The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-22
WORLDS GREATEST
WHEAT DEAL IS SON
II - BEING ENGINEERED BN IN
PERIENCED HANDS FOR THE
GOVERNMENT

Nw York sun A de4i 10 wheat vas
t. than the world has ever known be-
gan yesterday at ~ broadway
Z VIII ~ So big that Il "Old Hutch"
TN gete.an operator 81 Chrago. u0Eg
believed to be watkins tie stygan
shore aith Ceres. should hear Of j, he
would bow his head IN shame FOR even
us most celebrated corners were trines
compared with what g. being done
Curtis Jadwin the monster of greed
depicted hy Frank Norris in The Pit. 4"
would seem like an office boy In a
bucket shop were his deals matched
with the gigantic transactions which
soon viii be IN fun swing IN the newly
opened headquarters u the Food Ad-
mlristrati5n Grain corporation
This biggest wheat corner on earth
which win bring AS into one elevator
many millions of bushels iu this coun-
try 6 being engineered by experienced
hands The head Of the corporation is
The food administrator Of the United
States Herbert q Hooyee. while the
president and chief executive officer t.
iuiius Eaues. noted operate from
Dui1tn
The activities of two such men
backed as they are with $4,000 900 csp-
i;a. AID unlimited credit and the power
~ nation. would iu other davs have
wrung groans from the lips Of millions
o. men
A corner in wheat Think what i
used 20 mean 10 the days of private
gain How lt sent the chill OF dread
from Odessa % Duluth. from LIVERPOOL
- The Golden Horn, The baker in his
cellar shop. the workman AZ bis bench
Che grocer al his an fofesaw that one
day Hunger would stalk from the nj,
anl the children Of men would b,
sucked down Ly hg raveuing nav
what woe % many what scanty.wea
even 20 the Few. when .the bulls ant
bears went % war for control OF IN,
gIaEaries of the world
Wheat although surpassed il yieIJ
tl flce and corn. has from time lmme
morial been regarded as the great sun
sort oi life. 10 is grown iu every CLINE
and somewhere on earth lbs reapin,
come in every month Of the wear
Mankind has about 900 900 900 bush
e.s year FOR its food and Of this sun
piy sometimes as much as "a fourth 4
raised in the United State
When crops are poor elsewhere m,
irst thought of the hungry nations Il
= American wheat u Russia had lea
grain. f the harvest moon Of Franc
was gibO0us and thin. an this was fel
in the Chicago wheat pit lair O.
famine. According 10 Chicago decres
;he Spanish peasant had "a smalle
ioaf or the Italian paid m,re Tor hl
nacaToni and bis bread Hence m
eornerine ana the boarding or whea,
the Wild gambling and the sD-culatio
was "a play upon the hunger OF "a rae,
The pledge that from now on ther
"iA Do no dealing in futures in Oh
cago means that the pit g. doomed an
iA doom sealed and that gnaer tb
direction of this government fhroug
o. administration OF food AN DossibI
wAi be done 20 supply sus.enance ia
ouitelves and our allies oversea
while our soldiers fight for tae fre
oom n CIVILIZED nations
with The growth uf the Arnsrlc-.
commonwealth the acreage ir who,
has been constantly extending Ne
methods of cultivation have brought ID
the yield an acre ten o. seventeen busI
els .n the last fifty jears while tlreI
ianf. in tne great northwest are bein
constantly dedicated % Ceres
THE normal consumption OF wheat b
the people Of the United States "a III
present time is about 10000 600 bus
d. g year. ln some years there hs
been an abundance Tor export So "
have formed the habit here of pour.n
our oar horn plenty to au the wor
without stopping TO consider the p
auiiH The wheat crops Of the last .,
years available ior statistical purpos,
SHOW that we as nation were new
in Danger OF starvation.