The Sentinel=record., 1918-01-30
AMERICA FACING
 ITS GREAT CRISIS
VERY BLUNT CABLE RECEIVED
 FROM Foclo CONTROLLER OF ENGLAND BY HOOVER.
Government Is Determined to Make Examples of Those Who Violate it's Food Regulations,

No communication from the Nation al Food Administration contained the note of seriousness or revealed so clearly the hard task that is ahead i Of the people of this country in general and the officials at Washing ton in particular, as did the telegram received by Hamp Williams, federal food administrator for Arkansas which referred to the recent cable sent to Herbert C. Hoover by Lord Rhonnda, food controller of Grea, | Britain
 The noted English official did not mince matters. With England it has become question of winning the wal on what America can send to that country and the others associated with the United States in this war. | The demand for seventy five million 1 bushels of wheat in addition to the amount heretofore agreed, 10 say nothing fifteen million bushels oi wheat 10 Belgium and ten million bushels to Cuba and neutral countries put the question of saving wheat squarely up to the people of the United States in a more emphatic manner than it has ever been present- ed to them
 l Unless you are able to send the allies at least seventy five million bushels of wheat over and above what you have exported 10 January 1 ana in addition to the total exporta.ble surplus from Canada cannot takc the responsibility of assuring our peo pie that there will be enough food to win the war Imperative necessity compels me to cable you in this blum. way
 ] No one knows better than I thai the American people. regardless ol national and individual sacrifice have so far refused nothing that is needed for the war, but it now lies witl l America to decide whether the allies in Europe shall have enough bread tc hold out until the United States is able to throw it's force into the field | have not minced words because l am convinced that the American peo- pie if they know the truth, will no hesitate to meet the emergency"
 Mr Hooyer's reply to Lord Rhonnda was as assuring as it was direct, am
 he English official received the fol lowing:
 We will export every grain tha the American people save from theil normal consumption. We believe th.
 people will not fail to meet the emer
 gency"
 In his message to MT Williams th. food administration officials at Wash lngton point out that Mr. Hoover ha
 howu the absolute necessity oi send
 ing fifteen million additional bushel
 of wheat 70 Belgium for relief, an,
 en million additional bushels Q l wheat to Cuba and neutral countries
 making a tctal of one hundred milliol
 ushels.
 Perhaps the message from LorC Rhonnda and Mir Hoovers repl thereto said Mir. Williams "wil make the people of Arkansas see thu necessity for d "wheatless moal' eact iday of the week, with wednesday a
 wheauess" day. If there is one bii thing that ought to make the peopl patriotic enough to refrain from usiu wheat products at least once ever' day and a day on Wednesday 1t the crisis we are now in.
 There is just this about it--eithe the people will comply willingly anC give their patriotic cooperation, or tn, most stringent legislation will have t, be enacted I have heard there ar ! some families who regard "meatless' and 'wheatless rules in this manner We will eat all we can, as often a. we can and if we must starve late we vii starve with the others Th, man or woman who has that view ol this war is a worse traitor than one ho would betray military secrets.
 ~The man or the woman who lay in excessive supplies of flour am sugar in the event I can prove it, vii be prosecuted to the full extent oi the law.
 "One of the representatives Of the food administration is now mvesti eating numerous complaints agains. a certain Arkansas merchant. II these claims are sustained l shal nut that man out of business and make an example of him. He has been warned and has promised tt abide by the rules of the government Indications are that he has lied, not t( me but to his country, and if this is true he will be made to pay tho penalty"