The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-10-18
FOOD CAMPAIGN
WEEK DEFERRED
DONE so 40 TO AVOID INTERFER.
ENcE WITH THE SALE or LIB
ERTY BONDS.
POSTPONED JUST ONE WEEK
Announcement by Administrator Page
Follows Request of President VIII
son and Mr.. Hoover.

Raleigh-The nation wide Food Con-
servation Pledge Campaign has been
postponed from the week of Oct. 20-28
to Oct. 27-Nov 4th. State Food Ad-
ministrator Henry A. Page received
announcement to this effect from MIR.
Herbert Hoover, United State Food
| Administrator
! The postponement of this important
campaign, for which Administrator
Page has enlisted an army of approx
imately $4,000 workers in North Caro-
lima, was made at the request OF
President Wilson.
President Wilson's letter and MI
Hoover's reply are interesting in this
connection. The Presidents letter
was as follows:
"The White House, Washington
my dear Mr.. Hoover:
1.-THE exigencies of the Treasury have
equired setting the final week of the
Liberty Loan campaign during the Pc
riod of Oct 21st TO 28th, This, I'M
derstand, brings it into the same week
as the Food Conservation Pledge Cam
paign. 1t seems to me undesirable in
| the interest of both these capital mat
| ters that this should occur in all the
circumstances. therefore 1, would be
| glad if the Pledge Campaign could be
deferred one week, that is, until Oct
28th to Nov 4th.
"In asking this alteration of tho
Jlans of yourself and your associates
] ehould like to take this occasion to
impress upon them that we in no way
undertake the importance of their eE-
forts. If we are to supply our Allies
with the necessary food and are to re-
duce our own prices of fOOdstuffs dur
ing the coming winter It can only be
accomplished by the utmost self-denfG
and service on the part of all our poo
pie through the elimination of waste
and by rigid economy in the use OF
food.
Therefore 1 would be glad il you
would convey to all of your stan
throughout the country my feeling OF
the prime Importance of their plans
and their work and l wish particularly
to express my great appreciation OF
! the service which this additional tax
on their time will impose upon the
many thousand volunteers who have
already deferred their own concerns
to public interest.
ain this important work I ask them
not to allow this alteration in pro-
gram to dampen their fine enthusiasm
but rather to redoub1e their energies
in their very great branch Of national
service.
CORDIALLY and sincerely yours,
WOODROW WILSON,"
To this letter Mr.. Hoover replied
as follows:
Dear Mr.. President:
'I am obliged for your favor.
eve, of course, have taken the nee
essary steps to comply with your wish
as to deferring the final week OF our
food conservation pledge campaign
until the week Of October 2Sth to No
vember 4th. You will, of course, real
lie that we may be unable to reach
some of the more remote districts
81 have no doubt that the 100000
workers who have enlisted in this
service will Loyalty respond to your
request for a greater and longer con-
tinued exertion. Your emphasis on
the national importance Of the COZ
servation campaign should stimulate
our large body of devoted workers to
the utmost effort during the new
week
yours faithfully,
HERBERT HOOVER"