The Little River news., 1919-01-04
America Called on by End of War to Supply Added
 Millions.
ECONOMY STILL NEEDED.
Over Three Times Prs-War shlpments aeQuired-Sltuatlen In Wheat and Fats Prevee 0evoenment.o \.
 Policy Sound. h

food situation. But there can be no hope that the volume of our exports can be frightened to the slightest de gree with the cessation of hostilities. Millions of people liberated from the Prussian yoke Are now depending upon us for the food which will keeTl them from starvation.
 With food the United States mad( 1t possible for the forces of democ| rrcy to hold out to victory. 10 insure democracy in the world. we must coni tinue to live simply in order that we may supply these liberated nations of Europe with food. Hunger among . people inevitably breeds anarchy. American food must complete the work of making the world safe for democ- racy.
 Last year we sent 11,820,0 900 tons of food to Europe. For the present year, with only the European Allies to feed, we had originally pledged ourselves to a program that would have increased our exports to 1L5O0.OOO tons. Now. to feed the liberated nations, we will have to export 6 total of not less than 2O,OOO,O0O 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 noMicM 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 genuine 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 high percentage of extraction and maintain economy in eating and the avoidance of waste.
 In fats there will be heavy short. age about 3,000, ,OO0, 900 pounds = in pork products, dairy products and vegetable oils. While there will be a shortage of about three million tons in rich protein feeds for dairy ami. malls, there will be sufficient supplies of other feedstuffs to allow economical consumption. ! TT
 In the matter of beef, the worlds supplies are limited to the capacity of the available refrigeratisa ships. The supplies of beef in Austl ..iia, the Ar. genuine and the United States are sui. 6cient 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 portetion.
 We will have a sufficient supply of sugar to allow normal consumption in this country if the other nations re- tain their present short rations or in. crease them only slightly. For the countries of Europe. however, to In. crease their present rations to ma. terial extent will necessltate our shar. Ing . part of our own supplies with them.
 Twenty Million Tens of Food.
 Of the world total, North America will furnish more than GO per cent. The United States. including the West Indies. will be called upon to furnish 10000 900 tons of food of all kinds as compared with our pre-war exports of about 8,O0O.0O0 tons.
 While we will be able to change our program in many respects, even . casual survey of the world supplies In comparison 10 world demands shows o0nclusively 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 win be beyond our power to remedy. There are 100000 peo- pie in Nort,, Russia whom there is small chance of reaching with food this winter. Their transportation 10 dcmoralized in complete anarchy, and shortly many of their ports will be frozen. even if internal transport could be realized.
 To Prsservs 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.
 If we value our own safety and the social organization of the world, if 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 1t on no higher plane than our interests in the pro- tection of our institutions, we must bestir ourselves in solution of this prUbisnA