Show FOOD CONTROL VICTORY european shortage places problem before american government farsighted PONCY policy adopted ittu MEED BU WHEAT food administration asks aid of every american in gigantic Gig antio 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 or interruption at least until the germans came camel I 1 but we are not doing things in that selfish belush and suicidal way we art are trying to make a great common pool ot of all of our food and at aft of the food ot of tho 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 and italy this does not mean that all of the people in the great pool are going to liane have the same ration but means that we are trying to arrange to have enough tor for everybody so that the soldiers our soldiers and their soldiers will be well fed as they have to be to fight hard bard and continuously and that the munitions workers and the workers in all the other necessary industries dus tries tind and the men and women at home will all have enough to keep alive and well it Is absolutely necessary to do this it if the war Is to be won and we are going to do it but it means planning working world ng arranging cooper co oper abing being careful not wasting saving 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 the government is going to see to it that we keep here at home a sufficient supply of every essential kind of food to support our people but over there thera they simply have not enough lord rhondda the english food controller recently cabled the american food administrator that unless we wa can send the allies before the next european harvest 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 2 sufficient supply of food to carry on the war lie ile did not say anything in this cable about the other food necessary but he has told of these needs in other cables and by his actions in england for example his latest regulation compels a reduction of meat eating in the united kingdom to a maximum 0 of one pound per week per person this waste parts in the meat as bought in the shop the allies must have more wheat more meat more fats more dairy products more sugar their harvests were very short france had biad less than halt her normal crop of wheat and the available shipping Is small in amount and constantly being lessened by 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 markets the food roust come coine chiefly from america in specific figures it Is necessary tor for us to send to the alie alalea tons of foodstuffs a month this Is a great responsibility and ft a great problem the food must be ba found and also the ships to carry it it Is being done but can only continue to be done by the help and full cooperation of all of us over our broad land we must produce and save more to supply the wheat necessary until the next nest harvest we must reduce our on consumption by from one fourth to one third we must cut cat down our usual average consumption ot of ments meats and fats by from 10 to 15 per cent and dairy Iwo products ducts by about 10 per cent over there they are tightening their belts and doing everything they can they are eating war broad bread they are cutting down their sugar in england to two pounds per person per month and in F france rance and italy to one pound how much are you eating and they are using ration cards tor for most of the stapled we must meet sacrifice with sacrifice it if we dont we are helping to lose the war instead of helping to win it n OEM buy local food J |