Show FARMERS FARMERS' PROBLEM HOOVER QUESTION IS TO BRIDGE GAP BETWEEN WAR AND PEACE IN SATISFACTORY MANNER When Markets of Europe Are S Freely to Trade There Will be a Greater Demand for Food Than Thann n Can an be Supplied f Paris Herbert Hoover Hoo United St t s s. food administrator and director gen general ral of the International relief organization organization or or- In a statement Issued Sunday Sun Sunday day declared that The dominating food problem In Inthe Inthe inthe the United States at tills this moment Isa isa Is Is' Isa a very muck much bigger problem than the Chicago packers It Is a problem of the American farmer If the packers' packers profit of 2 or 3 1 l per percent percent percent cent on his turnover Is too high it Is the duty of congress ss to tax it out of of him If the farmers farmer's prices threaten o fall below the level le of a fair return it t behooves the country to do some quick clear thinking The perplexities arising out of h in inability ip- ip ability to demobilize totally the food fod situation of the world in the perI period d between een the armistice and peace pence make e ethe the farmers farmer's position in the matter of much more moie immediate concern concer than the future of the Chicago packers Taking it broadly before the Euro Eur European penn war Wal began we exported d abo aboUt t tons of food a year This j year ear we are prepared to at tI the e erate rate of from to td tons Th The Increase represents represent s qt the p patriotic pa pa- service of the le Amer American can far farm farmer 1 er en plus the v voluntary sacrifice of U the e I American under the tion of the pleas pleas' from the allied g that without an rin enormous enormous enormous' Increase In II- s1- s1 crease In our foo l supplies supplIes' their very lives Ih es w would d be menaced menaced We are thus faced with a ri serious problem with respect to our own great supplies patriotically accumulated Jf if ifan f fan an earl early peace is sIgn signed d tt and aUl d the max mar markets markets mar mar- of Europe are opened freely frely to trade there will be a greater great r demand eman J for food food- from the new nev- mouths than ever eer this surplus could supply But ButIn Butin in the p periods between the th armistice armistic and peace we have a very difficult situation I We have found it possible to protect protect pro pro- the American Americ n farmer in the two and one-halt one months since the armis tice This have hilVe o do we done by co Ing hag with the allies alUes in opening wider markets to tOI neutral countries and by relief shipments Into the liberated tel ter territories The next and last ast six wee weer-s weer s of the high fat production season wih wil wilbe iiI be still more difficult t. t t to manage manage n as peace cannot be expected in that time restorIng extended markets |