French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-09-26
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE MUST
RE6ODBLE THEIR EFFORT, DECLARES
FOOD ADMINISTRATOR PAGE
Food Requirements of Allies 5o% More This Year Than Last
Failure to Win in 1919 Will Cost One Million Extra Lives
and the Issue is Cleraly Drawn, Sacrifice at Home or on
the Battlefeld'-Th Humanitarian Impulse-Mr. Page
Explains Situation

The gigantic task before the Food
Administration and the American peo-
pie in the matter Of saving foodstuffs
was explained by State Food Admins
traitor Henry A. Page today upon his
return from Washington where he,
with Executive Secretary John Paul
Lucas, attended a conference of all
Food Administrators with Mr.. Hoover
and his staff. The purpose OF this
conference was to discuss in detail and
determine upon details of policy dur
ing the present fiscal year.
What the Food Administration and
the American people are up against
may readily be seen from the state
ment that the Food Administration
has promised to send to the Allies
during the present fiscal year Is mil
lion tons of foodstuffs as against the
10 million tons saved and shipped to
them by the most strenuous effort
during the last fiscal year; and in ad-
dition to this increase Of so per cent
in exports, to lay up a reserve of
wheat and other foOdstuffs as insur-
ance against a short crop next year
which, without such insurance, might
we'll prove disastrous for the Allied
cause.
Must Strip to the Bone.
"This whole nation must strip to the
bone if our armies are to be given a
fair chance to win this war next
year." declared Mr.. Page. "The view
is frankly expressed in Government
circles at Washington that our failure
to win the war in 1919 will cost the
lives of a million addition American
soldiers.
'"The whole thing resolves itself
into the question, Are the American
people at home going to make sacri-
fees to make probable the winning of
the wal mex year, or shall our armies
sacrifice a million red-blooded Ameri-
can boys because they do not get the
backing at home which they must
have from this very minute If they
are to win. ar-.e{ ~, yaz-.Ez.
1.-THE food products are pretty we'll
balanced. We are not going to have
any spectacular drives on meat saw
ing, wheat saving or fat saving, but
we must have a terrific drive or the
saving on all foodstuffs. We must
actually get down to bed rock and
live by this motto:
"Buy Less,
"Eat Less, -: |
Waste Nothing"
While the producers must add to
that motto the further injunction:
"PrcAuce More"
Must Taste Of Real Sacrifice.
Our people have not realized yet
what real wal strain is. Before this
war ends they must taste of real sac
rifce. They must have a war con-
seriousness that will make them direct
the course of their affairs in such
direction as will aid in the winning of
the war. Every individual must con-
slider the effect of every action upon
the course Of the war. In no other
way can we win without useless sac
rifce or lives and the continuation of
the appalling suffering in our Allied
countries and in the countries OF
friendly neutrals.
zone very great incentive to the
quickest possible winning Of the war
is the condition of $50 million neut-
rails, extending from Roumania on the
south and including Poland, Norway,
Sweden and Holland. In some of
those countries there is the most
acute suffering. Hundreds Of thou
sands of those people can see abso-
lutely nothing ahead except slow
starvation. 1t is u humane duty, in
addition to u duty to our own sold
iers and Allies, to win this war just
as quickly as possible so that we may
ing for them as long as the war lasts
ana oil ~ nv ownnrtG orn rnnT1irn6 for
Allies.
Non-EssentiaIs Must Go.
"Not only in foodstuffs must the
American people economics; we must
economic in labor particularly and in
other things that are large factors in
the war situation. 1t is expected that
we will have between two and three
millions additional men in France
early next summer, with a million or
more under arms in camps in this
country. At the same time we must
very greatly increase the number Of
Workmen in ~shipyards, munition plants
n other war Industries. All of this
means that there is to be an unprece-
denied drain upon the labor of the
country. Non-essential industries
must go. Women must take the place
Of men in some industries that are es-
sential. In France 95 per cent of agri-
cultural work is being done by women
and children and the other 5 per cent
by old men and wounded men. We
shall not approach any such condition
as this, but patriotic women must
volunteer for such positions as they
can fill and men just be relieved
wherever possible for the harder man.
uel labor required in agriculture and
the essential industries.
1.-THE Work or Fight order of Gen
eral Crowder applied to the new draft
Is going to work wonders but in this
country we must depend upon the vol
untary, patriotic effort and co-opera-
ton by every Individual man, woman
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