Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-17
mo arms with the hoe

ENO arms with the hoe
Be a city farmer and plant a
- war garden.
q Be a soldier of the soil.
These are the slogans which the De-
partment of Agriculture and the ma
tional war garden commission are caus-
ing to echo through the land as spring
approaches, calling the men. women
and children of America to enlist with
the hoe and help feed 100000 United
States soldiers.
The United States. with scarcely a
s1twelve-month passed since being
thrust into the war, has astonished
= the world by the gigantic strides made
toward reaching a war basis and
materially assisting the allies But
there is a plea from the food admins
TIration that greater efforts be speedily
eemade to increase the food supply not
only for the armies. but for home con-
sumption.
- Within the past month it was esti-
mated at the United States Treasury.
!. that the first ten months of the war cost
the United States something like $1,000
- 900 900, over 100000 month or
. S24 100000 day. The cost of the first
year is estimated at about s10,000,000,-
: 900 OF the 100000 that has
; been spent more than half. or 4,121,-
200. 900. was in the form of loans to the
allies, while the remainder represents
what the United States has expended on
< the organization Of the Army. the in,
crease of the Navy. the shipping board
and other war preparations. OF the
= total of $4,000, 000. 600. which it is
timated will be spent during the first
e year, up to April 8. II IL expected that
about half will be in loans and the
remainder for war preparations.
Notwithstanding Treasury statistics
show that the United States is meeting
war expenses in the proportion of four
ffths from loans and one-fifth from
taxes-loan campaigns up to February
having realized s5.792, 900. 900, and
taxes had brought i'll s1,25O, oo0, 600
the great machinery of war needs con-
slant oiIing, and Mr.. Hoover is calling
for larger results. greater and more
systematic sacrifices and greater eff
forts before the task is finished.
Sir William Goode, who occupies the
important post of Iiason officer between
the British food ministry and the Unit
ed States Food Administra ton, in dis
cussing the present food situation in
London, said:
Few people have yet grasped the
fundamental fact that Great Britain
still relies on the United States and
Canada for 65 per cent of her essential
foodstuffs. Unless can get this
food, or nearly all of il, we shall peter
out AS to how We get it. the popular
idea seems 70 be that the United States
is an up-to-date combination Of miracle
loaves and fishes and Widows crust
What ] want you to realize is the
amazing way in which the energies
and sentiments of the American people
have been harnessed TO a great ma
tional movement of organized self-sac-
rifice so that the allies can have food
enough to carry on Early last month
january we received from Mr.. Hoov-
er cablegram saying he found that
result of the American conserva-
ton campaign he had $50. 100000 pounds
of bacon and 25.000,0G0 pounds of
frozen meat more than the British rep
resentatives in the United States had
estimated as likely to be available"
Facts recently made public show that
while the United states has been get
ting her man power ready, she has
otherwise been of inestimable assist
ance TO her allies. In 1913 the exports
from the United States amounted to ST.
465.sS4.149. In 1917. the first year of
Americas participation in the war, they
amounted to 1921, 244.S16. or nearly
three times the normal exports. Food