Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1941-04-24

inis - every effort to organize
l M Tj America to the task OF feed
ni lax x Of food is taking its toll N
- - lands. Nazi Germany IS
s snsins to its CONSERVATION, that
naa, nstion or nationality can be
y ao,,,sssfully ruled whose stomachs
y sasI univ, There are an increasing
a .l''bar Of news dispatches indi-
n ...inS tbe rumblings Of discomfort
I ...nss the conquered, spurred to
.aSSIiion BY hunger and near
SI Trs,olini learned in Africa that
j. INV marches on its stomach.
y Il r raviewed many well-fed sol
II. y II Rome and Dragged about
n M INV: but when he sent It 70
,i,;ca loaded down with guns and
.rmunition. he learned again the
IVY, lesson often repeated in his
.,rv ny army is greater than ITS
~ supply. Much Of the failure
i NJ italian effort in Africa was
NJ "A Door and inadequate food.
France has been forced to strike
Nj far food. The heavy popula-
aor shift from occupied to unoc-
rupied France has intensified the
IA difficulties Of that country
Po,b Britain and the United States
SOuld give the French situation
Yrious study, for the attitude Al
fbepeople Of unoccupied France iii
extremely important to future -va'
strategy.
The ability to keep Spain from
Dining the Axis has been predi-
saied largely on the fact that
Spain is poor and hungry. The
knowledge that food and financial
/ aid can be best secured from the
United States has kept Spain in a
neutral corner.
/ Germany is short Of foods de-
spite taking million pigs and two
hundred thousand cattle from oc-
upied France. The Swiss paper
4Volksrecht" stated that 100000
tons Of wheat were removed to
Germany. Still Germany is short
d food. II should be remembered
nhis connection that the German
people were on a sub-marginal
dlei when the war began. 1t was
not a well fed people that took up
tie fight against Britain. 1t was a
people that had already felt the
iaVages Of food shortages. This
lact IS important because herein
les the great weakness of the Hit
Ter etiort-a poorly fed nation try
ing 70 support an army which is
hiding it increasingly difficult tC
secure adequate diet.
Germany has looked to Italy foI
1909, but the thin soil of Italy
makes il difficult to product
enough food for its own require
nents, let alone attempt to helI
CeImany in the present dilemma
Due to lack Of foresight in pro.
wong adequate food production
Nlalln its own borders, the Brit
n iood situation is grim. Too
Dng mat country has neglected tc
gow It's own food, Some 100000,
~ bushels Of wheat are needed
uy 100000 acres were undel
.-iuVallon at the outbreak of tn,
va. About 100000 more will
~Culdvated by 1912.
already the lack of vitamin fooC
= huiIS and vegetables is takinj
!. @i. The diseases of food de
sN5acy are creating great concern
H. 3 England and though informa
s NJ : difficult to get, the same i
"ygaOly true throughout Europe
T., me more acute the food prob
~ uecomes in Europe, the create
n lines the strategical strengtl
r.,, we United States. The foo,
power Of our nation will be
a ', s factor in the final outcom
ro,'a' e world conflict than Ian
~, sea power or air power
Ever food is a power equall
nv 1--WE IN war or peace. There
,,r an ,. .OOo produced by the Ameri
rSis tdrl n is the beacon that Wi
Ss..s me world through wal
NJ s. and reconStruction-wit
y Hllal triumph of democracy fo
PEOPLES throughout the worlr