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' ' ' ; , ' ; THE BEE; OMAHA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1919. ' ' , u 1 iFoir Yooirselff me Latest amid Mo4 Ivitt Amid See From Journal of Commerce, New York, November SO. 1910. SHORTAGE OF MEAT MENACES ENGLAND Likely to Lead to Profiteering on Large Scale, Parliamentary Secretary McCurdy to Food MinUti-y Aver. LONDON. Nov. 1 Parliamentary Secretary MeCurdy to the Ministry of Food, la addressing a meeting at Loughborough charted that there I a world shortage of neat. 1 want to apeak quite frankly aboat the food problems, of thla eountry aa they will affect the future coat of liv ing." laid Mr. MeCurdy. "Fires there la the problem of sap llee. It If e.uite a mistake te think that there are inexhauatible euppllee of food in the world available for our future needa. In the United Statea the aurplua of foodstuffs that la available for export to tbia country la eteadily diminishing. "Other countries from which we need to draw our auppiiee have been ao dev astated acd unsettled by the war , that for eome years they will be un- able to aend us anything, and perhupe unable to aupply their own needs fully. "Future sources , of food supply I'or Great Britain have yet to be estab lished. New sources of aupply have to . be found, and a far-sighted policy ia necessary if we are to avoid disturb anca of our supplies and a further dis turbance of our industrial life in a few yeara hence. "We shall have to grow more food at home; we ahall have to encourage the development of food production ia the British Empire, not aa a matter of preference but as a matter of necessity. "Do not imagine that the United Statea or Scutb America, or all the existing resources of the British Empire, are sufficient for our future needs or that a policy of free trade and laisses aire will aee us through. It will not. "Already in 1914 the home production of beef and mutton in the United Statea ' waa insuff ioient for the home , consumption. If we , take ' all kinds of , meat produced in the United Statea 1 the figures suggest that the United Statea will in a measurable number of ' yeara eeaae to be an exporting eoun try and be a competitor with ua , for suppliea from other countriea. "For aome yeara Europe will need to import far larger quantitiea of meat if the peoplea oft Europe are to be prop erly fed. "Before the war we imported into thia country a million tons of meat and bacon every year. Home supplies amounted to 1,600,000 tons. Our home , suppliea are down, owing to reduced stocks of pigs and sheep. "We shall want to import more than , a million tons of. neat next year, and the rest of Europe will want at least three ' million tons, or as much of that as Europe can find means to pay for. "There will not be enough meat ia the world available to aupply the needa of Europe next year.' All the export , able surplus meat suppliea of Austra lian, New Zealand, South America and South Africa together amount to no more than 1.210,000 tons. "The total is barely sufficient to meet the neede of the United Kingdom alone, to say nothing of any one else. "A scramble for meat imports 'ap pears inevitable if Europe - has any money next year with which to buy food. It ia a situation full of menace,'' tuft e THIS ONE PLANT HAS THE POSSIBILITY OF CLEARING?, 9th ffie Price off This y y y ' - 'y": y '" i y H M aylare 1 ft, I Omaha's Independent ys ' y-';-;-, : - :i.:: y Packing Plant jl . Tr y ; ' l - "Pit l ' .r- L LlMi.PMg - m immt ' raHiTBiH 3 uaanmit Roh nil - ifouj louh,ulziJur'ill : M U uLL I I ill jLXi-lgL '' ' &Sw- 'y-"7 fe nU " L f l l INaBWl ill ". - t . itt4r. r. ..waeaM P ftMS-Tl t. I .et. 1 f 11 t:. .-maa-. Jfe 1 . ptiyfeyy Ay,yc; aaav- :b - - -p . ocxv ' i l