FOOD FOR EUROPE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 275, 16 August 1919, Page 7

FOOD FOR EUROPE

WARNING FROM MR. HOOVER MAXIMUM OF PRODUCTION NECESSARY ' TO PREVENT MORAL AND ECONOMIC CHAOS By Teleirrnsli-.l'resß AsßOoiation-CoiiyrieW London, August 13. -Mr. Herbert Hoover, the United States •Food Controller, in an article in. the' "National Food Jiuiial," states that iiftecii million families iu Europe are receiving unemployment allowances in one form, or another. '.I'he population of Europo is a hundred millions greater than .win ho supported without imports. The proper and insistent demand of Labour for higher standards of living is unfortunahlly impregnated with Hhe theory that limitation of effort will increase the total employment. "Unless productivity is rapidly increased', political, moral, and economic chaos will result, finally interpreting itself iu a loss of life on a i;caile hitherto undreamed of. The entire surplus productivity, of America, Mr. Hoover states, is totally incapable of meoting tho European .deficiency. .No economio policy can bring food to the stomach whielidoes not secure, the maximum production. The practice cf raising funds by the inflation of currency must cease, i Mr. Hoover suggests .the abolition of the/great .bureaucracies ~ which control prices and distribution, and which are unnecessary now that the world markets are, open. All attempts at an- international! control of. prices with ft view to .benefiting Europe will produce- a retrogression : of production abroad. • A.decrease of 20 por cent, in the American wheat crop vonlid not starve America; but it would starve Europe. ITnless there-'ia more work in Europe, <md sa,ner-states-manship, America cannot go on feeding. Europe on credit.—A us,-N.71. Cable Assn..