The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 2, 1918, Page 2

PAGE? BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE’ PEACE ADDS TO “U.S, FOOD TASK Europe Needs Nearly Double Last Year’s Supplies From America. ECONOMY MUST CONTINUE. World Survey Shows Sufficient Wheat, But Shortage of Fats—Govern- ment’s Stimulative Pro- = +7 * gram Justified. | With the return of peace America Is confronted by a food problem even harder of solution than that with which we coped In time of war, We have an entirely new world situation in food. It will mean essential changes in our domestic program, But more important than this, ff must of neces- sity require increased export. Last year we shipped 11,820,000 tons of foodstuffs to the European Allies. Had the war continued we would ha Increased this enormous figure to 17, 0,000 tons in the present year. Now, with the responsibility of feeding mil- Jons of people liberated from the Ger- man yoke, our exports must be brought up to at least 20,000,000 tons—prac- tically the limit of loading capacity at our ports. World Food Demand Increased. The end of the war will create an enormously increased demand for fdod. Humanity demands that the starving millions freed from Prussian oppres- ; sion shail have sufficient supplies to assure their return to health and pros- perity. If these liberated nations are faced with starvation they cannot es- tablish orderly governments. Hunger breeds anarchy in a people. The war to free the world for democracy will be lost after it has been won. Amer- {ca must continue Its work to lbera- tion and by sharing Its food make de- mocracy safe in the world. In order to meet this new situation the Food Administration has made a careful survey of the food resources of the whole world in reiation to the tor tal demands. Computing supplies on the basis of the avoidance of wastt and war consumption, it is found that; wheat and rye may be obtained in suf- ficient quantities to meet economical world consumption; high protein feed for dairy animals will sh®w a shortage ef about 3.000,000 tons, while there will be sufficient supplies of other feeds to allow economical consump- tion: beans, peas and rice will also be found in sufliclent quantities to main- tain economy in consumption; there are sufficient supplies of beef to keep pace with the capacity of refrigerating space, Great Fat. 6hortage. The most distinct reversal of policy will come with pork and dairy prod- ucts, vegetable oils, sugar and coffee. Utmost economy will be required in the use of fats and oils, in which there is a world shortage of about.3,000,000,- 000 pounds. ‘Inere are sufficient sup- plies for us to return to our normal sugar consumption if cther nations continue their present short rations, or even if their rations are slightly in- creased. If the European countries, ‘however, are to resume their normal sugar consumption it will be through our continued conservation In order to shure with them. There is a sur- plus of coffee. Of the world total required to pro- duce these results North America will furnish more than 60 per cent. The United Stutes, including the West In- dies, will be in a position to furnish a total of about 20,000,000 tons against our pre-war exports of about 6,000,000 tons. The bread graivs situation allows the world to abandon the use of sub- etitutes in wheat bread. Large sup- plies have accumulated in the Argen- tine, Australia and other hitherto in- accessible markets. A continued high milling pescentage, economy of con- sumption and elimination of waste make it possible for the world to re- turn to a white wheat loaf. Of all our export possibilities in fats, the largest and most important item is pork. While we cannot supply the world deficiency, we will be able to help it enormously because of the past policies of stimulating production and restraining consumption. The government's polley with regard to stimulating the production of wheat and of pork, the readiest source of fats, is thus amply justified by the sit-/ uation upon the return of peace. Famine Specter Still Stalks. The people of the United Stateq must contmue care and wise economy in the use of food in order to complete the work of liberating the world. But even swith the utmost conservation and production in this country there will be in Europe for'the next year or more starvation beyond all human power to allay. In North Russia there are 40- 000,000 people to whom food cannot be made accessible this winter. Their | transportation is demoralized in com- plete anarchy. And even if internal transport can be assured their ports of entry would soo® be frozen. ~Millions more who have felt keenly the oppres- sion of war will be beyond reach of as- sistance. We wust realize that shoulders rests a greater responsibili- ty than we have ever before been asked to assume. We must realize that millions of lives depend : absolutely wpes the coniinued service and sacri- _ fice of Yire American people. We must realize that the specter of famine abroad now ‘haunts, the abun- glance of our table at home, ‘TOO LATE TO.CLASSIFY FOR -RENT—Large modern front Toom. Ladies preferred. 