The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-01-11
SEATTLE NEWS LETTER
People Must Learn To Eat War
B read-Seattle a Model City
State Is Prosperous

SEATTLE-Th people of the
State of Washington may just as
well prepare now as later on to eat
war bread for it is sure to be a
stern reality during the present
year. The big milling plants which
have been turning out fine patent
flours have been told by the admin
istration to see that hereafter they
use more of the wheat in the manu-
facture of their patent flour than
they are using at present. Fine
patent flour is made of the very
choicest part of the wheat The
less expensive flours come from the
so-called cheaper parts of the wheat.
From now on, however, there will be
more of a mixture of these two
flours and it is not improbable that
some corn meal will go into the
flour. However there is not likely
to be any reduction in the present
price of flour, although the flour
will not be up to the present high
grade. While the millers may re-
alize little more profit on the new
flour than they did on the old, they
are going to hereafter make much
less on their mill feeds than they
have made heretofore. The food adj
ministration has ordered millers to
hereafter make a very material re-
duction in their price of mill feeds
in order that dairymen and poultry
men can continue to keep their
stock at a profit. Poultry food has
been so high the past year that
hundreds of poultrymen could not
make both ends meet and have been
compelled to retire from business.
Eggs as every housewife knows,
have never been so high as during
the past six months. What is true
of poultry conditions is also true of
dairy products, farmers having ia
ken the position that with the high
price of feed they cannot realize
profit. Milk has kept steadily adj
vancing. The Governments latest
move will, it is believed have a
marked tendency to increase the
dairy and poultry output and thus
keep down the price to the consum-
err.
Seattle is fast becoming model
city under the new chief of police
who is cooperating with Govern
ment officials in rounding up slack
ers and Kidding the city of undesir-
able women. The result has been
that the so-called quarantine placed
on the city by General Greene of
Camp Lewis is fast being lifted, and
it is a common sight to see hundreds
of soldiers from Camp Lewis walk
ing Seattle streets. 1t is generally
admitted that Chief Warren is max
ing good, and that poor old Seattle
is getting off the blacklist.
The state of Washington it is gen.
orally admitted has the chance of
lifetime to be prosperous if it will
only take advantage of the oppor-
tunities which offer. The payrolls
tunitieswhich offer. The payrolls
of the larger cities are greater than
they have ever been in the history
of the state, and millions of this
money in the course of year finds
its way into the pockets of the peo-
pie turnout the state. The move
ment to turn the tourist tide in this
direction is making splendid pro-
gress, and it is believed that the
year 1918 will see thousands of new
people visiting the state of Wash
ington, whose advantages are being
advertised thru the Pacific North
west Tourist Association, in the east