The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-10-25

TJ ol IdISuSs o~lthildnS uOlslinE
and its allies show no disposition t.
yield to the pleas Of the so-called neu.
traI nations that have been supplying
Germany with food and other mate
rails. According to reports received H.
Washington the food situation in Ger
many Is growing acute. The week.!
ration there amounts approximately
To four and a half pounds of bread
a half peck of potatoes, cupful OF
beans, peas. or oatmeal half pounD
of meat, twelve cubes of sugar, six
individual patties Of butter and al.
equal amount of other fats. The caloric
value Of these foods In the aggregate
is less than half the amount estimate,
by the American food administrator
as sufficient for u person in a sedentar
occupation.
Coal Strike Makes Trouble.
The coal situation, especially In Iii
noiS, caused the administration a great
deal Of trouble. Strikes. unauthorized
ny the union, stopped production and
the operators declared they could not
pay the wages demanded unless they
were allowed to charge the general
public 80 cents more II ton. Coal Ad
ministrator Garfield was swamped viii
appeals and protests, and sent out a
message to the effect that unless min
ing was resumed the federal govern
ment would seize the mines. The whole
affair has the appearance of greed fos
tered by undetermined pro-German in
ilueucrs.
Food Administrator Hoover has
been brought 10 q realization of the
fact that the retail groccrs of the coun-
try are robbing the ultimate consum-
crS, and he proposes To 70 as far as his
powers permit in stopping the eXtor-
ton. In statement issued Thursday
Mr.. Hoover said that though neither
the food administration nor the gov
eminent has authority 10 regulate the
retailer as II does the wholesaler. he
would, beginning November |. expose
the former each week by publishing
the wholesale prices Of all commodities
I'm every section. Thus the purchaser
Will know how much the retailer ~
paying and how much undue profit he
is exactlng Mr.. Hoover cites purtiCu-
lnrly the retail price of Hour, which Is
out of all proportion to the wholesale
price fixed by the government, and al
so the recent unwarrantcd advances
in the retail price of sugar.
Unless the retailer grocer behaves,
the food administrators hints, congress
may he asked for legislation giving the
government power 10 regulate him. Mr..
Hoover asserts that the corner has
been turned In high prices and that if
the farmer and retailer cooperate with
him. the essential commodities one af
ter another should continue To show re-
ductl0ns between now and the end OF
the year.
The war department issued order
Thursday for the entrainment of tn,
final quotas of the first draft from the
northwest states and the entire mObili
zation of the GS7 600 men of the tirs
army Is expected to he 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 II are under way and II mny
be that the remaining 100000 eligi
ha Ia, %, ,,ts
to establish "A waiting hist Prepare.
tions for the winter in the training
camps are being made rapidly and
there Is reason 60 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 la
CalltleS. The government has taken
steps To punish the pro-German work
ers who have fostcred this hostile sen
tlment, and Secretary McAdoo has ask
ed banks To report the names Of those
who have sought to intimidate bank
crs 10y threats TO Withdraw their de
posits.
The senatorial committee lnvcstigat-
Ing Senator La Follcttc's loyalty held
several sessions hui was temporarily
foilcd by the willy fellows demand that
he he given the opportunity to cross.
examine those who had c0ntradlcted
his assertion regarding Bryan's state
ment to President Wilson anent the
| Lusitnnu. AS the committee cannot
/ we'll summon the president or Mr.
Bryan 1t adjourned to think the case
over.
Former Senator Pcttigrew Of Soutl
! Dakota is emulHtiug the record Of l.
Toilette and dcfying the government
to have him indicted. Ills utterancc.
are If anything more reprehensibl.
than those of the Wisconsin man, bu
lie himself IS much moro negligible
If all their readers and hearrrS wer.
persons Of sound sense, neither on,
would be- worth the powder II woul,
take to blow him over to Germany.
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