The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-11-27
HIGHWAY TRANSPORTATION.

The Highways Transport Committee, Council
of National Defense, has put into operation the
machinery Of its organization to the end that
the urgent request of Chairman Edward N. Hur-
ley of the U. S. Shipping Board for assistance
in the moving over the highways of all food sup
plies designed for the relief of the stricken peo-
Piles of Europe, be carried out. This task is one
which extends to the personnel of the Highways
Transport Committee throughout the entire
country and also is call upon the people of the
United States to the pressing problems of peace
the same patriotic attention and assistance fur
nished so enthusiastically by them during the
period of the war >
The meeting of this responsibility by The
Highways Transport Committee through it's
eleven regional chairmen, it's state committees,
its district and county committees, and COM
munity organizations, means that the efforts of
this force down to the last man is to be put be-
hind this program. The cooperation likewise of
the general public will, suggested, be neces-
sary to make the work success.
This cooperation all along the line means that
not only must the production of food be given
careful and intelligent attention, but that the
means of moving this food over our highways
in every section of the country in the most eff
cient manner possible, be intensively stimulated.
Since Chairman Hurley called upon the High
ways Transport Committee to render this SER
vice, Administrator Hoover has in statements
emphasized the need for prompt action along
these lines
Chairman Hurley's letter to the Highways
Transport Committee is as follows:
"Our merchant marine of today and tomorrow
will carry message of good will to the nations
of the world.
Millions of cruelty starved folk face west
ward from every shore with mouths open to the
promise of America There must be fed-and
then clothed and also supplied with the other ne
cessities of life. Our grand privilege is now
here to restore life, strength and hope to these
martyred brothers of hundred tongues.
Highways transport facilities at the farmers
gate and-at every famer's gate-must imme-
dately suggest the initial phase of overseas dis
tribution; must make picture in the farmers
mind of the movement of the product of his soil
and labor from his own gate through to the dis
tant points of the world; to Europe, to Algiers
to Athens, and the Orient.
'"The Highways Transport Service is the first
step in the great system of transportation to the
sea and then on the merchant marine to the far
points of the world.
Food must begin to move from every
hill, through every valley of the great country
behind our shores, down to the shipping points |
before we can start our ships from the ports and
fulfill our duty; and, with the promise of wars |
end before us, the Highways Transport Com |
mittee throughout this land could and should |
render a peace-time service by stimulating |
highways transport of nourishment and supplies
badly needed. Routes and channels from
shipping points must be opened up and efficient
" maintained, and our merchant marine must
be built up to meet the demands for distribution
overseas.
Resistance in any form to the free move
ment Of farm products must be reduced and