The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-12-02
CHURCHES HEAR
HOOVER MESA
"WorId Relief Week" Opens With
Appeal From United States
Food Administrator
AID TO SUFFERING HUMANITY
Calls Upon American People to De.
monstrate Their Ability to
Establish Peace on Earth

Establish Peace on Earth
Montpelier, Dec. - world Relief
Week" opened in Vermont and the
rest of the country yesterday by the
reading in the churches of the mes
sage from United States food admin
istrator, Herbert Hoover, in which he
calls upon the American people ito
demonstrate not only their ability to-
assist in establishing peace on earth
but also their conservation by self-de
NAL to the cause of suffering human
ty." Mr.. HoOver's message as read in
the churches is as follows:
Again in full confidence, I call up
on the American people to set aside
Sunday. December first, and the week
following, for the consideration of
Americas 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
not we had the supplies,--we were
prepared to find them; we pledged
ourselves, by the voluntary economy
of our people, to have the reserves in
food to supply all necessities The
ending of the war does not release Us
from the pledge. The same popula
tons must be fed, and until another
season has passed they cannot feed
themselves.
THE change in the foreign situa-
ton necessarily alters the details Of
our food program, because the freeing
of the seas from the submarine menace
renders accessible the wheat supplies
of India, Australia and the Argentine
The total food demand upon the Uni
| ted States is not diminished however
| On the contrary, it is increased. In
| addition 10 the supplying of those to
whom we are already pledged, We
| now have the splendid opportunity
| and obligation of meeting the needs
| of those millions of people in tbs
| hitherto occupied territories who arc
| facing actual starvation. The people
OF Belgium, Northern France, Serbia
! Ronmania, Montenegro, Poland, Rus
| STA and Armenia rely upon America
| for immediate aid. We must also par
| ticipate in the preservation of ths
/ newly liberated nations in Austria
nor can we ignore the effect on thu
| future world developments OF a faD
| inc condition among those other peo
| pie whom we have recently released
| from our enemies All these consid
| erations mean that upwards of go
| million people in addition TO those We
| are already pledged to serve. are nov
looking to us in their misery and fam
inc Our appeal today is therefore
larger than the former appeal to th'
| war conscience of our people. The
| new appeal is to the world conscience
which must be the guiding inspiration
| 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 fo1
foodstuffs to the populations of Bel
gium and France now being released
and to organize and determine tbs
/ need of provision to the liberated PEG
pies of Southern Europe to proven
| such debacle as has taken place il
| Russia.
"The determining factor for tn
| success of such an enlarged appea
will be the vivid consciousness il
every individual in each communit.
Of obligation and opportunity. 1t i
that common recognition of obliga
ton, that we now wish to create
Such an intelligent world con
science in the American people mus
be the main dependence of the stflck
en- countries of the world until norma
conditions are once more restored
America by her participation i
the war has accomplished her object
i've of self-defense and Of vindicatin
the efficiency of a government /
which the people, and the people oni'
are sovereign. She has estabtishe
) the foundations of government by tn
people throughout the enemy coun
tries, and this is the real bulwark
s world peace. We have yet to bull
i on these foundations.
> No government nor nation ca
II stand il its people are starving. W
II must do our part if the world be M
!. consumed in a fame of anarchy.
"The. American people. in this mo-
: critical period of. their history. hav
| the opportunity to demonstrate NJ
$ onlv their ability to assist in estai
fishing peace on earth, but also the
conservation by self-denial. TO tt
: cause of suffering humanity"