The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-26
FOOD PRICES TOO
 HIGH IN AMERICA DECLARES HOOVER
Daniels < Asserts Admins tration Wants Comment
 and Criticism.

Washington, May 26-Members of
 the Cabinet and others actively: en-
 gagged in the conduct of the war out
 lined war aims and needs yesterday to meeting of editors of technical and
 trade publications. T All emphasized
 the magniture of the task facing the
 nation and urged the publishers to
 support the government in the change
 from peace to war conditions in in
 dustry
 The Cabinet officers and representa-:
 tives of the Council of National De-
 fence told in detail of what the coun-
 cil is doing.l
 The food situation was presented
 by Herbert C.. hoover, who will be
 named food administrator. The coun-
 try, he said, faces a war that robab1y
 will last from two to five years, and
 only by the most careful measures can
 the United States give the Allies
 enough foodstuffs to keep them in the
 war so continuously as to bring vic-, tory. Sa
 The Allies grain needs this year, MT. Hoover said, will amount to about 1000, 0,000,000 bushels. American and Canada, with good crops, can furnish 60 per cent. of this without depriva- ton, but the Allies must have, he de- | clared, at least 80. per cent of their l needs, to keep their efficiency at the ! highest. average.
 That means some deprivation for us.' said MT. Hoover, "but we must fill their needs | Food prices in the United States are too high, and if they continue at the present level, he declared, wage re- adjustments must come or the work ingman cannot live. The first thing for the food administration to accom- .plish, MT. Hoover added, is price sta bility, not only for this country, but flor the Allies. Fixing maximum prices had failed abroad, and would | fail here, and the Administration ! must seek to repair the broken chain 1 of distribution, MT. Hoover said. Secretary Lane set forth the pur- poses of the United States in enter 1 ing the war. We are fighting feuda1ism,'. he de- c1ared. The German ruler is will I ing to go to any length to see a feu- dalistic system established. The I fiend of war himself would not stand l for what the Germans have done in l the last two years. Our interest as nation and as a democratic people is 1 involved. in the war. The power that would do things that have been done would if England were conquered. !. 1 demand Canada, and we would live 1 in haunting fear the rest of our lives. l Put it in your editorials that l America is fighting for something real l that we do not want to go back to l where one man can enforce his will | on 100,000,000 people and where a
 man in khaki could be the moster of the fortunes of this country l Secretary Baker declared the out
 come of this war would show whether
 the world really is progressing
 we are fighting he said, against
 an impossible philosophy, which has been founded on industrial ambition and aspiration. The imperial mind
 has been So obsessed with the idea of Industrial supremacy that it has lost l it's sense of moral standards l Every resource of the, Allies, MT. l Baker said, was near exhaustion when 1.-the United States entered the war. There is no way to establish perma- nent peace, he declared, except through exercise Of the superior pow
 CT of the United States. In mobilizing
 every resource, said he, profound in dustrial changes were sure to come
 and the help of the publications was Il aSouSu So PASpaAS PSoPAO Aoi eitS change. I Secretary Daniels asked the editors
 to "get it into the hearts of business men that it is a crime to make more out of. the war than Ia normal profit.''
 The press, he said, is responsible for l letting the people know everything
 about the government, and the spirit of the Administration is s'that conn I ment and criticism are the very life
 of a democracy
 1 The purpose of the export Hnita- tions and trading with the enemy bills were explained by Secretary |Redfie1d, who said the measures were necessary as a protection for the icountry,s commerce and resources. I The government s attitude toward
 labor was discussed by Secretary Will son. No changes in wage standards, he said, should be attempted without I first giving the government a chance 2 to mediate between employers and
 workers MT. Wilson also explained I a Labor department plan for hay- ling industries make their repairs at l the harvest season, so workers may spend their vacations in the fields I What the General Munitions Board is doing was told by Frank Scott. it's I chairman At the Battle of Gettys-
 burg, he said, the Union army in three days fired only 32,000 shells,
 while today the same number of guns Il would fire that number of shells in three minutes.
 Dr. Franklin H. Martin ,of the Gen eral Medical Board, told of sending \ physicians to England and France. In both countries, he said, war has de- I pleted the medical staffs, and the need that America furnish more doc sl tors is imperative. In one retreat the l British lost 267 doctors, all killed near the same spot within half an hour, he said, and 5000 men lay on the I ground unattended for seventy-two
 hours.
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