Evening star., 1920-02-17
|M|DD[EMEN CAUSE
| H. c. |. IS ASSERTED
Community Center Has Been
Chief Factor in Reducing
Prices, Says Dr.. Emmons.

! The Community Center has done
more toward reducing the high cost
of living than any other single
agency" declared DR. Charles NJ. En-
! mons, president of East Washington
| Citizens Association, at a meeting
| of the association held last night in
East Washington Hall.
Fair price lists of the govern
| ment." he added. seldom get in the
| hands of women. who do approx
mately 80 per cent of the buying.
! They are distributed to men at meet
ings Of civic bodies. and men seldom
know anything about prices.
! after ALL" said DR.. Emmons. elm
| ination of middlemen is what is need
ed to reduce the cost of living
! DR.. Emmons said he recently had
| occasion to sell several dressed hogs
from his farm and he got II cents
a pound for them. That same meat;
he asserted, would sell at from 80
to 40 cents pound after 1t hao
| passed through two or three hands
! purchased coffee from the East Wash :
| ington Community Center at price a
| fraction of a cent cheaper than deal
| ers were paying for it. One dealer
| offered to buy the entire stock. but
| it was not sold to him. ....
Urges ID. &. Cold Storage Plant.
What is the remedy" he asked.
and answered: Let the District es-
! tablish a cold-storage plant. where
| nominal cost and dispose of it at
| a uniform price.
! Let the dealers and consumers go
there and make their purchases" he
| added, "and the cost will be mate. ial-
ly cut There are seasons when roads
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| to impossible for the farmer to haul
, his produce. but. with the District
providing cold-storage plant. he
/ could do his hauling in good weather
| weather got bad. Such an arrange
| ment would mean an absence of the
great increases in prices every time
there is bad spell of weather
LAS a result of such an arrange
| ment," he continued. farmers would
and consumers would pay much less.
Put stop to the produce going
through too many hands before it
reaches the consumer. and cheaper
prices will prevail"
Tells Of Work Of Post Once.
F. Howard Buckler told of what the
Post Office Department has accom-
! plished in the matter of reducing the
| high cost of living. He told of the
|
! been esta ablished as means OF trans
porting produce from sections that
| are without means Of transportation.
and said great quantities Of produce
were being brought here in the
! trucks.
! ment of a ferry connecting Leonard
! town. Md. with points on the Vir-
| ginia shore. the boat being large
| enough to transport several or the
| government parcel delivery trucks
| Establishment Of the ferry, he stated
! enables residents of the northern NECK
| and Rappahannock river section to
get their produce to this city at a
| nominal cost and without delay.
| s. w. Curriden and John P. Grose
also discussed the question of reduc'
! ing the high cost of living, and the
association adopted a resolution com
mending the Post once Department
and the Community Center for what
has been accomplished
! Wants Public Comfort station.
! On motion of DR.. Emmons the as
sociation voted to repeat its request
| for the erection of a public comfort
station at Pennsylvania avenue ana
Sth street southeast. In addluon 70
! establishing such station, Dr; EN-
! made for a recreation room and place
where persons waiting for street cars
might be protected from the weather
| Mr.. Grose called attention to the
necessity for improving 18th street
southeast just north Of Pennsylvanis
Avenue. where. he said. the street
foods every time it rains or SHOWS
and is almost impassaoie. ne a,so
| called attention to the rules-goVern.
ING the dump near the west end OF
Pennsylvania Avenue broge. ne
dump closes SO early in the afternoon
Se said. that drivers of private ash
wagons cross the bridge and scatter
] ashes and tin cans along the roao
| leading to BenninS. :
And if there is no policeman IN
| si-ht" he added. they don't MIND
doing a little scattering on the city
The Commissioners will be asked 70
keep the dump open at all hours our
| ing the day.