The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-05-24
FOOD DICTATOR
Bill REPORTED
Opponents Of Price Fixing and
Prohibition to Make Hard
Fight Hoover Ac-
cepts Job.

Washington, May 22.-Favorable re-
port on the administration bill to give
the president broad powers as to pref
erential shipments of food, munitions
and other war traffic. was made to-
day to the House.
The report says the bin is "germane
to the earnest effort we are making
to utilize to the highest state Of effici-
ency curing the war the transporta-
mote the efforts of the administration
to carry on the war by requiring pref
erentiai shipments of all freight which,
in the judgement of the president, is
essential to the public security and de-
tense"
The section as to movements of
transportation, the report explains,
has. no reference, as has been errone-
ousiy stated in some quarters. to any
disputes between carriers. and their EN-
ployes."
'.Fcrtunately', it adds, there is a
truce on that subject during the war.'
Bitter opposition to war prohibition
and to granting the government power
to fix minimum n maximum prices
for food stuffs today made it likely that
arate bills from the food bill.
The pending easur grants genor-
al powers to the government for stiInu-
lating, conserving and distributing
f~oodstuffs, food storage. provides
against conspiracies to hoard food
%stuffs, and provides for survey for the
entire food question.
President Wilson, in a statement
issued outlining the Administrations
food control policy, announced he had
asked Herbert C.. Hoover to become
Mr.. Hoover would accept the place.
"A statement given out by Mr.. Hoover
after the White Hou announcement
was made gave his plans for food adj
ministration and called on the country
to render voluntary assistance in car
rying it out.
Will Give Vast Power.
Explaining that it is absolutely nee
essary to vest unquestionable powers in
the government, h president declared
ne is confident that exercise Of the au-
thority granted will be necessary only
in the few cases where some small ant
selfish minority proves unwilling to
nut the nations interests above per-
Sonal. advantage" He makes it clear
that the food administration is only for
an merge situation, that since
it will be composed forsthe most part
of volunteers there need be 10 fear
of the possibility of a permanent bu-
reaucracy arising out of it,
Mr.. Hoover proposed that the food
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great branches whose duties he defined
in detail. Most of the work would be
carried out by men and wonen of the
country on a volunteer basis.
With the president Mr.. Hoover be-
lieyes it rarely will become necessary
to apply large powers.
Five cardinal principles of food adj
ministration outlined by Mr.. Hoover in
his statement are.
That the food problem is one of
wise administration and not expressed
by the words dictator or controller
but food administrator 9
That this administration can be
largely carried out through the CO.
ordination and regulation of the exist
ing legitimate distributive agencies,
supplemented by certain emergency
bodies composed of representatives OF
the producers, distributors and on
sumers
THE organization OF the community
into conservation OF foodstuffs.
That all important positions, SO far
as MAJ be. shall be filled with volun-
teefs.
'The independent responsibility OF
the faod administration strictly under
,4te president with the cooperation OF