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profiteering. and 1t is important for the
housewives OF the city to know the real
prices prevailing.
The New York Association for Improv-
ing the Condition of the Poor will ad-
vance to $50 families under its charge a
cash food allowance in addition to the
regular semi-monthly allowance for
necessities to enable them to profit by
the citys forthcoming sales.
The association estimates that the
food allowance a family will range from
$40 to SIS a month, depending on the
size OF the family and its needs. Dieti-
clans of the Bureau of Family Relief OF
the association are going over samples OF
the Government food and will advise as
to comparative advantages of the goods
offered for sale.
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LONDON, Aug. 10.-A dispatch from,
Rawalpindi, British India. says a peace
treaty has been signed between Afghan
istan and Great Britain. While the men
at the head of the rising are not to be
punished for the moment the Afghans
are to be given six months to show their
sincerity toward Britain. The only
penalty clauses of the treaty are the
withdrawal OF the Amirs subsidy and re-
traction OF the privilege Of importing
arms and ammunitions from India. The
ceremony OF signing the treaty was
without incident
Sir Hamilton Grand. head of the British
delegation. said that the treaty would
put an end to wanton and improbable
war. preventing further bloodshed. He
warned against 4 renewal of petty in
trigues. and in conclusion congra tulated
the Afghan delegates on their courtecu:
attitude.
All Ahmed, the chief Afghan delegate
in his address declared that Afghan
friendship was as essential to Great
Britain as Britains friendship was tc
the Afghans.
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THREE GRADES IN BALT1Mopr
Highest Price of MIX 10 Cop,uu
crs 10 oentsj Next. 10 Cent.

opeceet OespotcH 10 THr SON.
BALTIMORE. Aug. 10.-only thr,,
grades of milk are on sale in this civ
the standard basteuri1ed, which con,,i'
tutes 30 per cent. OF all sales Grad. -,
and selected raw milk.
For the standard pasteurized the "a.
tailers pay the farmers at the rate o, 4,
cents a gallon and the consumer nav, !,
cents a quart. This grade contain.
per cent. butter fat There ie one.hoi,
cent increase or decrease in price 10,
every addition OF subtraction Of az
tenth per cent of butter fat.
Grade A sells at wholesale for 4,
cents a gallow and retails at 10 cent,
a quart.
Practically all OF Baltimore's spr,,v
OF milk comes from the rich farmin.
section of Maryland lying to the nor,s
and reaching as far as York, Pa TN.
covers a sector OF country the ou,.,S,
limits Of which are fifty miles distan,
The milk is brought to the city. by train
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FOOD COST ALARMS SING SING
Feeding of Prisoners Doubles in
Price I'm Year.

Sing Sing is hard hit 1t was learned
from the prison yesterday. by the price
of living. Figures prepared by Store
keeper Kelley for Warden Edward ".
Brophy show that in one year the cost
per diem to feed each prisoner jumped
from 1879 cents to al cents.
The State buys its food at wholesale,
and yet the price has scared rapidly.
The cost of clothing for the men has
also ballooned With the cost, of feed
ing inmates higher than Sing Sing had
to pay even at the close OF the civil war
the prison has more star boarders OF
condemned than ever. There are twenty
five murderers or star boarders. so called
because, unlike the rest of 1900 pris
oners, they do no work TO earn theil
keep and besides they receive better food
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Buffalo Milk 10 Cents, Best Grade.
Special Despatch 10 The sus

SpeclaI DespdfcN 70 The Sun.
BUFFALO. Aug. 10.-IRetail milk prices
In Buffalo are 16 cents quart In bot
tiles, delivered 10 cents a quart for
Grade r bottled. delivered. The price
TO storekeepers Is Grade b. 13h cents
q quart. they to pay to producers at
point of shipment SO a hundredweight
for per cent. butter fat milk. Most
OF the milk runs over that percentage
and gets a premium.
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shipping points being Auburn, east n.
tsvia. west. and Mount Morris, south 90
The city IL now engaged in an invs,,,
CATION of the milk situation undsf ~ ~
direction OF DIT. Charles e. North y,
New York city.
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Army Food Sale Prices Compared
With Current City Quotations

following the which the
will sell surplus food by parcel post beginning
the
nshd reporter SUN yesterday by the Economy Deli
Gates 942 Eighth
The other packages which weight
pounds Market prices for cheapest quality
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The Price in Canada.


