Show im mal food shipments will help write the peace in europe by BAUKHAGE news analyst and commentator service 1616 E eye ye street NW washington D 0 since good friday when you heard a president and an ex dent speaking on the same radio program one in ia the white house the other across the atlantic in egypt y y you 0 u have read and he heard ard many other appeals in preparation for a drive which c it will start shortly to get food to give five hundred million starving men women and chi children in europe and asia the v voluntary 0 effort t to 0 cut down food consumption on simply worked it that the people are unwilling its that there was no immediate way to cut down on our eating which seemed practical and so a practical means of getting gettin 9 food in cans Is to be tried and its success will depend on the local volunteer organization in your community n it y the foods needed are milk condensed evaporated or dried meat fish peanut butter baby foods baked beans juices stews soups honey vegetables I 1 know that you have heard this before in detail I 1 hope you will hear bear it again with further details but bt perhaps you dont realize what you end and the united states can get it in return for the food we send out an and d what we may lose if starvation beco becomes m es widespread th The whole question it Is pointed up in a not too prominently displayed dispatch from moscow to which an off official iclal called my attention last week it was a statement made by a correspondent of the soviet paper who had been touring the american zone in germany the food stuff difficulties which forced lowering of rations in the american zone the correspondent wrote are explained in my view not so much by the absence ol of productive districts as by a lack of order and distribution of agricultural products then he went on to explain that the big estates estates had not been broken up as they were in the russian zone hunger used as P political oli weapon this criticism which I 1 think investigation vesti gation will prove to be exceedingly biased and unfair reveals how food or the lack of it is serving and can serve as a weapon to stir up discontent and to bring the western countries into disrepute and disfavor revolution follows hunger just as surely as hunger hanger follows war As a matter of fact one of the most efficient organizations in the american military zone of germany is the agency which di tributes distributes 5 food working closely with it is another highly efficient american agency which the british have used as a model in their zone the health and sanitation division however there is a food shortage in germany just as there is 13 in the rest of europe the effects are the same everywhere ond ind germany serves as an excellent example of the political effects of a good shortage there the american au authorities thorl tie 3 can accurately check on what is going on since the military government Is so closely tied in to every phase of f the daily lives of the people recently a military government off official leial in germany wrote to me no slogan was ever truer than food will win the war and write the peace we anve are about to sit down at the peace table with italy russia probably will vot lot be present but the food the tha italy does not have inay may affect the validity of that pace treaty A revealing comment on how this works was appended to a report made shortly after the british were forced to drop to a 1000 calorie seals scale and coal production dropped approximately 20 per cent this was the comment eom ment heavy workers are dropping at thear work and food riots have al reaty taken place it if this ration Is not raised soon there will be no coal without coal there will be no transportation without coal and transportation there will be no processing of food from Indi indigenous genotti resources the fact fac vat that we now have to go 0 back on our pledged word to the german people will seriously impair our prestige and the confidence of the german people in the pledged word ol of our officials this will give to those who oppose our economic system the best weapon they have ever received As fast as possible we are losing all the advantages gained by the success ol of arms we are losing the peace much faster aster than at the close of world war I 1 the first arst great blow has been the food muddle others will pile up like a snowball it appears I 1 that we will have to reduce the already inadequate ration for berlin this of course will ivill give the russians a strong talking point against the western powers when we cannot afford to sustain the 1550 calorie ration for or the normal consumer and so the path of our friend the reporter from crosses that ot of the american off official iclal clearly we see the different segments ol of the picture which opponents of western democracy have sketched in no taint faint strokes across the troubled world yes indeed food will write the peace polls show U S ready to sacrifice it Is interesting to note that the american people are perfectly willing to make sacrifices to send food to europe two surveys were made by the university ol of denver national research center one ol of which showed that 68 p per er cent ot of those interviewed indicated their wish to resume rationing 11 necessary in order to send critical food exroad abroad another survey by the same institution ution showed that more than a third of the people 35 per cent believed that we should send food to germany as a gilt gift if 11 she could not P pay ay us for it I 1 I 1 believe that if a similar poll were taken in regard to feeding japan the results would be approximately the same gardens grow on skyscrapers people have their roots in the soil even when they live 20 stories above asphalt pavements I 1 had that brought forcibly to mind as I 1 leaned over the wall of a wide terrace of a penthouse garden high above park avenue new york As I 1 looked to the right and the left everywhere I 1 saw fresh green edging other walls like the onie one against which I 1 was leaning and below me I 1 could glimpse neat gardens already sprouting cheerfully theer tully in the first warm spring sun there was a vine lne spreading over one wall higher up were tell tall trees bursting into leaf tall isay I 1 say the tops were some feet above the pavement if only some 16 15 feet above their elevated roots I 1 saw one old man in a battered straw hat bat his bis trowel laid aside and the evidence ot of his industry in a ro row of little pine trees in neatly painted tubs he was resting in a garden chair a little fountain playing in the wall beside him and a neat privet hedge for his skyline farther away was a real achievement a lawn at least 50 feet square with tulips blossoming bloss oming along a neat walk that led to nowhere rebuild mexican agriculture through the building ot of modern comfortable homes for rural work ers the improvement ol of farm land and introduction of mechanized farm equipment a general plan for the rehabilitation of mexican agriculture has been initiated one hundred model farms have been completed in the district of topilejo with means tor for working the land in modern and efficient manner A model school and home tor for teachers teacher also have been built to create in each center of pok population a permanent board which i will v li consider the resPect respective ivi problems of farmers livestock raisers busina bu business sint men industrialists and artisans to promote undertakings tor for the manufacture or sale of modern implements of agriculture to distribute by credit individually dua to towns or to areas ma modern dern farm arm tools necessary technical direction selected seeds coeds and fertilizer to promote and organize private capital tor for the creation creati creat loc or of small institutions that will dedicate themselves to the maintenance of 0 rural credit as the only logical means for agricultural development to build schools and homes for teachers in agricultural industrial or livestock centers as well as regional hospitals |