Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-08-18 | Page 19 | Retailers Are Not Doing Right by the People

RETAILERS ARE 1T DOING RIGHT Of. I THE PEOPLE L "This is an unfair deal." said F. A. W Hulsh, who has been in charge of the It' war garden in Ogden. "The people have been encouraged to raise vegc- tables and fruits, and, after they have B; gathered in the garden products, the . dealers' offer them only a very small fraction of tho retail prices. K "I called up a market yesterday, K. asked what the proprietor would give B. for tomatoes and was Informed that K, 60 cents would be paid "for a twenty- IK pound box. HI ' "Then I had my wife call the same jl ' place. She said over the phone: m " 'What are tomatoes selling at to- "The answer was: 'Madam, we f have reduced tho price to 10 cents a"wLi pound.' " TB' Mr. Hulsh declares that this mis- WW treatment will make it impossible to 111 get the people enthused in gardening- BE next season. T, mt