Arizona republican., 1918-03-30

CContinued from Page One) hall rose simultaneously, waving flags taken from the luncheon tables and cheering with abandon.
 We have pledged ourselves to save wheat for victory MT. Bowman an nounced when quiet was restored.
 Dr. Alonzo Taylor. the food admin istration's representative on the war trade board, told the hotel men wheat was not necessary element of diet, but a luxury, which people have grown to prefer because of the su- perior appearance of the bread it produces and the convenience with which it can be shipped and pre- pared The latter reason made it necessary to send wheat instead of other grains to the allies.
 Other Cereals as Good
 Wheat has no advantage in nutri- ton or taste over corn, barley, rice or other cereals" pr. Taylor de- clared, and the patron who comes to you with the demand that he must have wheat and can't eat substitutes. is either a stacker or a crank-and we must not humor them.
 "The break down in the German food distribution system, I discovered when | riculture, was due to the fact that the system was administered for the up- per classes, who could get hams at $6O each, butter at $5 a pound and other | delicacieS at the best hotels if they had the money. The poor people could not pay and were forced to suffer. There was a great contrast in England where the leading hotels were the first to cut off their menus the food needed for the soldiers and the industrial workers in war factories"
 Most Serious in World
 MT. Hoover made it clear that suc- cess in rationing the allies could not be accomplishing other than by sacri- flee in the United States.
 Must Use Argentine Ships
 "Our wheat situation is today the most serious situation in the food sup ply of the whole allied world" he de- clared with evident feeling. We have had a stock taking in the early days of March and we find that our harvest was less than it was estimated. There is also another and more bitter diff ficulty in the delays of shipping, in the growing scarcity of ships, that has thrown a larger burden upon the American people in feeding the allies than we had anticipated. We had all expected that the Argentine supply would be available in Europe before this time. These supplies will not ar rive for another two months in quan- tity and even then will be less than we had expected. The consequence is that the supply of breadstuff in Europe is at it's lowest ebb. There is but one , source of supply and that is the United States"
 Must Use Argentine Ships , Every shipment of wheat that wt Z can send from our ports is a shipment , saved from the Argentine. Every shiI can do double the duty from our ports
 that 1t can do from the Argentine. The allies, within the last few days have asked us to send endorsements. larger ,, and faster than we had anticipated. i. assure you that if we are to give then that we must draw these ships iron
 the Argentine and put them into Amer
 ican ports.
 "Now in this period of extreme diff
 ficulty in Europe, the time when tn
 morale of the civil population of ou
 allies is at it's lowest ebb, it does no stand for us to say, you can wait tw, | months and then you can get corn.' I . is for us to say, you shall receive ever, solitary grain of wheat that our port can handle.'
 Example Set by South
 Our population has lived before thi
 on corn. For three years the souther = states lived and put up a good figh n with no wheat.
 e For periods of four and five year . at a stretch no wheat was known t the people of New England" he con . tinued
 Il Now in these times of social unres r there is one antidote. That antidot [, was never applied in Russia, and tn . result has been massacre. That anti : dote is a willingness for us to sacrific - more than We ask of those who hay if less to give. We must ask sacrific s from those who give from plenty, nc e from those who would have to giv e from their necessities"
 n The pledge of the hotel men wa n cabled tonight to the British, Frenc e and Italian ministers of food. o The hotel man left for New York to l. night, because of the lack of hotel ac It commodations in Washington. Anothe
 meeting will be held there tomorrow. -