Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-06-02
FOOD ADMINISTRATOR
MAY FIX PRICE OF ICE
Conference on Subject to BE Held
by Director Gary on
Monday.
sPRoUL BACK FROM CAPITAL
Tells of Conference of State Food
, Administrators-Lou Rice Is
Cheaper in Porto Rico Than in
Louisiana.

The ice question in Richmond Is
looming UP before the local food adj
'ministration peculiarly vital since
the intense heat of the last few DAYS
has UNNECESSARILY increased the de-
mand. Therefore. with the purpose in
mind OF deciding on ii fair ice schcd-
ule both for dealers and consumers.
the local food administrator. T. a.
Cary. will have n conference of the ice
men of Richmond in the auditorium
of the Chamber of Commerce on Mon
day.
Robert NJ. Jeffress. director OF dairy
and bakery products, sent in his rcSS-
nation yesterday 10 be effective at once.
Mr.. JeffresS will leave Tuesday to enter
the navy. His resignation was accepted
with regret by the local food admins
TRAITOR since his work on MIR. Cary's
STAFF has been most satisfactory to
the food administration. His success
sor has not yet been named.
1t is understood that the dehydrating
plant which was to have been shipped
from New York on May % and should
have reached Norfolk over the Old
Dominion Steamship Lire this week
has not yet been heard from. and there
is some anxiety manifested over the
whereabouts of the missing machinery,
which is worth over $1,000. and was
TO have been installed Immediately on
Its arrival in the Second Market.
hNEi Vim r hc3t SoNr ERfN1E
OF FOOD ADMINISTRATORS
State Food Administrator Hugh b.
Sproul and Director ]. Il. Bethel Of
the State enforcement division, returned
last nigh; from the three days con-
ference at Washington OF food admin
istra tors from all over the country
fortyeiCht States, Alaska. Porto Rico
and Canada being represented. Mr.
Hoover, himself. presided ut the con-
Nth oh ma f..1
confronting the food administration
were discussed.
Among other matters which were dis
cussed was the budget. More inspec-
tors are TO be put on throughout the
country and the enforcement OF the
food regulations in the future is to
be more rigid than heretofore. On
account OF the conflict OF Jurisdictions
in Interstate shipping. and the over
tapping OF the jurisdictions OF State
food administrators, IL has been deemed
advisable to divide the United States
into zones not exceeding ten in nam
Der, and there will be Il director OF en-
forcement III each zone who will set
tie matters OF dispute between the
Jurisdictions of one State when con-
hictinG with that OF another. The zone
which includes Virginia also includes
Pennsylvania. West Virginia, Delaware.
Maryland and Ohio.
came UP for emphatic discussion, i,
being declared that there was abso-
luteiy no justification for the prices
charged by dealers for substitutes
The food administrator OF Porto Rico
declared that Louisiana rice. for in
stance, said state Administrator Sproul
yesterday, was selling cheaper in
Porto Rico than ii was in louisa ma"
MORE CONCERNED ABOUT
CONSUMER THAN DEALER
I'm the future, the food administers
ton Is going TO he more concerned
with the price to the consumer than
with the profit accruinG 20 the deal
ers,' declared Mr.. Bethel. director of
the enforcement division for Virginia
To quote Mr.. Roovcr's own words
II is not 50 much as TO what the
proht Is on commodity. but what the
consumer pays for the commodity that
Is going 10 interest the food admits
trat!on. and there Will he more talk
aboat fair prices and less about fair
profits in the matter of substitutes
for wheat"
Rice. rice products and rice by