The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-29

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through public opinion or legislation
to place these stored commodities
on sale and thus break the cost OF
living.
In Illinois.
. CHICAGO, Jan. 29.-Provtsions for
a Brobding-nagian banquet were
cooling today in Illinois storage
houses.
Their release, according to experts
OF the state food administration.
would have no effect on the high
price Of food. The millions of pounds
of meat and produce in storage is
almost normal, they say.
Sagging markets of all descriptions
steadied somewhat today following
the announcement of the $3.50 hog
price.
This notice that arbitrary pricing
is to be continued, was accepted
everywhere as good omen for the
traders.
The produce market. hrst one here
to slump. and the first one to claim
attention of state officials, who i'm
mediately began an investigation
when retail prices did not follow the
wholesale drop. was steadier today.
Butter had sagged four cents Tues
day to As cents wholesale. Fresh
eggs had fallen three cents to 49.
Potatoes dropped FIVE cents to $1.TO
and cheese fell eight and nine cents.
Grains and grain futures rallied
someM hat today after two weeks
period of sagging in which low rec
ords for two years we're reached. The
fixed hog price, insuring demand
for grains for feeding purposes was
expected to support grains for time.
Meantime yards in the middle west
are clogged with grain. In the Twin
Cities last week it was necessary to
declare grain embargo, just as it
has been necessary periodically to
prohibit the shipping of live stock
into packing centers.
Food experts admitted a tremen-
dous supply of all necessities with
only artificial price Viking keeping
the cost up.
Cold storage has no part in the
high cost Of living, according to John
d. 1NOWlidh oupClAhCVi1AOAS Va thO
food and dairy division of the state
food administration.
His figures show decided increase
in amounts stored In Illinois now
over those at the beginning OF the
year. However, he said beef products
of which there were 120 100000
pounds in storage today, are the only
ones above normal. His division In
1ot
offer comparisons with last year.
In round numbers. Illinois today
had in the ice box: 5,000,0 900 pounds
1O,5o0,O0O pounds fish: "a 900, 900
pounds of poultry, 10000 900 pounds
Of miscellaneous poultry; 100000
cases of eggs, and 100000 pounds
OF butter.
Kenyon Would Open Doors.
WASHINGTON, Jan. ga resolu-
ton directing the department of agri-
culture to inform the senate whether
there are large surplus supplies of
food stuffs in warehouses, is to be
by Senator Kenyon, Iowa.
Kenyon announced today he will ask
Ills informatio 20 get the real facts
Packers representatives., teSufylng
before congressional committees,
have declared there is large sur
plus of pork. They have limited also
large overstocks of grains and other
foods.
Kenyon wants to know where the
surpluses are. il they exist, and by
whom they are held. If they do
exist, he will try to find out, he said
today, whether they are being held
in ar, effort to keep up the present
high prices Of food.
While Kenyon was planning to un-
cover the surplus, the neutral mar
kets for pork products were thrown
open to the packers by an order of
the war trade board issued at the
instance of the food administration.
Help for Small Packers.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-Govern-
ment aid to small packers instead OF
restrictions on big concerns, was ad-
vocated today by Thomas e. Wilson,
president of Wilson and Company.
Wilson urged the house interstate
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