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§ I FOOD OR FAMINE 



Unle;ss the United States Government decides to 

 place an embargo at once upon the milling of white 

 flour, the bolting of corn and the destruction of 

 cereals in the manufacture of whiskey, grain alco- 

 hol and commercial products, misery lies ahead. 



One food shortage after another has been re- 

 ported. We have been warned and warned and 

 warned. The old story of procrastination is being 

 retold in our official indifference to food prepared- 

 ness. 



For years we have dallied with an unequipped 

 army and navy; have refused to look the future 

 in the face; have blindly trusted in something that 

 all of us now look back upon with regret and bit- 

 terness as a policy of "Things-Will-Take-Care-Of- 

 Themselves-If-God-Doesn't." 



§ 2 — REGULATION WITHOUT MISERY 



"If we had only prepared!" we cry. Surely the 

 lessons of our indifferent regard for the future have 

 been learned. Yet, we go on talking vaguely about 

 "the mobilization of the agricultural interests of the 

 nation, about the formation of a commercial econ- 

 omy board, about legislation to limit the period of 

 cold storage and to prevent speculation in foodstuffs, 



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