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Show MUST INCREASE I FOOD EXPORTS America C!!:d on by End of War to Supply Added , Millions. ECONOMY 'STILL NEEDED. . 1 t Over ThMe Times p re-War Ghl)inenti Required Sltuatlsn In Wheat and Fats Proves Government's Pol'sy Cjund. Wlih tlio mins In' I'urope slloncod, . vv luie,Jmv n cMiiler u new w-orlil foud sltvatton. i tlirie jin Jbo ,jjo-hope ,jjo-hope tlmi the NolMli'o of'our enth 'mi 16 llftlttonoct 10 the rI'kIiIcP ;no nlih lliu ipssi.mjiL j iiuIUlles Millions of ieoiiL libumteil from tin-Prtisslun'' tin-Prtisslun'' j'ohe are 'hhw'-irepcnilJhV iiioi) us fur. the food which will keep them from sttinatloii. With food Hie United Stntc mndi It posslblo for tho forces of drmor racy tu hold . ut to victory. To Insurv democracy In the world, woyuusi con tlnuc (o lire simply In order tluit no nmy supply these liberated nations of Kuropo with food. Hunger among a pcoplo Inrvltnbly breeds anarchy American food must complete the work of making the world safe for deniotS racy. l.nst year wo sent U,8UO,000 tons of food to Europe. For the present your with only tliu Uiiropriin Allies to feed, wo had originally pfedscd oursches to a program that would Iiiito Iticrcusod our c-iwrts to 17,500,000 tns. Now. to fejjd the liberntrd nn'Sons, wo will 1 have to esport ir total of not loss (linn j -0.000.OW tons practically the lliull 1 of loading capacity nt our ports. Itu-vlcnlns Itu-vlcnlns the world food situation, ,wc find that some foods will be olitalunlile In quantities suflldcnt to meet nil world needs under n regime of economical eco-nomical consumption. On the olhrr linnd, llicie will be marked world shortages In some Important commodities. commodi-ties. Return to Normal Cread Loaf. With the enlarged wheat crops which American farmers have grown, and ihe supplies of Australia, tho Argentine Ar-gentine nnd other mnikcts now accessible acces-sible to shipping, there are broad grains enough to rnaldc (ho nations In , tottirri to tla-lr normsil wheat lual, provided we ontlniio to i.iltl !Im:i at la high porccitapo of rx'noilnn n"'l j imilntnlu economy In euilii,; uud Uiv nvoldanco of wnste. In fills there w'l' ho n hravj- (jjiort-I (jjiort-I ago nbout 3,000,000,000 pounds In pork'" products, dairy products and vegetable oils. While there will lie a ' shortage of about three million tons j In rich protein feeds for dairy animals, ani-mals, th( rowIII be sufficient supplies I of other edstuffs to allow economical I consumption . In the matter of beef, the world's 1 supplies are limited to the capacity of I the available refrigerating ships. The . supplies of beef In Australia, the Ar-1 Ar-1 gsntlne and the United States are sufficient suf-ficient to load these ships. There will be a shortage In the Importing couo-trlsa, couo-trlsa, heiws, cannot hope to expand ejqierta mafertaUy (or the nest months to .flaw, of the bottle neck In trans- .jWwlft have a sufficient supply of ssvar (e alow noraial consumption In ,thls eoaatry If the other nations retain, re-tain, their present short rations or In-crease In-crease them only" slightly, For tho . (OfHttlasof Europe, however, to In-' In-' crease their present rations to a ma-I ma-I tctlal extent wMl necessitate oucshor-lag oucshor-lag a Dart of our own supplies with them. , . " Twenty Million Tone of Pood. Of the world total, North America will furnish more than 00 per cent. The Untasd Stats Including the West Indies, will bo called upon to .furnish 20,000,000 tons of food of all kinds as eotaiftrl with our prc-wnr exports of luboot 0,000,000 tons. , While we will be able to change our pufrem in many respects, even a casfal survey of the world supplies , in coceparlaoa to world demands snows coocluslrety that Europe win know 'famine unless the Amsrlcsr people I bring their heme consumption denvn to, the barasjt minimum that will mulu-1 mulu-1 (am bealt aad strength. I There am ceedltiens of famine In afcsNSM that win be beyond otrr power to rvftesV. There are 4000,000 people peo-ple IB yaeeh baasia whoej there .Is jssuk eaesvea el reeettlag with food Jsla aialeai Their tranajportatlou Is iMHiiaplbajl as isssylits' ansurehy, and uborfly au-tyof thetr ports wlU be Croeea, "even If Internal transport could be realised. Tp reeerve Civilisation. At eaei stsaaeat Germany has not alone setskeri the leed aad aaliunln freureJI theee siiiii of peeale sho luvs aefsUated aad left starvftg, bm Oo has leai behUU her a teul wreck-tge wreck-tge e seeieJ t-ttrUle-s, and this uuuw ef eesHsW b now cwnfrouted w lib liheesaee a-arahy, K velee our ewa sassty ad the .-eW eegeelsetlsii ef she wedd. If we valee.MM saesei'iatleii e dTlUuillon lisajf, we eaaJMl aenast grewth of this issisf la tis'Werld's.vHaJa, rsjakM V to meiher ef anarchy. rresa the iaablllty t aeverBSMtits to lasers ftsod for rhetr Beeple grow;s revotetlea'aiMl chaius. Proai ah alrtllt'y to 'euvply taolr poopla grows stability of ceverninAnt and tho defeat of anarchy. an-archy. Did we put It on no higher piano Hum our UHerasts In the protection" pro-tection" of our Instltdtlons, womust bestir ourseh'es In' solution of" this proilenk |