The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-08-26
PRICE OF SUGAR
UNDER CONTROL
This Figure Should Prevail Approx
nateiy When Sugar Re hes
Consumer.

Washington, Aug. 21.-Active con-
troll Of sugar prices was resumed to-
day by the government, through an
agreement reached between the de-
partment Of justice and the food ad-
ministration that licenses will be re-
voked by the latter when it is snown
dealers have been profiteering.
Sugar should reach the consumer
at approximately II cents pound,
it was announced based on the own
ership of the entire domestic and
Cuban crop by the United State sugar
equalization board, which is selling
to refiners at 7.28 cents a pound.
Refiners are under contract with the
board to sell at cents, less 2 per
scent. discount for cash, wholesalers
and jobbers are allowed a maximum
of 6S cents per 100 pounds for hand
ling and retailers are permitted a
profit of one and one-haf cents
per pound, making fair price II
cents, except in cases where dealers
have purchased at an unreasonable"
price due to misunderstanding in the
trade. When this is fact, a reason
able advance over the actual cost
will be permitted.
With the house agriculture COM
nnittee's amendment for extension Of
the powers of the food control act
before it, the house tonight was pre-
pared to take action tomorrow on the
amendment and thereby make its
first extensive step toward beating
down living costs. The amendment,
which was reported to the house to-
day by unanimous vote, includes
retailers among those liable under
the food control act, and it's enact
ment along with the control exercised
over sugar, officials believe will do
much to curtail profiteering by re-
tailers.
ssOur desire is to secure fair
price for the consumer" said At
torney General Palmer in announc-
ing resumption Of sugar control,
ssand we do not wish to pursue a
wholesale policy of recommending
the cancellation of licenses. Where
trade adjusts itself to fair price for
the future, past transactions, unless
fragrant, will not ordinarily be made
the basis of a Recommendation by
this department for the cancellations
of the license"
Sale of army subsistence supplies
now in progress will cover the entire
surplus, the war department an
nounced today, including enough to
give two pounds of meat and one and
quarter pounds of canned vege-
tables to every person in the United
States.
The amendment to the food con-
troll act as reported today would ex-
tend the acts provisions to include
wearing apparel, containers OF food,
feed or fertilizers and fuel oil. A
penalty sof $4,000 and two years i'm
prisonment for profiteering.
.eThe absence Of evidence of any
profiteering by the farmers, the ag-
ricultural committees report adds,
ssand the provision of the socalled
Sherman antitrust law recognizing
collective bargaining by labor makes
it wise to not subject the farmer to
inconvenience and expenses under
the federal law"
Numerous bills and resolutions
dealing with living cost questions
were presented in both houses OF
congress. Representative Hutchin-
son, Republican, New Jersey, intro
duced a bill which would enable the
secretary of agriculture "to prevent
deception with respect to cold stor-
age and shipment of cold storage
foods in interstate commerce and
limit such storage to ten months