OLD PRICE SE
FOR NEW WHEN
President Refuses to Put Limit
Above That for 1917
TO PUI END TO AGITATION
President In Proclamation Requires
Wheat At Prices Fixed Must Be
Harvested During 1918 And
Sold Before June, 1919.
Washington.—A price of $2.20 a
bushel—the same as for last vear's
crop—was fixed by President Wilson
for the coming season's wheat yiel
The price is for No. 1 Northern spring
wheat at Chicago, with a scale of
differentials for other markets. The
differentials differ to a extent
from now operative and range
from a minimum of
of $2.28
In fixing a
crop, which will not be harvested
til June, the President
to have had two
The first was to he
ing to fix prices
2.25 to $3 and the other was
late spring planting.
The
slight
those
$2 to a maximum
price now for the new
believed
in
ult legislation pend-
was
objects view
¢
t rom
ai iroin
to stimu-
in Congress
introduction of the price-rais
ing bills had begun to check the flow
of wheat to market, Ad-
ministration officials feared that mills
goon would have to close down. Hop-
fing the legislation would pass, farm-
ers, have been refusing
to sell at the present price of $2.20
In enacting the food
Congress put a guaranteed price of $2
on next season’s and this has
been construed as a minimum price.
To draw wheat to market the Presi
dent fixed a price of $2.20 on last sea-
son's ft had effect un
til the price-raising 1 were int
duced. Then the flow began to stop
Food Administr
declared that if
government
present
that to
Administrati
gr
and Food
it is declared,
control law
orol
crop
th
yield, and this
ro-
have
ation officials
the bills passed the
would be forced to
prices ft the new lev
am
No
equivalents the
price as follows:
Chicago, $2.20
sas City, $2.15;
neapolis, $2.17
York, $2.28; Phila
timore, $2
rleston,
Preside
Ag Omaha, $2.1
Lon
Duluth,
Qt
$2.17
jeiphia, $2.27
Newport
32.27;
2 : Portland, Ore. $2.05: i
$2.05; San Francisco, $2.10; l.os An
geles, $2.10: Galveston, $2.20: New
Orleans, $2.20; Salt lake City, $2.00;
Great Falls, Mont, $2.00;
Wash, $2.00; ’
News
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Spokane,
Pocatello, Idaho, $2.00
Fort Worth, Tex., $2.09; Okls ma
ity, Okla, $2.05; Wichita, Kan, $2.68
he equivalents of No. 1 Northern
to which price applies,
No. 1 hard wintef, No. 1
No. 1 durum and No. 1 hard
The wheat must be harvested
United States during 1918
in the market be June 1,
The President's proclamation
that the action to
gency requiring the
wheat planting
the same
sam
red winter,
white
the
and
fore
is meet
In a statement
proclamation
“Under the
August 10, 1917, it Is
nounce
of
accon
Pre
Food
the
Control
3 duty
a guaranteed price for
1918 harvest. | a
clamation
the
ning
price pa
markets, It makes
tion in the pr ant
$ th Tq .
at the inte;
no eas
guarantee
of
contifiuation the
wheat, with sorue adjustments
ation of
from the tion
terminal marketing points
present
pri
addi
ataaGitio
“This guaranteed price asgus
farmer of a reasonable profit,
if the war should end within t
and the large
of
he
stores of grain in those
the Are now
from
Year
sections world that
cut off transportation should
again come into competition with his
products, To increase the pr
wheat above the present figure, or to
agitate any increase of price, would
have the effect of very seriously ham
pering the large operations of the n
tion and of the Allies by causing the
wheat of last year's crop to be with-
held from the market. It would, more.
