Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-12-28
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that lamb must be eaten to keep
producers In business at a fair
profit and desires that there be no
falling off in consumption which
will injure that industry. l have
SO wired certain state food admin
istrations."
| Mr.. Hoover has declared but one
meatless day and that is Tuesday and
so far as the United States food adj
ministration is concerned is the only
meatless day that it recognizes. How
ever, local food administrators in diff
ferent parts of the country have added
another meatless day to this, which
gives two meatless days a week, while
Mr.. Hoover only advises one week.
of course the public should under
stand that stockmen are as much en-
barra ssed by the high cost of feed and
other products for their industry as are
men in other branches of industry and
II beef and mutton are to be boycott
, ted by the public to the extent that
these products cannot be sold, the
stock men will be forced by necessity
, to divert their attention to the pro-
auctions of cereals, vegetables and
t fruits or something else which the
public is permitted to eat"
, PRESIDENT SPRoAT SPEAKS.
l Hugh Sproat. president Of the Idaho
Wool Growers association, in his ad-
dress at the opening session of the an
nual convention. this morning at the
q Boise Commercial club, scored Sc
5 verely foes to the great sheep industry
t and those who are trying to hamper
= its growth through unfair methods.
y He first took a rap at German bru-
= tality and urged the wool growers to
: stand squarely behind the government
t in It's prosecution of the war, He en-
g phasized the statement that the pres
8 ent bounty system was useless and
a recommended that an investigation be
made as to who was receiving the
8 bounty claims. He next pointed out
that the high price of hay established
: early in the season was a mistake anc
n had caused the wool growers to spenc
approximately 100000 out of the
y state for concentrated foods and nov
that much hay was unsold. the WOO
'. growers are receiving the blame from
h certain officials.
;, PATRIOTISM ABOVE POLITICS.
The recent action of the state as
SCISSORS in their convention in recon
mending that the assessment on sheet
l., should be raised he declared to be un
w fair unless a general raise on all live
J. stock was made. The wool grower
1t should keep out of the entangiing ALI
"a ances of the non partisan league, stat
Ia ed Mr. Sproat, and throw their strengt
,e to the man who put patriotism abov
politics.
Vigorous applause greeted MI
Sproat on several occasions during hi
discourse. Not only were there larg
number of wool growers in attendance
= but q fair sized audience outside tn
members of the organization. h
spoke in part as follows!
WAR MATTERs.
This year the needs of the industr
must be subordinated to- the need c
our country. We are at war with
4 nation notorious for all time to com
for it's cruelty and humanity; fo
brutality to combatant and non-com
A blatant alike A trail of destructio
" ma rks the progress of her armies
the fair lands of France, of Belgium
N and Italy. The restless ocean Is tn
= grave of many a brave sailor sent
death by treachery, and mothers wit
helpless children have not been spare'
unfortunately our distance frol
the actual conflict has confused o,
vision and our lack of preparedness
now a handicap which cannot !
viewed without serious misgiving
The collapse of Russia and the serio'
setback inflicted on Italy has made II
situation extremely precarious. tt
war fleet of England still rules the SCI
and our own magnificent ships with
personnel second to none is still, to q
intent, intact. The mighty factories
the British empire, ably assisted
our own, are providing the munitio
to hold the line against tremendou
ly increased German manpower on q
western front, but the events OF Il
last month have set us to consider s
riously the question, Are we all t
gether?'
THE time has come for a stock Ia
ing Is our industry doing its bes
Are other industries squarely behil
our nation? Are the men responsit
for the conduct of this war, the be
men for their positions?
MISTAKES BOUND TO COME.
"In the conduct of SO stupendous
undertaking as we are now commit
to. mistakes are bound to occur. B
the class Of men who are volunteeri
their services give us hope that in
main we are headed right. The d,
lara year men who have placed tn
services at the governments dispo'
49, thu hest we have in their dtffere