The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-11
CONSERVATION WEEK
 FOR WORLD RELIEF
ScoviIIe Pushes Hoover Plan to
 Feed Europe.
LANDERs BACKS SCoVILLE.

LANDERs BACKS SC0VILLE. l
 Hartford, Monday.-In hundreds of. i Connecticut churches, on Sunday, United States Food Administrator 1. Herbert Hoover's special message for l World Relief Sunday" was read, and 1 in many cases used as the theme of the pastors Sunday sermon. This whole week of December 2 to Is be- ing observed throughout the country at the request of President Wilson and Mir. Hoover as Conservation Week for World Relief"
 Various Meetings Called.
 Tuesday, December 3, was designat- ed by the Food Administration for community public meetings, and vari- ous speakers and orators will relate to Connecticut audiences the impera- tive necessity for continued, intensive food conservation, which, as MT. HoOv- CT explained before he sailed, is even more necessary now that millions or starving peoples have been liberated from the Prussian yoke and, by Amer ican arms, are made accessible to food supplies. Throughout Connecticut and every other state in the Union, wo- mems clubs and organizations were asked to hold special meetings Wednes- day, December 4, and the Food Ad- mInistration supplied them with a spe- i cial program and pledge. Schools and 1 colleges were asked to observe Friday, December 6, and a special program prepared in Washington was sent to every school and college in Connecti- cut for this purpose. During the week various fraternal lodges and societies are to hold meetings, at which MT. i Hoover's special message will be read and also MT. Hoover's statement of the world food situation, as delivered in Washington November 12.
 MT. ScoViIIe Urges Cooperation.
 Connecttcut's Federal Food Admin istrator, Robert Scoville, who for more than eighteen months has, without
 compensation and at large personal "A ApGllSt, SO SuCCSSSlully Lld4dSSu LA1O Food Administration in this state as to elicit the special commendation of MT. Hoover and President Wilson, urges
 all the people of Connecticut to CO., operate with his Administration in
 this final appeal. Regardless of what
 certain newspapers have said, Mir. Sco-
 vile reiterates that all the Food Ad- ministration rules and regulations are | still in full force and that the Food Ad-
 ministration will not be dissolved until peace is proclaimed, which automati- cally repeals the Lever Food Act un-
 der which the Food Administration was created. Chairman George M.
 Landers, who Is chairman of the State Food Department, has thrown all his allied and co-ordinative organizations
 behind MT. Scoville's program for this
 greatest and last conservation drive. S Mir. Hoover's Special Message. The special Hoover message, which
 was read in all Connecticut pulpits on t Sunday and which is being read at ;. various meetings this week, Is as fol- f lows:
 = Again in full confidence call upon I the American people to set aside Sun- = day, December 1, and the week fol r lowing for the consideration of Amerl-
 cas opportunity for renewed service
 and sacrifice.
 Last summer, when the military
 situation was acute, we assured the
 Inter-Allied Food Conference in Lon
 don that whatever the war-food pro
 gram of the Allies required we were
 prepared to meet; that the Confer
 ence need not consider whether or no '' we had the supplies-we were prepar '. ed to find them; we pledged ourselves 2 by the voluntary economy of our peo I, pie, to have the reserves in food tC Ii, supply all necessities. The ending O
 the war does not release us from thu
 pledge. The same populations must bt
 fed, and until another season hal n passed they cannot feed themselves. # "The change in the foreign situation z necessarily alters the details of oul | food program, because the freeing O t. the seas from the submarine menace
 renders accessible the wheat supplies
 of India, Australia and the Argentine
 The total food demand upon the Unit " ed States Is not diminished, however e On the contrary, 1t is increased. In ad ? ditiCn to the supplying of those t l. whom we are already pledged, we nov s, have the splendid opportunity and ob l. ligation of meeting the needs of thos
 millions of people in the hitherto oc
 cupied territories who are facing ac
 tual starvation. The people of Bel It gium, Northern France, Serbia, Rou IS mania, Montenegro, Poland, Russii of and Armenia rely upon America fo is immediate aid. We must also partici m pate in the preservation of the newl liberated nations in Austria, nor cal 10 we ignore the effect on the futur
 world developments of a famine con
 we have recently released from ou aI enemies. All these consideration '' mean that upwards of 200,000,OOO pee pIa, in addition to those we are al sa ready pledged to serve, are now look W ing to us in their misery and famine IT. Our appeal today iS therefore large a. than the former appeal to the wa
 conscience of our people. The ney
 appeal is to the world conscience
 of our future program.
 "The President of the United State
 has asked me to take charge for thi
 Government of this work; to perfec and enlarge the arrangements for food