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if Will Teach Housewives How to Purchase in War Against the High Prices, WILL . AID WILLIAMS. Mrs. Rumsey Organizes Volun- teer Forces From Com- munity Councils, ‘A campaign of education and price checking began to-day in New York through the Community Councils. Mrs, Charles C Rumsey was in charge, with more than 50,000 house- ‘wives in her army. The idea is to teach women how to buy, and also to report promptly to the Fair Price Committee under Federal Food Di- rector Arthur Williams any failure of dealers to conform to fair price margins. Excessive overcharges will be for- warded to the Department of Jus- tice and, where the facts warrant, Prosecutions will be started. The ‘women will not be asked or expected to spy on dealers. They will be re- quested to report unfair charges they Observe in their daily shopping. The thousands of members of The Evening World's Housewives’ Protective Association quested to co-oper Reports ef profiteering may be made di- rect to The Evening World. Free postage furnished by the Gov- ernment will ald the women food crusaders, The postcards distributed by the Chairman will be franked for free mail delivery. They have been printed by the Government. These cards will be used to note any cases in which the women believe they have been overcharged. Administrator Williams announced to-day when activity was resumed all along the line ‘in the lower food cam- paign*that he had searched four days for profiteers without finding one. “It makes me think,” he said, “that ‘the food dealers are playing fair with the Government and the public. There has been no general survey of butcher shops, but there is every in- dication thet meat prices are going to be much lower than the fair meat prices that have been quoted.” CAMPAIGN WAS STARTED NONE TOO SOON, Mr. Williams said if the present campaign hadn't been started, he hated to think what things might have cost by Thanksgiving time, He 50,000 WOMEN HERE BEGIN FAR PRICE FOOD CAMPAIGN ~TOKEEP CHECK ON DEALER approved the marginal price list under which retail grocers are now selling} to consumers, and that the list will stand as officlat until changes are needed. The price tables were the result of conferences Mr, Williams held with the retati grocers, and were largely the result of his own efforts. The Administrator expects to meet representatives of the wholesale’ butchers, and butter, cheese and egg merchants next Thursday at the headquarters of the Fair Price Com- mittee and arrange marginal lists. It is expected that by then the commit- tee will be in its new quarters in the Federal Building, 4 srrmcen as SiS la MDE CouN MAY BE OPEN FOR butter, cheese and egg merchants come to an understanding jis to max- imum prices to be asked the retailers, he would send a set of these lists to Washington, with that of the retail butchers. If these are passed on favorably, Mr. Williams will then ask the Government Printing Office to print large quantities for display in the windows of merchants. This will show the public just what the retagl- ers are receiving in profit. I shall ask the newspapers to pab- lish these profit margins once a month,” said the Administrator, “and oftener if there are any changes. The papers have been most generous. I have had spendid co-operation from the press, a fact greatly appreciated by Attorney General Palmer, as well as by myself.” Asked how the lists are working, Mr. Williams replied that the results have been far greater than he antici- pated, On All Over City—Blankets Likely to Be Offered. resumed to-day in school houses ARMY FOOD SALE Rush to Buy War Edibles Goes ‘The sale of surplus army food was seventy public in New York. Ia schools which were used as polling places in the primary election the schools, These openings will be an- Rounced as rapidiy as trucks can be Procured to transfer the supplies from barges or piers to the distribu- tion points, . Commissioner Day hopes to per- suade the War Department to supply him with 120,000 army blankets to Be sold ‘at the schools, An offer of that number was tentatively made to Mr. O'Maliey a month ago. The Commis- sioner hears the War Department is considering thé plan of selling the blankets at one place—probably the old Siegel-Cooper store at 18th Street and Sixth Avenue, In the opinion of Commissioner Day ‘a much wider dis- tribution and considerably more re- Hef would be obtained by selling the blankets at the school houses, The sale of army supplies has es- tablished, Commissioner Day says, the need of terminal markets in each borough a& which products could be sold direct to the consumer by the THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, ‘SEPTEMBER 2, 1919.” Pushcart Express Merchants Waiting To Deliver Army Food at Bronx School REGULATION WOUL RUIN ALL PACKERS, SAY INDEPENDENTS FOOD IN GENERAL TO FOLLOW EGGS IN Total Collapse of Profiteers’ Campaign Is Now “ Predicted. q By P. Q. Foy. (Special Food Expert of