10 May 1917
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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1917
Page
1
A long editorial collage weighs war in Europe, food prices, politics, and national unity. It cites sugar, flour, wheat shortages, and chaos in markets while praising the need for a wartime business led policy and a bipartisan War Needs committee to coordinate Congress with executive efforts. It notes Brazil's strength, Vimy ridge, and the shift toward a broader democratic mobilization.
James B. Weaver of Des Moines at a Chicago Red Cross meeting pledges organizing the entire state. Chapters will form in population centers with county promoters to grow membership and train units for hospital services, sanitary detachments, and aid to fighting men and their families in Europe. Prosperity should not be pursued hastily.
Chicago May 3 Federal plans to seize and place the Chicago Shipbuilding plant under federal control were announced to prevent war industry disruption. The move, if needed, includes confiscation to avert strikes, with 600 of 15,000 workers already on strike. The Albaugh Dover tractor plant also faces a mysterious antiwar strike.
S W Straus head of the American Society for Thrift issues a May 3 1917 statement urging constructive thrift to back war effort. He cautions against indiscriminate tightfistedness while urging prudent living, resource conservation, and support for allies. He asserts America remains prosperous but faces food shortages without disciplined spending.
An Iowa law H F 131 due to take effect July 4 faces criticism as drafted by the senate. It originally barred headlights that beam higher than 42 inches, but an amendment requires lamps to be adjusted so the direct beam rises above 42 inches. Automobilists may be lawbreakers whenever lights illuminate the ground or zone within 42 inches of the roadway.
In a senate debate over seed prices and the nation’s food problem, legislators denounced food speculators and urged swift action. Senators Thomas and Borah led the charge calling speculators enemies of the nation and proposing harsh measures, including lamp posts or prison bars, to curb the practice. A Tasmanian government project to dam a large lake and build a hydroelectric plant for statewide power distribution is noted.
A historical draft plan outlines a day of registration using voting precincts as enrollment units. State sheriffs would register males ages nineteen to twenty five, with arrests for noncompliance. Exemptions include essential industry and agriculture. non exempted men reported to the war department for possible further exemptions. By August 1, 500,000 men are to be in training camps, with an enrollment projected at 7,000,000 and 40 percent disqualified for disabilities. 500,000 chosen by lot from the remainder.
Washington May 3 Absolute authority to regulate production distribution and prices of food and other necessities during the war is asked of Congress by the administration. A sweeping Lever bill would empower the president under the war clause to fix minimum and maximum prices, regulate production, requisition factories, compel releases for equitable distribution, regulate exchanges to curb speculation, and even restrict grain use in liquor.
Fossil wool from eighty five feet deep in northern Iowa, sent by B C Walden of Wallingford to Grinnell College botany department, along with spruce like leaves and moss, indicates Towa was once a spruce forest with a similar climate. The Vatican complex now contains over one thousand halls and rooms spanning about fourteen acres.
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