greatest certainty, efficiency and despatch, 

 and with least difficulty, waste of effort or 

 disturbance of the economic conditions of 

 the country, now or later. 



The American people are level-headed, 

 they have a wealth of common sense, and 

 an appeal to reason thru a plain state- 

 ment of facts and cold blooded logic, will 

 surely achieve results in needed directions, 

 when more devious and indirect methods 

 would fail. Undeniably, the United States 

 of America is confronted by the most 

 stupendous and serious problem that the 

 Nation has ever been called upon to 

 solve. It is the paramount issue of the 

 hour, the most momentous question that 

 any people have ever had to answer, for on 

 this answer, not only the comfort and well 

 being of millions of our own population will 

 depend, but it is certain to have a far-reach- 

 ing influence on the whole world. This is 

 a rather large statement, but no one who 

 has kept in touch with the food situation 

 thruout the world during the past two 

 years can deny its accuracy. The march of 

 time, and the irresistible trend of circum- 

 stances have made the United States the 

 source of a considerable portion of the 

 world's food supply. Fortunate beyond 

 compare in its natural advantages, and 

 blessed with a large measure of success in 

 making the most of them, the wonderful 



