The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1918-06-01
WHEAT WILL WIN If you SAVE
1T.
Esranrc Must he Fed, II We Would
Resist The Hun.

N'he Journal;
Hsmlock Or.-To the Editor of
-The Journai---The agent OF the food
administration for Tillamook county
gave notice to the people OF this
county that no person was allowed
more than one sack OF wheat flour
In the house at one time, and ordered
all who had more to return the sur
plus TO him or someone he might
designate TO receive It. Some, with
fear and trembling returned sack
or two and received at the rate OF
SlO.AO per barrel for which they had
paid over $12 per barrel. and were
forced to buy hog feed for the family
at more than double the price of the
flour. Is It to win the war or to fill
somebody's pocket that the notice
WAS sent out. with threat OF a
$4,000 fine and two years In prisong
G. w. PROCTOR.
For lack of food, France was re-
Gently on the verge of collapse. The
true import of an appeal by cable
from the French government for
more wheat has never been made
public In all its Significance. The
situation was one OF the most critical
that has faced the allies. The i'm
mediate peril is now removed, but II
would again appear IL wheat were
moi regularly and faithfully sent from
America.
If France should collapse, what?
Hf her four years OF bleeding should
hecome fatal to her, what?
Where would the American army
In France then be?
How long could the American boys
only in moderate strength yet. along
with the British. be able to resist the
terrible Hun drives7 1t is a thought
10 give every American something for
Ghe most serious contemplation.
II is true that the substitutes cost
Iaore than white flour costs. But II
is To be remembered that at the time
we entered the war American mills
were not equipped for grinding all
gh substitutes. Corn flour practically
disappeared from the market for a
time through lack of facilities for
grinding il In quantities TO meet the
suddenly created demand.
There were but few mills with ma
<hjnery for grinding oat' flour.
Barley flour was almost unknown.
There we're no mills in the Northwest
with the facilities for grinding bar
Aey flour
The food administration required
she mills to intall the machinery for
manufacture OF all the substitute
Eours. II is costly machinery. II may
go out OF use at the end of the war.
The new machinery was installed,
not on basis of whether It would
nay or what 1t would cost. but on a
basis OF getting an adequate supply
OF the substitute flours as a war
measure. Extra expense meant nee
essarily Increased cost OF the sub
stitutes. This Is one of the causes OF
higher prices for barley, oat, corn
and otheg flours.
Another cause Is the higher price
farmers are getting for these prod
nets. The farmers had the price ol
their wheat cut. That the price OF
every crop they grow should be sim
Tlarly cut is a plan that the farmers
could not be expected to agree to.
Mr.. Proctor asks the question. "Is
81 40 win the war or to fill some.
1ody's pocket" that food admins
srAtion, rules are established?
The food administration Is doing
everything in its power to prevent
profiteering. Thus, every mill is un'
der license. II cannot operate with
out license. Its property is virtual
By taken charge Of by the govern
Hnent It's books are examined by the
Food administrations, and It's profits
Kept 10 the minimum.
If undue profits are attempted by
she mills. the millers are penalized
1Fhe wholesalers are similarly licens-
ed, and their business similarly sup
sryised. Their books are inspected.
The regulation is the strictest sup
erUsion ever exercised by the govern
xnent over any private business In
America. The regulation Ii so rigid
chat II a miller. wholesaler or re-
taller does not submit to government
requirements his license is taken
away, and without license he can
not do business. r
II IL a great length to go for the
benefit OF consumers. II seems In
credible that consumers can com
plain.
The food administration Is without
authority TO fix the price of the far
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