Show A allied lad fo food 0 d Con conference ferene envisions world council coundi 41 international group would be empowered to oversee production distribution of bread F and beef to feed society of nations by news analyst and commentator service union trust building washington D C back in the summer of 1940 1040 1 I sat in a chair under a whispering tree and looked out overa over a wide arid and barbered lawn the mountains were about us gewere we were resting in a nest carved out of the wilderness and equipped with all the luxuries that a pampered lf human T an cou could id d demand lovely Indolent w in women en sports dresses sat at fa tables bie under colored umbrellas las handsome indolent youths in blazers lolled beside them negro servants padded about with tall fall cooling and expensive drinks I 1 call it a nest I 1 belonged there just like a cuckoo but I 1 enjoyed it it was waa all right it helped circulate the money 1 I was a guest at a bankers convention but I 1 thought back six months before I 1 had ridden in an army transport plane plan over shuddering europe 1 I 1 looked about and saw the easy harmless but useless life about me made possible by the easy harveston harvest harvesting ln of americas riches I 1 sighed a little enviously and said to myself IMs crint last it is a strange coincidence that today at this very same spot representatives senta tives of the united nations are gathering to try to write the prescription script lon for the third freedom freedom from want this gathering concerned with summer slimmer resorts del de although it meets at one I 1 it t Is concerned with the proposition wo we must raise lse the standard of living all over the globe sa BO that the underfed can produce enough of their handiwork w ork to exchange it for enough to eat something they just never had before jt it Is just too big for me to grasp but a heaven for asks browning if outreach our reach elc exceed ed our grasp world council ii this plan envision san international council at the head of a system of administrative bodies among which would be an agricultural council 11 supported 1 arted b by an agricultural bank all this international Y which would direct groups studying arid and applying nutrition standards directing the supply of products storing surpluses shifting crops to balance supply and ad demand maintaining ever normal storehouses of non per ashable crops I 1 adjusting processing of perishable crops developing new markets taking care of re relief lief in devastated or stricken areas advising and assisting the poorer population groups to increase their efficiency and consumption in other words these people who have spent hours and months and devoted arduous labor jabor to working out 1 this idea are arc trying to furnish the plan for economic machinery to hold up the hands of the political effort of a league of nations new sty tylo lethe the bane and sinew the bread and beet beef to teed feed a society of nations joined together under one political umbrella of world operation cooperation co such an idea is laughed out of court in advance by the folk who talk of crazy dreamers impractical long hairs and the like maybe it is iq impossible but h a lot of people fire are saying well for heavens sake lets try it lets try anything nothing can cost more in blood sweat and dollars than war the united states proved a lot of things were possible under the sharp lash of war which would have been sneered into oblivion it if they had been blueprinted before pearl harbor take an egg for example nothing up our sleeves just an egg before the war var says frank wll wil son of the department of commerce when biddy the hen laid an egg ini income cole county missouri her subsequent cackle of satisfaction n was based on the anticipation that that egg might get as far as sedalia Sc dalla st louis or or on rare occasions new york then hitler dreamed up a world war and somebody dreamed up a thing called lend lease today tod ly bid dys product goes around the world dehydration scientists invented dehydration and the process as far ns as eggs are concerned is only a year and a half hal halfeld fold before the war only 20 firms dried egesto eggs to any extent and most of those dried albumen only today according to mr wilson egg drying plants big ones mostly scat scattered tere through the middle west are drying g eggs wilson predicts that before the w war ar is over 35 per cent of americas three billion dozens of eggs will bo be treated for processing annually and so the fragile egg formerly shipped only short d stances distances c can a travel anywhere how great the american market for dehydrated eggs will be depends on to what extent the consumer takes to the idea undoubtedly world consumption will increase because of the excellent lend lease sampling and the ease case of shipment you may not be able to deliver your quart of milk from the wisconsin milk shed to the hottentots Hotten tots front borc porch if but you can got get your dried milk or dehydrated eggs there it if YO you u can adjust things so the can produce enough to trade for what you have to sell this applies to many other products at present if everybody could buy them all the shirts mode made in peacetime prod produce uce a shirt and a half per back its tho the old story right down the line we can invent the machinery to ma make ke anything we are away behind in our inventions to improve the human lot its no harder but it takes more imagination you can lead a horse to water but you cant make him film drink they say the problem with humans is different youve ve got the hungry man and the table and the food but so far you been able to fix things so you con can lead him to it russ jap friendship and american ships on may 7 washington had the first official explanation of the many bombings of the tha slap op held aleutian island of kiska it said united states air forces have established military positions including an airfield on Am chitka and have been in occupation of this island since january the same day the associated press sent out a dispatch dated february 10 delayed I 1 might say ill say it was delayed it began this way despite a series of eight japanese bombing raids this american only a few minutes cf light flight from kiska island went into operation today I 1 quote all this to show what a highly confidential war we are running by the time this sees print perhaps while im writing these lines Ki kiska may be iti in american hands after a land invasion which it is admitted is the only way we can oust the enemy from this spot if the japs Jap shave have gone by the time you read this there will be a sigh of at least partial regret in some quarters the reason is this asborg As long as the japs are on an island like kiska or guadalcanal Guadal canal more japs have to try to reach them to bring them supplies and keep them alive and while that goes on the americans have a chance to keep enemy wounds open japs themselves are expendable they are cheap the surf sun god has a lot of them and hes generous in spending them but he so many ships or so many supplies so killing japs bother the mikado nearly as much ns as sinking his ships that is one reason the upturning of the last jop jap toes 06 on any of their stolen far flung bases will be a source of at least partial regret there is another reason day tn in and d day out from vancouver and seattle secret ships loaded with supplies for our russian ally have been calmly sailing away past the jap held kiska and attu aatu under the japanese guns in the narrow narroN waters that lead le ad to vladivostok now that was a little matter approved by russia and japan who hate and fear each other privately but officially are friendly nations the question arises now when and if we trounce the little men out of the stronghold they have dug with their fingernails in the rocky attu aatu and kiska will they them be as willing us keep on shipping supplies to russia perhaps it matter B by that time which may be now tile the situation may have hake changed the interesting thing is that the situation does change and thanks to the censorship sor ship nobody knows it until the knowledge ceases to be aid and comfort to the enemy but its tough on a newsman |