The Wahpeton times., 1917-12-13

quantities requested by the Allies
for shipment during the month ol
December.
"This should be matter of sat
isfaction to the entire American
people that their devotion to this
matter now enables us to resume
our duties to the Allies in this re.
quest and our endeavor should in
no instance be RELAXED.
AS to wheat we have ex.
! ported the whole of the surplus of
the 1917 harvest over and abo>.
the normal demands of our own
population until the 1918 harvest.
1t is necessary for the Food Admi-
nlstration to restrict the exports of
wheat so as to retain i'm the United
States sufficient supplies to carry
our own people until next harvest
Therefore all exports of wheat
from now forward are limited en-.
tirely to the volume of saving
made by the American people in
their consumption of wheat and
wheat products.
1--WE are continuing wheat ship
ments for December as far as ou:,
situation allows, but even with all
the conservation made we are still
unable to load over 100000 tons of
foodstutfs urgently required b.
the Allies during the month of
December alone.
Statements of the above cha1a
cter given out for personal inter-
ests are in little accord with the
spirit being shown by millions of
homes in the United States in an
endeavor to aid the Food Admin.
istration in its tasks of feeding
our own soldiers abroad as we'll as
our allies and establishing prices
to our own people.
"No more foolish or unpatrictic
utterances have been made, than
the statement referred to. In the
CRITICAL situation of the world s
food today opposition to the gov.
ernment' s observation measures is
an action comparable to opposition
to the draft, because any failure il,
saving food means direct and i'm
mediate loss Of life aside from the
serious interference with our wa,
service in the feeding of our allies
DR.. Wilbur in an address at thu
conference of Food Administrator,
in Washington, November 18th
said in parts. .
"The food conservation is tn,
most important thing for Democ
racy in the; world today becaus,
we must realize that we may los'
this war before we are fairly in i
simply on the basis of food short
age Of the world. With the ship
ping shortage and the food short
age no one can forsee whether W,
are going to get through and still
; be at war next sum. r.. You can
. sit .dow. and demonstrate il. Yol
/ have to recognize. that practical
ly the only food that we can send--
and we know it has got to go to- tin
Allies-is the food that we don
eat, and the only way to save :ha
, food is not to eat it. The only eff
feet you can get to bring tha: ,lo,l
is a mental, psychological effect
, can t seize the food away from III
people. You got to control actio1
thru the minds of the people an,
, you have got to get at them in cy
cry possible way.
"You ask a hundred million Dec
[ pie to change, within the course o
a few months. their eating habit.
and you demand something that
, absolutely vital, but it is the mos
difficult thing you could ask of
people and yau have got to make
T work, and you have a wonderf,1
machine set up with which to do i,
} If you begin t" play on the grea
instrument thai has been erecte
and only play the tune of price.
that is the only note you will &C