New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 31, 1917, Page 7

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1917, FOURTEEN 0Z, LOAF BREAD FOR NICKLE Price Made Possible by $2.20 Wheat Fixed by President ‘Washington, Aug. 31.—The basis price of the 1917 wheat crop was tixed at $2.20 a bushel last night by Presi- dent Wilson, upon the recommenda- tion of the commission headed by D. H. A. Garfleld. The price is based on Chicago delivery. This is the figure at which the Food Administra- tion will buy supplies of what is known as No. 1 Northern Spring wheat for the United States and its allies. It is expected that the wheat pro- ducers will fall into line without fur- ther dispute and make the price universal. The Food Administration, however, has power to enforce the basic price if there are any recalic- trants. This probably will be done through a system of licenses which may extend all the way to the re- tailers, schould occasion arise for such a drastic procedure. Millers and wholesalers will be brought \lndm this licensing system at once, it stated, and the powers also will I'vt exercised to prevent hoarding or cor- nering the market. A schedule of prices of all grades and kinds of wheat, reduced to the $2.20 basis for No. 1 Northern Spring wheat, was submitted to the president by the Food Administration and was made public last night. It provides that for an additional 10 cents a bushel for wheat to the wholesaler in New York city as opposed to the $2.20 price of basic wheat in New York City to $2.30. A reduction of 5 cents a bushel is provided for in this schedule for No. 2 grade, out of which a large part of the flour is milled. A flour expert estimated that, deducting about $1.60 for bi-products obtained, flour should be produced in the neighborhood of $9 a barrel under the prices fixed, and that unless wholesalers and re- tailers were permitted to “run wild” there should be a considerable reduc- tion to the public from the present range. In his statement accompanying the price-fixing report, President Wilson sounded a warning that the Food Ad- ministration would adhere rigidly to the price determined upon by the Garfleld committee, and intimated that the powers of the Food Control bill would be exerted to the full if any evidence was obtained that producer, miller, wholesaler, or consumer was attempting to take advantage of the consuming public. The President’s Statement. The text of the president’s state- ment follows: The White House, ‘Washington, Aug. 30. 1917, Section 11 of the food act pro- vides, among other things, for the purchase and sale of wheat and flour by the government, and ap- propriate money for the purpose. The purchase of wheat and flour for our Allies, and to a consider- able degree for neutral counntries also, has been placed under the control of the Food Administra- tion. I have appointed a com- mittee to determine a fair price to be paid in government pur- chases. The price now recom- mended by that committee—$2.20 per bushel at Chicago for the basic grade—will be readily ad- hered to by the Food Administra- tion. It is the hope and expectation of the Food Administration ‘and my own also, that this step will at once stabilize and keep within moderate bounds the price of wheat for all transactions throughout thé present crop year, and in consequence the prices of flour and bread also. The food act has given large powers for the control of stor- age and exchange operations, and se powers will he fully exer- cised. An inevitahle consequence will he that financial dealings cannot follow their usual course. Whatever the advantages and disadvantages of the ordinary machinery of trade, it cannot f1 tion well under such- dis- turbed and abnormal conditions as now exist. In its place . the Food Administration now fixes for its purchases a fair price, as recommended unanimousiy by a committee representative of all interests and sections and be- lieves that thereby it will elim- inate speculation, make possible the conduct of every operation in the full light of day. maintain the publicly stated price for all, and, {hrough economies made possible by stabilization and control, better the position of consumers also. Mr. Hoover, at his express wizh, has taken no part in the dcliberations of the committee on whose recommendation I deter- mine the government's fair price, nor has he in any way in- timated an opinion regarding that price. ; WOODROW WILSON. Report of the Committee. The report of the committee is as follows: United States Food Administra- tion, Washington, Aug. 30, 1917, To the President of the United States: The undersigned committee has been asked by you to recommend the price which the goernment should pay for the 1917 crop of wheat, In its deliberations the commit- tee has kept constantly in mind the three following factors: 1. The fact that the States is at war. 2. The need the producer. 