over, dislocate all the present wage
levels that have been established aft-
er much anxious discuselon and would,
therefore, create an industrial unrest
which would be harmful to every in-
dustry in the eountry,
“1 know the spirit of our farmers
and have not the least doubt as to
the loyalty with which they will ac
cept the present decision. The fall
wheat planting, which furnishes two-
thirds of our wheat production, took
.place with mo othet assurances than
this and the farmers’ confidence was
demonstrated by the fact that they
planted an acreage larger than the
record of any preceding year, larger
by 2,000,000 acres than the second
largest record year and 7,000,000
acres more than the average for the
five years before the atubrcak of the
European War,
“It geams not to be generally un-
-
ice
derstood wny wheat is pleked out for
price determination, and only wheat,
among the cereals. The answer is
that, while normal distribution of all
vur farm products has been subject
to great disturbances during the last
three years because of war conditions,
only two commodities, namely, whea!
and sugar, have been so seriously
affected as to require governmental
intervention,
“The disturbances which affect
these products and others in less de
gree, arise from the fact that all
of the overseas shipping in the world
is now under governmental control
and that the government is obliged
to assign tonnage to each commodity
that enters into commercial overseas
traffic. It has, consequently, been
necessary to establish single agencies
for the purchase of the food supplies
which must go abroad. The purchase
of wheat in the United States for for
eign use is of so great volume in
comparison with the avallable do
mestic supply that the price of wheat
has been materially disturbed and it
became necessary, in order to
tect both the producer and the con
sumer, to prevent speculation. It was
for the govern
measure of
far as possible t
pro
NeCeBSary,
ment
therefore,
to exercise a direct
supervision as 0 con
of whe:
liberal and equitable
circumstances
the handling
the
“Those peculiar EOov
erning and
of wheat pu
cent of war
himself, he Is
country and the
in a way which is
mental to his
prosperity.
the
Next
gervir
at Very
farmer
er service,
soldier
world and
absolute!)
own future safety
He
relied upon as t
*The
men to the
can
Iso contribut
and |
the sacrifices
farmer
am keen!
involve
alive to
of 13.800.000
: men
£ ngaged
205.000 1}
1.48 per
In addition
volunteers, and the
been draf
the
these,
industries,
or
1IAVE
about cent. of whole
number,
heen
lost a
to
have
considerable numb
wages paid
them
FCoavry
LTT
I'S have
laborers because the
1 ye *g
industrial purs 8
In
drew
order t Heve the
0
w
wing upon
new
nee is upon
am
justified bs
to be |
the
chief thing
that regulations of
only a part of the
mobilization
the
great
!
of into whicl
nt & $ 3
nt in in this
n nation
The
and
enters
business, a bus!
sacrifice, a bus
no other
enegs
and
word.”
mont
THREE KILLED IN AIR CRASH.
Instructor And Cadets Fall 500 Feet
To Earth Near Memphis.
Memphis, Tenn. Civilian
Instructor Guy H. Reagle, of Chicago,
and Cadet Flyers James H. Webb,
Rome, Ga.,, and Robert Gray, Jr, of
Richmond Hill, Long Island, N. Y.,
were killed at Park Aviation Field,
Millington, Tenn. ,near here, when the
aeroplane in which Instructor Reagle
and Cadet Webb were flying was
gtruck broadside 500 feet above
ground by a machine plloted by Cadet
Gray, who was making a solo flight
All three aviators had been in the
alr some time-nnd were just rounding
the “blind side” of the course, plan
fing to cut off their motors aid effect
a landing.
Nearly 20,000 British South African
natives have been recruited for esrv
jce behind the lines in France and
Flanders,
MEN LOST
Cherokee Goes Down in Gale
Off Maryland Coast.
SKIPPER IS AMONG MISSING
Little Seagoing Craft At
Mercy Of Mountainous Seas When
Steering Gear Breaks During
Fifty-Mile Blow.
Thrown
Philadelphia. —Twenty-nine
believed to have lost
the
men are
their lives when
tug Cherokee
gale 15 miles off
Ten
sea-going naval
foundered in a severe
the Maryland
and the bodies
of
Coast survivors
of eight other members
crew of 39 brought
on Britizh
ed at the Philade
| No trace of the
the were here
two rescue and land
Nav ¥
remaining
ships
iphia Yard
members
found mg those
Edward
time
rey
Was
| throw n
wvallowed
hat
meant
{ ¥ i
wbandoned the
al to founder.
