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Newspaper
Arcadia Journal
Location
Arcadia, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1918
Page
3
J L Mathews reports from Covina Argus on 1917-18 labor shortages in fumigation services for citrus groves. Wages rose about 20 percent. crews of 60 with multiple foremen. Editor urges ranchers to supervise fumigation personally to protect crops and future yields amid scarce skilled labor.
In Rotterdam Holland the bread and meat supply is scarce amid war tensions. W Lyman Brown, son of Mrs J B Brown of Glendale visiting Monrovia, notes riots and hunger as Holland endures ration cuts and high prices while relief efforts in Rotterdam oversee about 2 000 000 refugees and displaced persons. Brown is director in Rotterdam of the Commission for Relief in Belgium.
Hoover warns that millions in Europe face starvation due to war and German aggression. He emphasizes the U.S. must boost food resources to support Allies and sustain troops, ships, munitions, and supplies for victory and freedom.
A Food Administration official reply emphasizes that every grain of wheat that ports can process must go to human consumption. The piece condemns profiteers hoarders and wastage as offenses against national effort, urging all to avoid the Hall of Shame.
The Hotel Monthly recounts ancient examples of food saving by Egypt’s Food Commissioner, Nebuchadnezzar’s court diet test favoring pulse and water, and the feeding miracle of five thousand. It urges wheat conservation for three months, calls for cutting wheat, and stresses supply, rail transport, and a moral stake in wartime rationing.
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