Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-04
WHAT WE MUST DO
 TO WIN THIS WAR
Herbert c. Hoover Says We Must Organize to Produce, Organize to Save and Organize to Save All.

MT. Herbert c. Hoover from his Eu- ropean experience is an authority tc whom the American people must give ear if they would win this contest He says:
 ing men, munitions, food ships anC finance If we are to defend liberty in this year 1917, all these must be upon such a scale as will demand the ViOus wars a small proportion of the community went to fight, another small portion was devoted to their support, but the great bulk of the na- tiOn did business as usual"
 "Autocracy has been for years or Eanizing it's resources to the end tha, they have placed one out of seven ot it's population on the fighting line and have so mobilized the civil population as to afford them complete support They have suppressed production O1 every luxury and reduced even every necessity. Their arrogant confidence that they will become Masters of the World" is based upon their belief that the materialism. the selfishness and the jealousy of individual inter est in democracy makes it impossible for it to organize such a strength They do not deny the bravery of the men of democracy in battle, but they comfort themselves in the belief that
 
 for their support
 Our problem is not alone to mo bilize our civilian population for the support of our fighting men, but we support of the fighting men of our all lies. And food is not the least of their necessities. One of the great Euro pean statesmen has said, "The war fighting men, but will be won by the last 500,O00 bushels of wheat" It is within our ability to give this last 900 bushels, but only if we organ = ize to produce, organize to save. and organize to supply all-
 Must Feed Allies
 ''vVe must feed our allies that their war. Liberty cannot be maintained upon the empty stomachs of the wo- men and children. Through the drain of war our allies have steadily de- creased in food production and other agencies also curtailed their supplies. Out of our abundance, by eliminating waste and extravaganza, 1t is in our power, and in our power alone, to hold the wolf from the door of the world. Our obligation is greater than war it. self-humanity demands it of us.
 ''We must save in all food. We must eat plenty, but wisely and with out waste. If we save in our con- sumption and our waste we can in crease our surplus to export: If we substitute other commodities for those we can export, we can further in- crease this surplus.
 Furthermore, by our economies we can save a major portion of the cost of the war. We can increase our ability to subscribe to Liberty Loans. If we save food we can lower the price of living to our own people and relieve the strain and distress under which they labor today. We can only do this by organization so that there shall be no profteering from our econ cmy, that all shall bear the burden equally.
 The food administration is a vol unteer organization to be endowed with powers by the government.
 This volunteer organization is not to be limited to a few executives in Washington. We are so1icitous, nay, anxious to secure as actual members of this volunteer effort, every man and every women- every boy and girl in these United States who will un- dertake the task with us There is no dictatorship in volunteer effort It is by voluntary mobilization that we can answer autocracy with dem It is as great in efficiency and greater in spirit"