The Eve- ning World.) ‘The offer of fifty carloads of cai ied storage eggs to Dr. Jonathan P. Day, City Market Commissioner. to sell to consumers at 50 cents a dozen, ‘will be materially increased this week from other merchants in their effort to take advantage of the changing mercantile conditions as applied to foodstuffs in general. | ‘The Evening World warned these merchants last spring, during the surplus egg producing season, that | the yield would be unusually fleavy and that consumers should get these pes at lower prices. The large beet concerns and the merchants in the Central West and seaboard vied with each other in bid- ding up the price until fully 8,000,000 cases were in storage at the highest Prive ever known, The incentive for this “blind merchandising” *was the) unusually large demand expected from England, which has ‘now de- veloped into a Jost hope, . ‘These storage eggs will be con- sumed almost entirely east of the Senate Committee Urged to Auleghentes by approximately 15,000,- Drop Plan for a Licensing System, 000 of the population that are non- Producers. There is now left about four and one-half months before the new crop of eggs will be of sufficient volume to meet the ent WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.—Indepen- | ee dent packers assailing Agriculture Committee clared that Federal the Kenyon and Kendrick bills before the Senate to-day de- regulation through’ a licensing system would ut- SAYS PROFITEERING ALREADY HAS CEASED. ’ “They have been a decided si sale was discontinued at 2 o'clock P.M. » The problem of distrfbution of the pate gougers and eee that articles of food, primarily, were sold for their real worth and not for what the profiteers could demand from a help- less public. As a part of the worth we considered a fair profit to the seller, “I think I can say without fear of denial that profiteering has ceased, sale has been solved by hiring a truck to convey goods to each school, but it has been succeeded by a new problem and that is to obtain from the War Department a sufficient sup- ply of canned goods and meats to minal markets, producer without the intercession of middlemen. He will ask the Board paign of education in an effort to persuade. the public to elect to the Board of Aldermen only candidates pledged to the establishment of ter- There was another rush for army food in the Bronx, Barges tied up supply the public demand. This has been accomplished with the New York people hi aid of the dealers themselves, the press and the public. The public itself has been of material help in ferreting out gougers. “My second objective was to see that the dealers had something tangible to guide them in setting their prices. One of their chief complaints was that there was no standard to go by. taken ¢1 thusiastically to the army supplies and the sales are much heavier than Market Commissioner Day and Dep- uty Commissioner O'Malley antici- pated. Mr. O'Malley has been trying to get a définite line on how much there yesterday with 4,000 cases of tomatoes, 1,500 cases of assorted jams, 1,000 cases of asparagus and 1,500 cases of pineapples. During the night motor trucks distributed the goods to twenty-two school Early this morning crowds stood in line at each school terly domoralize their business. Patrick Brennan, President of the cess. Our first aim, of course, w of Estimate to adopt the terminal |Independent Packing Company of to put an end to profiteering,” | Surplus products to the achools which | market idea and will start a cam-|Chicago, sald his company, estab- he said. “It was up to to elimi- | was acute at the beginning of the lished in 1905, had built up its usi- ness in competition with the big packers and that its business volume in, 1918 was $27,000,000. “These bills are aimed at the large packers,” he 5 is the desire of Congress to encourage competition and keep the smaller packers in the field. work towards an opposite effect.” James F. Cochran, President of a independént concern, teld the committee his experience in doing business under license during Kansas City the war had not made him like it, “Most of the Government regula- tions, ind I as#ume it) But they will food he can get from the army and expects information within twenty- four hours, He says he can find a ready sale for all he can get. Arrangements are under way to open markets in thirty additional “Our third problem was not so simple, This was to show women the necessity of buying carefully and not more than 1s necessary for their im- mediate wants. “Our campaign directed against these evils has resulted in much good. It has been a campaign of education and will be greatly furthertd hy the work of the Community Councils, under the suitcases and kiddies’ wagon matoes were sold at 10 cents the can fourth objective the effort to protect announced that the Government has direction of Mrs, Rumsey. the fair dealer from unjust criticism. The Administrator g “To make this movement a success we must