The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-11-27
MESSAGE FROM
FOOD ADMIR-. BROOKS
Millions of Tons of Foodstuffs Must
Be Sent Abroad
(Special to The CaledOnian)


Montpelier, Nov. 26-"Visualise
your invisible guest at your Thanks
giving dinner table," is the request of
Frank Fl. Brooks, federal food adj
ministrator for Vermont. "We and
our Allies have been eating at a COM
mon table for many months now"
MI. Brooks said today, "and as a re-
suit America has contributed might
lily to the winning of the war. We
must continue to eat at a common
table that the fruits of the victory we
have won may be secured to US and
the stability of peace quickly attain
ed"
eff any of US had the opportunity
to entertain at our Thanksgiving din
ner a woman or child of heroic Bel
GUM, or q resident of northern
France or of any of the lands invad-
ed by the Germans and now liberated
by our armies, we would load their
plates to overlooking and take the
greatest delight in so doing. But,
while those welcome guests cannot
be present in person, they can be
present in spirit and should be at the
tables of all patriotic and loyal citiz-
ems.
"Set a place at the table for the
guest. Pull up chair for him. Let
this be symbol. And as we enjoy
the bounties of the day, let oul
thoughts range across the seas to
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continued into the days Of peace be-
cause the food stuffs we have in such
great abundance are lacking to them.
Such thoughts will strengthen our
will and increase our determination to
continue to conserve that the unfort-
innate ones may be sent the nourlsh-
ment without which death by sta1va
ton awaits.
Thanksgiving day in this country
should be a day Of joy tempered by
the thoughts of those, both of our
own land and those of our Allies, who
having given of their all that the end
might be reached and that we might
this year give thanks for victorious
peace. The joys of the day should be
tempered by the thoughts of those
the soldiers dead have left behind
them in life, and to whose grief for
loved ones lost on the field of battle
is added the physical suffering of In
sufficient nourishment.
America has done a great and
noble work, but there is still a great
demand for continued greatness and
nobility. We must continue to send
millions of tnos of food stuffs to ouI
i Allies and the liberated countries
/ And what better day to make the firm
resolve to do our individual share in
i this work of world relief than on our
national festival, and what better way
to symbolic what it all means by set
ting the place at the table for the
: guest we would welcome but who car
not Gomez"
Mr.. Brooks added that it was the
hope of Mr.. Hoover that Thanksgiv-
ing dinner this year be served so fal
as possible from home grown com,
modities that the strain on transpor
tation be lessened, and that the spoil
ing of foods that accompanies long
haul transportation be avoided. /
this plan is followed all over the coun
try thousands of tons of food stuff
for shipment over seas will be made
available. That the public show it
r interest in the "W orld Relief Week
campaign, December TO 7, was als'
D requested by Mr.. Brooks.
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