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outfit, Searle Grain: “Perhaps never again—unless an wunfore- seen miracle occurs — will the

white people of the world be able ~ to enjoy the extremely high level of food that was available to them in 1938 and 1939.” Over in Eng- land a famed scientist, Sir Henry Tizard, backs up this forecast of hunger for our families with the gloomy slogan: “The world al- ready has too many people.”

Sir Henry is chairman of Brit- ain’s Defence Research’ Policy Committee. He’s the man who fits

_British science into the war plots of Churchill and Bevin. What bet- ter way to improve the food situ- ation than to let fly with atom bombs, and wipe out a. few hund- ‘ted millions of Soviet and Chinese citizens! ;

World headquarters for this kind of propaganda is. Washing- ton. There the “too many people” theorists publish a pseudo-scienti- fic journal called the Population Bulletin. Its editor, one Guy Burch, has just come out with a long analysis of the world food picture.

Yankee “Burch would like to see everybody in the world enjoying the American standard of living. Can be done. Only if the world gets rid of two out of every three people now living on our planet.

Some 1,400,000,000 human beings will have to be killed off if the American way of life is really g0- ing to succeed. :

Not quite such @ bannibal is Prof. “M. E: isenhower. He writes for the ~ Anferican grain monopoly in Northwestern Miller.

He says the world population is

growing too fast; we face the spectre of permanent, world-wide

s; pines to replace mules and ~ hunger. ety OPTS ee So it goes. Magazines, OOKS) AEN RRS ee ae and radio pound home the idea _ That’s obvious. Dr. Bennett

that science says, we face starva- tion. What’s the main fact behind all this? In the last 10 years the

world’s people have increased by 200 millions. Since 1949 the United |

States and Canada have gained 15 millions, Three millions in 1948 alone. . aoe : * * IF THIS keeps UP, how’s the world going to eat? Impossible, say some experts. But this Hit- lerite theory of too many people isn’t_accepted by many respons- . ible scientists. Dr. HH. K. Bennett, ~-head of the Food Research Insti-

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tute at “Stamford, ‘has recently ~ ' lashed out at the prophets of hun-—

ger. He ridiculed them ‘with facts.

In 1796 the notorious” Malthus, .

exposed and refuted ey aan)

Marx, brought out the notion of, “controlling” people by starvation. A hundred years iater the great physicist, Sir William Crookes,- seared the intellectuals with a similar voice of doom. But Dr. Bennett asks with sound common sense: If we were doomed in 1798, home come the world has three

times more people now?

Any farmer can give the an- <wer. Dr. Bennett lists the trem- endous advances of agricultural science in the last 150 years.

One and a half billion more peo~ ple are eating now (compared to Malthus’ day) because we grow far better crops and animals. We have new crops like sugar, corn, soybeans. ‘We make fertilizer on

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a gigantic scale. We know how to.

store and ship food without spat age. We have tractors and com-

-Yooks ahead. If there is hunger now and: famine : coming the reas- on is: “A truly enormous gap be- tween actual productivity and maximum productivity.”

The. great of the world’s farmers still have no ma- chines, fertilizers, weed or insect controls, no protection against drought, no quality stock and seed, Three quarters of the world ‘lives on primitive agriculture now —in 1948. :

But Bennett's good analysis is limited. He fails to see that im- perialism is keeping whole con- tinents in perpetual hunger. He

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doesn’t understand that the policy of the warmakers is behind the “too many people” lie, Above all, he chokes over the. historic facts of socialism. . * * * BENNETT says ‘we could stop drought and erosion from ruining our land. In the Soviet Union, ‘

| where the masses of workers and

farmers have taken science into their own hands, drought and ero- sion are being banished forever on hundreds of millions of acres, by creating thousands of forests and. lakes. By mastering nature, the Soviet’ people are guarantee- ing food for all, for ages to come.

We could make our North Am- erican farms produce more, says Bennett. But he doesn’t say where

. this is being done. In the USSR

farm yields are soaring every. year. Socialist farmers have brok- en all world’s records for output of wheat, rye, cotton and sugar- beets. Soviet farms are the

world’s most highly mechanized,

and 15 years ago they had just begun to make tractors.

This summer the propagandists of hunger began to weep crocodile tears over China They tell us that the Chinese People’s Democracy will starve to death. Scientists like K. V. Kesteven report to the United Nations that China will have famine because the cattle

*have been killed by disease, so the peasants must plow their lit- tle plots by hand. :

Doesn’t Dr. Kestevan read? Can

a scientist be so stupid as not to know that China is going to plow with ‘giant tractors? Free from imperialism, aided by Soviet en- gineering, the Chinese people will | revolutionize food production over one of the freatest farming a areas of the earth. ee oe eae ’ OF COURSE in all these “scien-

tific” articles on starvation the scientists take care to. “stay out

of politics.” And that keeps them |

right! out of facts They write books about feeding the world, when Truman cuts American wheat by 14 million acres. The Searle Grain Company ‘moans about not enough food, when po- tatoes are burned by the train- load, Ontario peaches are dumped

to rot, prairie butter goes rancid |

in storage, and millions of tons of Argentina grain is molding in dhe rain. : ; :

No, gentlemen, the starving millions of the world won't die for you. They aren’t praying for “an unforeseen miracle.” Science and socialism will feed humanity.

One third of mankind has already —

discovered this scientific fact. It isn’t that we have “too many people.” It’s only that we have too many finance - capitalists. Their system is all that stands between the- human race and the

‘ coming, Age of Abundance.

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