be as fair as we want the bacon sold at 34 cents a pound. ‘From Maine to California Fresh, rich, creamy: milk, Chocolates and Candies, Makers of AMERICAN! WAY people who appreciate the excelling qualities of Auerbach Chocolate will agree that it is better to advance the price than to make an inferior chocolate, Because of the increased cost of material, labor, etc. Auerbach Chocolate Spe- * clals are now selling for 7c and 14c. best grade chocolate, pure cane sugar, fresh fruit and the best grade of nuts are always used in Auerbach D. AUERBACH & SONS Eleventh Avenue, 46th to 47th Street, New York _ AUERBACH CHOCOLATE SPECIALS merchants to be with the public,” ex- plained Mr. Williams. “Our fifth objective ts to induce women shopper's to buy some of the cheaper goods once or twice a week for their tables, This hay been a bit difficult.” schools, night of the sales supervisors of the ——_>——- e 3 AUTO ’BUS VICTIMS MAY DIE Inquiry Begun Inte Crash in Which Thirty Were Injured, ALBANY, N. Y., Sept. .2.—The up- State Public Service Commission to-day began an investigation into @ crash be- tween a D. & H, freight train and an| ™arket, auto ‘bus at Waterford last night, when| The Bronx eavings banks are thirty persons, all from Troy, were in-|Sinning to feel-the effects of jured. sale. Depositors, it is asserted, the schools open. from between 4 and 9 o'clock P. M. Arrangements will be made for the sale of blankets, shoes; cooking uten- Sils and the other stuffs which army bas promised to put on ‘be- the are : xpected | making big withdrawals and putting Three of the victy was retumning| thelr money ‘into edibles for storage in closets and cellars. to recover. The party from an outing at Saratoga Lake. extra thick coatings of the Here They Come Here are the heat dispellers— a pot of Tetley’s Tea, a jolly fat lemon and a chilling, tinkling piece of ice. They're the “makings” of the coolest, most refreshing glass of iced tea you ever drank! Tetley’s Teas are blended from 15 or more teas from the world’s finest tea gardens. They are carefully packed to protect the strength and flavor, Make some iced tea from Tetley’s clear Orange Pekoe! | LTETLEY’S TE the (pail with umbrellas, To- peas at 11 cents; jam, 30 cents, selling in the Bronx grocery and delicatessen stores for 48 and 49 cents; cocoa 16 cents the can and asparagus 27 cents as against 45 in stores.sApples, peach- es and other fruits were offered and Day is arranging with the Board of Education for the opening of ten more A conference will be held Thursday Bronx to arrange for the continuance of the sales after next Monday when It is probable that the selling hours will be changed to the the heuses getting smaller.” Demand that witnesses be put under oath when testifying before the committee was made to-day by Sen- ator Kenyon, lowa, and supported by Senator Kendrick, ‘Wyoming. Kenyon made his request after he had introduced into the record a let- ter changing that witnesses testifying against the Kenyon and Kendrick bills last week had not told the committee the entire truth about their business connections. “There are no independent packers, and I can prove it, so far who have appeared before your committee,” the | letter stated. It bore the name of J. G. Mullin, Denver, and, mentioned the names of W. _N. Blayney, James Doyle and Harvey Nuckolls. A. B, Robertson, vice president of the Cattle Raisers’ Association of Texas, wired Kendrick to-day that wit- nesses appearing before the Senate committees agp not actual stock breeders. Virtual packer control of five live- stock markets is responsible for heavy losses to producers during the last ten days, Senator Capper of Kan- sas said to-day. This sensational market break, the worst sinoe 1907, was cited by Mr. Capper as the reason why legislation along the lines proposed in the Ken- yon and Kendrick bills should be en- acted by Congress. Although not charging the big packers with deliberately cauding these heavy losses to stock raisers, he characterized the sudden stopping of buying by the packers as a “scare” to halt the movement for logislation to regulate the meat industry. The National Consumers’ League declared that the packers, with their warehouses bulging with food, could afford to cease buying just ag the Senate hearings on the Kenyon and Kendrick bills got under way, “The farmers of the country are sins being made to suffer for the of the packers as in times past,” the league stated. —_—~»——_ - " IMPULSIVE, SAYS ADOLPH, Ise” That Led Him atch @ Necklace, Adolph Degner, seventeen, an errand boy living at No, 227 Bast Second Street, arraigned before Judge Levine today in Essex ‘Market Court charged with snatching a $100 lavaliere from the throat of Mrs, Gussie Zemlowits of No. 136 Avenue D, pleaded not guilty and was held for the higher court in $3,000 bonds. , ‘The alleged robbery took place yeste day at 11th Street and 8 Station was attracted by Mra. Zemlowits's screams and arrested the errand boy. Degner told