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Show RELIEF OF FAMINE IS .S. TASK Millions in Europe Are Now Facing Starvation, Starva-tion, Says Hoover in Plea for Simple Living By Auoclatrt PrM. WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. The nation' obligation to nerve utricken hiimnnity in war torn Kurope by helping to provide pro-vide iUHtcnanre until the next harvMt will drmanil- furihvr aacrlflra nf tha American Miopia, Food Administrator Admin-istrator Hoover dat-larvd today In an nddremt at a mnf.rnc hr of tat Tnwt airmiminrnTiiri. Condition of famtn exixt In Ku- rope. Mr. IL-.v.-r aald, that will be "tKjyond our powtra to reiuvly," even with the carry inn out of the plan to htt fr'm Amnrlc 3to,vo0,o tone of foolatuffa durlna; the next year. In northern Kuaa-a alone, he de'lared, there are 40.Oiki.000 people who have IIUI ehanee of olniniiiug food thla Inter,' MilMoue rf other throuajhout i i Kurope, he aald, who can be reached, miiHt be fed. j CHANGES IN POLICY. j "Thla belnjr the new world altuatlon. created by the collapse of tha wr," Mr. Hoo er continued, "the prime chHiiirea In our pollci on today's out-lok out-lok can be summaiixed: "That we may now advantairemiflly atmndon the uae of auha(ititw in our whptit bread; that we will atill require economy and elimination of waate In ila coriMumptlon; that for the present we need connervHtlon tn butter and f-ondenaed milk; that ultimately we miiHt extend thla to nil fata. "We can contemplate at the moat maintain Ina: fully three pounds per month it auarar per person of houae-hold houae-hold auaar on the present outlook, and we can by the availability of Java surra re to Kurope begin at once to relax more restraints on auftur pending some change in Europe policies. SHIFT IN COMMODITIES. These are , special feature of change rt policy, but the shift lug of conservat Ion from one commodity to I 'wnoiner Is not ihw ifnjfl-m p'-Mrr Tnrrn j l one policy which cannot change, and 'that la the vital neceewlty of simple ! living, tn economy tn all consumption . for commtxlillea more or leci substitute substi-tute for each other. We mus realise I that the apector of famine abroad now haunts the abundance of our table at home. "The war haa been brought to an end In no small measure by starvation I Itself, and it cannot he our business to ma.ntuln etarvation after peace." UP TO AMERICA. I North America, Mr. Hoover aald. will have to furnlah 00 per cent of the world s supply of foodstuffs, and the I'nlted Btatea and the West Indies will bo a hie to export So.ooo.ooo tons aa against a prewar normal of OVO.000 tone. FOOD RULE TO CEASE.. Mr. Hoover told the state adminls-tratora adminls-tratora that the food administration wlil be discontinued utirtw the law when peaca ia proclaimed, and added: "1 do not expect to see Ita renewal. l look now," he aald, "for a turn of American food trades towards con-servatlve con-servatlve and, aafe business." |