Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-07-20
news REVIEW OF
The PAST WEEK
Presidents Embargo on Foods
and Other Supplies, Hard
Blow at Enemy.
AMERICAN CROPS TO Be Big
Russians, In Tremendous Drive on
Lemberg, Break Through Teuton
Line-GoVernmental Crisis In
Germany May Result In
Internal Reforms.
By EDWARD w. PIcKARD.

The matter of food, its production
and control, is becoming more i'm
portant daily as a factor in ending
the war. The international aspect
was brought sharply to the front last
week when President Wilson pro-
claimed an embargo on shipments of
food and certain other articles. No
one has been blind to the fact that
Holland and the Scandinavian cOun-
tries have been shipping great guam
titles of foodstuffs into Germany ever
since the war began. This was with
in their rights, but to do it and still
feed their own populations, they have
been importing very heavily from
America. Therefore 1t is equally with
in the rights of America, certainly
the part of wisdom, to shut off the
expectation to neutrals of all food
stuffs beyond what they need for their
own sustenance and what we and our
allies can spare. 1t would be stupid
to continue to supply food, even indi-
rectly, to our enemy, and the United
States, though slow to act, is now act
course are wailing, but if they are not
for US they are in a degree against us
and must stand the consequences.
President Wilson, being a humani-
tartan, insists that theneutrals named
must be permitted to ship into Ger
many dairy products provided that
they can give guarantees that such
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women and children and other nom
combatants. This is kindly, but ig-
nOres the fact that the German women
are doing most of the work in the en-
! pire, releasing all the men for fighting.
Great Crops in Anserica.
The success of the American cam
| paign for the increase of production
is demonstrated by the highly encour-
! aging government forecast of crops.
The acreage sown was immense and
the general outlook is for correspond
ingly immense yields of all grains eX-
cept wheat, and even in wheat there
will be fair average crop. The yield
of corn will be tremendous, and in a
word, the United States will have not
only an abundance of food grains fol
itself, but also great surplus stocks fol
it's allies. The crop of potatoes viii
be the biggest ON record, and the hay
crop, also of prime importance, will
be heavy.
On the other hand, Food Controller
Batoeki, says Germany's fruit and veg
Ior ie 20 10o10 +Io
age and that the yield of grain will bC
"as good as in 1915" which was {
year of drought and miserable crops il
the empire.
The senate is still trying to formu
late law to regulate the distribution
and use Of the country's food and prob
ably other supplies of vital importance
and has agreed to vote on the bill Oh
July q. The long and patience ex
hausting wrangle over this measur
has been caused largely by the deter
mination of the "drys" to take advan
tage of the circumstances and max
it a prohibition law. Whether the dis
tillation of whisky shall be prohibited
whether the stocks in bond shall b
Communicated and used for munitions
. whether beer and wine shall surviv
or perish. and dozen other like ques
6ons have been the subjects of argu
ment and dispute. The inclusion O
exclusion of fuel, steel and other proc
ucts also has been debated at length
, Meanwhile President Wilson and Nj
, Hoover have fidgeted and fumed an
urged in vain, the food speculator
, have been making immense unearne