The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-12-06
RELIEF FOR STRICKEN PEOPLE


The highways transport commit.
tee, council of national defense, has
put into operation the machinery OF
its organization to the end that the
urgent request Of Chairman Edward
Hurley of the U. 8. shipping board
for assistance in the moving over the
highways Of all food supplies de.
signed for the relief of the stricken
peoples of Europe. be carried out
This task is one which extends to the
personnel of the highways transport
committee turnout the entire coun-
try and also in call upon the people
of the United States to give the
pressing problems of peace the same
patriotic attention and assistance fur.
nished SO enthusiastically by them
during the period of the war.
The meeting Of this responsibility
by the highways transport commit
tee thru its eleven regional chair:
men, it's state committees, its dis
trict and county committee, and COM
munity organizations, means that the
best efforts Of this force, down to the
last man is to be put behind this
program. The cooperation like
wise of the general public will, az
suggested, be necessary to make the
work success.
This cooperation all along the
line means that not only must the
production of food be given the care
full and intelligent attention, but
that the means for moving this food
over our highways in every section
of the country in the most efficient
manner possible, be intensively stim-
ulated.
Since Chairman Hurley called upon
the highways transports committee
to render this service, Administrator
Hoover has in statements, empha-
sized the need for prompt action
along these lines.
Chairman Hurley's letter to the
highways transport committee is as
follows: .
"Our merchant marine of today
and tomorrow will carry message
of good will to the nations of the
world.
Millions of cruelty starved folk
face westward from every shore with
mouths open to the promise of Amer
lea. These must be fed-and then
clothed-and also supplied with the
other necessities of life. Our grand
privilege is now here to restore life,
strength and hope to these martyred
brothers of a hundred tongues.
Highways transport facilities at
farmer gate and-at every farmers
gate-must Immediately suggest the
initial phase Of overseas distribu-
ton; must make a picture in the
farmers mind of the movement Of
the product, of his soil and labor
from his own gate thru to the distant
points of the world; to Europe, to
Algiers, to Athens and the Orient.
THE highways transport service
is the first step in the great system
of transportation to the sea and then
on the merchant marine to the far
points of the world. i'+.srs 3d.
Food must begin to move soon
from every hill, thru every valley
of the great country behind our
shores. down to the sloping points
before we can start our ships from
the ports and fulfill our duty; and,
with the end of the war before us,
the highways t transport committee
thruout this land could and should
render a peacetime service by stimu-
lating highways transport Of nurish-
ment and supplies SO badly needed.
Routes and channels from shipping
points must be opened up and ef-
ficiently maintained, and our mer-
chant marine for distribution over
seas.
Resistance in any form to the
free movement of farm products
must be reduced and eliminated, and
the most efficient utilization Of man.
power must be introduced wherever
possible.
"The United States shipping board
urges that this message be carried
thru you and your regional chairman
to the state organizations and on
down thru your great body of patrio-,
tic men whose vision can we'll en-
brace the crying need Of their BROTH
ers in other lands for help"