Show Allied Food Conference Envisions World Council r International Group Would Be Empowered to Oversee Production Distribution of Bread 4 And Beef BeeP to Feed Society of Nations i r r By BAUKHAGE r Ne News us Analyst and Commentator Service Union Trust Building Washington D D. D C. C Back in the summer of 1940 I sat satIn satin satin in a chair under a whispering tree and looked out over a wide and md barbered barbered barbered bar- bar lawn The mountains were about us We were resting in a nest carved out of the wilderness and equipped with all the luxuries that a pampered human could demand I Lovely indolent women in sports I dresses sat at tables under colored umbrellas Handsome indolent youths in blazers lolled beside them Negro servants padded about with tall cooling and expensive drinks I call it a nest I belonged there just like a cuckoo but I enjoyed it It was all right It helped circulate circulate late the money I was a guest at a bankers' bankers convention But I thought back Six months before I had ridden ridden ridden rid rid- den in an army transport plane over shuddering Europe I looked about and saw the easy harmless but useless life about me made possible by the easy harvesting of Americas America's riches I sighed a little enviously and said to myself This cant can't last It is a strange coincidence that today at this very same spot representatives representatives representatives of the United Nations are gathering to try to write the prescription prescription prescription pre pre- for the third freedom- freedom freedom from want I This gathering isn't concerned with summer resorts de although although although al al- al- al though it meets at one It is concerned concerned concerned con con- with the proposition We must raise the st standard dard of living all allover allover allover over the globe so that the underfed can p produce o uce enough of their handiwork handiwork handiwork handi handi- work to exchange it for enough to eat something eat something they just never had before It is just too big for me to grasp but what's a heaven for asks Browning Brown Brown- ing mg if our reach doesn't exceed our grasp World Council This plan envisions an international al council at the head of a system of administrative bodies among which would be an agricultural council council council coun coun- cil supported by an agricultural bank all this international which would direct groups studying and applying nutrition standards directing directing directing direct direct- ing the supply of products storing surpluses shifting crops to balance supply and demand maintaining normal ever-normal storehouses of nonperishable nonperishable nonperishable per non crops adjusting processing of perishable crops developing new markets taking care of relief in devastated or stricken areas advising advising advising advis advis- ing and assisting the poorer population popular population r tion groups to increase their efficiency efficiency efficiency effi effi- effi- effi and consumption In other words these people who have spent hours and months and devoted arduous labor to working out this idea are trying to furnish the plan for economic machinery to hold up the hands of the political effort of a league of nations new style the style the bane bone and sinew the bread and beef to feed a society of nations joined together under one political umbrella of world co Such an idea is laughed out of court in advance by the folk who talk of crazy dreamers impractical long-hairs long and the like Maybe it itis itis itis is impossible But a lot of people are saying Well VeIl for heavens heaven's sake lets let's try it lets let's try anything nothing can cost more in blood sweat and dollars than war The U United ted States proved a lot of things were possible under the sharp lash of war which would have been sneered into oblivion if they had been blueprinted before Pearl Har Har- bor Take an egg for example Nothing Nothing Nothing Noth Noth- ing up our sleeves Just an egg Before the war says Frank Wilson Wilson Wilson Wil Wil- son of the department of commerce when Biddy the hen laid an egg in Cole county Missouri her subsequent subsequent quent cackle of satisfaction was 1 j. j based on the anticipation th that t that egg might get as far as Sedalia St. St Louis or or on rare occasions New York Then Hitler dreamed up a world war var and somebody dreamed up a 1 thing called lend Today Biddy's Biddy's Biddy's Bid Bid- dys dy's product t goes around the world Dehydration Scientists invented dehydration an anthe and d the process as far as eggs are concerned concerned conr concerned con con- is only a year and a half old r Before Before the war only 20 firms dried drie d de eggs to any extent and most of those thos e dried albumen only Today according according according accord accord- ing to Mr Wilson egg-drying egg plants big ones mostly scattered through the Middle West are drying eggs Wilson Vilson predicts that before the war is over 35 per cent of Americas America's Americas America's Americas America's Amer Amer- ica's three billion dozens of eggs willbe will willbe willbe be treated for processing annually And so the fragile egg formerly shipped only short distances can travel anywhere How great the American market for dehydrated eggs will be depends on to what extent extent extent ex ex- tent the consumer takes to the idea undoubtedly world consumption will willin in increase rease because of the excellent lend lease sampling and the ease of shipment You may not be able to deliver your quart of milk from the Wisconsin Wisconsin Wiscon Wiscon- sin milk shed to the Hottentots front porch but you can get your dried milk or dehydrated eggs there there there-if if you can adjust things so the Hotten Hotten- tot 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 made in peacetime wouldn't produce a shirt and a half per back Its It's the old story right down the theline line line we we can invent the machinery tomake to tomake tomake make anything We Ve are away behind behind behind be be- hind in our inventions to improve the human lot Its It's no harder but it takes more imagination You can lead a horse to water but you cant can't make him drink they say The problem problem problem lem with humans is different Youve You've got the hungry man and the table and the food but so far you haven't been able to fix things so you can lead him to it Russ-Jap Russ Friendship Friendship- And American Ships On May 7 Washington had the first official explanation of the many bombings of the Jap held Jap-held held Aleutian island of Kiska It said United States air forces have established military positions including an airfield airfield airfield air air- field on and have been in occupation of this island since Janu Janu- January I IThe ary The same day the Associated Press sent out a dispatch dated February 16 delayed I might say Ill say it was delayed I It began this way Despite a series of eight Japanese bombing raids this American airbase only afew a afew few ew minutes flight from Kiska island went vent into operation toda today I quote all this to show what a highly confidential war we are run run- run run-I ning By the time this sees print print print- print print-I perhaps while Im I'm writing these I lines lines-Kiska lines ines Kiska may be in American hands after a land invasion which it t is admitted is is the only way we can oust the enemy from this spot I l If the Japs have gone by the time time you read this there will be a sigh of at least partial regret in some quarters The reason is this As long longas as the Japs are on an island lik like Kiska or Guadalcanal 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 J Japs aps themselves are expendable They are cheap the sun god h has s a lot of them and hes he's generous in spending them But he I hasn't so many ships or so many supplies So killing Japs doesn't bother the Mikado nearly as much muchas as sinking his ships That is one reason the upturning of the last J Jap ap toes on any of their stolen flung far-flung bases will be a source of at least partial regret There is another reason Day inand in inand inand and day out from Vancouver and Seattle secret ships loaded with supplies for our Russian ally have been calmly sailing away past the J held Jap-held Kiska and Attu under the Japanese guns in in the narrow waters that lead to Vladivostok Now that was a little matter approved approved approved ap ap- proved by Russia and Japan who hate and fear each other privately but officially are friendly nations The question arises now When anc and if we trounce the little men out o othe of the stronghold they have dug with their fingernails in in the rocky Attu and Kiska will they be as willing to let us keep on shipping supplies to Russia Perhaps it doesn't matter By that time which may be now the situation may have changed The interesting thing is that the situation does change and thanks to the censorship censorship censorship cen cen- nobody knows it until th the e knowledge kno ceases to be aid and comfort comfort com corn fort to the enemy nemy But its it's tough on a newsman |