The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-24
Administrator, Back From
Europe, Predicts Economy
Will Prevent Hunger.
VAST SUPPLIES NEEDED
Rationing Necessary in Dis
tributing Beef and Sugar
Bread to Be Better.

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ana TO take a general survey OF the SIT
cheerful statement by saying that there
VI, "o. 10 enousn u ca. u,,iess eVoiy
y $40 ~" pelhs e"'eiu' ""u eo"
.,,,,1 " ne u,'nos.'
e naroe, Joo oeioie us tnaI
We nao las. year, because we must snip
h ou',uns 70 Europe .nan we nsve
Deon oos' ne eApla,neu. Cur so'a' az
u' nave T'fov caior'es uahy
ceioiies oeihg All man wants 10 eat
ana 'ne cVihan population over uere
mus. nave e'foo ca'ories. inc so'uier
.. course mas oeen gettihs ms t,soo
eies' out inc ciVinan hasht oeen
ee'hs what nc ought 10 nave VI """e
VIC i"teno 10 give nun next year.
MT hooVer said that AZ tne conferences
IN Lonoon' whlct ne called as soon az
ne LANDED IN England. the ihteraiieo
ioou ORGANIZATION WORKED OUT q very
satisfactory system TOT 1000 dis'riputlon
next year. he reported the wheat crops
over mere COCO especiaiiy IN Eneiano'
put added tnat tnat didnt aHoct tne
situation materially, because the IN
crease In England Is only eoo.ooo tons
over last year, which Is but 10 per cent.
OF what the people consume.
England Is not a self-supportins
country he said. I'VE shall rave 10
keep on sending wheat to England.
munger IN neisu"'
BELGIUM lad a bad time of it from
March 10 July. because the Belgian re-
lief ships had to be taken over for the
stem Tho tide If Tho Cerran drive ReI-
CLANS have been getting only 2,10o calo-
ries a day. considerably less than 3,40O.
which Is the lowest we estimate civilians
can get along on. SO you see the Bel
CLANS must lave been hungry But now
those diverted ships are being used to
carry food again and the normal situa-
ton Is fast being restored"
Rumania Is asking the Allies for food,
Mr.. Hoover says. for a drought Is de-
stroying the wheat crops in that coun-
try and In Bulgaria and the Ukraine.
But the Allies cannot respond because
they can't get through the Dardanelles.
So the Rumanians must go hungry. TIE
only good thing about 1t is that the
Balkans can't ship wheat to Germany.
German soIdIera Mr. Hoover SAID orc
very we'll fed. 1T don't know how the
German civilians are farine" he added
"One hears ALI kinds NJ storIes from
people who have travelled in Germany.
but the Germans publish no figures and
without figures YOU cannot tell what the
situatIo, !. NJ ~ norrsa a.. ~,
logical for a nation TO feed its army wei,
no matter how those at home are living
and the condition OF German nrisoners
and other facts show that the lighting
Boche is getting all he needs to eat
Allies, Morale Hirh.
me spirIt or the aihed countries Is
nlsn' MT hooVer sara. III mas never
oeen SO hign since the nrst SIX or eight
nohths OF tne war. Our aliies are the
nrst 10 say tnat THIS "a because OF the
neIp or Amer,ea, american soiulers ana
But 90 you know what Impressed me
mos IN europe! Inc women and chill
areh' Inc women ana children OF
rranee' Ehsiahd ana !'aiy are harvest
ing 'he crops everywhere you see them
toiiihs IN the ne,as. no" many!
osh' es,,iha'e. Literary mliiohs OF
them' All OF 'he young ana middie aged
men are hshtihs ana tneres no one iett
% "o,h ~. women ana chi'oren ana
iew oiu men
.n. r.oot . 'naue .',e cohhlort'ne state
,,nm 'n Ha, 'nu psus III Europe are get
10 supply vi inhh' nauits ire
qush'iy nave 10 90 without milk IN their
$3.50 s,ns, o u ~. ING 't,.ie ones aren't
food.
Ala Ava would he c,,rtsi,ed tbis 81, p
cause of the SHORTAGE a, shj,.s n.
Hoover said II would mot az NO,
come down SLOWLY but n will 1et hara 81,
rigbt" ne said 49,
Coming down to figures for nax+ ,.or..
exportations the Food Administr w ~ &C.
timated that in the wear beg,nnina CO.
TENDER 1. 1919. America would ba,.a -
send to the Allies for human con,vrn
ton 500 Ooo. 900 bushels NJ ceraai.
4 900. 600. 600 hounds Of fat. and yaea'
table oils. 1900. 900 tons az sugar "a
900 600, 900 pounds of beef products FOR
civilian consumption. In addition to
this beef must be sent for army meade
and oats for army horses
"If we carry out this propramme" NJ
Hoover said, there will be no need of
drastic rationing over there, "a tbera
was last year, except with beef and SUI
gar. The world shortage of these two
articles makes It impossible TO sat,sfv
the need. But they will have nlentv ~
bread and fats. The restriction. ON ,be
use Of pork in allied countries have bsar
removed, and bread will he in nm summit
by September-and better bread than
last year. It has certainly been nrettv
bad in France the last few months ;"
Uniform Bread Recipe.