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Show eROUND GLASS IN MLYK MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED CAS-18 CAS-18 OF THIS ALLEGED OUTRAGE HAVE BEEN INVESTIGATED. PREFERENCE LIST FOR COAL - i Issued by priorities Board fof , ance pf Dittributlng Agencies-Council Agencies-Council of. Defense Favors School District Organizations. (From Committee on Public Information Washington. The frnqnont ond widespread puhllentlon of statements concerning the presence of ground glass In foodstuffs has led the committee com-mittee on public Information to Inquire lnts the authenticity of these reports! It has been advised by the food nl-mlnlstrntlon nl-mlnlstrntlon thiil thnrouRh Investigations, Investiga-tions, of more than 200 of the enses' has disclosed only one Instance In which jrround glass was found In the foodstuffs Inspected.. ; The case In which glass wns found occurred at Fort Smith, Ark, A Laker In that town.' had had trouble with his employees, one of whom, desiring to flestroy his employer's business, hftd filled with glass a loaf of breai which wns to be delivered to an orphanage. When the bread was served to the Inmates In-mates of the Institution severnl of them suffered lacerations of their lips. No more serious Injuries resulted. The first preference list Issued by the priorities board, which names Industries Indus-tries whose operation Is considered of exceptional Importance to the country during the war, Is for the guidance of all agencies of the United States In the distribution of conl and coke. Included Includ-ed In the list are plants engnged In the manufacture of the following: ; Aircraft and snpplles; ammunition and small arms for the United Stntes, pivernment or the nlllesj chemicals: coke ; electrical equipment ; electrodes ; explosives; farm implements and farm operating equipment; feed; feri-al-loys; fertilizers; fire brick; food; food containers; gns; gas-producing machinery; ma-chinery; guns; hemp, Jute, and cotton bajjs; Insecticides; Iron and steel; machine ma-chine tools; mining tools and equipment; equip-ment; oil-well equipment; locomotives, car3, and other railway supplies; ships (not Including pleasure craft); sonp; tanned leather, save for patent leather; tanning extracts; tin plate; binder twine and rope; wire rope and rope wire. , Army and. navy camps and ennton-tnen) ennton-tnen) are Included in the list as well as mines, newspapers and periodicals, oil refineries, pujillc Institutions and buildings, public utilities, railways, producers pro-ducers nd wholesalers of seeds, ex-, cept flower seeds. '' " In a statement urging the creation of "community councils" the council of natlonnl defense cities these advantages advan-tages of the school district as a unit of community organization :- The school district Is small enough to permit Individual contact, and Is non-polltlcnl. The schonlhonse supplies a meeting place In each district, and In many Schools Includes doniostlc science, manual man-ual trfllnhig, and Other facilities. The school district renches children and purents alike, and In the cities the school Is, to a large extent, already In touch with the alien population. The school Is an established center of Information and education. The school principal or faculty provides pro-vides a tried agency through whose as-! as-! slstance community organization can i h nntrklv effected. I ' The school district, with the school-house school-house as Its center, Is already a social community, especially In farm districts. Wage Increases In the United Stntes are not keeping pace with the advance In the cost Of living. Assistant Secretary Secre-tary of Labor. Post asserts. Figures compllpd by the bureau of lnbor statistics sta-tistics t)f the department of labor, he says, show that while the cost of food last yenr Increased 25 per cent for the entire country, wages rose only ore-' half or two-thirds of that rate. The statement Issued by the bureau of labor statistics showing the increased in-creased living costs throughout 'the I'nlted States for the year ending Jan-nary Jan-nary 15 snys : "Comparing January 15, with January 15, 1017, the rute of food as a whole incrensed 25 per cent. All articles ar-ticles show decided Increases with the exception of potatoes, which decreased 10 per cent. Cornmenl shows the greatest price chnnge, sn Increase of 77 per cent. Hncon Increased 04 per cent; bird. 53 per cent; pork chops. 44 per cent; hnin. 42 per cent; milk, 35 per csnt ; hens, 29 per cent ; butter, 25 per cent ; eggs, 23 per cent ; bread, lfl per cent ; suuar, 18 per cent ; and flour, 17 per cent" A review of the first year of operation opera-tion of the federal farm loan system shows that 2,808 national farm loan as-soclntlons as-soclntlons were Incorporated, representing repre-senting about four associations to each Ave counties of the I'nlted States. They average 20 members, or a total membership mem-bership of about 50.000 farmers. The 12 bind luniks have received ap-plkntlons ap-plkntlons for over 120.000 loans, amounting to about $.'!00,000,000. About W.ooo lonns, amounting to over $100,-.,v)a,0OO, $100,-.,v)a,0OO, hnve been approved, and on O.(KK) of these lonns over $sO,O00,0)0 has been paid to the farmers. |
