The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-12
COMMITTEE TO FIX
FOOD PROFIT LIMIT
Names Of Those Who Will
Help Check Gouging to Be
Announced To-day.

The committee of citizens the Attor-
ney- General has asked former Fsod Ad-
ministrator Arthur williams to appoint
will consider any retail or wholesale
dealer in food, foodstuffs, clothing or
other necessities, whose profit exceeds q
certain fixed amount. as profiteer.
The "fair prices" that were followed
in the Hoover food administration Will
govern in deciding what is a fair mar
gin Of profit and what is profiteering
This was announced by Mr.. Williams
yesterday. He said he had selected his
committee which will represent trades
men, producers, housewives and labor
The names will be announced to-day.
The whole personnel of the Depart
ment of Justice here will be at the SER
vice of the committee to- investigate
complaints and punish Offenders.
Mr.. williams, Who is general CONNER
cial manager of the New York Edison
Company and a dollar q year man for
the Government, received number OF
inquiries from food dealers yesterday as
to what will be required Of them under
the new regulations. He advised them
to keep their profits within the scale OF
fair prices as applied last January. when
the Food Administration ended.
Retail rront Lssasts.
These prices apply to retailers and are
on cash and carry" basis goods
bought for cash and carried home by the
purchaser). They may be changed after
the committee has had time TO study
conditions. especially the Increase In
rents.
Retail profit was limited by fair
prices last January as follows: (Prices
are per pound where not otherwise
stately Groceries-Lima beans,
cents; rice, 2 cents; oats, IL cents
corr meal. 1 n cents; raisins, ID ounces,
az cents; -four, cent; sugar. cent
bread, III cents bread. IL ounce loaf.
cent; tomatoes, 1 can, 3 cents; corn,
l can, 81 cents; peas. i can Sh cents;
salmon, can, Az cents; evaporated
milk, az cents; evaporated milk,
ounce can. 2 cents: butter, cents
cheese, cents; eggs, dozen, cents;
potatoes. 1 cent onions. 1 u cents; cab
bage, 2 cents.
Meats-CnucK steak, II cents; whole
cross ribs, Is cents; cut cross ribs, az
cents beef stew, n cents sirloin steak.
Is cents; top round steak. 10 cents
bottom round steak, II cents rib roast
prime, 16 cents; rib roast chuck,
cents whole top sirloin. 10 cents; cut
top sirloin, II cents; lamb--leg. ~
cents; loin chop, Is cents: shoulder,
cents rib. IL cents chuck. cent pork
con, IL cents: pork chops end, cents
pork chops middle. 10 cents.
All Necessities to He Covered.
Profit margins will be fixed for dry
L. II
the committee has had an opportunity,
to consult with the trades. Mr.. Williams
believes that when the plan IL worked
out IL will have much to DO with reduce
ing the cost of living.
Julius H Barnes. United States Wheat
Director, said yesterday that q remedy
for high food prices lies In the substitu-
ton Of bread for more expensive foods,
such as meat eggs and butter. He said
that although the July wheat crop was
discouraging there still Is a supply of
wheat above the average, with enough to
feed the United States and contribute to
the supply abroad.
The -four consumption of America fell
from its normal OF 236 pounds per capita
to III pounds last year." said Mr..
Barnes This proves conclusively that
bread. which is cheap and wholesome,
was displaced in the diet by higher
priced foods"
Applications for licenses to export
wheat to Mexico will now be received at
the office of the United States Grain
Corporation, AZ Broadway, according to
a bulletin issued yesterday by the Wheat
Director. They should be made In dupli-
cate.
Short weight ice men will be prose-
cuted by the State, II was announced in
Albany. An investigation has revealed
so per cent of 2,122 deliveries OF ice
were short. Four Ice men already have
been convicted.
the free ice stations established In
Flushing lasted only three days. Miss
Ruth Howard, secretary OF the Asso-
ciated Charities, suggests that the half
ton daily allowed might better be sent
to some tenement house districts of
Queens.
District Attorney Swami said he has
asked Justice Barlow s. Weeks for per-
mission to present to the Extraordinary
Grand Jury investigating anarchy and
Bolshevism. evidence against the dis
tributers in the New York Milk Confer
ence Board tending to show conspiracy
on their part to increase the price of milk
He also said he had Conferred with
United States Attorne Francis G. CAT
fey regarding cooperation of the Federal
and State authorities in prosecuting cold
storage hoarders.