The evening world. Newspaper, November 19, 1919, Page 3

~CHTY MILK CONTROL PLAN OF EVENING WORLD URGED BY FEDERAL FOOD htt ‘Administrator. Williams, In- dorses Price Regulation at Fair Price Hearing. Sees Farmer, Distributor wind Consumer Benefited by Commission Control. Arthur Williams, who was head of the Federal Administration in this State during the war, appeared before the Price Milk mittee in City Hall to-day and advo- cated ax the only solution of the milk problem in this city the identical plan which The Evening World bas been championing for the Food Fair Com- past two this body be divided into two bureaus or divisions, one of which would look after the agricultural end and the other the express or distributing end Mr. Williams believed that if the Price of milk were regulated the same as gas, electricity and traction lines, tha interests of * the farmer would be conserved, the production of milk would be stimulated because of the protection granted the dairymén, and, at the same time, the distributor would be compelled to cut out dupli- cation and depend only fair profit upon a ning World, who hag conducted the campaign advocating the regulation of milk as a public utility, asked: “You believe, then, that until there is public regulation of milk there will be no permanent solution of the high cost of milk problem?” “After a thorough study of the milk question during the war I have come to the conclusion that regulation by the State is the best method of guar- antecing a square deal to the con- sumer, the farmer and the distribu- tor,” replied Mr, Williams, + “*T believe that the milk question is stich a complicated one that it would require all the time and the energy vf @ commission to keep in intelligent touch with every phase of it,” con- tinued Mr. Williams. After Mr. Williams had talked nearly an hour on milk, in .the course of which the impression was gathered by his listeners that there was little or no profitecring in milk, and that the big distributors in this city seldom made more than half a cent a quart profit, Miss Loeb caused a stir with this question: E “Don't you know, Mr. Williams, that the Borden Company has made enormous profits in by-products of milk? Isn't it true that the Federal investigation of milk which you have gone into great detail in explaining to the committee here CONCERNS 4 ONLY FLUID MILK? When you in- dicate that the figures of the milk dis- tributors don't show profiteering, vou fapeak only of fluid milk, do you not?" “It is true that we have only inves tigated fluid milk,” admitted M Williams. ‘ In connection with this The Evéning World calls attention to the fact that over 55 per cent. of all the miJk pro- duced in this State is turned into by- products, and, as admitted by a milk distributor in a letter to Health Com- missioner Copeland, a large percent- age of the condensed milk made here is shipped to Europe, where prices are higher Mr, Wiliam the farmer was not overpaid but on the contrary in many cases was aid he was convinced underpaid for his rhilk supply. He said the milk supply for this city comes from seven states and Canada, and that if stringent laws were passed in this state they would have the effect ot crippling the New York State farmer and prove an advantage to his competitors in, other states. Referring to the big distributing companies, Mr. Willi said didn't understand why they didn’t ad- vertise and prove by figures that they ‘weren't making more than half a cent is @ quart. As againct this, Health Commis- sioner Copeland, Chairman of the committee, read report showing that the Borden Company made as high as 8 and 10 per cent, on common stock An illustration of the compe- tition among milk companics in New York City to-day, Mr. Williams said pt milk wagons we ttan block, and fourteen dij counted on one that the ave number of milk wagons per block In this city Is five. Health Commissioner C nd read into the record a statement by Spen- cer, Trask & Co., No, 203 South La Salle Street, Chicago, members of the New York amt Chicago Stoc changes, showing the: financial con- dition of Borden's Condensed Milk -Company. Under the head of earning capacity the prompectus says: “While Borden's Condensed Milk |” Company has never made public a statement of its earnings, the fact that it has an unbroken dividend rec- ord of twenty years, and for more than acventeen years has paid divi- years, That is, that milk in this city be regulated by a commission sim to| the Public Service Commission, that Miss Sophie Irene Loeb of The Eve- | he| dends of at least, § per cent. on its common stock, and some years as high as 10 per cent., demongtrates the stability of the business and the sta- bility of the company to earn liberal returns, “During the past few years the company has entered into the ‘manu- facture of confectionery on an exten- sive scale, a branch, of the busi- ness, which it is understood has proved remarkably successful. A consderable sum of money has been required to finance the development of this new branch of the business, and all of this money has been pro- vided entirely out of surplus earn- ings above dividend requiremen “Just how much of its earnings the company has put back into the busi- ness cannot be estimated with: any degree