The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1917-08-24
important Message TO People
From Herbert C. Hoover,
Administrator.
WORLD SUPPLIES ESTIMATED
Increased Production, Elimination Of
Waste and Careful Control Of Food
Exports FERN the Solution
81 This War Problem.

Washington, Aug 2O.-What the PEG
pie of the United States not only can
but must do in the matter of food pro-
duction and use in order to help win
the war is set forth in detail in a
statement issued today by Food Ad-
ministrator Herbert c. Hoover. If we
fail to do OR part In this respect, he
says, the people of the allies cahhOt be
maintained at war, for their soldiers
cannot fight without food
The normal imports of wheat and
other cereals by France, Italy, the
United Kingdom and Belgium, and the
estimates of the 1917 crop in those
countries compared to the normal pro
duction are given by Mr.. Hoover in
tabulated form, and the conclusion Is
drawn that in order to provide normal
consumption 1t will be necessary
for them to import in the next -
months 577,000,O00 bushels of wheat
and GT4,000,000 bushels of other cere-
ais. If the crops of the United States
and Canada all mature safely, North
America will have an apparent sur
plus of 2OS,0O0O0O bushels of wheat
nnd 050000,000 bushels Of other cere-
ais. The allies, therefore, must use
other cereals than wheat for mixing
lli tlieit war bread, and the people Of
America must reduce their c0hsump-
ton of wheat -four from five to four
pounds per week per person.
Decrease in Food Animals.
A careful estimate of the worlds
food animal position shows a total net
decrease Of 115,00j000, and this will
be greater as the war goes on. AS
the increase of herds and flQcks takes
years, we must reduce the 'cOnsump-
ton, eliminate waste and carefully con-
troll meat exports.
Our home dairy products supplies
are decreasing, while our population Is
increasing, and we must ship i'll
creaslng amounts of such products to
our allies. Consequently this indus
try must be stimulated, and home
users must save the wastes in milk and
butter. Much the same may be said in
the case of sugar.
Mr.. Hoover urges n greater con-
sumption of fish and sea foods, in
which our coasts and lakes are enOr-
mously rich. The products of the land,
he reminds us, are conserved by the
eating of those of the sea.
Our Duty.
In conclusion the food administrators
says:
have endeavOred to show In previ-
Gus articles that the world is short of
food; that Europe is confronted with
the grim specter of starvation unless
from our abundance and our waste we
keep the wolf from the door. Not only
must we have a proper use of our food
supply in order that we may furnish
our allies with the sinews with which
they may fight our battles, but IT Is
an act of humanity towards fellow
men, women and children.
BY the diversion of millions of men
from production to war, by the occu-
patton of land by armies, by the isO-
lation of markets, by belllgerent fines,
and by the destruction of shipping by
submarines, not only has the home pro-
duction of our allies fallen by over
00,000,000 bushels Of grain bun they
are thrown upon us for much larger
proportion of their normal imports for
merly obtained from other markets.
They have reduced consumption at
every point, but men in the trenches,
men in the shops, and the millions Of
women placed at physical labor re-
Quire more food than during peace
times, and the incidence of their saving
md any shortage which they may suf-
fer, falls first upon women and chill
lren. If this privntion becomes too
great, their peoples cannot be main
aimed constant in the war, and we will
Ne left alone to fight the battle Of
democracy with Germany.
The problem of food conservation is
me of many complications We cannot,
ana we do not wish, with our free in
,titutiOns and our large resources Of
God, 10 initiate Europe I'm It's pOliced
utlOning, but we must voluntarily and
ntelligently assume the responsibility
before us as one in which everyone
has Il direct and unacceptable interest
We must increase our export of foods
to the allies and in the circumstances
# our shipping situation, these exports
must be Of the most concentrated