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THE TIMES: OCTOBER 25, 1918
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UTTER DEALERS
ARE PUT UNDER
NEW REGULATION
Food Administrations Act
to Conserve Butter and
Cheese for Public.
REASONABLE PRICES
MUST RULE SALES
What Reasonable Prices
Are Subject to Definition
. As Given Out.
Hartford, Oct 25 New ltoense
egulations important to every but
ter and cheese dealer and of consid
erable Interest to the public, have
been promulgated by the Food Ad
ministration. The recent rise in tho
price of buttsr has been Incorrectly
thought to be due to the amount of
butter purchased by the govern
ment. Out of an estimated storag
stock of 100.000,000 pounds, the gov
ernment has taken 25,000,000
pounds. The Food Administration
has been apprehensive that the high
price might stifle the consumption of
dairy butter, increase the consump
tion of oleomargarine and cause a
general slump in butter prices,
which would be disastrous to the "or
iginal producer. The price of feeds
has not Increased, ibut there have
been material advances in wages paid
by the dairy Industries.
The new license regulations are the
result of a recent inquiry into the ob
normally high prices of butter and
cheese and the new rules are for the
guidance not only of dealers who hold
food administration licenses, but for
those who are dependent upon such
licenses for their retail supplies.
Because of the great demands
made by the Army and Navy, there i's
something of a shortage of American
or Cheddar Cheese, and the food ad
ministration is asking the patriotic
public for more intensive conserva
tion of cheese.
Prices are Defined
In insisting that butter be retailed
at a reasonable advance over the
cost, the food administration defines
"cost" for the purpose of this rule
to include: 1. Purchase price; 2.
Transportation charges, if any; 3.
.Storage charges actually incurred on
cold storage butter; 4. Insurance
charges actually incurred on cold
storage' butter; 5. Interest on money
invested at the current rate while
butter is in cold storage; 6. Actual
cost of printing, if the butter is put in
print form from tubs or cubes. Cost
shall not include any allowance for
shrinkage In weight, commissions or
expenses other than those herein
listed. Maximum margins permitted
in any sale except by manufacturer or
retailer shall be limited as follows: 1
cent per pound on car lot sales; 1 1-2
cents per pound on 7,000 pounds; 2
cents on 3,500 pounds; 2 1-2 cents
on 700 pounds; 3 cents on 100 pounds
and 3-4 cents on less than 100
pounds. Additions for cold storage
charges are limited to 1 cent per
pound for one month and not more
than 1-4 cent per pound for suc
ceeding months up to a maximum of
2 cents.
For cheese the first five cost items
are the same as for butterand the
sixth permits of additions covering tho
cost of paraffining not to exceed 1-4
cent per pound. Sales except by
manufacturers and' retailers are sub
ject to the following limitations: On
car lots 3-4 cents per pound, 7,000
pounds 1 1-4 cents per pound; 500
pounds 1 8-4 cents per pound; and
less than 600 pounds 3 cents per
pound.
Will Enforce Rules.
The food administration is directing
Its enforcement machinery against
dealers who are attempting to reap
large profits in the ring butter mar
ket. Under the food administration
regulations, butter, both storage and
fresh, must be sold at a price not to
exceed a stipulated margin over cost
and dealers are not allowed to profit
by abnormal advances in the market
quotations. The retailers' margin
of profit on butter shall not exceed 5
cents per pound at cash and carry
stores and 6 cents per pound at credit
and delivery stores.
According to the new cheese regu
lations, retailers may not sell Ameri
can or Cheddar cheese at any advance
in excess of six or seven cents over
cost. The six cent per pound profit
represents the maximum margin of
profit for stores conducted on the
cash and carry or no service plan,
while seven cents per pound is the
maximum for the extra service stores
extending credit and delivery.
Dealers whose delivered store-door
cost is figured in fractions may have
the benefit of such fractional cost.
