MEDFORD MAIL TRTBTTNT3, MEDFOBB, OBEfiOX, TUESDAY, JITKE 26, 19t7,
PAOE THREE
WORLD FAHE
DESTROYS BASIS
OF FOOD SUPPLY
Country Being Stripped of the Basis
for Future Fat Starvation Threat
ensSituation Is Desperate and
Must be Met Quickly if We Are to
Escape Disaster.
our flocks and herds,
Tecse, the ducks, the
By HERBERT QUICK,
(Member of National Farm Loan
Board.)
WASHINGTON, June 26. There Is
food crisis In the United States.
Any one who denies this, shuts his
eyfc to obvlpus facts. Food scarcity
js not the absence of food. In any
civilized country food scarcity always
shows Itself In the high prices and
never in the absolute absence of food.
The laboring people of the United
States, and people with small Incomes
are pinched today in the matter of
food,
What is famine? It is nothing on
earth but high prices carried to the
point which makes It so hard to buy
food that any large body of popula
tion cannot buy enough to properly
feed themselves.
What Is Famine?
Food was exported from Ireland
during the worst periods of the great
Irish famine. Food has always been
exported from India during her worst
famines.
What is the basis of our food sun-
ply?
It is the seed from which crops are
grown, and the breeding animals of
the hens, the
turkeys, the
sgvs, the cows, the goats and the
ewes. These are the seed of our food
crops and our food animals.
This country is today being strip
ped of the basis of its future food
supply. The situation calls for rigor
ous governmental control of the
breeding basis of our flocks and herds
and the seed basis of our farm crops.
Fat Is Necessary.
Milk and eggs contain a substance
which all young animals must have
or they cannot grow. Take away
from our children the fat which Ib
found in niilk and in the yolk of eggs,
and they will die, or "they will be
stunted, I have seen young animals
which have been almost full grown
kept down almost to their infant size
by being deprived of this mysterious
and wonderful substance which is
found dissolved in the fats provided
by the mother element of nature.
We hear of fat-starvation in Ger
many. : This comes from the fact that
the dairy cows of Germany were .very
largely killed off after the first year
of the war.
An expert In foods told me the oth
er day, at Memphis, Tennessee, that
ho expected milk to be 20 cents a
quart next summer in the south, and
I hear predictions of 40 cents a quart
in various parts of the industrial
north.
Starvation Threatens.
When such prices arrive, the fat
starvation of Germany will bo repeat
ed In this country, and when the dairy
herds are reduced to the point of such
scarcity as this, It will take years to
build them up again.
Our dairy herds are being depleted
In just that manner. Whole regions
are being stripped of their breeding
qiws, because the high price of beef
tempts the cattle owner to sell. He
thinks of his $100 or $150 per cow
today rather than of conserving his
part of the future meat and milk sup
ply of the country. These cows are
going for beef. They are going by
the thousands (o slaughter houses to
bo canned. The heifer calves are be-
ng killed for veal.
Famine in SeIs.
There is already a famine in seeds
over much of the country. In the
south, the committees In charge of in
creased production are searching high
and low for a bushel here and a bush
el there of soy beans, cow peas, vcl
vet beans, seeds of the various sor--Khums,
California black-eyed peas,
and many other seeds. They are par
celing them out to the farmers whom
they are Inducing to plant as thinly
as possible, so as to make the seeds
cover the maximum amount of
ground. A project Is on foot to sow
a million acres of wheat In each of the
three states of Tennessee. Mississippi
and Arkansas, hut the southern wheat
has been sold ahead of the harvest to
the millers for food. That wheat Is
now going to market, and If the farm
ers of the south are to have the varie
ties of seed wheat which they must
have, they must buy it back at starva
Hon prices to seed their fields. In &
trip over nine other states recently
Totind only two sorts of seed which
were not scarce corn and cotton,
Poultry INvnwInn.
Go to any country railroad station
In the United States, and yon will find
on every platform crates full of laying
hens, ducks and other poultry. If the j
country were actually starving, there:
is no one way in which so much ani
mal food could be produced quickly;
as by multiplying our poultry flocks,
I make the claim that if a census were
made today of the poultry of the
country, it would be found that It Is
decreasing Instead of Increasing.
