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of Chicago and the great flour mills of Minneapolis, to the "hole-in the-wall" shops of New York's East Side and the cross-roads stores of the Ozarks. FOOD SURVEY ACT HAS TEETH. To guard against any food handlers being missed by failure to in clude them in the mailing list, the Bureau of Markets has sent sup plies of schedules to its agents throughout the country for distribution, and at the same time has announced that all individuals and con cerns handling foods who do not receive schedules through the mails by January 2, will be expected to apply to the local agencies for copies. Congress put teeth in the act authorizing the making of a food survey by providing that persons willfully failing to make re turns when called upon, or willfully making incorrect returns, will be subjected to a fine of not more than $1000, or imprisonment for not more than one year. The Bureau of Markets, however, is count ing on receiving the willing cooperation of all persons in posession of foodstuffs who should make reports, and hopes that there will be very few cases in which it will be necessary to make use of the law's teeth. Within a few days, the first of the more than three-quarters of a million schedules will be pouring back to Washington, bearing the information which Congress was willing to spend $60,000 to obtain. In "Washington, the schedules will be tabulated as promptly as possi ble by a staff of special clerks. When information on the last of the hundred or more foods under investigation have been tabulated, Uncle Sam can apply consumption figures, obtained from other in vestigations, and find approximately what his food balance is from time to time. Then he can take steps to ward off any threatened shortage, can share his store intelligently with the allies, and can, in short, consider with his eyes open all the problems of his commis sary department. Equally as important as caring for his existing stocks of food, he can plan wisely a production program for the years ahead, sufficient to fill his own wants and to supplement the war-depleted output of his companions in arms. 5.