WOULD EXTEND WAR CONTROL OF ALL FOOD That, and Provision of Penalties for Profiteering, Advocated by the President.

if'Ut or pnt brr rntl»«a. <l»«i»rtrd pooplr* to mtrk'«nlll •hr knowa csacllr wh*r# . (tands In r*»prct to ' rd trill do U for her upon whlefc her qula connd, ns* of porP 0 *e dOrfrai •-Tfrhlle u.tr«-l*.an> poo•bllltr lh*‘ the peace term* mar b* f*d • may'be held lotu(’ln nbcjrmay not be enforcad becauae latona of pptmon a irony tha pow•aoclktob ayaunat Germany. It la o look for'permanent re lief. Immediate Raljef Mccumv war tor. OMbmliau .i«Uef. aurplua Me.-ka of both food and clolhlnc lo tha handa^bf the Coramment will be Bold and

TO FORCE SALE OF SURPLUS

In Addreaa to Congreea the Chief txacutiya Makea Aaaertlon That We “Are Dealing With Very Critical and Difficult Maltera."

Waihloxton.—Addreaslng Vad propoalng remedlefl to check the high coat of IIring. President Wllsou declared existing laws were Inadequate and high prices were not Justified by shortage of supplies, preaent or prospective, but were created In many cases “artifldaUy and deliberately" by "vicious practices." He spoke practically as follows:

1 have aought tkla opportunttr to afldraaa you bacauae It la daarly tdr duty to call your attaatloa to tha preasnreest at liTtn* and to orga upon rbu wltf) all tha parauastvs fore* of which I am capable tha Uctalatlra msasuras which would be - an ironing It and btlnc-

Tha price* tha people of this coup try are paying for avomhlny that It Is *ar thaw, to uaa In ordi faatlflad by a shortage pranant or proapectlre. ease* arttfictany and dallberataly a by riel one practices which ought t diataly to be cbacked by law. Profitsara Lawbreakers. i by whfc 1 criminal, and thorn will be energetically proBut other* have - - -

a to lire. Increase i n Increase la the price of the

strip* the mrrkata; so that LOara la presently nothing to buy, and there n another lo prices resulting from

. jratlve upon the formal proclamation ot peace. But I should Judge that it was clearly witbU) the conatitpUopal power of the congrats to make rlraOdr pbi-mantai prortelone and iagulat!ona artth regard to all goods deallnad- for Interstate commerce and to exdDde them from Interstate shipment If the requirement* of the aw are not compiled with. - Bom* such regulation Is Imperatively

. _ law, for tha purpose w* now hare In rtew. If it were also pr»aertbed that all gcod* released front atprage for tnteratals shipment should base plainly marked upon each package the — — -rice at which they

By thU means the Wtwaya ‘ *“

" tenUs of the food- . Slag of foodatuifa caw be Checked and prevented, and they will be. with the graataat energy Foodat Bg can be drawn--nrt Of storage and sold by legal action which. the department of Justice WUJ Institute wherever necessary.but as soon as tha sttuaUoh la aystematltally dealt with It la not likely that the •rill often have to Be resorted to. of tha accumulating of stocks baa no doubt been duo to the sort of speculation which always results from uncerWouid Hav* Prises Plainly Marked. required tha* all good* destined for tattrtiate commerce abouid la every cane Where their foasn or package makes Jt possible be. rtWtog marked with ths f>riee at Odlk «h*y left the hands of tha rrodooar. *Sch a requirement would b-*r-a aloee analogy to certain hrpvlaiona erth* par* food act. by which It le required that certain detailed Informetlon be irlran on the labels of of foods and drugs. does cot seem to me that we •oald coniine oWmalvss to detailed ' this kind. If It la Indeed —to assume national control ot the processta of dlstrtbutloii. Zi -take It for granted that that Is our parposa aed our dusy. Nothing less will aufllca We need not hesitate to l) question In a naahouid go bkyond tbe hare euggeated. W* ahould a law requiring a federal license of all corporations engaged In kiUrstglee commerce add toabodying In ths license, or la the conditions under which It to to be Issued, specific regulations designed to 'secure competitive seUIsg and present uacoasclcnsble profits la tJm.aMthqd qf,markeUng. Law Would Do Much, dach a tow would afford a welcome op-

whal profits stood beta*

pay for the aptaHlag destruction wrought by tbs great war. and wa arj part of the world. Ws must pay our share. For five year# now tbe Industry of all Europe has been slack and disordered. Ths normal crops .save net the normal quantity o!

