Show D moss 4 THE BY LON released by western newspaper union REAL DANGER OF ac iford SHORTAGE THIS YEAR washington the government is spon sponsoring alood a food bocare new yorks york 11 myar laguardia ardla has been calling tor for meatless days local rat rationing ionin g boards are putting out gut to their newspapers around the country alarming predictions of lof ties some people ara are concluding it Is just the usual government fright campaign to get desired popular reaction but this time it is real hard as this may maybe be for the average mildness mald mild less housewife in the kitchen to believe after all the stuff she has been heating healing about great food stockpiles stock piles in government hoard ling kig to feed the world and large reserves bought up bythe by the army and navy the truth is we could lose this war on the food front it if we do not have good crop weather this spring behind the tightening condition Is an explanation the government Is not telling namely that it mismanaged its ita food supplies situation last year and Is now reaping the harvest of its mistakes look at poultry the government last summer thought it was faced aced with an oversupply over supply expected the war to be won swiftly in france i and discouraged poultry iralee takers rs froni from hatching eggs that now proves to have been very bad judg ment and there is a shortage of of poultry in hogs the farmers were similarly seared scared of an oversupply over supply and reduced their feeder schedule upon government advice we are now chor short i on pork the sheep feeders ran into cold weather at lambing tune last year and we have hake af ar shortage of lamb beef prices too low I 1 beet beef has been handled so sloppily as to discourage production last summer both the OPA and war food administration promised no ceiling price would be put on cattle but one is isnow now about to bd ba applied an investigator went wen tout out to the midwest to bold hearings and re ported the farmers were for a 1750 ceiling this proved to be false also feeder stock had been bought tor for ift around round 18 to put on to additional pounds and a la 11 aso cell ing would have meant ruination of this production process bonow so now the ceiling wi will 1 11 be tipped to 18 so as not to discourage the production of this additional meat but in order that thearle the price to the consumer not be raised the gavern govern ment Is to baythe packers an additional 1 per pounds subsidy out of the trea treasury iury and the taxpayers pocketbooks a secret price increase tinder under which those who pay taxes actually pay a portion of the price on steaks ti bought ought by everyone er yone all this retracing and sell self aaion by the gov government emment officials naturally tended to demoralize the cattle industry and scare scare off production duct lon worse than thiap this the war manpower commission is threatening to draft farm help and the war production board oard is cutting downor down or out the allocations tor for production of new law machinery the local draft bofird boards sin in farm arm communities however have shown some signs of revolting iVol ting against drafting more mor e farm help and frankly I 1 doubt that orders will be obeyed yet jt it is clear that thai farm help new machinery and for repairs will be scarcer than last jast year yea r if spring weather Is bad we will be in trouble As for lahe reserves we simply do in any line ine the department of agriculture Is now out outbidding bidding meetings meeting sio to get the farmers to increase planting and extension directors are doing good constructive work but the OPA and the other governa government ent bureada bureau ft are doing nothing to extend production that I 1 can see bureaucratic wrangling Inde indeed tid there Is constant quarreling and bick bickering bring on policy between OPA end and which is somewhat demoralizing and coordinator vin sons ils full of left wing boys who elways have sociology uppermost to kj mind it in evident then that this new food scare has more validity behind it than in former cases although the i dilong rong reasons are being of te redby by the administration natural ly enough in order to coyer is ifs 3 old m mistakes I people are eating ahey say tor for instance 1 I doubt that this is true seem captured a larte large quantity of 0 our tanned canned ghods in 1 thor their belgian smash and were there Is some come black market seepage corruption from army supplies in Ln france Trance but it Is hard to believe the official excuse that a soldier fiddler in france eats cats more than in the united states lend lease Is taking no more and indeed our own supply situation Is preventing us from living up to army arnay has st secured CUred several convictions for bia black ek market opi operations rations ilow how many hava been concerned with foodstuff tood stun Is not known |