Show RATIONING AMERICANS P PROPOSED IN E. E j FOOD Bill H Hoover over Measure c Presented i in ill l Both Houses Yesterday Aims ms Chiefly at at Restaurants Restaurants ants ants and Food Retailers OTHER LOTHER PERSON JOKER GIVES WIDE VIDE POWERS ERS I IW W Would uld Limit Amount J Any P Person Can Purchase e in Public Eating w Place Home Meals Are Not Affected 1 I Dy fly News cs Service 1 lau lo ing ing- for fot the American merican Pl Ie people is in in 11 an iii bill presented today tOlay by y Senator and nna C Lever of South thc n-thc Hie food is- is Carolina most legislation legis lation yet cl proposed cl in ill this tins country cannily That the measure would be he introduced waS WL exclusively forecast st h by the In International In- In n- n News s c Service cc more than thana a week cek ago The Tie bill Is aimed principally at public pub IJ lic eating aUn places and at the retailers o of or food Some of or the thc restaurants arc ale on controlled J h by German sympathizers ers ers' who have havo n not t. t hesitated to violate the 1 In an endeavor or to Hinder war prep prep- I ara Retailers have h charged higher lusher lush high her h- h er prices than those set sel b bj by the govern govern- ment Other ron I In Jill Joker In addition the bill by br the wor words other Mother person provides pro that practically anione anone one in this country may bo be limited as ns to rood food For this reason the back bacle- ers of the tho bill while the they contend that its Is III absolutely necessary feel that they have a n. stiff fight tight in If tore forthe me measure ure Its terms pro i provide e that the tho rich man willing to pa pay flO 10 for tor a a. meal shall shaH bo ho abl able ablo to buy no more than the ordinary pcr person on Public eating places where It Ir It estimated estimated estimated esti esti- mated 50 per cent of oC tho the f- f foJ fud oJ Is consumed aro are affected In a it statement explaining the tho bill n Representative Lever said said- Thero should be power in the hands of ot U the food administration to fix fic the portions of ot vital necessities that nun may bo 10 served to any anyone ny one individual Our foo food production is approaching Its maximum The vital question is ia con- con The Tho Pomerene bill was drawn under r direction of Food Administrator Ho Hoover v ver r and was Introduced In his beban be be- halt half It proposes not price control but the of the amount of food tood e er every r man may eat in a public place Home Homo meals are declared beyond reach reath o of oC leg leS' H to lo Begin at lit t Ou Hearings will be bo begun at once nee and tha the bill will be given Riven a right of n-n n way rray to immediate passage A friendly route is assured it in the assigning of ot the agriculture ag committee of oC which h Rep- Rep r t Uve ever r Is chairman to con con- steer sider its Hs provisions pro One 01 paragraph granting general pow powers ers era gives Food Administrator Hoover authority to do practically do-practically 1 anything he wishes It ren reads reads' 8 Tho ho Fr President Is II hereby authorized to issue such fluch rules and regulations ns modifying limiting or prohibiting the use manufacture or distribution by an any person conducting u n public c eat- eat or by an any r manufacturer producer pro ducer or other person peton of oC any food- food tufts tuffs feed or material for forthe forthe forthe the production manufacture or n of oC foo foodstuffs or feeds The President ma may vary such regulations from time to time to lo meet changing conditions Imprisonment for six Rix years ears or a fine tine of ot or both mn may be Imposed Impose for fOl conviction of ot Violating the tho law Representative Lever declared the te hill bill resulted primarily from rein the refusal of n a few restaurant m men n to com comply ph with voluntary food regulations but that It was thought best to take decisive a. a ac action lion tion down the thc line lin rather than simply simply simply sim sim- ply meet one phase of oC the general sit sit sit- A concluding st statement sal said Is a strong demand for price f fi ln In public catin eating places place and this phase will be considered d by the com millee |