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W^a/... Where Is It?
Clinton P. Anderson answers the question and is appointed Secretary of Agriculture
• A special Congressional Committee investigated
supply and demand — found storage space inadequate, producers lacking confidence . . . They place a few blames and make a few recommendations — to insure meat for your table sooner and oftener.
CC A ND so the poor dog had none!"
jljl ■ — And neither do the rest of us — unless we hit the right restaurant on the right day; unless we happen to have a frozen locker cache; or unless we support the black market. The civilian in these days has just about those alternatives if he would eat meat.
Now that the fragrance of roast pork, broiled steaks, and backyard hamburgers is conspicuously absent across the country, the situation has raised quite a smell of its own. Here in the greatest cattle country in the world, what has happened to all the meat? Why the pinch on civilian supply?
The first and frequent answer is, of course, armed service allocations. That's only part of the reason for civilian shortages. A special investi' gating committee for the House of Representatives went out to find the others. And in their Preliminary Report, as of May 1, 1945, stand revealed certain facts which — even if they are of cold comfort to poor Worried Mind
in the home kitchen — are at least a clarification.
Seven House members, appointed by the Speaker, were authorized and directed to make a full study of —
(a) Shortages of food in the United States and its Territories and
possessions;
(b) Civilian meat supplies and the governmental order (April 1) to reduce these suppHes by 12 per cent;
(c) All factors relative to the production and distribution of essential foodstuffs;
(d) The presence of black markets in all kinds of meat; and
(e) Diversion of meat from normal, legitimate commercial channels of trade.
Chairman of this Committee was Clinton P. Anderson of New Mexico, and the rest of the group comprised of Stephen Pace of Georgia, Earle C. Clements of Kentucky, Martin Gorski of lUinois, August H. Andresen of Minnesota, Christian H. Herter of