Show Ls I. I S. S ASKS IMMEDIATE IMM MEAT r RATioNING I p l r I t I t J Broad d Controls C 1 f I I. I i U f for forR Urge or H rge R I td i Foods WA 2 29 UP The UP T The e 91 Thurs Thursday h day y asked congress for immediate price controls on meat and aid andall all related products Assistant A nt Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. F Braiman n told tolda a 8 en senate en te subcommittee it ee th that t the time time is Is now novt for price control on n m meat at as s well e l as ae o meat t. t rationing r r Brannan saId said ad rationing w would uld bea step in the right direction cU but butU we ve n need e d d. d price rice control control as well He said ald controls would y have ye to tobe be ext extended e also aiso o to such uch prod products ts tsa a as lard butter oleomargarine p poultry and aid eggs milk and cheese hees I i The demand held off from meat at would l' l be shifted overnight overnight over over- night to meat substitutes iBran- iBran nan explained Without an extended control over all of tJ these products the Impact impact im Im- Im- Im pact pad of ot this thu new now demand would woud tend to run up prices and arid to disturb disturb disturb dis dis- dis- dis t the e supply pro production u tl n and distribution pattern for each The subcommittee 1 is b c consider nIder- considering ing lug a bill by bj Sen R Ralph lph E. E Flanders Flanders Flan Flan- ders H. H Vt VL to set up m machinery for meat rationing The rationIng rationIng ration ration- Ing system under Bunder the bill bUl would go tnt into ef effect c 1 on only y when th the pr president L- L d dent and iid d congress deem anch action ac ac- ac- ac tion Uon necess necessary ry I I. I I Open pen Up Fats Fata I Brannan said meat rationing would mea mean mo more e fat being en jento sent jent to o market aa ame meat t. t This h he said laId would r T inless in inless less l lard d with high r prices prices' ell and shortages possibly setting off tf achain a chain hain of reaction throughout Ui the whole galaxy of f other f fats ts and nd oils it Any Serious effort to regulate 1 Inflation and d' toehold hold prices price incheck in III ch check ck mu must t deal with th the community com corn unit o of related mated and ml important tan foods Brannan n said aid He said the d department estimated eat esti m mated ted per capita meat supplies for for 1948 at 1 3 t to Pp pounds ds I This Thia was waa the official first fIrst tion Uon that supplies might decline to o below the Uie H pound und estimate made by the agriculture department department department depart depart- ment last He said meat gram sh should uld be b based xi ri the point system used during the war He Heald said ald this pr program g m affords affords- flexibility 1 ity in choice holce to tg consumer and that both the consumer and the merchant mer mer-I mer chant ha t alread already are re familiar with wit this system De Delay ay Seen Brannan said caM it w was wu s optimistic i to assume that the rationing program program pro pro- pro pro- gram am co could ld bo be a p put t in within ln a month after authorization it would be tle four months att after r passage of the meat rationing g bill which the e committee before t Jn Is considering co r n and nd forms forIM would be ready He said the pr program gram wo would ld re le ree ue i t a mUll million on volunteers ers to assist Inthe in inthe th the distribution Uon 7 of ot the ration bo books Brannan's r e a c com o 0 m m ni men e n dation were were in line with President Tr Tru Truman's mana mans control price r rationing re requests requests re- re quests made in a special message to the opening of of the emergency session of congress last Nov 17 Si See l' l Page Fage ge Z Column 4 I RATIONING Continued from Page Pago One when he hC sU submitted his 10 point inflation anti program m. m At too the time Mr O uman urged that congress give him stand stand-by powers to control items to the cost of living H He specifically mentioned meat Time Is Now Brannan said that Flanders In 1 inviting him to testify asked me mc I specifically to describe to-describe the circumstances circumstances circum I stances under which con controls tr 01 s should be applied to meat My answer is that the time tim i is is now The simple reason is the obvious obvious obvious ous fact that meat already has ha b been en priced out of the x each e ch 0 ot of many nany of ot our people He Hc s said id Flanders Flanders' bill was was was' designed de dc- signed t to co control rol the inflationary tr trend in the the Pt price ce of t meat mea and to distribute rib it more equitably q I in d out th that t the yd des s' s so o amy l for foz r rationing Brannan said sald the out outlook olt now regardless of congressional action was for rising fm at prices The prospect of rationing or-rationing without without without with with- out price control is ts almost certain to accelerate this upward pace he said The prices that will wil prevail when ra rationing day rolls roll around well be inflated beyond beyond beyond be be- yond any desir desirable level for Farm Protest Potest While Brannan was testifying Allan llan B. B l Kline Kine ine president e lt of th the American Bureau Farm Bureau federation went vent before another senate banking banking banking bank bank- ing subcommittee to conde condemn p proposals proposals pro pro- o- o for meat t rationing One of ot th the hO most constructive things that could happen to the meat industry and to the thc country is for congress definitely to kill kil meat rationing rAtioning- and quit talking about it Kline said Farmers are slow alow to put cattle cattI in their feed teed lots or to o expand lo all the uncertainty created by the thc talk of rationing Talk of meat r rationing i is cl causing ing runs on the tho available supply o ot of m meat at by consumers o ers Kline said meat t rationing might have g great at political appeal but bu was waa utterly impracticable under conditions present |