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REPORT TO FOOD BOSS
Administrator Heinz Explains
That Is the Way to
Stop Profiteering
By M'LISS
A careful housewife paid e enty-flve
cents a doien for fresh eg-ga and thought
he was "stuna;"
She had been reading, In a cursory
way, reports from the local food lid
ministration and statements from Its
city and State directors Jay Cooke and
Howard Heinz respectively. 8he had
seen printed In tho newspapers lists of
epproxlmato prices and she felt sure
that the maximum price for eggs quoted
had not been as high as seenty-fle
cents.
Necessity had mads a tallied ccono
mist of her, but sho felt that where
eggs were concerned she could not take
less than the best.
Despite thl. fact, howoer, she Inter
rogated tho" dealer before mnklng her
purchase..,
"Won't you get Into trouble with the
food administrator If you charge such
an exhorbltant price for eggs? ' slie
asked him.
"It's not my fault," he replied non
chalantly, ' talk to the farmer or the
hens about it. You said Jou wanted
fresh eggs. Storage eggs are cheaper."
The woman talked, not to the hen or
to the farmer, but to tho 13evino Pun
lAa Ledger
"What's the food administration do
lne?" she queried with some asperity,
"what good are their price lists, printed
dally. If the dealers are still permitted
to gouge us? What's the Idea?"
The Eveni.no Public I.cdqeh put the
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WHrrtoof) to-HowareJ 'lrVlns, the" Stata
administrator, and obtained a concise
explanation of what the food adminis
tration la doing, what It alms to do and,
how each and eerhousewlfo can help
the administration and herself In the
prevention of "gouging" or pronteerlng.
Here Is the situation In a nutshell!
The average person who has been
reading vaguely about food regulation
has an Idea that the food administrators
have the power to fix prices. This Is
not true. There Is no law giving them
such power. They cahnot say, for In
stance, that fifty cents Is a maximum
price for the best candled storage eggs
and that all who are required to pay
more than that are being victimized.
They cannot say that no dealer can sell
the best creamery butter for more than
sixty cents a pound and that the dealer
who does Is a profiteer and liable to
prosecution as such.
In short and to repeat, they cannot
fix prices.
But what they can and are doing Is to
control profits.
They can say and have said to deal
ers: "On such and such articles jou
cannot make more than 10 per cent
profit: on other articles you cannot le
gally make more thait 15 or 20 per cent
If vou do ou are liable to One or im
priFonment or both."
Several times a week wholesalers and
retallert In all varieties of foodstuffs
meet the food administrator In the
offices of the Committee of Fubllo Safety.
In the Finance Building. An experienced
agent from the Department of Agricul
ture is present. Prices are discussed
and tho proper amouhts of profits fixed
The lists printed In the papers are based
on the results of these discussions
The value of these lists is this:
By reference to them the housewife
may know whether or not she Is paying
approximately too much. If the food
administration's fish list qviotes mack
erel cleaned at from IS to 25 cents
a-d her dealer asks her 2S or SO, de
salt the fact that the" offer to pay
cash and to carry her purchase home,
she Is Justified In suspecting tllm. It Is
her duty then to write to the food ad
ministration and lay her facts before
that body. She should cite the date of
her purchase, the name and the address
of the dealer from whom she bought
ana me price sne paid.
The food administration has Its de
partment of Invest'gatlon. Secret Serv
ice men are running down profiteers
dally and their work will be facilitated
If every housewife constitutes herself a
committee of one to help prevent goug
ing.
It must be remembered, however, that
the food administration's prices are not
concerned with the fancy grades of
foodstuffs, expensively boxed and deliv
ered Its activities deal with the kind of
caimes mat Mrs, Average woman buys
ana carries nome nerseir.
Many persons believe the food admin'
Istratlon should have the power to fix
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prices. These parsons thlak'tkat laws
should be passed enabling Hr" Hoover
and Mr. Helm and Mr. Cooke and all
the lesser, food administrators to say
conclusively to the dealers:
i "You can't charge over touch' and such
an amount for such and such a thing."
It sounds like the simplest solution of
the problem, but the question of pro
ductlon and supply and demand 'l 'In
the final analysis exceedingly complex,
as Germany and England found out
when they both endeavored to fix prices
In Germany the plan was abandoned
because It was found that production
wns discouraged. Prices were fixed at
what seemed a fair rate to consumer and
seller, but the producers lost money and'
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consequently throat afc te'VroeToee,
and If the plan hadn't been given up;
the country would have ton to the
"demnltlon bowwows." Which wouldn't
hnve been so bad, perhaps, seeing that
It waa Germany. Dut Oermany didn't
think ro.
In England, according to Mr, Helm,
when prices have been fixed on wheat
',
which fuktoatet mean tth. '
made up the loses by providing a sab
sidy, -And that Isn't the best' sort of
economics.
It would seem, then, that the economi
cal and. patriotic, thing for every house
keeper to do Is:
To study the lists published in the
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