The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1918-07-04
Latest reports from Washington are that there ire over nine hundred
ousand soldiers in France. Nearly on million American boys facing ~

Latest reports from Washington are that there mr. over nine hundred
Thousand soldiers in France. Nearly one million American boys facing ~
Hun. II.
Are VI e going to back them up? Certainly Ito the absolute limit. How are
we going to do 1T? We are going to build up reserves of munitions sh!p4
not ne single hing is lacking when they face their desperate task. We ae
not going to take q single unnecessary chance when the lives II the boys Of
1t has been said that the return ticket of our boys In France will b
secured largely through American savings Of wheat sugar, meats and fs.
Mr. Hoover believes that It IL essential that there be built up in this coun,
try a great reserve Of food supplies. We have nearly a million men In Ffhnes
must see o 1t that behind them there is q supply of food 80 ample and -
accessible that there will never be a chance of It's failure.
times n 1919 and 1920 may be ear years: The year 1918 gives psontse. =
being n of abundant harvests. Out a this abundance we mast prepare b
pile up those surpluse' that will will positively insure a food food supply TOR VI boz boz
be unfavorable crops in the years to come. That Is the great task to which
the United States Food Administration under Herbert Hoover 10 now ded-
Gated.
Backed by the splendid cooperation of the people of the United States,
the United States Food Administration has already performed miracles. Out
Of our 1917 crop we had just twenty million bushels fol export That vas the
amount of Or surplus over the normal home consumption up to Jun ]. 1913
We have now actually shipped n hundred and twenty million bushels a
pie o the United States, each individual saving a little, saved this grand total
since last November.
Our ordinary rate Of export IF beef is two million pounds monthly. The
largest single month thisy yea a ehghtyseven million pounds Of exports.
Our ordinary rate Of export of pork is fifty million pounds monthly
pounds. That is what the American people accomplished this year through
their Food Administration. 1t was not a difficult thing for the American
q little, contributed such a tremendous total that we we're enabled to save
If boys across the ocean and the Allied nations who were lighting side By
side with us or the liberty of the world rom disaster probably ron o
The United States Food Administration is now asking us 10 ave beef
and cat more pork in its stead. A short time ago they asked us to save pork
and eat beef. Why do they make these changes in their requestf Simply
because they en not change or regulate the supplies of these various products
Is they n made ready to come into the markets. They must take conditions
Is hey Aud hem and they appeal to the intelligence of the American people
to grasp the situation when 1t is explained Ito them and to conform promptly
and cheez1uNy to each change or mobilization in the ruling:
dour - possible unhl the new harvest; that we use per1ehahie vegetable.
fruits. ETC., in place az the commodities that will keep we'll and thak We Do
The Food Adninlstr.stoa lqeks to the future With The utmost esadAssAs