The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-09

tration in Connecticut. State Libra rian George S. Goddard was the State Library Director, and he was ably as- sisted at all times by Miss Dorothy Weir of Ridgefeld Miss M Estella Sprague of the Connecticut Agricul- tural College faculty was State Home Economies Director, and her assistant was Miss Bertha Birdsey. On January 4, 1918, Francis B. Cooley, a vounteer for several months, was appointed Ad- ministrator Auditor
 Enforcement Cases.
 Among the earliest cases coming to the attention of the Enforcement Di- vision Of the Food Administration were attempted prof1teering on sugar, combination sales of sugar (prohibited December 8, 191O and rejections of carloads of foodstuffs. Very many complaints were investigated, but about 90 per cent failed to warrant ac- ton. It was in Connecticut, however, that the United States Food AdmInis- tration scored its first arrest, prosecu- tion and conviction for hoarding A prominent farmer of New Haven County was arrested on federal war rant and presented before the United States Court In February, 1918, on plea of guilty of hoarding sugar and flour. He was scored by. Judge Edwin s. Thomas, who in Imposing the fine of $1O0 and costs said that he was re- luctant to follow the United States District Attorneys lenient recommen- dation that because 1t was a first of- fense the penalty should be fine rath- CT than jail sentence
 Again in June, 1918, when numer. ous complaints were received that cer- tain families appeared to have plenty of sugar, while others did not, the Food Administration sent secret serv- ice agents to the home of q Hartford citizen, and there an excessive quanti- ty of sugar was discovered, with the result that the man and his wife wera arrested by United States marshal After publicity, which covered not only the entire state, but was prominently published in New York papers, the casa
 
 cfent good results had been secured. In another instance secret servics agents raided the residence of re. tired Bridgeport manufacturer those wife had boasted that whenever she needed sugar she secured it on a can- l ming certificate and then "just forgot | to can" The penalty imposed by Mir | Scoville in this case attracted wide at. | tention. Instead of ordering an ar. rest made he wrote q Scathing letter, which was given to the press, in which the hoarder was placed in a class by | himself, apart from patriots, and in. l formed that not only would he not be arrested. but that he would not be re-. | lleved of his excessive holdings of sug. | ST which he might use t. sweeten his bitter thought that every one in his | community knew that he had plenty of ! sugar while others more deserving had | none
 Educational and Publicity. 1 With the same loyal generosity that 1 characterized their cooperation in oth. l CT war movements, the entire press o1 the state, daily and weekly, from the very beginning did their utmost foi the Food Administration in Connecti. cut Following the conference of Edu. cational Directors at Washington In 1 February, 1918, several columns of plate matter on an average were dis. tributed each month to the Connecti. cut papers using plate, and this meth. cd was found to be quite as effective as was predicted at the Washington conference. The Connecticut Food Ad. ministration issued no printed bulle. tins, but depended chiefly upon the newspapers and upon the weekly and semiweekly news letters sent to the 16S food directors.
 Sugar Distribution.
 When the sugar certificate distribu ton system was put into general op eration in July, 1918, the office force of the Food Administration was in creased until at times there was near ly fifty officials and clerks at work and, although Connecticut's population was estimated in Washington at con sideraDly below what this munltlor making State actually had during the war, an equitable distribution of sugal was made with a minimum of com plaint from the public and trades af fected
 Co-ordinatina Units.
 From the very beginning the Con necticut Department of Food Supply the Connecticut Agricultural College the County Farm Bureaus of the De partment of Agriculture and severA other state organizations placed al their resources at the disposal of thu Food Administration, which frequent ly made valuable use of them.
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