The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1918-01-19
Leave For Visit To Minnesota
Soldiers At Three National
Cant0nments.
MUST GRADE POTATOES
Order Made BY State Food Admins
traitor On Word From Washing
ton-FaiIure Will Be Viola
ton Of Law.

ST. Paul.
Governor Burnnuist, Attorney Gen,
eral Lyndon A. Smith, Colonel c. H.
March and Adjutant General w. F..
Rhinow have gone on trip to three
military camps to investigate the
health and other conditions Of about
1850 Minnesota men in training at
those places.
The investigation was ordered by
the State Public Safety Commission
after conflicting reports of conditions
especially at Camp Cody, we're re-
ceived.
The tentative plan is to go direct
to Camp Cody and thence to Camps
Pike and Dodge, and to return about
January 20 to st. Paul. Camp Pike
was included in the itinerary because
many drafted men have been trans
ferred there from Camp Dodge, to
which 5000 men have been sent from
Minnesota.
Nearly $500 national guardsmen
from this state are in training at
Camp Cody.
Minnesota Potatoes Must Be Graded.
Grading OF potatoes so as to keep
off the market diseased and other
wise undesirable tubers will be in.
sisted on in large producing sections
by the federal food administration.
A. D. Wilson, it's chief representa-
tive in Minnesota has been so ad-
vised.
The administration .lolds the fail
ure to grade is wasteful, unfair and
therefore. violative of the food act.
MIR. Wilson explains that while grad
ing was suggested at the time regu-
lations regarding potato marketing
were published it was not made corn
pulsory because of lack of under
standing Of grades. Now it is thought
enough time has elapsed to over
come this lack.
The food administration urges pro-
ducers to do the grading at homo,
sorting into two grades, leaving GU.
small ones to avoid useless handling
and transportation of waste material
and to save heavy expense of ship
pers' grading, and to retain for use
at home all unmarketable tubers
that have food value for man and
beast.
Officials Change Quarters.
Removal of the offices and library
of the State Horticultural society to
the new historical society building
nearby, marked the first of several
changes to be made in assignments
Of rooms in the capitol.
The State Department of Educa-
ticn will move its offices to the
historical society building soon, aud
it's present suite on the first floor
of the capitol will be given to TIE
State Banking department. Ground
floor rooms, now occupied by the
banking departm will be assigned
to the Board of Control and to Sec.
rotary of State Schmahl, who will
establish the state automobile license
department there. '..
An important change will add the
third floor rooms of the south wing
to the suite of the State Supreme
Court. The State Tax Commission
will move its offices to those just
vacated by the historical society.
The state forestry department will
have the office formerly occupied by
the secretary of the historical so.
ciety.
The engineering department Of the
State Railroad and Warehouse COM
mission will remain on the ground
floor, but move to the old newspaper
file rooms of the society.
The adjutant generals office will
he transferred to the suite now oc.
cupied by the railroad engineers.
The temporary draft offices, how
ever, will be continued on the third
floor of the building. The hotel and
oil inspection offices also will remain
on the third floor. but eventually
may be moved to the old capitol.
Flour Rationing Expected.
Decision to place the United States
on flour rations within a month and
to regulate the prices of wheat sub.
stitutes Is EXPECTED to be announced
by ]. A. Wye. secretary of the Min.
nesota Food administration, who
has returned after attending a. COLI
ference Of state administrators with
Herbert Hoover, federal food chief,
at Washington. The Food admins.
tration is said to have agreed upon
this action at the conference.
Gunners Eligible for Draft.
About $50 men Of draft age enlist
ed in the Second Minnesota field ar.
tillery are subject to draft, Provost
Marshal General e. H. Crowder has
notified Governor Burnquist in re-
Spouse to a request for a special rul.
ing. The Federal draft chief said
that. although recognized by the war
department. the new Minnesota regi.
ment was not included IN the order
of Aug. 5, mobilizing National Guard
units and that members between 81