Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-10-26

and it's allies show no disposition 20
| yield to the pleas OF the so-called Reu-
trail nations that have been supplying
| Germany with food and other mare-
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 a half pounds of Bread
half peck of potatoes, a cupfu' OF
beans, peas, or oatmeal; half pound
of meat, twelve cubes of sugar, SIX
individual patties of butter and aM
| equal amount of other fats. The cal 9rie
value of these foods i'll the aggregate.
| is less than half the amount estimated
| by the American food administration
as sufficient for person in a sedentaiy
| occupation.
Coal Strike Makes Trouble
The coal situation, especially in EssR-
nois, caused the administration great
deal of trouble. Strikes, unauthorized
! by the union, stopped production and
| the operators declared they could nos
| pay the wages demanded unless they
were allowed to charge the general
| public so cents more ton Coal All
ministrator Garfield was swamped wits
appeals and protests, and sent out IL
message to the effect that unless nsis
ing was resumed the federal govern
ment would seize the mines. The wh0se
affair has the appearance of greed fos
tered by underhanded pro German i'm
| fluences.
Food Administrator Hoover has
| been brought to realization of the
| fact that the retail grocers of the cosiis-
| try are robbing the ultimate cOnsusas
erS, and he proposes to go as far as his
powers permit in stopping the extor-
ton. In a statement issued Thursday
Mr.. Hoover said that though neither
the food administration nor the gov
eminent has authority to regulate the
retailer as it does the wholesaler, he
would, beginning November 1, 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 particu-
larly the retail price of -four, which is
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 i
| the farmer and retailer cooperate with
him, the essential commodities one at
ter another should continue to show re-
! auctions between now and the end OF
| the year.
The war department issued orders
| Thursday for the entrainment OF the
! final quotas of the first draft from the
| northwest states and the entire mObiil-
| cation of the $4,000 men of the first
army is expected to be complete by
| the middle of November The call for
| the second draft is not expected be,
| fore the first of the year, but arrange
ments for it are under way and it May
be that the remaining 100000 eligi-
bles will be examined in advance SO as /.
! to establish a waiting ist. Prepare
| lions for the winter in the training
| camps are being made rapidly ana
| there is reason to believe that there
will be no shortage of warm clothing
arms and all other necessary supplies
| The Liberty bond campaign went
/ with a rush last week, despite the dis"
loyal opposition displayed in some ie-I
calities. The government has taken,
| steps to punish the pro-Ger1nan work
ers who have fostered this hostile SEN.
| timent, and Secretary McAdoO has ask
| ed banks to report the names of those
| who have sought to intimidate bank !
ers by threats to withdraw their de-,
| posits.
The senatorial committee investigates
| ing Senator La Follettes loyalty helds
| several sessions but was temporarily.
| foiled by the willy fellows demand that,
he be given the opportunity to crosse
examine those who had contradictesE
his assertion regarding Bryan's statel
ment to President Wilson anent the
Lusitania. AS the committee cannot
well summon the president or Mr.
Bryan, it adjourned to think the case
over.
Former Senator Pettigrew OF South
Dakota is emulating the record of La
Toilette and defying the government
to have him indicted. His utterances
are if anything more reprehensible
than those of the Wisconsin man, but
he himself is much more negligible.
If all their readers and hearers were
persons of sound sense, neither one
would be worth the powder 1t would
take to blow MIN over to Germany.