The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-12-26

In spite of subnormal food SUNNY
| in this country the American peoplo
| have been able to ship to the Allies
as well as our own forces overseas
141,0O0,OOO bushels of wheat, besides
844,6OO,OOO pounds Of meat, during the
year ending June 30 last. This has
been made possible by the whole
souled cooperation of the people
who. besides practicing self-denial,
have speeded up production and re-
spOnded nobly to the appeal from
abroad.
Food Administrator Hoover, in
letter to President Wilson, gives a
brief summary of the results of food
conservation in the United States and
of the activities of the Food Admin.
istration to this end. The conserva-
ton measures have been put through
practically on voluntary basis which
is regarded as q splendid tribute to
the patriotism of the American people.
Meat shipments were increased S44,-
10000 pounds during the first fiscal
year, as compared with our meat ex-
ports during the year before America
entered the war.
"The total value of these food ship
mentS," Mr. Hoover wrote President
Wilson, (which were in the main pur-
chased through or with collaboration
of the Food Administration, amount
to, roundly, $1,4O0,OOO,OOO during the
fiscal year"
In 1916-17 the United States sent
the Allies 2,166, 100000 pounds of
meat. In 1918, with voluntary con.
servation practiced in America, and
aided by extra weight of animals, we
sent the Allies 2,O11, 100000 pounds Of
meat, an increase Of 844,600OO0
pounds.
Wheat Saving Enormous.
When the Food Administration be-
gan operations in the summer Of 1917,
this country was facing LARGE deficit
I'm wheat Counting in all carry-Ole"
wheat from the 1916 crop, We had at
the beginning of the 1917 harvest year
just enough wheat to take care OF
Americas normal conSumption,-nOt
bushel of surplus.
At the close of the 1918 harvest
year the Food Administrations official
reports showed that our total wheat
shipments to the other side had been
III, 100000 bushels. Every bushel
shipped was wheat saved by the
American people from their normal
consumption.
In cereals and cereal products re-
duced to terms of cereal bushels our
shipments to Allied destinations were
34O,8OOOOO bushels, 8O,9OO,OOO bushels
more than the amount sent in 1861
Included in these figures are l3,9OO'-
600 bushels of rye and the l4l,OOO'OOo
bushels of saved wheat In addltloh
we sent the neutrals dependent on US
10000, 900 bushels of prime breadstu1ls'
'"These figures do not fully convey
the volume of the effort and sacrlnce
made during the past year by the
whole American people" the Foou Au-
wrote. II am sure thd'
all the millions Of our people, agrlcui-
tural as well as urban, who have con-
tributed to these results should Ieei-
a very definite satisfaction that III
year of universal food shortages III
the Northern Hemisphere, all OF those
people Joined together against ger
many came through to the new mar
vest, not only with health and streng'H
fully maintained, but with only teln-
porary periods of hardship.
cit is difficult to distinguish Oe
tween various sections Of our peopIS,,
the homes, public eating places lOou
trade, urban or agricultural popuia-
assessing credit for lnes0
results, but no one win deny the do'i-
Inant part Of the American women