Show ass food quality handicaps british war production r N MIN its a battle of periscopes vs proteins as england feeds soldiers and workers on depleted meat supplies by BAUKHAGE newt news analyst and commentator service 1343 n H street NW NAV washington D C while farmers with their thoughts on the crops keep an eye on the weather these days members of the department of agriculture are watching the eastern atlantic for j periscopes the united states has ithe I 1 the food britain needs but not the ships to deliver it so it has become a case of periscopes versus proteins give us more protein for muscle tone say british officials and we can step up our war production 15 to 20 per cent remember that meat is protein and that great britain for the last three years has turned two million acres of meadow under the plow it was a painful thing for the nation which for a hundred years has been a master at animal husbandry and raised the finest bloodlines blood lines of eating animals in the world to sacrifice that industry but an acre of land in wheat or potatoes produces more food in quantity than an acre devoted to grazing quantity lacking in the british diet today but according to reports from british sources quality in certain tissue building elements has had to be sacrificed and now the british people are beginning aw to use up their bodily reserves the british have four million mill ioli soldiers of their own that have to be fed and also a huge army of war workers the american food for freedom campaign is well under way and with the good weather that seems ahead this years crops ought to turn out all that is needed at home and abroad with careful conservation but the ship crop done so well that is why the department part ment of agriculture is scanning the eastern waters as anxiously as the navy department these days and the british are looking even more wistfully toward our shores at ai this writing there is another burst of optimism in some official quarters regarding tile scotching of the submarine menaces and hope is pinned on another crop besides those the farmers are growing it is the crop of small submarine chasers and new destroyers which it is expected will have reached sizable proportions within the next 30 days and with this crop it is hoped that a crop of subs will be harvested and then perhaps J john ohn bull will begin to get some more of the proteins and vitamins he seeds needs that are hopping out of american soil now 0 world highways of the future its time to tear up all your mercator projections projection sl j that remark which may sound a little technical to the layman was delivered by a tall tense officer as a little group of us sit sat at a lun luncheon chion in a washington hotel the other day he was almost fervent in his tone and his eyes flashed he happens to be in work considerably removed from aviation but he believes in the future fatur e of theokles the skies and the work he is doing deals closely with tomorrow at this point I 1 might explain if if you are rusty on your topography that a mercator projection is a kind of map which makes you think the nearest way to japan from chicago is by way of san francisco when it would actually be shorter to cut through milwaukee and duluth these projectors show the cover of the globe stretched out flat and when you stretch out the cover of sphere you throw all the space the land and batez distances out oi of proportion except along the equator and by the time you get up to the far north the arctic countries are shown many times as big and the many times as great as they really are you can see that for instance two places on the equator VA 2 inches apart on the mercator maybe miles apart spart thirty degrees north of the equator two pla ceVon eson the same map which are really GOO miles apart ari ar stretched out so they appear three inches apart the farther north you abu get et the more countr countries es and the spaces aie arc stretched naturally that makes all directions cockeyed cock eyed Jap japan anby by airline tt 4 a lot it nearer to lo america than the philippines by air clr as well as sea australla australia where most of our forces andrup i plies in the far east are now located is farther from san francisco than japan is the global war the president has of this war as a global war the sooner we begin to realize that the high ways are skyways traced around a globe and not along the false proportions ol of a mercator projection the sooner we will realize what our task is today and tomorrow the mass raids on germany have shown the course that the allied nations are going to follow to victory that course is the shortest course germany gave us the hint when she built her once unbeatable but have what america has to carry out the idea this war is what H G wells predicted 30 years ago in his prophetic novel the war of the worlds namely a war in the air and after the war the nation which controls the skyways and the stations the bases will control the world today the reason why the united nations are stymied in their effort is because the seaways are closed not because the axis has blockaded the seas although the sub submarine marme is still unconquered in the western atlantic and men in germany are decreeing that americans cant run their cars because they in germany wont let us have the gasoline the allied nations cant build ships faster than they are sunk but only recently has the old fashioned method of bf conveying men and goods by sea and rail been questioned and air transport taken seriously as a substitute sti tute before the russians ever trained a single parachutist before the germans developed the technique of landing men and equipment behind the enemy lines from the air an american sergeant had patented a method of 0 landing machine gun units from parachutes before the first germans dropped their men into helpless holland americans had been dropping men in asbestos sulta suits from planes to fight forest fires behave we have been afraid to ake take the shortest cuts perhaps the new mass raids over germany will awaken us it if they do 1 a new world in the skies opens a world where after all these years we will admit finally filially that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points and we will follow that line buynar buy war bonds washington today in the month of april government employees were transferred from washington to other cities thousands of new govern ment workers came here hare within that thai period since then it is estimated that the number of newcomers newcomers is An increasing creasing that teat is a slight alight indication reduced deuced to statistics of the growing importance of your capital which today is more nearly the worlds capital than any other city that is one reason why a book which came to me last night written writ teli by one ofie of ny my colleagues is a highly important book for anybody who wants to know the real washington the took book 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