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Let's Face Facts Hot Controversy Rages Over Food Distribution For Liberated Peoples By BARROW LYONS "'*'" Staff Corrotpond%nt WASHINGTON, D. C Some pretty warm discussions about whether citizens of liberated territories should be rationed on 2,000 calories of food a day, or 2.600 calories have been going on in Washington behind closed doors. The difference is 30 per cent, and when measured in total dollars, tons or available shipping space, this may be the difference between what is possible and what is impossible of accomplishment. The army is the only agency in a position to distribute food in liberat territories dur- Barrow Lvons must assume re sponsibility. In approaching the nutrition prob lem the army consulted civilian au thorities as to how much food—how fr.any calories of a balanced diet— would provide a minimum for health. In the early stages of libera tion the army does not feel that it can undertake to provide more than a minimum. The effort to beat ene my forces must take precedence over everything else, and at times battle requirements absorb all trans portation the army can command. What is more, we have found food distribution facilities badly disrupt ed in many areas. In some sections of Italy virtually all shopkeepers, who were Fascists, have dis appeared, and untraini d persons had to be found to handle distribution of food and supplies. Some Difficult Problems Nor have experienced distributors always proved trustworthy. Food entrusted to wholesalers by civilian agencies has not always found its way into normal channels of distri bution. In India and North Africa much of tiie grain a.-.d flour sent in was withhold from distribution by who.' ,-alers who profited by the hun ger of starving peoples, until their practices win discovered a;.d end ed. So the army is r.ot undertaking to deliver more than a minimum diet to the people of France, Italy and other liberated territories. If civil ian agencies, when given access, can supplement this, they will be wel comed. In determining what constituted o minimum essential d i t for the maintenance of health the army shared responsibility with civilian agencies—state department, foreign economic administration and de partment of agriculture. UNRRA was not invited to participate in tr.e discussions. An interdepartmental committee, including army experts, decided that 2,000 calories a day, with some exceptions, was the mini mum for maintenance of health. Now, however, FEA nutrition ex perts disagree. They feel that we should undertake to provide more than 2,000 calories a day—at least 2,600 calories. It is pointed out by them that the average American gets from 3,000 to 3.2U0 calories a day. The army does not object to peo ple in liberated territories getting all the food possible, if it does not in terfere with transportation of sol diers and supplies to the fighting fronts—but army oflicinls do not wish to see the development of heavy civil.an traffic until the Ger mans are beaten. It has become evident that slow victory would mean willful destruction by the Nazis in subject countries of mil lions of people. If we are to save their lives we must use available resources to the limit. Belgium to Help After the Germans are beaten all concerned hope to do much better for liberated peoples. For instance, the Belgian government in exile plans to purchase food for its own people. It has the money and skele ton organization. It will approach undernourishment as an illness. The "sick people" of Belgium are to be fed back to health as rapidly as pos sible so that they can assume quick ly their normal functions. Our own authorities would ap proach the problem o( feeding simi larly. One of the first tasks of the surgeon general's office will be to make surveys to determine exactly what are the food deficiencies of lib erated territories, and then see that the right kinds of food are dis tributed. It should be noted that the 2,000 calories, which has been set as the nutrition goal, is the basic allow ance for the average adult. Extra allowances are provided for those performing heavy labor. In this connection Dr. Mark A. Graubard, in charge of labor edu cation for the Nutrition Program branch, department of agriculture, points out that the average German worker today gets around 2,100 calo ries, aa tomparcd with 5,500 calo ries for an American lumberman and 4,506 for a truck driver. THE DANBITRY REPORTER, DANBURY, N. C„ THURSDAY, AUGUST 3. 1944 Diner De Luxe at Burma Front fP'*l'ißS an •• "'HT- , i i American field service ambulance drivers en route to the Burma front lunch on a flat car and find that the food is as good as in a de luxe diner. These volunteers are serving with British and Indian forces. They travel by boat, road and rail for long distances, always with their assigned ambulances. Efficient Job of Demolition Three American naval officers stand amid the wreckage of the arsenal at Cherbourg, graphic testimony to the efficiency of flerinan demolition squads. Left to right are Commodore William A. Sullivan, port salvage expert: Rear Adrn. John Wilkes: and Rear Adm. Alan Kirk, commander of l\ S. naval task forces in French waters. General Talks With llis Men f Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme Allied commander, is shown In center of circle as he addressed men of the First division in Normandy. The general made a special trip to France to decorate 24 men for valour in the field. Despite his many duties he usually finds time to personally inspect all troops under his command and to listen to their problems. His popularity at the front has proven as great as on the homefront. Hundreds of American homes have received letters from General Eisenhower telling of good work done by their GI Joes. Yanks Shell Retreating Nazis ■'; '■%[ w'- jps£# JF - Bp *!!. As one American soldier pulls the lanyard of a howitzer, two others hold ears and tarn away from the roar as they shell retreating German troops near €arentan. American columns are still reported as advancing everywhere along the western half of the Normandy front despite power ful opposition. Stimson in England > _ i E JB iffViJBHI Secretary of War Ilenry L. Stim son is shown examining the remains of a flying bomb shortly after it exploded in England. The war sec retary has been conferring with Gen. Dwight Eisenhower in England and inspecting American troops on in vasion fronts. Tello Needs a Pal' / •H?" L ,5~ 5 JGI Constant companion of this sad eyed bewildered Japanese youngster was "Shipper," the ship's mascot of a coast guard-manned assault trans port, where the "I-ittle Tojo" found haven and medical treatment from the strife that surged over his Sai pan home. Invasion of England - ,f| fSMK ■ '"^BP^ v - Bi .t iA >*« i- - Sift v-. Jx^JLA^23HmKmT\. «•>• ->.