| Show Hoover Cutting Culling Red fed Tape Tope to Aid Famine Sufferers in Europe By fly WALTER A. A A SHEAR snEAD Washington Correspondent Corre I Features p PRESIDENT RESIDENT TRUMAN'S famine emergency committee headed h by former Pres Herbert Hoover as honorary chairman is slicing through red tape and bottlenecks in ina ina ina a desperate race against starvation Lion tion of many of the peoples of Eu Eu- Europe Europe rope and Asia The people of the United States are asked by the committee to vol voluntarily sacrifice 40 per cent of their volume of ot wheat a product consumption lion tion and 20 per cent if f food fats fate and andUs S oils Us so so that these millions f facing a stark hunger may live And Secretary of Agriculture Clin CUn Clinton Clinton ton Anderson de de- ll II Hoover clares dares that If ii the American people conserve on all aU foods and eliminate waste the nation can meet our pres pres- present present ent food tood commitments and still pro provide vide 10 per cent more food at home than was available In 1945 But Dut that means another record production of food stuffs by the farmers of the nation a record that must be achieved in spite of further shortages in labor and farm machinery and another season of fertility depletion depIction of the soil But Dut It Is an emergency an emer emer- emergency emergency gency which not only challenges the American farm farm- farmer know how of the er but every humanitarian Instinct of the American people reed Teed on Scraps Picture If it you can children with big glassy eyes thin shouldered and old-looking old spindle-legged spindle with swollen stomachs pawing through a dump heap searching for edible scraps of ot swill pieces of weeks-old weeks bread They fall tall upon a prized morsel and wolf it down their meal Is over Such a scene Is so commonplace In many sections of Europe India and China that It occasions no shock or even surprise to people In these areas artas And their plight Is rapidly becom becoming becomIng ing worse Thousands of acres of producing food lands have hale been dev dev- devastated devastated with rockets bombs and tank battles battle'S and must yet et be nour nour- nourished nourished back into productivity To Tomake Tomake Tomake make the job of rood food production even worse since In to 1945 1915 played havoc with the crops in some na nations na- na nations normally sufficient self and food rood exporting e e Other countries under estimated under estimated their needs or over over- overestimated overestimated estimated d their ability to meet them thorn At best millions of children in Eu Eu- Europe Europe Europe rope are existing on less than 2000 calories daily In India and China the lucky ones get something like 1500 calories daily dally while here In America our children are consuming consuming consuming ing at a rate of calories each day The agriculture secretary has named state directors of the production production tion and marketing administration and chairmen of the county agricultural agricultural tural conservation committees as 81 state and county emergency food program managers They Th y will the aid and operation co-operation of state I and county USDA councils They Th y will ill set specific local food conserve conserva conservation cons ra tion goals g als work out locally adapted conservation measures and mar marshal shat the forces of ot citizens' citizens organizations lions and food trades that will ill help carry out the program on a voluntary volun volun- voluntary I tary tal basis I |