we ar* not Jus tided b tartly with ihsm or b and shallow conclusion that they are "Batumi" and toer!table, la sitting Inactively by and letting them work thetr fatal results If there Is anything tha cam do. to check, correct or reverse t Ws must. I think, frankly admit them to no «>mpl*te ymmedtot* ret to be bad from legislation and executive action. Tb* fra* process as of supply and 4*mahd will not operais of tbemseli and no legislative or esscutira action force them tats lull and natural operation until there 1* peace. .f Must Know Term* of Psacs. Tbjf# can be no try. no calculable basis tor credits, do confident buying of systematic selllnr,. do certain prospect of employment no normal restoration of business, no hopeful attempt at reconstruction or s proper reassembling of ths d'slocatsd elements of enterprise until peace has been established, and. so far as may be guaranteed. Our nail oral Ilfs has no doubt been less radically disturbed and dismembered than the national Ufa of other people* who's ths war mors directly affected, with all Its terrible ravaging and deatructiva form, but It has been nevertheless profoundly affected and disarm aged, and our Industries. our credits, our »-.>duetlvr capacity. out economic proresser a inextricably Interwoven S.IU '.hose of •thar nations and peoples—most Intimately of all with the nations and peor'es upon whom the chief burden and confusion of the war fall and who ar* now moat dependent upon ths cooperative action of the world. Erporta Greatest In History. Ws are Just now shipping mom goods out of our ports to foreign maskets than wo over shipped before -not foodstuffs uwmly. hot stuffs and malaria la of every sort, but this Is do index of what our

will have on supplies Impossible yet to predict bow fat u> bow tong foreign purr bo sera win lo abto to find tbs money or the credit to fir sustain suck ‘

> thsir former output, forotgi. more hams set up again thsir aid machinery of trad* with tbe •ads of the earth. All th-se things must remain uncertain until pour* U astsbItobal and tb# nations of the world have cote-or tod tbs mstboda by which normal life and Industry am lo hs restored All that we shall do in tha meantime to restrain praflterr<ng sad put the Ufa of our people upon • tolerable tooting will bo makeshift snd previsions], There enn be no settled condition here or klsewbrre until tbe treaty of peare Is out of tbe way snd th« work of liquidating the wnr he* become the chief ooncern of our government and of tha other government* of tbs world "Europe Will not cannot recoup her

groa. I n*od hardly any. with very critical and very dlSrult matter*. We ahould go forward with we sea but n prshsnd tha wbol* of tha which wa not Them to no ground for x-mo of the fearful forecast# I hoar uttered about me. but tha condition pf the world Is unquestionably vary grave and -we should face It comprehendtngly. The situation of our own country to ext tionately fortunate. W* of all peq h»n afford to keep our heads and lo inslble l are workh-s such deep'unhappme: some of the distressed nations c other aid* of the sea But wa may be larolrad to thal

with . .. W# Must face tb* fact help Europe to got back to her normal and production a chaos will snrtir • which will laovltably be coauaunl catad to this country. For the present. .Ii

and effective action Bhc saved Europe by he -• • - - it by . lo saving Europe she still as aba did upue tha battlefields of tb* war. Tb* calmness mod capacity wlih which ah* deals with and roasters tffe peace will be ths final tort

. . overseas. Europe ts it customer. We must keep her - thousands of our shops sad mines must close There 1*

In such circumstances, face to fane with ouch tests, [asston must bs discarded. Passion *.-l n disregard for the rights of others bars no ptoso In the counsels of a free people. Ws need light, not beat, to these solemn time* of seif examine lion and taring action. U to real touch with t'

I am serenely confidant tha l ey will readily find themselves, no tr attar whai tbe ctreumstancea. and that taey will address themselves to tbe tasks of peace with the same dsvotiun and the aanw stalwart preference for what Is right that they displayed to the admiration of the

whole world to tbe midst of war. Sinister Influences at Work. And J eater another confident hope

hare spoken today chlsfiy of meas of imperative regulation and legal e

of prosecutions and tbs sharp

surplus stock la ths ■■anas si ins government, them was * treater supply of foodstuffs to this country on Jun* 1 of this year than at the same data last year. In f - - - tal of a number of the foods to dry and cold storage the is quits U par cent. And yst prkss have

risen.

