Tilt: FOOD SUPPLY OF OUR ALLIES 



635 



taken by the men workers. The values 

 fjiven for children are much higher 

 tliMii lliosc accepted in former years, 

 l)ut accord more fully with modern 

 knowledge. 



Kcckon(Ml ou this basis, the food re- 

 quirements of the Ignited States are 

 presented in tlic rollouing (alilc/ 



for the representatives of the United 

 States to liand to ]\Ir. Hoover from the 

 Interallied Scientific Food Commission 

 a statement of the monthly needs of 

 meat, fais, sugar, and cereals of each 

 of the three J^]uropean allied countries 

 (hiring the coming year. Previous to 

 ihai time llicrc had not been an ordered 



I'h'oVrsioXAI, KS'I'IMATE (»F TIIK ('Aholv'IC KK(,»ri K'K.M KNTS I'KK' DIH.M 

 OF THE UNITED STATES oE A.MEKMC.V 



* Average of 2.100 calories between 6-9 years, and 2,500 calories between 10-13 years. 



This amounts to 2.520 calories "per person" per diem. For the whole people for a year it reaches 96 

 million million calories per annum "as utilized," or 105.7 million million calories per annum "as pur- 

 chased." 



Chittenden and I calculated, so far 

 as we could from the imperfect data 

 then available, what our exportable sur- 

 plus would be in terms of calories. 

 That is to say, how much food fuel we 

 covild put into ships and send abroad 

 to maintain the bodies and souls of 

 those allied with us for the saving of 

 civilization. 



And the other nations calculated 

 their needs in calories and the calories 

 to be imported. They then determined 

 how many tons of fat each country re- 

 quired in order to give 75 grams per 

 average man. Subtracting from this 

 the quantity of fat produced in the 

 country, there remained an amount of 

 fat to be imported in the form of meat, 

 oil seeds, or dairy products. If the 

 calories in these fat imports be de- 

 ducted from the total calories to be 

 imported, it leaves a remainder to be 

 covered in small part by the importa- 

 tion of sugar, but in greater part by 

 the importation of wheat and other 

 cereal grains. 



After this fashion it was possible 



knowledge of the food requirements of 

 the dilferent peoples, but rather a com- 

 petition to see which nation could do 

 best for itself. 



We who are here cannot appreciate 

 all the strain which has fallen upon 

 those in Europe. Our valor is attested 

 equally with theirs, but England and 

 France have fought for four years, we 

 for four months. More closely than 

 ever before we are drawn to England, 

 with Westmin.«ter Abbey; to France, 

 the home of Lafayette; and to Italy, 

 with the Eternal City. 



Lord Derby said the other day in 

 Paris : "It is not too much to hope 

 that, in that reconstruction of a new 

 world, the Allies of today, in war, will 

 be the Allies in peace, and that, side 

 by side, England, France, and America 

 will from this broken world reconsti- 

 tute a new world, a better world, a 

 world worthy of our sacrifices, and 

 still more a world worthy of those who 

 have laid down their lives on the sea, 

 in the air, and on the land for the sa- 

 cred cause of Liberty and Justice." 



