The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-08-07
will be sufficient"
Proposes $f.5o Wheat.

will be sufficient"
Proposes $3.50 Wheat.
Belief that the value of wheat is tho
basis for the high cost of other neces-
SUES appeared to be gaining strength
To-Day. Representative Madden, Illinois.
was reparln a bill authorizing the
government TO buy wheat from farm
ers at the guaranteed price Of 1926 and
resell it at $3.50 a bushel, the govern
ment taking the loss, to be made up
out OF the 100000. 900 fund estab-
lished to make good the wheat price
guarantee. The deficit would Ultimate
~ be paid in taxes, but it was pointed
out these taxes would not hit the av-
erage citizen SO hard as the present
record breaking cost of edibles.
Release Hosrded Food.
Representative Kelly. Pennsylvania,
was drafting a measure to open up he
boarded food stored throughout the
nation. He expected to introduce 1t in
the o this week. Kelly's bill, if it
becomes law, will authorize the gov
m to seize the immense stocks Of
foodstufs said to be stored in Chicago
ana other centers. pay the owners a
lalr price n distribute the stores to
the pubic through the parcel post, un-
der the same plan as that formulated
Ior distribution Of surplus army food.
his measure will probably carry an
appropriation to coyer the cost CT pur-
CHASING the food, and provide for a
BOARD OF experts to determine a fair
price to be paid the owners.
III SO MANY nohN.. L
orWard for relief of the high cost OF
iiVing thai it became Increasingly man.
nest IN the opinion Of many observers,
mat some method Of food control. SINH
lar To that in force during the war.
would have to be reestablished. Such
a move 1t was believed, would be sure
TO meet with strong opposition.
PRESIDENT Wilson may o be able to
start his tour of the United States until
next month, it was learned. As he has
asked congress to remain here during
the food crisis, 1t was considered hardly
probable he would leave the city as long
as the House Is in session.
Railroad workers. it is felt mere, are
simply volcing what other workers feel
that wages must rise or prices fa'r
with preference for falling prices.
List OF FriceS.
Washington, Aug. 4.-The war CT
partment has announced tho f.
prices for the nation wide sale of arm
surplus food supplies direct to cor
Meats-Corned beef No. 1, can, so
cents; No 2, can. So cents; six pound,
81. Roast beef, No. l. can. 90 cents:
n pound can al cents; two pound,
66 cents; six pound can. $3.50.
Corned beef hash, one pound can
% cents; two pound can, 40 cents;
bacon in crates "a cents per pound; in
II pound tins, IS cents per pound.
Observation-Disclosures beans, No. i can,
Z cents; No. 2. car Is cents; No. 8,
Is cents. Stringless beans. No. 2 can,
II cents; No. 10 can. 4S cents. Corn,
No. 2 cam, IL cents. Pease, No 2 can,
IL cents. Tomatoes No. 2 can, II cents,
No. 2h "a 13 cents; No. 3 can. is
cents; No. 10 can. as cents. Pumpkin,
2 can, 8 cents: No. 3 can, 9 cents;
No. 10 can, "a cents. Squash, No. 2
6 cents.
The number OF cans available for
sale in each commodity range from 22,-
030, 235 Of the No. 3 cans Of tomatoes
to l,025 cans No. 10 size of pumpkins.
The largest amounts otherwise are
5000, 900 No i cans and $4,000, 900 No.
2 cans of corned beef, 100000 each of
the one and two pound cam Of roast
beef, 11.0O0, 900 each of the one Inc
two pound cans of corned beef hash,
$4,000, 900 cans No. 8, size baked beans,
$4,000, 900 No. 2 car of corn, 10, 000. 900
pounds of Grated bacon, and 100000 OF
bacon in 10 mounds tins
The announcement states sales will
be made in carton lots only and that
purchasers will have to pay parcels
post charges from scattered storage
points where the food is now held.
are being made by wal de-
partment officials to secure reduced
postal rates for the sale, but postoffice
officials have not yet consented.
The prices were stated to be ma
lower" than those prevailing
N the commercial market and the FOOD
described as being in excellent
condition.
The department said surplus proper
y officers at Boston. w York, Ba]ti-
Newport News. Atlanta, Chicago,
Louis. New Orleans. Sam
Eiouson, Ell Paso, Omaha, and San
Francisco. had been directed to make
he sales.
Presumably the regular zone rates
or parcels post will apply from these !
titles in determining the cost to pur- ,
by the parcels system.