Show aouilina ao tilina lawn in washington by walter shead ad washington bu buciu im eyo EH S st N ly A world department of agriculture EVERY eperson VERY farmer and rancher every person connected with the lood food and agricultural industry in these united states from producer to processor and citizens generally should watch with deep interest the meeting of the food and agriculture organization of the united nations in quebec starting october 18 10 this Is the first of the permanent new united nations agencies to be launched after the end of hostilities which marks the importance attached to its deliberations by our gove government rement and the gave governments of all the 44 united nations As this Is written the list of american delegates a e s to the conference has not been announced ced it is likely however that the delegates from the united states will be headed heade d by howard talley of the department cf agriculture who has acted as the united states representative on the interim commission of the organization the food and agricultural organization ratified by the 44 nations at san francisco is part and parcel and a most important function of the united nations organ organization izat ion it Is not a relief agency its aim Is to improve world agriculture and to iner increase e ase food production to provide a a higher standard of diet and raise them the levels ot of nutrition and the standards of avin living throughout the world ill all of which Is intended to com contribute tribute to an expanding world economy the organization will likely set up machinery which will function tor for world agriculture and production pro much like our own department of agriculture functions in hi the united states in an advisory capacity passing along scientific development the dissemination ot of agricultural knowledge technical information and the results of oct gel ent c agricultural research to aid in setting up agencies in all the 44 countries for combating loll 1011 erosion to improve sou soil and crops to develop better livestock to take into consideration reforestation rural electrification farm to market roads exploration of new sources of food to provide better tools tor for primitive farmers farmer to increase production attention to surplus crops and abid a better distribution trib ution of these crops and many other subjects necessarily attendant to the huge and complicated task of providing more and better food tor for a world and its population ravished lavished ravi shed by years of total war not mot enough land there are now about human beings populating this old world on which we live and theeb the ei predict that at present rate of increase there will be a billion more by the end of the century these experts further point out that there are at present only about acres of arable land la use which is less than avi acres per capita even in our own country there Is only a traction fraction more than seven acres per capita in farm lands including woodlands and pai pasture lands if we would take into account only the crop lands harvested approximately acres our per capita acreage would just about equal the world average so bo without wim 0 ut an expanding acreage of arable lands without t basic resources in india in china in russia and many other countries such as we have in this country the experts say that the world will continue to produce insufficient food to feed its billions of humans what the representatives of chalis these 44 nations what 0 our own delegation does at quebec to 0 o commit this country to a program of world agricultural rehabilitation will determine in large measure whether we as a people were honest when we subscribed to the atlantic charter and the charter of the united nations at san francisco fr c for with this charter charte r in existence ce and binding upon us with 0 our ur nation emerging from the war as a the most fortunate the most powerful with a new conception and in a new position as 81 the leader of the world the time ha has passed when we can watch the people of india china or any other th er nation starving and salve our conscience with alchech to some relief society two thirds ot of the people ot of the world are farmers these hundreds of ari are striving to raise food on warn worn out land and from the selfish few cornea comes the corn comment ment why should we help the he rest ot of the world raise lood food W when hen there continue sto be surplus in our own crops and the answer of course Is that with proper distribution trib ution that with the rest ot of the world eating and living on a par with our own diet there would be b no surp surplus his with a continuing ex pending world economy calling at al ways tor for increasing production |