3. The necessity of reducing the cost of living to the consumer. The normal laws of supply and demand have been violently inter- fered with and Congress has un- dertaken to offset this disturbance by conferring extraordinary pow- ers upon the President to stabilize prices. Each af the foregoing factors grows out of conditions which have received the careful attention of the committee. Chief among them are: That the wheat vield in a great and important section of the country has this year been below the normal; that over against this situation is the crying need among the whale body of the population, especially the wage earners, that the rising tide of costs shall be stayed and reduced as rapldly as possible conistent with the welfare of the producer: that the government is at the present time engaged in the great task of reducing and stabilizing costs of other staple commodities; that the wheat of the warld is abundant for its needs, even disregarding the stores in Russia, but because of laok of shipping and war condi- tions the burden of supplying wheat to the allies and to neutral nations rests for the time being on the United States and Canada. Your committee has also con- sidered the fact that the govern- ment price for the 1917 wheat crop is, in effect, a continuity guaranty until the minimum price United of encouraging | WOMAN IS MAYOR OF FLORIDA TOWN I IYOR TTaRIN /) HORWITZ | Mrs. Marion N. Horwitz, first wo- man mayor of the south—she is may- or of Moorehaven, Fla—was ap- pointed major on the personal mili- tary staff of Sidney J. Catts, governor of Florida. She will represent the governor in national defense work and food preparedness movements. So far as known she is the first woman in the country to receive a military commission or be appointed a person- al aid to a governor. Mrs. Horwitz was deputized by the governor to go to Washington to con- sult with the president as to the in- creased production of foodstuffs. As a major she will be expected to ap- pear in uniform. guaranteed by cangress for the crop of 1918 goes into effect, (July 1, 1918.) It has considered the effect which an early termina- tion of the war would have upon the wheat markets of the world. In reaching its conclusion the committee has been guided by the principles you have an- nounced, that a fair price should be based upon the cost of pro- duction for the entire country, plus a reasonable profit. We have relied upon the cost esti- mates for the crop of 1917 fur- nished by the Uniteq States de- partment of agriculture, checked by the results of our independent investigations and the evidence submitted by producers and their representatives . The committee has considered the regulations recently estah- lished by the United States Food Administration Grain Corpora- tion for the different grades of the wheat, through which all transactions in wheat are to be standardized and speculation to be entirely eliminated. Also that profits to the grgin dealers, mill- er, and flour dealers have been reg- ulated and reduced by the Grain Corporation, effecting a material reduction in the cost of flour. In consideration of the forego- ANNOUNCING NEWARK SHOES FOR WOMEN AND IMISSES at $3.50 and $4.50 As announced on another page in this paper, the Newark Shoe Stores Co., has just added Women’s and Misses’ Shoes to its famous line of Men’s Shoes. This statement should interest every woman in this city y and points near-about. The Newark Shoe Stores Co. now has on sale, shoes for women at prices that must make every Woman who sees them fairly beam with joy at the prospect of being able to buy Fashion’s Latest Fancies at sensible prices—$3.50 and $4.50. They state they are showing shoes that duplicate the style of the most expen- sive models shown. It is their idea to prove that $3.50 and $4.50 is enogh to pay for shoes for Women. The Newark Shoe Stores Co. concedes that women may pay $8.00 to $15.00 a pair for shoes elsewhere, but nct more charming styles can be had than those they show at $3.50 and $4.50; and the beautiful models displayed in their windows cer- tainly substantiate this statement. The Newark Shoe Stores Co. explams in the following manner the reason for being able to give such beautiful styles and wonderful values at such low prices, viz :— “The Newark Shoe Stores Co. is a gigantic National institution supplying shoes for more than three million men and women through its own 257 stores in 97 cities. “Such tremendous output cuts down cost of production and distribution and eliminates middlemen’s profits, the benefit of which our customes receive.” The remarkable success of the Newark Shoe Stores company in the produc- tion and sale of men’s shoes throughout the United States is an assurance that the addition of women’s shoes at sensible prices, will prove equally successful, as this new departure filis a long felt want. On Saturday, the opening day, to purchasers of women’s