Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 251, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1917 — FOOD FOR CONSERVATION [ARTICLE]

FOOD FOR CONSERVATION

INDIANA STATE COUNCIL OF DEFENSE, GEORGE ADE CHAIRMAN. Indianapolis, Nov. 7.—Alien enemies who have been distributing proGerman propaganda in Indiana will be made the object of a well organized, intensive drive by th Indiana State Council of Defense, through the county councils of defnse. A determination to “make examples” of some of the more offensive of these traitors was expressed at the regular meeting of the State council and the council went on record as proposing to make an absolutely thorough investigation of incidents reRichmond. Cases at Anderson and in Boone county also will be invstigated. At Albion it was reported the pupils of the public school after securing the enrollment of their mothers in the Hoover food organization in* formed thir teacher that their mothers refused to be made the special targets of German vengeance which they would be if they displayed the window cards. As a result the enrollment in the city was seriously retarded. At Auburn, Mayor Me Clellan stated that farmrs are rushing their brood sows to market because of the insistent report that the federal goverment would fix a price of from $lO to sl2 per hundred weight for the hogs, which in view of the high price of feed would make feeding them unprofitable. At the county council of defense said that traitorous rumors were traveling ahead of the women canvassers and the work is handicapped lyRequests for state troops to guard stock yards, packing, plants, storage houses and other food repositories are coming into the state council of defense and Harry E. Barnard, Indiana food administrator and a special effort will be made to guard against such catastrophies as wiped out the Kansas City stockyards and caused a loss of $5,000,000 on the Baltimore piers. Dr. Barnard reported a delay in the naming of the county food administrators and the state council sent a fourth request to the countycouncils, this time by telegraph, urging them to act promptly in order that the new federal license control law might be enforced promptly upon its promulgation November 1. Evans Woolen a member of the state council and fuel director for Indiana reported a shortage of approximately 3,800,000 tons in the state’s domestic coal supply. The normal consumption he said is 6,000,000 tons and up to this time but 2,200,000 tons nave been distributed. Indiana’s out-state supply which normally is 40 per cent of the total, is complteely cut off, he said, and jobbers have been without coal for three months. He stated that the carful attention of the highest authorities.

At the request of the live stock section of the Committee on Food Production and Conservation of the State Council, the resolutions adopted at a conference of hog breears at Purdue university, urging the United States food administration to fix a ratio between the price of coin and of hogs, will be referred to the attention of Herbert Hoover, at Washington. An effort by State Food Administiator Barnard to effect an increased acreage of sugar beets in order to overcome the world shortage, met with the discouraging statement that Indiana farmers cannot afford to give land to the cultivation of beets in view of the 250 per cent increase in the price of corn and the 50 per cent advance in the price of sugar beets. The only Indiana sugar beet factory tdrns out 13,000,000 pounds of sugar annually and says it cannot exceed this figure. The state council referred to a special committee the suggestion of forming among high school girls a “working reserve” inculding all who will agree to do two hours of patriotic work per week. The suggestion came from Mrs. Southgate, of Michigan City, originator of the plan and organization .of the Michigan City high school girls.