The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-10

waiting Waiting mouths Of our allies and impressed on us that this procession # fOo
He explained at length Just the food supply condition of the United
spnplytn n fe dIes r T@' ANN anu r rar Tndt expense S Ta+ TO 1o T pntrrt w we The aG friends
across must continue in increasing quantities, n a quiet but most impress,
that oon there would be more of them. And you know, gentlemen, nr he
are fighting our battle o the forefront Our duty is to keep them well fed
He then went On to show exactly the foodsuT condition; that the world
m upg that VI co n crop am probably y" would @Ge exceed as last last Year. ar He cited the flesh
food status giving in detail jgst how " e stood on or beef, Prk M 4 pou ny
o oSr aas we ms S no 1eas IN %b sn4F me nat me5 P 6 Grl bam to- n'' u to 0F i00o o"'
And right here he got down to the fish question. Leaning the tips If his
So anyhow-he said quietly: You gentlemen here are going to help your
country as a patriotic duty. You a must ST.. realize en, from. from w what nat 1 have tod o you
food supply, and what we must do to keep up a food supply for them and
so per cent. I am not going to try and tell you how you arr going to do it. 1
business to the mlnutest point, that you will make the great effort and that
you will succeed. Remember that this Is 10 personal cu to you; 1t Is the
." Now, these re not exactly Mr.. Hoovers W words, but that is the way
a newspaper man remembers them and those are the impressions this won
derful talk left in my mind. He was not demOnstratve at any point He
class of beginners. He was calmly enthusiastic If you a sense the scope
One or two points more remain In my memory; not his exact words, but
what he was driving at He didn't try to tell IS that we were going to
sighting that danger point. He did claim that if the advice, the appeals of
better, ourselves and allies in Europe, the men, women and children all
and that final victory would be ours: in short that food will win the war"
beef I products G% so tnt th %S might no hit be SI sent m" to supply nI T the abnormal Dqm demand n@rI t abroad aI
and to eat in their place mOre fish, poultry, fruit vegetables and all cereals
except 0s T Fs words and thought. he crowded into that hour. The former
none there "a remember, but the thoughts they conveyed will never be for
Smiled winningiy; bowed and walked toward the rea of the room and the
door and then is though imbued with the same feeling of respect and con-
6dence for the man who is carrying such IL worldwide burden every man
in the oom rose to his feet, and as this food Atlas came down through them,
CAV him a round Of applause which must have made him feel, "wel, those
fellows will help ne, 1 know
And then that body of fishermen got right down to business talked md
planned like aIpossessed how to do the bidding of the mai who had just
left the room, and after two days of intensive labor went their ways 20 their
various homes each determined that the fish supply of the country should be
Increased or he'd know the reason why.
II as of those meetings that tells why the Hoover way is winning
all over tn country, why the Hoover idea is gradually forcing itself on the
nuhic mind IS something that MUST be lived up to, why the United States is
going 10 keep OIL feeding herself and her lilies, why food will win the war"
Every nan in that assemblage went home "HoOverized" and carried within
his busy brain the slogan % apuy suggested by Mr. Fowler, Catch zen for
Uncle SAM"
I would like ito quote a few real Hoover paragraphs shot across the table
at u IS and which to my mnd are vital
"n America there always has been a surplus of foodstufs, and W e have
contributed materially to the support of other countries. We have never had
Ito make a particular effort to conserve u food supply IT to avoid hunger
n starvation by thrift. We now find ourselves the one great source of the
surplus food that must reach Europe, If W are o win the war;. That surplus
will be scanty, particularly this year because of the comparative use Of or
supplies and by the most restricted use of food by our European allies.
"The problem of feeding ourselves and feeding our W army abroad and
of feeding u allies is the most pressing on that is Immediately before each
and every individual
American people will demonstrate itself in solving III food problem and that
all American producers, manufacturers, merchants and consumers will work
together toward a common end.
demand upon Us is greater than last year, and from the last harvest we
exported more than We really could afford. We "a only meet the call upon
IS next year by saving and by substitution Of commodities which cannot be
transferred"