of accuracy, but jt would seem reasoneble to assume that the com- pany would have reserved for pur- poses of expansion earnings a sum equal to at least 50 per cent. to 75 it the amount distributed is. “If this has been the policy of the ecmpany its earnings have averaged between 12 per cent. and 14 per cent. per annum on the common stock. It has been unofficially reported by one of the financial newspapers that the | company earned app#ximately 15 per cent. on its common stock in the j fiscal year endinye June 30, 1918, after providing for taxes, depreciation and preferred stock dividends.. Arthur V, Turner of the Food In- spection Bureau of the Health De- partment showed conditions in Phil- vdelphia a8 compared with those in his city. ‘There are no labor unions ong milk wagon drivers there. driver receives an 11 per cent. ommission on his sates, which means earnings ranging from $40 to 0 a week. The average Philadelphia driver distrfbutes twice as much milk us the average driver here. Philadelphia grade B milk is sold | for 14 cents a quart and for 8 cents | pint. It must contain 3.25 per cent | butter fats, Grade A milk must con- in from 4 to 41-2 per cent. of butter ts, Dr. Copeland said he was opposed | to the grading of milk. He said every mother should be assured the: quart of milk purchased for her baby con- contained the desired percentage of fats and other nutriments. GOVERNOR SAYS FOSTER PLANNED REVOLUTION Tennesseean Asserts Photographs of Letters Show Scheme of Rule of Proletariat, WASHINGTON, 19.—Depart- ment of Justice officials would not com- ment to-day on a statement made at ov. Roberts of Tennessee, elved from Attorney Gen- mer photographic copies of let- ters written by W. Z. Foster, Secretary of the Steel Workers’ Organization Com- mittee, outlining @ plan to bring on revo- lution by agitation among industrial workers, The plans called for ultimate proletariat control of the Government itself, the Governor said, and were being developed on schedule time, Failure to meet the menace squarely was a fundamental mis- take added, Attorney General Palmer in conference to-day with members of the House Immi- gration Committee was non-commital as dvisability of centering in .the nt of Justice all activities con- with the deporftation of undesir- of authority from the Labor Lisl citi HALF MILLION 10 IMPROVE STATEN ISLAND DEFENSES War Department Awards Contract | —All Bids for Camp Milfs Have Been Rejected, WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—The War Department announced to-day that a contract was made recently with Smith, Houser & Mvlsaac for the construce tion of hangars and utilities, roads, | walks, sewers, &c., ut the seacoast de fense station, Staten Island, N. Y. The contract olves an expenditure of At bias tor c Mill All bids for Camp is have bee rejected by the War Department, tor | cause of a technical defect in one of them, and new bids will be abked, The | highest bid was $280,000, from R.A. Goidman ot Chleago, whose bids for the cantonment buildings on the Chatta- nooxa and Chickam&uga Park reserva: tions have been accepted, The constructions division h - | cepted the. bid of Harris Bros, of New York for Camp Shelby, Miss. The bid was $155,000, Seeiieeaeeeent RESCUED FROM RIVER. Tony 8 sco Says Robbers Threw :Him Over Bank, Patrolman Leis of thi Station was walking along the border of the Bronx River at Pelham Park- way shortly after 4 o'clock this morn- ing when he heard cries for help and saw somebody struggiing in the wal dragged out & man who sate Tony Salas.o of No, 189 Bastel Road. |, Tony declared |by two men Bronx Park he had been held up When they found he had |no money, he said they threw him over fence, after which he rolled and into the e was “all sight” and ‘de cehenenentiipeencemens No 1 for Non-Easentials, DULUTH, Minn, Nov, 19,—AN sup- plies of bituminous coal from the docks at the head of the lakes ¢o Industries in Duluth and su Industries the norilwe Tus 1 sential, off un were aN or 1 this morning K Chairman of th tribution Com: | Ww erman, United Admin To Kortity the Sustem Aenins ‘Tak LAXATIVE BRowtO OUINEN fete erm and ps 8 Ton Gguature op the box. S00, Advi ‘And Lasative, and wfluenze. Phere BW. Ghove’s THE EVENING Ww ORLD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1919. Prince Edward in Civilian Garb jasked that bail be | each. ‘| When Made Member of War Veterans EING MADE MEMBER OF BRITISH, WAR, VET. ASS w | brought against the men rraigned in the Centre Street Po-|q Court this mo: ing, Mr. Dooling fixed at $50,000 He told the court that ther: numerous other charges to be obligations, The people have the right to Insist that they do so and this commission, to the fullest ex- tent of its powers, will compel them to do so. Until this comimassion acts, this railroad company, on its own in« jative, has no power to charge more than a single fare.” Coly William N. Dykman of coun- sel for the railroad, at the hearing before the commission, declared that he would immediately go to court if the commission ordeted the abroga- tion of the double fare. Corporation Counsel Burr has ob- tained writs of certiorari from the Su- preme Courteto review the orders of DOUBLE CAR FARES “ON FLATBUSH LINE ORDERED STOPPED tii P. S. C. Rules Brooklyn