Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1918-12-12
The Enterprise:

will you please puDllSh Ine pToIlI mar
gin list enclosed? IL will be noted
that the Food Administration has
fixed the maximum profits to be
charged by retail merchants. Any
profits in excess of those indicated
will be considered profiteering ana
the merchant subjects himself to
prosecution. and may have his store
closed. The profits indicated below
on the different food commodities
have been worked ont by the Food
Administration with che idea of pro-
tectiag the public against overcharges
and ,at the same time affording the
retailers legitimate earnings. If there
are any merchants who are charging
TOO much for food commodities, which
every family must have, it is the pur-
pose Of the Food Administration to
see that such practice is discontinued.
In Bogalusa the merchants have re-
sponded to every call Of the Food
Administration. We have had almost
no violations of regulations. / do
not believe that there is any consid-
erabIe abuse in prices charged by the
local merchants, but if there is any
il must be corrected.
am handing you herewith mar
ginai profits list with the confident
belief that if there are any merchants
among us who are charging more than
these margins justify they will
promptly correct such prices:
To all District and Parish Food Adj
p ministrators:
Retailers are allowed to add as
their profit, above delivered cost, the
following:
Victory flour, wheat flour, original
mill packages, half-barrel quantities
and more, 81 to $1.20 per barrel; one
fourth-barrel quantities and less,
s1.S5 to $3.50 per barrel; broken mill
packages, 1s cents per pound.
BARLEY flour, rye flour and corn
flour, original mill packages, Is to
20 aper cent; broken mill packages,
1kr per pound.
Rice flour, Is to 20 per cent.
Corn meal, original mill packages,
is to 20 per cent; bulk, 11zc per
pound
Hominay, Is to 20 per cent.
Sugar, all kinds, in bulk 11sc per
pound; in refiners' original pack
ages, lie per pound.
Eyaporated milk, unsweetened, 10,
to 20 per cent.
Oat meal and rolled oats, bulk,
11zc per pound; original mill pack
ages, 20 to 25 per cent.
Rice, beans, white or colored;
starch. edible; corn syrup, tins, 20 to
25 per cent.
Canned corn, peas and tomatoes,
standard grades, % to 80 per cent.
Canned salmon, chums, pink and
red, and canned sardines, domestics,
70 TO ~ per cent.
Dried fruit, raisins, prunes and
peaches, Is to 80 per cent.
Lard, pure leaf, and lard substi- !
tutes, in bulk, SC TO &c per pouno;
in tins, 1S to % per cent.
Breakfast bacon, whole pieces, &c
to 7c per pound.
Heavy bacon, whole pieces, SC to |
&c per pound.
Hams, smoked whole, &c to &c per
pound.
In quoting sliced ham and bacon
add usual differential to cover actual
shriIlkage.
"Original mill packages as used
above means where retailer sells
product in the same mill container as
received by him.
Broken min packages" means
where retailer removes contents from
original mill packages and sells in
smaller quantities.
BY other special regulations the
retailers maximum margins have also
been fixed in accordance with the fol
lowing list:
Potatoes, white or Irish, rs to 30
per cent.
Onions, rs to 20 per cent.
Eggs whether sold in carton or
notl &c to SC per dozen.
Batter, SC to re per pound.
Butter substitutes, oleomargarine,
lut margarine, etc, SC to &c per
bound. H
Cheese, American, Cheddars. twins.
lats daisies, Long Horns and Y AS, i
< to Sc per pound.
Tie retailer may have the benefit
f fractions Of cent as follows: II
uga cost delivered 1851 per hun-
red, or 9.61 cents per pound, he I