Show TIEL E L If tf E f iF r A A j C r UNITED NATIONS PLAN RELIEF MEALS FOR EUROPE DAILY CALORIC CONTENT I 0 1 CALORIES PRES PRESENT NT EUROPEAN RATION I JO 0 r rI I 2000 CALORIES UNITED NATIONS NATIONS' RELIEF MEALS MEAtS o I CALORIES AVERAGE AMERICAN DIET to keep his band hand in in case he contemplates as the cracker barrel ers suggest further personal activIty activity ity later or merely wants to keep Americans thinking about all aU these things come the ides of November About Relief No matter how you look at it unless unless un un- un t less you are a per cent stew ln their own you have a sort of vague feeling that we ought to do what we can to help out people who r are starving or freezing no matter where they are arc I say that advisably ad visa bly and for proof turn to the record One of the earliest memories of my childhood is tagging up Main Street on my mothers mother's hand and seeing seeing see see- ing a dishpan in front of the Silver Dollar not the original filled with dollar bills My mother dropped in ina t. t a quarter and hurried past the sinIstEr sinIster sinister sin sin- ister abode Passersby tossed in their currency for the sufferers of some Chinese famine amine or Italian earthquake perhaps Pompeii and Herculaneum I dont don't recall America Is always willing to go godown godown godown down deep in its p pockets ets for relief But it doesn't like it if v seem to government gov gov- runs the show Nobody on 0 Main Street knew how much of the i j. j dishpans dishpan's contents reached the quaking quake ing tag Italians or you what and how much never got past the Silver Dollars back room but nobody J cared On the other hand even when the money is triple-checked triple by the government government gov gov- and investigated by the opposition i if it is taken out of the ther general kitty Americans dont don't like r it That's playing Santa Claus When they can shell out individually its it's all right which right which may be perfectly logical from a psychological view view- I point However this may be your government government gov gov- is going right ahead and preparing a program for taking out the wrinkles and concealing the ribs of a starving world just the same same- it is also doing duing something more helping the raise more of their own food They are trying to organize the I job with the same business acumen I differences of opinion but Hambidge puts it this wa way Pa wants a certain kind of en en- gine May has her eye on the up up- Sis prefers a certain body color Junior Junior Junior-he's he's hes thinking about th the gadgets on the instrument panel But the main thing is they is-they they all want wanta a car They end up by getting one that isn't quite what anybody expected ex ex- but but one that's durable and anda a good buy and gets them where they want to goIn goIn goIn go In other words they compromise Each one gives up his own pet ideas to get a car that will be serviceable for the whole family And that's what will happen says Hambidge with the Food and Agriculture organization The Interim In commission has been working out a constitution constitution-a a broad plan of operation showing what the organization organization organ organ- will do and how it will do it and a general budget so well we'll know what the work will cost about March probably they will have these plans read ready to submit formally to the odd 40 governments If U theres there's quick approval the organization should be set up and ready to go gonot gonot gonot not too long after that Two things FAO is aiming at expanded ex ex- production within the countries countries coun coun- tries involved and increased trade between the countries involved Some countries for instance just cant can't produce enough of the right kinds of foods to feed their people properly others can produce certain cere tam tain foods like foods like wheat for instance only only at very great cost The FAO FAO- its members say alms aims to get away from the old isolationist idea that prevailed almost everywhere everywhere everywhere every every- where before the war with war with every country countr trying to meet all its own needs which ended up with a smashing smashing smashing smash smash- ing big depression and a whopping big war What the FAO can do to prevent such world catastrophes according to Hambidge remains to tobe tobe tobe be seen That is what this very silent com cam or commission or whatever you want to call it is doing making doing making an attempt at prophylaxis prophylaxis-an an attempt attempt attempt at at- tempt to cure the disease instead of I the symptoms I |