Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-10 | Page 24 | U. S. to Purchase all Excess Wheat

II. 5. 10 PURCHASE ALL EXCESS WHEAT Surplus Supplies May Be Sold Through State Food Administrator. PLAN DRIVE MERGER State Council of Defense Indorses Idaho Plan for Organizing Labor. it vhA annoLiiifn.l at thn rtn:-tin of Hio f.tnt'.i council of (It-i'cnyo, hoM f.it.e relay in the lx;iril room of tin' f.-ijiitol, that farmers who havo an ex-rfiH ex-rfiH of. wheat Mon-'l away on tlu'-ir prcm-i.sfs prcm-i.sfs foiild lui.l a rea'ly purchaser in t h c United Htut.es o vernment, through Application to W. W, A rmatruMg, the state f ool udinijiifitrator. Thn an iiou a (tern en t was the result of: a. report made ,y .1. V. .Jenmm of .San-M'to .San-M'to county that fanners had so nnudi v.heat on hand in his vicinity that they were considering the ndv ialiii ity of juireliasin cattle, and ho;;s to which to feed tlio Hiirpliin. Mr. Jenson naid that hin en the, govern men t liad cut off thn activities of thn middleman, tiie farmers were at a loss to know how to dispose of their excels wheat. (Jo said that heretofore tho middleman had eo mo to tlio fit rum and taken over tho en tiro crop, or as much as they do-Hired do-Hired to sell. Since this has not been do no under government regulation, wheat growers had kept their surplus and weru now seriously considering feeding it to cattlo and hogs. By application ap-plication to tho state food administrator, administra-tor, it was announced, thn fjnvrrnment will purchase, ad tho wheat there is to Hparo. A movement was also atarted at the meetine;, which was attended hy twen-tv-HOven members and three quests, to havo tlie snar factories, after each ficnson's Hiitfur run was completed, take up the working over of surplus potatoes pota-toes into .starch products and other necessaries, nec-essaries, in order to prevent waste. By chemical process potatoes are made the i basis of artificial rubber, also, and thero was a possibility that this branch of conversion would be gone into as a means of conservation of the big ! crop not otherwise used as food. j Will Consolidate "Drives." Another important matter attended ; to was making it tlio sense of the council coun-cil that all war relief fund drives be consolidated each year. Instead of having ten drives, for instance, for $15,000 each, it will be arranged that one big drivo for $150,000 be had, tho proceeds to be divided anions the different activities, otherwise acting neparately, in proportion to their needs. Indorsement was given to the Custer county, Ida., plan for organizing industrial in-dustrial labor, an outline of which follows fol-lows i The United States government to organize, through the national coulieil of defense, the National "ounteer Industrial army to solve tho emergency labor problem. After the 'adoption of the plan by tho government, each stato council of defeuse to proceed with tho organization of the army under the supervision of government appointed ap-pointed officers in each state. The members of tho army to volunteer vol-unteer their services for one or more Any a per -week or one week per month, for whatever service will best help win tho war. All branches of business to furnish fur-nish recruits, including tho banker, the merchant, all manner of clerks, high school bovs of suitable age and strength, and all others not working directly to help win tho war. It was reported by the committee on food production and conservation that there would be approximately 25,000 acres more of wheat planted this year than lust. Fivo thousand dollars was appropriated to the seed committee to . help urnwers who need seed advances for 1018. and $7500 was advanced to the Mosida farming project. A committee was appointed to work out the programme for the boys' working work-ing reserve. Members named to this committee were J. V. Watson and John T. (.'nine Til of the Agricultural college. col-lege. Francis W. Kirkham of the state vocational education department, J. Morral George of Provo. Oscar A. Kirkham of the Mntural Improvement associations, and J. Chullen Smith of the Salt Lake public schools. There is to be one member each vet to be named by the Y. M. C. A., by the Og-len Og-len school superintendent, and by the IB. Y. U. of Provo. Other Business Considered. . It was announced that women and others who had not yet received the amounts assigned to them by drafted men or others iu the military service, should communicate with the quartermaster quarter-master general's oflice at Washington or with' the war risk insurance office jn the treasury department, according to the character of the lacking allotment. allot-ment. Chairman L. II. Varnsworth is to attend at-tend a meeting at Washington on April :i, called by Secretary Franklin K. Fane, to consider the class of persons to be entrusted with important matters , having to do with the welfare of the nation. Mrs. F. Eugene Morris was appointed to represent women in organized labor, ami a meeting was arranged for next Tuesday of the publicity committee with federation representatives recommended rec-ommended by Presideut Samuel G. GomKU'S. An improved condition with reference ref-erence to the activities of euemv aliens iu the state was reported by the committee com-mittee on stare protection, and encouraging encour-aging reports were received from the county councils of defense in Carbon, Summit, Millard, Beaver, Pavis and Wasatch counties. An effort will be made to place the 000 state bounty fund at the disposal dis-posal of state and federal officials jointly for the destruction of predatory j animals, the government to equal the appropriation of the state for this purpose.