Show i d B B aff rf ILLIES ALLIES ARE FED BY SELF DENIAL W I 1 i 1 generous doing without in Ani america erica supplied food to europe from tills this country since it entered tin lie I 1 nr have kept starvation I 1 nil allied I 1 kuroly drope mid and have main flu clie lit alth and strength of shohe im li linao been bearing tire bruoit of our I 1 hitti la I 1 its vs so ao that they could hold r I 1 iiii tit to victory now that hostilities aavo liiv wo we must assume the add fit it hurden of keeping starvation from UK 11 lensing its toll loft upon the millions aito lio been liberated from the 1 1 il alco voice Fa fairline illine would undo i the lie voik voi I 1 which tins lias lieen been accomplished 1 m it frealing fac alii the hie world for democracy no tn bli gov can be established hild anil by a nation harassed I 1 ay in ininger A starving people turns j 0 holing and anarchy food has awn aw n anil and courage to the na i iiii for fol democracy dein it must i to give ali the notions nations strength rind to ro re establish themselves oi n freedain fro fre edoin and democracy doin our licup it bould havet been atol impossible for tile the allies to a living ration yince our entry into the war wai we have been can contributing largely to the support of one hundred indred In and twenty million people orinal normal food supplies have been cut it off whose eliose production has fallen to the vanishing point whom fields have beer been devastated by germany tile food exported ported ux froni from the united states in ill the past benr eur tins lias been sufficient to supply the colli complete ration of twenty two million people it to Is hard to grasp the magnitude und significance of the assistance which has been lent the allies b br the american people the food wo delit last year benr would have been suf stif 1 floront to feed oue fifth of our I 1 don anti and this was done in spite of tw the fact alint we entered the year with sli ort crops our surplus was practically nothing an overwhelming proportion of the food that alint loft tills this court coun try lust hist year was saved out of the normal boine consumption of our own lp people eople in spite of difficulties met in internal find shortage of tonnage tonni iRe our food exports lost year amounted to a figure that ra n few years IKO ago have been ble hven tho moat optimistic element ol of our population faced with anxious consternation the prospect which opened before us with the beginning of the 1017 harvest year the Ainer american tenn people have not been to save they have been appended Appen led to on the lie basis of humanity and of patriotism thy have responded ded voluntarily |