Why. the other day our attention was called to a case which I want to tell you of. The Panama Railway -Co. advertised for 300.000 pounds of rice in New Orleais. They wanted 150.000 pounds from Siam and 150.000 from China. Imagine this situation.: There was. the Government buying Asiatic rice in the heart of the rice section. where warehouses are filled with the very best rice produced in the world and selling for almost nothing. We imnmediately took lil matter up with Mr. Hoover. who. in turn. took it up with the War Department. and we were assured that this practice would be stopped at once.