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Show FOOD CONTROL MEANSVICTORY European Shortage Places Problem Prob-lem Before American Government Govern-ment Farsighted Policy Adopted. r NEED 75,000,000 BU. WHEAT. Food Administration Akt Aid , of Every American In Gigantio Task of Feeding Million. It la the food problem over there that makes a food problem over here, - . If we wished to be supremely selfish . and supremely shortsighted we could go on eating as much as we like and whatever we like, without much difficulty diffi-culty or Interruption at least, until the Germans camel Bat we are not doing things In that selfish and suicidal way. We are try lng to make a great common pool of all of our food, and all of the food of , the allies, and all of the food we can get from South American and other neutrals, and dividing it up fairly among America, England, France, Bel-glum Bel-glum and Italy. This does not mean that all of the people In the great pool are going to Lave the same ration, but means that we are trying to arrauge to have enough for everybody, so that the soldiers sol-diers our soldiers and their soldiers-win soldiers-win h well fed. as thev have to ba to fight hard and continuously, and that the munitions workers and the 1 workers In all the other necessary Industries, In-dustries, and the men and women at home will all have enough to keep alive and well.' It is absolutely necessary neces-sary to do this If the war Is to be won, and we are going to do it, but It means planning, working, arranging, co-operating, being careful, not wasting, saving. sav-ing. And It means that each and every one of us has got to help. , Now, we have enough and more than enough food for ourselves, and the Government is going to see to It that we keep here at home a sufficient supply sup-ply of every essential kind of food to support our people. But over there , they simply have not enough. Lord Rhondda, the English food controller, recently cabled the Amerlcai. food ad-mlnistrator, ad-mlnistrator, that unless we can send the allies before the next uropean harvest 75,000,000 bushels of wheat In addition to what had been sent up to January 1 of this year he could notj assure the -people of the allies that ; - they would have a sufficient supply of A food to carry on the war. ' He did not say anything In this cable ' " about "the other food necessarybat he has told of these needs In other cable and by his actions In England. For example, his latest regulation compels a reduction of meat eating In the United Kingdom to a maximum of one pound per week per person, this pound Including the bone and other waste parts In the meat aa bought la the shop. T Tne allies must have more wheat, more meat, more fats, more dairy products, prod-ucts, more sugar. Their harvests were very short France had less than half her normal crop of wheat and the available shipping is small In amount and constantly being lessened by sub- .1..... mn tht it is now practically Impossible to nee any ships for the long voyage necessary to bring food from Australia snd other remote markets. The food mnst come chiefly from America. In specific figures It Is nec-esaary nec-esaary for us to send to the allies 1,100.000 tons of foodstuffs a month. This Is a great responsibility and a great problem. The food must be found, snd slso the ships to carry It It la being done, but can only continue to be done by the help snd full cooperation co-operation of all of us over our broad land. We must produce and save more. To supply the wheat necessary until the next harvest, we must reduce our oonsumptlon by from one-fonrth te one-third: we must cut down our usual average consumption of meats snd fata by from 10 to 15 per cent and j dairy products v about 10 per cent Over there V are tightening their belt asd doing everything they can. They are eating war bread; they are catting down their ger in Knglsad to two pound" P' I1" Pr lnon' and in France and Italy to one pound how much are you eating? and they are using ration csrds for most of the staples We must meet sacrifice with BH.-riftVe. If we don't we are helping to lose the war Instead of helping to win it |
