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Show Farm Agencies Unite In Bigger '11 Food Program Alining at a program to bring together till federal farm agencies agen-cies under the U. S. Department of Agriculture In cooperation with farmers, producers and food conservers throughout the nation, na-tion, the Food Fights for Freedom Free-dom campaign has been launched launch-ed in Utah and in the whole country this month. According to Director W. W. Owens of the Utah Agricultural Extension Service, Food Fights for Freedom is not merely a program connected with farmers, but Involves all phases of food In the war today, production, conservation, purchasing, the rationing system, avoidance of black markets and canning. In a recent statement made by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in regard to the national food program, he told Congress that "food is as important as any other weapon in the successful prosecution of the war. It will be equally Important in rehabilitation rehabili-tation and relief in the liberated areas, and in the shaping of the peace that is to come." He also listed objectives of the campaign, first of which is to raise in the most efficient manner enough food and the right kinds of foods and second, to see that food for civilians at home is fairly divided divid-ed throughout the country. Giving additional emphasis to the nation-wide scheme, War Food Administrator Marvin Jones testified that "the increasing need for food for direct war use and for civilians calls for the maximum food production possible poss-ible in 1944." Through his bureau in Washington, Jones expects ex-pects to direct much of the work pertaining to the significant Food Fights for Freedom outline, and states and counties will, through their extension services and government bureaus attempt to keep the program going at full speed after its month-of-Novem-ber impetus. Through campaign activities, officials of the WFA, OPA, OCD and OWI hope to effect an all-out, all-out, full-time basis placed upon the importance of food in the war. i |