The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-04-20
nR|VINC WARRINC
NATIONS TO PEACE,
:. The Lack of Food-Atlanta Ceor.
IAN Makes Some Very InterestinR
Cbe.rvations-Facts Worthy Of
American Confederation.

t0e CZdI, 4hC 0SOl SldI ICpcdIcQIN
told you to expect a revolution il
Russia. and just three weeks befor,
the revolution did occur told you thai
Il was very near at hand.
We remind you of the fulfillment
of that prediction because we arr
now going to predict that peace is moi
far off, that it may come within few
weeks. that it is almost certain tc
come before the summer is over.
We base this belief upon two
PREMISES, which are:
!. The disappearance of food re.
serves all over the world and the
prospect of certain famine next wear
If the war continues that long.
2. The revolutionary aspirations
and sentiments powerfully moving
the European masses, including the
soldiery.
Let US take these propositions in
their order.
First, as to food. The staple
foods of the white nations are bread,
meat, potatoes. Other things are in.
cidental Upon these three depend
the lives of all white peoples.
The meat supply of Europe and
America is very deficient now, but
with severe economy and enough
meatless days, such as are now in
force in England, France, the Gen.
tral Empires, Italy and Russia, the
world could skimp through this year.
But the huge reserve stocks, canned
and in storage all over the world,
against just such times as these, are
totally exhausted. The armies have
eaten them. The breeding supply
is steadily going to the slaughter
pens. If the war should last thru
this year, even the armies would have
meatless days and the civilian peoples
would have no meat at all.
The bread supply is in far worse
condition than the meat supply.
Flour for bread can be made. in some
form, of wheat, corn, rye, oats and
potatoes.
The exact European conditions we
do not know, but the French Minister
of Agriculture Informed the Assem-
bly, eight weeks ago that the allied
countries required for their actual
necessities, to carry them through
this year, 36O,OOO,OOO bushels Of
wheat alone, in addition to their
stocks on hand. This supply would
have to come from the United States
and from Argentina-and neither
has bushel to spare.
Argentina's supply has become so
exhausted that the Government has
enforced an embargo, and will not
allow any wheat to be shipped out of
that country.
The wheat on hand in the United
States is barely sufficient to carry US
through until the next harvest is
milled in September In ordinary
years. we have in reserve at this
time about 250.000,000 bushels. We
have in reserve now less than 100,-
100000 bushels. That is why wheat
prices have reached $2.15 and are
still mounting. with bread prices
steadily climbing.
The world is at least one billion
bushels short of its necessary wheat
supply, and nowhere is the wheat
growing to make up this deficiency.
Corn we alone grow on great
scale. Our present supply is $780,
100000 bushels, as against an ordi-
nary reserve of 1000 100000 bush
els. We have no corn to spare Eu-
rope, and Europe has no other source
of supply.
The supply of oats on hand in
April, 1916, was about 500, ,O0O,O ,O0O
bushels. Today it is 395,OO0,OOO
bushels. Europe can get no more
oats from us this year.
The potato supply is in the worst
condition of all.
In average years Great Britain,
Canada, Germany, France and the
United States produce 3,0OO,Ooo
bushels of potatoes. Their total
production during the past year was
100000 bushels. The average
price of potatoes in the spring OF
1915 was 43 cents bushel. Today
the average price is $2.4O.
Europe needs one billion bushels
of potatoes to feed its peoples our
ing the coming months, and the
United States can not spare another
bushel. There will hardly be enough
for seed as it is.
As far as the minor necessities
are concerned, such foods as sugar
milk. butter and the like have be-
come luxuries in Europe, out Of reach
of the masses in anything like usual
use. :.
The simple truth is that the civil
lized world, after three years OF oe-
struction. has no food reserves, ana
unless the millions of men under
arms are put back on the farms, Eu-
rope will starve next year. we 40
not mean that Europe will simply be be
hungry. We mean that 1t vii,
STARVE-that millions Of men ana
women and children will die OF lam
inc. ,.,,,
Now. the rulers of Europe Know
+b;s r;pht we'll, and it is beyond rea-
son that they will try to carry Their
Countries M over into such an inevitable
ner;od of horror, in which it is certain
that they will all perish miseraoly at
the hands of their infurlated anu
despairing subjects.