Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-01-14

cccded I'm saving more than all the
tonnage sunk during tie war by the
, Germans
France.
Prices Of food In France have also
scared during the past few months.
but ns IN Russia the difficulties of
railway transport rather than real
/ lack of food in the country are most
/ blnmod, and the present political
crisis IA Paris has been partly caused
/ by charges and countercharges re-
/ Rarding proftcering and transport
abuses. Tho tack II tonnage result
ing from submarine successes and
army ana navy acquisitions influences
the French situation. but not SO much
ms In England, because France s not
normally dependent upon imported
food
Among the measures put into force
10y NJ. Joseph Thlerry the new French
food Dictator whose powers are al
NEST as great ~ those Of Herr Won
Eato'M in Germany, are these:
SUI preston OF fancy bread and the
substitution OF a standard war loaf
much moro palatablc and nutritious
loWc}cr. than the war bread In Ger
II any
Prohibition Of pcrishable pastry;
none can ba baked that viii not last
Maximum prices for sugar which
csu no Longer be manufactured eX-
Copung In urystilil2ed form
Two meItlcss DAYS u week
Tho new order regarding the manu-
facture OF sugar will release three
thousand women from sugar rcfin-
cries To work I'm munition plants VI.
Thierry has also pledged himself to
stop the INSCRIPTIONS tricks Of food /
dealers who take advantage OF tho
agony Of tho nation to enrich them .
selves. Dealers are TO be severely F.
punished II they sell sugar or butter
above the maximum prices Hitherto
when a price was fixed for the pound F..
many stores have refused to sell by
the pound. ana naVo dolod ont sugar
ana butter by the half pound at a
hirhor price than half the fixed rate
for the pound Wholesale butter
dealers. It was recently SHOWN In par
lament. have been paying graft to
butter dealers who have supplied
them with false invoices giving "A
higher price for butter than was ac-
uanv paid, and with these invoices
they have persuaded goVcrnwent Of
Ncinls TO fix q maximum price for
butter that allowed them an oXorbit-
ant profit.
There would be food enough IN the
country however. to feed everyone
without distress were u not for the
military traffic on the railways Po-
tatoes rot because there is no way to
get them from the farms 10 the cities.
Ports and railways all over Franco
are overcrowdcd with freight trains
which cannot be moved, while II was
recently announced that within fifty
miles Of Paris there were more than
two thousand freight cars filled with
steel wood. sulphuric acid. copper.
lead, alcohol for explosives. and petrol
for motor cars, ell waiting to be un-
loaded, many OF them laden with
British coal. which is urgently needed.
II this situation which the reor-
gpriz government Is about TO clear
up. and uptimists think the whole
economic crisis. So FAR rs foodstuffs
are concerned. will disappear when
tho transport muddle Is solved. Tho
ministcries OF war. ~ marine, OF oe-
riculture. OF the interior and OF public
works have hitherto all possessed
power over the railway transport,
the demands OF the army and navy. OF
course. tsHing precedence. The con-
flicting reQuistions and orders issued
Nv these departments are responsible
20, much OF the muddling that has
taken place. and NJ Thierry has been