Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1919-07-30

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n Prices. " 4
1t Ekater1nburg. In this Wilton, who
has been attached to Kolchak's head
quarters, relates and describes the
for his retreat from
Ekaterinburg. This" he says, means
2 fresh start on an entirely new sys-
tenn and another year of fighting be
tore we reach Moscow" - ~
Canned Goods Scandal. Il:
Full information as to reasons why
General r. b. Wood, recently acting
quartermaster general of the army.
obtained his present important post
with Montgomery Ward & Co., q
large Chicago mail order house doing
q heavy traffic in canned vegetables.
will be demanded by the house sub
committee probing the war depart
ment's failure to put on the market
its millions of dollars worth of sur.
plus food products.
R. ]. Thorne, president Of Mont
gomery Ward & Co.. was General
Woods right-hand man in the quar-.
termaster generals Office as 4 dollar
a-year" official. The two had control
of all supply matters in this country
while General H. J. Rogers, regular
quartermaster general, was overseas
with Pershing. It is asserted that
General Wood, an old officer of the
regular army, had never had any con.
nection with Montgomery Ward until
after he and Thorne, president of that
organization, worked together deter
mining policies in the quartermastsr
generals Office.
Goods Held Out.
Testimony brought out before the
congressional investigating committee
already, particularly that of Colonel
A. M. Davis, director OF storage, shows
that Wood and Thorne together were
responsible for the agreement made
between the war department and the
National Gamers association where
by a surplus of $23,000,0OO worth of
canned vegetables is being kept off
the domestic market.
Representative Reavis Of Nebraska,
chairman of the subcommittee investi-
eating the surplus food scandal, has
'ummoned General Rogers to testify
next week regarding the agreement
between the government and the can
ners to keep the unneeded stock off
the market, and thereby prevent the
cost of living from being forced down
to the detriment of the food trust,
Information in the possession OF
the committee" Reavis told your cor
respondent, Shows that General Rog.
ers, on his return from France in Feb
ruary, Immediately laid plans for dis
posing Of the canned vegetable sur.
plus"
League Victory Attracts.
1t Is no exaggeration to say that
the seven-fold referendum victory of
the Nonparttsan league in North Da.
kota on June 26 has reused the keen.
est interest throughout the East. In
thinking circles everywhere there il
close study of the League program,
tremendous interest in the possibility
OF Its extension on a nationwide
scale, and considerable discussion as
to whether or not its principles will
be extended so as to become a ma.
tional program.
Liberal circles everywhere heartily
1ndorse the League and by many it is
seen as the bulwark which rural
America Is raising against the forces
OF plutocracy on the one hand and boil
shevism on the other. As the Public
state in its last issue, What NORTH
Dakota does today her neighboring
states will do tomorrow"
"End Investigations" Demand.
The National Consumers league
representing the housewives of Amer
lea, Is strongly of the opinion that il
is now time to stop Investigating
the high cost Of living and, instead
do some leg1slating against it.
In a letter to Representative Tink
ham OF Massachusetts, who has JUS
introduced bill appropriating $50,
600 for nationwide probe of soar
ing food costs, Jessie R. Haver, legis
lat1ve representative of the Consum
ers' league, points out that no NOR,
Investigations are needed to show tina
the packers and their allies are exert
iii, 'e pres INT stranglehold on tn
national food supply, and demand
speedy passage Of the Kenyon-Ande1
son packer regulation bill, now pend
ing in both houses.
1--WE should like to remind you,
Miss Haver wrote, that a very thoi
Ongh investigation took place las
winter before two committees OF cor
gress, during which very astounding
facts were brought to light
"As result of the hearings wha
is known as the Kenyon-Anderson BIZ
has been drawn with the CO cooperation
of the producers, the farmers, and til
! consumers. This bill seems to us t
strike at the root of tho evil; namel,
the monopoly which Is exercised b
the five great packers Of the countr!
monopoly so far-reaching that
threatens to extend to all lines of foo
products. We are convinced that su
f1c1ent facts have been brought to l1gl
to warrant congress in passing tn
Kenyon-Anderson bill"
! Puanacious Fish. K
In Siam there are small fresh-wate
fish so pugnacious that when two {
them are placed near each other the
at once begin to fight. When the As
is quiet Its colors are dull, but whe
excited 1t is ora metallic briIliance. p