The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-09-04
WNU Service, 1343 Fl St., N. w.
Washington, d. c.

WNU Service, 1343 II St., N. w.
Washington, d. c.
'The most surprising thing, of
course, is a real egg for breakfast
The speaker was an Englishman
who had just arrived from London
and had flown from Nova Scotia to
Ottawa, Canada. We were sitting
in the Rideau club in Ottawa, the
third ~war-capital which have visit
ed since 1889.
AS I watched my English &C
quaintance enjoying his Canadian
salmon and deep dish pie, I real
lied how bad the food situation in
England must be. In this column
I have been writing about the mil
lions Of eggs which have been
shipped across the Atlantic under
the Lend-Lease law and the millions
of dollars worth Of cheese and ba-
con and fruits which have been pur-
chased for the purpose Of supplying
the British Isles with American
farm products.
THE people in England are worse
off now, as far as food goes. than
at any time during the World war"
said the Englishman, land I'm not
too young to remember how bad
that was"
1t must have seemed strange to
him to be sitting there in the capital
~ q rafInr az J-0r 0nH nnl0V1n0
everything a generous table can Of
fer. There is. of course, no lack
Of food for Britain. There is only
lack of ships.
I myself found it difficult to get
the war feel in Canada's capital.
There are plenty of uniforms. This
city of Ottawa, like Washington, has
greatly increased in population; new
temporary buildings have sprung up
and others are in the process Of
construction. Even the beautiful
new Supreme Court building is hous-
ing offices of the director of infor-
nation and other war-torn bureaus;
painted signs are pasted on the
marble walls and messenger boys
and stenographers hurry along the
corridors where the stately justices
are wont to tread. In Washington
we haven't quite come to that yet.
Same Ghosts Present
And in these crowded government
buildings the same ghosts walk
which haunt Jul WI capital. Like
the United States, Canada is think
ing about starvation in the midst
of plenty. And she is thinking about
it not only in terms of feeding her
mother country, but of the terrible
problem she must face with her
farm SURPRISES after the
I'VE shall be eating less American
potatoes next spring." said a Cana
dian official to me. 1--WE shall 60
without green peas at Christmas
time, but it won't be because we
can't get them. 1t will be because
we save our American dollars to
pay for war supplies from the Unit
ed States"
Canada is building new granaries
to store the wheat with which the
barns are bursting. Wheat is stored
in church cellars and in every avail
able corner This growing surplus
is a greater threat to the balanced
economy of the nation than the dis
location of social and industrial life
caused by the war.
But what is to happen with that
grain and the other raw materials
when the war is over and starving
Europe has no money to pay for
them? 1t is exactly the same ques-
ton our own farmers face.
Well. here is. the answer which is
being given serious consideration by
Canadian economists and its inspl-
ration comes neither from the theo-
ries of conservative capitalists nor
from those who like to toy with the
teachings of Karl Marx. 1t m
from the twelfth chapter of st.
Paul's Epistle to the Romans. This
is the passage:
vengeance is mine; I viii repay,
saith the Lord. Therefore if thine
enemy hunger. feed him: if he
thirst, give him drink; for in so do
ing thou shalt heap Goals of fire on
his head"
This is the text Of a plain talk
by Gilbert Jackson, which has
caused considerable comment by Of
fcials and others who are able to
look ahead at the problems of peace
to come. Mr.. Jackson has a very
practical reason for making this ad-
monition of St. Paul the basis for a
policy which he urges be carried out
after the war. He proposes a plan
to give a very great part OF Can
ada's surplus t. the 400 millions In
Europe who will be starving, power