Evening star., 1947-10-06

Truman has issued those instruc-
tions to the White House staff, and
he has ordered the Army, Navy and
all Government-run eating places to
follow suit.
The battle to save food in the
United States" he said, sis the bat
lie to save our own prosperity and to
save the free countries of Western
Europe. Our self denial will serve
us in good stead in the years to
come"
Marshall Stresses Thought.
Secretary of State Marshall, who
appeared on the same program
underscored that thought. Food to-
day IS foreign policy, he said, add
ing:
The connection between the IN
dividual American and world affairs
is unmistakably clear-our foreign
policy has entered the American
home and taken a seat at the
family table"
Secretary Of Agriculture Ander-
son and Secretary of Commerce
Hartman added their voices, and
their serious faces, to the four
network, half-hour broadcast. The
microphones and cameras were
placed in the basement oval room
at the White House, where Presi-
dent Roosevelt once delivered his
f1reside chats. 1t was the first tele-
vision broadcast in history from the
Executive Mansion.
Luckman Outlines Plan.
The 38-year-old Mr.. Luckman a
Cambridge, Mass, manufacturer,
gave the Nation these news items
The baking industry is taking
important grain-saving steps, both
in the making and selling of bread.
He did not tell what they are, but
said they would save 100000 BUSH
els of grain a month.
A program is starting, backed by
the full force" of the farhung
Agriculture Department. to reduce
the grain fed to livestock and poul-
try by farmers and to substitute
other feed for the wheat, corn, oats
and rye used on rural America S
feed lots.
The pledge Of meatless. eggless
and poultryless days will be asked
from hotels, schools, restaurants,
cafeterias, roadside dinners, factory
canteens, railroad dining cars
wherever America eats
The Government will gather and
give an -to-the-minute" infor-
nation on economical foods, meat
saving recipes and wheat-saving
menus.
"in view Of our relative plenty
here and the dire need abroad"
said Mr.. Luckman, I'VE do not feel
that we are asking too much of
the American people"
Attacks Grain Gamblers.
Mr.. Truman did not request. He
demanded. The cost of living must
not be a football to be kicked about
by gamblers in grain" he said, and
neither should grain prices "be sub
ject to the greed of spectators who
gamble on what may lie ahead in
our commodity markets"
Ninety per cent of all accounts in
a recent corn futures market were
found to be speculative, he went
on, and in single month, on
single exchange, a volume of wheat
equal to half the whole years crop
was traded.
Mr. Truman announced he was in
structing the Commodity Exchange
Commission, made up Of Attorney
General Clark and the Secretaries
of Commerce and Agriculture, to
demand the one-third cash pay
n1ent.
Distillers, most OF whom alreadv
have promised Mr.. Luckman to cut
grain consumption in half, have
huge stocks on hand, the Chief
Executive said and ''it will be no
on them to shut down for
a 60-day period.
H. Fred Willkie, vice president of
Joseph E. Seagram 81 Sons, replied
in Louisville: Il am sure they (the
distiller) would be willing to give
wholehearted support" The big re-
percussion, he predicted. would be in
unemployment at the distileries.
w. L. Lyons, president of Brown
& Forman. Louisville distillers, told
a reporter that naturally we will
follow the President-it's about all
we can do under the circumstances.
The American Meat Institute,
which yesterday said the food crisis
could be met without meatless days,
promised to do what we can to-
help Nevertheless, its statement