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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH m Food Needs of Starving Europe Present Problems for America The Other Side (Beleased by Western Newspaper Union.) NEW YORK CITY, N. Y. Should America send food to the nations starving, of Europe which have been successfully invaded? Consider-- i able controversy surrounds the answer to this question for it may be a vital factor in the outcome of the current war. England fears feeding these nations would indirectly aid Germany and tend to neutralize the effectiveness of their blockade, but others disagree. Herbert Hoover successfully supervised distribution of food in Belgium during the World war and believes it can be done again. The National Committee on Food for the Five Small Democracies has been formed to carry out his plan. The following article presents the committees reasons why, the five small democracies should be aided. war-strick- . ; : , en Food is a weapon but famine is a boomerang. Each is powerful and effective and, like all deadly arms, should be handled with knowledge and experience and not emotion. The first reaction of the British government of October, 1914, to the proposal to feed Belgium was, in the words of Lord Robert C- chief of Great Britains ecil, foreign . office, directly counter to every dictate of military prudence. But the British government later came to realize, in the words of Mr. Asquith, that this food relief reaches the Belgians and the French, and reaches them while Lloyd George, speak- alone; ... for the allied ing of the work and associated powers, said, it has been of inestimable value. They demonstrated their belief in its necessity by giving priority to relief shipments even over shipments of troops, munitions and food for the Allies. This is a striking lesson from the annals of the World war and should cause us to explore deeply the facts of the present proposal before condemning to possible death 37 millions of people, as well as occasioning the inevitable concomitant diseases that will stop at no ideological, political or geographical frontier not even the Atlantic ocean. In the World war experience, the condition of starvation in Germany at the close of the war, as contrasted with the maintenance of the Belgian population in good health and without the loss of a life by starvation throughout four years, is eloquent proof of the fact that the blockade of Germany had been effective and in no way affected by the feeding of the occupied territories. Outline Proposal. What is the proposal? How was this effected last time? How could it' be repeated? The proposal is not to dump miscellaneous quantities of food into western Europe in the vague hope that they will be distributed exclusively among the conquered peoples. Nor is it an arrangement by which any imported food would release to the Germans equivalent quantities of native produce. On the contrary, it is to set up a total administration under which all of the native produce would be mobilized, by centralization in the administrations warehouses, for the exclusive use of the civilian populations, and then to import only tiiosO foods in which there is a deficiency so as to make up a bare subsistence ration precisemaintenance-of-lif- e the World war. in done was as ly It is, further, that Germany contribute towards this program important quantities from her own supplies which she has produced or requisitioned. Under such a plan, it is obvious that any leakages out of the total stores in sufficient quantities to affect the German food supply by any amount large enough to influence the German ration, and thereby the war, would be immediately and very simple to check and to control. A great deal of opposition .to this pipn is based upon the assertion that the Germans would not live up to any guarantees which they might give. But, curiously enough. 1 - self-reveali- ng Many persons believe that it would be impossible to satisfac- torily supervise distribution of food sent to conquered nations of Europe. Among those who hold this view is Wallace R. Deuel, who has spent six years in Germany as foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News. reader wrote him Recently and asked, If we could ship food through the blockade to the starving Belgians (for example) what percentage of it might we expect the Nazis to take? To this question he replied, You might expect the Nazis to take either most or all of what you sent. If they refrained from taking the same food you sent they would take a corresponding amount of other stocks. The starving Belgians would, in either event, be little or not at all better off than they were before. a guarantees are of secondary importance and German national interest the primary factor. What are these guarantees?- Naturally, operations could only begin after the negotiation of an undertaking with the German government that they will abstain from seizing either native or imported supplies. Small Help to Germany. But food alone would scarcely provide the motive for seizing the imported supplies. Native produce is hers for the taking, anyway. Germany is consuming today 1,400,000 tons of food a month; the invaded territories would need about 280,000 tons a month; foodstocks would be maintained in these countries (as they were last time) on a protection basis. Thus, if at any one moment Germany effected an seizure from the North Cape to the French border, she would receive thereby exactly 72 hours of supplies for her 80 millions of people. And if she did, the flow of food would be cut off from one shipment to the next. There we see exposed, amazing and yet so obvious, the