Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-11
ASSISTANT, TO SECRETARY OF
AGRICULTURE SEES ADvAN-
TAcEs IN REGULATION.
MAXIMUM PRICES WOULD
NOT iNJuRE FARMER
Proposal 10 to Fix Maximum Only
When Conditions Indicate cornerins
Of Important Products--Minimum
Price in Turn Would &c Guaranteed
Price, Not Below Profit to Producers.
Special to Times Republican.

Ames, June IA report on the food
situation as viewed by President r. A.
Pearson, of Iowa State College. who
has been serving as special assistant
to the secretary of agriculture in
Washington and is in close touch with
the national aspects of that situation,
was made at the conference of the
Iowa war emergency food committee,
which met at Iowa State College for it's
second meeting.
All but two members Of the commit
tee, George Burge, Mount Vernon, and
D. H. Culver, Clear Lake, were present
including r. A. Pearson, Ames, chair
man; l. N. Taylor, Oskaloosa, Sixth
congressional district; ]. F. Deems,
Burlington, First district; Peder Peder-
son, Cedar Rapids, Third district; l.. Q.
WISE, Of Clinton county, who came IN
place OF y. O. Shaft, Comanche, Second
district; Henry Brady, Perry, Seventh
district; C. w. Hunt, Logan, Ninth dis
trict; C. C. CockerilL Jefferson, Tenth
district; 8. r. Haines, Storm Lake,
Eleventh district; w. B. Buck. Mount
Ayr, Eighth district.
Favors Maximum Prices.
Maximum prices. as proposed by the
secretary Of agriculture, would not De
detrimental to the farmer, in fact
might be Of greater benefit to him than
any one else, explained President Pear
son. It is not proposed that the maxi
mum price should become permanent
price but that 1t should be fixed to
correct such situation as is produced
BY cornering an important food prod
uct or any kind Of seed Itrwould be
established only temporarily and this
would probably become unnecessary II
It were known that such action would
be taken unless improper speculation
or holding for unreasonable prices were
stopped. 1T Is not contemplated to set
a maximum price on cattle or hogs, but
il that were considered. all items in the
cost Of production would receive care
full consideration, including the time
element" explained President Pearson.
A minimum price, he says, would DO
a guaranteed price and not a small
price as so many people seem to think.
Il would be a fair price. including
reasonable profit for the producer 1t
would be illegal to hiIy the product LOT
less than the minimum price, but 1t
might be sold or bought at q price
above the minimum price.
Lack Of Thrift Dangerous.
President Pearson gave few strlk-
Ing calculations Of what lack of thrift
in the homes Of the country means ma
tionally: n
.The loss OF one good sized slice OF
-hraad each day by each American fam
lily for one year is equivalent to the
total loss Of one and one-half million
barrels Of flour.
"The loss of>sufficient butter to cover
this slice Of bread is equivalent to the
total production Of 100000 cows.
1.-THE loss Of one ounce OF meat or
fat daily from each American home for
one year is equivalent to the total loss
Of 100000 cattle and 100000 hogs"
The following points as necessary for
consideration by the war emergency
association and farm Improvement
associations in the various counties
were established by the COMMITTEE:
Labor bureaus should be maintained.
Canning and thrift campaigns should
be organized.
Campaisns should be organized to
encourage an increase in the supply
Of roughage; encourage silo building;
saving Of straw.
War emergency organizations should
be formed to control animal diseases,
especially hog cholera.
In the individual reports by members
Of the committee practically every
member reported a 10 to Is per cent
increaxe in the corn and potato acreage
in his district.