The prevailing price for whole milk
in Vancouver, d. c., Is seven imperiai
quarts for 81, an imperial quart weisn,
ing 40 ounces as compared WIN ao
United States standard quart ol
ounces. The Canadian producer
ceives $3.50 per 100 pounds OF iniik:
NJ II Mum. president of the Ma
tional Dairy Council, in outlining Some
of the service which the council car
render to the dairy industry, says i"
tho MIN Mo0qsine o,-
"According to the United states cen
sus OF 1910, the ratio of increase VI
| population was about 20 per cent ~.
the preceding ten years; and the ues.
| information now obtainable SHOWS oia az
the percentage of increase from Isao ~
| 1920 will be even greater. Ine oiIloa
statistics gathered by the Depan. men ~
| Of ARriculture show that from 1913 to
1918, the average increase Oh oa ny
cows In the United States was 6St,ooV
per year: that during the year leio
| the increase of dairy cows was only
| 156 900, or about IS per cent. less our-
| ing that year than the average lncrease
| for the Ave preceding years. Wnle oui
population during the year 1913, let US
assume, increased 2 per cent. the num-
Der of dairy cows increased only
little over one-half of one per cent.
| 1.-The ratio Of dairy cows TO the popu-
lation of this country in l9lV was one
COW for each 4.06 persons; IN lsio,
the ratio was one COW to each 4.Io
persons. That is, the ratio of popuia-
ton has increased beyond the COW pop
ulation by about 20 per cent. during
this time. There are reasons TOT TINS,
, and doubtless many of them. some Oh
these are the burdensome work wnich
the care and keep of the dairy COW I'M
pose on her owner; the ever increasihs
cost of this labor and her feed, which
makes other branches of agriculture
more inviting. and the unsatisfactory
market conditions surrounding the sale
OF milk and its products, and especially
the attitude of public officials and the
consuming public toward any necessary
advance in price of these products re-
gardless of cost or cause.
Boycott Weapon Deplored.
1T is not very encouraging for the
farmer to increase the number of his
cows under the burdensome conditions
referred to, when members of women's
organizations make or threaten an APP
peal to boycott milk and its products
as a means of reducing the price. not
knowing or realizing that by so doins
they will further decrease Production
and thus only increase the price, to say
nothing of the Impairment of chile
growth and health.
I'VE must bear in mind that sucl
action is mostly due to lack o
knowledge on the part of those SO act
Ing and for this lack OF knowledge
those engaged In the industry are large
! ~ to blame. This not only shows tina
the industry is not sold to the public
/ but it is not even sold to those en-
gagged in II.
I'VE ourselves must first realize tn
Importance and needs OF the industr.
before we can hope to have the con
Stunning public do So
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PEACE PACT COSTS
AMIR MANY MILLIONS
Afghanistan Ruler Loses BY
British Treaty.
Special Gable Dsspdtch to THE Sun from M
London Times Service.

NNPp'bNss NNAs' 'Vfto TtSoTtcG.
SIMLA' india Aug. 1o.-The Amir OF
Afghanistan under the peace treaty
signed with Great Britain last week not
only loses his annual subsidy OF $500, 900,
but in addition loses more than $4,000
900 in subsidy which. It appears, he had
on deposit with the Government of
India.
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Itemixed Reports as to Food.

Itemized Reports as to Food.
In regard to the item of food these
figures cover price changes of twenty
two articles of food as reported by more
than 1000 dealers. Since the bureaus
estimate of 81 per cent. increase Is for
Jfne is, a slight addition was made by
fie board TO allow for a possible rise
In the last half of the month.
Some of the articles showing the most
significant price changes since June.
1918, were onions. the price of which in
creased 1913 per cent: prunes, So per
cent. coffee, Al per cent; potatoes, 81
per cent. cheese, rs per cent. eggs, 26
per cent. butter, "a per cent lard, 20
per cent. sugar, 16 per cent; milk, Is
per cent, and flour, IL per cent. The
prices Of chuck roast and plate beef de-
creased per cent. OF corn meal, per
cent, and of navy beans, 81 per cent.
Compared with June, 1918, the average
prices OF the following articles In June,
1919, were 100 per cent. or more higher {:
Sugar. pork chops ham, bacon, potatoes.
cornmeai, flour and lard.
Reports regarding rent conditions we're
received from practically all of the cities
in the United States having a population
of $4,000 or more, and from a number
of smaller places. OF more than 800
statements from persons closely in touch
with rents as paid by wage earners In
these separate cities. only one recorded
n decrease in this item since March. 1919.
In many places rents were still rising.
although few pronounced increases were
found. Frequently the larger increases
reported in July were in those localities
where former advances had been least.
indicating that the tendency to a level
ling of the total increase in rents the
country over which had been evident
in March, was still In progress in July.
Between March, 1919. and July, 1919, the
average Increase In rents for the country
as whole was about s per cent
The opinion was general that rents
would continue to rise, since, on account
of the abnormally high cost of construc-
ton and maintenance, the number of
houses being built is inadequate to meet
the demand for accommodations. In
some places the housing shortage had
stimulated popular "own your own home"
campaigns and various schemes to assist
people TO build
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Italy Favor. Electoral Reform.

