The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-08-23
FAIR PRICE BODY
FORLOCALFOODS|
lSt Allowing Fair Margin Of
\ Profit to Be PromuI-
gated Soon.
|EVISE SCHEDULE WEEKLY
|ealers Who Disregard Pub
lished Prices May Be
R PUNISHED.


DC combat profiteerine in foodstuffs
by local dealers, the food investi.
6ation committee appointed some
time ago by Mayor A. w. Chambliss,
I md of which James n. Anderson is
7 chsirman, will Saturday receive from
j,fW. Abel, former county food ad-
rninistrator, official notice OF it's
appointment by him as the Hamilton
county fair price committee. The
flrst of next week tho committee
VII meet to fix prices.
fThere has been some misunder-
sfanding on the part of the commit
TED as tc whether or not they were
Z lc1othed with federal authority to fix
4 p1ices in this county, and for that
reason no fair price list for food
VBtnffs has been prepared. Chairman
anderson stated Saturday morning
ANowever, that just as soon as he and
xther members of the committee re-
c,Nved official notice from Abel that
they ara appointed to investigate
pfices under federal authority, a
price list, fair to dealers and con-
MINERS, would be published. This list
4 Will probably be revised weekly.
Solve Misunderstanding.
The misunderstanding arose when
Abcl received instructions from Dis
ffict Attorney w. T. Kennerly to APP
point in this county a fair price COM
mittee to include one retailer of gro
ceries, one of dry goods, a repre-
sentative of the producers, OF or
Ganized labor, of housewives and two
or three representatives of the pub
he generally, together with whole
saler. Mr.. Abel. who states that he
has had several conferences with
Mayor Chambliss and Chairman An
derson, and that inasmuch as the
conmittee appointed by the mayor
was already at work along the lines
proposed by the district attorney,
fhere was no further use of him ap-
i50inting another committee. MIR.
Abel states that it was his opinion
the committee could proceed with the
food investigation and fix prices, but
on the other hand Chairman Ander-
son says he does not feel as il the
committee could be justified in this
Without written official word from Mr..
Abel. To settle this difference of
opinion, Mr.. Abel stated Saturday
that he would Immediately confer
WITH Mayor Chambliss and give Of
ficial notice to the committee that
they are appointed with full federal
authority
Chairman Anderson will be out of
the city all Of next week. but Satur-
day. stated that a meeting of the
Committee would be held the first OF
the week Mr.. Anderson goes to Bos-
ton to attend the meeting of the
american Bar association. and will
stop off in Washington for couple
of days, when he hopes 20 confer
with Senator Kenneth Mcclellan and
representatives of the department OF
Justice relative to the food investl-
cation now going on. He hopes TO
secure while there some additional
Information about how best to con-
duct the work here and also a copy
Of the federal law on the matter.
Other Cities Fixed Them.
In Atlanta, Memphis, Nashville
and other cities Of Tennessee and the
south, fair price committees have
fixed price lists at which commldi-
ties must be sold. These prices In
clude both wholesale and retail es-
Establishments. Any wholesaler or re-
taller disres sarding the prices stipu-
lated by the committee by over
Charging will have its license re-
voked it is stated, and any retail
grocery which is too small to be Ii
.censed under the food administration
will find that it cannot buy from
Wholesalers if it violates the price
list OF the committee.
In Atlanta butter is fixed at 10
cents a pound, eggs at so cents a
dozen, lard at AZ cents a pound, lard
at "a cents a pound, grits
at cents a pound. meal at 6 y cents
a bound, rice at 171a cents a pound.
and rice wholesale, at 14h cents a
pound.
Prices in Memphis.
The official price list for Memphis |
which went into effect Friday, Is as
follows:
Sugar, granulated. per pound: Re-
taller pays .099 to 10; consumer pays
III to IL 1-2
Flour. finest patent. per sack. "a
consumer pays s1.70 to s190.
Y Flour, standerd. per SACK, "a pounds: |
Retailer pays $1.43 to I.4S; consumer |
pays $1.65 to S1.70.
Meal, cream, per sack, 25 pounds:
Retailer pays $1.25 to $1.3S; consumer
pays $1.4 to $3.50.
Meal, cream, less than sack. per
pound: Consumer pays .06 to OF.
Potatoes, per pound; Retailer pays
.04 1-2 to .05; copsumer pays .06 to OF.
Canned milk, small per can; Re-
taller pays .07 to OF Is; consumer
pays .0S to 90
Canned milk. large, per can: Retailer
pays .l5 IL to .16; consumer pays IT
to 10.
condensed milk. II ounces, per can;
Retailer pays Is 1-2 to .16; consumer
pays 1T to 10.
Butter, best grade, solids. per pound:
Retailer pays 90 TO .5S; consumer pays
80 to .65.
Hams fancy, whole, per pound: Re-
taller pays .SS IL to 80; consumer pays
AS to AT.
Breakfast bacon, fancy, whole strips,
per pound: Retailer pays 40 to so 1-2;
consumer pays .5S to .65.
Dry salt pork, fancy, per pound: Re-
taller pays 80 to 81 1-2; consumer
pays .37 to 40.
Dry salt pork, plates. per pound;
20 to .32.
Leaf lard, In pals, per pound: Re-
taller pays 40; consumer pays AS to
as
Pune lard, bulk basis per pound: Re-
taller pays .32 to .S3; consumer pays
80 to 40.
Lard compound bulk basis. per
pound: Retailer pays .2S Ia to 80 1-2;
consumer pays "a 1-2 to 80
Palmer's Order.
Following is copy OF the telegram
received by ]. w. Abel, authorizing
him to appaont fair price committee
In Hamilton county. 1t is from Atty
Gen. Palmer at Washington and sent
to all wartime food administrators;
tf'In order to secure accurate infor-
nation relative to charge of profiteer-
L., avn s,r,t 11rNlt- |
ties, it is the desire of the government
70 ascertain whether or not such deal
ars are making more than a fair mar
gin of profit. Will you assist in your
state by requesting those persons who
have been county food administrators
lnder your Jurisdiction TO appoint fair