The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-01
IHOOVER'S MESSAGE | ID BE READ TODAY . ! FROM ALL PULP|TS Food Administrator Hobbie Maps Out Programme for Week NOT RELEASED BY WAR END, SAYS HOOVER While Food Programme Is Changed. at Same Time We Must Redeem
 Our Pledges to Feed the Allies

With the reading of National Food Ad- ministrator Herbert Hoover's message te the American people from all pulpits in Alabama today the world relief eonser- walton campaign begins.
 It will continue through the week with the following programme mapped out by State Food Administrator R. M. Hobbie
 : Sunday, December l. reading of mes
 sage from all pulpits Of the state,
 especially prepared for churches, fra
 ternal and patriotic organizations by
 MT. Hoover. Tuesday, December B. . general meetings arranged by the
 county food administrators in the diff
 ferent counties of thesstate. Wednes-
 day, December 4, meetings of wom-
 en's organizations, emphasizing the
 necessity of conservation for recon
 struction work A special programme
 prepared by the food administration
 will be used at these meetings. Fri
 day, December 6, school day, special
 programmes in all schools of the state.
 These programmes have been sent
 the teachers through the national k school service.
 \ In his message MT. Hoover says that while war continued this country was required to find food for the allies, and that the ending of the war does not release us from the pledge; that al- though the change in the foreign sit- uation necessarily alters the details of Ithe food programme, because the free ling of the seas of the submarines rem |ders accessible the wheat supplies of India, Australia and tie Argentine, the total food demand upon the United States Iis not diminished.
 HOBBIES STATEMENT In forwarding the programmes to the county food administrators. Mir. Hobbie wrote:
 sWe have been asked many questions in reference to the matter of feeding IGermany, These questions naturally oc- icur. but we have such great obliga- ltion and duty towards our allies that i've hardly feel that this matter should be of vital interest as yet Arrange lfnents have practically been completed Joy which the big allies that is, France, lEngland and Italy, will be provisioned. This covers some 125,000,00o people Our first and deepest concern now must be for the smaller allies, who were under the German yoke. They are the Bel Igians, Serbians, Greeks, Czechs. Jugo- rslavs and others. There are some 75,- l000000 peoples in these groups and they must have help and at once. The food administration has already doubled the lstream of food flowing toward Belgium ITO meet this imperative call upon our good faith with our allies we must con ltinue the greatest economy possible in the use Of staple foodstuffs.
 50 far as Germany is concerned, we believe that MT. Hoover, as he boarded ship for France to investigate food con- |ditions in Germany, as well as in the allied countries, said about all that can be said at this time.
 !" There is,' said he, a great problem lin the situation of the enemy people about 9o,000,0oo. This problem is not one lof going. to their relief. It is a problem Iof relaxing the watertght blockade, which continues through the armistice, Isufficiently so that they may secure for themselves the bare necessities that will give stable government. Unless anarchy can be put down and stability of gov ernment can be obtained in these enemy states-there will be nobody to. make peace with, and nobody to pay the bill to France and Belgium for the fearful de- Istruction that has been done.
 K would certainly approach this prob lem with mixed feelings, having been long a witness to the robbery of food from women and children, and the de Istruction of millions of tons oflfood at sea and to the misery under which the millions amongst the big and little allies have suffered under the German yoke. Justice requires that government be es- Itablished able to make amends for the wrongs done, and it cannot be accom- Iplished through spread of anarchy Fam line is the mother of anarchy