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about nationalizing the vacant lot garden plan, about 

 encouraging the farmer and truck grower to plant 

 a maximum, guaranteeing him against loss through 

 over-production." 



These things are all good. They are as laudable 

 as they are inevitable. Nothing can stop them. Prim- 

 itive forces are at work moving them along. The 

 temper of the people demands them. The instinc- 

 tive recognition by the masses of an ugly outlook 

 filled with needless privation and preventable suf- 

 fering will sooner or later express itself in a tidal 

 wave of retribution, furious and overwhelming, that 

 will swamp any man or group of men blind enough, 

 foolish enough or selfish enough to interfere with 

 these imperative reforms. 



But what about the system that now depiletes our 

 short crops through unnatural commercial processes 

 that not only contribute nothing to the daily needs of 

 the people but which actually withdraw from them 

 both bulk and brawn. 



If we continue to refine our cereals drastic regula- 

 tions will inevitably follow. But, they will follow 

 too late to prevent preventable misery. If we end 

 this system now we shall have the regulation^ with- 

 out the misery, 



§ 3 — :^00D SHORTAGE 



When David Lubin, American representative to 

 the International Institute of Agriculture, at Rome, 

 announced, via Paris, April 5, 1917, that the world's 

 food crop is deficient and the situation alarming he 

 sounded what should have been the last word of 

 warning necessary to move us to action. 



