Norwich bulletin., 1921-09-09
Written Specially for The Bulletin)

Written Specially for The Bulletin)
 The world is full of food good food ; cheap food. There is no lack in quant- ity; no lack in variety; no high cost at ti:e sources of food production.
 And yet millions abroad are said to be starving. and millions in this country are stinted in their daily supply. or com oeIled to economize to the verge of stin- ziness merely to live
 Whats the answer?
 It is given or at least sharply suggested -n a recent statement by Congressman Ansorse Of New York whose bill for me development of New York harbor has just been signed by President Harding. He says:
 By reason of the congestion now at --ndins the receipt and distribution of -oOds1uffs, it is conservatively estimated hat it costs three times as much to move .oodstuffs from the meadows of New Jersey to upper Manhattan as it does Q bring them all the way from the middle vest"
 That is. the cost Of meats and flour and 't1e- western foods is increased three tiC'cs as much in the last ten miles of .'s 1900 mile haul as 1t is by the other iIs9 miles,
 New York has been a city for two bun- 'red years or more. It holds for itself tnc conviction that it is really quite q town. It is rather given to brasrine oi it's business capacity. Broadway is very ready to sheer at "Main Street. ? whether i. he the Main Street of some western boom town or that of some New England city.
 Especially ls New York vain of lts business men. IL is never tired of sing nS the praises of their commercial gen us. o- Their executive capscitv. of thAir foresight and ths.- insight, of their -anlsssing abilities They are. if not .-s gods, st least the high urfests -1 its soaring temples of trade. Iva oi --e hackwoods arc invited to gaze 1Iron -9tH,--t-oln respectful distance-with -esirrs Of mixed awe sud admiration s'f to foin-a.eo from afar off.-in the chorus cf adulation for their achieve n;e1-s.
 Ard vet, after two hundred years oI opportunity and six or seven generations 5f socIr-uiated wisdom the basic result 1f thoir management is that it costs -H-es tines as much to move food r7 miles throush their iuF.ed;ction as 5ca5 to Iroys tho sanc foolstuffs l.
 a nf e t5r6ust 2, country mostly in- -sn'sl iH- fffe~e hayseeds.
 T-' 7ssu'7 of tecir tn'o centuries ol su-.-e-s sTiriaaey" ia muddle Of such -etsr.y o1tra5eous t.epcieacy in the dis --'ct nearest 10 them as could hardly q raralieiod in aaE other part of tht -.obs.
 II is not to be assumed tEat they hay, -clievcd this ra&i,t of deliberate gel r--uoss They did not say to them. -fces: "Co to. NC will devote our live: o making the process of food d.stribu. ion ia our ci:y ths slowest and tht -~isva-iss- and the dearest possible ph. ng; they didn't "go for to do it,' t:'~ more than dij Joe Of Toln-au-alone's
 But. having the opportunity and th, rVT-. they have l5 led 10 prevent it f1e.- responsibility is. therefore. no les nan z they had uurposed t and pet .cc.ed it from t1t start.
 Of all the Insterisl eonditIo-- ,vI,icl zffecs human life that of food is th 0,o1t important. T. is only Jy a regula -rd s1ecua-e sunply os pror6r food tha .fe can Dc Ee=t1etua,ed. It is the firs' primitive. il-escapa h'a demand of exist -acy To supply ,hi= need the farne isnts. the hVnfer hunts. the fshcr1na Hshez As cities develop, in wlic