El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-12-13
ON MEATLfSS
AND WHEATLESS DAYS
STRONGLY DENOUNCED
BY HERBERT HOOVER
CONSERVATION HAS ENABLED
US TO SHIP ALLIES MEAT; ALL
WHEAT SENT HENcEFoRTH
MUST BE SAVED BY sELF-sAc-
RiFIcE OF AMERICANS

Opposition to the FOOD conserva-
ton measures Of the Government is
little different from opposition to, the
draft.
This is the significant statement
made by National Food Administra-
tor Herbert Hoover in a telegram to
State Administrators Ralph e. Ely, in
which Mr.. Hoover d~enounces as ma
licious statements eminating from
Chicago protesting against the wheat
less days as unnecessary. Mr.. Hoover
points out that the meatless day has
already enabled America to send
heavy shipments of meat to the AL
lies in December and that it will be
impossible now to ship any wheat
except what Americans voluntarily
save for this purpose. Mr.. Hoover's
telegram follows:
Ralph c. Ely, Food Administrator
Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Statements appearing in the
Chicago press and widely circu-
lated, emanating from parties
interested in exploiting The sale
of meat, protesting against
wheatless and meatless days as
unnecessary sacrifices by the
American public, are either ma
licious or emanate from personal
interests, obviously endeavoring
to raise the price of meat. The
results from meatless days have
for the first time created a suf-
ficient visible supply of meat to
allow us to partially comply
with the quantities required by
the allies for shipments during
the month of December. This
should be a matter of satisfac-
ton to the entire American peo-
pie that their devotion in this
matter now enables us to resume
our duties to the Allies in this
respect; and our endeavor should
in no instance be relaxed. As
to wheat. we have already ex-
ported the whole Of the surplus
of the nineteen seventeen har-
vest yer and above the normal
demands of our W population
until the 1918 harvest. 1t is nee
essary for the food administra-
ton to restrict the export of
wheat SO as retain in the United
States sufficient supplies to car
ny our own people until the next
harvest; therefore all exports of
wheat from now forward are linn
tied entirely to the volume of
saving made by the American
people in their consumption of
wheat and wheat products. We
are continuing wheat shipments
for December as far as u stu
alton allows, but even with all
the conservation made we are
still unable to load owe four hum
dred thousand tons of foodstuffs
urgently requested by the allies
during the month of December
alone. Statements Of the above
character given out for personal
interest are in little accord with
the spirit being shown by mil
lions of homes in the United
States in an endeavor to aid the
food administration in its task OF
feeding our own soldiers abroad
as we'll as our allies and stabiliz-
ing prices to our WI people. No
more foolish or unpatriotic utter
ance has been made than the
statement referred to. In the crit
ieal situation of the worlds food
today, opposition to the govern
ment's conservation measures is
an action comparable to opposi-
ton to the draft, because failure
in saving food means direct and
immediate loss of life, aside from
serious interference with our war
service in the feeding of u
allies.
(Signed) "HERBERT HOOVER"
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