Milford chronicle., 1917-04-27
EXPORT CONTROL
NOW URGED
Would Have President Direct
Foreign Trade.
OFFER 100000 WORKERS
Secretary Of Commerce Shows How
Our Coal Has Been Used to Supply
German Raiders.

German Raiders.
Consideration of war time fool prob
lens continued bef re committees OF
congress.
Before the house commerce commit
tee Secretary of Commerce Rsdtield
urged early passage OF the admInistra
ton bill to empower the president to
control exports.
Mr. Redfsld did not like to have the
bill for waicl he spoke termed an
embargo bill. but rather one to direct
expectation. He told how cal hal
been shipped from the United S ates
to the Argentine republic and there
transshipped through German firms to
German sea-raiders.
He pictured a tin plate scarcity and
the necessity of conserving the supply
OF cans for putting mp food for mill
tary purposes. Urdar the pr p sci
law, the government could stop all
such expectations.
R. A. Pearson. president OF the Iowa
Agricultural college, and DR.. L. H
Weld. of Yale. testified before the sen.
ate agricultural committee. They b.
lieved It might be well in fixing mini
mum prices for the government to-
guarantee such prices for at least a
year or possibly longer.
Assurance should be given" said
Mr. Pearson. that the farmers will be
protected by minimum price to as
sure them against loss"
DR.. Weld said the question OF mini
mum prices should be settled at once
AT present" he sai'. 81 don't b.
neve maximum price fxiHg is naoes
sary. If yea come to that It will be
found that a necessary cOrOllary Is
food control unless you are going t.
allow the selling Of all Of a commodity
at one time. Unfortunately most OF
our food products must be raised in
compa -atively short season AMI II 'hcy
are going to be saved and distribu e }
througA the year, someb -dy has got
to hold them. somebody must a7s"ms
a risk. II NAV be the farmer. 1t my |
be the dealer and It may be the con.
sumer They are all hoping to gain
from the risk they take
Plans for supplying two million
workers fer the country's farms this
summer were announced by Secretary
of Labor Wilson. Working with the
department Of agriculture the abr de
partment's employment service will
comb the country for men.
Orders vert from the labor depart
ment to twenty zone Offices and ninety
employment stations through the
country to begin preparations for hir
ing the men. The first esorts are ex
pected to produce from half millo7 il
to a million
The vast army Of farm workers t.
be modified will be assisted by
greet arm of boy workers.
The secretary Of agr culture said:
For year have believed that meu
engaged IN labor should occasio"aly
have a change IN occupation by way ci
vacation. It seems to me that thi
occasion presents a good opportunity II
to test practically whether it wOuli
not benefit both the wage earners and
the nation to permit large numbers
Of men in great factories where such
dTIdu gemeulS eau " III tut. L@lApJ q
rily 10 leave their regular employment
during the harvest months ana enter
the fields for a short period at leas
1T would be a real test and at the
same time beth employers AMI w)-k
ers would contribute a great publ
servict. I hope it may be p0ss bic tc
obtain the cooperation cf many lag
TO increase the national II
Of food stuffs."