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Show SCARE IS OVER. There, is' less alarm over the, food situation io the United State and, notwithstanding not-withstanding the present abnormal price of wheat, the Xew York baiters have ceased charging higher prices for their bread. This is the beet possible, indication that tho yyire is over, temporarily tem-porarily at lea?t. The situation in many of the Kurop'an countries, how. ever, if rapidly becoming wotse. In Austria the people have, hec,, j,,, upon ration, the government taking over nil i tockt of grain and regulu ti ng consumption. con-sumption. Wheat flour has been pi-a'-ce in Germany for :-cveral weeks, kn-l Ihe f;crman ''O: crnmerit ha', al'-o '''.rii-n:a '''.rii-n:a ii'l'f red the jrairi and i-n-'i"J reula, t on- coueerninf, tin- U'e of , it-ad. The f'oier and f',-! r-ia ii luce 1,. eri in a atarvin condition for month'1, tho lat, ter ecapirif "low dca'H cliicMv by ri-a Fun of lh" int.-rr-'i t ah i-n in il.r-.r vol- I , t i-e ,-,.!, f lb I'lli t..i ?tatei. There is no help for the Poles! o long as the war lasts. Great Britain and France are trying to batter down the forts guarding the j Dardanelles in order to get- wheat from , Kussia. The piuch of poverty is felt , in all rpiarters of the world, and many of the neutral countries are almost as badly off as those at war. All of ivhich makes the present situation in this country as regards food extremely gratifying. Wheat harvest will begin before the first of July, and as we can export a million bushels each day between be-tween now aud that date and still have enough left for homo consumption, bread, shortage is out of the question. In spite of the fact that thousands of men aud women are out of work, the United states is the one country in tho world where conditions are not bordering border-ing on the desperate. |