The Glenwood post., 1917-08-25
THE FOOD CONTROL LAW

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that it is now law are briefly sum
married as follows: To assure an ade
quate supply and equitable distribution
and to facilitate the movements Of
foods, feeds, fuel, including fuel oil
and natural gas and fertilizer and fer
tilizer ingredients, tools, utensils, i'm
plements, machinery and equipments
'required for the actual production of
foods, feeds and fuel To prevent, To-
cally or generally, scarcity, monopoliza-
tion, boarding, injurious speculation,
manipulation and private controls af
Acting supply, distribution and move
ment Of these necessaries. To establish
and maintain government control of
these necessaries during the war The
president is given authority to make
such regulations, issue such orders and
to establish such agent or agencies to
carry out these provisions. This in
cludes the appointment of food ad-
hinistrator. No person acting either
as d voluntary or paid agent Of the gov
ernment shall solicit any government
contract in which he is directly or in
directly interested pecuniarily. This is
designed to prevent members of the ad
yAory committees of the council of
national defense from taking advantage
of their position to grab fat govern
ment contracts. The law makes it un-
lawful for any person wilfully to de-
stroy necessaries, to enhance prices, to
waste, to hoard,- to monopolize or at
tempt to monopolize, to limit facilities
for transportation, producing, harvest
ing, manufacturing, supplying, storing
or dealing in these necessaries, to pre-
pent or lessen manufacture, to exact
excessive prices. The president may
license, if it becomes necessary, the
importation, manufacture, storage, mill
ing or distribution Of necessaries. Any
person who shall engage in such busi-
ness without license after the presi
dent has determined upon such icens.
ing shall be punished by a fine not
exceeding $1,000 or by Imprisonment
not exceeding two years or both. Farm
ers, gardeners, cooperative associations
OF farmers, etc, are exempt from this
provision. The president may requisi-
tion foods, feeds, fuels and other sup
plies necessary to the support Of the
army and navy or to any other public
use connected with the common de-
tense. A just compensation shall be
paid. He may purchase, store, provide
storage facilities for and sell for cash
at reasonable prices, wheat, flour, meal,
beans and potatoes. The president, FOR
the support of the army and navy or
any other public use connected with
the common defense, may take over and
operate any factory, packing house, oil
pipe line, mine or other plant, in or
through which necessaries are to be
produced. The president may prevent
speculation and prescribe regulations
governing such operations on any ex
change, board of trade, etc., or pro
hibit such operations. Amy persons
violating this section shall be punished
byN fine not exceeding $4,000 or by
imprisonment not more than four years
or both. The president is authorized
to fix a reasonable price for wheat to
stimulate production. In the case Of
the 1918 crop, the minimum price for
No. Northern shall not be less than
So bushel at the principal interior
primary markets. This latter price to
remain in existence until May !, 1915.
Thirty days after the approval Of this
act, no foods, fruits, food materials or
feeds shall be used to manufacture dis
titled spirits for beverage purposes.
The president is authorized to Issue
regulations governing the use of such
materials in the manufacture of dis
titled spirits for other purposes. No
distilled spirits shall be imported into
the United States. The president is
given the power when it becomes nee-
essary for food conservation to stop
the use of foods, etc, in the manufac-
ture of beer and wine. He can COM
mandeer any or all distilled spirits n
bond or in stock for redistillation for
munitions or for hospital and other mil
itarN supplies. The president may fix
the price of coal and coke, regulate
methods of production, sale, shipment,
distribution, apportionment, ETC., and
exercise this power through the federal
trade commission. The president maN|
requiktion and take over the plant Of
any producer or dealer in coal or coke
if he fails to. live up to the regulations
prescribed The federal trade commits.
sion Is ready to make out price at