Power must be lodged somewhere
in the government to take hold of tills
matter with a strong hand, otherwise
the present scarcity of food may reach
the point where it will have to be
called by a stronger name. Some one
must have power to seize the seeds.
Some one must have power to control
the selling and slaughtering of female
animals. We are setting up machin
ery for the control of a food adminis
tration. Unless seeds and female ani
mals are conserved, this food adminis
tration will not save us from things
which one dislikes to predict. The
cows, hens, ewes and sows, and other
breeding animals, are being turned
Into meat, in an endless and Increas
ing stream.
Suck of World Famine.
The seed wheat of the south Is al
ready moving to the mills. The tre
mendous suck of a world famine has
caught the germinal elements of our
food supply, and Is sweeping it Into
the world's hungry maw. The way
out ia thru plain, prompt, effective,
strong and wise administration of the
seed elements of our fields, gardens,
flocks and herds. There Is no time to
be lost.
AMERICA PLANS
AIR PROGRAM
10 WIN WAR
reat Aviation Fields Both Here and
in France Hearty Ready Congress
Asked for Six Hundred Million as
a Starter Only Four Months Re
quired to Train Aviator.
WASHINGTON, June 26. Hear
ings on the government's $600,000,000
aircraft program beffnn today before
lie senate military committee's sub
committee with Secretary of w ar
Baker on the witness stand to advo
cate its adoption.
A bill to authorize the program will
be introduced in congress during the
week.
COCCHI CONFESSES
IRE DETAILS OF
CRUGER MURDER
BOLOGNA, Italy, June 26. -The
poliee'authorities who are investignt-
ing the history of Alfredo Cocclu,
the slayer of Ruth Cruder, in New
York, brought' to light the foihmin;
additional "details concerning him. :
When he left Italy , for. the United
States he was in love with Maria
Magrina, a servant in the Coceiii
family, according to the police, boon
after his arrival in New York CoecM
tiiey say, wrote her that things
were going well and promised to mar
ry her at once if she would come to
him. -Notwithstanding the liesitition
of her relatives the girl insisted on go
ing to Now York.... A few weeks ufter
her arrival, according to the police,
Coechi's bride wrote home, charging
Cocchi with unfaithfulness. He was
upbraided by his own relatives and
those of his wife for failure to inend
his ways. - He wrote home humble
confessions of his wrong doings, but
urged his people to induce his wife
to be less- jealous of him.
Ilturn a Surprise.
When Cocchi recently returned to
Pologna, the police say, his relatives
were surprise dand even feared that
something serious had occurred. In
reply to questions, Cocchi satd he had
left New York bceanse of the jealousy
of his wife, and also that he desired
to join the colors.
Iiortly afterward a letter arrived
from Coechi's wife in which she is
aid to have asserted that Cocchi
had eloped with a girl 18 years old,
after borrowing Mrs. Coechi's tola!
possessions, fifteen dollars.
Cocchi denied the allegation. lie
told, however, about Miss Cnigcr go
ing to his shop to have her skates
harpened.
During the examination, when Coc
chis aid he had sailed from New York
on Feb. 17, the judge asked him to
e.fiilnin what he had done during
the two days after his disappearance
and time of sailing.
Sailed on Merchant,
Cocchi said that he had sail
aboard a British ship ns a mechanic
The judge then pressed Coevlii more
closely, and the prisoner even gavi
some details about the crime. H
said he had partly smothered Miss
Cruger to prevent her from shriek-
inc. but ns she had struggled he
struck her. In falling, he added.
Miss Cruger must have struck some
vital spot because he suddenly dis
covered that sue tras dead.
In nn attempt to conceal the crime
!) carried the body into the cilia
and buried it in a hole that had been
used to store gasoline.
Later, according to the police, Coc
cbi said he spent two days and one
night before sailing for Italy in (he
house of a priest m Carlton street
New York.
Riehi High Gun for the Day,
roRTLAXD, June SS, E. J. Chin
grcn of Siokane, shooting from the
22-yard line, was the big star ia the
first day's shooting of the 33rd an
nual registered tournament of t(
Sportsmen's association of the north
west today. In the amateur class.
Frank Troeh, of Vancouver, Wash
broke 143 out of 150, with Chlngren
dropping six and finishing with 14
F. C. Riehi of Tacoma, u high gun
for the day with 14? out of 150, with
U H. Held of SesUlo turning In 146
out of 150.