Tells Of Rescue,
about
yout
Bix
disaster,”
HOSPITAL SHIP
Only 34 Out Of 200 Saves
art Castle Is Torg
NO KHAKI FOR HOME GUARD.
{ They Must Wear Blue Uniforms De.
spite Protest,
ington
Members
ates guard will
regulation
blue
ave subjected them
in Stay
at-home-hetro
offic
Department explained
ials
that blue uniforms such
by
. 3
euard to obviate the necessity
the Nig
he U $ guard recently was
authorized strictly for guard duty
within the United States
as formerly
worn regulars were adopted for the
of using
ting forces
loth needed for
nited States
World War in Brief
Hostile
west of St
raids were repulsed north
Quentin, in the neighbor.
hood of Bullecourt and east of Ver
meilea, according to the Iritish War
Office report
After a heavy bombardment, Ger
man in the Champagne at-
tempted to recapture the positions re
cently taken by the French at Butte
Du Megnil. Paris saye the Germans
were halted by the French fire,
troops
ND PEACE IN
ington Officials.
NOFORMALCOMMENT NEEDED
Count von Hertling’s Treatment Of
The Subject Considered ironical
‘Vague and Con-
fusing.”
Washington.
speech in the
Count von Hertling's
Reichstag, continuing
belligerent has
opinion
powers, changed
sftuation, in the of high
Instead of marking an
it
not
here
toward peace je
rather as deliberately i 1
the hand German
nilitaristic parts
impract
Ong am
upon thi
the debate
NEGRO TROOPS IN RIOT.
Twenty.Six Face Court-Martial For
Outbreak At Camp Pike,
Twenty«ix negy
e¢ Hundred and
Batta
Pike
Service on
wound
STUDENTS NOT EXEMPTED.
Members Of Military Training Units
Sti!l Subject To Draft
shington.—College students
members military training
tf thel ntions and who are
re not exempt
of the
Department held
officers on
at
a
selective
War
a memorandun sent
military
gorviee act, the
to
instructors
au
schools
NEW OUTBREAK IN IRELAND.
Troops Sent Into County Clare To
Assist Police,
London. —The outbreak of lawless
in County Clare, Ireland, it is
announced officially, rendered neces.
gary Sunday the sending of additional
troops to the county to assist the po
tice. County Clare has been declared
a special area under the defense of
the Realm act,
ness
TURKS TAKE TREBIZOND.
Clear Russian Bands From Black Sea
Port.
Amsterdam A dispatch received
here from Constantinople says that
Turkish troops have entered Trebi
zond, on the Black Sea coast of Asia
Minor, and cleared it of “bands.”
ALL NATIONS
MUST SUBSCRIBE
in Wilson's Speech.
GOAL NOT YET REACHED
Veiled Overture Made To Belgium-—
Would Not Adopt Antago-
nistic Attitude If Ap-
proached.
A
Rel
cellor,
sterdam. Speaking before
hetag the Imperial German
Count Hertling, made
declarstion:
‘1 can fundamentally ag
principle
view, mu
mutual exchang
YOu.
ree with i
Our
Wilson's
declare
/ genera
that
been
court of arbi!
all the nations
f peace in
President
aeciine
jovfull
iN
12 KILLED ON SOUTHERN.
Rear
Columbia,
Passenger Train Runs into
Another
Of
Near
one 8
ran into
lumbis
one ahead
AMERICANS TAKE HUNS.
Patrol Penetrates Enemy Lines
Conjunction With French.
in France
the
Asunerican Army
American
sect
patrol in hemin
ames
‘rench patrol, penetrated a
dred yards into the German lines
captured two German officers, 20 men
1d machine gun There wae
come sharp fighting and a number of
the caemy were killed and wounded.
There were no American casualties,
The Franco American patrol was un
der command of a French officer.
i or,
3
few hun
and
one
ATTEMPT TO KILL KRYLENKO.
Displaced As Commander in.-Chief Of
The Bolsheviki Forces.
