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Show LETTING GEORGE DO IT. In the opinion of the average foreign country America is one vast hive of agricultural industry. They seem to think that all they have to do is to ask and we will hand over the food. America has been generous in the past in dividing its food supply with Europe, even when we had to deny ourselves to do it. But the war is over and war conditions and necessities neces-sities no longer exist. The American farmer is not very short of help and crop outlooks are not of the best, according to published pub-lished reports. I Experts predict a shortage of food-'stuft's food-'stuft's next winter, with the posibi-lity posibi-lity of bread and soup lines in the i cities of our own country. If this should happen Europe can 'not expect us to meekly hand over the food we need to sustain life among cur own people. Exporting profiteers would of course take advantage of the situation situa-tion and send food to Europe at enormous gains to themselves. But 'the public will not have it so. If ;such is attempted the roar of protest pro-test will be long and deep and will engulf any person who attempts to starve American women and children for the sake of selling to Europe at great personal profit. America asks neither alms or favors fa-vors from any country. We are ready to relieeve distress across the water when conditions and humanity permit, but we are not -willing to send our own people to bed hungry in order to do it. Europe can work and produce If it will. It should quit squabbling cultivate that will. "Letting George do it" doesn't appeal ap-peal strongly to us, especially when we are expected to make ourselves a universal and perpetual George. |