Judge Levine the impulse just came to me to grab and I grabbed. ee ESTATE FEE HELD EXCESSIVE After lengthy littation that seemed to have been amicably settled when the executors recently petitioned Surrogate Cohalan for ‘a judicial settlement of the $11,000,000 estate of the late John B. Manning, another hitch came to-day to the Surrogate granting this petition. Agnes Manning Bannon, a daughter of the “dead capitalist, through torney, Henry C. Hunter, tons to the from consumers, and the pro-rata consumption per person would be about sixteen dozen eggs from now | until the middle of January. The American hen has surpassed all previous records, with the re- celpts in New York City alone last week exceeding 100,000 cases, or { 36,000,000 eggs, nearly one fresh laid ge a day for each of our 7,000,000 consumers in the Metropolitan dis- trict. In assisting the consumers to get these oggs, at less than actual cost, the City Market Commissioner éan render a service that will bring his office into closer touch with the MEAT RETAILERS FOLLOW THE WHOLESALE REDUCTION. ‘The sharp decline in the wholesale prices of meats last week was re- flected generally in the sales at much | he said, “tarn out with the big |!ower prices by the retailers, In the SOLD houses getting bigger and the little| high class neighborhodds, known as) EGGS 10 BE HERE the elevator apartment sections, the dealers complained of the generally light volume of business. This, they said, was due to & large percentaxe of their customers leaving town un- til after the holiday, but in the pop- ulous common neighborhoods the re- tallers generally reported a fair vol- ume of business, + One thing in particular that was noteworthy last Saturday was the general cut in prices—in most cases away below the margin of profit per- mitted by the Federal Food Admin- istrator, This was due to the lower prices of Greased beef at the close Jast week. One of the leading butchers in Har- lem, who was enthusiastic'over the decline in beef cattle, said: “We always make our profits on the vol- ume of business, and when prices are high our sales and profits fall off at the same time, I think that wo will have still lower prices the cam- ing week.” This dealer's views were borne out by the conditions in the wholesale beef and lamb markets, where a great deal of meat was un- sold and everything points to lower Prices next week. In addition to a large supply of beet for the immediate future, consumers can rest assured that we will ha an ample supply of poultry and ut lower prices than have obtained for | the last few yea Fresh, killed poultry has been scarce, due to the shortage of labor to slaughter and pack it, but now farmers are getting through harvesting and more poultry is coming. There are 3,000,000 pounds of surplus roasting chickens held by the Director of Surplus Subsistence Sales which are expected to be thrown on the market this week. These roasting chickens are of ex- ceptionally fine quality and will be retailed to consumers at less than 40 cents, while the same grade of roasters are now selling a8 high as 50 cents to 52 cents a pound. FINE OUTLOOK FOR POULTRY AT LOWER PRICES. \ ‘The new crop of poultry which is now commencing to move will be the largest ip the country’s history. ‘The holdings of frozen poultry car- ried ‘over from 1918 exceed 40,000,000 pounds, against 7,000,000 pounds on Aug. 1 last year, A factor not to be overlooked in the production of beef and poultry is the large quantity of cereals heretofore used by brewers, that must find its way into other trade channels. ‘This will increase the available supply by more than 500,000,000 bushels, most of which will be fed to cattle, hogs and poultry, and will result in increased ‘weight in edible food on the animal units, Peaches, pears and plums are in free supply in the wholesale market and are comparatively cheap. House- wives who have not put away their ‘usual quantity of those fruits for fu ture use should do 80 48 Soon as pos- sible, as from now on the prices in- variably increase, while the quality ls better now than it will be a few weeks later. 15,000 Baullders Strike In Montreal. element it was intended tp henent,| Workers fo, too, and they did. Shel like to get hold of | ton. jcharged by ‘MOST DECORATED WOMAN,’ SALVATION ARMY WORKER, TO MARCH WITH PERSHING EQUITY TO MAKE» od aes Hints Managers Will Be Mad to Pay Cost of Fight (ai i‘ “at Recognitfon. An implied threat that the Baquity Association will, when time comes to settle the actors’ demand that the Producing gers’ Association reimburse the pendent producers and union formers for their losses during tary of the Equity organization, day. The statement was an tion of the failure of the Equity” sociation to maintain its that Fortune Gallo, an ind who has agreed to all Equity would be allowed to open his tion of “The Mikado” last night,” | Mis: CORA Van NORDEN . Mr. Stewart said Equity was ” Daughter of New York Banker|‘remely sorry to have to Invited to