The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-05-28
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Allied Food Conference
Emissions World Council
International Group Would Be Empowered to
Oversee Production, Distribution OF Bread
And Beef to Feed Society of Nations.
By BAUKHAGE
Nescs analyst and Commentator.
WNU Service, Union Trust Building
Washington, ID. G.

WNU Service, Union Trust Building
Washington, ID. G.
Back in the summer of 1910, ] sat
in a chair under a whispering tree
and looked out over wide and bar
bered lawn. The mountains were
about us. We were resting in nest
carved out of the wilderness and
equipped with all the Injuries that
pampered human could demand.
Lovely, indolent women in sports
dresses sat at tables under colored
umbrellas. Handsome, indolent
youths in blazers lolled beside them.
Negro servants padded about with
tall, cooling and expensive drinks.
call it ''nest." belonged there
just like cuckoo but enjoyed it.
1t was all right. It helped circu-
late the money Il was guest at a
bankers convention). But thought
back. Six months before I had rid
den in an army transport plane over
shuddering Europe. looked about
and saw the easy, harmless but
useless life about me, made possible
by the easy harvesting of Americas
riches.
I sighed "a little enviously) and
said to myself: "This can't last"
1t is a strange coincidence that
today, at this very same spot, repre-
sentatives of the United Nations are
gathering to try to write the pre-
scription for the third freedom
freedom from want.
This gathering isn't concerned
with summer resorts de luxe al
though it meets at one. It is con-
cerned with the proposition: We
must raise the standard of living all
over the globe so that the underfed
can produce enough Of their handi-
work to exchange it for enough to
eat-something they just never had
before.
1t is just too big for me to grasp,
but what's a heaven for, asks Brown
ing, if our reach doesn't exceed our
grasp?
World Council
This plan emissions an information
al council at the head of a system
of administrative bodies among
which would be an agricultural coun-
Gil, supported by an agricultural
bank Gall this internationally which
would direct groups studying and
applying nutrition standards, direct
ing the supply of products, storing
SURPRISES, shifting crops to balance
supply and demand, maintaining
ever-normal storehouses of non-per-
ishable crops, adjusting processing
of perishable crops, developing new
markets, taking care Of relief in
devastated or stricken areas, advis-
ing and assisting the poorer popula-
ton groups to increase their eff
cheney and consumption.
In other words, these people who
have spent hours and months and
devoted arduous labor to working
out this idea are trying to furnish
the plan for economic machinery to
hold up the hands Of the political
effort of a league Of nations, new
style-the bone and sinew, the bread
and beef to feed society of nations
joined together under one political
umbrella of world cooperation.
Such an idea is laughed out of
court in advance by the folk who
talk of crazy dreamers, impractical
long-hairs and the like. Maybe it
is impossible. But a lot Of people
are saying: "Well, for heavens
sake, let's try it, let's try anything
nothing can cost more in blood,
sweat and dollars than war;"
The United States proved lot of
things were possible under the sharp
lash of war which would have been
sneered into oblivion if they had
been blueprinted before Pearl Har-
Dor.
Take an egg, for example. Moth
ing up our sleeves. Just an egg.
"Before the war;" says Frank Will
son of the department of commerce,
"when Biddy, the hen, laid an egg
in Cole county, Missouri, her subse-
quent cackle of satisfaction was
based on the anticipation that that
egg might get as far as Sedalia, St.
Louis or, on rare occasions, New
York"
Then Hitler dreamed up world
war and somebody dreamed up a
thing called lend-lease. Today, Bid
dy's product goes around the world.
Dehydration
Scientists invented dehydration and
the process, as far as eggs are con-
cerned, is only year and a half old.
Before the war, only 20 firms dried
eggs to any extent and most of those
dried albumen only. Today, accord
ing to Mr.. Wilson, 100 egg-drying