The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-01-12
rHE DAILY STAR MIRROR. MOSCOW, IDAHO, SATURDAY, JANUARY Il, 1918

metnou, yet the situation is 80 bat
that the town has decided to extent
It still further.
Dissatisfaction In Austria.
German speaking Austria has long
been Jealous Of the comparatively ia.
vorable food situation in Hungary, and
recently the disaffection has become
acute. 1t Is charged that Hungary is
feeding herself bOuntifully and leaving
the rest of the empire to shift as 1t
can. For whatever Hungary is will
ing to send into the German speaking
regions outrageous prices are charged,
and the subject has been discussed
with painful frankness in the legisla-
tive bodies of both states.
It was said that recently lard from
Hungary had been sold in Austria at
nearly eight times the price it would
have cost in Hungary. The same gen.
eral situation prevails as to many 9TH
er Hungarian food supplies.
The Hungarians complain with equal
rancor that they are charged excessive
prices for all manufacture articles
produced in Austria. The two gov
ernments have beer trying to agree
upon a general policy of leveling down
the prices Of both. But at this point
they are confronted by the same diff
Guilty which has been so many times
experienced in Germany; no system Of
price control will stretch inadequate
supplies to the point Of adequacy.
In Holland the states control Is be-
ing extended to almost all food sup
plies. There are indications that the
r~ationing system is going to be estab-
lished before winter shall have far ad-
vanced. The use of fat and margarine
by bakers and confectioners and by
hotels, restaurants and clubs in pre-
pairing food has been prohibited. The
government has guaranteed prices for
wheat, rye, oats, barley, etc.
AS to crops not available for food
the areas that may be planted have
been strictly limited; in some cases
to not more than 40 or so per cent Of
the paintings of normal years. A pre-
MUM has been offered for increased
areas of land under the pillow. The
government Is going to requisitiOn the
entire crop of sugar beets, the factories
will convert them into sugar, and this
will be turned over to the government
at a fixed price for distribution. The
price demanded Of the public will not
be increased. :
Although Denmark is, in proportion
to area and population, n Of the
greatest agricultural producing and
exporting countries in the world, it Is
now confronted with shortage of al
most everything. The country's but
production has decreased alarming
", and there is a demand for ration
.ng. The government is undertaking
% substitute the production of butter
20 as to reduce prices; that is, to ap- :
by to butter practically the same rule
hat was applied to bread in England. :
Che English government is substituting
,read to the extent Of about $4,000 '
100 a year, thus making it possible to
;ell the English loaf of war bread for =
our and one-half cents. :
In Norway the government and the
ocal food authorities are working to :
'erfect a %rationing system in time to
ave the country from disaster this :
At Christiania a big scheme =
or storing reserves of food has been
out and some 25 warehouses in
arious parts of the city are being
Under a law passed last May
ne government has established a mo-
opoly Of the import of wheat, barley, :
ats, rye, beans, peas and lentils and FL
grains and meal used for human
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