Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1917-04-29
Compulsory service on the farms alone will
prevent world famine.
From DE New YorI1 American Of Aprll 2s.

The most distressing Of all current lunacies is the
failure to realize the food situation.
II is evident that the people do realize the
dtion because everybody goes on eating and drinking
as usual; and 1t is evident that the Government does
not realize the condition, because it goes doing moth
ing, usual.
We must take that back The Government IS do
ing something It is doing allhhat be done to ship
out Of the country much possibly be shipped
o. our insufficient food reserves
Even the construction work battleships is to
stopped If certain influences can have their way
supplies to other countresor to litter the bottom OF
the sea. via the submarine route
Mr.. Hoover who, head of the American Food
Commission has been in Europe consulting with mem
bers Of the British French and Italian Cabinets de-
cares that the allies must lose the unless ship
them a minimum Of 90,00O,0O0 bushels of wheat-n
addition TO millions Of tons of pork beef corn beans
and secondary food--during the next four months.
Mr.. Hoover points out that this minimum quantity
o. wheat twice as much as we have to spare and feed
ourselves as usual. Therefore, he recommends that
everybody in America should VOLUNTARILY cut down
the usual consumption of bread by one-third.
"A photograph Of the American people, any other
people VOLUNTARILY denying themselves one-t third
their usual bread would be interesting addition
to the existent seven wonders OF the world.
The Government of Great Britain had neither the
foresight the courage to put the people rations
strctons The natural result that everybody ate
all he wanted and expected his neghbor to do without
Great Britain is begging US to go upon ratons to
feed people who would not submit to being rationed
We know Of nothing more characteristic of the
heroic willingness which the British Government sell
dom fails to display to let the other people do it.
But to get back to the problem. We have not food
enough hand in this country last until the next
harvest is ready to eat, five months from
England insists that must ship to her and her
allies during that time not less than ten thousand mill
lions of pounds of foodstuffs-whch is equivalent to
taking 100 pounds of flour, meat, potatoes beans and
milk from every nhabitant of the United Staes-coupt
ing babies with the rest.
And the British demand. besides, that shall
furnish the shipping to carry these vast supplies
stopping our navy building destroying our vital coast
wise commerce and covering the bottom Of the with
tho mercantile marine which should be our reliance in
the for the worlds trade that will begin the instant
the is
We think futility was never more ridculously in
evidence than the scheme suggested by gtterng
intellect at Washington, and actually adopted whereby
the submarine blockade to be by building
1000 wooden ships Of 5000 tons bridging the
Atlantic with one to mile" some absurd newspaper
naval strategsts proudly proclaimed
After this wonderful scheme had been formally
adopted it occurred to somebody inauthority in Wash