Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 22, 1945, Nice, Alpes Cote D'Azur                                1945 stars and stripes Magazine hungry women and children look to tree big three for Relief continued reason Why the food situation still Doest look too Rosy at these Are haphazard which Many soldiers might ran because the producing and marketing of food is so varied and involves so Many few of us realize that it is one of the greatest of world in the the average family lays out around 25 percent fits income for food in Europe and other of the the figure rises to almost 50 or not you Nad oranges for your breakfast when you were a civilian depended upon the activity of thousands of even if you were a you didst produce All you As your Grandfather might the same was in varying throughout the England depended on Argentine meat and Dairy products from Holland or believe it or imported Rice from Saigon and of to men Cut a few usually had to Cross oceans before they were which had brought raw materials from South America and carried canned food were diverted to transport troops and the Bulky equipment of modern War while you could get a Steak for a song in Buenos one Cost quite an opera in or Nad become a for gotten dream in trains were taxed in caring for the greatest mass travel of All while freight cars carried shells instead of Oregon in the combat other things disrupted throughout the germans rolling and much of it became mincemeat under our Kai Yards and lines were bombed out or destroyed by the retreating some lines were rebuilt by army but they were needed to get am the stars 4ivu strips Pintea at the hernia Irwine u Rue de pans Tor the armed As a supplement to the Datto under the auspices or the information inti education Divi contents passed by the Armjo and Navy entered As second class March at the Post new under the act to Murch 1878 munition up to the you had the curious example of Farmers in Normandy making soap out of butter because they  get it to where it was desperately whether you eat fish every Friday or less fish was a big item in world but fishing boats were requisitioned for War and Large fishing areas were subject to submarine while others  be exploited because of Marine women took the places of men on farms and in but still there was not enough labor to keep things moving with their prewar War industries brought higher and one of the first things he average worker did his added pay was to increase family food he wanted Bis kids to have the Best his new Vage could sphere were other Odd situations that affected the total food in order to make explosives and synthetic rubber great quantities of sugar and wheat were made into Industrial which Means lard and vegetable were also used in so much so that 183 percent less fats was available to the various parts of the world which had been Large sources of food for the allies were Cut off by the Italy used to ship Macaroni Spaghetti and All the fix Ings in great All of Europe sup plied specially canned fishes and two years ago America Aad a meat crisis like the present while there was More cattle on the Hoof than at any time in american ranching it was in this complicated food crisis that England and the had to feed a Mil lion and a half enemy prisoners of although most now Are eating captured stocks of wehrmacht Urra lend incas sent Large amounts foodstuffs to our principal for food Iam Muni in up to the end of last year 16 percent of the of lend lease expenditures were for Urra now is sending tons of foodstuffs to Italy a one of the countries the organization is already in opera and soon it will a supplying the needs of other devastated most of Dorras meat so far Aas come from Canada but the England and South America have supplied other it is a world food a crisis which the most powerful persons in the world the big three and their Are going to Cope our wives and families at Home cannot expect to know their prewar plenty at least until after Japan is whats new in Book world dragon harvest9 is a with the leaders sixth novel in Upton Sinclair Saga of Lanny dragon Harvest Viking is just what All its predecessors have popular priced version of current peopled with the great men of and built around an in credible character who is in the Best comic Magazine Chamberlain and other leading players in recent history walk through the pages of dragon Harvest like but the hero of the Lanny is a remarkable he moves about the Earth with the Speed of there is never an important event at which he is not he is Friendly with at Adolf Hitler makes him at his at Downing Street Churchill sits atm offers him a and asks his advice on some impending he is quite a this Lanny that he is also wooden and contrived and unbelievable and incredibly juvenile is beside the he really gets As a the current topic leaves something to be recent events Are described with but they Are sandwiched in Between scenes and fantasies bom in the imagination of Sinclair and served up to the unsuspecting Public As the if these fables and conversations Are then Sinclair has missed his he should have gone into the mind Reading As a dragon Harvest is subordinated to the historic Lanny no sooner gets into the boudoir of some Riviera adventuress than he has to Rush off to Moscow or Paris to Tell the boys in the Back room How to manage this or that any message the Book has to offer is slightly America is presented As a Jekyll Hyde Good in its but the victim of the wicked modern fable spiced of current history Upton Sinclair imaginative financiers and capitalists who run most readers will have a hard time finding the significance of the Sinclair should be Able to present a better Case for just what purpose this endless series of trumped up  history will serve is card to perhaps it will suffice As a slightly of key version recent perhaps Sinclair will go Down As the poor mans one of the predecessors of the current chapter in the Saga of Budd was awarded a pulitzer and Sinclair the Jungle is regarded As a minor classic of our time but Upton for All us vigor and has he would do better to concentrate on old age pension and leave the novel writing to the Oulahan tie world readers go in Only for the digestion stuff Short mys teries and Jacil books offer plenty of that this after dinner Story s20 of William is a fair collection of supposed horror but Irish seems to have produced a series of tragedies rather than horror they Are All plausible but leave the Reader with a sense of melancholia rather than a Casta Isay s4 by James Gould describes the Kermess and contagious loneliness of a Des Perate frightened Man in a deserted depart ment store but the mystery is spoiled by a too vague Richard sales not too not too deep s carries a touch of fantasy in its Story 0f desperate men escaping from a convict westerns include the regulation amount of gun smoke plus an of Trail made into a the of Ohio incident s24 by Walter Van Tilburg received National with its Storr of three in Nocent men hanged by a the Book surpasses the motion peace mar Shal cs6 by prank Graber and hunted riders s23 by Max Brand follow the Standard Gootsan saddles devotees of the Short Story can indulge in or just selected Short stories or Philip Wylie is8 Are those starring his two saturday evening Post crunch and selected Short stones of Algernon take place in the Hal world that is Black Wood Nas a Talent Tor expressing the unknown and frosting it with a the never old humor of just Plain Ameri can Mark Twain is ladled out in selected shirt stories of Mark Twain Here youll find the jumping toe Man that corrupted had Leyburg and extracts Froia Adams last but not is ses styled self styled or the Man who wrote dear baby s2 is much too close on the Border line of being a Genius anyone to deny by John Fischetti