Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-14
'MARKETERS ASSERT
PROFITEERS GOUGE
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tribute this enormous surplus of
last years crops. Saturday the
prices at which these stocks of
canned and cured meats will be
offered to municipalities to be re-
tailed to the public through markets
controlled by the municipalities were
announced as follows:
Beef, corned, No. 1, cans. $3.50 per
dozen.
Beef. corned, No. 2, cans. 5000 per
dozen.
Beef. corner, six-pound cans, $24
per dozen.
Beef, roast, No. 1, cans. ss.4S per
dozen.
Beef, roast, one-pound cans, $4.92
per dozen.
Beef, roast, two-pound cans, $7.s2
per dozen.
Beef, roast. six-pound cans, $26.40
per dozen.
Hash, corned beef, two-pound cans,
$3.50 per dozen.
Bacon in crates. "a cents per
pound.
Bacon, in twelve pound tins, SO
cents per pound.
These prices are approximately 20
per cent. below the cost of the COM
modities to the government ard are
uniform throughout the thirteen
zones in which the surplus stocks
are located. Canned vegetables avail
able to towns and cities will be sold
to the municipalities at their invoice
cost to the government. Since these
goods were produced by hundreds of
different Gamers at varying prices,
the price which will be quoted to
municipalities may vary somewhat
in the different zones. Quotations
on vegetables may be obtained from
the surplus property officer at each
Of the thirteen zone supply offices.
Golden Opportunity
Right here in Harrisburg we are
on the threshold of one of the
largest distributing depots in the
country at New Cumberland. Mayor
Keister and his committee could run
line of trucks right up to the
doors which are bursting with canned
goods and cured meats and dis
tribute the same to the people of
this city at cost. 1t is believed some
way should be found to take ad-
vantage of this opportunity.
offers Credit to Municipalities
A War Department statement
reads:
ITlS SuDSISIeIlCe Is OllSEcu W I'LL
inequalities in not less than carload
lots, but at those warehouses at
which stocks of vegetables and meats
are stored a municipality will be
permitted to purchase mixed car
load of either vegetables or meats,
or both vegetables and meats. The
prices quoted are F. o. B. location.
The War Department cannot pay
freight charges or transport the
goods. The responsibility for such
detail must be assumed by the mu-
nicipality.
"To make these food supplies as
accessible as possible to the general
public, the War Department will
permit municipalities to purchase
the surplus stocks and defer pay
ment until they shall have been dis
posed of, provided this extension of
credit shall not exceed a period of
ten days after the goods shall ac-
tually have been delivered to the
municipality.
The War Department will nego-
tiate only with a properly accredited
official of a municipality for the sale
of this subsistence. 1t will not con-
Germ itself with the manner in which
the municipality, having obtained the
goods, shall offer it to the public,
further than to stipulate that the
municipality shall sell at cost. The
municipal government is at liberty
to conduct the sale of the foodstuffs
under the direction of municipal
officials or civic bodies to whom it
may delegate authority.
Inspired by the revelations being
made before the subcommittee in
vestigating the conduct of the war,
Representative Upshaw of Georgia
to-day offered a resolution in the
House, directing the Secretary of