The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-09-26

articles of food and other necessi-
ties
Cancellations OF Commodity Rates
Additional advances in rates which
have been made by the cancellation of
commodity rates and prescribing the
higher class rates for the future are
to be found in recent supplements
to freight tariffs published by F.
a. Leland. agent southwestern Freight
Bureau, I. c. c. numbers 1868, 1880,
1888. 1897, 1902, 1927, 1892, 1858 and
1864 respectively, applying to ana
from points in Arkansas, Louisiana,
Mississippi Missouri, oklahoma, Tex
as and Defined Territories. If the
cancellations and commodity rates
made in these supplements are allowed
to go into effect they will result in
thousands of rates being greatly in
creased on important food articles,
namely: Bakery goods, baking powder,
canned goods. candy, confectionery,
coffee, tea, cheese, cereals and cereal
products, food preparations, condensed
milk. beans and peas, flour, fruits
and vegetables, peanuts, molasses,
sugar, syrup. rice, macaroni, spices,
salt. vinegar and other important
commodities such as candies, hay.
glassware, glass bottles, fruit jars.
jelly glasses. chinaware, stoneware,
crockery and earthenware. matches,
soap. soap powders. washing powders,
securing compounds, washing soda.
D .f~1-
An Advance of Objections
The classification committee has met
with an avalanche Of objections 10
! its proposed advances, and likewise
/ the supplements to Agent Leland's
tariffs making these wholesale can
cellations of commodity rates, have
met with a storm of protests and the
Interstate Commerce Commission has
been asked TO suspend the tariffs
pending an investigation OF the in
creases.
Shippers and the public at large
are in no state Of mind TO consider,
for one moment, any sort of pro-
posal to make additional increases in
rates on anything, much less food
articles.
Want No Further Increases
II would seem that shippers through
out the country are now as one in
demanding Of the railroads that they
cease all present and contemplated
efforts to further increase rates. The
following letter by Lipscomb-Russel!
Co., wholesale grocers, Greenville, s.
c., addressed to the executives Of a
number Of transportation companies
is fairly illustrative in this respect.
The letter, dated at Greenville, S. c.,
August 81. 1920, reads as follows:
I'VE note from the public prints
and from other sources that the
Consolidated Classification Com
mittee has under consideration
the matter Of making certain
changes in Classification that will
have the effect Of making very
radical advances in the freight
charges on quite long list Of
commodities and that this consid
Grafton has progressed TO the
point OF the actual PRONUNCIATION
Of list Of The articles affected.
AS lntIt SttIHS ~ pe no up-
parent reason to justify such ac-
ton, We wish to enter our earn
est and solemn protest against
1t, especially at this time or at
any other time unless compelling
reasons can be given,
We respectfully call your at
tention 10 the outstanding fact
g., .f
country, with practical unanimity
both in their organized and indi-
vidual capacities, joined with the
railroads in their petition TO the
Interstate Commerce Commission
for the increase In rates, which
was granted, and now for the
transportation companies. in the
face Of this patriotic and just
action TO attempt another drastic
and immediate raise; falls very
little short, 1t seems 10 us. OF
breach of good faith, which will
20 far toward undermining the
spirit OF confidence and cooper
alton that was showing satis-
factory progress. For this and
]
we are addressing you. as the ex-
ecutive head OF your organization,
} and request that you take steps
to prevent its fuhtre consldera-
ton"
A Vigorous Protest
A. II. Perfect 4 Company whole
sale grocers. Fort Wayne. Ind. In
, letter addressed to the Southern
) Wholesale Grocers' Association, Aug
, ust 81, has this to say upon th
subject:
: THE railroads having secured
approximately all that they asked
r for from the Interstate Commerce
t Commission and now to ask for
! further heavy, or heavier, increas-
, es on food commodities is all
) wrong. We certainly think the
= rates should remain where they
: ase and let us see what Is going
D to be the outcome rather than