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Show 1ST liREASE i FOOD EXPORTS America Called on by End of w- War to Supply Added y Millions. ECONOMY STILL NEEDED. Over Three Timet Prs-Wsr Shipments . Required Situation In Wheat and f Fata Provea Government's V Policy Sound. X( ' Wlth 106 gxXDn 'D Europe silenced, we have now to consider, a new world food situation. But there can be no , hope tbat the volume of our exports can be lightened to the slightest de-" de-" gree with the cessation of hostllitlea Millions of people liberated from the Prussian yoke are ndw depending j ; ' upon us for the food which will keep ' . them from starvation. With food the United States made tt possible for the forces of deraoc-" deraoc-" racy to hold out to victory. To Insure democracy In the world, we must con-""' con-""' tlnue to live simply In order that we J may supply these liberated nations of Europe with food. Hunger among a people Inevitably . breeds anarchy. American food must complete the work of making the world safe for democracy. democ-racy. Last year we sent 11,820,000 tons of food to Europe. For the present year, with only the European Allies to feed, we bad originally pledged ourselves to a program that would have Increased our exports to 17,500,000 tons. Now, to feed the liberated nations, we will have to export a total of not less than 20,000,000 toas practically the limit M l li n T- of loading capacity at our ports. Reviewing Re-viewing the world food situation, we find that some foods will be obtainable In quantities sufficient to meet all world needs under a regime of eco-comical eco-comical consumption. On the other hahd, there will be marked world. . - shortages la tome Important commodities. commodi-ties. Return to Normal Bread Loaf. 1 With the enlarged wheat crops which American farmers have grown, and the supplies of Australia, the Argentine Ar-gentine and vther markets now accessible acces-sible to shipping, there are bread grains' enough to enable the nations to return to their noriuul wheut louf, provided we continue to mill flour at a high percentage of extraction and maintain economy In eating and the avoidance of waste. , fl--1 In fats there will be a heavy short-7. short-7. Sffs about 3,000,000,000 pounds in pork products, dairy products and j vegetable oils. While there will be a shortage of about three million tons In rich protein feeds for dairy anl- mala, there will be sufficient supplies of other feedstuffs to alio- economical consumption. In the matter of beet, the world's . BjippJIeejire limited tojba capacltyf X the available refrigerating snips. The supplies of beef In Australia, the Argentine Ar-gentine and the United States are sufficient suf-ficient to load these ships. There will . be a shortage In the importing countries, coun-tries, but we cannot hope to expand exports materially for1 the next months In view of the bottle neck In transportation. trans-portation. We will have a sufficient supply of - sugar to allow normal .consumption In this country if the other nations retain re-tain their present short rations or Increase In-crease them only slightly. For the countries of Europe, however, to Increase In-crease their present rations to a material ma-terial extent will necessitate our sharing shar-ing a part of our own supplies with them. Twenty Million Tons of Food. Of the world total. North America wUl furnish more than 60 per cent. The United States, Including the West Indies, will be called upon to furnish 20,000,000 tons of food of all kinds as . compared with our pre-war exports of about 6,000,000 tons. While we will be ahle to chonge our program In many respects, even a casual survey of the world supplies , in comparison to world demands shows conclusively that Europe will know famine unless the American people bring their home consumption down to the barest minimum that will maintain main-tain health and strength. There are conditions of famine In Europe that will be beyond our power to remedy. There are 40,000,000 peo ple In North Russia whom there Is small chance of reaching with food this winter. Their transportation Is demoralised In complete anarchy, and shortly muny of their ports will, be )f- froten, even If Internal transport could be realized. To Preserve Civilization. At this momt'ot Germany has not alone sucked the food and animals from all those masses of people she bits dominated and left starving, but she bas left behind her a total wreckage wreck-age of social Institutions, and this mass of people Is now confronted with absolute auurchy. If we value our own safety snd the buclal organization of the world, If we S value the preservation of civilization Itself, we cannot permit growth of this cancer In the world's vitals. Famine Is the mother of anarchy From the Inability of governments to 1 secure food for their people grows revolution and chaos. From an Hlilllty to supply their people grows stability of Kovornment uud the defout of anarchy. an-archy. Did we put It on no higher piano than our Interests In the protection pro-tection rif our IiiMilluiiotis, we niuit ix'Hllr ouiHtlves In 4ullon of this protU-m. |