Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 22, 1945, Nice, Alpes Cote D'Azur                                F Jolt 1943 h 8 Many Are the food pinched world will be one of the main problems of the big three 3i by Robert Macgregor stars and stripes staff writer the feeding of Europe is High on the Agenda of the big three discussions at but to feed the continents hungry president prime minister Churchill and marshal Stalin will have to wrestle with the meat Situa Tion in the with England already Small with supplies of wheat for Norway and they face a world food to a world which Only a few years ago was burning Grain so that Farmers could have a living in which the government was paying Farmers to let Fields lie or not to raise when we were civilians we had enough to and of the kind we How come the average Soldier and civilian one reason this turnabout is so difficult to understand is that there is no one dramatic cause for in one often heard the argument that All the plow Ingup of front lawns in world War i to Plant potatoes was just a propaganda device to make citizens feel More a part of the the it was were not in an Era of seeming this was easy to believe one might almost believe it still All of us see Small things that make for less food in the world if you were in Normandy last summer you will remember the or at least the stench of Fields seemed littered with dead slowly or if you were on the Moselle or in the ardennes Battle you saw dead horses m great prob ably most of these at one time helped to till the soil of Luxembourg or or you May have seen european Farmers with milk cows before their speaking for prance at an International food conference in London during commander Bernard said that prances live Stock numbered around 50 percent of its prewar that for draught animals the loss was closer to 75 Luxembourg minister of food and Supply stated that because of the losses during von Rund stents offensive his Little country needed horses immediately it what of the situation at Home our cows have not been hit by Shell frag or our Fields torn up by when the mess in answer to your youre eating better than you Ever did he of course int but you Are eating More than most civilians the average amount eaten today by a civilian working in an office or not doing heavy physical is around calories a living out of doors and with an army physical soldiers Are allowed an average of or about one fifth multiply this on fifth by three quarters of the or so in the armed and you get a sizable amount of extra food needed during the of is True for All other of and All of United then there is loss by in the ardennes Campaign the germans do int get to Lifite and our great ration dump yet Many a captured German had a dec ration in his and food was lost because it  be gotten to the front lines in time to be some was lost As a result of the daily enemy bombing of our ration like the one at Allons last enough loaded with rations were sent to the Bottom of the Atlantic by boats to make the difference Between plenty and just enough at Accord ing to a quartermaster and this was already processed mainly in cans and which has Cost far More in labor and time than what can be bought at the neighbourhood sphere is another not so obvious Side to the army supplying of in order to feed one Man on his arrival in the food had to be started from filler depots in Schenectady or at least 70 Days to feed Linn the next his rations had to Start 69 Days and so that is what filling the ration pipe line but the filler depots Are far from where the food is and the army considered its Eto pipeline to be actually 167 Days food for around men for 167 Days had to be temporarily taken off the it  be made up until the men left the but for the the time length of the actually a military May be some where around twice As this is one continued on Page Vii sugar Joe shinto pm m