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Show KEPT PLEDGE TO SEND BREAD American Nation Maintained Allied Al-lied Loaf Through Self-Denial Self-Denial at Home Table. AVERTED EUROPEAN DESPAIR With Military Demands Upon Ocea Shipping Relieved, World Is, Able to Return to Normal White Whsat Bread. Since tho ndvent of tlio latest whom crop the only limitation upon Amerl can exports to Kuropc has been the shorjiigo of shlppluK. Between July 1 and October 10 wo shipped 05,080,30 bushels. If this rnto should continue until the end of tho fiscal year wo wll novo furnished the Allies with inort than .2;i7,500,000 buBhels of wheat unii flour In terms of wliont. Tho result of Increased production and conservation efforts, lu tho Unltci' States has been that with tho ccssn' tlon of hostilities we are ablo to rp . turn to a normal wheat diet. Supplied that have accumulated In Australia -Argentine and other hitherto Inucces slblc markets may,, be tapped by ships released from transport service, anil Kiiropenn demand for American wheal probably wlh not exceed our normal surplus. There Is-whent enough nvnll utile (o hnvo a white -tonfnt tho com inoii tnblc. llul hint yenr tho talo wna dlnurriii Only by the greatest posslblo suvlnt and sitcr.Meo were we able to keep n stendy stream of wheat und flour tinning tinn-ing across I lie sea. We found our cvcs nt the beginning of the hnrves' yenr with an unusually short crop Even tho most optimistic stuttstlclniu flKtircd (hat we had n baro surplus of 20,000,000 bushels. And yet Kurope was facing (be probability of a brend famine and In Kurope bread Is by far tho moHt Important article In the diet. All of this surplus had left the, country early In the full. Uy the llrst of the year wo tin c) miitinged to ship a little muro thrill 0,000.000 bushels by jinTctlcIng the utmost economy nl home by whcatless days, whcatlcss meals, heavy 'substitution of ouor' ccreuls ,uiid by sacrifice at almos every menl'throughout Hie country. ' , In January tho late tord honddn, then Urltlsh Food Controller, cnbled 'that only If we sent an additional 70, noo,000. bushels before July 1 could lie Take' tlio responsibility of assuring bit people that they "would be fed. The response of the American people peo-ple was 85,000,000 bushels safely "dcllv. cred overseas-between January I and July 1. Out of a harvest which gavu us only, 20,000,000 bushels surplus wo actually, shipped 141,000,000 bushels: Thus did America fulfill her pledge that tho Allied bread rations could bo maintained, and already the American peoplo aro demonstrating that, with an awakened war conscience, J last year's" tlgu res will bo bettered. |