The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-03
ADDITIONAL POWER WANTED BY HOOVER !. IN FOOD CONTROL Government Purchase and Sale of All Sugar Is
 Advocated CONSERVATION PLANS PARTIAL FAILU R B Some Hotels and Restaurants Have Not Obeyed Rules-Housewives
 Are Conf0rming-Reeda and
 Witness Clash

Washington, January 2.-Goyern- ment purchase of and sale to con sumers of all sugar used in the Uni ted States and control of the amounts and kinds of food to be served in pub- lie eating places were advocated to Food Administrator Hoover today in testimony before the Senate commit- tee Investigating su><r. He said ad- ditionaI Legislation cOnferring upon the food administration such powers should be enacted by Congress.
 Food conservation came up only casually during an all-day examina- ton of MT Hoover, but the admin istration revealed that results from conservation plans formulated for ho- tels and restaurants had been disap- pointing because of the deliberate fail ure of some to cooperate with the administration. Those seeking to help had been forced to abandon their ef" forts, Mir Hoover said, in order 50 meet competition. The witness believed housewives generally were conforming to the conservation recommendations
 REED AND HOOVER CLASH
 Chairman Reed of the committee, who has been the chief critic of the food administration in the Senate, did not question MT. Hoover. Senator Lodge conducting the examination most of the day. Late in the scssioa, however, Senator Reed and NY fnWR- CT engaged in a rather heBte 5is- cussion. when the witness AsKed D have admitted to the commisaa rAa- ords the statement on the sNuaF s3s- uation which MT. Hoovtr sen4at 70 submit before before the holiasy4 an1 which later was made publia ~ the White House.
 HOOVER GETS "MAIr'
 Chairman Reed said he wanted 70 examine the statement overn nt saa that the question of admittissg to the records would be determine1 lster He added that he wanted to auestiaa the witness further on it. MT, Hoover finally declared with an apps rene show of heat that he did not Sore whether it was introduced or n5ssS
 MT. Hoover said the sugar aSns for next year promised to be 5slD aa tons short of the estimated asaE3eNS but it was 1oped to solve tn
 age by conservation and limitutAcH @s supplying to manufacturers of stsil2 essential foodstuffs. While he fi,ssu flst it might be necessary to limit iH6 per capita consumption to three ppandi A month, the witness said he HiH aSt consider the principle of limitatict4 ef personal consumption sound, bee se it tended to cause discontent a0i hnE the people.
 EXPLAINS HIS REASON | The administrator explained ihiss ;. | sire to have the food administf sfgse5g < view of the sugar presented ea1 sy u 1 the investigation by saying tha3 tes | timony before the committee thNt | there was plenty of sugar in sl g oun- ! try was not proved by the fafka Us 1 he knew them and tended to offset | the administration campaign for con- servation He said he regarded it as vital that his statement should coun- teract the testimony as quickly as possible and thought his own state ment on the situation would be more | convincing than that of George M. | Rolph, head of the administration S sugar division
 ] MT. Hoover defended the food ad- | ministration's action in naming the president of the American Sdgar Re- fining company, an officer of the Ar
 buckle Refining company and Mir. Rolph as the American members of
 the committee. saying this country could be represented properly only by | refiners.
 1 We are primarily dependent in
 these times on patriotic men who un- derstand their businesses" said the 1 administrators. 'It is impossible for me to go into all the details, but l | reserve final decisions to myself and I take full responsibility"
 PRICE FIXING QUESTION Much was said today of economic
 soundness of price fixing. Senator | Lodge cited authorities to show that it had failed and read some of Hoover s testimony at the hearing on the food bill, in which he was quoted as say | ing price fixing had been a failure in | England The witnass eXplained that