Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-05-03
GROUND CLASS IN
FOOD ONLY ONCE
MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED CAS-
Es OF THIS ALLEGED OUTRAGE
HAVE BEEN INVESTIGATED.
PREFERENCE LIST FOR COAL

PREFERENCE LIST FOR COAL
Issued by Priorities Board for Guild
ance of Distributing Agencies
Council of Defense Favors School
District Organizations.
WashingtOn.-The frequent and
widespread, publication of statements
concerning the presence of ground
glass in foodstuffs has led the COM
m1ttee on public information to inquire
Into the authenticity of these reports.
1t has been advised by the food adj
m~inistration that thorough investiga-
tons, of more than 200 of the cases
has disclosed only one instance in
which ground glass was found in the
foodstuffs inspected.
The case in which glass was found
occurred at Fort Smith, Ark. A baker
in that town had had trouble with his
employees, one of whom, desiring to
destroy his employers business, had
filled with glass a loaf of bread which
was to be delivered to an orphanage.
When the bread was served to the in
mates Of the institution several of
them suffered decorations of their lips.
No more serious injuries resulted.
The first preference list issued by the
priorities board, which names indus
tries whose operation is considered of
exceptional Importance to the country
during the war, is for the guidance of
all agencies Of the United States in the
distribution of coal and coke. Includ-
ed in the list are plants engaged in the
manufacture of the following:
Aircraft and supplies; ammunition
and small arms for the United States
government or the allies; chemicals
coke; electrical equipment; electrodes
explosives; farm implements and farm
operating equipment feed; ferro-al-
Toys; fertilizers; fire brick food; food
containers; gas; gas-producing ma.
chinery; guns; hemp, jute, and cotton
bags; insecticides iron and steel; ma.
chine tools; mining tools and equip.
ment; oil-well equipment; locomotives
cars, and other railway supplies; ships
(not including pleasure craft) +; soap
tanned leather, save for patent leather
tanning extracts; tin plate; binder
Irvine and rope; wire rope and rope
wire.
Army and navy camps and canton
ments are included in the list as wei
as mines, newspapers and periodicals
oil refineries, public institutions anG
buildings, public utilities, railways, pro
ducers and wholesalers of seeds, ex
cept flower seeds.
In a statement urging the creation O
Community councils" the council O.
national defense cities these advan
tages of the school district as a uni
Of community organization:
The school district is small enough
to permit individual contact, and il
non-political.
The schoolhouse supplies a meetin:
place in each district, and in man.
schools includes domestic science, mar
ual training, and other facilities.
The school district reaches children
and parents alike, and in the cities tn,
school is, to a large extent, already il
touch with the alien population.
The school is an established cente
of information and education.
The school principal or faculty pro
vides a tried agency through whose as
~sistance community organization cal
be quickly effected.
The school. district, with the schoo.
house as it's center, is already a socia
community, especially in farm districts
Wage increases in the United State
are not keeping pace with the advanc
In the cost of living, Assistant Secre
tary of Labor Post asserts. Figure
compiled by the bureau of labor Sta
tistics of the department of labor, h
says, show that while the cost of foo
last year increased 25 per cent for tn
entire country, wages rose only one
half or two-thirds of that rate.
The statement issued by the burea
Of labor statistics showing the il
creased living costs throughout th
United States for the year ending JaI
uary Is says:
GfNnnnnonin T0nTJnru IL 1919 wit
January Is, 1917, the rate of food as
whole increased 25 per cent. All a
ticles show decided increases with til
exception of potatoes, which decrease
16 per cent. Cornmeal shows IL
greatest price change, an increase
II per cent. Bacon increased "a pt
cent; lard, % per cent; pork chops,
per cent; ham, 42 per cent; milk, {
per cent; hens, % per cent; butter, :
per cent; eggs, % per cent; bread, ]
per cent; sugar, Is per cent; and flou
II per cent"
A review of the first year of oper
ton of the federal farm loan syste
shows that 2,S0S national farm loan a
sociations were incorporated, repr
senting about four associations to eat
five counties of the United States. TIL
average 20 members, or a total mel
bership of about $4,000 farmers.
The u land banks have received a
%plications for over 10000 loan
amounting to about $500, 100000. Abo
: 10000 loans, amounting to over S16
Q 100000, have been approved, and
10000 of these loans over 100000
has been paid to the farmers.
Nearly 600 boxes of athletic goo
n have already been distributed to troo
in the United States and Europe
If the commission on training camp g
# tlvfties, which expects to equip eve
Ie company going to France with ath-