Law Department Active. The attorney gene: a] has been making * careful study of ths situation as a whole sr.d of the laws that can be applied to better It ard Is convinced that, under the stimulation and temptation of exceptional circumstances, combinations of producers and combinations of traders have been formed for the con'rol of sup- . Pile* and of price# which ar* clearly to t restraint of trade, and against these prosecutions will be promptly Instituted and actively pushed which will to *11 likelihood have * prompt corrective affect. There le reason to believe that the pricss of leather, of coat of lumber sod of .textile* have been materially affected by forms of concert and co-operation among the producers and marketers of these and other universally asrassnry commodities which U will be possible to redress. Ns watchful or energetic effort will bs spared to accomplish this necessary result. I trust that there will not be many cases In which prosecution will be Decease ry. Public action will no doubt cause many who have perhaps unwittingly adopted Illegal n '.bods -- —- promptly and of thsir Ths department • department of agricollars. ths dspai. ment of labor and tha fsdsral trade commission can do a great deal toward supplying ths public systematically afad at short Intsrvfcto. with ttifolmatlon regarding the actual supply of particular commodities that to lu existence ana available with regard to •uplillea which ar* la existence but not with regard to the methods of price fixing which are being used by dealers la certain foodstuffs and other necessities Retailer* in Part to Dlama. There can be little doubt that retailera ar* in part—sometimes In Iwrg* part—responsible for exorbitant prices, and It to quite practicable for tb* gov--rnment through the agsnclee I have mentioned, to supply tbs public With full Information as to tbs prlcaa *t which retailers buy and as to tbs costs of transportation thay pay In order that It may be known Just what margin of profit they ar* demanding Opinion snd concerted action on ths part of purchasers can probably do lha re I-et me urge. In the first place, the present foodstuff control act should be extended both sa to lbs period of tin>s durls Which It shall remain In operation and Bs to "

ahafi

Its provision arsine; hoarding should be made to apply not only to food but also to feed stuffs, to fusL to clothing, and tc many other commodities which are Into operation

But them era other forces count on b “ “ “

daperunPnt fully awakt

on ard to the- influences, many of them vary selfish and sinister, that producing high prices and to Intolerable burden on the <m

I appeal with saUr* confidence our producera "©tfc-*inlddlemen and - merchants w deal Xfdrly with the p

pi*. U to .thalr opifortunlty to show that ttfey c«m>r*£end. that they Intend »o ndt fustiff, and; that they l app “'raw's;

I.HSzWvC Tpf - -

.■re tenders .of orgabtetd labor will pTsouaSp ptold-.'to , a sober second

strikes UodSftttBS «' " • re certain* to msk

tkr great i

set nks

_ will see idat this critical i certain' H 'make roaturs w. not botiWA-sorae for them and fei

1—Mayor Uilton off Nownr* xupervlrtn* the rule by the muHclpfilRT t» M-.P^Uc f tbe government. 2-Tbe C. B. 8S, first German submarine to enter Aryjof* fit . . minor repair*. &—Flnr ph'otograpb of the "million doiltr Are fit Colambry-lra-Bel pi fine* find ether material were burned.

NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS President id dresses Conjress on Cost of Living and the Possible Remedies.

PAGKBS TO 6E PROSECUTED

General Cxmpalg" It Started Agalnat Prcrtteara. Railway Union* Domand Mora Fay, Urye tha Plumb Plan and Threaten

to Strike.

