Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-30
SELL FOOD DRAFT IS
TO FEED EUROPE
Hoover Inaugurates Simple and
Safe System Of Sending
Relief
SUPPLIES ALREADY THERE

Anybody wishing to send food to
Islands or relatives in starving portions
- Turopc can now do IL ms easily as
/ ,boy can 20 10 the corner grocery and
INV provisions for themselves. II is
| sil being done through Herbert Hoovcr's
,'food drafts.
No money is sent to Europe. 1t is
arranged in much simpler. safer man.
nor, 10 begin with, tho American re
lief administration, of which Mr..
Hoover is the head, has loaded ships
With American food and carried it TO
Turope. and thence on trains to the
citips of Warsaw, Hamburg. Vienna.
Budapest and Prague.
AZ each of these cities huge ware
houses have been filed with the food.
Any person in this country who
wishes to have some of this food placed
into the hands of any one abroad goes
about it in the following manner: Hc
goes TO his bank and buys n "food
draft" lie pays $40 or $50. or NAV
buy as many $40 or $50 drafts AS he
pCases, up to $500. Amounts over and
above that figure viii not be sold with
out consultation with the American
relief administration first.
Food Amount Told
When hc buys his draft 1t is prop
cr'y filled in. and before he pays over
his money the purchaser secs exactly
what sort OF food and the amount that
the person to whom he sends the draft
v i'll receive.
For instance. for $40 nurchaser
here may be assured that his relation in
Poland will receive twenty four and
one half pounds of -four. ten pounds of
beans, eight pounds of bacon and eight
cans of milk.
Or, for the same price. tho pcrsop
70 whom the draft is mailed will receive
twenty tour and one half pounds of
-four. ten pounds of beans. seven and
one. matt pounds of cottonsccd oil and
twelve pounds of milk.
tor 500, the recipient Of tho draft
viii b" given 1iO pounds of -four 6ftv
pounds OF beans. sixteen pounds OF
bacon, fifteen pounds of lard. twelve
pounds. of corned beef, and forty eight
cans of milk. Or. for the same money,
The following assortment has been Dro
vidod: l4O pounds of -four. iifty ronnds
ut be0ns, forty five pounds Of cotton
seed oil. and forty eight cans of milk.
After buying his draft. the purchaser
takes it and mails II to the person TOR
Nnom the tnod is intended When the
draft is received upon tho other side II
ls presented at the warehouse. and tho
food handed out. Tho purchascr can
then go TO the bank where he bought
the draft, and he will be told whether
the food has been delivered. If tho
draft has boen lost, the purchaser gets
bis money back.
Drafts on Sale
Upon the back of every draft. printed
IN seven languages, are the following
instructions: This food draft must be
mailed to the person to whom you wish
to give the food. The receiver must
present the draft at the warehouse on
which it is drawn within ninety days
OF the date of issue. Ir the receiver
cannot present it personally. delivery
will be made to his properly constituted
representative.
Food drafts are already on sale in
this city at the Philadelphia National
Bank, the Fourth Street National
Banb the Grard National Bank, and
soon viii be on sale at the Corn Ex-
change National Bank, ihc First Ma
tionaI Bank. the Franklin National
flank, and others.
Food for persons in Poland is stored
IN the Warsaw warehouse; for Ger
many, at Hamburg; for Austria. at
vienna; for Hungary, at Budapest. aud
Tor C2ccho Sloyakia, at praguC.