The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-12-04
100000 Tons Of Supplies to Be Sent
to Europe In Urgent Need

70 europe IN Urgent Need
| New York, Dec. 3.-"Food VIII
Win the World" is the slogan for
Food Conservation Week that begins
today, and It literally means that the
United States will so conserve Lite
food supply that 1t will be able to
send abroad in the months just ahead
100000 tons of >food to save the
lives of millions In stricken countries.
New York State and New, York City
are expected to take no small part in
the conservation campaign, for the
Federal Food Board looks to millions
of housewives who signed pledge
cards early in the war to continue to
make good that promise now.
Conservation week will open today
,, with the reading in the churches of a
message from United States Food
Administrator Herbert Hoover, now
in Europe. On Tuesday there will be a
series Of mass meetings in the city,
and Wednesday will be Women's
Organization Day. when housewives
will be organized into committees to
cooperate in conservati work.
The Bureau Of Conservation of the
Federal Food Board has arranged an
extensive program for the week. Six
thousand club leaders have been en-
listed in the work. Each club will
have its own program, and messages
from President Wilson and Mr.. Hoov-
er will be kept before the members.
There will be meetings in women's
clubs all over the State.
On Thursday the Daily Food ALI.
ance will meet In the Hotel Astor,
while on Monday the Women's City
Club will meet at the McAlpin Hotel
Dr. Mary Swartz Rose, Director of
the Bureau of Food Conservation for
this city, will speak at both these
meetings, as will other members of
the bureau staff.
The board announced yesterday
that not only have churches, schools,
and other organizations pledged their
help, but that public interest will be
by exhibits arranged for
In many places. The most ,preten.
tious exhibit will be staged chfs the
steps of the Public Library at Fifth |
Avenue and Forty-second Street. Each !
afternoon during the week, weather
permitting, groups of school children
will present tableaux on the library
steps showing the part America has
pledged herself to play in saving
Europe from starvation.
In. restaurants, hotels, steamships.
ind railroad diners this card will be
displayed:
This is Conservation Week for
World Relief. We are trying to save
God here. Are you trying to save
God in your homer
In order that the public may under
tand what America expects to do
he Federal Food Board has prepared
his summary: 4
Provide food for our armed forces
Ibroad-at present more than 2,0OO,.
00
Help provision the big allies.
france, England, and Italy, approx
nately 125,000,00O people.
Furnish a greater part Of the food
Necessary for the little nations
tarved under the German yoke-the
,elgians, Serbians, Rumanians,
ireeks, Czechs, Jugoslavs, and others,
some 100000 people.
Send food to the 100000 people
a Northern Russia, many of whom
re already facing famine conditions
wing to the collapse tot transporta,
ion facilities and lack Of organized
government.
Assist the neutral States in Europe. /,
mbracing about 100000 people,
Tho are now all on short rations, and
be 100000 enemy people to Sc ,
ure for themselves the food neces-
airy to sustain life.
Exports between 100000 and TO-
90 900 tons of food to Europe and at
he same time keep sufficient food in J,
MS country to maintain the health ,
nd strength of our own people.
As to the resources to meet the !
lsk Of driving the spectre of famine !,