Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 28, 1919, Page 7

SATURDAY, JUNE 28,1919 ~~ AELEASE OF SURPLUS FOOD HELD BY SOVERNMENT WOULD CUT OST TO CONSUMER, BILL INTRODUCED... Amendment to District of Columbia Bill in House Will "=<" Allow Institutions to Purchase Supplies Now Being) one eres Held by War and Navy Departments ae WASHINGTON, June 23.—Complaints of the high cost of living and especially extreme prices for foodstuffs, which are being made to members of House and Senate constantly, have Cc resulted in the House adopting an amendment to the District thoy’ we ar ening, ther when of Columbia appropriation bill by Representative Moore of Pennsylvania which will allow public institutions in Washing- pl ton to buy surplus foodstuffs of the! Wee and Navy departments. This is the surplus stored up by those w|BA PTISTS WILL partments, a surplus which is hurt- him. It is the idea of Mr. Moore that if the surplus is sold in this | tountry so it will be used here, even! lieve soaring prices. The consumers, too, he ought to be given a chance to get direct relief. Might Reduce Price. “We read almost daily no’ canned goods, particularly | that are stored up here and abroad by the War Department, and possi- bly by the Navy Department, that are} dec no longer usable for war purposes, and we hear on the floor of the house} the suggestion that the War De- partment and the Navy Department} ure practically aiding the canners, the} packers, or whatever instrumentality produces these food products, by not disposing of them for public use, be- cause of the possibility of reducing the price to the consumer, and affect- ing the present market status. I am inclined to think that some interna- tional understanding was had on this subject—a very important one to the consumers, and a very serious one to the poor people in the great con-! gested communities who are almost deprived of meat now, because of the high price of beef and pork and sup-| plies of that kind. I say I am inclin-| ed to think that there may have been! an international understanding upon this question. At any rate it is al- most time for us to consider whether we shall enter a wedge here in the interests of the United States that will break this combination, whatever it may be, and help our own people! obtain cheaper food. | “For a time there was a suspi-| cion that our allies, by reason of} their necessities, were able to ob-| tain and sell to their ¢onstimers, not) to their armies, but to their con- sumers in civil life, meat supplies | and food supplies ,:generally much more cheaply than\wercoilld sell them! to” our consumers in the United! States. We had considerable evi-| dence before us from‘time to time} that you could buy meat cheaper in| London than you could buy it in New| York. : Consider Consumer i “Tt certainly was true in regard to} flour and certain other food prod- ucts. But I read this morning that Great Britain evidently is wincing} under the high prices that prevail | there, and that there might, after) all, be something to this suggestion | of an international understanding— or in the abrogation thereof—for) Great Britain has demanded of New! Zealand that it come to the assistance | of Great Britain to beat down the packers’ prices in the United States. I am not contending especially against the packers. I do not know! about their situation, but I have ob-| served for two or three years that, there seems to have been a complete understanding between the great pro-/ ducers of the United States and our allies on the other side. If there is| a break now and our allies and their} consumers are to receive the advan- tage of low meat prices, I think it is; fair that the consumers in the United States were also considered. If we have stored up in our warehouses} under the direction of the army and} navy untold tons of food supplies that the people might use it is a grave} question whether we should permit! the hoarding to go on. We can make a start here in the District of Co- lumbia by providing that our pub- lic institutions that have to be sup- ported by the common people may! buy some of these surplus materials | that the War and Navy Departments | can not use and which they seem to| be storing up against the public for some reason thet we do not under- stand.” —_-—_———-— MONTANA MAN _ | JUMPS IN PLANE, | GOES TO RACES SHERIDAN, Wyo., June 27.— Hopping into his Curtiss airplane at} his home at Forsyth, Mont., early | in the morning, Joseph Leiter flew) to Sheridan to take in the races, | arriving here in two hours. For several hours the plane circled over Sheridan. | The plane is used by Leiter to herd] cattle on his ranch near Forsyth. | This is an innovation in cattle | herding altho it may become very common in the future. A cattle herd- er.with an airplane has a unique ad-| vantage with a machine in that he éan cover a large territory in a short time and keep trace of a larger herd | of cattle with greater facility. einen | ing the consumer rather than helping | PUBLISH PA PER observed them push open the door | The Rev. J. F. Blodgett is leaving ch ‘if sold to institutions and not to the | tomorrow for Chicago, where he has consumer direct, it will tend to re-|been called to attend a meeting of however that they probably the general planning board of the have distanced him had they not been . Baptist denomination to discuss plans! deceived ,by Maurer’s ruse, | thinks poets P x ruse preliminary to a campaign to raise | $100,000,000 and to establish a de- nominational newspaper. vy ca, | Bett was named at a recent confer- »”? said | ence i: Mr. Moore, “of large quantities of j thi is Chi . 5 q this state to attend this Chicago con meats, | ference. He will go by way of Carneyville,| thumb and several of the fingers had | Wyo., near Sheridan, and attend the| to be amputated but it is hoped the dication of a church there. POINTS HIS FINGER AT FLEEING PRISONERS AND MEN THROW UP NS Wyo., June 24.— nmanded C, F. Mau- pointing his fore- Mix and Bill Bask, con- horsethieves, whom he en- fled from the Maurer’s finger must have appeared like a cannon in the excited imagination of the jaile P both of whom stopped and fessed county jail their hands above _ their A moment later they were into custody by Undersheriff they encountered Maurer. 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