Show A Th Tow g R. R in WASHINGTON By Walter Shead Shea ton Bureau 1616 Eye Ere St. St N N. W. W U U. U Ns N.'s Food Organization Discusses World Problems FARM tARM leaders agricultural experts ex ex- experts experts and government officials Interested in agriculture arc placing placIng placing ing great stress on the outcome of the meeting of the food and agri agri- agricultural agricultural agricultural cultural organization of United Na Na- lions which opened its fourth ses ses- session session session sion in Copenhagen on September 2 The session likely will last ap ap- approximately approximately ap- ap approximately proximately two weeks Organized in fn the United States the FAO F AO has held three organizational organizational organizational meetings one in Mexico City another in South America and the third in Canada This TIlls fourth meeting is in Denmark Each of the national farm organ organ- organizations organIzations organizations has one representative at atthe atthe atthe the meeting to press for the pro pro- production production and distribution plans which were the result of the recent International agricultural meeting In London The state department as s this is written has not an an- announced announced announced I names of the American of of- official official official I delegates but the department of agriculture already has designated designated hated several men who will be be- become become become come along with farm organization organization tion leaders a part of the Ameri Ameri- American can advisory group These include Under Secretary of Agriculture Dodd production and marketing administrations administration's Shields Wells of the bureau of agricultural econom economics economics ics Bowles not Chester of the foreign agricultural relations de de- department department de- de department Lambert of agricultural research and of home economics This meeting of FAO will hatch the first long range program for world agriculture based upon a worldwide survey which has just been completed and which includes 70 countries John Orr of Scotland director general of FAO F AO will present the proposals for this food program which if adopted will be laid be be- before before before fore the meeting of United Nations at its scheduled meeting in Octo Octo- ber Many it any Smaller Meetings This program is the result of ex ex- exploration exploration ex- ex exploration into the reasons for sur sur- surpluses surpluses surpluses pluses and shortages in world food supply and is expected to contain provisions for preventing the re re- recurrence recurrence recurrence currence of such conditions In the meantime committees of the or organization have been holding meet meet- meetings meetings meetings ings in various European cities on such questions as diet nutritional goal possible changes in production production tion to meet the goal a current appraisal of the food situation in all the countries of the world eco eco- economics economics economics and statistics forestry and agricultural production and re re- re- re search Reports on these various phases of the agricultural picture will be presented to the meeting for rejection adoption or tion Farm leaders here are con con- convinced convinced vinced that the future of Ameri Amen American can agriculture is closely bound with world agriculture and that th t never again can the United States State draw within her shell with a policy of isolation Our own yn agricultural market isso is isso isso so sensitive that it will be gov gov- governed governed governed largely by world agricultural production prices and tion No longer can our expanded production depend upon the domes domes- domestic tic market for consumption Seventy countries are now mem memo members members bers of the FAO F AO and two new coun coun- countries countries tries Italy and Switzerland are expected to apply for membership at the Copenhagen meeting In connection with the economics and statistics report it might be bewell bewen bewell well wen to consider the recent report of the bureau of economics of the agriculture department supple supple- supplemented supplemented by findings of the Federal Reserve board to the effect that some 32 million families in this country still are earning less than per year If that figure is i true in this country and it un tin undoubtedly is think what the meager income must be of untold millions of families of the rest ol of the world Most People Have Little Despite the fact that the Ameri Ameri- American can people p ople have savings of some some- something someI something something I thing like 81 billion dollars in bank deposits currency and government bonds yet 70 per percent percent percent cent of the American people have little or nothing sayed saved for the in in- inevitable inevitable evitable rainy day the saving being concentrated in the upper in in- income income income come brackets the people who take in or more a year and who were well off oft before the war So the war which poured hun bun hundreds buns of billions of dollars into the pockets of the American people still left the country with the in in- income income income come divided just about as it was before the war What then must be the plight of European and Asi Asi- Asiatic Asiatic Asiatic countries So distribution surplus and price too at this important meeting of FAO will be one of the major factors fac fac- factors factors tors to be discussed discussed- in any long range agricultural program in which feeding of the worlds world's population population lation is the most essential job be be- before before before fore the organization |