The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-10-26

and its allies show no disposition to
yield to the pleas of the so-called neu-
trail nations that have been supplying
Germany with food and other mate
rails. According to reports received in
Washington, the food situation in Ger
many is growing acute. The weekly
ration there amounts approximately
to four and half pounds of bread,
half peck of potatoes, cupfu OF
beans, peas, or oatmeal half pound
of meat, twelve cubes of sugar, six
individual patties of butter and an
equal amount of other fats. The calOric
value of these foods in the aggregate,
Is less than half the amount estimated
by the American food administration
as sufficient for person in sedentary
occupation.
Coal Strike Makes Trouble.
The coal situation, especially in Illi-
nois, caused the administration great
deal of trouble. Strikes, unauthorized
by the union, stopped production and
the operators declared they could not
pay the wages demanded unless they
were allowed to charge the general
public 80 cents more Il ton. Coal Adj
ministratOr Garfield was swamped WIKI
appeals and protests, and sent out
message to the effect that unless min
ing was resumed the federal govern
ment would seize the mines The whole
n, /, ~
tered by undetermined pro-German in
fluences.
Food Administrator Hoover has
been brought to realization OF the
fact that the retail grocers of the coun-
try are robbing the ultimate consuln-
ers, and he proposes to go as far as his
powers permit in stopping the eXtor-,
ton. In Il statement issued ThurSdi y
Mr.. Hoover said that though neither
the food administration nor the gov
eminent has authority to regulate the
retailer ms it does the Wholesaler ne
would. beginning November !, expose
the former each week by publishing
the wholesale prices of all commodities
in every section. Thus the purchaser
will know how much the retailer is
paying and how much undue profit he
! is exacting. Mr. Hoover cites particli-
larly the retail price Of -four, which 10
out of all proportion to the wholesale
price fixed by the government, and al
so the recent unwarranted advances
in the retail price of sugar.
Unless the retailer grocer behaves,
the food administrator hints, congress
may be asked for legislation giving the
government power to regulate him. Mr..
Hoover asserts that the corner has
been turned in high prices and that IL
the farmer and retailer cooperate with
him, the essential commodities one af-
ter another should continue to show re-
auctions between now and the end OF
the year.
The war department issued orders
Thursday for the entertainment or the
final quotas of the first draft from the
northwest states and the entire mobile
IN ton of the 6S7 900 men of the first
army is expected to be complete by
the middle of November. The call fol
the second draft is not expected be
fore the first Of the year, but arrange
ments for ii are under way and 1t may
he that the remaining 100000 eligi
bles will be examined in advance so ~
To- establish Il waiting list. Prepare
tons for the winter in the trainin,
camps are being made rapidly ant
there Is reason to believe that there
will be no shortage Of warm clothing
arms and all other necessary supplies
The Liberty bond campaign wen
with q rush last week, despite the dis
loyal opposition displayed in some 10
caIities. The government has takel
steps to punish the pro-German work
ers who have fostered this hostile ser
. timent, and Secretary McAdOo has ask
cd banks to report the names of thos
who have sought to intimidate bank
ers by threats to withdraw their dc
posits.
The senatorial committee investiga
ing Senator La Follette's loyalty hel
several sessions but was temperate
foiIed by the willy fellows demand thi
, he be given the opportunity to eros
examine those who had contradict
> his assertion regarding Bryan's stat
9 ment to President Wilson anent Il
[ Lusitania. AS the committee came
: well summon the president or M
a Bryan, 1t adjourned to think the cas-
Y over.
I Former Senator Pettigrew Of Sout
Q Dakota is emulatlng the record of l
: Toilette and defying the governmeI
v to have him Indicted. His utteranc'
r are IL anything more reprehensib
$ than those of the Wisconsin man, b'
he himself Is much more negligibl
; If all their readers and hearers we
a persons of sound sense, neither OF