Show AMERICANS CAN AFFORD TO GIVE tile the wan man who taught modern americans how to economize herbert hoover I 1 li trying to put over a new idea in utah lie he Is trying to make and other people of the united states imagine that they have an in visible guest nt at their dinner table when the cloth has been spread the places all set about ablaut the family board and the average good wholesome american meal made ready mr air hoover asks that every family in utah think of some little child or chil dren over in europe as 09 sharing that repast this image cant be well sus during tile the coming year unless utahna are actually feeding or helping to feed ut at least one of these children it will cost just 10 to teed feed ono one child one weal meal a day until harvest time the state committee for the european relief council Is putting one pertinent question to in the present fund campaign lis ls the life of it child worth they have no fear of what the answer of tho the people of this state will be according to statements reaching tile the local relief council office in salt lake city sir hoover expects this present appeal to taio american people for the relief of children in central lind and southeastern europe to be the last ile he believes bellev ca that if the relief work can only go on until harvest time the nations being aided can then feed their own people at pro prep ent nt they are adding 2 to every 1 raised in america for the relief of their children but the con combined blied sum euin will only insure bare sustenance to 0 o the starving little ones mr hoover has sent out the folio following lu statement to the state office at it Is reported to me that flint there Is n great deal of gloom over tile the united a tales states as the result of falling failing prices and the decrease in employment and I 1 do n not ot wish to minimize the anxieties of any individual but despite this we should bo be the most cheerful 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 supply for tho the entire american people we have a harvest barvest coming again within another eight months our shelves are overloaded with clothing our war warehouses houses with raw material we have caal and our people are warmly housed if there Is any hunger or br 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 in intelligent tell igent men inen it if we cannot overcome this self made handicap at home and still do our duty abroad I 1 we might have some room for de spon dency in america it if ou our situation were that of any of the countries of eastern or central E europe drope it if we had but five to seven months food supply with the harvest eight months away it if our children were undernourished if we were not possessed of the essential food for or children it if the they were der clad without the lie material with which to remedy it and it if such care as they do receive was the charity of foreign people we have a riot richt ts to complain |