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Show AMERICANS CAN AFFORD TO GIVE The man who taught modern Americans Ameri-cans how to economize. Herbert Hoover, is trying 10 put over a "new idea in Utah. He is trying to make I'tahns and other people of the United States imagine that they have an invisible in-visible guest at their dinner table. When the cloth has been spread, the places all set about the family board, ami the average good, wholesome American meal made ready, Mr. Hoover asks that every family in Utah think of some little child or children chil-dren over in Europe as sharing that repast. This image can't be well sustained sus-tained during the coming year unless Utahns are actually feeding or helping ro feed at least one of these children. It will cost just $10 to feed one child one meal a day until harvest time. The state committee for the European Relief Re-lief council is putting one pertinent question to Utahni; in the present fund campaign "Is the life of a child worth ' !?10V" They have no fear of what the I answer of the people of this state will be. According to statements reaching the local relief council office in Salt Lake City, Mr. Hoover expects this present appeal to vhe American people peo-ple for the relief of children in central and southeastern Europe to be the list. He believes that if the relief work can only go on until harvest time the nations being aidecf can then feed their own people. At present they are adding S2 to every $1 raised in America Amer-ica for the relief of their children, but the comhitjed sum will only"" insure bare sustenance to the starving little ones. Mr. Hoover has sent out the following follow-ing statement to Ihe state office: "It is reported to me that rhere is a great deal of gloom over the United States as the result of falling prices mid the decrease in employment, and I do not wish to minimize the anxieties of any individual, but despite this we should he the most eheerful country in the world, and we do have the real foundation of cheerful giving. "We have in our warehouses and on our farms today eighteen months' food Mipply for the entire American people. We have a harvest coming again within with-in another eight months; our shelves are overloaded with clothing, our warehouses with raw material; we have ample coal and our people are warmly housed. If there is any hunger hun-ger or any cold in the United States this winter it is due to the foolish functioning of either our social, our economic or our political system. "We do not deserve the name of intelligent in-telligent men if we cannot overcome this self-made handicap at lutme and still dn our duty abroad. "We might have some room 'for despondency de-spondency in America if our situation were that of any of the countries of eastern or central Europe. If we had hut five to .seven months' food supply with the harvest eight months away; if our children were undernourished; if we were not possessed of the essential essen-tial food for children, if they were nil-denlad. nil-denlad. without the material with which to remedy it, and if such care as they do receive was the charity of ror-eign ror-eign people, we might have a right to compluiu." |