The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1918-07-10
BY E. F. Ladd, Federal Food .

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We going to do it, We are going to build up reserves Of munitions, ships
money. trained mechanics, airships and food. We re going to see to it that
not y single thing i lacking when they face their desperate tast. We are
America m in the balance.
1t has been said that the return ticket Of our boys in France will BE-
secured largely through American savings Of wheat sugar, meats and fats
The boys in the trenches ared depending upon the folks back home
Mr. Hoover believes that it is essential that there be built up in this coun'
now, but this is only a beginning. When we get millions Tor wei there, W .
nus see to 1t that behind them there is a supply Of food so ample and so
accessible that there will never be q chance II its failure.
Saving money will not guarantee a food supply. Nature is tickle some
times 1919 and 1920 may be lean years. The year 1918 gives promise Of
being on Of abundant harvests Out of this abundance W must prepare to
in France and for the Allies with whom they are fighting, even should there
Gated.
Backed ~ the splendid cooperation of the people Of the United States,
Of ur 1917 crop we had just twenty million bushels or export That as the
amount of our surplus over the normal home consumption up to June l. 1918.
wheat Where did we get that extra n hundred million bushels: The PEG
DE Of the United States each individual saving u little, saved this grand total
sine lastN November.
Our ordinary rate OF export of beef is two million pounds monthly. The
largest single month this year was eightyseven million pounds of exports.
This yea W e exported in one nth-A1arch-thre hundred and eight million
pounds. That is what the American people accomplished this yr through
their Food administration. 1t a not a difficult thing for the American
people to (. No N suffered any serious inconvenience, but each giving up
q little, contributed such a tremendous total that W e weree enabled 20 save
our boys aclos tho ocean and the Allied nations who We're fighting side by
side with us for the liberty OF the world from disaster and probably from an
overwhelming defeat.
The United States Food Administration is now asking us to ae beef
and "a more pork in it's stead. A short time ago they asked us to ave pork
and eat beef. Why do they make these changes in their request3 Simply
because they al not change Or regulate TIN supplies of these various produces
al they ire made ready to com into the markets. They mus take conditions
a they find them and they appeal to the intelligence of the American people
to grasp the situation when it is explained to them and to conform promptly
and cheerfuly to each change Dr. modification in the ruing.
The Food Administration asks that W save sugar; that we use al little
-four as possible until the nw harvest; that W e use perishahle vegetables,
fruits, etc, in place of the commodities that will keep well and that we do
not waste any food products that can possibly be saved.
The Food Administration looks o the future with the utmost confidence
knowing that America vii. not fail our boys lover there"