Evening star., 1943-06-09
Less Food in Siqht
For Coming Winter,
Hoover Tells Nation
Urges Drastic Changes
In Feeding Policies
Before Farm Group
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PrcsS.
NEW YORK, June 9.-Predicting
that American cities will have less
food next year, Herbert Hoover ad-
vocates a nine-point war food pro-
gram calling for reorganization of
the country's food control system
with the Secretary of Agriculture
as Administrator.
The former President, who was
World War food administrator, said
last night that his program offered
the "only one course which will
clear up this muddle OF uncontrolled
food prices, local famines, profiteer-
ing black markets and stifled farm
production
Speaking before the American
Farm Bureau Federation, he de-
clared that I'VE will not starve" but
II the European war ended within
year. America would have mo
consequential food supplies with
which to meet three or four hum
dred million of starving people"
Remedy for the l943 harvest
year is now too late, as the planting
is mostly done" he said. I'VE must
begin to build up the harvest of
year from now. We still have time
to redeem the situation"
Hoover Outlines Plan.
Declaring that drastic changes in
the national policy would be needed
to meet decline in food supply in
the face of a demand that lis dan
gerously rising Mr.. Hoover advo-
Gated:
l. Consolidation of all authority
over food production and distribu-
ton under "one single responsible
administrator Mr. Hoover added
that "the food administrator must
today be Secretary of Agriculture,
and in the outcome of the war and
peace, should be recognized by his
appointment to the new Office of
Manpower Mobilization
2. Decentralization of work under
State, municipal and county ad-
ministrators, because "in no other
way can farmers and consumers
needs be adjusted to our various
local conditions
g. An increase of farm manpower
to levels higher than before the war,
and planting of 40 or so million
acres more in 1914 than this year"
4. Addition of great amounts of
agricultural machinery to handle
the additional acreage, replacing
the one years supply of machinery
which he said was used up through
suppression of manufacture.
5. Abolition Of the system of retail
and wholesale price ceilings, so that
price fixing would begin "as near as
possible to the farmer" with profit
eering controls by regulation of
trades proceeding from there on.
6. Establishment of a farmers war
committee on prices, and abandon
ment Of "so-called PARTIES" for the
war.
Would Set Up Committees.
7. Simplifcation of rationing by
decreasing the number and variety
Of articles rationed," exclusion of
essential food from rationing.
and balancing consumption to pro-
duction through rationing.
g. Establishment of war commit
tees in all processing and distri-
buting trades with major RESPONSE
bilities in keeping the flow of food
moving to the right spots"
9. Avoidance of subsidies, which
he termed delayed aggravation'
which would not stop imitation.
Mr.. Hoover warned that during
the past year we were saved and
our Allies were saved from disaster
by the super bumper crop" which
lis not likely to be repeated again"
Predicts Short Rations.
Reviewing the food situation of
last year and prospects for next, he
said
The blunt conclusion from all
this is ca our cities will have less
food supply during the next winter
and spring even than they had in
the last few months; (b) we will not
starve; (c) we can, by better organ
ization and by tightening our belts,
continue to feed our allies; Cd If
the war in Europe should come to an