The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-01-27
UNCLE SAM Is NOW
QUARTERMASTER
All Allies Depend upon This Country
for Food Products.

! j gtpn, reviewing the work accom-
plished by food control during the past
! year and laying plans for definite
program in 1918 has revealed the enor-
nifty of the world food supply situa-
ton in more glazing light.
The responsibility of the United Sta
| ties, in behalf of her own and the ar
mics of her associates in the world war
of her own people al home and the
people of others who necessarily
have become largely dependent upon
this country are so gigantic they all
but stagger comprehension.
The United States today is not
alone the store house for very large
par of the world, but Uncle Sam has
perforce been the quartermaster for
world cf increasing hunger abroad.
The quartermaster is handling his
game squarely and facing his burden
with a set determination. Ameri-
cans are his supporters and their duty
more than a patriotic one in behalf
of safe democracy and decent liv-
ing condition en- the face of the earth
has become a common one of self
with us all. Never in another situa
tion has there been so much founda-'
ton for truth in the statement that
'in unity there is strength"
An adquate summary of the food
situation, from the mass of informa-
ton brought back to Georgia by DR.,
Andrew M. Soule Federal Food Adj
ministrator for this state, and Major
d. F. McClatchey, executive secre-
! tary of the Georgia administration is
| this: The American people cannot ex-
pect more than their share of the food
supply which for 1918 does not mea
sure up to expectations. Therefore,
three prime factors enter for consider
alton and conclusion: Supply, demand
and equitable distribution.
The day has come when every Amer
lean ctizen-man, woman, and child
must become part of the great work
ing machine in operation under the
shadow of the great Eagles wings.
These things must be learned by heart,
and every beat of that heart must be
with an objective purpose to accom-
plish. This country has got to make
frontal attack on the world food sit
uation.
=. The United States Food Admins
tration, to further unity the great
| home force, has completed a plan for
taking the American public even deep
er into it's confidence and in a very
short time Herbert Hoover will begin
the publication, through his office, Of
a weekly bulletin. for circulation a.
| mcng the states, giving in exact de-
| tail the demands upon the storehouse
those demands have been met, what
must be accomplished in the imme-
biate future from the stores of supplies
| of the United States, the particular
articles of food upon which there is
the greatest demand at the moment
and what substitutes may be utilized
| in order to meet that demand In
shcrt, the bulletin will be a weekly
letter to the people from the food adj
ministration.
The situation as it is realized and
fully appreciated at this time, is not
how much surplus the people of this
country may be able to accumulate
over and above the things they want
g eat in their own homes, and that
that surplus may be contributed to
the sustenence of the man-power of
our associates on the battle lines.
| Substantially the converse is the pro-
gram, and necessarily So Napoleons
army depended no more on its stom-
ach than do the armies OF today, and
it is up to this country to furnish the
fuel which will generate the blood to
| keep standing the bone and maintain
the strength of the sinew of those
people who are to win the war
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