ROME, Aug. io.-The lower house of
Parliament to-day passed the electoral
reform bill by a vote OF 224 to SO,
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COMMITTEE TO HELP
EXPOSE PROFITEERS
Retailers, Housewives, Labor
and the Public VIII Be
Represented. =ss2-

Arthur Williams, Federal Food Ad-
ministrator for the New York city dis
trict, has been asked by Attorney-Gen-
eral A. Mitchell Palmer to appoint a
fair price" committee to secure infor-
nation relative to charges of prohteer-
ing in necessities The committee Is to
be composed Of pne representative each
of the following: Retail grocers, retail
dry goods merchants, producers. organ
lied labor and housewives; also two or
three representatives OF the public gen
orally, and one of the wholesalers, II
practicable.
They are to pursue approximately the
same inquiries In reference to food prod
ucts and the ordinary necessities in dry
goods and clothing that were pursued by
the fair price" committee under the
food administration act.
The committee will be an extra legal
body without power to summon wit
nesses or fix prices Attorney-General
Palmer requests. however, that cost
prices be ascertained and a fair margin
of profit determined. II retail prices
are in excess OF what the committee con-
siders fair, a list of the fair prices is to
be published.
VIII Punish Offenders.
Mr.. Williams is asked to report to the
| Department of Justice a general review
| of the situation In this district. Any
evidence Of boarding or other violations
of the food control act which may be
discovered by the committee are to bt
turned over to the United States Attor'
ney. who will cooperate in seeking ou
and Furnishing prof1teers.
| The Attorney General states there Il
a pressing necessity for the restoration
of normal conditions and expresses be
lief that Mr.. Williams and the commit
tee, acting without compensation, car
| render valuable service to the country
at this time. Mr.. williams has replied
to the Attorney Generals telegram stat
ing that immediate steps will be takeI
to carry out his wishes.
The Governments fight TO end prom
teering here will begin tomorrow, whel
a special Federal Grand Jury examines
the books of the cold storage warehouses
Tables showing the amount OF food II
storage, the owners thereof. their con
tracts with the storage plants and thu
normal monthly business of each ware
house have been subpHned by United
States Attorney Francis G. Caffey.
Housewives League Acts.
Mrs. Julian Heath, president of tn,
National Housewives League, has writ
ten to Commissioner of Markets iona
than c. Day regarding statements at
tributed to him In the press that tn,
packers have bought up large quaint
ties of the best army food and will com
pete with the city In It's army foo
sales. She also has asked him abou
his statement that Washington Marke
prices are abnormal as compared wit,
prices throughout the city, and asserts
that she has started an investigation o
conditions which exist there Mrs
Heath says there Is too much cry abou
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large number OF retail merchants.
real estate brokers and others in close
touch with local conditions in all parts
OF the country. ..-~ e.
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Small Advances I'm sundrtes.

Repor<s regarding carfare,- one OF the
principal items in the sundries group.
were received from 143 cities. In 121
of these there had been no change be-
tween March and July. 1879. and in
three there was a decrease. Such In
creases as occurred were small Changes
in carfare the country over were, there
fore, unimportant.
The retail price of tobacco was some
what higher in July than in March.
partly because OF increased taxes. The
tax on candy, soda water and ice cream.
as well as on toilet preparations and
Of these items. Household furnishings
and supplies were in many instances
higher in July than they had been in
March. On the other hand. the prices
OF admission TO amusement places, OF
reading materials and OF doctors SER
vices remained about the same. Post
age decreased.
From these separate estimates it ap-
pears that there was a small increase
in the cost Of all suhdries combined be-
tween March, 1919, and July, 1919. This
has been placed at per cent. II must
be understood, however. that families
vary more In their expenditures for sun
dries than for any other of the budget
items and that no estimated change can
be said to be typical The estimate OF
3 per cent increase is based on a wide
variety of combinations and is as repre-
sentative OF the change that has oc-
CURED as any that can be reached.
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Clothing Price. Rise Enormously.