maximum menace to Britain a three-day- s supply of food for Germany! Some believe that it is Germanys obligation to feed these people, but this also is inconsistent with the prevailing opinion of the German regime. The more ruthless one believes them to be the more obvious it is that they are not going to raise so-call- ed The housewife was showing her new maid through the upstairs rooms. Finally, they came to a staircase leading down. said the houseNow, Mary, wife, stepping on to the landing, when you wish to pass down to the garden, go down this way. At that moment she slipped, and was precipitated to the bottom. Good gracious, mum! gasped the maid, Are ye hurt? No; its nothing, came the reply, as the dishevelled mistress rose to her feet. Then yeve got down it fine, mum! declared the girl. But if thats the way Ive got to go down, the jobs too strenuous for me! Milk scorches easily, so heat it in If curtains are dry before being starched they will keep clean a double boiler or warm it over low heat in a pan set on an asbeslonger. tos mat. To help keep the milk Turn the handles of pots and from sticking to the sides, rinse pans on the stove out of reach of the pan in cold water before heatsmall children. ing. When preparing bread crumbs . Hot pans should never be set on porcelain surfaces as the heat for escalloped dishes, croquettes, cracks the porcelain. etc., tie a cloth or paper bag over the mouth of the meat grinder To lime your house plants, save and put the bread in. The crumbs all egg shells. Keep the shells in will then be deposited in the bag a jar of cold water and use the instead of being scattered on the floor. water on the plants. ble and around the stool with snap fastener tape one side tacked to the wood and the other sewn to the skirt tops. NOTE: Directions for making three types of dressing tables are illustrated in booklet No. 1 of the series which Mrs. Join in Hand Spears has prepared for our readers. Details . for making the frilled lamp Then join in hand, brave Amerishades illustrated today are in No. 5, cans all! which also contains a description of the series. Each booklet illustrates 32 home- By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. making projects and may be ordered direct from Mrs. Spears by sending her John Dickinson. your name and address with 10c in coin for each number requested. Send order to: - two-wee- a finger to help their victims. We have heard of requisitions and leaks of food supplies during the World war, but the audited and published accounts of the commission that did that job reveal that throughout the four years of their operations there was not one single requisition; at least, not one that was not replaced directly or in equivalent supplies. It is no't improbable that there were small leaks such as have been cited in personal letters to the press; but when it is considered that over 11,000,000,000 pounds of goods were taken into the occupied territories, it is petty to raise these infinitesimal proportions of the total amount handled as an objection that may condemn these 37 millions of people to death. Revolt Held Unlikely. Is it possible that if we do not feed these people they may revolt against their conquerors? Formerly, when there was less disparity between the weapons of an army and those of a mob this would have been possible; today, it is absurd to expect that a mob armed with scythes and pitchforks, hunting guns and knives, could withstand the weapons of modern warfare. Anyone who advances this theory is apparently unacquainted with famine which, far from emboldening men, slowly and progressively breaks their spirit and reduces them to impotence and. utter apathy. Some thought, too, must be given to the question as to whether it is not, after all, merely one of distribution and not of shortage in Europe. Agricultural experts reveal that Europe is normally 15 per cent short in her food supply. Due to one of the coldest winters on record last year followed by one of the wettest springs, there is a further shortage of another 15 per .cent. Add to these the additional shortages due to war phenomena, such as the doubling of consumption immediately upon mobilization, the destruction of stocks, and the interference with sowings, cultivation and harvests, and it is obvious that the total shortage in Europe this year will be far over and above 30 per cent. One proposal has been to send into these countries medicines and food concentrates for children. There is but one cure for famine and that is food and no amount of serums or medicines can ward off death by starvation. Such relief is but a saline solution, a prolongation of the agony. Mary Was Looking for Another Way Out! VAHAT could be a greater lux- ury than two extra closets in your bedroom! That is exactly what a young friend of mine thought. But, when they were built in, she was painfully conscious of their angles and the room This seemed much narrower. sketch shows you how the feeling of width was restored and the angles were made to melt away. A wallpaper border all the way around the room helped to soften down the angles of the closets also added an exciting color note to the plain painted walls. The chest of drawers in the upper sketch was moved to another part of the room, and the long spacious dressing table was built into the space between the closets. The top o:! the table and stool and the frame the mirror were enameled porcelain blue which was one of the cdlors in the wallpaper border. Dotted swiss skirts were fastenec on the inside of the finishing boards across the front of the ta of ASK ME ANOTHER MRS. 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