The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1919-12-17
DRIVE ON LIVING COSTS
Should Conditions Demand It, Full
Pressure Of Government Power to
Be Used-Wheat Embargo
OF December IS.
STATUS OF FIGHT ON
COAL SHORTAGE AND
HIGH COST OF FOOD

Nation will be without coal by =
December 20, unless production is !"
materially increased, officials de-
clare.
Both sides in mine-wage contro-
versy submit proposals, each Of
which are rejected in conference.
Secretary Wilson steps to front =
with new proposal said to embody I"
wage increase Of 81 per cent. +
Pinch Of fuel shortage beginning
to be felt all over the country,
especially In the Middle West. =
Attorney General Palmer made =
food administrator by President :
Wilson.
Move begun to avert sugar fam
inc by raising price sufficiently to
i secure Cuban crop.
< New food controller to use
powers in general campaign to =
halt rising living costs.
Lifting of wheat and flour en-
barge ordered for December IS, =
with view to restoring normal
trade conditions.
* Influx of Canadian wheat fore *
* seen as result Of removing grain y
+ restrictions.
+~* =
Washington, Nov o. President
Wilson has placed the government
again in control of the nations food
supply by transferring the authority
of Food Administrator to Attorney
General Palmer.
Revival of the wartime functions
of Herbert C. Hoover as food admin
istrator resulted directly from govern
ment efforts to avert a famine in
sugar; but the powers delegates to
the head of the Department of Jus.
tice will be used also in an effort to
put down the ever mounting cost of
living.
For the present the attorney gen.
eral will not put into operation all of
the machinery permitted under the
executive order but, should conditions
demand it, the full pressure Of all the
power vested in him will be exerted.
Mr.. Palmer's staff will begin imme-
diately to build up sugar distribut-
ing system which will allocate all
sugar stocks in the country. 1t will
provide an equitable system of dis
tributing supplies and will defeat any
concentration or boarding, officials
said.
IL Cents Wholesale Planned.
Plans tentatively decided on provide
for increasing the price of all sugar,
excepting the Louisiana crop, for
which price of II cents already has
been fixed, to IL cents a pound whole
sale. Through this increase new
sources OF supply are expected to be
opened. With assurances that fair
margin of profit, said to be about 1854
a hundred pounds, would be allowed,
sugar retiners are ready to enter the
Cuban markets and purchase all avail
able stocks, it was stated. Thus,
officials believe, the increase in the
price will avert shortage which
threatens to become a famine during
the next 60 days.
Immediate action also is contem-
plated in curtailing the consumption
of sugar by manufacturers whose prod
ucts are not regarded as essential
food. This will apply particularly to
soft drink dealers and candy manu-.
facturers.
To Raise Wheat Embargo.
New York, Nov. 22.-Embargoes on
wheat and -four will be lifted Decem.
Der Is, it is announced by the United
States Grain corporation.
Lifting of embargoes on both i'm.
ports and exports followed the action
Of President in Washington in signing
a proclamation completely terminal.
ing the embargo control which has
been in effect for more than two years.