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ARE THE HORSE AND CARRIAGE.
April 5, 1940.
LORD BEAVERBROOK, owner of the London "Daily Express," the newspape with the world's greatest circulation, has written a series of articles on Britain's position tday, after seven months of war, In pursuance of his decision to offer the series to leading nwspapers "Telc throughout the British Empire, Lord Beaverbrook has forwarded the articles to e graph" for publication in Hongkong. The first appears below.
GONE Make "Make Each
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on supplies of food.!. It is no longer necesitary to There must be production and. work all day, to wear yourself
import to feed, the populations out
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THE preox "Special to the Telegraph
home and import from broad to supply our needs in feeding- stuffs for beasts and poultry,
What are the prospects and the possibilities?
First of all, our requirements. In spite of the rationing, we need. more Lood now than we did before war began. That increase in our needs is due to the soldiers, who must be fed on a fighting basis.
minal to say, they muit have the
necessary for men exposed
to the elements, undertaking heavy labour, working long hours et ardu- ous tasks and strenuous duties.
Then again, there is the Immense inflow of troops from overseas, and the camp-followers and refugees from Inany lands.
O some extent these extra
To demands upon our food
Ye
Ye
His
Sure To Own"
In 1870, with a population of 26 millions, we had 171⁄2 million acres of arable land. Now we have 45 millions of population and under 12 million acres in cultivation." How can we make up that shortage
in our food production?
by ***** LORD
BEAVERBROOK
available to
of Norway, makingthree round trips in a year from Astralis, Canada,, and the River Plat
It is as though he entire mer- canille marine of United States. of America was aftur disposal for one voyage, with all in produce that these ships could car
What
gift Whi a benefaction! What a splendid he in time of
trouble!
And, by reducing the wartime pressure upon shipping we would do something to prevent n uriduo rise- In freight charges.
The money paid ton shipowner for carrying cargo grain to a British harbour actual amounts to more, than twice as ruch as the charge before war brokk out.
This immense increds in freight": rates is one of the mot important factors in promoting a me in food prices.
2
So by this, increase in production that we project, and by the economy consumption, coupled with diversion to home-grown foods, we help to protect purscive against. further rise in the cost of living.
ND there is one mire con-
stocks are offset by the rationing restrictions on those who lead shel- stock in reserve. And there is no look for a swift increase in the homo ed by almost every member of the fered lives and pass their days in store of food so good as animals in production, provided that the feed- public. It is the contribution he can
Ing-stuffa pre the pasture. sedentary occupations,
So when you hear the old, bad farmers. So here is a problem intensified by the incidence of the war. Indeed, argument which thoughtless people we have a good idea of the degree put forward that it is easier to im- to which food consumption increases port beet than feeding-stuffs, reject
The consumer then has the satis
the make in the guise of a producer in:
a small way.
For garden patches over to Uny can be cultivated. A few potatoes: WHERE then must we econ- here, a bed of carrots there, some beetroot where the land is well Womise? is used by the Hongkong Talegraph to
fertilised. indicate news which is stretly copyrigas in war. For It has been estimated it. When you hear the story that under the provisions of the TalecommTA SA ALİ » after the experience of the last war more food value is obtained by
In beef, because we buy half our cations Ordinance, 1917 Buch news is that food supplies must be increased farming for grain and potatoes than.
the is received in
20 per cent, of the total can be got out of beasts, reject it beef from abroad. And that is a faction of feasting on his own pro- much ជ
duce, the pleasure of taking some consumption of any country engaging. too. We have plenty of acres for situation that can only be remedied
both.
in part and over a long time. in battle front.
a nation bent on the preservation of Bacon, too, should be consumed part and share in the equipment of There is no other such satisfaction. its to be accomplished in develop with economy. We produce less than society. task. But there is also consumption. while increases in production are in the human breast as that derived ng production. That is the main a third of the bacon we eat. And What can be done in that direction most desirable, we cannot expect to from a well-cultivated garden.
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To consider the situation fully, we must first of all have a clear concep- tion of the relative importance of home production and imports from abroad into Britain.
Two-thirds of the food
cat
comes from abroad. One-third is grown in our own fields,
That is the broad picture of what
I have referred to the contributions wartime situation?
There is much to be said for
from (1) the producer; (2) the con- This
is a matter in which the devoting ourselves to securing in-
sumer; and (3) the gardener. Now whole population is i
is interested. Every creases in other directions where then, the Government. household is concerned. So also are results will be swifter and more the restaurants and the clubs, and, satisfactory. food is served. indeed, every public place where
to regulate our national life to the meet our total requirements.
erens
Ten per
own
in should make a point of securing this Agriculture for 10,000 skilled plough-
of
economy.
