Show U. U S. S to See People Are Arc Fed in Case of Strike II By Carl Vrooman Assistant Secretary of or Agriculture WASHINGTON D. D C. C March 17 This Is 18 no time for Cor anybody to get upset or excited about a 11 food scare In Inthe inthe the UIO United States in connection with the tho threatened rn railroad strike i i Apparently wo we 0 have havo had hod food crises hovering over oYer us since tho the threatened I railroad strike last fall all Wo have havo always al 01 ways managed to avoid such strikes I t Tho The administration can bo be counted on to go JO the tho limit to avoid such a strike i I i Moreover if It a n strike wore cro called tho the government Jo still sUII has hall some Borne cards un its 1 I sleeve 0 which it can play ploy should such I action bo ho required It IL is possible that In case cue of a n i i crisis numbers of people would suf tel for Inconvenience but tho the American people can rest assured that If they give 11 the Jo government ut their support thel it t twill will see to it that thal they do not go so hun hungry r I I T There hero Is plenty of ot food In this country and moans will bo be found to I meet any emergency that threatens to keep hoop that food from tho tiro who ho require It to support life A railroad strike it is true truo would gravely disturb the tho already chaotic situation with regard to the tho distribution distribution tion Uon of oC foodstuffs The East Easl is 18 depending on tho the West for meat wheat and flour lour and without with with- I out going into tho the statistics it Ills is safo sare to sa say the tho supplies on hand uro giro not net I enough to last lul more than a n few days and In the tho caso case of or some hardly twenty twenty- four Cour hours Most Bost clues cities of or the East have havo on hand I i small supplies of or vegetables such as asI potatoes onions and garden truck trick I 1 There Thero is no basis at nt this time for or speculation in prices or for tor prIce boost I i linK lug ing Tho The people are aro already paying too illegitimate much for tor many foods and the tho 1 i mate middle men nen are oro profiting too i I heavy I 1 I 1 regard It as ns unpatriotic for tor any merchant to take advantage c of ot a R common comI com com- I mon necessity of all to enrich himself |