For example, cheese costing at.
store-door 26 1-4 cents per pound
would carry a maximum margin of
6 3-4 cents per pound for the cash
and carry and no service stores, 'and
7 3-4 cents per pound for the extra
service or credit and delivery stores.
In determining margins at 6 and 7
cents per pound on cheese with tho
fractional cost in dealers' favor, the
United States food administration has
given due consideration to the rising
costs of operation, which must be met
by the dealer. This maximum mar
gin will, no doubt, exceed in some in
stances normal pre-war margins.
In addition to the foregoing mar
gin, a retailer who carries American
or Cheddar Cheese in a warehouse
for more than 30 days, may add not
to exceed 1-8 cent per pound per
month for each and every month af
ter the 30 day period, during which
the cheese is held in the warehourc
by him, but in no case shall the
amount added exceed 1 cent per
pound, and no further amount shall
be added by the dealer afiter 9 months
from the date of original" storage.
Dealers should understand that if
they average costs, they must average
the cost of each grade and style separately.
Civil Service Exam
For Clerk, Nov. 7
The United States Cicil Service
Comission announces an open com
petitive examination for clerks, for
both men and women, on November
2 and 'December 7, 1918, to Ibe held in
Bridgeport. Vacancies in the De
partmental Service, Washington, D.
C, will be filled from this examina
tion. The usual entrance salary for this
position is $900 or $1,000 a year, but
the War Department has adopted for
use during the continuance of the war
$1,000 a year as the entrance rate of
pay for clerks, and states that it will
increase this salary to $1,2C0 a year to
all clerks who after three morhs of
service are reported toy bureau chiefs
as being well qualified and in every
way worthy of the promotion.
All applicants must have reached
their eighteenth birthday on the tiate
of the examlnatian. Applications may
be mailed to Wallace E. Smith, Cus
tom office.
China's 00,000 pound 8 per cent, loan
was subscribed.
AMERICAN AIRMEN
STIR ENTHUSIASM
DURING FLIGHTS
With American Aviators in Francs,
Oct, 25 (Correspondence of The
Associated Press) The start of :
American bombing squadron on a raid
into German territory is a spectacle
to stir the enthusiasm of an Ameri
can and inspire him with an appre
ciation of America's growing strength
in the air.
The squadron already had been
over the German lines twice that day
with fair success and the aviators
lounaed in shady spots, Jibing one an
other or idly commenting upon the
evolutions of practice airplanes over
head, when the correspondent of The
Associated Press visited the flying
field.
Out of a concealed and camouflaged
office hut there stepped suddenly the
flight' leader, Lieut. Gunderlach, who
already has een named in the official
American communique for prowess in
the air.
The aviators sprang to their feet
and gathered around their leader for
the final instructions. He had not
been at all satisfied with the two
performances of the day. ' They had
shown a tendency to straggle over
much and had not kept sufficiently
"bunched."
Hot criticism poured from his lips
and the youngsters were silent in em
barrassment. The leader did not
spare them, but iterated and reiter
ated that "the formation is the thing,
the squadron is the thing," and, final
ly, "God help a straggler."
Then, the ordeal over, the aviators
went silently to their quarters for
their great, heavy, Arctic clothing. Ir.
the turn of a hand they were back
on the field, swathing and swaddling
themselves to the eyes, tucking choco
late into their pockets (for they get
hungry up in the air) or breaking
open fresh packages of chewing gum,
which helps to alleviate nervousness
and has,-a steadying effect.
The last machine gun has been test
ed, the last propeller had been twirl
ed until it revolved at lightning speed.
The commander gave an almost im
perceptible wave of his hand.
Airplane number one, bearing the
flight leader, threw off its restraining
mechanics and swept in a big curve
across the field, "taxi-ing" clumsily
across the field with its weight of
bombs, to a position from which it
could rise at the head of the group.
One by one the others followed suit,
taking up position Just behind and
to the right and left of the leader
until they were spread out like a
huge covey of ungainly but marvel
busly colored birds. As they waited
they tossed out rockets which, despite
the brilliant sunlight, flared a blind
ing red and white. The test "was
complete. They were ready for th3
start.
