The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times., 1917-10-25
NEWS REVIEW OF PAST WEEK
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Food Administrator Hoover has
been brought to realization Of the
fact that the retail grocers Of the coun-
try are robbng the ultimate consum-
ers. and he proposes to 20 MS 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
ernment has authority to regulate the
retailer as II does the wholesaler, he
would. beginning November l, expose
the former each week by publishing
the wholesale prices Of all commodities
In every section. Thus the purchaser
will know how much the retailer is
paying and how much undue profit he
is exacting Mr.. Hoover cites particu.
larly the retail price OF -four, which Is
out OF all proportion to the wholesale
price fixed by the government, and al
SO the recent unwarranted advances
In the retail price Of sugar.
Unless the retailer grocer behaves.
the food administrator hints, congress
may be asked for legislation giving the
government power to regulate him. Mr..
Hoover asserts that the corner has
been turned In high prices and that II
the farmer and retailer cooperate with
him, the essential commodities one af-
ter another should continue to show re-
ductions between now and the end Of
the year.
The war department issued orders
Thursday for the entrainment OF the
final quotas of the first draft from the
northwest states and the entire mobili-
zatlon of the 1900 men OF the first
army Is expected TO be 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 1t may
be that the remaining 7.0O0,OO0 eligi-
bles will be examined in advance SO rs
TO establish waiting list. Prepara.
tlons for the winter In the training
camps are being made rapidly and
there Is reason 10 believe that there
will be no shortage Of warm clothing,
arms and all other necessary supplies.
The Liberty bond campaign went
with n rush last week, despite the dis.
loyal opposition displayed In some To-
calities. The government has taken
steps To punish the prO-German work.
ers who have fostcrcd this hostile SEN
tlinent, and Secretary McAdoo has ask
ed banks to report the names of those
who have sought to intlmidate bank
crS by threats to withdraw their de-
poSits.
The senatorial committee Investlgat.
Ing Senator La Folettes loyalty held
, several sessions but was temporarily
foled by the willy fellows demand that
he be given ,he opportunity to cross.
examine those who had contradlcted
his assertion regarding Bryans state
mcnt 10 President Wilson anent the
| Lusitania. As the committee cannot
| well summon the president or Mr.
Bryan 1t adjourned to think the case
| over.
Former Senator Pettlgrew of South
| Dakota Is emuating the record Of La
Toilette and defylng the government
to have him indicted. His utterances
are II anything more reprehensible
than those OF the Wisconsin man, but
he himself Is much more negligible.
| If all their readers and hearers were
| persons Of sound sense. neither one
would be worth the powder It would
take to blow him over to Germany.