AND
ND how will these benefits
EVERY available man must be turned to agricultural
the
The small sum left by the Infe James Savage, Prime Minister of
There is no denying that home
The Government must not take New Zealand, is welcome evidence production ought to have been speed
ed up before the war. But there is
We should eat less mutton and agricultural labourers from the soil.
Well
remember October 19, 1017,. that there are political leaders who co use in looking back longingly into
lamb. For we graze un our approach their high office with no the past. We must peer into the
to find skilled ploughmen in the future instead.
And the whole public should co- pastures less than half the sheep that when an immense effort was made thought of self-enrichment.
Army. A great comb-out took place We must consider the contribution
the producers by we need,
We should use less sugar. We on a demand from the Board of Perhaps France, among the demo-which can be made by home produc operate with
tion to help us. What can we expect diverting our consumption to the con- from the Acids and the farmers of foodstuffs which can be grown cratic countries, has been
Our home-grown sugar men. amounts to a third of the sugar we Within a month there was an in- spicuous for its Chief Executives Britain? What can we ask them to our own country, do for us now?
cat. And we eat too much of it. A sistent pleu to the War Cabinet for. reduction in the national consumption who have personally preferred to
a most wasteful situation had could be effected with benefit to the more ploughmen and more labourers.
arisen. The farmers had been stimu live in humble style. A notable
FIRST and foremost come health of the community.
potatoes. We should eat
Now it has been shown (1) that lated to increase production. Now example was Emile Loubet, Pre-
can look for a FIRST, we sident during the Dreyfus case, who
much bigger acreage under more of them, ut the expense
long way to fuld our needs; (2) of labour, and their efforts were. that economy, in consumption, with frustrated on that account. was a man of humble means and the plough. J. F. Wright tells me items of diet which must be carried increased production will go a very they were left without the supplies This time let us avoid that mis- that the present. programme has to Britain from over the sens.
We grow all the potatoes we re more reliance upon foods that we Armand brought half a million additional Fallieres, of peasant stock, could be jeres into our total of ploughed land. quire at present. But we could ex- can grow at home, will also give us take. Let us escape that error.
It is not enough. It is not as much tend the acreage under this crop great benefits.
to 900,000. In of seen after retirement tending hia as we have a right to expect. A from 10,000 arres
method must be devised by which the year 1918 we had an area little southern vineyard. Poincare, the arable land of Britain is increased more than 800,000 acres growing though comfortably provided for, by four million acres. And it is potatoes. If we get the increased perfectly possible to achieve that production, it would then be the
be bestowed upon us? pursuits. Labourers must be called Hved modestly and never travelled result. The land is there, walling task of the citizens to use the in-
erensed production.
We may expect to save half the back not only from the Army, but for the plough. by limousine if a railroad, was
Back to 1879, that must be the cry. The potato is an article of food money that we send abroad to pay also from city occupations. Wherever available.
1870, when, with a population of 28 possessing immenso nourishing qua- for purchases of food. Half the food un experienced for hand can be We cut four poundr of is not an over-estimate of what can found he should be persuaded to millions, we had 17 million acres ifties. In Britain, tradition has usually of arable land, as against the 1040 potatoes a week each. That con- be done. If the arable acreage is return at once to the cultivation of will be said, that economic con- It net the Prime Minister among the figure of 45 millions of population sumption should be increased, with increased from 12,000,000 acres by the soil,
and less than 12 million acres. benefit to the nation's food position an additional 4,000,000 with possessing classes. Lloyd George, This would be a development im- and advantage to the well-being of increase in livestock that would dillons in the country districts stand
accompany that expansion in, tillage, in the way. Nothing of the sort.
Tell the form labourers of Britain. Liberal wartime premier and ori.mensely increasing our home sup- the community.
of food for man and beast. plies
who have strayed from the soll that. wurds the objective. The mixture docs ginally a provincial reformer, was Then we can increase our livestock bread is desire of potato flour in we would be going a long way to-
By reducing our import of food the defence of their country urgently an exception. So was Ramsay Mac-in every direction, especially if we not cause any defect in the louf.
have plenty of fodder. We can in-
and they will respond with good will. Next in Importance comes oatmeal. We may look for a big saving in necessitates their return to the land. But do not ask the patriot to pay Donald, first Labour Prime Minister. crease our herds, which have lately A magnificent article of food. More foreign exchange.
suffered a serious decline,
And than white bread.
