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Show haa been added any expense for production pro-duction or canning since laat fall, but which have doubled In price while be-ins; be-ins; hoarded by Jobbers and food speculators. spec-ulators. On the basis of price actually paid. I laat year' a pack of canned goods coat I American bouaewlvea S 160, (W. Out j more than the price fixed for It at the time it waa packed which price included in-cluded a fair profit to all middlemen all along: the line according; io gov-ernment gov-ernment eaUmaiee. No auch inflation would be poeal-ble. poeal-ble. or would' be tolerated, under the I Hoover proponed plan of regulation. i To beg-in with, full dlatrlbution to rill mark eta would be assured by restrictions re-strictions agalnat boarding;. There could be no fictitious "shorta" to inflate prices. And, even in case of ( actual ehortage, the price would be kept down to a point which would allow al-low all necesaary middlemen a fair profit, but would eliminate all unnecessary unneces-sary dealers. a One of the first steps Hoover Is expected ex-pected to take after the bill becomes law, will be to establish a definite scale of rharRea for all necesaary services rendered In getting food from producer . to consumer. i The man who renders no real ser- i vie- and the profits he now takes j fnmi every housewife, will be eliminated! elimi-nated! Hoover Is determined no parasite individual ahall, purely for his own profit, double and treble the coat of food between farm and dinner table. Speculation in foodstuffs, particularly particu-larly the buying of futures, which it im proposed to regulate, is responsible for much of the present Inflation in grain values. Legitimate dealers have been forced into buying futures to pro-teat pro-teat their own later requirementa. 1'nder governmental regulation, leejiilawate daalass will ejai abals as quirements, if anywhere available, at a fair price. The consumer, not the speculator, will benefit. Meanwhile, however, every day's delay In passing the Hoover food bill wring thouaands of dollars of exceaa profits from the puraea of American housewives. The. longer the food gamblers gam-blers can stave off action on the bill, the higher prices will soar and the greater wilt be the profits of the food gamblers. e j Producers and middlemen particu-I particu-I larly the middlemen have swarmed In Waahington the past month tfytng to t del a- or block the bill. i The consumer ha not been heard I from. Tii in ta his fight. It means not only j whether he shall have enough food; but ' whether he shall get It at a fair priced If he will speak, emphatically and nf once, to hia congressman and senator, there Is still a chance to get the bill through by July 1. KveT-y day saved will mean more food for his table, more dollars in his pocket. W1LSWAT ..' SPECULATORS IN FOODSUPPLY Thatf Why They Arc Mot-ing Mot-ing Heaven and Elarth to Defeat the Food Bill. By Harry B. Hunt. WASHINGTON. D. C. June 23. Iovernment food control, aa provided by the bill now pending- 1 9 congress, will make easier, not harder, the t problem of livelihood for the aver-H2r aver-H2r Amarican fnmlly. Bit will put food on the American fable, not take food away from it , It will keep money in the family iMH-ketbook. which today Is going- to fatten the hank accounts of food speculators And unnecessary middlemen. middle-men. By aboliahing- speculation m food- stuffs and hoarding of supplies and by 'enforcing fair distribution and. open marketing, it can brin;? prices down from their present level even if the tfrrvc supplies of food In the coun- , jjy K considerably below what they r "re today. i Wtt hnut auch regulation, however, t ""4" csciirprTces are only a foretaate of ihoe we may expect within a fewl months. . For present prices are not. In the main, legitimate prices on a very .reat percentage of our foodstuffs. e Tn!te the case of canned goods, for example: Tomatoes were canned laat year at a coat to the canner which crmi'led them to be aold to the jobber ' nl H cents per doten cans. The Jobber Job-ber aold them to the wholesaler at 90 ct'ntf a dozen, who sold them to the retailer at fl per doxen. The re-yiilr re-yiilr paaaed them out to his trade Mi from 10 to cents per can, of from $1.20 to $1.50 per doxen. The entire coat of producing; and cunning thoae tomatoes was completed .last full. No further ex pen He haa : " '..een attached, except a very small Htorave charge, j' yet the Identical tomatoes which were retailed at 10 to 12 cents a can last fall can be bought today only i hi 20 to 25 cents a can. The man who grew the ttftnatoes j in Kfttinx none of thin additional ; price. In few cases are the packers . KettinK any of it, for moat of them ! ; tliapoaed of their pack at once to the i Jobbing trade. Also, few retailers are KcttiuK any considerable part of It, for j moat of them carry but a few weeks' j aupply at a time. ' Hut Jobber who bought tomatoes I at So cents per doxen capa last fall, to aetl at 90 cents, are today chary- j tug from $1.80 to $2 per dozen. Wholesalers who laid in large stocks '.-t from SO cents to $1.50 are selling ! at from 52 to $2.20 per dozen the very ' inmatoea they sold lat fall at $1. : The same la true of the whole range f c:imii fl VPtretiiMes to none of which |