The Pascagoula chronicle. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1905-1920, 1919-02-08
u. S. FOOD Relief
Saves MILLIONS
Food Administrator Says Help Lifts
Load From Hearts 81 Countless
People.

I Paris, Feb. 2.-The passage by the
American congress of the bill ap
propriating 100000, ,OO0sefor relief ir
Europe will lift load of fear from
the hearts OF millions OF people in
Europe" declared Herbert c. Hoover
director general of relirf in a state
ment issued this evening. Mr.. Hoover
outlined the use to which the money is
to be put and the means already taken
for the relief in the Usited States
the statement added, "i2w fully and
completely the daily Wireless carried
the progress of this measure to those
peoples now liberated atom the Ger
man yoke. Immediatelysafter the bill
was passed the news appeared in the
headlines of newspapers in Bucharest,
Sofia and Helsingfors, and it was
known in Warshaw, LodS, Prague and
Flume, where thousands of persons
have been looking anxiously toward
the United States for leadership in
the solution of their most imminent
danger.
"It must be remembered that the
presidents declaration OF the prime
purposes of the American. people in re-
establishing freedom and self-govern-
ment have moved these peoples to
direct all their hopes toward the Unit
ed States, and today they will see one
step more toward this end.
There is no question Of the sacri-
fee for which it will call for from the
American people to provide this relief
appropriation, as it comes now in a
period when we have so many difficult
ties and problems of our own people
to solve in the rehabilitation Ce our
rrEal national life.
"The usual tangible relief to the
newly liberated peoples will not be de-
layed even by the period required to
ship fodstuffs from the United States
under this appropriation because the
war, navy and treasury departments
and the United States Food Admins
tration already have 100 ships in
European ports or headed toward
Europe in addition to our re-establisn
edrelief Of Belgium ara nssrthern
France, Rumania and Czecho-Slovakia
under the old war legislation. The
new appropriation by congress enables
us to extend this work by giving
credit to those countries for which
there was no such legislation.
I'VE have at sea or discharging in
the port Of Triest 10000 tons of food
for the Jugo-Slavs, Serbians and
Czevho- -Slovaks. We have 10000 tons
Of food either arrived at or in progress
tc the Black sea for Rumania. The
Armenian relief committee has 1000
tosn on the way to Armenia and Syria
as a gift, and we are placing 10000
tons in Constantinople as reserve
for them. We have 10000 tons in
Poland On the way or being trans
shipped from Rotterdam for the Poles,
and 10000 tons in Rotterdam await
ing reshipment to the Firms and other
liberated populations i'll Russia. The
Polish relief committee is sending
gift of 1000 tons to the Poles.
"Since the armistice the British
authorities have distributed about TO-
600 tons of food to the Serbians; the
Italian authorities some 10000 tons to
the Austrians, and the British author
tiles have in progress some 10000 or
$4,000 tons of food to the Rumanians.
We have since the armistice delivered
into Rotterdam 100000 tons of food
for the Belgians and the liberated
French, with the support of our treas
ury and Belgium and France,
Had this new appropriation been
refused we should have sold out these
parcels of food to those who could pay
real money, and would have been COM
PEELED to allow the others to starve.
In this same confidence, that we would
be supported by congress, we have
secured a detail of more than $50 men
from the American army and the
navy for the work of the
food administration. These men are
now acticely establishing the admin
istrations necessary to secure proper !
in all of these territories. !
Our offices have been opened in virtu- |
ally every capital among the distress
ed peoples, and with the passage of I
this act of congress we are able to do |
business.
THE allied supreme council of sup /
ply and relief has been organized and |
equipped with staff and officials rep |
the allied and associated |
powers in order that we may secure 1
and unity of effort from I
all the governments who have stood
together to seucre the freedom of /
these peoples, and who now stand to-
gether to see that their distress is
-W.S