The Sentinel=record., 1917-05-11

New York, May l0.-Herbert C. Hoover, who recently came from Eu- Irope to advise the government ou food conditions in Europe, says that with
 ut control We may see flour at $20 a barrel before the year is over, but that with control the present price ef t-ur can be reduced 70 to 90 per cent, and at the same time the pro- 'ducer be reated in a liberal manner. %
 Mr. Hoover thus outlined food con d.tion., in a statement to fine Asso. .ciated Press today.
 There is absolutely n occasion for food panic in this c-untry n-r any Justification for outrageous prices m- less the opposition Of special inter- ests deteat~ lhe president in obtain ing the necessary powers to control the nations cd fully and adequately America problem is mt one Of famine. for we have now and will have next year a large surplus Our prob lem is. after the proper protection of our own people 10 give to our allies the last ounce If surplus of which we are capable
 'ThereforNe, the nation need. a fed con'rol for two purposes: To regulate prices and to increase the surplus After providing for our normal con sumption we will have, together with Canada surplus for our allies equal (. only so per cent of the food they require from us. If we take broad measures of control Nc can. with a. little disturbance 10 economic machiu. cry a. need be furnish them an addi- tioual % per cent
 Their loaf even then will be a privation loaf. and every ounce we can put in it will dimin ssh their priyation. The pr blem is capable of solution. If. however. the whcle world. allied and neutral is to have the unre- strictcd run of our markets in competi. ton with each other and in competi- ion with the speculator in this coun- try we may expect to see $5 wheat before the year is over
 "Large measures of food control dent mean arbitrary interference with the necessary economic machinery of trade. They mean that every branch be called in Thy the government and force themselves into a link from which the contemplated chain will pro- tec' producer. legitimate distributor and consumer.
 For instance, am assured that the American farmer did not realize St90 per bushe1 for the 1916 wheat harvest yet the price f wheat in New York today is $3.2J per bushel and flour is $1i per barrel, with all its at. tendant hardship and dislccation ot social and industrial life
 have no hesitation in saying that. if the able. patriotic men represent ing the majority of each branch of the food trades were called in and clothed with the necessary powers 10 force the small miucrty of skunke that exist in every trade. one result would be that an equally nutritou- -four based cn even $1 50 wheat. crnld be -Old in New York for good deal under $s per barrel and every trade would receive its legitimate profit Without control. we may see $20 flour before the year is cut and total dis location of wages and consequent dis location of in fustry and living
 "on the oBer hand. if we overcome the submarFhe and if We open other markets If ou~ allies. We may see wheat at si a bushel and flour under se. In aHt event. with sufficient con. trol. the present price of flour can he reduced [ y io to 5A per cent. and at