Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-07-24
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-GoVernmenta Crisis in
Germany May Result In :
Internal Reforms. ~.
BY EDWARD w. PIcKARD.

by GbVHhD W. TlSNAhGs
The matter of food, its productions
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
tides of foodstuffs into Germany ever
since the war began. This was with
Sn 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 of the
expectation to neutrals of all food
stuffs beyond what they need for their
own sustenance and what we and eur
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
ing firmly. The neutral nations Of
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 the neutrals named
must be permitted TO ship into Ger
many dairy products provided that
huA
products will be consumed only by
women and children and other nom
cOmbatants. This is kindly, but ig-
nOres the fact that the German women
are doing NEST Of the work in the en-
pire, releasing all the men for fighting.
Great Crops ira America
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 a fair average crop. The yield
of corn will be tremendous, and in Il
word, the United States will have not
only an abundance Of food grains for
itself, but also great surplus stocks for
its allies. The crop of potatoes will
be the biggest on record, and the hay
crop, also of prime Importance, viii |
be heavy.
on the other hand, Food Controller |
says Germany's fruit and veg /
etlble harvest Is far below the aver
age and that the yield of grain will be |
"as good as in 1915" which was a
year of drought and miserable crops in
the empire.
The senate is still trying TO formu-
late a 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 on
July 81. The long and patience ex-
wrangle over this measure
has been caused largely by the deter
of the "drys" TO take advan-
age of the circumstances and make
I prohibition law. Whether the dis
illatiOn Of whisky shall be prohibited,
whether the stocks In bond shall be
and used for munitions,
beer and wine shall survive
II perish. and a dozen other like Ques-
ions have been the subjects Of argu-
Dent and dispute. The inclusion or
Of fuel. steel and other prod
cts also has been debated at length.
President Wilson and Mr..
iooyer have fidgeted and fumed and
rged In vain, the food spectators
ave been making immense unearned II