The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-12-03
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kept PLEDGE
TO SEND BREAD
American Nation Maintained Al
lied Loaf Through Self
Denial at Home Table.
AvERTED EUROPEAN DESPAIR.
With Military Demands Upon Ocean
Shipping Relieved, World Is Able
to Return to Normal White
s. Wheat Bread.

Since the advent Of the latest wheat
crop the only Limitation upon Ameri-
can exports to Europe has been the
shortage Of shipping. Between July
and October 10 we shipped 60,980, S05
bushels. If this rate should continue
until the end Of the fiscal year we will
have furnished the Allies with more
than 237, 500, 600 bushels Of wheat and
-four in terms Of wheat.
The result Of increased production
and conservation efforts In the United
States has been that with the cessa,
ton Of hostiIities we are able to re-
turn 70 normal wheat diet. Supplies
that have accumulated In Australia.
Argentine and other hitherto inacces-
sIbIe markets may hs tapped BY ships
released from transport service, and
European demand for American wheat
probably viii not exceed orr normal
surplus. There Is wheat enough avail.
able to have white loaf at the COM
mon table.
But last year the tale was different.
Only by the greatest possible saving
and sacrifice were we able to keep q
steady stream of wheat and -four NOV
ing across the sea. We found our.
selves at the beginning OF the harvest
year with an unusually short crop
Even the most optimistic statisticians
figured that we had a bare surplus of
20,OO0,OO0 bushels. And yet Europe
was facing the probability Of bread
famine-and In Europe bread Is by far
the most important article In the diet.
All Of this surplus had left the
country early in the fall. BY the first
of the year we had managed to ship a,
little, more than 50,00O,O 900 bushels by
practicing the utmost economy at
home-by wheatiess days, wheatless
q meals, heavy substitution of other
cereals and by sacrifice at almost
every meal throughout the country.
In January the late Lord Rhondda,
then British Food Controller, cabled
that only If we sent an additional 75,-
100000 bushels before July could lie
take the responsibility Of assuring his
people that they would be fed.
The response OF the American peo-
pie was tS5, OO0,O 900 bushels safely deliv-
cred overseas between January ! and
July LIT Out OF a harvest which gave
us only 2O,OO0,000 bushels surplus we
actually shipped 141, 000,0 900 bushels. .
Thus did America fulfill her pledge
that the Allied bread rations could be
maintained, and already the American
people are demonstrating that, with
an awakened war conscience, last
years figures win be bettered.
Aerial Bombing,
Bombs dropped by Boche avlators
never do the same thing twice, but
frequently do very odd damage. 81
L. Maybell of Brooklyn. Y. NJ. G. A
worker, was driving camionette
through French town recently when
n Bochc avion appeared and the
French antiaircraft guns opened up
AS the shrapnel rained around him
Maybell sought shelter under his little
car. Just then the Boche let go With
! a bomb. When the thunders ofItffe eS
nlosion died out, the "Y"aman decided
he might lust rs we'll go away from
there, but he discovered that circum
stances ruled otherwise. TO his aston
ishment he found that both tires on
one side of the camionette actually
had been pulled Off the rims. Other