Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-11-20
LICENSE ALL BAKERS
PRESIDENT ORDERS FIRMS USING
OVER TEN BARRELS TO SUB
NIT TO CONTROL.
GOES INTO EFFECT DEC. 10
Hotels, Restaurants and Clubs Who
Make Their Own Bread Affected
by New Regulations ISSUED
at Washington.

washington, Nov. 14.-All makers of
crackers, will be required to conduct
breadstuffs, from bread to oyster
their business under government IL
cenSe, beginning December 10, accord
ing TO a proclamation by President
Wilson, issued on Monday. The order
includes not only bakers, but hotels.
restaurants and all other establish
ments using as much as ten barrels of
flour monthly.
The presidents proclamation is the
first step in the food administration
plan to give the country a one-pound
loaf of bread to retail at cents. AL
though without direct authority TO
force such a price, Food Administra-
tor Hoover is confident that the cOndi-
tons of the terms will be such that
bakers will agree on a 7-cent loaf.
President Wilson's proclamation fol-
lows:
Whereas. under and by virtue of an
act of congress entitled AN Act TO
Provide Further for the National Sc
curlty and Defense by Encouraging the
Production, Conserving the Supply,
and Controlling the Distribution of
Food Products and Fuel approved by
the president on the 10th day of Au-
gust, 1917, it is provided among other
things as follows:
That by reason of the existence Of
q state of war, it is essential to the
national security and defense, for the
successful prosecution of the war, and
for the support and maintenance of
the army and navy, to assure an ade-
quate supply and equitable distribu-
ton, and to facilitate the movement of
foods, fuel, including fuel oil and nat
ural gas, and fertilizer and fertilizer
ingredients, tools, utensils, implements,
machinery and equipment required for
the actual production of foods, feeds
and fuel, hereafter in this act called
necessaries, to prevent, locally or gen.
orally, scarcity, monopolization, hoard
ing, injurious speculation, manipula-
tons and private controls affecting
such supply, distribution and move
ment, and to establish and maintain
governmental control of such neces-
saries during the war.
1.-The president is authorized to
make such regulations and to issue
such orders as are essential effectively
to carry out the provisions of the act.
"And, whereas, it is further pro-
vided in the said act as follows:
That, from time to time, wherever
the president shall find it essential to
license the importation, manufacture,
storage, mining or distribution of any
necessaries, in order to carry into eff
feet any of the purposes of this act,
and shall publicly announce it. no per-
son shall, after a date fixed in the an
nOuncement, engage in or carry on any
such business specified in the an
nOuncement of importation, manufac-
ture, storage, mining or distribution of
any necessaries as set forth in such
announcement, unless he shall secure
and hold a Ii Cense issued pursuant to
this section.
1.-The president is authorized to is
sue such licenses and to prescribe reg
ulations for the issuance of licenses
and requirements for systems of ac-
counts and auditing of accounts to be
kept by licenses, submission Of re-
ports by them, with or without oath
or affirmation, and the entry and in
spection by the presidents duly author
lied agents of the places of business
of licensees
"NOw, therefore, /, Woodrow Will
son, president of the United States of
America, by virtue of the powers con-
ferred upon me by said act of congress,
hereby find and determine, and by this
proclamation do announce that it is
essential, in order to carry into effect
the purposes of said act, to license the
manufacture of necessities to the ex-
tent hereinafter specified:
"All persons, firms, corporations and
associations who manufacture for sale
bread in any form, cake, crackers, bis
cults, pastry or other bakery products
excepting, however, those whose con-
sumption of any flour and meal in
the manufacture of such products is, in
the aggregate, less than ten barrels a
month"; are hereby required to procure
license on or before December 10,
1917. This includes hotels, restaurants,
other public eating places and clubs,
who serve bread or other bakery prod
ucts of their own baking.
"Any person, firm, corporation or
association other than those hereinbe-
fore excepted, who shall engage in or
carry on any business hereinbefore
specified after December 10, 1917, with
out first procuring such license will be
liable to the penalty prescribed by said
act of congress"