The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-18
One of Most Imperatively Nee
essaTy War Measures.
Not to Control Food, but to
Curb Greedy Spectator.
WILSON OR KAISER, WHICH?
Lever Puts ii. c. l.. Blame Up
10 Those Opposing Bill.
Hoover Names July 1 National
Food Conservation Day.

Washington, June 1S.-Legislative
and executive branches of the govern
ment turned all attention today to
enacting the Lever food control bill
into law.
Speed was the cry from the White
House. Speed was the objective of
President Wilson's leaders in congress.
Speed was the call from Herbert
Hoover, who has practically completed
his food control organization and who
awaits only necessary congressional
authority to put in operation his plans
for instantly checking present upward
price trends of lifes necessities.
AS Representative Lever opened the
congressional battle in the house
President Wilson gave out letter to
Representative Borland explaining the
Lever bill, which. giving Herbert
Hoover control of the food situation,
is not to control food, but to release
it from the grip of spectators and
other persons who seek to make in
ordinate profits out of it
Shot at Kaiser's Dozen.
Congress must choose Lever de-
clared in opening the momentous de-
bate. between President Wilson and
the German kaiser as to which shall
At the same time Senator Simmons
journeyed to the White House per-
sonally to assure the president that
the senate would sidetrack the war
revenue measure to give the food bill
right of way. Speed is the thing,
Simmons agreed.
Coincident with these steps, Hoover
today named Sunday, July l, as food
conservation day, when he urged
newspapers, magazines minister's
fraternal organizations motion pic
ture theaters, bill board owners. etc,
to join in a nationwide campaign, Ito
awaken the American wife to her OPP
portuRity- and duty" ~
Would Save $4,000, 100000.
In this campaign by which Hoover
hopes to save $4,000, 100000 annually
thru elimination of waste in the
kitchen alone, all summer schools will
be utilized. Thru summer schools
alone, Hoover expects to educate $780,
zoe housewives in the art of saving
Specially directed campaigns are to
be made in hotels, railroad dining
cars. cafes and all manner of public
eating places.
Hoover pointed out today that "if
only two cents is saved on every meal
an annual saving of another $4,000
600, 0O0-equal to the liberty loan
will have been saved to this nation
and her allies
As much as possible of the work will
be turned over to the state defense
councils, cooperating with the ma
tional council
Cooperating in this work, the wo-
men committee of the national defense
council today telegraphed each of its
4S state divisions ito get behind Hoov-
err"
VroOman to Tour Nation.
The agricultural department also
got behind" today when Carl Vroo-
man arranged an itinerary to visit the
great farming states of the middle and
far west next month to launch a mar
keting campaign for the crops that
will then be ''in harvest" Better prices
to the farmer and fairer prices to the
house wife will be Vrooman's slogan.
Middlemen who do not show the
proper spirit will be relentlessly
crushed, Nrooman declared.
Lever, pleading for the measure, de-
nounced vigorously the "heartless, un-
patriotic Intermediates who rob and
gouge the farmers" He said:
"A loose Joined, unorganized democ-
racy hasn't ghost of a chance in a
contest with such an autocr2cy as Ger
many's organization.
"Orga nization is the only weapon
with which organization can be over
come. An organization, the term
is used here, means not only whipDin-
into shape the man and money power
Of the nation, but every resource OF
the nation which may be used in the
contest.
Crush the ''ShylOck" Spectator.
The people are not going to be sat.
isfied with silly excuses about delega.
ton of au-ocratic powers. To pay
huge prices for enough meat to feet
"A cat may make dangerous men anC
women out of ordinary peaceful an(
good citizens.
THAT some kind of food and fue
control is necessary to their most eff
cient mobilization is imperative
we intend to drive from establish
ed agencies of distribution the marke
manipulation and gambler, the MAJ
who buys as cheaply as he can ant
sells as dearly as he may-the "Shy
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