The Washington herald., 1917-08-16
PRESIDENT ACTS
ON FOOD PRICES
Official Proclamation Is.
sued Giving Hoover the
Power of Control.

authority Tor putting into enect
Herbert c. Hoover's food control
program, as applied to grain. was
given yesterday in a proclamation
issued by the President.
Predicated on the food and fuel
act, the proclamation of Mr.. Wilson
gives the Food Administration the
power to license the storage and
distribution of wheat and rye and
the manufacture, storge and distrib-
ution of all products derived there
from.
Prior to issuing the proclamation.
was made at the Food
Administration headquarters of the
personnel of the boards which will
fix prices and attend to the purchase
of grains.
The determination to form a $780,
100000 Food Administration grain
corporation to purchase the entire
1917 crop, If need be, to maintain
fair prices, also was announced. In
corporation papers will be applied
for today in Delaware.
simultaneously with these an
nouncements, representatives of the
grain and elevator trades of the
country met at the offices of the
Food Administration and adopted
resolutions pledging their aid and
support to any rules laid down by
Mr.. Hoover. The action of the grain
men was characterized by Mr..
Hoover as the most wonderful
piece of patriotism" he had yet seen
demonstrated.
Personnel of Committee.
The price-hxing committee contains
In, fNa fofv 80
producers and the consumers. The
representatives of organized labor.
The committee is as follows:
Chairman, II. A. Garfield, president
of Williams College; Charles ]. Bar
nett. president OF the Farmers
Union. Union City, Ga; William n.
Doak, vice president of the Brother
hood OF Railway Trainmen. os Roam
olIe, Va; Eugene E. Funk, president
Of the. National Corn Association, OF
ILL.,; Edward F. Ladd,
president Of the North Dakota Ag-
ricultural College, Fargo, North
Dakota: r. GOODWIN Rhett, president
of the Chamber of Commerce, of the
United States. Charleston, S. c.: ].
w. Shorthill, secretary of the Ma
tional Council of Farmers Co-opera-
tive Association. of York, Neb.;
James w. Sullivan. American Fedora
tion OF Labor, of Brooklyn. n. Y,
and L. ]. Tabor, Mastor. Ohio State
Grange, Of Barnesville, Ohio; Frank
W. Taussis, chairman of the Fed
eral Tariff Commission. of Washing
ton; Theodore n. Vail. president of
the American Telephone and Tele-
graph Company. of NeY York, and
Henry ]. Waters, president of the
Kansas State Agricultural College,
and associated with the Department
of Agriculture, OF Manhattan. Kas.
To Make All Purchases.
The corporation will make all allied
purchases Of wheat and flour and in
this way expects to stabilize prices.
1t Is not intended that the corporation
shall buy any more grain outright
than Is necessary. il being the inten-
ton to let the trades take their own
course so long as the prices to the
government, the allies and the private
consumer are kept down. Agencies
will be opened at the principal wheat
terminals to carry on its dealing with
the dealers in grains.
Should the grain men show a dis
position to attempt to put up prices
above that fixed by the Food Admin
istraton, 1t is announced that a fur
ther appropriation will be sought from
Congress and the corporation will take
over every bushel of grain in the
country. 1t is not expected that any
such drastic step will be necessary,
however.
All of the men connected with the
grain division have disassociated
themselves from any business and any
interest whatever in the grain trade,
it was announced. and will give their
entire time and service TO the govern
ment fr the duration Of the war