The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-12-05
HOOVER'S MESSAGE
TO AMERICAN PEOPLE
Calls Upon People to Renew Ser
vice and Sacrifice in COnser-
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Herbert Hoover has made the fol-
lowing appeal to the American people
to continue to save food that hum
CRY world may be fed:
Again in full confidence / call upon
the American people to set aside Sum
day, December first, and the week fol-
lowing for the consideration of Amer
ica's opportunity for renewed service
and sacrifice. .-e.
Last summer when the military sit
uation was acute we assured the inter-
allied food conference in London that
whatever the war food program of
the allies required we were prepared
to meet; that the conference 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 populations must be fed and
until another season has passed they
cannot feed themselves. g
The change in the foreign situation
necessarily alters the details of our
food program because the freeing OF
the seas from submarine menace rem
ders accessible the wheat supplies of
India, Australia and the Argentine.
The total food demand upon the
United States is not dimini shed, how
ever. On the contrary it is increased.
In addition to 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 the hither-
to occupied territories who are facing
actual starvation. The people of Bel
gium, northern France, Serbia, Rou-
mania, Montenegro, Poland, Russia.
and Armenia rely upon America for
Immediate aid. We must also partic-
ipate in the preservation of the newly
liberated nations of Austria; nor can
we ignore the effect on the future
world developments of a famine cum
dition among those other people whom
we have recently released from our
enemies. All these considerations
mean that upwards OF two hundred
million people in addition to those we
are already pledged to serve are now
looking to us in their misery and fam
inc. Our appeal today is, therefore.
larger than the former appeal to the
"war conscience" of our people. The
new appeal is to the "world con-
science" which must be the guiding
inspiration of our future program.
The president of the United States
has asked me to take charge for this
government of this work; to perfect
and enlarge the arrangement for food
stuffs to the populations of Belgium
and France now being released and to
organize and determine the need of
provision to the liberated peoples of
southern Europe to prevent such de-
bacle as has taken place in Russia.
The determining factor for the sue
cess of such an enlarged appeal will
be the vivid consciousness in every
individual in each community of OBJ
legation and opportunity. It is that
common recognition of obligation that
we now wish to create. Such an in
telligent "world conscience" in the
American people must be the main de-
pendcnce of the stricken countries of
the world until normal conditions are
once more restored.
America by her participation in the
war has accomplished her detectives
of self defense and of indicating the
efficiency of government in which
the people and the people only are
sovereign. She has established the
foundations of government by the peo-
pie thruout the enemy countries and is
thus the real bulwark of world peace.
We have yet to build on these founda-
tions. No government nor nation can
stand if its people are starving. We
must do our part if the world be not
consumed in flame of anarchy.
The American people in this most
critical period of their history have
the opportunity to demonstrate not
only their ability to assist in estab-
fishing peace on earth but also their
CONSIDERATION by self denial to the cause
of suffering humanity.
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