The evening world., 1919-10-29
SCHEME TO SELL
BACON At 80 CENTS
N|FPED IN THE BUD
Zone Officer Demands Ex-
PLANTATION of Attempt to Dis
pose of 1t as Army Goods.
ByP @. Fog.
Especial Food Expert Of The Evening
Worldly

BY the prompt action Of Col. John
M. Carson, Chief Zone Officer OF tho
Surplus Army Foods in New York,
New Jersey and Connecticut. an at
tempt to foist one million pounds OF
canned bacon on the public was nip
ped In the bud. A Jersey City dealer
advertised one million pounds OF the
best army bacon at 30 cents, in ~
pound tins.
As the fixed price OF the army
bacon to consumers is 2s cents. the
Colonel was asked to explain why
this charge Of 30 cents on bacon was
permitted in Jersey City and not al
lowed in New York. The Colonel at
once got in touch with the dealer.
who claimed that Swift & Co sold
him the bacon as army bacon, and
the zone officer at once asked Swift
& Co. 10 explain why this bacon was
cold as army bacon. when 1t was
never the property OF the Govern
rinent. The Swift manager promised
to interview the salesman who sold
the bacon and learn IL he claimed 1t
was army goods.
Relating to the controversy between
Dr. Day and Deputy Commissioner of
Markets o'Malley, Col. Carson said
II would in no way affect the money
held on account OF the Government
and he mentioned. incidentally. that
Mr.. O'Malley had handed him a check
for considerably over s1.50o,o0o.
No one could be found at tho
central Swift branch house who
know anything about the million
pound bacon sale TO the Jersey City
dealer.
"People can live cheap now II they
want to. but II they insist on getting
Petaluma eggs and lamb chops they
can still keep up the cost" These
remarks were made by Deputy Fed
aral Food Administrator w. F. Priebe,
when asked how the food situation
appeared to him. Mr.. Priebe. who Is
ono Of the largest shippers OF poultry
and eggs In the United States, deal
ing directly with the farmers. stated:
The present decline in the prices OF
poultry and hogs will be severe
blow TO the farmers who produced
them under high overhead charges.
Wages must come down before food
can be produced cheaply. as farmers
cannot pay from 100 To 800 per cent.
increase on everything they purchase
and be expected to sell their products
cheap and keep on producing"
Another cut in the prices OF Gov
eminent chickens and frozen loins II
reported by Col. Carson, who SAID
that he hoped 10 have a still lower
price on pork loins. August Slz, who
is distributing the roasting chickens
in Manhattan, says the price to deal
ers has been cut to 32 cents. and they
must sell them 10 consumers at 81
A sale of 10000 pounds of frozen
mutton was reported 10 Brooklyn
butchers Mt 12 cents. The butchers
have promised not to charge more
than "a cents on legs and 20 cents on
the RIB mutton chops.
EVENING WORLD CRUSADE
ON KOSHER BUTCHER WINS.
The Hebrew housewives are now
getting the benefit in lower prices on
chickens, due to the expose OF The
Evening World of the proflteering
small kosher butchers The supply
OF live chickens brought here to sup
ply the Jewish element amounts TO
200 carloads each week, exceeding
$1,000,000 in Wholesale value and ag-
gregating In weight over 100000
pounds, or enough to supply every in
habitant In Greater New York with
more than one-half pound of spring
h. ty0r IN
money effected by The Evening
World amounts to cents a pound. or
$4,000 a week on the amount OF
poultry consumed by the. Jewish
families In the metropolitan district
Kosher dressed roasting chickens and
broilers can be sold at n profit this
week at 80 10 80 cents. and fricassee
chickens from 32 to 80 cents pound
but only the fat ones should cost the
higher price.
The prices charged consumers for
table or eating apples are not only
excessive, but eXtortlonate. A trin
embracing more than 100 stands and
stores, extending from the downtown
section up to 125th Street did not
disclose one stand or store where ap-
uies were sold at reasonable price
This refers particularly to the West
ern box apples, whore every apple II
sound and every one salable. IN
some OF these corner stands as much
as is cents Is charged for a Jonathan
while 10 cents Is average cost, ant
some stands give three apples for .,
cents. The standard sized apples com,
100 TO box, and the highest average
cost on the wholesale dock Is SO 25
or SK cents each. The very fines
standard size apple can be retailB1
profitably at 5 cents each, and Tho
smaller sizes that run from 1885 Il
1bO npnlcs to the box sell at y to