There is perhaps no other direction nourishing
a price. compar-
labour will In Australia, the late Mr. Joseph
Let him know that his John Edwards tells me that, since in the
be well rewarded., That his social containing more food value able economy in our A. Lyons, who died last Year, left the outbreak of war, our cattle re- milk, form of porridge, taken with in which we can achieve a
sources have been depleted by half than bacon and eggs, and just as foreign exchange.
condition will be well provided for." only £836,
a million head out of 8,000,000. That
In the last year of peace wo spent And that the welfare of his family palatable, American Presidents, while enjoy our total' stock of live pigs has gono
produce half the oat products £361,000,000 in importing foodstuffs. will never be neglected again.
The Goverment should also pro ing the financial advantages offered down by half a million out of we eat. But there is no reason why The saving of half of that immense
3,750,000,
we should not expand the acreage sum would strengthen our financial vide means for training women for in their newly developed country, Glibert Kidner estimates that the under oats to the point where we position Immensely. It would re- the land. And the efforts that have have by no menna consistently shortage of feeding-stuffs has caused grow at home all that we consume, lease a huge sum of money for the so far been made to attract the atten maintained themselves in afluence.a loss of five million birds out of Tho acres are there. They await the purchase of the implements and the tion of women to the land have fall-
ed. 00,000,000 on the poultry farms and plough. And oats are a very easy raw material essential for war
Yet it must be within the resources President Washington began as al-in the farmyards of Britain.
It need arose, we could buy a fleat. crop to grow. Almost any, type of There is certainly a pressing neces- land will give a good yield.
of thousands of American airplanes of a good man, with powers from. most the wealthiest landowner in the United States, with tons of alty for an increase in kens, For
It would not be a difficult task to out of the money we save by devot- the Government, to establish proper we should produce. all the eggs we grow all of our oats. In fact, it can programme. We could do it without will attract them. It son competent ing ourselves to our own home food training centres for women which thousands of neres and hundreds of
require.
accomplished with case and slaves. Yet as a result of the war Now this decline in cattle, pigs and
throwing on to the market one addi- sible to turn out such tional bar of gold in British owner- women workers that the formera he had to borrow money to settle of foodstuffs, must be restored forth- poultry, due to the failure in supply
ship..
will be cager to employ them. his debla and pay his travelling, with as increased quantities become
We would also relieve the pressure They would be especially suitable - upon shipping tonnage. The fewer to look after pigs and poultry. And expenses to New York, when elected available. And we must further
PRESH milk. We can in- the ship that we must employ to the male labour. which they would President. Jefferson, owner of 10-provide for very considerable im
crease the consumption, bring us food, the greater the num replace can be directed quite easily provement in livestock as well. 000 acres, ended his career In
thus reducing the demand for some ber of ships that we can use to bring to other agricultural pursuits. foreign foodstuffs. For there 16 munitions, and arms to Beltain. straitened circumstances. Jackson'
enough milk produced in Britain to Twenty-three million tons of ship- and McKinley both knew the mean-
meet all our requirements.
ping are engaged in the course of. Ing of hard times.
But manufactured milk in all its n So here is the demand: That-
year in transporting foodstuffs
IN this lalund fortress, in this Democracy, more than any other, peopic, should give us more than subject for economy. For every in British population with adequate has scattered its forming population
our producern, the forming forms, including butter, should be a across the sean for the supply of the form of government, has sot sixteen million. дегся under the of manufactured milk, the produco produce. lofty principles by which its actions plough In 1918 we were within of Britain, which we consume, three If we grow half the food at home, 60 prodigally to all parts of the
rely half that tonnage can be dispensed Empire, we are constantly being measured. 200,000 acres of that figure. They tins come in from overseas..
should Inercase ivestock, until our Vegulables, we can eat more. That with. Nearly twelve million tons of character and fortitude of our peo- Yet in calling upon large numbers herds of cattle reach more, then, is a broad principle of consumption. shipping accommodation can be put ple. They will endure. They will disposal of the Shipping Conquer shortage. They will face of citizens, the temptation to self eleven million head. Five million For the great bulk of the vegetables at the
hardship,, if, hardship comche interest and self-enrichment is con-pigs would not be too many. And we eat are grown in our own soll. Minister.
And to the sona of the, sons of the siderable. The example set by our egg and table birds. An increase that we can produce them all.
Scottish farmers who Have returned un Increase in poultry, to provide all And there is, every reason to suppose public-spirited lenders of the type from twenty-five million to thirty Nor need wo stint our consumption
again over the seus to Oght for the freedom of the soil of their fore- of Mr. Bavage is therefore a vital million sheep on our pastures would of cars, It is true that one in three
he desirable.
of the CHNS we eat in Imported, contribution to the integrity and
It is necessary
to increase the Holland and Denmark are our chief nurvival of democratic idents. herds. If we do so, we have the foreign suppliers. But here we can enpucity
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