The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1919-01-30
MILLIONS LOOKING
TO j. s. FOR HELP
"WoRLD CONSCIENCE" MUST BE
AROUSED IN PEOPLE OF AMER.
icA, HOOVER SAYS.
IN APPEAL TO THE CHURCHES
Conservation Sunday Message of Food
Administrator Tells Great Need
Of World Reic,,

Upward OF 200 million people arr
looking to this country in their miser,
and famine for relief and the appea
today of the Food Administration !!
larger than the former appeal to The
war conscience" of the people o
America The new appeal is to the
world conscience" which must be
the guiding inspiration Of the future
program for food conservation. The
American people, in this most critica
period Of their history. have the op
portunity to demonstrate not only
their ability to assist in establishing
peoce on earth. but also their conse
Grafton, by self-denial,, ,,to the cause OF
suffering humanity.
I This, in brief. is the message OF
Herbert Hoover to the people Of this
country which was read in the
churches on conservation Sunday.
Last summer, when the military sit
uation WIS acute, ,Nhe Inter.Allied food
conference was assured that what.
ever the war-food program of The
Allies Nequired this country was pre-
pared to,meet,, MIR. Hoover said in his
message.
The ending ofIthe war does not re-
lease US from this pledge, The same
populations must beIfed. and until an.
other season has passed they cannot
feed themaelves$ tho message said.
The change inAthe tforeign situation
necessarily alters. the details of our
food program, because Nthe freeing Of
the seas from the Submarine n,snaoe
renders accessible the wheat supplies
OF India. Australia. and this Argentine.
The total food demand upon, the
States tsS moi diminished, how
ever. On the enntrasYAit is,increasedt
In addition to the simplifying Of those
to whom we ara. already pIesiked,. ".
now have the splendid opportunity
and obligation ot meeting tEis needs
of those millions OF people in, the
hitherto occnpiaf' territory vito are
facing actual starvation The people
OF Belgium. Northern France. Serbia
Roumania. Montenegro. Polanf, Rus
sia and Armenia rely upon America
for Immediate aid We mus also
participate inl the preservation NJ ths
newly liberated uatiors in Austria
nor can we ignore the effect CNln ttEa
future world Development of a famiDs
condition amung nose 0ther Esopfe
whom we have recCntLy released FROM
our enemies. All these considerations j
mean that upVari.r of DO million DeIy
pie, in addition to those We are alGeal.y
pledged to serve aTs' now lo,2kiuG
10 US in their misaIy AMI famine 0lr !
appeal today lis therefore larger han
the former a.ppeal tor the war Gor
science of olE' people. The new aIp
peal is to the rwn-ld codrsrience which
must be the guiding inspiration OF oiai
future program.
THE Presidem s,lf rhe United State.
has asked me 't@'take charge fCr' tim
Government of tihs work: to psrfsset
and enlarge ths arrangements foi
'oodstuffs to tloI populations pf. BEL
gium and Fran,e, n0W Being reaaaeed
and to organize and determ lue' the
need Of provisions to nberatSaI peo
pies in Southern Europe to present
such a debacl4sas has taken place ir
Russia.
"The hetermf fninS7 factor for rhe sue
cess Of such an enlarged appeal will
! be thes vivid consciousness In every
individual i'm each community of obi
CATION that we now wish I'D create
Such an intelligent world conscience
in thes American people must be the
main dePsndence of tha stricken
-couptpies of The world until norma
conditions are once more restored.
America hy,her participation in the
war has accomplished her objectives
FofI self fdefeuseJand of vindiCatiag the
efficiency Of a government in which
the people. and the people oaly, are
| sovereign. She has established thu
foundations of,government by the peo
pie throughout the enemy countries
and this is the real bulwark of worlt
peace, We fhave yet to build on thes
foundations. No government nor NJ
ton can stand if its people are star'
ing. Wemust do our part II the wor
be not CONSUMED in flame OF al
archy.
"The American people, In this mos
critical period of their history, hay
the opportunity to demonstrate M
only their. ability to assist in estaI
fishing peace on earth, but also the
conservation, by self.denial, To- II
cause rof suffering humanity"