Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-11-02
BOOST
IN MILK PRICE
Producers Assert milk Prices
Are Going Up or the Cows
Are Going


outside the meeting hall when pro-
ducers gathered in the capital city for
sessions of the second annual dairy
marketing conferences of the United
States, held in connection with the
National Dairy show.
Word of conditions forecasting
substantial increase of present retail
prices was brought from different Sec
tions of the state, the outstanding de-
velopment being direct reports of
producers selling off COWS by thou
sands because of inability to get eff
cient labor, high cost of feed and un-
certainty about prices,
milk prices are going up or the
cows are going"
This was the unqualified assertion
of H. w. Ingersoll of Elyria, presi-
dent of the Northern Ohio Milk Pro-
ducers' association, in talking of the
situation outside the meeting. Prices
were not discussed in the sessions.
One of the subjects taken up was
the question of how milk producers
may organize and in legal way have
something to say about prices without
fear of running afoul of the antitrust
law.
Producers the country over are
waiting to hear from Herbert C..
Hoover and his federal food admins
tration at Washington regarding
prices on the basis of figures on cost
Of production submitted to Hoover by
producers. In the meantime, the issue
of prices hangs fire here and else
where for the present at least.
Ingersoll bore out his statement of
COWS being sold by declaring that he
himself is selling II and that through
northern Ohio counties and the Cleve-
land district other farmers and pro-
ducers are doing the same thing on
a larger scale.
A state milk association official
from Cincinnati substantiated Inger-
soils report with the assertion that
$4,000 cows were recently offered for
sale through northern Ohio sections.
Ingersoll in the afternoons session
| proposed a national, disinterested
board to establish publicly the cost to
producers of putting milk on the
market.
"The whole thing is a question OF
COSTS" he said afterward. "The con-
sumner is perfectly willing to pay a
fair price for his milk if he is shown
the cost and understands it.
Something definite on cost and a
real understanding of the situation
will in itself help keep prices down. 1t
is the best thing in the end for the
consumer as well as the producer"
Households Receive Coal.
One hundred thousand tons of coal
are now in Ohio homes. The combined
strength of federal and state authority
was exerted Oct. 16 against the coal
problem, which is pronounced nearer
solution than at any moment since
the start of cold weather.
Homer H. Johnson of Cleveland
state fuel administrator, arrived al
Columbus to establish at last an Ohio
organization under the United States
fuel administration at Washington
Just as the home relief" movement
OF 20 per cent of coal loaded at Ohio
mines means temporary emer
gency relief, the coming of Admins
traitor Johnson gives promise of con
tinued and permanent centralizing o.
effort to meet the coal situation.
Gov. James M. Cox issued an urgent
appeal to the miners of Ohio to throw
every ounce of man power in the
mines into the scale to raise produc
ton to the highest point possible.
Administrator Johnson's first actor
was to confer with Gov. Cox on thu
personnel Of the state committee o
five which will be the central super
vising body of his organization. There
will be probably one man on it from
Toledo, one from Youngstown, on,
from Columbus, one from Cincinnati
and another. The administrator i
not yet ready to announce names.
Two new points were emphasize,
by Johnson after he emerged fror
the governors Office.
He enphatically backed up the as
sertion of Federal Administrato
Harry A. Garfield that mayors VIII
confiscate coal are not aiding the pull
lic nor helping settle the difficulty.
The other statement of Johnson wa
that he was convinced the coal situs
ton can be met comfortably if serN
ice and cooperation is 100 per cen
all the way around" including miners
operators, railroads and consumers.
Johnson promised definitely tha
taking into full account the fact tha
Ohio's problem is part of nation;
one, all that can be done to help Obi
weather the situation through tn
winter will be done. Emphasizin
that railroads and war time industrie
must be kept operating, Johnson said
"That is why these mayors ought NJ
continue swiping coal"
Liquor Dealers Denounced.
Liquor dealers who, for financi
gain, undermine the efficiency of tt
United States army and navy by Sc
ing intoxicants to soldiers and sailor
were branded as traitors in speeC
here by William Jennings Bryan, WI
is touring Ohio.
The former secretary of state
clared that the liquor dealers wou
be more than glad to undermine Il
efficiency of American armed fore
: by selling them liquor and, for Il
: profits on the sales, places the safe
OF the country in jeopardy at the tin
of national crisis.
Cox Reviews Draft Men.
D The first big review of the Ohio s
u lective draft troops at CaNp Sherm;
n was held Oct. 10 on the occasion
u the visit there of Gov. Cox.
$ The review included all infant
n troops and a brigade of artillery a
!, probably other units, so that at lee
e $4,000 men and officers participate
10 1t was the first review of the whole
y vision since the selectives came
Chillicothe.
n The grounds used are in the nor
L east corner of the reservation, at
3 extreme north end of the sections
cupied by the artillery.
"Don't See Anybody You Knew"
t. 1t somewhat startled Ohio neV
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