403 3rd “. “street: 12°2 3t WANTED—Warm furnished room close in, by young man. Write 669 care Tribune. f 12 3 2t ibaa. 2 i America saved and sent to Europr upon our! SPIRIT OF U. $, | Sacrifice to Ensure Allied Loaf Greatest. Single Food Achievement. SUFFICIENT SUPPLY NOW. All the Nations Will Be Abie to Re- turn to Their Normal Sup- ply of White { Bread. Overshadowing all other accompliah- ments of the American people under the leadership of Food Administration is the history of wheat exports in the past sixteen months. Our wheat ex port program proved conclusively to the world that América was in. this oni start to finish and willing to y sucrifice that will hasten victory or maintain the health and strength of pevple overseas, upon whom rested the heaviest weight of our war. Now that pressure on ocean tonnage 1g eased by the stopping of large move- ments of troops to Europe, we'may re- | lax our efforts to save whaat. The ac-| cumulated surplus in Australia, Argen- tine and other hitherto inaccessible m will become available, and} probably no more than our normal sur- | | plus will have to leave this country. ! We in America and the nations which} have won the world for freedom will} he enabled to eat their normal wheat loaf at the common table of the peo- i ples of democracy. { \e entered the past crop year with! | © wheat supply which gave_us only } 20,000,000 bushels available for ex- port. When the crop year ended, we had sent 141,000,000 bushels of wheat to Europe. ‘fhe Americun-people had saved out of their nermal consumption 121,000,000 bushels. A surtey of export figures shows ; that the conservation of flour brought about by the wheatless mea vheat- less days, substitution in our kitchens and bakeries, enabled us to send to our armies and the allies 33,000,000 barrels of white flour—wheat figured as flour. Had we exported only our visible surplus, we would bave been able tu ship less than 4,500,000 barrels. Before the 1st of December our sur- plus had gone overseas, and an addl- tional 36,000,000 bushels had heen tak- en from the stock reserved for home consumption and added to the surplus already shipped to the allies, It seem- ed hardly possible that we could bring our total exports above 100,000,000 bushels by July 1. But in January the ‘ate Lord Rhondda, then British Food Controller, cabled that unless we could send an additional 75,000,000 bushels he could not take responsi- bility for assuring his people that they would be fed. The American people iTesponded by sending 85,000,000 bush- ‘els of wheat, saved from their home consumption, between the first of the r and the advent of the new crop. ty October 10, 1918, we had already shipped 65,960,305 bushels since July 1, Absolutely the only imitation upon our wheat exports since the latest har- vest has been the scarcity of ocean tonnage. If exports continue at the prasent rate, by July 1 of n we will have sent more than ; 000 bushels to Europe. ‘Thus are we making good America’s | pledge that the bread rations of Allled | Europe shall be maintained. make ets A ‘Memorable Achievement ¢ | of the Titanic Struggle in a year of crop failure 141,000,00(| bushels of wheat, which saved Europe | ' Po Son a aoe Son Sg A.GERMAN HOPE DISPROVED AND A GERMAN FEARTCONFIRMED A statement made by a promi- nent German official soon after this country was declared in a state of war. with Germany shows that even in the enemy country Clear thinking students did not undervalue the strength of the American republic. Only in his confidence that we could not land in Europe sufficient troops to affect the final decision was this German mistaken. “1 do not fear the American suldiers,” he told a high official of our government, “Ddecause they cannot arrive in'time, What I fedr is the intelligence and de- yotion of one hundred million original minds and people train- ed to a faith in Individual dnitia- tive. The day that these peo- ple, now so materialistic in out- ward appearance, are stirred spiritually, that. day is the day of Germany's doom.” LS i i ie i is i i ea ie ahs hate { Sie ie ae tee dee dee te ae he ce ieee hceecatca ~ + + + + ~ * + + + | | i { i } ee Save food isthe le Will share inthe Criumph LTT MAURER PMAUEREHURLULLEL EAU WANTED—Janitor, make aplication at ! Hoskins’ tSore. 1226t FOR SALE—Miscellaneous lot of Jum: ber, doors and store windows. 310 18th street. Phone 303.: wes 12 2 6t CANNOT RETURN SHERIFF FEES / All Considerations Collected Ex- | bay {wor or the jwho won it given their opportunity to not subsequently that the taxes to be! cept for Foreclosures Go to Stutsman Major Dana Wright, who is now in .