Again the commander gave a signal.
The noise -f the motors rose to deaf
ening proportions. The great covey
began to move, gained speed as they
sped northward across the field, then
one after another "took off" the
ground. All the clumsiness of tha
"taxi-ing" was gone. The machines
had become graceful birds in fact.
Swiftly they rose, while still within'
sight, to a great height, looking for
all the world like a flock of geese wit'.i
the leader at the neck of the forma
tion. Iater on, when about to cross
the line, they would draw closer to
gether into a compact, tightly-knit
group, but always following, whether
to left or right, the two little white
pennants streaming; out from the
leader's machine.
WOMAN TRIES TO
AROUSE RUSSIANS
Archangel, Oct. 25 (Correspon
dence of The Associated Press)
Maria Butchkareff, organizer of the
famous Russian Woman's Battalion,
is here aiding the organization of a
Russo-Allied army. She has caus
ed the following proclamation to be
posted in village squares and in the
country churches.
''I am a Russian peasant and a sol
dier. At the request of the soldiers
and peasants I went to America and
Great Britain in order to request
these countries for military .help for
wussia. The allies unaerstand our
own misfortunes and I return with
the allied armies which came only
for the purpose of helping to chase
out our deadly enemies, the Germans,
and not to interfere with our internal
affairs. After the war is over the
allied troops will leave Russian soil.
I, on my own part, request all
loyal free sons of Russia, 'without
reference to party to come together,
acting as one with the allied forces,
who, under the Russian flag hav-j
come to free Russia from the German
yoke and in order to help the new
free Russian army with all forces, in
cluding Russian, to beat the ene
my. ' "Soldiers and Peasants! Remem
ber that only a full clean sweep of the
Germans from our soil can give you
free Russia as you long for."
War Work Council '
In the Argentine
Buenos Aires, Oct. 5 South Amer
ica is to be organized for T. M. C. A.
war work along the same lines as the
European countries. The War Work
Council of the Young Men's Christian
Association in New York has ap
pointed Jay C. Field of the Buenos
Aires Y. M. C. A to act as First Sec
retary in South America in which ca
pacity he will look after the enter
tainment of United States sailors
whenever they land at any South
American port '
It is proposed to have permanent
organizations in all the South Ameri
can ports, under the direction of tha
Y. M. C. A. Fleet Secretary, which
can on a moment's notice prepare
themselves to entertain any number
of sailors who may be sent ashore cm
leave.
One night recently when an Ameri
can cruiser was in the port of Buenos
Aires, the Y.. M. C. A. arranged for
the entertainment of 120 sailors in
the homes of American and English
families.
As Buenos Aires has the only Y.
M. C. A. building in Souch America
large enough to look after a large
number of sailors, the first work oZ
the Y. M. C. A. committees will bo
to provide buildings in each port
which will be turned into permanent
homes for American sailors during
their shore leave. American fam
ilies will be called upon to entertain
large numbers of them at their homes.
A resolr'ion was passed: by the Sen
ate authorizing an investigation ' of
the Mewgan, N. J., munition explosion.
STRANGE APPEALS
TO RED CROSS
Vladivostok, Oct. 25 Some Rus- ;
slans have a strange conception of the '
functions of the Red Cross. The
apparently intelligent matron of Via-1
divostok home for orphans recently
proposed that the Red Cross take over
management of all orphan's homes
throughout Russia. She thought
this could be started with an ex
penditure of not more than 60,000,
000 rubles.
Another modest request from an
other source was that the Red Cross
undertake the rehaibilitatlon and re
pair of all towns throughout Russia
which have suffered from Russia's
civil war.
The matron also asked the Red
Cross to make the nurses and instruc
tors in her institution behave. She
complained that since the Bolshevik
reign in Vladivostok all sense of dis- .
clpline had vanished and the yountf.
men and women were carrying on
high jinks to tho detriment of the or
phans' welfare.
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