The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-19
World Is Facing Serious Prob.
lem, Say Packers.
War Soon VIII Exhaust supply,
Is Warning.
AMERICAS WANING HERDS
Methods Must Be Adopted to
Face Situation.
Wonderful Opportunities FOR
Young Men of Nation.

Chicago, Oct 19.-Shortage OF .
meat supply faces the world as a re-
suit Of the war, George Mccarthy Of
New York. secretary of the American
Meat Packers association. asserted be-
fore the ninth annual convention Of
the association which opened here to-
day:
Europe will soon exhaust its own
food supply and then will drain the
world to feed its huge armies and
helpless populations" Mr.. Mccarthy
world over. Taken in connection with
the fact that this country is extremely
short Of food animals. the prospect for
an abundant supply either in the
United States or abroad are not en-
Discuss Meat Questions.
Light on the vexed questions Of the
diminishing beef supply, the waning
herds on the American cattle ranges.
methods to be adopted to induce farm
ers to raise more stock and the effects
OF the war on the cost Of food prod
ucts il expected to be shed by the con-
vention which is to be in session for
three days. More than seven hundred
Representatives Of five hundred pack
Ing and supply houses are attending
the convention.
d. T. Cash. Of st. Louis, heading a
delegation which seeks to bring next
years convention to st. Louis, said that
the young men Of today have q good
chance to get rich raising hogs.
There never was such q chance af-
forded our bright young men as today
In raising hogs" Mr.. Cash said. "They
can make more money raising hogs
than in any other line Of farming"
Among subjects up for consideration
before tho convention will be a request
for the government to make appropria-
lion to stamp out tuberculosis in cattle
and to have the tax removed from
oleomargarine.
Under Government Control.
James Craig, jr., president of the
American Meat Packers association
predicted the time when practically
every industry in the country would be
under government supervision.
The most notable developments of
the year. said he, lin respect to the
supervision and control of our business
by department officials probably are,
nrst, the new life that has been put
Into the federal food and drug law, by
the energy and enterprise of DR.. Ais
berg, of the bureau Of chemistry, and,
second, the avOwed intention Of the
bureau of animal industry to cooper
ate with him in the enforcement Of
this law,
The speaker said the enforcement of
the law must be commended for the
summation OF unnecessary hardship on
the packers. Conflict of state laws,
however, he said. was a handicap.
James E. Poole of Chicago, an auth
ority of live stock conditions declared
that large areas on which cattle might
be raised lie idle and that more and
more farmers were turning their hay
and corn directly into cash instead of
FEEDING livestock. He added that one
Of the reasons for this was the diff
Guilty of financing breeding operations.
and suggested that postal savings on
which the government pay per cent
interest could be loaned to cattlemen
at per cent and that this would go
tar to revive the waning industry. He
attacked the law which gives certain
water rights to homsteaders, asserting
that for every water source given over
to the private ownership Of a home
steader the country was deprived of
one thousand cattle.
Removal OF Tariff.
The removal Of the tariff tax from
cattle. in the hope Of augmentine the
supply, the speaker said had proved
q failure. Disease had largely re-
duced hog production, he said. The
use OF postal savings, he predicted.
would re-establish the cattle industry
on a self-sustaining basis within ten
years. The report OF the executive
committee touching animals disease
declared that $200,00,OOO worth of
live stock was lost annually through
pfeventable disease. The govern
ment, however. it was stated, was do
Ing excellent work in combating this
waste.