shoes, the Newark Shoe Stores Co. states that a dainty vanity case containing mirror and powder- puff will be given free of charge. NEWARK SHOE STORES CO. 324 MAIN STREET. NEW BRITAIN STORE Open Monday and Saturday evening (Near R. R. Crossing.) (257 Stores in 97 Cities) o | [ |2 few cents apart and most of the BRITISH ESTABLISH ing facts and circumstances, this committee respectfully recom- mends that the price on No. 1 Northern spring wheat, or its equivalent, at Chicago be $2.20 per bushel. Respectfully subtmitted, H. A. GARFIELD, Chairman, THEO. N. VAIL, J. W. SULLIVAN, E. F. LADD, F. W. TAUSSIG, EUGENE E. FUNK, H. J. WALTERS, C. S. BARRETT, J. W. SHORTHILL, L. J. TABER, W. N. DOAK. Agreement Unanimous. The wheat price committee reached an agreement late yesterday after- noon after several days of voting. At one time it looked as if it would be unable to come to a conclusion, but Jjust before 6 o’clock a compromise was reached, and the last vote was unanimous. Representatives of the producers began by voting for a price of $2.50 ! and labor’s representatives for $1.84. The two extremess eventualy nar- rowed down until the votes were only | i day’'s voting showed only a slight difference. Both factions appeared uncompromising at the start. The price fixed last night is 20 cents higher than that named for the 1918 crop by Congress in the food control bill. The $2 price set by Congress was taken into consideration by the committee in considering a fair valu- ation for this year’s crop. All the members agreed in their discussions that the price fixed would permit of fourteen-ounce loaf of bread for five cents, allowing a fair profit both to the flour manufacturer and the baker. NEW CONVOY SYSTEM Have Regular Routing Between Britain and Holland (Correspondence of The Asso Press.) Rotterdam, Netherlands, July 22.— A record convoy has just reached Rot- terdam from England, numbering 17 ships. The escorting squadron was likewise probably an easy record for this route, comprising ,as it did, forty torpedo destroyers. The British convoy between Britain and Holland is now a regular institu- tion, and is doubtless typical of what takes place on a far wider and extend- ing scale in the Entente shipping world. The non-admittance of armed merchantmen to Dutch ports has made convoying essential on this route. Times of salling are kept secret. The boats collect somewhere in British waters, and sailing orders reach them on short notice. The crossing fre- quently takes place at night. Some of the escorting destroyers go on ahecad; others rush along at great speed on éither flank of the merchant- men, turning and twisting and making all kinds of strangs evolutions cal- culated to ward off and endanger the lurking German submarine. Three or four Dutch boats are often included in the convoy, for the crossing of the North Sea alone, with no protection save, that of a neutral flag, has proved to be merely asking for destructian. Arrived on the Netherlands side, the escorting squadron stops short on the border of Dutch waters, and the mer- chantmen go safely on into their ports of destination, constantly passing close by the German cargo-boats that have recently taken to trading with coal between Rotterdam and Scandi- navian ports through the channel of Dutch territorial waters, Shortly afterward a returning con- voy, which has been lying in the New Waterway, emerges and, under the protection of the warships, swiftly takes its way westward, heavily laden with such products as Dutch cheese, butter, eggs and meat. Of late the convoy has crossed and re-crassed in this way once a week, incidentally con- veying the mail either way. The mail from England is always very consider- able ,including something like 15,000 or 20,000 parcels of food for British prisoners of war in Germany. Occa- sionally a straggler falls victim to a torpeda, and mine victims used to be heard of, but the convoy method on the whole appears to be remarkably successful. GOVT. OF FRANCE OPPOSES H. C. OF L. State Plans ‘to Issue Shoes at Low Prices Paris, Aug. 6, (Correspondence of the Associated Press).—Before ad- journing for summer vacation last week, parliament passed a law on requisitioning which allows the gov- ernment to requisition. or take over a fixed price, any commodities nec- essary to civil life, just as it has al- ways had power to requisition any- thing for the army. The new law will allow several measures Intended to aleviate the dearness of living to be put into im- mediate effect as all necessary pre- liminaries have been arranged for weeks, inreadiness for the moment that this law would give the author- ities power to act. The first measure will augurate “Natlonal Footwear.” be to in- This SATURDA SPECIAL RUG SALE If You Ever Expect to Buy a Rug NOW is the Time Whittall Anglo Persian Reg, $82.50 Value 9x12 2 SPECIAL SALE . $62.00 Reg. $28.75 Value SPECIAL SALE .. 