Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-11-03

and Its allies show no disposition to
Yield to the pleas of the so-called neu-
trai nations that have been supplying
Germany with food and other mate
rails. According to reports received in
Washington, the food situation In Ger
many Is growing acute. The weekly
ration there amounts approximately
to four and half pounds of bread
half peck of potatoes, cupful Of
beans, peas, or oatmeal; a half pound
of meat, twelve cubes of sugar, six
individual patties of butter and an
equal amount of other fats. The calorc
value of these foods In the aggregate,
is less than half the amount estimated
by the American food administration
rs sufficient for person In sedentary
occupation.
Coal Strike Makes Trouble.
The coal situation, especially In Ili-
noIs, caused the administration great
deal OF trouble. Strikes, unauthorized
by the union, stopped production and
the operators declared they could not
pay the wages demanded unless they
were allowed to charge the general
public so cents more a ton. Coal AID.
ministrator Garfield was swampcd with
appeals and protests, and sent out
message to the effect that unless min
ing was resumed the federal govern
ment would seize the mines. The whole
affair has the appearance of greed fos.
tered by underhanded pro-German in
fluences.
GOOD Administrator Hoover has
been brought to a realization of the
fact that the retail grocers of the coun.
try are robbing the ultimate consum-
ers, and he proposes to 60 as far as his
powers permit In stopping the extor-
ton. In statement issued Thursday
Mr.. Hoover said that though neither
the food administration nor the gov
eminent has authority to regulate the
retailer as It does the wholesaler, he
would beginning November /, expose
the former each week by publishing
the wholesale prices of all commodities
in every section. Thus the purchaser
will know how much the retailer Is
paying and how much undue profit he
Is exacting. Mr.. Hoover cites particu-
larly the retail price of -four, which Is
out of all proportion to the wholesale
price fixed by the government, and al
so the recent unwarranted advances
In the retail price Of sugar. F.,
Unless the retailer grocer behaves,
the food administrator hints, congress
may be asked for legislation giving the
government power to regulate him. Mr..
Hoover asserts that the corner has
been turned In high prices and that II
the farmer and retailer cooperate with
him, the essential commodities one af-
ter another should continue to show re-
auctions between now and the end of
the year.
The war department issued orders
for the entralnment of the
final quotas of the first draft from the
northwest states and the entire mobiIi-
latinn of the 6S7.000 men of the first
lrmy Is expected to be complete by
he middle of November. The can for
he second draft Is not expected be-
ore the first of the year, but arrange
nentS for II are under way and ID may
le that the remaining 100000 eligl-
lies will be examined In advance so as
o establish waiting list. Prepare
ions for the winter in the training
amps are being made rapidly and
here Is reason to believe that there
will be no shortage of warm clothing,
rms and all other necessary supplies.
The Liberty bond campaign went
With rush last week, despite the dis
oval opposition displayed I'm some To-
alities. The government has taken
tops to punish the pro-German work
RS who have fOstered this hostile SEN
ment, and Secretary McAdoo has ask
d banks to report the names Of those
Tho have sought to Intimidate bank
~ NY tiItuAS W NIl1uEuN lUtlE Uc-
osits.
The senatorial committee investigat.
~ Senator La Follette's loyalty held
everal sessions but was temporarily
oiled by the willy fellows demand that
e be given the opportunity TO cross
Samlne those who had contradicted
Is assertion regarding Bryan'S state
lent 10 President Wilson anent the
usltania. As the committee cannot
ell summon the president or Mr.
ryan, 1t adjourned to think the case
YER.
Former Senator Pettigrew of South
akota Is emuating the record of La
GILLETTE and defying the government
have him indicted. His utterances
e II anything more reprehensible
an those of the Wisconsin man, but
, himself Is much more negligible.
all their readers and hearers were
'rsons Of sound sense neither one
ould be worth the powder 1t would
Ike to blow him over to Germany.