Arizona republican., 1917-08-26
H()()vER|S
 FOR FAIR
 DEALINGS
(RepubIIcan A. p. Leased Wire]

CHICAGO, Aug. 25.-Herbert c. Hoover, federal food administrator, explained to editors of agricultural papers and representatives of news papers from agricultural districts to- day the necessity for administering the supply of foodstuffs, told of the prob lems that confronted those who were dealing with the subject and asked their cooperation in the work to be done. He objected to the word con trol'' in connection with food conserva- tion, he said, because the administra- tion, in the main, wished to rely on voluntary effort and patriotic co-oper ation.
 All sections of the country were rep resented at the conference. Mir Hoover reached the city at mid-after- noon and after the conference ad- journed at the dinner hour, announced he would return east within several hours.
 MT. Hoover made it clear In a state ment which he authorized later, that the purpose was to deal as fairly with all interests as was possible, and that in order that this intention might be- come a fact. it was essential that all should act in a similar spirit.
 E. T. Meredith of Des Moines, Iowa who presided at the meeting, said that when he went to Washington recently to confer with Mir. Hoover he carried the word that the farmers of the west were against Hoover because of the fear that they would suffer through price regulation. He said he had found out that this impression was "all wrong; that the food administrator in fAvsR lower price than was his due" MT. Meredith said he believed the price as eventually fixed would be a protec- tion to the producer against a low price and the consumer against a high figure. Shortly after the arrival of MT. Hoover a meeting was held at the sock yards, attended by representa- tives of the packers, the railroads and the livestock commission men of the middle west, theepurpose being to work l out a plan for cooperation of these interests with MT. Hoover and the fed | eral trade commission.
 The conference is said to have ar ! ranged for appointment of joint com mittees of all interests involved to secure even distribution of shipments of livestock into the Chicago market i so there will be no light and heavy | days. It is believed this arrangement Will lead to the establishment of a permanent five day market" | In a statement issued tonight. MT 1 Hoover denied there is any founda | tion for statement that the food ad. ministration expects to fix prices O, beef or pork products
 Before Mir. Hoover left Chicago he was handed formal request from the packers that he appoint a federal ad | mlnistrator immediately to take ove, control of the livestock industry.
 The administration hopes to de Velop by discussion with representa- tive committees of the hog producers the cattle producers, the commission men and the packers" the statemen says, greater stabilization of the in. dustry during the war and in sucl a way to encourage production. t, l eliminate speculative profits an, risks so far as may be and by S, doing to protect the consumer
 MT. Hoover's address before tn l26 representatives of farm journal
 III twenty-four states, said to repre-
 sent an approximate circulation o
 lz,ooO,ooo readers. was a resume O conditions which led to the appoint
 ment of food controller, which com
 ments on the administration of tha
 office. He asserted at the outse that the food problems of the pres ent would have occurred whether o
 not the United States went into tn
 war; that they are based on tn underlying economic currents and dis turbance of economic forces"
 The shortage in European produc 
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