The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-21
$4,000 RED CROSS
GIFT, HIS PENALTY
Flour Profiteer Suggests Pres
ent in Lieu Of Action on
License.

| Again the American Red Cross has
been enriched by a goodly sum for Its
wonderful work Of mercy because some
body broke the Food Adminis,ra ton
| regulations. The amount Of the contri-
button is $4,000. and the man who do
mated 1t IL Samuel Ecksteip. a flour NOR
chant. OF 40 East 1874 street. who wa.
charged before the Federal Food Board
| OF selling -four to unlicensed dealers and
| selling flour at margins of profit In ex-
cess of the rs cents a barrel permitted
! by Mr.. Hoovers organization.
Mr.. Ecksten himself suggested that
the case against him be closed by a
| $4,000 donation TO the Red Cross In
| lieu of action on his license. The
| amount represents sum two and one
half times the amount Of overcharges by
| Mr.. Eckstein from January / TO July T.,
1918.
The Federal Food Board ordered Vic
tor Raso, n retail grocer, OF 637 Presi-
dent street. brooklyn. yesterday to shut
| up his store for one day as punishment
for selling Mrs. F. Decker OF Emerson,
". j., two barrels of -four. two 100 pound
| bags of cornmeal, IS pounds Of sugar
and other supplies on April IL. Under
lawful for a dealer to sell more thon
one-quarter barrel OF -four or Ave
pounds Of sugar texcept for canning pur-
poses) to a rural customer. The con-
signment. which was sent to Emerson
by express. was held UP by the agent
and the Federal Food Board was mott
fed. Raso's store will be closed next
Tuesday and he will have to display a
sign explaining why he is out Of bust
! ness for the day.
Money Pours Into Treasury.
The New Workers. who signed the War
Savings pledges during last months
drive are pouring into the United States
Treasury every day money enough to
feed all the American forces now flght-
ing on the western front. according to
statement made yesterday by Frederic
w Allen. War Savings director for
Greater New York.
zone OF the great virtues Of the War
Savings plan" Mr.. Allen said. "is that
It brings into the Treasury a steady
stream OF money against which the
United States can draw for current ex-
penses. This regular daily income. for
some time past in excess OF the entire
cost of running the Government before
the war, Is OF tremendous assistance In
ing forward the supplies so sorely
needed by the men at the front, partic-
ularly in the present offensive.
New York alone Is putting enough
money into the Treasury every day TO
cover the subsistence OF all the Amer!-
can soldiers now taking part In the great
advance. New York's population Is
about one-twentieth Of the entire ma
TONS. and II we may consider that che
Is proportionately represented in the
front line, It is safe to say that her war
savers are now supplying food enough
for all her fighting sons and giving
them In addition over 100000 rounds
Of ammunition a day. with which to
break down the enemys resistance.
How to Feed Soldiers.
"A War Savings Society Of 100 mem
bers, each buying six Thrift Stamps a
day. or little over two War Savings
Stamps a week. will keep an entire COM
pany OF soldiers supplied with their daily
rations. II sixteen members of War
Savings Society buy only one Thrift
Stamp a day each. they will be feeding
corporal and his squad.
THE War Savings societies at home
feed the mon and the machine guns at
the front. The Government counts upon
them for the constant flow OF money
which their members have pledged them
selves to supply. There II very def
mite relationship between the money
which the army of savers at home puts
into Government securities and the bull
lets which the army OF fighters abroad
puts into its guns. The present drive Ia
using up bullets at a rate at which we
at home can only guess. and we must
bend every effort to increase the Gov
ernment's daily income to meet the
emergency"