Evening star., 1942-12-06

the United States numbered 20 in
1941. They produced $4,000, 900
pounds of dried vegetables. Now
there are go plants producing 90,-
000, 900 pounds and 109 more plants
are under construction. Next year
it is estimated they will be pro-
ducing 400,000,000 pounds of dried
vegetables annually.
The war has been a spur to the
dried-egg and dried-milk industries.
Next year, if plans work out, there
will be lis egg-drying plants in the
United States. Today there are 80
plants that turn out 100000 900
pounds of dried eggs a year. In
194l there we're only 16 plants, with
an annual capacity of 10,0OO,OO0
pounds.
In arriving at it's own decisions
about the minimum amounts of
food needed by Europe after the
war, the American Government has
figured from estimates of food To-
cally available and the quantity of
food required.
The State Department has relied
on the advice of men like Clyde
Marquis, who was vice president of
the international Institute of Ag-
rlculture in Rome, and left there
Tor Washington only a few months
before Pearl Harbor. This Govern
ment has been receiving regular
reports from agriculture attaches
abroad about food needs. One of
Leon Henderson's advisers at the
Once OF Price Administration is
Julian Hirsch, who was Undersec-
retary Of Agriculture in Germany
during the Weimar republic days
before Hitler.
Spadework Done by Wheeler.
Leslie A. Wheeler, director of the
once OF Foreign Relations, has
been in charge of the spadework
for the job that now passes to Gov,
Lehman.
While the Nazis have robbed all
european countries-including the
allies" OF Italy, Hungary, Rumania
ana Bulgaria of food, tiny drop
OF relief already has been sent in
to stave off starvation.
Canada, the United States. Tlr-
Key and Sweden cooperate in food
rellef In Greece. The American
Quakers and the State Department
were active in distributing bread in
unoccupied France until the Ger
mans took control of the whole
country 10 days ago. Sweden has
sent some food to its neighbor Nor
way.
The severity of the European food
problem is shown by the situation
in Sweden, neutral country which
as a result of wise preparations is
better off than most. In normal
times the average per person con-
sumption of bread and meal in
Sweden daily is ounces; today war
rations permit only 602 ounces.
Normal edible fats consumption is
270 ounces day; now. lis ounces.
Sugar, normal. 4.20 ounces; today,
1856 ounces Cmost of this is beet
sugar.. Meat and pork, normal,
$50 ounces: today, SO ounce Eggs.
normal, 1.12 ounces: today Sc
ounce. Eggs are not generally OBJ
tainable.
Difficult Work Ahead.
Difficult work lies ahead for Gov.
Lehman in scheduling the ship
ments of food so that they arrive
on the scene where they are needed
at the earliest possible moment and
in arranging for the transportation
to get the foodstuffs abroad. Sug-
gestions that cargo planes be used
on a wide scale in this work have
been discouraged thus far because
boats can carry vastly more goods
than planes.
Word sent to the United States
by competent observers that the end
of war in Europe will mean the be-
ginning of widespread food riots has
stimulated preparations for getting
food into Europe speedily. The ex-