The Butler weekly times., 1917-08-16
TO RESTORE SCENT BREAD
DR.. H. ]. Waters of Kansas Win Be
Offered q Place on Committee
to Fix Crop Prices.

DR.. II. ]. waters OF Kansas WM be
Offered q Place on Committee
to Fix Crop Prices.
Washington, Aug. I3.-The res
toration of the scent loaf of bread -
not skinny or reduced size, but the
genuine old time scent loaf-is the
goal from the consumers standpoint
to which the food administration is
looking in the regulation it has es-
tablished for wheat and flour.
Persons connected with the food
administration are confident that this
can be brought about, even with
wheat selling at an abnormal, or war
price, but it will not be until the
price" committee, separate and dis
tinct from the wheat board, has es-
tablished the price the 1917 harvest
shall bring and the food administra-
ton then has worked out the stable
price for flour that will hold the en-
tire twelve months through, that it
can be told whether this goal will
be reached or how near it will be
reached.
Right now interest largely centers
in the personnel of the "price" board
which will determine the price which
shall be paid for the 1917 harvest. 1t
was announced yesterday that Presi-
dent Garfield of Williams College
will head the committee. 1t became
known tonight that DR.. H. J. Wat
ers, president of the Kansas State
Agricultural College, would be Of
fered a place on the committee as one
of the representatives of the farm in
terests of the Nation. Several other \
men from the wheat growing Sec
tions and representing the farmers
will be on the committee to see that
they get fair play and are represent
ed in the price that will be fixed.
On the other hand, it is known
that prominent union labor repre-
sentative will be named to present
labor's angle in the bread" prob
lem. The personnel of the committee
probably will be made public the last
of the week 1t will have one OF the
most important problems ever put up
to a body, setting fair price that
not farmers in one section, but the
entire Nation over, will get for their
years crop of wheat. The price OF
next years crop already is fixed by
law, a minimum of s. a bushel. Un-
til this board meets and goes over ev.
cry phase of the question, it will be
impossible to hazard an opinion as
to what price it will fix.
The Canadian government. it IS
known, has set the mark in Canada
between $I.oo and S. bushel. While
the Food Control Act does not pro-
vide that the government fix an alb
solute price for wheat, by virtue OF
control of the markets and by the
export license provisions of a meas
ure previously passed, the govern
ment possesses a practical power to
keep the price at the figure agreed
upon, and this is the power the tood
administration proposes to exercise
in order to get stable price Tor
flour the entire year through. AS
soon as the wheat price is fixed the
food administration will be n posi-
ton to put stable price on Hour.
1t can then work out what bread
should cost. If bakers in the various
localities do not sell bread at fair
profit and no more, based on the
fixed price Of flour, then the govern
ment will know who to go after.
The Hoover statement brought a
bitter attack from Senator Reed OF
Missouri. Although the bill is law,
Reed denounced in frothy Il told
YOU So sort of speech the move TAX
en- by Mr.. Hoover. Again he re-
ferred to him as this man who has
spent all the grownup years OF MS
life in England and has his home
there" and said Hoover had sought
power under guise that he would
not use and now was trying to use
on the farmer.
Reed charged that Hoover would
administer the food regulation in the
interest of England and not OF the
United States. He said Hoover, in
effect, was seizing the grain markets,
the grain exchanges and that the
farmer would have only one place to
sell-in a market established and
created by Hoover. He complained
of the stopping of sales of futures IN
wheat, he complained of the provis'
ions forbidding storage more than
thirty days except with consent OF
the food administration.
Reed said that Congress had COM
mitted a crime against democracy in
passing the bill, that it was foolish
and undemocratic, and wound up by
advising his fellow members to read
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