Take Part in Parade | Siow s, produeticn te re om tee of Her Division, which hag already been closed by One of the welfare workers a ed| Strike. Apparently the stage by Major Gen. K. F, MoGlachiti® jr. | “leetricians and musicians will h with Gen. Pershing and the| ‘°W e8y manager listed as to march wi profit in any way during the First Division, Miss Cora E. Van) victory,” said Mr. Stewart in Norden, « Salvation Army worker, 18) cluding his statement, “is called “the most decorated woman in| nearer and nearer. In the end our the world.” She is a daughter of the; mands will be gauged by the late Warner Van Norden, @ promi- rch cr edie hae been tempered nent New York banker, and lives at} yo 70 peste wai a (f No, 2% Kast 38th Street, ment of George M. Cohan last Miss Van Norden was attached to/that the producing managers the 18th Infantry (regulars) and es-| open ten theatres in New York tablished the first A. E. F. canteen, be days, a statement was issued which was at Ancellerville, Among] (*Y from the headquarters of Teamsters’ Union. The union her decorations are the War Cross, aaneenees that the the British Salonica decoration, Ser-| Sy i tenmnsters wilt bian and Greek decorations and aj /AMi non-union bagi nor will Victory Ribbon with four bronse and) Du! scenery or lee or two silver stars, the first thing elag to or from a major operations and the silver stars tr i kid pr indicating citations by general off- ng Broadway & producing manager who cers. . | When orders came for the regiment fered losses by the to move up to the front, Miss Van| bet $10,000 that ten non- Norden insisted that she and her girt| W!!! be running by the week. Equity actors established her hut so near the front/ enabl that the big guns were on a line with lit. They were nearer the front than|¥*!ch is now almost im | the workers of any other organisa- podbean hold Patent ia searters, fa Rivington Street o'e! to-morrow morning. object is to perfect plans for izing ail the ticket takers, doormen ‘in the Broadway and moving picture houses. An cial of the Ushers’ Union suid scouting committees have AT 50 CENTS A DO; ors that the Broadway workers are Commissioner Day Gives Emerson] tor the movement. Permission to Dispose of Candled pe, hme gS and Graded Stock in Schools, Commissioner Day announced to- day that H. A, Emerson of W. W. Johnstone, Inc., had offered to sell the city 600,000 dozen candied and graded | Reconstruction Commission exgs at 49 cents on condition that! Recommends Changes in the city place them on sale in the schools at not more than 50 cents.) * hattan and Brooklyn Marts,. ‘The New ~.rk State Dr. Day declined to purchase the eggs for the city but gave Mr, Emer- | tion Commisston has made a son permission to sell them at the|the Governor recommending the schools at 50 cents @ dozen. tablishment of terminal markets The Audubon Community Council] tne Bronx and in Richmond and will moet on Sept. 10 to plan for al vising that the present public community store where food shall be/in Manhattan and Brooklyn’ -be sold at prices lower than those| verted to the terminal type. the average retailer} such markets as West W: Captain Harry A. Ely, Chairman of/ung Gansevoort, if the the Council, said to-day that the|tions are favorably acted upon, people of Washington ‘Heigh:s 4l-|h» equipped with spur tracks and ready are served by @ wagon operated | connections and other facilities i br, the soanell and ttat bie Sorin | caleding bests and prelgh care ‘As an example he said that the wagon] ‘The essentials of @ good recently sold for fifteen cents a cab- jot Bage which would have coat 63 cents | MArket, the report saya, call for if “purchased from grocer who | Pace devoted.to the mee! charges by the pound. | and buyer, w . preferably a building conveniently <> cated, directly connected with CZECHO-SLOVAKS PAID OFF, | portation symtoms, and providing Sead ae ot foodstuffs.” The Commission Abroad |iieves that such markets would joam Homes for greater eMfciency and Two hundred and five Czecho-Slovak | preventing waste, soldiers whose homes are in America ed and who returned yesterday on the|U, §. Harness Shop Net Turned Rochambeau, were paid off this morn- ing at the office of Consul General] ROCK ISLAND, Ill, Sept. 2.—A Francis Kopecky, in the Tribune Build-| gram teceived by Col. Harry B. J ing, and provided with transportation |Commandant of the Rock Island to their home: senal, from Chief of Ordnance, Mr, Kopecky said that 2,600 of his |C. Williams, Washington. D. C., countrymen living in America had|the report that the harness served with thelr own colors in the war, |Rock Island Arsenal had bebn. ti t y had fought in jover ‘to the workers, and that this enty per|for the democratization of ind 3 ‘deds, and|would be ‘f out in other fifty-one of them were decorated. of the government from the MONTREAL, Sept. 2.—Fifteen thou- ina |@and men connected with the Montreal buildt it ‘ike to-day Peraas slghtchowr aay ‘with’ ten-howee: con A. rd a I i