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Show uUnuLlnL UKAIIl Urges Government to Prohibit Use in Alcoholic Beverages or Beer. WASHINGTON, May 9 Prohibition Prohibi-tion of the use of grain, including barley, bar-ley, in the manufacture of beverage alcohol al-cohol or beer during tho war, was urged today before the senate agricultural agricul-tural committee by Herbert C. Hoover of the food committee of the council of national defense, and Dr. Alonzo Taylor, a special assistant to Secretary Secre-tary Houston of the department of agriculture. Dr. Taylor said the brewers who told tho committee recently re-cently that barley was not good for human food wero wrong and that it was used in Europe He said 87,000,-000 87,000,-000 bushels would bo saved by prohibitory prohibi-tory legislation. Mr. Hoover continued his testimony on the necessity of a central food department. de-partment. He said he believed thero should bo authority to fix prices for every one, from the producer to the consumer which would eliminate tho speculator. Herbert C. Hoover, in a conferonco with President Wilson today, outlined his ideas of stops necessary to conserve con-serve tho food supply of tho United States and supplying the allies with food during the war. After the conference Mr. Hoover was asked if ho would accept a position as food dictator in case one were created. "I don't want to be food dictator for the American peoplo," ho said. The man who accepts such a position will dlo on the barbed wire of tho first line entrenchments." |