Show t CENTRAL CONTROL OF FOOD URGED IF WAR COMES Perkins Believes Every State Should Try to Increase Crop Acreage By Special News Service NEW YORK March 17 Ono One One of or the tha greatest problems the people of or orthe the United States will have to face Jn is case of 01 war Is the tho food problem I And It ml might ht be bo well to add that whether our country is actually at atar war var or not BO eo far a as the economic effects arc are concerned wo arc are In the war var now and the problem Is upon us us- This is what George W. W Perkins noted Doted financier and anti business man and expert on the subject of marketing and food supplies says If lf war comes we wc shall shaH find It necessary necessary essary to adopt some Borne form of centralized cen con trained control and direction of distribution distribution distribution dis dis- of foodstuffs There are nrc some Borne thins things 8 wo we can do now and ought to do at once I 1 believe every state should make makeever ever eter every possible effort to increase her acreage of crops planted That Is going to be difficult People People Peo Pee pie In the cities clUes must realize this is not a question of milk and honey hone for forthe forthe forthe the farmer Everything E he needs on the th farm has increased Increase in price and price of ot labor has gone Iono one up so 80 that In Inmany Inmany inmany many cases he will actu actually lly not be beable beable beable able to get the help to plant his crops The states should do everything c possible to remedy this situation and encourage the tho plan planting tine of or larger acree acre acre- age e Another thing Is to teach people bow to buy prepare and use food rood We Va Americans speaking freely have o come to bo be a race rage of or gluttons Wo We cat more than Ulan w wt need and without any anT intelligence as to the food tood content content con con- tent of what we wo cat eat It lt is literally true truc that a European family in moderate moderato circumstances can lire Ufe on what an nn American family wastes Hero are arc potatoes selling above U 3 a bushel as high as they aro are in hi Europe Is anybody talking or thinking thinking think think- ing or giving any attention to the tho great waste waRte that comes from peeling a potato before it is cooked 1 Not at nIL And yet this results in wasting 20 0 per cent of the food tood value of or the potato potato potato-a a bushel out of or five thrown away The European war has haR clem demonstrated demon on what we Wc ought to have havo known anyhow that no nation can any lon longer er live IIvo its Us independent self seU centered centered cen cen- life ure Wo We are arc as ns much In tho the war now so far tar as us the economic effect effect ef cr ef- ef teet upon our people is concerted concerned as asIf asIf asif If we had actually declared war And we ought long a ago o to have taken steps to meet the food tood situation that thatis is Iii UDon UP us The uTho first step is for tor the varIo various s states to create state stat departments of t f market and for the cities titles to do the same all to fo be he co coordinated co through h the tho federal government o for distribution tion tiou of or Information so IO food toad products could be VI sent to the market where the they are needed in some sort of ot orderly or or- derly fashIon We have state tate departments for tor almost almost al nl al- al most everything elso else such an as education education tion health banking transportation but hut little or nothing has haR been attempted attempted at at- tempted by br the states to help or pro pro- protect the people in the Important mat mat- ter of ot their food toad supply The next thing Is s establishment and encouragement ement of ot state regulated co operative cooperative agencies by which col col- collective collective buying hung or selling may he be con con- ducted operation Co replacing wastes of at unrestricted competition must come We cannot afford much longer lodger to submit submit sub sub- mit to the a Involved In tho the enormous enormous enor enor- duplication of ot effort In tn the distribution distribution dis dis- of ot such Ruch commodities as ns milk in our large shies clUe Under tho the spur of or war conditions condition and war prices 8 wo we will have hove to sweep wide aside old prejudices and md preconceived notions S and erect a D. scientific of ot food distribution and methods of or encouragement en of ot food production that will insure 1 first that thal the tho maximum of food shall be produced d and second that it shall be ve distributed to those who need Jt Jl with the minimum loss of ot time without duplication friction waste and spoiling that now help to raise the cost |