The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-10-11
Ed o RIALs
YOUR food program

A~ k0 HOSh 0AHH
INTO every home by radio and press this week went
new propaganda campaign urging that food be
The appeal ceners around humanitarian slogans Of
helping the people of Europe 1t is only in the background
that one hearS the overtoneS of politics.
A nation like that took the wartime hardships
nngrudgingY has that il and will make sacri-
fces-when the people convinced that
the reasons valid
There is doubt that must help feed Europe this
winter We have the grains, meat and fats save
VINO bore the main burden of suffering the against
Nazsm and its aftermath.
With that there be argument
But the American people will insist that our food
be used only to help the hungry.
And there IS no basis for support of program that
uses American food to play partisan politics in Europe
that sacrifices give advantages one reaction
airy party another in Europe fluid political situation
Under no circumstances must food be used prop
up topping reactonary regimes the European countries
which unable to stabilize themselves on the basis of
constructive and democratic programs for the people of
those countries.
A MOTHER major concern that we have with the
"A Marshall Truman Hoover food program is its
effect on the living standards of the American people
What help we give to Europe must be the basis of
equal sacrifice of the American people, This means that
the food program not become the basis for
OF wild proiteerlng and price gouging such
perenclng today.
President Truman has asked all Americans to eat less
and waste less But he has offered program hold
prices down. He has asked sacrifices the consumers
but not from the sellers and Spectators who plan
the excuse of exports to Europe for maintaining ncreas
ing the present staggering cost of living.
Nor does the food program include any proposals
TO change situation in which the U. S.
buy food from SPECTATORS at price they choose
demand. --,tt f.. asee,s.s<e4
The only request made by Truman to the Spectators
that the backing for their stock purchases margin
be raised from II to 80 per This request complied
with by the spectators.
Actually this move will curb only the small spectators
working with limited cash-and not the big ones.
Wall Street complied gladly in anticipation of
Tiotous Roman price holiday which they expect this
winter the basis of uncontrolled prices and unlimited
market.
TN VIEW of these facts, the Star can do nothing
but urge extreme caution and warness to its
readers who trying to decide their approach the
food program.
There is much more to this program than meets the
eye. And between and the starving people Europe
stand the barriers of politics and profits These the
things that stand in the way of the feeding hungry
It is these politics and profits that must be taken out
of the Europe plan We help the starving
people of Europe not the profteers of Wall Street
We insist therefore, that:
l. The UNRRA be revived so that food will be dis
tributed nonpartisan basis with political strings
attached
That prices be rolled back and firm controls camped
that there will be profiteering home abroad;
3. That the excess profits tax be restored;