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put an end to the evil system that now converts into 

 slops for feeding hogs the millions of pounds of 

 skim-milk which our centralizers, creamery butter 

 factories and the farmers who supply them make 

 no effort to conserve ; stop up the leak through which 

 millions of dozens of eggs, perfectly good when laid, 

 are allowed to rot in their shells before they can be 

 consumed; reform at once the abuses of our fish- 

 ing industry which are wanton in the extreme iand 

 which, if controlled, would add millions of pounds 

 of wholesome food to our national larder every 

 year. i 



This is part of the programme necessary to enable 

 us to feed ourselves and the. ^-est of the world until 

 the revolution now scourging humanity comes to a 

 happy end. 



To supply food for the 1,735,600,000 inhabitants 

 of the countries at war and their neutral neighbors 

 is a world problem. Upon an adequate and efficient 

 solution of this problem rests the physical welfare 

 of humanity. Should red tape interfere humanity 

 will pay the price in hunger. Men will fag, women 

 will wither, childhood will be stunted and infants 

 come into the world without life. 



The most agonizing question among all those 

 which now glare under the light of this twentieth 

 century cataclysm is that of the future of the food 

 supply of the masses. 



The call to arms in every belligerent country, ab- 

 sorbing all the strength and youth of the nations, 

 draining the farms to fill the factories, are warnings 

 not only against waste, not only against ^tupidity, 

 but against the repressing and discouraging influ- 

 ence^ of official red tape. 



