured. In another instance, secret
service agents raided the residence OF
retiredf Bridgeport manufacturer.
whose Wife boasted that whenever she 4
El.NIr
ming certificate and then Just forgot
to can" The penalty imposed by Mr.
Scovilie in this case attracted wide at
tention. Instead of ordering an ar
rest made, he wrote a scathing letter.
which was given to the press, in which
the hoarder was placed in q class by
himself, apart from patriots, and in
formed that not only would he not be i
arrested, but that he would not be
relieved Of his excessive holdings OF
sugar which he might use to sweeten
his bitter thought that everyone In
his community knew that he had
plenty of sugar while others moro de-
serving had none.
Educational and Publicity.
With the same loyal generosity that
characterized their co operation in
other war movements. the entire
press of the state daily and weekly,
from the very beginning did their ut
most for the Food Administration in
Connecticut. Following the confer
ence of Educational Directors at
Washington in February 1918 sever
| al columns of plate matter on an
average were distributed each month
to he Connecticut papers using plate
elnu Ibis method was found TO MS
quite as effective as was predicted at
the Washington conference. Ths
Connecticut food administration issued
no printed bulletins, but depended
chiefly upon the newspapers and upon
the weekly and semi KY neWs-let-
ters sent to the one hundred and ai&~
ty-eight food directors.
Sugar Distribution.
When the sugar certificate distrihu
ton system was put into genera NQPer-
alton in July. 1918. the Office force
of the Food A administration was in
creased until at times there was
nearly fifty officials and clerks at
work and. although Connecticut@
population was estimated in Washing
ton at considerably below what this
munition- making state annually had
during the war, an equitable distrtbu-
ton OF sugar was made with q mini
m uJn or COhptdlHl from tHE pub4iS
and trades affected,
Co.ordinatipS Units
From the very beginning, the Con-
necticut Department of Food supply
the Connecticut Agricultural College,
the County Farm Bureaus of the De
parsment Of Agriculture and several
other state organizations placed all
their resources at the disposal of the
Ar3V, i-+,. oiSv1r
" made valuable use of them.
Personnel
Among the volunteer and paid
workers who contri buted to the sue
cess Of the food administration in
Connecticut were:
Miss Mile A. Adams, John Barr,
Waterbury; Thomas F. Barry, 'de-
ceasedl. Waterbury: n. F. Fell,
Bridgeport: James NJ. Bunce. Middle
town: Irene Carvey, Rockville; c. A.
Cook, DERBY: Francis r. Cooley, Miss
Marion Cremins, Clark T. Durant.
Miss Ellen Z. Edstron1, Thomas w
Farnam. New Haven; Walter ~
Garde: S. A. Goldsmith, New LondonN
BERNARD Greenberg, New Haven; Ar
E. Hall, I.akeville: Miss Isabel Harbl-
son: John p. HARRISON, Jr. Nj
\. IIartstaIl j. r. Hughes, Wa
tc1.buly: r. r. Ingraham, DIR, r. I
H. Jenkins. New Haven; Miss Helen
s. Jenser Ai711on G. judd. Water I
bury; Miss Stella Kaplan, William d. 1
Kennedy. (deceased). New Haven; /
Miss Edna =. Keough. Farwel Knapp
George NJ Ianders, Miss Josephtnei
I,attner Joseph II. LaWior, Lawrence
l.. Lewis Waterbury: w. r. Malloy,
New Haven; d. w Mcmillan, New
Britain: W W. Merz Torrlnston; I
Lester A. Miller Miss Alice Z" Mills,
Sodus. New York. Frank r. Moran
Fl. G. Murray. Willimantic; john Por-l
teous Norwich; job nPorter' Bertha
Read, Windsor; Miss Florenco Sar-
o,ear, Robert Scoville, SaIisbuTy;i
Miss T. Aurfa Sccor, NJ A Sexton.
Lon. -sxi