ism and democracy, will ungrudgingly sup- 

 port and cooperate with the required regu- 

 lations as they become necessary. 



With earnest convictions in this direction, 

 and a firm belief that a matter so vitally 

 important warrants as full discussion as pos- 

 sible from every angle, I deem it not alone 

 a privilege, but a duty to take up seriatim 

 some of these various details of the food 

 problem. 



First, let us consider zvhai America must 

 do to save the world from famine. Re- 

 duced to its simplest terms, this country 

 must contribute, beginning with October, 

 1917, at least 1,000,000 tons of staple food 

 products a month to the allied and neutral 

 countries of Europe, over and above its 

 normal exports; and should peace be de- 

 clared before this date, this amount will 

 probably have to be greatly increased. To 

 aid in the realization of what this will mean, 

 let us just briefly point out that this in- 

 crease of food export will require the move- 

 ment of 30.000 freight cars or 1,000 trains 

 monthly, or over 30 trains of 35 loaded cars 

 daily to get this quantity of food to the sea- 

 board. Carrying this thought a little fur- 

 ther, it will require the loading and des- 

 patch r of over six 5,000-ton ships every day 

 to get this amount of food stuff to the ports 

 of entry on the other side of the Atlantic. 

 Let me emphasize that this is entirely sep- 



