The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-01-28
WITH WORLD IN
ARMS, AMERICA
MUST FEED IT
Hoover Tells How United
States Must Provide Food
for All.

WASHINGTON. Jan 2s.-Address-
ing himself directly to the United
States food administrators in particu-
lar, but to the American people In gen
eral. Herbert Hoover, federal food
administrator, today, In promulgating
the new food card and its regulations
tells How we can do it" in the fol-
lowing statement:
THE men of the Allied Nations are
fighting: they are not on the farms.
Even the men of the European neutral
countries are under arms. The fields
of both Allies and neutrals lack man
power, fertilizer and machinery Hence
the production of food by these coun-
tries has steadily lessened ever since
the beginning of the war, while. at the
same time, the shortage of shipping
has grown more and more serious.
with the consequent steady Increase OF
difficulties in bringing food from the
faraway markets of India, Australia
and the Argentine.
THE situation has become critical
There is simply not enough food in
Europe, yet the soldiers OF the Allies
must be maintained in full strength;
their wives and children at home must
not face famine the friendly neutrals
must not be starved: and, finally, our
own army In France must never lack
needed ounce of food.
North America Must Help
There is just one way in which all
these requirements can be met North
America must furnish the food. And
we must furnish it from our savings
because we have already sent our nor
nal surplus.
I'VE do not need to starve our own
people. We have plenty for ourselves.
and II is the firm policy of the Food
Administration to retain for our peo-
pie, by Its control of exports. suffi-
Client supply of every essential food
stuff We want nobody in our country
TO eat less than is necessary for good
health and full strength for America
needs the full productive power of all
its people Much of the needed saving
can be effected by substituting one
kind of food for another. But the
time has come to put aside all selfish
ness and disloyalty. The time has
come for sacrifice.
~The Allies ask us to meet only
their absolutely imperative needs.
They are restricting the consumption
OF their own people to the minimum
necessary for health and strength.
They are controlling their food by
drastic government regulation. There
is even actual privation among their
women and children; there is starva-
tion In Belgium.
1.-THE Allies need wheat and meat
and fats and sugar. They must have
more of all of these than we have
been sending, more than we shall be
able TO send unless we restrict our
own consumption. We can do 1t With
out harm, for, as a nation. we are to-
day eating and wasting much more
food than we need ..
Rests On Loyalty
THE whole great problem of win
ming the war rests primarily on one
thing: the loyalty and sacrifice of the
American people in the matter of food.
II is not a government responsibility.
It is the responsibility of each indi-
vidual. Each pound of food saved by
each American citizen is pound Civ
en- to the support Of our army. the
Allies and the friendly neutrals. Each
pound wasted or eaten unnecessarily
is a pound withheld from them. II
is a direct personal obligation on the
part of each of us to some one in
Europe whom we are bound to help.
"If we are selfish or even careless.
We are dislopay, we are the enemy at
home. Now is the hour of our testing.
Let us make it the hour of our vic
tory: victory over ourselves; victory
ever the enemy of FREEDOM.