The Washington herald., 1918-02-24
GETS
ANOTHER JOLT
FROM M'ADOO
Plenty Of Empty Cars But
No Food, Charged by
the Director.

With William G. McAdoo. director
general OF, railroads, and Herbert c,
Hoover. food administrator, declaring
stoutly that there is no row on be-
tween them over the shipments OF
food, these facts stood cut in the de-
velopments of yesterday:
/. Mr.. Hoover maintains that freight
cars are not being delivered in suf-
ficient numbers at proper points: he
says that requests for movement of
grain and other foods are made TO
the Railroad Administration every
morning at 10 o'clock.
2 Mr.. McAdoo emphatically says
that the Food Administration has not
been specific In its requests for cars;
that there are plenty OF empties
wherever there has been a demand
that failure to load them is not at all
a responsibility Of the Railroads Ad-
ministration.
Pipe OF Peace From Food Head.
Mr. Hoover. following Mr.. McAdoo's
statements Of Friday night. that he
would put plenty of cars wherever
Mr. Hoover designated. wrote this:
Ny Dear Mr.. McAdoo:
81 am grateful for your note OF the
ed and 1 wish to express the great
relief of myself and my colleagues at
your assurances that not only will
the allied foodstuffs be promptly
moved. but that there will be no de-
lays in our domestic distribution
causing any danger OF suffering,
which necessarily implies the collec-
ton OF our food materials from the
country to our terminals, mills and
packing houses before either the do
mestic or allied supplies can be aggre-
gated for transportation to points of
consumption or export.
II am certain that this assurance
from you will greatly quiet the grow
ing apprehension in the country of
the last few weeks"
To this Mr.. McAdoo last night re-
piled:
Dear Mr.. Hoover:
II am Just in receipt of your letter
of the ed. You do not, however.
touch the points of my letter. should
like to enumerate and re-emphasize
them.
scniping Knife From Big Railroad
"1-You are. as understand it,
the sole purchaser in this country
of food supplies for the allied gov
ernments.
"2-You must, therefore, know
the location of the food supplies
which you from time to time pur-
chase and the ports in the United
States to which you desire such
supplies shipped.
"3-If you will notify me from
time to time of the location of the
specific supplies and the port OF
you wish to have such supplies
transported, I will guarantee the
necessary transportation. subject
yards and floods.
Il am eager to cooperate with
you to relieve all anxiety about
| lyouSco-operate with me by prompt
ly furnishing me with the essential
information called for in items one
and two above? II you do, the
transportation will be provided. You
can readily understand that gener-
alizations will not accomplish the
object in view and that we must
be specific in order to get results"
Reports yesterday from A. H.
Smith, in New York, said there were
no steamers in the harbor await
ing delivery Of provisions, flour,
grain and supplies. This is con-
firmed by the British Ministry
Shipping Board"
Figures also showed that the
railroads had delivered to a grain
center in Kansas 165 ears in ten
days of February and that only 79
of them had been loaded.