The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-02-19
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/ INDTANAPOLIS. IND. February IA.
se-Evidently somebody has been fooling
aHerbert Hoover, Federal food admins
Etrator. IN regard 10 conditions in lndi-
| ana in regard 70 the operation Of the
E"hfty-hfty" rule for the sale OF white
-four substitutes along with sales of
sThite -four. Hoover sent a message to
H Z Barnard. Federal food administra-
tor for Indiana. a few days ago. in
which he is quoted as saying we are all
very much pleased that your state is on
the full hfty-hfty basis
Reports from over the state do not
sndicate that this optimism of Hoover IS
Justified by the facts. for there are re-
ports from many places TO the effect
that miller. grocers and consumers are
ignoring the ffty-ffty rule and getting
BY" with II. In this city, for instance
it is said that good many grocers per
nit their customers TO buy white -four
without requiring them TO take a. the
same time an equal number OF pounds or
substitutes for white -four. The reports
say that many customers swell up
when they are informed by their retail
grocer that they must take as much
substitute as -four, and that they threat
en- 10 buy from some other grocer who
will not insist on their doing this. y
number of such cases are said to be IN
der investigation by food authorities.
The only case Of violation of the fifty
hfty rule that has been handled by
Barnard is that Of T. a. Brown. presi-
dent OF the Huntington Milling Com
panv. who admitted that he had sold
ga pounds Of -four and only required
the purchaser TO take seven pounds Of
F,I H.
Or. 9. NJ O'Lesry. food administrator
for Huntington county, who said Brown
had been openly defiant Of the food
administration and its rules After
hearing the case Barnard sent a recon-
nendation to washington that the Fed
eral license of Browns win be revoked.
but word has come from Washington as
TO the action taken there.
Millers in numerous parts OF the state
have dehed the food administration
rule by exchanging flour for wheat with
lout insisting that the farmer take an
equal amount OF substitutes. Farmers
fsre not granted any preference under
the rule. and millers have no right to'
grant them any concessions that are not
granted to others But some Of the mil
lers have dehantly ignored the rule.
Reports have been made, also, that a
couple OF retailers and q miller at
Markle, Huntington county, violated the
rftv-ffty rule. and they were called in
and scolded for it They were informed
that. If they did it again their supplies
might be shut off. That has been the
limit of punishment inflicted on viola
torS Of the ffty-ffty rule thus far. un-
less the recommendation on Barnard in
tho Brown case IS sustained al Wash
ington As long as these slackers
against the rules of the food admins
trstion get by without punishment more
severe than taIking-to there appears
70 be ntCe likelihood that they viii
worry about the result.
over at Connersville. when it became
known that consumers would he requir
ed 10 buy an equal amount of substi-
tutes with white -four nearly every body
In town raced 10 the grocery stores ana
bought up all the white -four they could
get before the rule became effective.
There has been some talk about hunting
cut these hoarders and slackers and con
fscating the excess OF -four they have
on hand bur this threat has not been
carried in effect The hoarders suu
have their -four and yet Hoover is in
formed that Indiana is on the fun fifty
hty basis"
Another development that keeps In