« worst thing, ths most fatal •—out oan be dpngtilP# *• .. tam ——

wlth the railway*

uswatyF. , . There are many f Wn«a that ought to IS corrected In In* ralatlone betwqen eapiUl nod laio* in resi-cl ot era go and coadUtOBfi fiff. labor and Other things rvsn mpra .ter-rsachmg. and l. for one, am raady to go Into csnXersnc* about tltvsv nutter with any group of my follow rountryiam who k!-ow what tkry *rs talking about and are * willing to rsow^y sxlsting condltlens by frank oounssl ratbs* than by vtblsnt contrst. General Intercxt First. Xo remedy 1* posslbl# while men ar*

Mute AM Work Together.

Threat* i . Its interste of a .vtngls Claaa m* 1 tlensmt losposslBia * *"

r pedp<e snd ot the Irr sparable damage 1

orVmsn are to go on tn a perpst*

lively assorts tsd Hav* ws Inrss and self possession snC si use rnougti to work out th

and triumphal nation reives a united forre II world. It will not <hei us tor leadership In «

By EDWARD W. PICKARD. The open season for •jroflterrs ha*

come. If tborr to • briglU spot In the world'* aky. that U 1L "’or the rate the clouds fire black enough to salt

the mote confirmed pessimist. Government official*. Investigating

bodies. Individual economist*—all have been ewmnatly accking for tbe prime rgmrr of the high cote ot living. Ths cold-blooded, greedy profit err who b«iten* on th* mtsfortmira oi the people

Is the most easily discerned of th. end to going to be the first to

be desit with. All the sympathy he

get* must come from himself. President Wilson appeared befo-e

congress Friday nnd delivered n ncbolifiriy essay ou the subject, which Included various recommendations for legislative action, and told wtat tbe (Bvsrnment clreody U doing In the way of curbing the operations of the pre^teera. He urged the permanent •Ktension of the food control art, a law regulating cold storage, a iaw requiring that an goods entering InterMate shipment be marked with the geoducers’ price, prompt enactment of ..the pending capital Issues bill. and. -arhsi seems lo the write-- most Important of ell. the pnseage of a law requiring Vdeori licensing of nil corporations engaged In Interstate commerce. .The president did not overlook the -tqjportunlty to push the Immediate ratification of the pea** treaty snd league rot enant. He devoted much of hi* to nsnertloo*. in varied form, that until peace ts established only provisional nod makeshift results can be accomplished In tbe way of reducing living costa There can he no nettled condition* anywhere In tb* wdAd. he declared, until the treaty la outofthewey. Such viena did not meet with the approval of moat of the ItepubUccn congressmen, and their Indignation was aroused by the fart that the president used the domestic Issue a* a wrap-m In th* contest over the

League of Nations.

Moat promlneiit of the allcrcfl profitin are the Chicago packer*, the "big

Jive" who are reputed to control much .of ihe world# food aapplle* Koine

'<JiR« Ag<> they were Investlga<cd by the Xadarbl trade commission a ml that body t report that wna bitterly at4*yfeed bj the (Wander* of tbe perknts. Now with that report as a basis President Wilson has directed the department of Justice.b> Institute ai once eiril end criminal proceedings ngulnst the tig five. The attorney general stated Ihnt he was satisfied th* evidence develop,-d Indicated a cienr violation of the antl-tniat law*, end that Isa0or J* Kreeel of New Tort was In charge of the prnaeenttaa. The packers sre to be scruacd of unfairly und Illegally using their power to mnnipulste live stock markets, to restrict interstate and IntemntUmnl supplies of foods, to

control tbe price* of dre*»"d lucsta I ernti. nnd other foods, to defraud l«oth the | "elth

the rlctlips "of economic condition* beyond anybody’s control. Their caaertions that they tnnke an almost InflnItesmal profit and often operate at a lota do not aeem to make much Impression on either th# public or the agencies of Justice. That their statements ere not always Ingenuous la Instanced by the following assertion of the “commercial research-department"

f one of the big five:

"The general high price level to not ae to mantpnlatlon. This la shown by a recent report of tbe war Industrie* board, which proves that prices other countries of the world have en at much ai or'more than they -have In th* United States, and that thl* has been true even tn countries relatively unaffected by war conditions, such as Japan and Austral 1 * " The truth to that Australia Is glutted with food products and Its people are struggling to keep prices up to a profitable level. Also, while there was a big advance In the prices of Japan's chief food, rice, U wa* admittedly doe to the manipulation* of hoarders and profiteers and waa the cause of riot*

and of government action.

