The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-11-30
Allied Ambassadors
Speak OF Need For
Food Pledge Week

AafAahfJ
gan all over the United States few
weekA ago. If the food administration
Is successful IN ts effort to gain the |
pledges of the 22, 5000 homes in the
country to observe it's directions and |
advice in food economy IL will mean
that the United States will be able TO |
export all the wheat, meat, fats and !
sugar which its Allies in Europe sorely !
peed to enable them TO maintain their |
fighting strength.
Aimaro SatO the Japanese ambassa.
dor to the United States, makes the |
following statement endorsing the food |
pledge week campaign, now in progress |
under the direction Of the United States |
food administration and designed TO
enroll the American families in the
cause Of food conservation: T., 70
"In this the fourth year Of the great |
world war, the fortunes of our
enemies are decidedly on the wane and
victory seems assured for the allied
cause. Too evidently, however, IL is
not the part Of wisdom not to realize
the immense efforts and, sacrifices which
must yet be made. The gallant and
heroic way in which our European Al
lies have so far borne the brunt Of this
dire war commands our admiration and
gratitude. They have every right TO
expect Of America, of Japan and every
other member Of the great coalition
against barbaTism to do what they have
done and TO suffer what they have suf-
feredl
Japanese Prepared .- ~
Japan for one has and will put
forth every effort to the best of her
power aud resources. Her people are
prepared for full measure of contri.
button and sacrifice.
[ cit is, however, from the United
States par excellence that the world is
looking for a decisive blow which will
once and for all establish peace and
freedom on earth. Our enemies ar4
greatly deceived if they hatter them
selves that the American army which
is in the making will not prove equal
TO the task expected of IL. But it is
on the efforts and the willingness for
sacrifice on the part Of the people at
large that so much must depend after
all. E.. ..Es
SIT is the wise and proper ordination
of the vast American resources that
must in great measure decide the
tremendous issue of humanity. Thus It
becomes the prime duty of every Amer.
lean and every foreigner who lives in
this fair land of liberty to help carry
out the food conservation plan of the
American government so that he may
deserve well OF this mighty common
wealth to which he owes so much.
"(Signed) .AIMARO SATO."
No country has keener realization
of what American support in furnishing
food means than Belgium. E. de Car.
tier, the Belgian minister in Washing
ton, has expressed the feeling of his
nation in O statement he prepared, for
the American people. This statement
is as follows:
Food Por Belgians 90.
"America for many months has kept
Belgium from starvation. Ny country
has depended for its very life upon the
/ great heart and the marvellous initia-
tive and executive ability of America.
The food without which we could not
have persisted has come to US through
American citizens, stirred by humani-
tartan instincts even before they joined
us as Allies in a war which to us Bel
gians means our very existence as a
nation. Now the American government
has assured us of the money to buy
I food and the Commission for Relief in
| Belgium has more ships than ever be-
fore; but all will be of no avail If there
is no food to purchase with this money
or to send to us in these ships.
"This food must be obtained in
America, and am sure l need not at
tempt to picture the tense anxiety with
which the people Of Belgium, lowering
! Al -
to America for the final decision as to
whether they shall life~or die. We are
confident that America will assure us
of life. Moreover, the nation has made
itself an ally Of those which in Europe
are fighting to crush Prnssian autocracy
forever. The effort in which every ma
ton allied against Germany is stretch
ing every nerve and expanding every
last ounce of strength will succeed or
will fail according as to whether these
peoples and their armies have the food
needed to maintain their strength and
their spirit.
"America must supply by far the
greatest portion of this food. 1t is a
granl conception, worthy of the ideals
and tradition of the greatest republic,
that this food shall be supplied by the
voluntary effort of the individual citi.
zens. We nations In Europe, relying
on the ability of America to accomplish
what she sets for herself, are confident
that during the week you have set
aside to enroll yourselves as individuals
pledged to save the world for demo.
cracy, you will assure victory in the
war.
"(Signed) +. de CARTIER"
British Statement
Lord Northcliffe, chairman Of the
British war mission to the United
States, who is thoroughly conyersaut
with the food situation of the world,
places that situation before the Amer
lean people in the following terse state,
mcnt:
"The greatest food experts on both
sides of the Atlantic say that there is
world shortage of food. The boys
who are enduring the hell of the
trenches for our sake cannot hold out
if i'll fed. The situation which we have
to face right now, in this food pledge
week, is obvious. Either the stay at
homes must save so that the soldiers
may get their vital needs, or the sol
diers must go short so that the stay at
homes may fatten. You cannot have it