The advance of 100 per cent in the
cost of clothing Is larger than that of any
other of the major budget items. Since
the summer of 1918 the average cost of
clothing had advanced 10 per cent These
increases were obtained by combining the
percentage of change in the cost of sep
arate articles according to, their relative
Importance in the total clothing budget
Quotations for twenty-nine types of
most commonly used yard goods and
wearing apparel were secured from lac
dealers in forty-three cities. For every
article the average price was higher in
July, 1919, than in March. KS compared
with November, 1918, changes varied,
but the most important were upward.
Cotton and wooden yard goods. overalls,
knit and muslin underwear, and the
cheaper grades of work shirts, although
higher in price than in March, were
slightly lower. than in November Prices
of yard goods Increased more than id
prices of made-up garments in the five
year period since 1914, but the cost of
Women's shoes advanced 121 per cent !:
women's gloves, 1875 per cent. women's
knit underwear. 120 per cent: women's
coats, 116 per cent. and women's hosiery,
104 per cent. between July, 1914, and
July. 1919. In every case these marked
the highest points reached since 1914.
6eVeTal ARTICLES Oh men ClOlnlub dleO
cost 100 per cent. more than before the
war.
Dealers very generally expressed the
opinion that clothing prices were likely
60 go still higher.
Retail price quotations OF anthracite
and bitumnous coal for household use
obtained in July. 1919. from ninety
seven dealers in forty-three cities were
analysed. These showed changes since
last March for anthracite varying from
. per cent increase in Boston, to a
8 per cent. decrease in Charleston, s. C..
and an average increase for the country
as a whole OF per cent. to 2 per cent.
The total increase since the beginning of
the war in 1914 was between 81 per
cent. and 81 per cent. The increase for
bituminous coal within the five year
period for 55 per cent.
Coal dealers were generally of the
opinion that the price of anthracite
would advance further within the next
few months but there were suggestions
that the price of bituminous coal might
drop.
Average retail prices of coke and
wood fell in a number OF cities, but in
others they advanced.
Few important changes in the cost OF
gas and electricity to small consumers
between March and July. 1919. were re-
ported.
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RECORD MILK PRICE
TO GO EVEN HIGHER
New York Rates, However,
Are Lower Than in the
Southern States.
CHEAPER IN MIDDLE WEST
Reports From All Sections
Show Wide Differences
Buttermilk Also Up.

New York city consumers are paying
16 cents a quart for Grade d and 1s
cents for Grade A milk, an increase of
1 cent a quart over last months prices
As the producers price gradually in
creases each month from July to Decem-
Of anything occurring to reduce the dis
tributers' costs II Is a pretty safe guess
that consumers will have to make up
their minds to accept another retail milk
price boost before the snow gets trouble
some.
A study OF retail milk prices through
out the country shows that the people of
the Southern States are paying by far
the most for their milk the prices in
July running from is to rs cents a quart
In various States. Prices in the West
and in the central States are the lowest.
and vary less than in other parts of the
! country. Last month the lowest price
for milk west of the Mississippi averaged
! from IL to IL cents a quart. New Eng
| land prices ran from IL to 16 cents a
quart, depending upon the distances be-
| tween the producing and the distributing
sections.
AS far as retail prices in the Atlantic
| States are concerned. comparative fig
ures show that New Workers are paying
i cents more per quart than are the people
of other not far distant cities. A des-
patch to THE SUN from Rochester says
that pasteurized Grade B Is retailing in
| that city this month for IA to 10 cents
1 while Grade A pasteurized is selling al
1G cents. In some OF the poorer sections
| of Rochester the dealers are charging as
low as 10 cents a quart for raw milk.
Prices I'm other Cities.
| The distributors OF Pittsburg have in
creased their August price to Is cents
n quart. The average length of hau
from the point of production to the point
OF distribution is about 125 miles,
| small part of-New York's milk supply Is
/ produced within ten miles of the city
Some of II is hauled at least 500 miles
The long average haul adds to the cos
of distribution.
While New Workers. constantly WERE
kicking over Is cent milk in July folk
in Manila, Philippine Islands. were com
PEELED to pay 40 cents q quart. and a
far as is known their protests were no
sufficiently vigorous to be recorded b!
cable. Even buttermilk was a luxury a
80 cents 4 quart in Manila.
There Is a greater divergence in butter
milk prices in all parts of the countr!
than in milk prices. the favorite price II
Southern cities. being 10 cents a quart
although 1t is 10 cents quart in Tampa
Fla. and rs cents quart at Fort Worth
where sweet milk sold last month at q
cents. In the national capital. wher
much buttermilk is being used sine
hard stuff went out of style. buttermilk
with all the butter fats extracted, cost
a cent less quart than regular mill
with all the butter fats in. =.
The following table Of retail prices TO
milk and buttermilk in July and tn
prices which farmers received for thei
milk are taken from The MIR Md0dsine
the official organ of the National Dair!
Council, which gives service TO al
branches OF the dairy industry:
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-06-14
ANNOUNCE PURSES
FOR MOTOR RACES
TOTALLINC $1,000
Speedway Program for Fourth
Of july Completed by COL
oneI Sellers, Includes 90
Mile Sweepstakes Feature,

