The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-09-28
Small Crowd Attend Anti Profiteer
Mass-Meeting Called by Geo. Wise
Business of Meeting Postponed Until Next Friday Night
Commonwealth Attorney Delivers Stirring Speech Re
uvenation of American Dollar and Downfall Of Profteer

III prosecute 'crn under this law"
+ know nothing whatever about
politics concluded the common
wealth attorney, with beautiful strip
p}city II think / have sufficiently
demonstrated nay sincerity. ! hold
Office at the hands of the people" be
added hnrnbly. for which / thank
thern"
Coiene1 g. K. .EeiTa,.t federal s4ela
agent OF the national council of de-
tense. followed Mr. Wise with brief
summary of the situation and survey
Of what was noeded IL said that
tfucie SANS law had not teeth, but
tusks
Colonel Kelley had inst returned
from a conference with Attorney
General Palmer ard announced that
there was more food In storage ~
the United States ut present than
ever before IN Its history. He read
extracts from the federal law, which
win reach individual profiteers as
soon as It IS paesed.
CAN FIX PRICES
Eie said be waH positive that the
fair price committee would fix fair
prices and that lie hoped TO Announce
the uauao Of the permanent chairman
on Monday told his audience that tho
"a
with tho help OF the fair-price COM
mittec. nc was going to bring enough
gases tn the cotnmonwealth attorney
80 fet them know inst WHIST they were
standing for, In the WY uf pcires
J Frank rooshe, director of tho dc
p0rtmeut Of markets. started a general
exodus by telling the people that is-
nofance was the greatest expense and
that the market basket two III yhtch
no submitted for inspection would
solve the problem Mr.. Fooqhc pro-
ducea numerous bargains in food 4unfs
which whom the prices We're an
nopneed. put everybody In an env!ous
and disagreeahlo frame nf mind and
brought the meeting 10 a hurried con
clusion
Mr. Fooshe placed his two groan-
ing baskets on Il seat IN the front row
ana, after tho attention of the audi
ence was riveted on the containers.
started putting IN his thumb (and
forcfingerl and pulling prize bargains
out of the depths with all the aplomb
Of Little Jack Horuer
Potatoes at tl75 per peck. roast
Of beef at twenty centh per pound.
lamb chops 81 fen cents per pound,
apples, grapes ana other foodstuffs nj
similar prices he exhibited TO the III,
some Of whom believed him while
others accused him OF having "a
drag with the shopkeepcrs. He told
them he was "A simple lnarketer. even
as they, but that he shoppcd intelli~
gently and "toted" his own
Railroad men complained that they
had no time to shop. others said they
didn't Ike 10 and the balance were
just plain mad because part of the re-
sponsfbility for the present state Of
affairs had been shifted from the
shoulders Of the helabored profitocr.
whats rhe use Ul GUESSING people
who do wrong and never saying any
thlng to people who do right? he
asked. For goodness sake let lip on
the profteer ard come down to bar
gain whan the men invite you with
conspicuous advert isemeflts"
sorne Of hts audience etaye9 70 argue
bui most Of them reached for their
hats, AR. koosha rushed hia reason
Through and concluded to a few OF the
faithful,