London Ensign Krylenko, the Rus.
sian commanderdin-chief, was shot and
slightly wounded on Saturday in Pet
rograd by a Socialist, according to an
Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
Arqeterdam. Kryvlenko's wound was
in the neck. Hix assailant was ar
rested Me report of the shooting
was received in a telegram from Cer
Man sources,
i
|
teers to Aid in Work.
Reserve Organization of American Me.
chanics Is Formed to Complete
Great Shipbuilding Program
Planned to Win the War.
All states have been requested to
contribute their quota of volunteer
shipyard workmen to speed America’s
new merchant fleet to rapid comple-
tio. The United States Shipyard Vol-
unteers of the Public Service Reserve
has been fortned, embracing skilled
workers In many trades. Two hun-
dred nod fifty thousand workmen will
be enrolled, all of whom wlll stand
ready to respond when they are called
to go to shipyards for service,
An appeal for volunteers has been
made by the department of labor,
the council of national defense, the
shipping board, the 20.000 four-minute
men, of the
organized labor and bus
alm is to ll all the
needs of the governn
Pay of v«
ance with
us slates,
The
present and future
went's shipyards.
} accord-
the
» called.
workers
and the
be ready en
BOvernors vari
[168s men.
in
ix
the
shipyards at the tin
Construction of houses for the
is being pushed with
neces
energy,
ary hie nes Wiis
called
tiie wen are
Preliminaries Are Arranged.
] rk, such
s and shipws
fu :
facilit
ysportation of
of workmen,
construc wousing
preparation and
terial, and the t
organization of the shij
is being hastened ¥
thusiasm,
Volunteers are requested to go
nearest enrollment agent of the
service reserve or state council
Ehould there
fense and sign
ge
'
nt in
un
sprolling a
are asked t
ley, (
write Edw
of the Uni
Washi
io
shipping board,
atemen
hipyards to Win or Lose.
world be wor
Americar
driven is a 1
War Ww
rivet OW
Every ship turned out brings An
nearer to victory.
“Those who give their strength
influence
ships render service
and highly
termination of the war
Quota of Each State,
Each state has been
quota, based upon the population
industries. The quota is as {oll
construction
to the speedy
|
5 . yor
hat Is pe
essentizl to the successful
assigned
Maine “ 2.902 Jersey
New Hamp ws
Vermont "0
Maszach: 2
Rhode 1 25
c =e
New York 536
Minnesoia
Jowa
Missour!
Ne Dakota
Bon Dakota % '
New
-
Bars.
Mississippl
Arkansas
Louisiana
kKiahoma
Texas
Montana
Idaho
Wyoming
Colorado ......
New Mexico
Arizona
T"tah
Nevada
Washington
Oregon
California
th
BE BE en We
th
Nebraska
Kansas
Delaware
Maryland
Dist. of Col
Virginia
West V
WN Carolina
" -~
| EM
2.204
nH
0:
Kentucky
Tennessee
Trades Nesded in Shipbuilding.
The department of labor has provid.
ed the following list showing the kind
of trades most needed in shipbuilding,
and a special appeal is addressed to
men In those occupations to enroll in
the United Shipyard volan-
teers:
fRiates
Acetylene and electrical welders. as-
bestos blacksmiths, angle-
emithe, drop-forge men, flange tarners,
furnace men, boilermakers, riveters,
reamers, carpenters, ship carpenters,
dock bdullders, chippers and calkers,
electrical workers, electricians, wire-
Ten, crane operators, foundry werk-
erg, laborers (all Kinds), loftemen,
template makers, machinists and
machine hands (all sorts), helps
ers, painters, plumbers and pipe
fitters, sheet metal workers, copper
smiths, shipfitters, structural irod
workers, erectors, bolters up, cement.
ers and crane men.
workers,
Everybody Does It
One form which our national lying
not infrequently takes is to say, when
a prominent friend finally does come
around and pay back what he owed
you, or part of it: “Why, I'd forgotten
all about 1t."-Ohlo State Journal,
Werth While Quotation,
“Some people seem to take wp all
the sorrows of the past; to them they
add the burdens of the present: theo
they look ahead and anticipate a great
many more trials than they will ever
experience In the future.”
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