The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-08-11
HOOVER NAMED
FOOD DICTATOR
OUTLINES AIMS
TO Crush Speculation Care
For Home Wants and
Feed Allies.

w NsSAAAAA6l OAAs AUG N--S
Herbert C. Hoover's forty-third. birth
day, was celebrated by his appoint
Uent by executive order of the Presi-
dent as head of the food administra-
ton. The pen with which the Presi-
dent signed the food control bill and
the executive order was presented to
Mr.. Hoover as a birthday present.
Immediately after his appointment
Mr.. Hoover issued a statement out
lining in general way the purposes
of the food administration. Its aims.
he said, are threefold-the elimina-
ton Of vicious speculation, the reten-
. ton of sufficient supplies at home to
guard against shortage and the slim
ulation of the production and con-
servation of food by, every possible
means.
4 He advocated the use in this coun-
try, as far as possible, the less con-
centrated and more perishab1e foods
such as fish, corn and other cereals,
with wheat, grain, beef and dairy
products for overseas shipment. He
expressed the utmost confidence in
the patriotism and common sense of
American business men and house
wives. 1t will not only be the policy
of the food board he said. to proceed
4 xvith g. host or uunitive measures. but
( nv coordination with the various
trades to effect such conStructive
1 regulations as will render gambling
and extortion impossible and will
tend to stabilize prices.
The service of conservation, he
said, is a. service in which every man,
woman and child in the United States
.ion w vn as,< ali classes and ali trades
70 co-operate in the undertaking and
become themselves members of the
food administration. A reduction in
the weekly consumption a person OF
ona nonnd J of wheat -four, seven
o,,7,css ~ meat seven ounces of fat
and- saven. ounces of snear will. Mr.
rTro- 70 he ~ inn, Ss,,rea
,,,s LA and anco,,ra cement t. o,,r al
lice ba,n o,,r own growing army and
srracttvaIv servo the great ana noble
ii ra,,sa of t,,oanitv II, which the ma.
fion has embarked. In part, Mr.
EIrrue,. ssid.
sTbe food administration is called
,tnto heinz 70 stabiIize and not to dis
t,,~h cand,+ione and to defend honesi
anternrise aeair,st ilieeitimate compe.
tttiony n sKearp q eSt,sezt so correct
81. H1fffoS dill aHflSAS- tina
have crept into trade by reason. o,
the world disturbance and to restor,
business as far as may be to a rea
sonabIe basis.
sarhe business men of the country
ar, convfnced. as a, result Of man,
bnndreds of conferences with repre-
.entatives NJ the great forces of foo,
snpn,v realize their own patriotic OBJ
ligatio6 al ~ III sole iA f,fty. hf the sit
nation. and Vt IL fairly and gshhaefousl
co-onerat, in meeting the nationa
,hlse,tion do not believe tina
draatirs force need sbe applied to main
tain acononnfc dfstribution and san
use of supplies by the great major
ftv of the American people
At have learned a deep and abidin
faith in the intelligence Of the aver
age American business man, who's
AIR we anticipate and depend on t
remedy the evils developed by til
war. which he admits and deplores a
deenIv, as ourselves. 4. sl.sss.. si
ssRut ~ there he those who expet
10 exnloit this hour of sacrifice, .
there are men Or organisations scherr
inr ~ increase the trials of this cour
trv we shall not hesitate to apply
tba full the drastic COZ rcfve power
that Congress has conferred upon l
~ +bia Instrument.
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80 =, ~. -,x,os,Ias 80,
1900 ,r,tx, - =, t,,,s st,,,ygJa TT
,ss.rsr-t,,, - Ineooo 400 ~ t1,ei, me
tr's--.r ~. ~ work +ba additton
-,,t,1,ors ~ women drafted to Ii
nlacea NJ their husbands and brotl
-. ~. +,,Il ne +l,a s,rhroar,r,e have q
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