Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1918-12-21
THE GREATEST VICTORY !.
 OF PEACE

After the war will come famine,
 and perhaps more deaths than the
 great war has caused, unless America
 saves food that the distressed people
 of Europe may live. The Allies were
 fighting for civilization, an enlighten- ed, humane civilization, but how can
 it be so hailed, now that victory has
 been won, if millions, no matter where
 gathered in communities, are permit
 ted to die of starvation? The order
 of succor may be left to the United
 States Food Administrator and his
 aids and associates in Europe, but let
 1t not be said that the "world con
 science, to use MT. Hoover's rallying
 phrase, doomed any people to extinc-
 tion. Our peace must not be stained
 with unforgettable inhumanity.
 MT. Hoover's appeal to the Ameri- can people to persist in food conserva-
 tion comes at season of the year
 when most of us are not inclined to
 inquire too closely why it should have
 been made. The charity asked for is to be a mantle to cover great part of the earth. We must look after our own as usual-that is the fixed and grateful duty; what we are asked to do in addition is not to make a festi- val for the people of desolated Eu- rope, but to forego plenty that the
 breath of life may be kept in their bodies, that they may be saved to the civilization which peace is to esta- bllsh on enduring foundations. It may be put this way: Our love runs toward the people of Belgium, North ern France, Serbia, Rumania, Monte negro, Poland, Armenia and Russia too, for what country is more unfor- tunate; our duty requires to supply the deficiencies in food of those coun- tries whose soldiers were lately in arms against America and her Allies. These lately combatant people must help themselves to the limit of their capacity, but the others who fought with us, or sympathized with our cause, cannot help themselves very much, and relief should be organized for them first and fully.
 Argentina, India, Australia and Canada will also draw on their stores and give from their savings, but the resources of the United States are so much greater that our people will play the leading part in relieving the necessities of the upward of 2OO,- OO0,OOO people, in addition to those we are already pledged to serve" The words are MT. Hoover's and he IS particular to correct the impression that the American people are to save not less than before; they must save more than ever. The real ordeal is now to come. We have been saving food to win the war; we must now, save it to keep nations alive that they may know happiness and prosper in the new era from which war is to be banished.
 It will not be so hard, for the vic tory we doubted in dark days has been won. With the next harvest the de- nand upon our bounty will decline. No cargo will be lost in transit now, he seas will be covered with relief 'hlps sailing from al parts of the world. What Americans are asked to 10 individually is to get along with though to nourish them, conscientious y to keep frugal table, to submit heerfully to the regulations of the 'ood administration; in other words o forego the superfduous that mil ions of fellow human beings shall ave bread, if no more to sustain life.