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Show OFFICIALS PLAN FOOOjiPIi Next Week Will Be De-voted De-voted to Stressing Needs of Hungry Millions. WASHINGTOXO, Nov. 27. A campaign to bring home to the American people the need for food conservation so that 300,-j 300,-j 000,000 hungry people In Europe and the , near east may be fed, will be conducted 1 next week by the food administration. . Beginning Sunday, when a message from Food Administrator Hoover will be read in the churches, all over the country every possible medium will be usod to awaken the nation to Its "opportunity for renewed service and sacrifice for relief re-lief of millions released from the German Ger-man yoke." Each day of the week will ba set aside for a special feature of the campaign. "The conservation week campaign," said a food administration statement today, to-day, "will bring out the need, for saving sav-ing food and sharing it with the allies and the liberated nations. "The coming year we must send twenty million tons of food to Europe practically practi-cally the limit of loading capacity at our ports. The magnitude of this undertaking undertak-ing may better be understood in comparison com-parison with our pre-war exports of less than six million tons per year and export ex-port last year of only 11,820,000 tons." |