Mohave County miner., 1917-07-14
FEED AMERICA FIRST AND THEN
 ALLIES-WILSON
lFrom Thursday.s paIIy Minerl


 WASHINGTON, July 12.-Presi- dent Wilson's proclamation, putting into operation July 15 government control of American exports as au- thorized in the espionage act, after quoting the law empowering the gov ernment to take control of exports, says:
 q hereby proclaim to all whom it may concern that, except at such time or times and under such regulations and orders and subject to such limita- tions, and exceptions as the president shall prescribe, until otherwise order ed by the president or by the congress, the following articles, namely, coal, coke, fuel, oils, kerosene and gasoline, including bunkers; food grains, flour and meal therefrom, fodder and feeds, meats and fats, pigiron, steel billets, ship plates and structural shapes, scrap iron and scrap steel; ferro man. ganese; fertilizers; arms, ammunition and explosives shall not on and after the fifteenth day of July, 1917, be car ried out of or exported from the Unit ed States or it's territorial possessions to Abyssinia, Afghanistan, Albania, Argentina, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, her colonies, possessions or protector ates, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Chile, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Denmark, her colonies, possessions or. protectorates, Dominican republic, Ecuador, Egypt, France, her colonies, possessions or protectorates, Germany, her colonies, possessions or protector ates, Great Britain, her colonies, pos sessions or protectorates,, Greece, Qua temala, Hayti, Honduras, Italy, her colonies, possessions or protectorates, Japan, Liberia, Leichtenstein, LuXam- burg, Mexico, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Cacaragua, The Meth erlands, her colonies, possessions or protectorates, Norway, Oman, Pana- ma, Paraguay, Persia, Peru, Portugal, her colonies, possessions or protector ates, Rumania, Russia, Salvador, San Marine, Serbia, Siam, Spain, her colo nies, possessions or protectorates, Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay, Vene- zuela or Turkey.
 "The orders and regulations from time to time prescribed will be ad- ministered by and under the authority of the secretary of commerce, from whom licenses, in conformity with the said orders and regulations, will issue.
 'In controlling by license the ex- port of certain indispensable commodi- ties from the United States, the gov ernment has first and chiefly in view the amelioration of the food conditions which have arisen or are likely to arise in our country before new crops are harvested. Not only is the con servation of our prime food and fodder supplies a matter which vitally con cerns our own people but the retention of an adequate supply of raw mate rials is essential to our program of military supply of raw hrdlucB. -b,r military and naval construction and the continuance of our necessary do- mestic activities. We shall therefore similarly safeguard all our funda- mental supplies.
 'It is obviously the duty of the United States in iberating any sur plus products over and above our own domestic needs to consider first the necessities of all the nations engaged in war against the central empires. As to neutral nations, however, we also recognize our duty. The government does not wish to hamper them. On the other hand it wishes and intends by all fair and equitable means, to CO., operate with them in their difficult task of adding from our available sur plusses to their own domestic supply and of meeting their pressing neces- sities or deficits. In considering these deficits of food supplies, the govern ment means only to fulfill its obvious obligation to assure itself that neu- trals are husbanding their own re- sources and that our supplies will not become available either directly or in directly to feed the enemy"