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Show FOOD CONTROL MEANSVICTORY European Shortage Places Problem Prob-lem Before American Government Govern-ment Farsighted Policy Adopted. NEED 75,000,000 BU. WHEAT. Food Administration Asks Aid of Every American In Gigantio Task of Feeding Millions. It Is the food problem over there that makes a food problem over here. If we wished to be supremely selfish and supremely shortsighted we could go on eating as much as we like and whatever we like, without much difficulty diffi-culty or interruption at least, until the Germans came ! But we are not doing things In that selfish and suicidal way. We are trying try-ing to make a great common pool of all of our food, and all of the food of the allies, and all of the food we can get from South American and other neutrals, and dividing It up fairly among America, England, France, Belgium Bel-gium and Italy. This does not mean that all of the people in the great pool are going to have the same ration, but means that we are trying to arrange to have enough for everybody, so that the soldiers sol-diers our soldiers and their soldiers will he well fed, as they have to be to fight hard and continuously, and that the munitions workers and the workers In all the other necessary Industries, In-dustries, and the men and women at home will all have enough to keep alive and well. It is absolutely necessary neces-sary to do this if the war Is to be won, and we are going to do It, but it means planning, working, arranging, co-operating, being careful, not wasting, saving. sav-ing. , And It means that each and every one of us has got to help. Now, we have enough and more than enough food for ourselves, and tht Government is going to see to it that we keep here at home a sufficient supply sup-ply of every essential kind of food to support our people. But ovsr there they simply have not enough. Lord Rhondda, the English food controller, recently cabled the Americai food administrator, ad-ministrator, that unless we can send the allies before the next uropean harvest 75,000,000 bushels of wheat In addition to what had been sent up to January 1 of this year he could not assure the people of the allies that they would have a sufficient supply of food to carry on the war. He did not say anything In this cable about the other food necessary, but he has told of these needs in other ohbles and by his actions in England. For example, his latest regulation compels a reduction of meat enilng in the United Kingdom to a maximum of one pound per week per person, this pound Including the bone and other waste parts in the meat as bought in the shop. The allies must have more wljeat, more meat, more fats, more dairy products, prod-ucts, more sugar. Their harvests were very short France had less than half her normal crop of wheat and the available shipping is small in amount and constantly being lessened by submarines, sub-marines, so that It Is now practically impossible to use any ships for the long voyage necessary to bring food from Australia and other remote niarke s. The food must come chiefly frotn America. In specific figures It Is necessary nec-essary for us to send to the allies 1.100.IMH) tons of foodstuffs a month. This is a grpat resnnnsibillty 11 11 I great problem. The food mux hs found, and also the ships to carrv It. It Is being done, hut '-an only continue to be done by the help and full cooperation co-operation of all of us over our broad land We must produce and savo more To supply the wheat necessary until the next harvest, we must reduce our consumption by from one-fm'rtli to one-third: we must cut down on snal average consumption of mens -md fats by from 10 to IS per ceti' and dairy products about 10 per cent. Over there 1 re tightening heir belts and doiti ervthing tli" can. They are eating war bread; they are cutting down their sugar In England to two pounds per person per month, and In France and Italy to one po ml how much are you eating? and they are using ration cards for most of the staples. We must meet sacrifice with sacrifice. If we don't, we are helping to lose the war Instead of helping to win It. |