| Prance at the head of the second bat- talion of the Fighting First, won only a@ partial victory in supreme court aSturday evening, when there jas handed down an opinion holding that he might retain fees collected by him as sheriff of Stulsman county on mortgage foréclosures, but that, in- asmuch as he had been ¢laced on a straight salary hi , all other fees collected“vy him n remitted to the county. This question had been in tigation for more than two years. The coun- ty of Stutsinan brought sult egainst Major Wright at the conclusion of his second term as sheriff, contending ho had no right to retain certain of- ficial fees collected. The distric: court of Stutsman sustained the coun- ty, and the supreme court affirms the decision of the lower court. STILL NEEDED County Food Administrator Urges People to Continue to Save The lid is not off on food consump- tion, in spite of the coming of peace, states County Food Administrator Orris W. Roberts, who today made the following announcement: : “While the people of North Dakota are still on a sugar ration, four pounds per person per month, they are no longer required to sign cus- tomers’ cards No. 2 when making their purchases. The merchant should however, when making the sale ask the number in the family and should no sell to exceed a thirty days supply at the rate above mentioned. ‘Flour also may be bought for a period of sixty days supply at ong time, and in case & customer lives at such a dis- tance that he can come in to, town ‘but one or twice during the winter a three or four months’ suppiy of flour and sugar can bé sold. “In view of the fact thay the United States is called upon t, send food to the starving millions of Europe, our moral obligations are as great as be- fore the armistice was signed. It is hoped that everyone will take the at- titude of Mr. Hoover and conserve and save as much sugar, wheat=flour. and fats as possible, Restaurants are still required, as are hotels and other public eating places, to four pouuds of sugar per ninety meals, two ounces of white ‘bread per person per meal, and one-half ounce of ‘butter per person per meal.” WEATHER REPORT. For twenty-four hours ending noon, Dec. 2. Temperature at 7 a m. . Temperature at noon Highest yesterday Lowest yesterday Lowest last night . Precipitation ‘Highest wind velocity 130-NW FORECAST. For North Dakota: Cloudy tonight with warmer east portion; Tuesday fair and cooler. Lowest Temperatures. Fargo .. 12 WuHliston 26 St. Paul . ~ 1G Helena » 36 Swift Current . - 26 Kansas City .. 32 ORRIS W. ROBERTS. Meteorologisi. Tribune Want Ads Bring Results. ———————— Uy 4 ways called at the ba bank as his downtown bank. of checking accounts; cheques; loans; safe are always’ready_to You will find 100% Take advantage of it. A — S — CAPITAL [WILSON TELLS CONGRESS | RETURN TO OLD CONDI- | TIONS WOULD BE DIS- SERVICE TO COUNTRY }; | (COntinued From Page One; | to be the fellow eountryman of men of such stuff and valor. ‘Those of us who jstaid at home did our duty; the war could not have been wor or the men jwin otherwise. What we all thank {God for with our deepest gratitude is | that our men went into the line of bat- it}e just at the critical moment when jthe fate of all the world seemed to}, {hang in the balance and with their ifresh strength turned the tide of -bat- tle. And throughout it all how fine jthe spirit of the nation was. | Praise for Women ; “And what shall we say of the wom- i their instant . intelligence, en, of ae every task® that they’ quickening jtion and co-operation, which gave their action discipline, and enhanced the effectiveness of ¢ erything they lattempted. Their aptitude at tasks which they never ‘before had attempt- ed; their contribution to the great re- sult is beyond appraisal. They have) added a new lustre to the annals of | American <womanhood. The least: tribute we can..pay them is to make’ them the equal of men in political! rights, as..they. haye proven them-' selves the equal in every field. they thave entered. ! Industrial. Readjustment “So far as our domestic affairs are ‘concerned, our problem is one of. in- i dustrial ‘readjustment. That prob- lem is less serious for us than it may; turn out to the nations which have suffered the loss of war longer than we. Our. people. do not wait to be coached and led* they are resourceful, dofinite in purpose, self-reliant in ac- tion. Any leadjng strings we might seek to put them in would speedily become hopelessly tangled because they would pay no attention to them and go their own way. All we can seck to do is to mediato the process of change, here, there and everywhere as We may, have heard much coun- sel. as to the plans that should ‘de’ formed end personally conducted to a: which I thought it likely we could force our spiritéd business men and selfreliant laborers to accept with due pliancy and obedience. Quick Initiative. “The American business man is of quick initiative. The ordinary and normal processes of private initiative will not, however, provide immediate. employment for the men of our re- turning armies. Those who are of trained capacities; those who are skilled workmen; those who have ac- quired familiarity with established business, those who are ready to go to the farms will find no difficulty it is safe to say in finding place and employment. But