Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-12-06
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MUST Increase
!. FOOD EXPORTS t X K n j |
America Called on by End Of
War to Supply Added
ECONOMY STILL NEEDED.
Over Three Times Pre-War shIpments
Required Situation In Wheat and
Fats Proves Governments
Policy Sound.


may supply these liberated nations Of
Europe with food Hunger among q
people Inevitably breeds anarchy.
American food must complete the work
Of making the world safe for democ-.
racy. sB 5t.eg} Il
Last year we sent II, $4,000 tons Of
food to Europe. For the present year,
with only the European Allies to feed,
We had originally pledged ourselves to
q program that would have increased
our exports to l7,500,O00 tons. NoW,
to feed the liberated nations, We viii
have to export total Of not less than
10000, 900 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 a regime Of eco
nomical consumption. On the other
hand, there will be marked world
shortages In some important commodi-
ties .. * .... G.F...s-s AZ
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 loaf,
provided we continue to mill flour at
a high percentage of extraction and
maintain economy In eating and the
avoidance of waste.
In fats there will be . heavy short
age - about 1900, O0O, 900 pounds I'm.
pork products. dairy products and
vegetable oils While there will be Q
shortage of about three million tons
In rich protein feeds for dairy anil
mails, there will be sufficient supplies
of other feedstuHs to allow economical
consumption.
In the matter of beef, the worlds
supplies are limited to the capacity of
the available refrigerating ships. The
supplies Of beef in Australia, the Ar
gentine and the United States are sui.
ficient to load these ships. There will
be shortage in the importing coun-
tries, but we cannot hope to expand
exports materially for the next months
in view Of the bottle neck In trans
portatiOn. ~
We will have a sufficient supply Of
sugar to allow normal consumption In
this country II the other nations re-
tain their present short rations or In
crease them only slightly, For the
Of Europe. however, to in
crease their present rations to ma.
terial extent will necessitate our shar-
ing a part of our own supplies with
them .5
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
q, 900, 900 tons Of food of all kinds as
with our pre-war exports of
about 6,OOOOOO tons.
While we will be able to change our
In many respects, even .
casual survey of the world supplies
In comparison to world demands shows
that 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
10 remedy. There are 100000 peo-
pie In North Russia whom there 70
small chance of reaching with food
his winter. Their transportation IL
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
he has left behind her q total wreck.
age, Of social institutions, and this
mass of people il now confronted with
absolute anarchy. s. ~. se,-. ~,
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 10 the mother Of anarchy.
From the inability of governments to
pecure food for their people grows
and chaos. From an ability
10 supply their people grows stability
o6 government and the defeat Of an
arehy. Did we put 1t on no higher
nlano than our interests In the pro-
lection Of our institutions we must
beotir ourselves In solution Of tha0
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