Show I Food ov I IViE ViE YV l E DRAW a mental picture of uniting the world in harmony W within the theory of the brotherhood of man Then we run run up ilp p against a wall of practicability upon the unsentimental foundation of food Most of the world wants to be good This we can take for granted But all ll the world lives upon its stomach And when we put t vo and two together we are forced to the conclusion that all ll the fhe world world will not be good until all the 1 world has a full stomach Jt It is not a bit exciting to reach such a conclusion More saJi satisfying would it be to put our faith in religion io in iu the higher things of life but humanity is so intensely human that the higher th thou thoughts g merge into nothingness when balanced against the might of food A full stomach means contentment In this we reach the theand plane of the animal of the plains and the jungle With it as a afo fo foundation dation we may labor for great reforms and accomplish them but under all there must be the basis to to tobe be supplied sup by food and pl plenty rity of it This thought is no not new It is as s ancient as the hills The big game hunter knows the lion will not attack when its stomach has been gorged by a recent kill kilt The animal trainer takes takes' care to see that his pets are well welt supplied with food before he approaches approaches ap ap- pro ches them And the humans are alike to th the animals to a at 1 great t extent tent The only diff difference rence is that we may soar to greater heights may aspire to greater deeds of kindness but even humans will wilt fail to be aspiring or to be kin kind when food is lacking This is the message brought back to America by General Tasker H. H Bliss a member of the peace commission who has just returned to this country He says the world is ready for peace but peace does not prevail because many parts of the world are hungry There is one cure cure food There Is food in plenty says General Bliss but there is He sees in this a peril The remedy he believes exists in a awis wise wis careful cardul distribution of the foodstuffs of of- the world and he goes to the extreme of that a director general of supplies a man such as Herbert Hoover H be named to supervise the distribution distribution dis dis- of foodstuffs in E Europe pe The p people of Germany of Austria Hungary Turkey and Russia are starving For that reason says General Bliss permanent permanent perma perma- nent Dent peace cannot be established in those countries I Perhaps after all the great grain fields of America the farms and the the ranches which assure for our country permanent prosperity i may afford the means of restoring world peace for this peace now seems to hinge upon food rather than upon the worn out art of diplomacy |