Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1916-11-15 | Page 3 | Duma Tackles Food Problem

t DUMA PUMA TACKLES FOOD PROBLEM l l lI I A t Dores Being Planned to Reduce Cost Cos o of Living in in f Russian Empire rr r. r r r J.-r I Petrograd Nov 10 11 The Thc The food toad I ilon and the problem of or reorganizing on 1 ho present supply channels which lave proved d Inadequate to meet the theof needs of or tho the population arc are the prin- prin questions which will occupy the attention of oC the duma dum t. t which has re- re fumed Burned Its Ha sessions after a four tour months' months adjournment tho the Ja last t session the whole supply supply sup sup- pI ply question has become of ot paramount Importance and tho press and public pre ire unanimous In demanding some im immediate immediate im- im mediate action that th will allow the people peo peo- 0 plo to benefit from the plentiful re resources resources re- re sources of or tho country These J If It properly prop prop- erly handled It Is contended would bo be sufficient to provide for the entire population population pop pop- at prices not exceeding those In tho the other countries at war The Tho present conditions are to be traced chiefly to lack Jack of ot transportation tion facilities and to speculation Speculation has hns promptly prompt mot met with punishment whenever the offenders havo have been apprehended and antl various steps havo have been taken to Increase the means of or transporting supplies from tho food centers to the hu largo large e cities But nut 1 all the committees engaged in to the i Consideration of ot the question are arc convinced con con- vinced through Investigation that complete complete com com- lete reorganization can alone alono remedy the present economic disorder r Another eagerly awaited feature orthe of or the session is the declaration by Polish Pol Pol- ish members of oC tho duma re regarding Germanys Germany's offer of ot Independence io to that part of or Russian Poland occupied by German Grman troops A largo number of or prominent Poles who arc exiled from their homes In nu Poland beI because because be be- I cause of ot tho German Invasion already t have expressed themselves as dissatisfied fied fled with tho German offer which ac according according c ac- cording to their views uniting unit unit- uniting i ing Poland Is an attempt to perpetuate the dismemberment of at Poland and Is I th therefore unacceptable