Housewives Partly Guilty For High
Retail Prices Of Processed Foods
By DOUGLAS LARSEN
NEA Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON (NEA) Congress ii investigating the possibility
that retail food prices are not coming down as fast as farm prices
because American housewives are getting lazy.
Evidence that this ii true hat
already been laid before the Sen
ate agriculture subcommittee on
utilization of farm crops, headed
by Sen. Guy M. Gillette tD.
Iowa i. Gillette' group is going
into the whole question of whv
the cost of getting food from the
farmer to the consumer seems
to have increased out of propor-
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tion to farm price and the gen
eral price rise since the war.
When the investigation was
stated last summer the commit
tee expected to find increased in
efficiency in the food distribution
system and possibly exorbitant
profits being taken by the food
middlemen. They have found
some evidence of both of these
things. But they have also dis
covered that U. S. nousewives
must share some guilt for keep
ing food prices up.
What It amount to, the mod
ern woman is demanding food
from the grocery store which is
all ready to throw Into the pot or
frying pan, with an absolute min
imum of working on by her. She
wants more canned goods and
readyprepared foods. She wants
her fresh vegetable already
trimmed, washed and sorted he
fore they are even put on the
grocery counter.
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She wants food put up In small
er packages, to serve two or
three persons, so she doesn't
have to bother to measure or
save what' left. She wants proc
essed foods and bread with a lot
of builtin vitamins, so she
doesn't have to worry about bal
anced diets. She wants only the
choice cuts of meat, already
trimmed and prepared by the
butcher, so she doesn't have to
improvise cooking methods and
seasoning to improve flavor. She
wants "instant" coffee and "in
st ant" potatoes which require the
minimum cooking skill of boiling
water.
Since the war, the food Indus-
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21. LW Yugoslavia charges
that Russian troops have moved
into neighboring communist coun
tries to build up "warmongering"
pressure against Marshal Titos
regime.
The charges, printed in the of
ficial newspaper Burba, said Red
army troops have moved into Ro
mania. Kortifications are being
built under Russian supervision
along the Yugpslav borders in
Bulgaria, Hungary and Albania,
the paper declared.
tin. Athens, well-informed in-i
telligence officers said privately
that Russia has placed five divi
sions along the ugoslav borders
in the last month.
(These sources American,
British and Greek said Russia
apparently feared that Tito was '
secretly barking plans for a re
volt in the isolated Soviet satellite
of Albania.)
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try has had to cater to this
changing demand. Food proces
sors have told Gillette's group
that these newfangled services
don't come for free.
It costs money to put extra vi
tamins in bread. Putting up foods
in smaller cartons means extra
cardboard, paper and cellophane
Canning foods requires several
cooking processes in a factory.
plus the cost of the tin or glass i
containers. Freezing and distrib-1
uting frozen food ts extremely cx
pensive.
Firmer Not To Blamo
The high cost of milk Is another
example cited by Senator Gil
lelie. More and more housewives
are demandinp that it be deliver
ed to the door. If they bought it
at the grocery store it would be
as much as two cents a quart
cheaper, he reveals. That's about
a 10 percent saving. A Chicago
attorney wrote Gillette saving
that some milk routemen were i
making SlO.om a year.
The housewife pays for this sal
ary, as well as ail of the other
food services which she is now
requiring.
The long time statistics of the
Deparmtent of Agriculture prove
that the increased demand lor
processed food is a very recent
trend. For the last 20 years the
farmer and the food middlemen
the grocers, canners, packers,
wholesalers and distributors
have been taking about a 50-f0
cut of the retail food dollar with
the farmer. Just recently, how
ever. Gillette's committee has
discovered that something radi
cal is happening to this divvy.
Farmes' prices are going down.
But retail food prices are stav ing
about the same, and in some
cases, going up."
Just exactly how big a factor
the housewife's laziness is in this
phenomena is what Senator Gil
lette is determined to find out.
The handsome, gracious senator
is far Wx much of a gentleman
to come right out and sav that
the American housewife Is get
ting lazy. But he says that he
wants her to be sure she knows
exactly what her new freedom
irom the kitchen Is costing.
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OTTAWA, Oct. 21 (CP) Im
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a request from Henry Hut ten-
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al, for temporary admission to
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Huttenhach, classified as an
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he is not permitted to enter Can
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parents during the war and has
applied for U. S. citizenship.
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