The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-01-02
Return to Normal Bread Loaf.

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 Access
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 5000, 100000 pounds - In
pork products, dairy products and
vegetable oils. While there will be
shortage of about three million tons
In rich protein feeds for dairy ami
mails, there will be sufficient supplies
of other feedstuffs to allow economical
consumption.
In the matter of beef, the worlds
supplies are limited to the capacity of
the available refrlgeratlng ships. The
supplies of beef in Australia, the Ar
geatine and the United States are SUI.
ficlent 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
Il. view Of the bottle neck in trans
pOrtatiOn.
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 a ma.
terial extent will necesstate 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
20,000,000 tons Of food of all kinds as
compared with our pre-war exports of
about 100000 TONS
While we will be able to change our
program In many respects, even
casual survey of the world supplies
In comparison to world demands shows
conclusively 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.
u'bnrn ora conditions oP 70 In
Europe that will be beyond our power
to remedy There are 100000 peO-
pie In North Russia whom there Is
small chance of reaching with food
this winter. Their transportation Is
demorallzed In complete anarchy, and
shortly many of their ports will be
frozen, even If 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 q 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, If we
value the preservation Of civilization
itself, we capnot permit growth of this
cancer In the worlds vitals.
Famine is the mother Of anarchy
From the inability of governments ia
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