The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-12-03
MUST INCREASE
FOOD EXPORTS
America Called on by End o.
War to Supply Added
Millions.
ECONOMY STILL NEEDED.
Over Three rimes prs-War ehlpmsnts
Required eltuaklen In Wheat end
eats Proves csvernmsntS
Policy Sound.

we have now to consider Q new world
food situation. Hut there can be no
hope that the volume Of our exports
can be lishtened to the slightest de-
gree with the cessation Of hostiNtisa
Millions Of people Ibera;ed erOia L.>
Prussian yoke are now depending
upon u for the food which will keep
them from starvation.
With food the United States made
u possible for the forces Of dem0c
racy to hold .ut to victory. To insure
democracy In the world, we must COO
tinue to live simply In order that We
may supply these liberated nations OF
Europe with food. Hunger among o
people inevitably breeds anarchy.
American food must complete the work
Of making the world sufs for denns.
racy.
Last year we sent ll,s2O,OOO tons of
food to Europe. For, the present year
with only the European Allies to feed,
we had originally pledged ourselves 10
|, progrum that would have Increased
our exports to lI,5OO,00o tons. Now.
to feed the liberated nations, we will
have to export a total of not less than
20,OOO,0po toas-practically the limit
of loading capacity at our ports. Re
viewing the world food situation, we
/ find that some foods will be obtainable
In quantities sufficient to meet all
world needs under regime of eco
nOmical consumption. On the other
hand, there will be marked world
shortages In some important commodi.
ties.
Return to Normal Bread Loaf.
With the enlarged wheat crops
which American farmers have grown.
and the supplies Of Australia, the Ar.
gentine and other markets now acces
sible to shipping, there are bread
grains enough to enable the nations to
return to their normal wheat lonf,
| provided we continue to mill -four nj
u high percentage Of extraction and
maintain economy In eating and the
| avoidance Of wnste.
In fats there Will be heavy short.
age = about 5000, 600 900 pounds - in
pork products, dairy products and
| vegetable oils While there will be o
shortage of about three million tons
In rich protein feeds for dairy AMI.
mails, there will be sufficient supplies
Of other edstuns to allow economical
!, consumption.
In the matter Of beet, the worlds
supplies are limited to the capacity Of
the available refrigeratlng ships. The
supplies Of beef In Australia, the Ar.
gentine and the United States are sui.
fcient to load these ships. There Will
be q shortage In the importing coun.
tries. but we cannot hope to expand
| exports materially for the next mon lis
in view Of the bottle neck In trans.
portatlon.
We will have q sufficient supply OF
sugar to allow normal consumption IN
this country II the other nations re.
thin their present short rations or In.
crease them only slightly. For the
countries Of Europe. however, to In.
crease their present rations to a ma.
! terial extent will nccessitate our shar.
Ing . part Of our own supplies with
them.
Twenty Million Tons Of Food.
OF the world total, North America
will furnish more than 60 per cent,
The United States. including the West
Indies, will be called upon to furnish
100000 tons Of food Of all kinds 40
compared with our pre-war exports Of
about 100000 tons.
While We will be able to change our
program In many respects. even O
casual survey Of the world supplies
In comparison tOyyorld demands shows
conclusively thntS Europe will know
famine unless the American people
bring their home consumption down
to the barest minimum that will main.
tain health and strength.
There are conditions of famine In
Europe that will be beyond our power
to remedy. There arc 100000 peo-
pie In North Russia whom there 10
small chance Of reaching with food
this winter. Their transportation Is
demoralized In complete anarchy, and
shortly many of their ports will be
frozen, even II internal transport
could be realized.
To Preserve Civilization.
At this moment Germany has not
alone sucked the food and animals
from all those masses of people she
has dominated and left starving, but
she has left behind her total wreck.
age Of social institutions, and this
mass Of people Is now confronted with
absolute anarchy.
II we value our own safety and the
social organization of the world, II we
value the preservation Of civilization
Itself. We cannot permit growth Of this
cancer In the worlds vitals.
Famine Is the mother OF anarchy
From the inability Of governments to
secure food for their people grows
revolution and chaos. From an ability
to supply their people grows stability
of government and the defeat Of an.
archy. Did we put It on no higher
plane than our interests In the pro-
lection of our institutions, we mus,
bestir ourselves In solution Of this
problem.