ALL TAKE EXCESSIVE PROFITS Federal Trad* Commission Makes Public Facto Concerning Present High Prloss of *ho«a. Washington-- Th* federal tt*C» com (plaslon, which recently ovidurted ati investigation u.lo the leather Ipduatry. inquiring raj-crinlly into the prices uff shoes, made public a summery of Ma report to ctmgrwna. <

“The federal trade coramlsslun has found •fiat the high price of ahoes cannot bs justified by underlying ecoBoo'll- (v-ndltlJM. The eoiumls»hin nf1«-r exhaustive Inqtih-y Into tile prior of hides, leather nnd sieve. Ii rrp-.rt-Ing to rvingrera that the large' parker* ciintr-il the bide *uj>tily end have taken exnwsl vr |>rofit* and passed In«reu*ed rusts to aBlrtei]Urnt steps tn mannfarturr and Attribution : that the tento-r has tskeo nareptinnal profita: that the manufatearwr at spots has tokag> unusoi.1 margins, and the prions

charged by the retailer arc not Justh Cable, each factor In the Industry adding to the burden he had to bear bp for* he passed It <«n to tbe next." Means for redoring the present high {rim are rrennimended by the mission In this luirasrapb: "Some relief from the Intolerable price# paid by consumers for shoes may tw had by (1) a rigid eufureniunit of the laws against monoirdietlc control of romrondi'lra. (2) b-glslation foridddlNB prodorer* of hide* engaglag in the tenoteg buslnraa"

The sugar Mtuatlon to confuxlng and statements ar* as conflicting as those relating to the pecking Industry. •However tbe gove-.-nment believes the sugar men also are profiteering and three official* of the Plttsbufgh branch of a Chicago roncern were arrested. It It asserted that scalper* have vast quantities of sugar stored away and that dealers are forced ti' buy where they can and pay what to asked, this, as in the case of other food products, the accused say the government la partly to blame for shipping vast supplies to Europe and thus creating a domestic shortage. The concerted attacks by federal and local authorities caused Immediate and sharp declines in the v.nqlesale prices of many food*, but there was little evidence thet the consumer was profiting by the declines, which seemed tc put eon the onus on the retailers. Tbe federal trade commission lately ha* been making an Inquiry Into the xhoe business, and has Informed cootress that the high price* of ahe^s ar* due to the unprecedented and unjustified profita taken by the slaughterers, tanners, mnnufarturer* and dealer*. Here, again, the packers are hit. for they are Charged with causing an unwarranted Increase In tbe price of hide*, the supply of which they are

•aid to control.

greatly harai the abop workers. .Thl* wax not authorised by tbe national unions, and it began to collapse wuen the president told tbe men their demands would not be considered until they resumed work. Both England and Franc* ere handling their tremendous labor difficulties fairly we»L In the former the atrike of city policemen Seems to be a tailuie. though in Liverpool It wa* accompanied by serious rioting. In Franca the worker* have sensibly agrend to postpone all rtrike* for stx mxirhs and meoiittm* they will Join with the employers and the government In raroest effort* tp solve the problems of wager and prices to stimulate greater production. which atone, M la beHeved. can mt# their eoutnry from economic disaster. It -would be an tmtoeasurnbl* blessing If aome of tbe common aenxe that has moved the French lakeep «p production could be Instilled In tbe American workers so they might reallxe that In cutting off production they are cutting their own

throat*.

