The Red Cloud chief., 1917-10-25


and It's niles show no disposition to
yield To the pleas of the so-callcd neu-
trail nations that have been supplying
Germany with food and other nate
rails. According to reports received in
Washington, the food situation I'm Ger
many Is growing acute. The weekly
ration there amounts approximately
TO four and n half pounds of bread,
n half peck of potatoes, q cupful of
beans, peas, or oatmeal n half pound
of meat, twelve cubes of sugar, six
individual patties of butter ard nm
equal amount of other fats. The cul )ric
value of these foods I'm the aggregate.
Is less than half the amount estimated
by the American food administration
ms sufficient for II person In u s~edentary
occupation.
Coal Strike Makes Trouble.
The coal situation, especially I'm I'LL
nois, caused the administration II great
deal Of trouble. Strikes, unauthorized
by the union, stopped production and
the operators declared they could not
pay the wages demanded unless they
were allowed to charge the general
publicf5 30 cents more II ton. Coal Adj
ministrator Garfield was swamped with
appeals and protests, and sent out n
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-
taraI hu un1nrhanInI nrn- rarrnan In.
%fluences.
Food Administrator Hoover has
been brought to a realization of the
fact that the retail grocers Of the coun-
try are robbing the ultimate cOnsum-
ers, and he proposes to go rs far as his
powers permit in stopping the extOr-
ton. In a statement issued Thursday
Mr.. Hoover said that though neither
the food administration nor the gov
eminent has authority to regulate the
retailer as II does the wholesaler, he
would, beginning November /, expose
the former each week by publishing
the wholesale prices of oil 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 partlcu-
larry 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 n af-
ter another should continue to show re-
ductions between now and the end Of
the year..
The wal department issued orders
Thursday for the entertainment of the
final quotas of the first draft from the
northwest states and the entire mObili-
zation Of the 6S7 900 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 1t are under way and II may
be that the remaining 100000 eligi-
bles will be examined In advance so as
to establish a waiting list. Prepare
lions for the winter In the training
camps are being made rapidly and
there is reason to 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 To-
calities. The government has taken
steps to punish the pro-German work
ers who have fOstered this hostile sen
timent, and Secretary McAdOo has ask
ed banks to report the names of those
who have sought to intimldate bank
ers by threats to withdraw their de-
posits.
The senatorial committee "investigat
Ing Senator La FOllette's loyalty held
several sessions but was temporarily
foiled by the willy fellows demand thai
he be given the opportunity to cross
examine those who had contradictet
his assertion regarding Bryan's state
ment to President Wilson anent tn,
Lusitania. AS the committee CANNOT
well summon the president or Mr.
Bryan, 1t adjourned to think the cas-,
over.
Former Senator Pettigrew of Soutf
Dakota Is emulating the record Of Ii
Toilette and defying the government
to have him indicted. His utteranceI
are II anything more reprehensibl'
than those Of the Wisconsin man, bu'
he himself Is much more negligible
II all their readers and hearers wer,
persons Of sound sense, neither on,
would be worth the powder II would