there will ‘be oth- ers who will be at a loss where to gain a livlihood unless pains are taken to guide them and put them in the way of work. There will be a large float- ing residum of labor which should not be left wholly to shift for itself. It seems to be important, therefore, that the development of public work ‘of every sort should -be promptly resum- ed in order that room should be made for unskilled labor especially, and that plans should be made for the devclop- ment of our waste land and other un- used resources. In particular I di- rect your attention to the very prac- -| tical plan which the secretary of tho interior has developed in his annual report. for the reclamation of arid. swamp and cut-over land which might if the states were willing and able to cooperate redeem some 390,000,000 acres of land. “Congross could at once direct some thousands of returning soldiers to the reclaration of arid land which it al- leady has undertaken if it will but en- lerge the appropriations already made for the department of the interior. Determination of Taxes. “For the steadying and facilitation of our own domestic readjustment, nothing is more important than the immediate determination of the taxes that are to be levied for 1918, 1919 and 3920. As much of the burden of tax- ation ‘must be lifted from business as {the sound-administration of the gov- ernment will permit, and ‘business must be told what obligations it will he expected to meet. An immediate decline in the expenses of governmnt ig not to be looked for. Contracts }made for war suplies, will indeed, be Banking Service for Farmers A farmer was asked-by-a friend why he al- nk every time he went to town. His reply was that he regarded the business office. ~ That’s just the way we want you to feel about this Besidés offering you all the conveniences time deposits, savings accounts, drafts; money orders; traveler's deposit boxes, etc., we advise with clients on business or financial matters. banking service here. Capital Security Bank $50,000.00 {touched; their tenacity for organiza-|’ happy consummation, Dut from no quarter have [ seen any> general|: scheme of ‘yéconstructiow emerge AY, DEC. 2, 1918... MON rapidly cancelled and liquidated, bu: | their liquidation will make heavy | drains on the treasury for the months i just ahead of us. ~ t “But the demands will of course; fall. much below what a. continuation} of military operations would have en-| tailed and six billions should suffice! to provide a sound basis for the opera- tions of the year. | “I urge your acceptance of this res- olution that proyisioh be made now! paid in 1920 be reduced from six to} four’ Ddillions. Policy Toward Railways. “The question which causes*me the greatest concern is that of the pol- icy of to ve adopted toward the rail-| ways. I do not see hoy anw thought-} ful man can now have any fixed idea enithe swhject who knows ‘anything of the complexity of the subject. 1t ds a proble.mwhich aust ‘be studied without prejudice. “Let me say at once that I have no answer ready. The only thing that 4p perfevily..clear 40 mo is That it is not fair either to the public or to the owners of-the railways to leave the Question unanswered, and that it will ypresently become my duty to relin-; quish control of the roads, even ‘be-| fore the expiration of tho statutory | period unless there should .come in} the meantime some golution of the problem. Will Go to Conference. “1 wish to announce:at this time| {my purpose to join in Paris the repre- ; sentatives of the governments with which we -baye been associated in the war against the central powers for the purpose .of-joining «with them in the consideration, of the terms of ce, “The allied governments have jac- cepted the basis of peace which I al- lied to congress on the cighth of Jan-| uary last, as the central powers also; have, and very reasonably desiro rhy ; counsel in their. application, and.-in-} tarpretation. And it ds very spitable ; that 1 should give it. The peace set- twements which gre now to be agreed ; ‘upon are of transcendant portance; doth to us and the rest of the world, ! and J know of no business or inter-| est whish should take srecedence ov-| er them. . { ‘Will Retain Touch. | “{ shall -be in very cloge touch with you and with affairs on this side of the water and you shall know all that; Ido. The cables-*und wireless will, render me available for any counsel | or servics that you may desire of me. e i “I shall make my absence as brief, as possible and shall hope to return with the happy assurance that it hi ‘been possible to translate into a i munaasncanunesenadeguanavncataauacouccutsagatasadaattaUavanensoucaentesdstUsadadeUaUansneseanecaneeececaondguansseussneasetatanseansnaitEaUcsiseDeensuseseeseesuaaUsoOSOSOCOCON0003 00000) CNELULONNUAUODAUOGONUNOUOAUOSUINDNO0N0S0N0N000N00000000000000000000000000NN0000000000000000 ’ gets itself execution BISMARCK, N. D. R4 a, Ne ~ On ox Pay story to insure the right appeal. 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