Evening star., 1919-08-22
AIM TO ORGANIZE
FO0DPURCHAS|NG
AND Distribution
Citizens Will Meet Tonight at
District Building to Con-
slider Plan.

Permanent organization of the citi-
zens' buying and distributing league
will be considered at meeting OF dele
gates from citizens and other bodies
to be held at o'clock tonight at the
District building. z-
A plan for permanerik $fpn
probably will be presented by the com
mittee in charge of the distEibution.sof
Army food through civic. centerH =.
D. Atkinson is chairman of the COM
mittee. 1t is believed that future prob
lens could be solved more easily with
some form Of permanent organization.
Rigid Inspection Planned.
Rigid inspection of all canned goods
to be sold the Washington public by the
War Department, with distribution to be
made by the city post Office, is being
carried out at the Army warehouse at
18th and E streets southwest, it was
learned today.
The Senate agriculture subcommit-
tee named to consider amendments to
the food control act discussed with
Attorney General Palmer today a pro-
posed amendment to define reason
able prices and just profits" Mr.. Palmer
urged adoption Of amendments recon-
mended by him to stop profiteering,
but TO agreement was reached.
The War Department announced to-
day that plans have been made for the
sale to the public of practically the
entire amount of surplus subsistence
in possession of the Army. The sur
plus includes about 213,000,000 pounds
of bacon and canned meats, enough to
supply two pounds to every person in
the country, and about 135,000,000
pounds Of canned vegetables. In ad-
dition there are about 200 items avail
able for the most part in small guam
titles.
Not Yet Available.
been made available for general dis
tribution owing to the difficulty of
shipment by parcel post, it is stated.
The principal items Of this charac-
ter consist of frozen meats, includ-
ing 6o,oooooo pounds Of beef, 100000
poultry and 100000 pounds of NUT
ton.
Handling of frozen meats would Of
fer a difficulty which the citizens
league scarcely could handle in its
present form of organization, Mr.. At
kinson said today. The league has
no facilities for the handling and
distribution of such meats.
H. w. Klotz of the city post office,
who has just returned from France,
with the rank of captain. will assume
his first duties with the city post Of
flee since his return. when he takes
up the actual filling of the orders for
the food at the Post Office Depart
ment warehouse at 18th and D
streets.
Will Fill Orders.
Mr.. Klotz will fill the orders, work.
ing from the order blanks turned in
by the public. The orders will be
filled in the sequence Of theeir re-
ceipt by the city post Office. Two de-
liveries of foodstuffs will be made a
day, it is planned. trucks starting out
for the homes between and o'clock
each morning and between noon and
2 o'clock.
Parcel post stamps will not appear
on the filled orders, Stamps for one
entire requisition Will be placed on
a sheet of paper and Cancelled.
Sever items on the list of foodstuffs
allotted Washington are still lacking,
not having arrived here, and. accord
ingly the city post Office today held
up further distribution of order
blanks.
If the entire consignment should be
in by tomorrow, the distribution will
be begun at once. Only about 100
orders have been placed to date, al
though blanks have been available all
week at the city post office and all
the substations.
Hundreds Of thousands OF cans of
tomatoes are expected to arrive today
or tomorrow from Baltimore, and
10000 pounds of -four from Camp Dix
is reported ION the road"