City Has No Power to Charge More Than a Nickel. in permitting the New York Railways Company and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company to A aoa a charge of two cents for tran¥ters. An order to-day waa issued by the Public Service Commission on the 4 ‘The orders permitting the ch Brooklyn City Railroad to immedi-| wore nay by the Public Serv ately refrain from charging two| Commission in July and this charg {t was estimated, produced $800,000 an- fares on the Flatbush Avenue line. nual revenue in Manhattan and The Brooklyn City Ratiroad has been | $1,200,000 in Hrooklyn, Corporation nsel Burr alleged the ordera were in violation of the provisions of the franchise ASSISTANT CLERK OF COURT collecting double fares and basing its action on several which, it ‘was contended, the charging of triple fares in Flat- bush and Flatlands, Much confusion resulted from these charges. In issuing the order the Public Ser- vice Commission expressly excluded from consideration all other ques- tions involving its power to regulate fares. Likewise the order gives the company the right to appeal for re- lef to the Commission if financial necessity arises. The franchises were | gtanted long before the const!tutional ents were on the statute books old franchtses, permitted Judge Mancuso Sets Bail at $10,00 for Examination of H. S. Doyle. Hugh 8. Doyle, thirty-two, of No, 488 Greene Avenue, Brooklyn, an assistant clerk of the General Seasions, Manhattan, was arrested this afternoc by De: of the District At- torney's office ¢ checks of an aggregate Part of the order of the Commission face value less raflroad company. The first is that The est of Doyle, who had been em- the Town of Flatbush, when, on Dee. | torney Me th, who, with Chief Jus |18, 1893, they authorized the Nos. | Frederic Kernochan, has been investi: |trand Avenue extension, did so on the | including the aiflcation and the pilfer= express condition that no more than |!" of court arcs Rve-cent rate of fare should. be | meeFlentet yeni auet® Bowo00" batt charged by the railroad company {for examination within forty-eight |from any point in Flatbush to the Brooklyn City Hall and Bridge and| F, E. LAIMBEER INJURED. 8. C. Bug- | " * ne arman objected to: the bail, which he |‘ the Eastern District ferries. The |declared to be “prohibitive.” |second is that the railroad company, Army Treck Magistrate Mapcuso, however, fixed |when it applied for the Roebling vT ee Btate Senator °S Street extension, in 1913 and 1916, Laimbeer, an attorney with WALES IN MOPT PLOT REVEALED BY LAWYERS” ARREST Gang Alleged to Have Sought | . Fortune of Nephew of “Silent” Smith. District Attorney John T. ‘Dooling announced to-day that 8. Assistant Charles Sugarman and his brother, Joseph H. Sugarman, lawyers, of No. 35 Nassau Street, had been arrested on a charge of grand larceny. The arrests were made by Detective Sergeant Russo, of the District At- torney’s office. Botfl men were taken into custody at their homes, Charles at West 113th Street and Joseph at No, 606 West 116th, The specific charge ogainst the brothers is that they obtained’ $4,800 from the Italian’ Discounting Trust Company on an alleged fraudulent draft for $8,500, The draft was drawn on Frank Barton, Ltd,, of Toronto, Mr, Dooling said the men were also used of connection with a plot to swindle George Pratt Smith, nephew of the late “Silent” Smith, out of $500,000, According to Mr. Dooling, George Pratt Smith is about to come into his inheritance, and forged promis- sary notes and other documents have been used to involve him to the ex- tent of half a million dollars. The arrest of the two lawyers, coupled with the arrest yesterday of two chauffeurs, was declared by Mr Dooling to be but the beginning of a series of arrests which will show wide ramifications of ‘the plot The two chauffeurs are’ William Heller, twenty-five years old, of No. 23 Avenue B, and Maurice Epstein, twenty-nine, of Mid Village, L. L They are spgcifically accused of steal- ing a Consolidated Gus 6 per cent bond and are being held) in $10,000 ball According to Mr. Dooling, Smith became involved with the Sugarman firm when he was called to the offices of the brothers to sign some papers. This was less than six months ago. Having thus secured his signature, it was said by Mr, Dooling, a gang of swindlers forged Smith's name to numerous notes which were discount- ed at banks throughout the country: Many of the notes are secured by | fraudulent assignments of his inter- st in the million of the late “Silent” ith. ‘The hub of a gigantic swindle is in financial district here,” said Mr. It has spokes that radiate We expect to un- the Dooling. in every direction carth the whole scheme,” | Mr. Dooling was asked if George! Pratt Smith was a complainant| against the Sugarmans, and he an- swered that Mr, Smith was a com- plainant, » When the Sugarman brothers were mans, was | Gov. ALBANY, thls rejoicing of the past,” Gov, Smith to-day issued | his ounsel for appealed to th the amount the ‘ court to les- Mr. Dooling said that the fraud-| purview of that section of the Rail- | ulent Canadian draft had be red by cident While his investigating th Smith Smith nes Thanksgiving Proclamation. 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