Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1917-08-24
HOW AMERICA CAN
FEED ITS ALLIES
important Message to People
From Herbert C. Hoover,
Administrator.
WORLD SUPPLIES ESTIMATED
increased Production Elimination Of
Waste and Careful Control Of Food
Exports Form the Solution
of This War Problem.

Washington, Aug, 2O.-What the peo
pie OF the United States not only cal
out must do In the matter OF food pro
auction and use in order to help VIII
the war Is set forth In detail In ,
statement issued today by Food AID
minlstrntor Herbert G. Hoover. If We
fail to do our part In this respect, he
says the people of the allies cannot 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-
ductlon are given bS Mr. Hoover in
tabulated FORM and the conclusion is
drawn that In order to provide normal
consumption II will be necessary
FOR them to import In the next u
months 57700O.OO0 bushels Of wheat
and 674,0O0,000 bushels of other cere-
ais. If the crops Of the United States
ana Canada all mature safely, North
America will have nm apparent sur
plus Of 20s,000,0O0 bushels Of wheat
and 950O00,O00 bushels of other cere.
ats. The allies, therefore, must use
other cereals than wheat for mixing
In their war bread, and the people of
America must reduce their conSump.
ton of wheat flour from five to four
pounds per week per person.
Decrease In Food Animals.
A careful estimate OF the worlds
food animal position shows total net
decrease Of ll5o05,000, aud this will
be greater as the war goes on. As
the increase Of herds and ilocks 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 In.
creaslng amounts of such products TO
our allies. Consequently this indus
try must he 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 a greater con.
sumption OF fish and sen foods. In
which our coasts and lakes are enor-
mOuSly rich The products of the land
he reminds US. IRE conserved by the
eating of those If the sea
Our Duty
In conclusion the food administrator
says:
| have endeayored 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 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 II is
an act of humanity towards fellow
men. women and children.
BY the diversion OF millions Of men
from production 10 war. by the occu
patton of land by armies, By the $50
latIon of markets, by belligerent lines
and by the destruction Of shipping hy
submarines, not only has the home pro-
duction of our allies fallen by over
00000Oo0 bushels Of grain, but they
are thrown upon us for much larger
Of their normal imports for.
merry obtained from other markets.
They have reduced consumption nj
every point, but men in the trenches
men In the shops and the millions Of
women placed at physical labor re-
Qure more food than during peace
times, and the incidence Of their saving
and any shortage which they may SUI
fer, falls first upon women md chm.
dren. II this priyaton becomes too
great, their peoples cannot be main.
tanned constant In the war, and we Will
be left alone 10 fight the battle of
with Germany.
The problem Of food conservation is
one of many compilations. We cannot
and we do not wish, with our free IN.
situations and our large resources of
food, to initiate Europe In its pollced
but we must voluntarily and
assume the responsibility
before us as one in which everyone
has direct and unacceptable interest
We must increase our export Of foods
o the allies, and in the circumstances
Il our shipping situation, these EXPORTS
must be of the most concentrated ,
GODS. These are wheat, flour, beef
,ork and dairy products. We have 9th.
# foods In great abundance which we I
an use instead of these commodities {
md we can prevent wastes in a thou. I
and directions. We must guard the a