Arizona republican., 1918-06-22
We Must Win the War

Tfas nation, figuratvey, will have to tighten it's belt Fe do not mean that it will have to go hungry In the sense that the people of allied countries in Europd have been hungry, when for months they have gone almost without substitutes for what we lock upon as necessities; when their rations of those substitutes reduced to the lowest point. All thh time we have had plenty of food food for them and food for ourselves but could not de- liver tito our allies abroad
 There was a lack of shipping. But that condi- lion isl being rapidly remedied and the needed food will henceforth more rapidly. for the number of American soldiers there is ever increasing and the increase will be steady until we shall have peace with victory. ..t.
 What have already done have done with complaint but after all have stinted ourselves very little. We shall be called upon to do more. much more. On June 8 National Food Administrator Hoovef sent message to the Committee Public Safety of the state of Maine in the course of which he said;
 Our work is not yet complete In spite
 oftthe encouraging results of our efforts in
 spite of the fact that exports of foodstuffs
 are constantly increasing and are approaching
 the minimum requirements abroad. the need
 of, renewed devotion and effort is pressing.
 While all of the requirements of the Food Ad
 mihistration should be constantly observed,
 there certain matters which I desire to
 stress at this time.
 In the of meat and meat products the
 necessities for shipment abroad are very great.
 Whereas the Allied consumption has been
 duced to average of about 1i4 pounds per
 person per week. This division is inequitable.
 Misunderstanding of these facts will justify
 request that the consumption of all meats n-
 cltrding poultry, nearly possible be
 duced to pounds per week per person
 four years of age
 This is a message to every Committee Public Safety to every Council of Defense in the union and 70 every citizen of the unonan appeal for equit- able distribution of food among the nations who are fighting to the world. among the British the French and the Italians. The food is required not only for the armies but also for the peoples behind those armies It is just essential that the of those peoples should be preserved as it that the physical strength of the fighting men should be mainta med. It is in this of furnishing food that the great burden of the rests on us and we must carry it because no other nation can
 And carry it easily. We can do much than we have done and not suffer- We are not to regard efforts as acts of charity or even triendness toward nations less favorably situated we not to suppose that the self denial we are called upon to exercise is for others It is for our selves. The British not fighting for the French in France because they love them Americans are not fighting for the British and the French Each nation is fighting for itself and incidentally for all
 So it is with who far behind the lines. We are not saving for anybody but ourselves. We are making sacrifice, and can make no sacrifice of which will not be the beneficaries. It is fine thing to give the service many may in spirit of altruism but must remember that after a what we do is fundamentally for self defense and in self interest.