Show FARMERS SAYS H VER QUESTION IS TO BRIDGE GAP BETWEEN WAR AND PEACE IN satisfactory MANNER when markets of europe are opened freely to trade there will be a greater demand for food than can be supplied paris herbert giwner united states food administrator and director general of the international relief or in a statement issued sun still day declared that the tile dominating food problem in the united states at this moment Is a very ery much bigger problem than the chicago packers it Is a problem of tile american farmer it if the puckers packers profit of 2 or 3 per cent on his tur turnover Is too high it Is the dut auti of congress congre Rs to tax it out of him it if the farmer s i prices threaten to fall below belon the level of a fair return it behooves the country countr 0 to o do some quick clear thinking thin hing the perplexities arising out of in ability to demobilize total totally the food situation of the corid in the period batu een the armistice and peace pence make the tile farmers poRI portion tIon in the matter of much more immediate concern than the future of the chicago Clil cago packers taking it broadly before the war mar began we me exported abbit tons of food a ear this year beur tte e are prepared to expert at the rate of from 15 to AJ OCI tons the increase jie pa tribotte service of the american fann farm ler jer plus the voluntary jol sacrifice of tia ali average american under the stimulation of the pleas from the allied gov ern ments that without nn an enor enormous mou in crease in our food Rup supplies plIes their very nery iti lives es mould be menaced we ar are e thus faced with a serious pr problem lt till rc respect to our own oun great sup supplies patriotically accumulated it an earl earli place Is signed and the markets of europe are opened freel to trade there mill be a greater demand for food from the new nev mouths than eer tills this surplus could supply but jn in the between the fir armistice and lind peace ue me have haie u xera eri difficult situation we liae liate found it pos possible tible to protect the american bariner in the two and one half months since aie the aamir lice this me e have haie done by co ing die the allies little in ill opening ulder lder markets to neutral countries and by relief shipments into the liberated ter rl tories the next and last six rix dieks of the tile high fat production season will mill be still more inore difficult to manage as peace cannot be in that time ie storing extended markets |