Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1917-08-22
ALL j. s. GRAIN
PUT UNDER LICENSE
President Sets Sept. | as Date
for Holders to Get Permits.
WHEAT AND RYE UNDER BAN
$5o,ooo,oo0 Corporation to Purchase
the Entire Crop of 1917, If Neces-
sary to Maintain Fair
Prices

washington, aug. l0.-AuInOrlJy LOT
putting into effect Herbert G. Hoover's
food control program, as applied to
grain, was given in a proclamation Is
sued by President Wilson.
Predicated on the food and fuel act,
the proclamation gives the food admin
istration power to license the storage
and distribution Of wheat and rye and
the manufacture, storage and diStribu-
ton of all products derived therefrom.
After reciting authority under which
I the president acts and declaring exist
ence of the war makes it necessary,
the proclamation reads:
"Now, therefore /, Woodrow Wilson,
president of the United States Of
American, 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 purpose of said act, to license the
storage and distribution of wheat and
rye and the manufacture, storage and
distribution of all products derived
therefrom to the extent hereinafter
specified.
Must Have License Sept. I.
"All persons, firms, corporations and
associations engaged in the business of
either storing or distributing wheat or
rye, as owners, lessees or operators Of
warehouses or elevators, and all per-
sons, firms, corporations and assOcia-
lions engaged In the business Of manu-
featuring any products derived from
wheat or rye Except those operating
mills and manufacturing plants of
daily capacity Of 100 barrels or less,
and farmers and cooperative assOcia-
lions of farmers), are hereby required
to secure, on or before September 1,
1917, license, which will be issued
under such rules and regulations gov
erning the conduct Of the business as
may be prescribed.
Applications for licenses must be
made to the United States food admin
istrator, Washington, D. c., upon forms
prepared by him for that purpose.
amy person, firm, corporation or as
ISOLATION, other than those hereinbe-
fore excepted, who shall engage in or
carry on the business of either storing
or distributing wheat or rye as owners,
lesseeS or operators of warehouses or
elevators, or manufacturing any prod
ucts derived from wheat or rye, after
September 1, 1917, without first secur-
ing such licenses, will be liable to the
penalties prescribed by said act of con-
gress."
Form $5o,ooo,ooo Corporation.
Prior to issuance of the proclama-
ton announcement was made at the
food administration headquarters of
the personnel of the boards which will
fix prices and attend to the purchase
of grains.
Determination to form a $50,000,000
food administration grain corporation
to purchase the entire 1917 crop, if
need be, to maintain fair prices, also
was announced. Incorporation papers
will be applied for in Delaware.
The price-fxing committee contains
in it's personnel representatives of the
producers and the consumers. The
men are business men, farmers and
Of organized labor.
The personnel Of the commission
follows:
Henry A. Garfield, president Of Will
liams college, chairman; Charles j.
Barrett of Union City, Ga, president
of the Farmers union; William E.
Doak, Roanoke, Va, vice president Of
the Brotherhood of Railway Train
men; Eugene e. Funk, Bloomington,
Ill.,, president of the National Corn as
ISOLATION; Edward F. Ladd, Fargo, N.
D., president of the North Dakota Ag-
ricultural college; r. Goodwin Rhett,
Charleston, S. c., president of the
Chamber of Commerce of the United
States; ]. w. Shorthill, York, Neb.,
secretary national council of Farmers
Cooperative association; James w.
Sullivan, Brooklyn, N. Y, of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor; L. J. Tabor,
O., master Of the Ohio
State Grange.
Officers of Corporation.
The grain corporation will be put
under the grain division of the food
administration and it's executive Off
GERS will be the same as the officers
of this division, whose names were an
nounced as follows:
Herbert Hoover, chairman; julius
RarneS Duluth Mimi president.