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Show KEPT PLEDGE TO SEND BREAD H American Nation Maintained Al-, H lied Loaf Through Sclf- H Denial at Home Table. AVERTED EUROPEAN DESPAIR. H Aflth Military Demand Upon Ocean M Shipping Relieved, World I Able M to Return to Normal Whlta fl Wheat H Hin.o the advent of the Intent when! H Top the only llmltntlon upon Atnerl- H an exports to Kurope has beta t)e H -ihurtiiK)' f shipping. ISetween July 1 M ind October 10 we shipped :r.wso.:io , H insliels. If UiIh rate hIioiiM continue H until Hi.' end of tlio llscal year we will H iave furnished dM Allies with more H tinn a:i7,MKi,ii'i bushels of wheat ami H (Jour In terms of wheat. H The result of Increased production H and const-nation efforts In the United H States fin heen 1 tint with the cessii : B tlon of hostilities we are attic to re H urn to a norinnl when) diet. Supplies H hat hnvo accumulated in Australlii H Vrnentltie nnd other hitherto Inncces H (Me m.ukelH may he tupped hy ships H released from transport service, and H iuropi'iui (lemuiid for American wheat H proliulily will not exceed our normal H -nriilus. There la whent enough avail H iible to have o white loaf at the com- H won M Hut Inst your the talc wna different H Only by the , rentest possible saving H mil sacrifice we-e we able to keep a H sternly stream of wheat and flour mov M mg across the sea. We found our m selves at the beginning of the harvest M ear with an unusually ahort crop. M Riven the most optimistic statisticians M figured Hint we had a bare surplna of H JO.OOO.OOO bushels And yet Kurope M teas facing the probability of a bread M famine and In Kurope bread la by far HH the moat Important article In the diet. H All of tlds surplus had left the H country early In the fall. By the first M at the year we had managed to ahlp a H little more than 50,000,000 bushels by H practicing tfee utmost economy at H home by wheatleaa days, wheatleaa H men Is, heavy substitution of other H cereals and by sacrifice at almost H every meal throughout the country. B In January the late Lord Ithondda, H then Rtltlah Food Controller, cabled H that only If we sent an additional 78,- H 000,000 bushels before July 1 could he M take the responsibility of assuring his M people that they would be fed. H The response of the American peo- H pie wus 83,000,000 buahela safely deltv- 4 ei overseas between January 1 and H July 1. Out of a harvest which gave H us only 20,000,000 buahela surplus we - actually shipped 141,000.000 buahela H Thus did America fulfill her pledge H that the Allied bread rations could be M maintained, and ulrendy the American ' M people are demonstrating that, with B an awakened war conscience, laat H year's figures will be bettered. |
