Show 4 10 sello A 0 th ak A k aft still u fa A wab AM M W MM MR M 15 JU CUM 1 ivul washington D C the markets on food stuffs are expected to drop all of the vast amount of surplus food supplies held by the war department will be sold direct to the people through the medium of the parcel post according to a plan announced last saturday beann meanwhile hile the sale of foodstuffs to the public through municipalities has been begun by tho the department prices of the different commodities were announced they differ so radically from what is now being asked in the market that they too are expected to lower present prices the parcel post plan of food purchase and delivery will go into effect august 18 the government will have more than agencies in every nook and corner of the country these will be the post offices at which orders may be booked ana anat deliveries made the entire responsibility for booking the orders and delivering the goods will be assumed by the post postoffice office department part ment the details were arranged at a conference between war ar department and post postoffice office officials sale of the enormous supplies direct to to the american people represents the largest transaction of the kind in the world it Is a body blow at profiteering and is 07 only ay the fir first at others will come in rapid succession when recommendations to be made to president wilson are acted upon when the legislative machinery of the government gets under way the fight against the high cost of living which now occupies the attention of most of the government de apartments part ments suffered a slight distraction by the flare back from congress because fot tho the presidents action asking the house to to postpone its recess speaker gillett sent pent the president a letter in reply to the request that the recess be postponed and republican leaders declared his communication shows that the house looks upon the presidents action as an attempt to pass the buck to congress As far as the house Is concerned it believes that the speaker in his let ter has haa sume succeeded eded in passing the aued back to the president mr gillett points out that tile the president has haa complete authority to act tn in the railroad wage nage controversy and afka ss ha him to recommend definite action to reduce the ligh high cost ot of living the sendie senate passed the resolution by senator myr rs of montana asking tile the banking and currency committee of the senate to investigate tile the inflation of the currency in its i elation to the increase in the cost of living the committee will begin the In tion immediately by calling officials cills of the fedrial reserve board it was announced that senator reed of missouri will address the senate on the high cost or uv sv ng ana will undertake to show shonn that eions put into deflect during the atar ar had a great deal to do with nath increase ing the prices of foods foodstuffs tufts it is 14 un der stood that senator reed will refer particularly to the packing house products sugar and flour all told the war department un der the parcel post food plan will have available foi tile the public ap proximately cans ot of meats and vegetables the war nar departments announce anno ment ot of the parcel post plan which came from the office of the director of sales is in ili part as follows the vast store of food held b the army will be made mad e available to every resident in every hamlet amlet li town and city in the united states it NN will be at prices materially lower than those for which similar commodities modi ties are now selling in the corn coni W W LEWIS jeweler experts in the repairing p of jewelry we k know now watches thoroughly and our equipment is complete enough to enable us ua to repair anything meu dable engagement rings rl bugs weilling We iLling rings and Birt birthada hda kings W W N UP 10 W aga tga F am JENSEN AV teatino Healin ti and venil eting we do all kinds of plumbing and furnish the best materials crimel bete tint of supplies carried carded opposite augy cugy FURNITURE FURNi I 1 ari r mika grim mercial market 1 ahe I lie food ored offered for sale by tile the war department is in excellent con As aa in the handling ot oi all commercial lin line linb b ot of canned food instances occur in which a few cans become punctured la in the packing and shipments and alli deterioration re suited but such cases haie been found infrequently in army stores the meats were packed from froin mhd best beat cuts obtainable the vegetables ure are i standard commercial packs all of the commodities were government in specter and nd prepared in accordance with ith army i plans plana tor for the inauguration of I 1 this new method of disposing of army surplus subs subsistence istance have been worked out at a series of conferences at tended by benedict crowell assistant secretary of war aar 11 C V morse act I 1 ing director of sales A L At mercea erect assistant director ot of sales james jamea I 1 blakeslee fourth assistant postmaster 1 li master laster general george 1 L wood woodal superintendent of rural mall mail and I 1 george Lan landiak dink chief storekeeper of ofil department i order forma and other data required reit it h b the iha postoffice post offIce department 11 to make the now nonn plan operative hlll be furnished turnia hid by tho the war department within it few days davs postponement or immediate inauguration augu ration of this plan of distribution was necessary to give the post office department opportunity to isi sue instructions to the more than postmasters throughout tile the united states and furnish them with tile the order forms so that the opportunity to purchase the surplus food from the army would be given to all the citizens of the united states at it tile the same time the entire responsibility of the I 1 bo booking oldrig of the orders and delivery i of the goods will be assumed by the postoffice post office department the flee fice department will requisition the subsist subsistence encle the war department in case or carton lots the war department la is now determining the prices at t which other surplus subsistence stence commodities wl be offered for sale through the parcel poat service these prices will be announced as soon as they aro are established the resolution passed by tile the senate undertakes to solve the lehi of living costs by reducing the amount of currency in circulation senator mytra told the senate that the amount of bonev in circulation has bag been increased twofold dur during I 1 ng i the war and that jhb cost of living has increased in tile the same ratio tills this I 1 ts is supported by a report from see sec glass showing that in august 1914 th the e money in circulation was by july 1 1919 it has increased to the capital circulation has nearly doubled in the past five years the resolution provides that the aforesaid communication of the secretary of the treasury and accompanying tables and statements be and the same are referred to the committee on banking and cur currency currena and that said committee is hereby directed to consider the same and report whether it is advisable tor for congress to enact legislation to provide tor for a gradual reduction of the amount of money in circulation and it if so BO to report what legislation it deenis deems necessary expedient or advisable to bring about some gradual reduction of tile the amount of money ill hi and to what extent and lion hov rapidly such reduction should be had and what may be the views of the committee in ili general in the premises it is the second resolution by tile the senate on the subject tile the Alc mckellar Kellar resolution calling for fop an investigation by a partisan bipartisan bi coni committe mitte of six sen se 11 acors having been adopted the lay day before the letter which speaker gillett sent to the president and which some members of the hoube thought put the problem up to the Pies president ident Is as follows to the president dear sir air I 1 have received bour 3 our letter of this date expressing the N wish ish that congress should not recess at present I 1 presume it Is in lieu of the ordinary method of communicating your lewa to Cong congress rss and will cause it to be read in the house 1 I regret that you did not arrice at these conclusions sooner and advise us when tile the subject was mas under consideration by the congress some days ago is of course it N will ill now interfere with miny many perfected plans but if as intimated in ill your letter you expect soon to rei recommend commend to 1181 us important legislation I 1 have no dol doubt abt that tile the louse house will be glad to awalt await and consider the proposals yo uart uarl preparing As to the railroad ligi legislation 71 I 1 supposed by act of congress you now had full authority and one of the reasons of our recess was that tile the committee e of the house might uninterrupted by ane business of house prepare the legisla legislation tio I 1 which when our au authority thorit will be lie necessary Lessary ceases respectfully yours rI lEDERICK CIUCK 11 II r |