Purses offered by the Automobile
Trades association for the Fourth of
July races total $1,000, according to
the program. announced last night by
Col. d. x. 3, Sellers, manage. The
greater part will he hung up as prizes
for the sweepstakes, the man event
of the day. The purse on the am
race will be Split-$S09 to the winner
and $500 to the ca finishing second.
The sweepstakes will be the biggest,
and probably the fastest, race ever
attempted here. The distance viii lie.
fifty miles--that is fifty laps IN the
T. lie speedway owned by the ass"Cut-
tion-and the management, accord
ing to Colonel Sellers, has already
started advertising to interest the best
drivers in the southwest and also
those of national reputation in the
event. He confidently expects that
the purse will attract entrants that
can give an exhibition like a series
of circular flashes. The entrance fee
is $50.
The card includes three other events
One will be limited to Fords one for
motorcycles and the other will be a
free-for-all race. The motorcyclists
win run fifteen miles for a purse of
$100-$75 for the winner and $25 for
second place. The entrance fee is $40.
The Ford event will be something
new. The drivers will be required
personally to register every lap they
cover, bringing their cars to a stop
for that purpose. After registering
they will have to crank their cars
for the next lap. Colonel Sellers be-
neved the plan would give the drivers
lot of muscular exercise after the
engines had gotten hot. The pilots
must be expert crankers as well as
drivers to hope to finish in the money
The distance is ten miles. which means
ten stops The winning Ford will draw
SIS and that finishing next, $25.
The -for-all, as the name indi-
Gates, will be open to any body eX-
cept, however, that the drivers who
capture the prizes in the sweepstakes
will not be allowed to compete in the
event, which follows the sweepstakes.
II they have entered their fees will
be refunded, it was said. The purse
Is $3.50 and the entrance fee $40. The
distance is twenty miles.
1t was announced that the entry
lists would be closed at G p. m. on
Saturday, June %.
All purses are guaranteed by tho
racing committee, it was announced.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-06-14
305,000 RAILWAY MEN
ARE AFFECTED BY "N0
ACCIDENT WEEK" PLAN

Complete details for staging mo
accident week." June 20 to 2S. inclu-
sive, have been decided upon by the
safety representatives of railroads in
the central western region, according
to announcement from the office of
the railroad administration, received
here yesterday.
The roads in this jurisdiction have
in the aggregate approximately $685.
600 employees, and each employe is
going to be asked to individually do
his utmost during the period of seven
days to keep from being injured him
self or of being the cause of injuring
a fellow-employe
Bulletins, rallies, moving picture
exhibits of an educational nature, per-
sonal appeals. and many other forms
of getting into close touch with all
employees will be utilized and It IS es-
timated that before June % there will
be few, if any. railroad workers in the
central western region who will not
the watching their step" and avoid
ing personal injury.
This movement, covering as it does
v"st Territory and effecting an
enormous population of high class in
dustrial workers. is causing interest in
every city and town in the west.