By HOWARD B. COFFIN.
Chairman, Aircraft Production Board
of Council of National Defense.)
WASHINGTON, June 26. Ameri
ca's aviation program, which Is being
planned oa a scale sufficient to sweep
he German flyers out of the air and
literally blind the German army. Is
already under way.
Congess will within the next few
days be asked to appropriate $800,-
000,000 to carry out these plans, but
in the meantime the various branches
of the federal government that deal
with aviation are pushing the work of
preparation on a large scale with
money already appropriated.
Three Fields Being Constructed,
Three of the great aviation fields
which the war department has plan
ned are actually under construction;
sites for the other six fields have been
chosen and work on them will soon
begin. Cadets are now in training at
the preliminary training schools es
tablished in six representative engin
eering colleges . and universities.
Training planes have already -been
ordered and will be ready by the
time the aviation fields are completed,
and the Instruction of the first group
of 800 aviators will begin not later
than August 1.
France and Great Britain, as well
our own experts, have made it
plain they expect aircraft and aviators
to be one of America's greatest con
tributions to winaing the war. .-The
government can now say It Is actually
embarked on the task of overcom
ing its -present deficiency tn military
aviation. We believe the outlook
promises a quick development of the
enormous latent air resources of the
United States which may be unprece
dented in the military history of the
world.
Up to America
America Is responsible for the In
vention of both the submarine and the
aeroplane. In the development of
both she has allowed Europe to out
strip her. It is for us to show we
can yet surpass both our enemies and
our allies In the development of these
site and let contracts for construe-
tlon of a duplicate of the American
standard two-squadron flying field In
Franca, to receive the first flyers
graduated from the Amerieaa fields.
It takes only four months to train
a flyer. As America's new airmen
tints their training they will, em
bark for Franco. On French soil un
der French . Instructors and with
French machines they will complete
their preparation for work si the
front. i
Four Months Training, .v
This training field fa France will
ba entirely a product ot American
brains and American energy. 'The
buildings will be constructed and tbe
plans prepared by an American con
tracting firm with materials shipped
from the United States.
Thousands ot men are now. en
gaged In preparation at the aviation
fields at Dayton, O., Champagne, IU.,
and Detroit, Mich. The government
has made tliera emergency projects
and nothing Is being permitted to
hamper their rapid construction. The
work on these Is being separately con
ducted and they wit! In no way Inter
fere with the new army cantonments,
Work began more than two weeks
ago on iho big four squadron Held
at Dayton. It la significant that this
field of 2500 acres, the largest ot
all, is on the site of the oirginal field
on which the Wrights developed their
first successful aeroplane. 'The mod
est field of 88 acres to which the
Wrights carried out their experiments
is within the boundaries ol the big,
new government field.
Aviation Introduced,
The Dayton field, which Is twice
as big as any of the others, will ac
commodate 144 aeroplanes and 300
flyers can e trained there at one
time. As the training period Is just
four months this means that this one
field should graduate nearly ;1000
flyers within a year. Including offi
cers, enlisted men, Instructors and
mechanics, there will is 1700 or
more persons at the school.
The Instructors for these schools
wtl be members of the aviation sec
tion ot the regular army who -have
been at the Mexican border, and as
fast as the cadets are trained a tew
of the most promising will be otiliied
for training newcomers.
America Is launched on the. great
est and most inspiring enterprise In
the world's history, that of winning
the war in the air. There are enor
mous obstacles In the way, but J am
confident they can be surmounted.
Th great American aerial iavy.,,!
a certainty and Ha realisation is not
far distant,
FINN VOLUNTEERS
ran GEii
PETROGRAD, June 24. The Rus
sian Volia says that 3000 Finnish
volunters who formerly served In the
German army are expected to attempt
to enter Finland shortly. The bor
der guard has been Increased and
strict orders have been Issued.. The
newspaper regards the release by Ger
many ot 3000 flghlers in view of the
trout nised of human material, as evi-
two great Inventions which Americans jdence ot Use very suspicious charac-
flrst conceived.
It wilt surprise many neotrte to
know the United Slates has not only
rushed plans for completion of a largo
number ot aviation training schools
in mis country. lu h .
ter of this emigration.
The central committee ot the Fin
nish social democrat workmen's par
ty has protested strongly against the
non-admlttaaee of the Flans to Fin
land,
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