Show PROVED SPIRIT OF DEMOCRACY Voluntary Basis of Food Saving Showed Heart of America Beat True for Freedom To the voluntary service and sacrifice flee fice of the American people must be attributed the continued health strength and morale of the he Allied armies armies ar nr mies and the civil populace Upon this spirit of or service and sac sacrifice will depend Europe's I fate in tho the months to come coane In the past year ear we have ha carried out an export program the magnitude of which Is almost beyond beyond be yond comprehension But with the new demands that have havo come with the tho liberation of nations freed from German oppression our exports must be almost doubled Instead of tons wo must ship twenty million tons of food to o Europe In the coming year as year as much ranch as ns can be pushed through our OUI ports If the Allies had bad not been fed ted by America It would have hove been Impossible impossible sible for them to maintain their defense de tie- defense tense against Germany Meeting this world need on a purely voluntary basis the American people have conclusively proved that democracy democracy racy Is a success ana ano that In time of need It will rise to its own defense other accomplish accomplishment If It there were wele no ment to its the very fact that It ll has bUB shown the strength of democracy has In Itself more than thau Justified the existence of the Food Administration In the tho eyes of the world I Less than four months after the United States declared war the United States Food Administrator expressed his determination to meet Americas America's food problem on a basis of voluntary action and reiterated his con confidence that awakened democracy would prove Irresistible Many thinking Americans Americana sal said d Mr Jr Hoover and the whole world have bae been watching anxiously the lust last four months In the fear tear that democratic demo demo- ern erotic cratic tic America could not organize to meet autocratic Germany Germany has hils been confident that It could not be done Contrary proof Is Immediately at our door and anti our our o r people have already already al- al al ready demonstrated their ability to to mobilize mobilise organize endure and prepare voluntarily and antI efficiently In many dl and und upon the mere meie word of ot Inspiration aside from the remarkable assemblage of ot our Army Array and finances The history of the Food Administration tion has bas clearly shown that the trust who v their thrill faith In democracy of those put racy bus not been misplaced |