The daily progressive-miner., 1918-07-19
ONE YEAR
 HAS REVEALED

The idea of the Food Administrat- ion from the start has been that no one class shall bear disproporsion- ate burden. For the Food Admins srator to conceive such course in such crisis was possible. But to re- alize that conception. 70 meet the en- .irely disproportionate food need on the other side of the world. without preparation or time to prepare. and to do it without upsetting the whole machinery of commerce and business that might well seem impossible. let il has been done That it has been accomplished is largely due to -he voluntary coopera:.on os she Am erican people,
 One could imagine an inha oitant or France or Belgium or England express ing belief that the United States Food Administration had been organ ized for his protection against the world-shortage and speculation; and one could imagine an American citi- zen declaring the same thing. Yet, with 8 worid-shortage, the disturb ances Of war. it has actually come about that we have fed Europe and yet the consumers of this country have fared better in food than they would have done if we had not under taken 10 feed Europe. annulling spec ulation in order to do it. IT is this meeting ot one situation" without creating another that has been the marvel of the whole program.
 Here briefly stated. are a few re- suits of food administration in the past year. as they affected us:
 Av the time MT. Hoover was appoint sd. that is on May Is. 1917, the price ot flour per barrel at Minneapolis was sI5-75. while on May I, 1918. it was sa.so, a decrease of fl per cent. On the former date, the difference be- tween what the farmer got for his wheat and the wholesale price of four was equivalent to s5.6S barrel. while on rhe latter date this difference amounted 10 only 5. cents
 Producers prices for March 1918 when weighed with the relative value Of the product for the nutrition of the nation show a marked increase over August. 1917: hut for all this consum- CTS prices oa the same basis. have decreased. though not 10 so great an extent
 As for sugar. the wholesale price of 7he refined article at the end of April 1918. was 7.3 cents a pound. while year ago it was S33 cents pound. decrease 0. F per cent Al the same lime the margin between the price os raw and refined sugar had been re- duced from PIP cents 10 1-3 cents per pound And this in spite of the fact that sugar. as well as wheat offered unprecedented opportunities for spec ulation. During the Civil War. sug- ar went up 10 30 ceurs pound, with no real sugar shortage in the world Resners have declared that had not -he Food Administration controlled -he price and distribution Of sugar. II would have gone as high as B cents pound flor we faced an aoso!ute s1o--age. which was not the case dur ing rhe CEvil,Warl 4 rise Of one cent on d pound Of sugar costs the Ameri- can public sso 100000 in the course ot q year. so what two or three hundred per cent rise would have cost had bet -er be left 70 the imagination
 So much for us What fod admin ...rar:on in the United States has meant to the Allies is indicated by -he following:
 From July 1, 1917. 70 March 31, 1913. we have exported to our Allies. so.o0o'- 0Jo bushels or wheat and flour, or 124 osr cent Of the amount availa bic for export on July l. while year ago dur7ngduring the same period we ex- ported 70 the Allies only 5l per cent of rhe amount available for export on July |
 The wholesale price Of refined sugar at The end Of April 1918 was 7-3 cents per pound while a year ago it was s.S3 cents per pound, a decrease Of 12 per cent In the same period the mar gin between the price Of raw and re- fined sugar has been reduced from z,12 cents 10 13 cents per pound.
 The Exports of pork products for March 1918 were over go per cent larger than for any previous month m she past seven years and almost three times as great as the highest amount exported in any month in the four years before 1915
 Exports Of beef products for March 1918 were over % per cent larger than for any previous month in the past seven years and more than twice az req. as The highest amount exported
 T any month in the four years before 1915.
 Exports Of rye and rye -four from he beginning Of the fiscal year July l, 1917 though March 1918 are 32 per cent larger than last year; Of barley