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Show WASTED foods qreatly needed Recent dispatches from Mom ana hnve told about the vast surplus oL potatoes Roins to waste In that state DBCaUBC there i.- no market for Lhem. Unly a lew uays nc,o. similar reporu were sent from the corn producing I Mates regarding that crop. Throughout Through-out Utah and Idaho there has, been iyapte of wheal because there was no adequate and proper storage for ih prplus crop when markets were glut M ted. and this wheat was damaged home beyond reclamation, by exec moisture. i Yet through the world there are mil fl ions crying for food to save them ' from starvation, people of cen- fl jral Europe, of Armenia, Syria and Persia, of China and other lnnds. Poo-W Poo-W hje of the Fniicd States are opening their pocketbooks and are providing Wt funds to purchase food for these fauv lie stricken populations. Relief com mittees are being organized to provide fcpme sort of system to see thai the tjarving men. women and children an-H an-H ' saved. I There is something radically w rone j Vvith the world crouomlc oondltkni j liat permits this i rxisl li l not MMM t.nlv generall wrong ! ilu wiri: uatlon but more specifically of the 1 j Economic situation in the United S'tates A serious lack of co-ordin;. 2 WM ilon in affairs is shown by the example ex-ample of wasted foodstuff- on the one kjde. starvation on another side, lh- i I Tfising of money to buy rood and ship! , jr. on 'he third side l Jin time of wars, governments Find I iie means to co ordinate affairs so ; jhat food supplies are not wasted t j ppe section of the world when needed i II another. Supplies mov properly to I ihc point of need. Ti e world is fac-1 jog today a war against tamlne. j habere should be orderly movement o: lb'' surplus crops from one land to the other country where there is seri pus shortage, where lainine condition. jircvail. Certainly the governments j tbat are able to solve Just these prob-jtms prob-jtms of war periods CU BQlvi them now in peace tiaras. The) should no: jeave the blot on the world records that in war days food could be sup- pjled when needed but in peaie days ibis was not accomplished. |