Chicago's race war. which ot bottom was largely Industrial and partly i-> Ittcal. practically cam* to an end, and on Thanday more than 8.000 colored employees at th* packing bouses returned to work. As they Balked In. « large number of while employees ’.aid down their tools and quit, atru* of them because moat of the colored worhant are nonunion and tellers be cause they objected to laboring undet police and military p

Following up the metnnrandi

Ihe biemnnilvc engineers presented to the president, fourteen railroad unions acting as a unit handed to Direct or General Hines a demand for wag# Increases with a general program dosigned to meet the present crlsl*. Involving the-tlireal of a general rallroud strike. They ask that congress appropriate the money to provide Ineteabed pay and that the proper rate-Making Iwdy then determine what Inrrnsea If suy should he made In rate* "Any permanent solution of the railroad problem must necessarily remove the element of returns to capital as !h# sole purpose of operation" say the unions, and an the director general to asked to recommend to I resident Wilson tbst he try to obtain ihe passage by congress of the so-called Plumb plan. Tnls plan. In eliminating private capital from the railroad*, npt only propose* hut demands that the preaent private owners be reimbursed with government tmuds for “every honest dollar that they have Invested": that tbe public, tbe operating trinagetnrot*. nnd labor share i-qnally In corporation* to uke over the railroads, and tint In all revenues In excess of ihe guarantee to private capital tits op-

sod employees share one-half, by Increasing the mean* for

producers and the consumers at foods. - service without increasing filed chary, to crush oompeil*l*a. to secure rjiecial j "S •* l.y r. din ing the cost of the aerprivileges from rallroodi. st/s-k yards vice whlrii the machinery then in ter-

rOtepanle* nnd tnunlrtpalltlcv anil tnj render."

profiteer. The department of Justice

Will proceed against there,

tiolntlon

After Beta Run and h!e eommunlti government of Hungary quit and madr way for tbe Sorts I tat* things moved rapidly in Bo do peat. The Bo«inanl«n army, which had routed the Hungarian Red troops, advanced to th* city end occupied It, and Roumania. Issued ultimatum to Hungary which was not • - un tens need by the alUM pasce coun cU. Therefore French and Americer troops were sent to Budapest and a» sumed control and the Roumcniain were told they n art get cut. H«U tin aoc-Jlst government was overthrown and lu members a -rested and An* duke Joseph rasumed power with thr title of governor of tbe elate. He *-*• supported by the entente mission In the city iind announced be would forts a coalition cabinet with fltepbte Friedrich ss premier. The Austrian peace detegvtee mad* their coonter-prnpoaato to tb* treat/ terms submitted by the alllra. The* were unexpectedly mild aud the com plaints of tbe Austrians are aim' 1 *’ pathetic. They assert that too tun* territory to taken from their com citing especially tb* Tyrol and sou’ 11 ern IbiU -mla. end say'the war debt loaded <« them la 06 heavy they not sure the Austrian people <*» r*" 1

Japan, through Foreign Minl»<'M Cchlda. promise* to restore Shantung) to-China «1 CBBteateOD at arranr ment* wKh tbe Peking governmru'. 1“ carry out the ptedgr given ln ** agreement of IBM. peraidrat Wllrt*howevar, bow raveals ths fact that U* Japanese peace delegate* gave stnnttaUy the same promise in l ®' ter-allled i ncfervnc* of April 8° ' ,l, , out any refewie* to th# agreem'-'; 0 1816. The president believes the J«F anese statemroi dears up the •bout the Shautoag affalV. s * cr, ‘ ! < , 7. of State Lansing told the SS®ri* * «*lgn relations rouwnirtce Ihst ( “ had never protested to the pre* 1 / 1 '^ against tbe Khi ntung *ettiv• ,, '' l : tli* allied pears council: ih® 1 f clause was sncejtted by tbe ded‘‘" n * th* president and that b«\ i,r - ‘ (1 Sing, did not believe it w*s W™' obtain Jsian's sdhercU'v v*>

League of Nstlona.

Bn-rteary of 'Taj- Baker h-'* ^ sented to the house nnd •rt"'” mlttecs on nillltary affnlrs th#

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u chance t„ demottstra'r ... the imbllc uuun.-ed the demands of the rail work tl.eto ntn-ieeJttSTcBr Thl* , fbelr Inn-MWiee. liirmlranneas an* help- | era .. nrar tre-oc sod other mem i I, # ^ rte f

end sll of them rrprat their : be,. cungr. *. r|„rad h |. j JJJ* b BolvX.I I protertstlons ihst they era ' though they wero toe* ouunokee i “V uf

offt heard protertstions I

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