4-6x7-6 $23.00 Reg. $18.75 Value 36x63 SPECIAL SALE .... $9.75 Reg. $8.50 Value 27x54 SPECIAL SALE .... $6.25 Reg. SPECIAL SALE . $5.75 Value 2214x36 $4.25 Whittall Royal Worcester . $61.75 Value 9x12 SPECTAL SALE . '$52.50 Whittall Teprac Wilton 9x12 Reg. $53.25 Value SPECIAL SALE |, ~ $43.75 8-3x10-6 Reg, $48.50 Value SPECIAL SALE $34.73 6x9 Reg. SPECT " SALE .. $33.00 Value 4-6x6 $25.5’ 27x54 Reg. $5.50 Value SPECIAL SALE .... $3.75 Whittall Pearless Body Bruss 9x12 Reg. $38.00 Value SPECIAL SALE . $33 50 Reg. $56.25 Value 8-3x10-6 SPECIAL SALE .. $42.00 8-3x10-6 Reg. $34.75 anhe $30.( 0( SPECIAL SALE Reg. $38.25 Value 6x9 SPECIAL SALE .. Reg. 19.75 Value 3x9 SPECIAL SALE .. Reg. $10.50 Value 36x63 SPECIAL SALE . $33.25 $14.75 9x9 Reg. $81.50 Vune SPECIAL SALE $26.00 6x9 Reg. $28.75 Value $19.00 SPECIAL SALE .. $7.75 Reg. $6.50 Value SPECIAL SALE . 27x54 OPPOSITE THE PARK $4.75 27x54 Reg, $4.00 Value SPECIAL SALE .... $3.25 2214x36 B. C. PORTER SON Reg. $2.50 Value SPECIAL SALE .. $1.9 OPPOSITE THE PARK does not mean that everybody is to buy and wear state boots, but that good boots will be available to the pegple at a fair price. The price of boots and shoes has soared since the war to such a height that only well- to-do people can buy them. The cost of footwear, other than of leather, even of wooden sabots, has of course greatly advanced owing to the greater demand from those who are now un- able to buy leather boots. “National Footwear’ will of course be standardized. The ministry of Commerce, in collaboration with the Army Commissariat, will dequisition the necessary leather and the boots will be made for the civillans in ex- actly the same way as they are al- ready made for the army. The prices will be stamped on them so that no one need pay more than the official rate. Men’s boots will be sold at $5.60 at pre-war exchange, women's at $4.60, boys’ and girls’ at $3.60, and children’s at a price not yet fixed, be- tween $3 and $8.20. These prices al- low a falr profit to the intermediary between maker and buyer. The Army Commissariat has under- taken to supply 500,000 pairs of boots a month from the present time and to double that output very soon. As the average demand for ‘National Footwear'” is estimated to be 2,000,- 000 pairs a month, it will be some time before the supply can satisfy it. The output therefore at first will be reserved for the working classes and ! will be sold through their co-opera- tive socleties. The next measure, already under way, will be the creation of a ‘“Na- tiona] Cloth,” for which stocks good sound cloth made (in the same way as the boots) which will serve for clothes for men and children and for women's cloaks, etc. LONGED FOR ACTION—KILLED. Melbourné, Australla, Aug. Major-Genral Willlam Holmes of Sydney, who was killed by German shell-fire in France, was commander of the Fourth Australlan division. He was the head of the military portion of the Australian joint military and naval force which seized German New Guinea shortly after the outbreak of the war, conducted the British negos, tiations for the surrender of that ter- ritory, and was the first military ad- ministrator of it. The office was dis- tasteful to him, fox, havving spent nearly all of his life in military pur- suits, including service in the Boer war, he longed for active service again. This wish was fully gratified in the Gallipoli campaign and later on the western front. In France Gen- era] Holmes was noted in the Aus- tralian ranks for a courage amount- ing often to recklessness. It was, however, a chance German shell which killed him and narrowly missed the Premier of New South Wales, Willlam A. Holman, who happened to 1 be with him. of | wool, etc., will be requisitioned and a | 30.— | TIRE SALE All First Tires 28x3 30x3 31x4 31x4 33x4 33x4 34x4 34x4 34x4 36x4 32x4 35x5 37x5 1O =t DD N A ) G0 DD = DD 4 B O = ) O — LT O (TEL. 961) Non-Skid Clincher Non-Skid Clincher 30x3V5 Non-Skid Clincher 30x3V5 Plain Clincher Non-Skid Clincher Plain Clincher 32x3V4 Non-Skid Q. D e 4 Non-Skid Q. D Plaint. -0 Non-Skid Q. Plain Q. D. Non-Skid Straight Side . Plain Straight Side 34x4!5 Non-Skid Q. D. ........ 35x4)5 Non-Skid Q. D. 35x415 Non-Skid StralgH: Side . Non-Skid Straight Side . 36x415 Non-Skid Q. D. ...... 36x41% Non-Skid Straight Side . 37x414 Non-Skid Q. D. ..... Non-Skid Straight Side . Reg. Price Sale P .$13.30 $10.0 13.50 +: 1745 vios o 16,70 26.75 25.55 20.50 2835 27.30 28.95 27.85 28.95 31.15 39.45 41.20 41.20 27.25 41.85 41.85 . 43.55 47.00 D Non-Skid Straight Side . 49.80 FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED. These Are Real Bargains. Adna F. Johnson! 159 MAIN STREET | OVERLAND OWNERS The New Home of the Overland, 139 Arch Street, will | be opened September 15th. Service will be given on Overland Cars previous to that time at the Forestville | Branch, of the Overland-Manross Co., Corner Church and Central Streets, Forestville, Conn. :