The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1918-11-30

pie in a forcible manner the need
for saving food and sharing it with
the allies and liberated nations, the
L. S. Food Administration has set
Dec. II as Conservation Week. Con-
servation is vital to the relief of
stricken Europe. Our harvest sea-
son has come and gone, and what
ever food is exported must come
from our surplus and from our saw
ings-very largely the latter. Ger
tain foods such as meats, fats and
dairy products, it is true, are pro-
diced throughout the year, but even
these depend largely on feeds and
fodder, supplies of which are limited
and cannot be replenished until the
next harvest.
The original pledge made by the
! Food Administration in behalf of
the people of the United States was
l71a million tons of food to be ship
ped overseas by July 1, 1919. This
amount of food is 500 greater than
last year. With Belgium and France
liberated and millions in south CEN
tral Europe clamoring for food, the
/ United States is now undertaking to
increase its exports from 171a mil
lion tons to 20 million tons. The
Mediterranean sea routes are now
sufficiently safe for bringing wheat
from India and Australia, hence our
exports will consist largely of fats,
meats and feed. Feed is essential
for milk production, of which the
stricken nations are in critical need.
Conservation week as planned will
include "a message from Mr.. Hoover
to the American people, through the
churches, fraternal bodies, clubs,
schools, public meetings, and through
posters, window displays and the
press. Warning is being made of
serious results abroad if we fail to
heed the.4fequests( for continued con-
servation. Food we are reminded is
the only effective weapon with which
to combat famine. And never has
there been so great an opportunity
for men and women and children to
show their true spirit of democracy
sin. sending relief by daily acts of
food saving.
Conservation week is intended also
to impress upon every one that the
stopping of hostilities, or even the
ultimate signing of peace terms,
produces no extra food, and that
human lives will continue to be sac
rificed unless food is saved in this
country and properly distributed to
those who have pitifully little or
none.
Of Europe's 42O,OOO,OOO people, all
but 4O,0OO,000 will require food i'm
ports to carry them through to the
next harvest. Plans have already
been made for supplying the defici-
encies of the 125,000,00O people of
the greater allies-England, France
and Italy. Our most pressing food
task is to supply the necessities of
= the 75,OO0,0OO people of the small
countries just liberated from the
German yoke. These include Bel
gium, Serbia, Roumania, Poland and
the Czecho-Slavaks and Jugo- -Slavs.
Our first duty is to reestablish these
peoples in health and comfort. Their
full needs will not be known until
Mr.. Hoover returns from Europe,
where he is now making complete
survey of the food situation. The
devastation wrought by the Huns in
France and Belgium has been re-
peated in many of these sections and
great quantities of food will be re-
quired to prevent further misery and
starvation.
Plans in Stevens County
Horace R. Williams of Colville is
general conservation chairman for
Stevens county, and Rev. J. S. Bell
is county chairman of the church
and Sunday school division. Both
are working in conjunction with the
regular food administration officers
of the county.
Mrs. Geo. W. Seal of Colville is
county chairman of the division of
clubs and fraternal orders.
Tomorrow it is planned to have
union church service in each commu-
nifty in the county, at which the food
message will be definitely presented
to the people. In every Sunday
school in the county talk is to be
made on the subject. In such locali-
ties as do not have service tomorrow
it is planned to have such service
announced for the next Sunday.
In every meeting of fraternal Or
ganizations during the week, it is
asked that the matter be presented
by at least one speaker On Friday
each school in the county will hold
special exercises, and in many in
stances local men will make address,
es TO the pupils relative to the most
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