Instead of oil they lit themselves to bed with mutton tallow.
Instead of burning coal they put on two pairs of pants when winter came.
In place of steel plows drawn by oil-burning tractors they scratched the ground with a wooden stick, and when the crop failed they starved to death by millions.

With our steel ships we send bread to China to save them.

If they had the wit to use their resources they could save themselves.

In man's fight against the hostile forces of nature, his safety lies in applying his wit to the resources that nature gave him.
The Americans can do that.

There are others that can not.
I was riding on a train in Indiana when a gypsy-looking youth came in and sat beside me.