■■■&.... .-MA- From the gaping bow doors of an LST, German prisoners of war stream ashore at a British port. When they used to sing "We Sail Against England," they never dreamed that the landing on the shores was going to be like this— as prisoners of war. New Jap Army Chief t« TW S j tTiin AJfi Bff'. ** »*Z l jßpQ^g^ Gen. Ilideki Tojo has been relieved of his post as chief of the Japanese army general staff and has been succeeded by Gen. Yoshijiro ITmezu (above), ambassador to occupied Manchuria. IB iiUUaslß The Private Papers Of a Cub Reporter A visiting movie star was asked which man she would enjoy meeting most ... To the amazement of the interviewers, she said: "Albert Ein stein" . . . The noted scientist was lecturing in Manhattan and he agreed to see her . . . With the scribes scribing and the flashlight bulbs bulbing, the star in an awed voice said, "It's a thrill to think that I am talking to the one man who knows more about the stars than any other living person." "Not quite," replied Einstein. "No one can predict what a star will do— to get her name in the papers." They tell the one about the colo nel, speaking at a dinner in his hon or before embarking for Africa . . . "I thank you," he concluded, "for your kind wishes regarding my wel fare, and I want you to know that when I am far away, surrounded by ugly, grinning savages, I shall al ways think of you." Jacleie Coogan, recently back from paratrooping in Burma and India, said that his Burma Glider group landed , near a small tribal village R'O miles back of the Jap lines . . . Having the assignment to construct an airport in less than 12 hours, Coogan called over a Thugee (na tive chief) and asked that he parade the villagers that he wished to re cruit as workers. Hundreds of them were girls wearing very little. One, however, was better groomed than the others . . . Draped to her ankles was a huge towel with the words: "May flower Hotel, Washington, D. C." At an airport the other day, a de jected sailor sat waiting for hours. He appeared so depressed a sym pathetic bystander asked him what the trouble was . . . He said he had just come in from the South Pa cific for a four-day furloaf. His home was an hour and a half away by air . . . He had just been put off one plane in favor of a higher pri ority ... He hadn't been home in two years. His father had died in the meantime, and every hour now seemed an eternity . . . But what really got him down, he added, was that two planes had left for his home burg but couldn't find room for him —despite the fact that the last per son to board the plane was a civilian —carrying a golf bag! When Norway was invaded civil ian Germans fled Sweden because they expected that country to be invaded next ... A German who had been buying up dollars at half the price took a train one night from Stockholm. His suitcase contained about one million dollars in small and large bills ... He knew he could not get by Swedish customs with it, and that even if he did, the Gestapo would catch up with him in Germany . . . Not long after mid night the train stopped at a small station. The German hurried out with his valise, found a dark spot near a tree, buried his treasure, took careful note of the spot and boarded the train . . . Thru his window he made a note of a sign on a door (on the side of the depot) ... It said KVINNOR ... A few weeks ago he got permission to re turn to Sweden. At the station he showed the ticket seller the memo of the name he had copied down. The ticket seller's eyebrows jumped high and then he grinned . . . KVINNOR in Swedish means WOM EN . . . The frantic dope is now traveling all over central Sweden at night, hoping to And the right depot, not knowing that even if he is that lucky, the Swedish authori ties are waiting for him. This is bow Russia whipped its Black Market ... In Russia the soldiers get additional pay for each battle they are in, and not having anywhere to spend it, they send it home. The kinfolk are making more money than usual (in spite of what you hear), and all this is why Rus sia now has too much surplus coin, as well as a Black Market which gets 40 rubles for nylons and 50 for a bottle of Scotch . . . The Soviet gov't, being realistic about it, de cided to go into the Black Market racket, so now they have gov't owned stores in all communities , . , They are called: Government- Owned Black Market Stores" (or whatever the Russian is for that), and any citizen can shop in them ... In this way, the gov't gets back all that surplus money . . . And keeps the citizens honest at the same time . . . Over here sur plus money is being enjoyed only by the "mobs," who keep it all since they rarely pay taxes. Marine Ist Lieut. Mitchell Paige (just returned after 26 months in the S. Pacific), one of two livipg en listed Marines in this war to hold the Congressional Medal of Honor, has the unique distinction of being the only infantryman in this war to be grounded! . . . Wearied by the comparative "inactivity" of a for ward training camp in New Guinea (following the Guadalcanal cam paign), Paige "stole" a ride on a B-25 scheduled to bomb Rabaul . . . The hero was then "grounded" for the duration. 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