Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1919-08-27
j. s. WILL OPEN
GENERAL STORES
IN LARGE CITIES
Mail Sale of Supplies
Will Be Taken Over;
May Be Permanent.

Washington, Aug. o6.--Further steps
to bring down boarding prices were
taken, today by the government. the
war department announcing plans for
opening retail stores in a number of
cities. through which surplus household
commodities and clothing Will be made
available to consumers throughout the
country.
Meantime congressional committees
continued consideration of legislation
designed to reduce the high cost of
living. This included amendments to the
food control act to punish profiteerlng
and boarding, bills to regulate cold
storage and appropriations for the
Federal Trade commission to investigate
stocks and give the information to the
public.
viii open to Mail Orders.
Through the retail stores to be open
cd by the war department, the army $
large surplus stocks of socks, under
wear. shirts. raincoats, blankets, gloves,
tobacco and other household commodi-
ties will be sold, Consumers in the large
cities where the stores will be operated,
will be able to purchase over the coun-
fer. but the stocks also will be made
available to persons IN other communl-
ties through the parcel post.
Price lists are being prepared and
these will be furnished to all postoffices
for the convenience of the public. While
no announcement has yet been made 1t
is expected that the prices, like those
On the foodstuffs now being disposed Of,
will be considerably below the prevail
ing market.
All mail orders will be delivered by
natrol post, but the policy Of making
these sales through the postoffice de-
ha
orders will go directly to the stores. To
expedite the mail order sales, the post
office department has asked to estab-
lish sub stations in each store.
Books to Quote Prices.
BOOKLETS quoting prices and giving
the location Of all stores are being pre-
pared and will be available at every
nostoffice in the United States.
The present plan is to open stores IN
tha IL zone supply cities, Boston. New
York. Philadelphia, Baltimore. Atlanta,
Jock sonyjlle, Chicago. st. Louis, New
Orleans San Francisco. Omaha. El Paso
San Antonio, and Washington. The
chain will be extended to additional cities
as rapidly as possible.
Hoards In Many Lines Charged.
Hurried inventory of all stocks of fuel,
steel. lumber, textiles, leather and food
held by basic industries would disclose
no; riding and speculation, William B.
CoIycr and Victor Murdock. of the fed
eral trade commission declared. today,
before the house appropriations COM
mittce.
They urged that the commission be
provided with funds for permanent work
in compilation of information regarding
these basic industries. declaring that such
information. with comparisons, would be
handy when living coasts rose suddenly.
Mr.. Colver said the canned food in
dustry was filled with spectators and
that this condition was typical The
pack of canned goods, this year, is not
vet completed. he said, but the most Of
il has been sold since last January, with
many of the sales purely speculative.
Or. Willy Explains Storage.
In considering legislation for regula-
ton of cold storage. the house agri-
cultural committee heard several wit
nesses. DR.. Harvey w. Wiley. formerly
chief of the bureau OF chemistry. told
the committee storage of products should
not be uniform, but should depend on
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