Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-06-13
j. s. IS MOb|[|Z|NG
FOR FOOD CONTROL
Director Hoover and Depart
ment of Agriculture Officials
Confer on Plans.
ANTI-LIQUOR BILL READY


agreed on the details Of food control leg
islation. Uncle Sam is vigorously mobiliz-
ing his forces for a supreme and sustained
effort toward increased production. eff
cient distribution and conservation of
foodstuffs. .....
A new bill to prohibit manufacture dur
ing the war OF foodstuffs into distilled
spirits and malt liquors was ordered re-
ported today by the Senate agriculture
committee.
Another provision of the bill would
empower the President to requisitton
existing supplies Of distilled spirits II
necessary to conserve food supplies or
to secure alcohol for war purposes.
Has Dual Purpose.
The new bill is designed both as a
food conservation measure and step
toward prohibition during the war.
1t is not designed as a substitute for
bills now pending. but as distinct
measure combining many prohibition
resolutions and bills.
The bill would, by congressional act,
erohibit manufacture of non-perishable
Soodstuffs into intoxicating beverages
and authorize the President to prevent
such use of them.
A step considered of great import
ance was taken yesterday with the
calling together Of joint conference
of officials of the Department of Agri-
culture. Department Of Interior. wom-
ans committee of the council OF ma
tional defense and Herbert c. Hoover
and his volunteer co-worker. DIR. Ray
Lyman Wilbur Of Stanford University.
This afternoon representatives from
the office of food administration will
go farther into details of joint effort
with heads of office in the Department
OF Agriculture.
A basic understanding for effective
1t is stated. between Mr.. Hoover and
his forces and the Department of Agri-
culture. In line with the Presidents
announcement regarding the appoint
particularly with all emergency meas
ures relating to war food administra-
ton only. while the Department of
Agriculture undertakes the equally i'm
est degree every branch of its effort.
even more necessary in war than in
peace times.
Like Military Headquarters.
Already the Department Of Agricul-
ture is going at full speed. SO far as
its present appropriations and authority
emergency Of the national crisis. Many
Of the offices. with marked and charted
maps about the walls. give a sugEes-
tion of military operations.
In one. for example. there is . map
light against Cattle diseases. s.' such m 'as as
the cattle tick In the south, and the
movement of that line of defense. 1t is
pointed out. is Of a wartime impor-
tance that vies with the military
movements of the allies.
Stories Ct lack of cooperation, or
of misunderstanding. between the De-
partment OF Agriculture and Mr. Hoo
vers embryo organization. are laughed
to deny them. Already 1t has been
found that much Of the scientific data
of the Department Of Agriculture its
experts and its collected information,
can be OF immense service to Mr. Hoo
vers organization. and conferences
which already have reached the stage
of daily routine have resulted from the
desire Of these two offices to work to-
gether
Those at Conference.
The conference yesterday afternoon
brought together DR.. A. C. True. d.
rector Of the states relations service.
DR.. C. E. Smith. chief of extension
work, north and west; Bradford Knapp.
chief Of extension work, south; DR.. c.
F. Langworthy, office of home eco
Monies: w. J. Spillman. chief Of the
I.
Department Of Agriculture: and DR.. P.
P. Claxton. United States commissioner
of education: Carrie Alberta Lyford and
Mrs Henrietta W. Calvin. specialists In
home economics: A. c. Monahan. bureau
of education, all of the Department of
the Interior. and Mrs. Ira Couch Wood.
executive secretary OF the women's
committee, council of national defense
Thus cooperation between Mr.. Hoov-
er's organization and the Department
nf will ho
the educational facilities Of the United
States bureau of education, especially
in its home economics department.
Further cooperation already has
been obtained from a group of monthly
with an estimated circula-
ton of more than 100000 copies.
which will use monthly a government
statement regarding conservation Of
foodstufs.
DR.. Alonzo Taylor, assistant to the
Secretary of Agriculture. has taken
over. ins large measure, the work of
placing the full facilities of the depart
ment at the disposal of the food admin
istration body.
The extent Of the educational cam
paign already carried on by the De-
partment of Agriculture was fndica ted
today by a statement from Carl yroo
man. assistant secretary. who said,
Nearly 5000. 600 copies Of bulletins. cir
culprs. etc. bearing directly on the food
problem have been distributed by the
Department Of Agriculture since the
war began.
Thousands of these pieces of litera-
ture have gone to newspapers. maya
zines writer's. ministers. teachers WON
ems organizations and others, who, in
turn. have passed on the message to
Of other people.
The most popular single bulletin is
began is the one on the Small Vege-
table Garden More than a million
copies of this have been distributed"
Mr.. Hoover Addresses Bakers.
Mr.. Hoover this morning addressed a
group of representatives Of Bakers.
associations. The bakers have been
here several days. One of the sug-
eestions they have under consideration,
II is understood, is the question of a
limitation on the varieties of breads
and rolls. Some concerns now put out
bread or rolls in more than a score of
in shape or in sweetening. and this
practice, 1t is stated, is responsible to
a marked degree for the return bread"
waste Retailers must lay in a stock
left with some sorts on their hands.
This evening Mr.. Hoover and j. S.
Cullinan. one of his volunteer helpers,
will confer with committee Of the
American eQeIdliou VI LdpO
A number of men who helped Mr.
Hoover in Belgium are assisting him
as volunteer workers now. and some of
them may be. retained after the ad-
Is organized. Among these
volunteers are: DR.. Vernon L. Kellogg
of Stanford University. who supervised
the relief office at Brussels; Capt J. r.
IMcey Of Chattanooga, director Of the
Ro904dam office; Edgar Rickard, first
secretary of the Belgian commission;
W. L Honnold. director of the New