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canning, the first World War encouraged the development 

 of frozen foods, and dehydrated foods are being perfected in 

 World War II. 



Napoleon's most famous military observation was that an 

 army travels on its stomach. Even in Napoleon's time, when a 

 good day's march was less than forty miles, the problem of 

 food supply was as serious as the problems of ordnance and 

 military strategy. 



Today, when our mechanized Army rolls to a battle front 

 at forty miles an hour, or flies to a battle front on the other 

 side of the world at several hundred miles an hour, the prob- 

 lem of "keeping up with the stomach" taxes our production, 

 our processing, our transportation, and our ingenuity to the 

 full. 



Just as the army of the fighting front marches to battle on 

 its stomach, so the army of the home front must march to 

 victory on its stomach. A nation geared to speed up must be 

 nourished to sustain that tempo. 



Protein Shortages the Most Deadly 



When the end of fighting comes, the people will have a 

 long road to march a road back to sanity, peace, and justice. 

 And the army of peace, as the army of war, must march on 

 its stomach. For peace does not come when the guns are 

 silenced. Peace does not come so long as the specter of starva- 

 tion stalks the land. For when the specter of starvation stalks 

 the world, the specters of plague and pestilence follow in its 

 wake. Dr. Paul R. Cannon, chairman of the department of 

 pathology of the University of Chicago, has spoken grim 

 words of warning on the inevitable aftermath of prolonged 

 starvation. 



According to Dr. Cannon, the link which brings plague 

 and pestilence in the wake of starvation is protein deficiency. 



