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Show HOPl OF ALLIES IN : AMERICAN PEOPLE VNITED STATES AND CANADA MUST FURNISH FOOD FOR FRIENDS ACROSS SEA. Unless Food Can Be Saved and Sent to Place Needed, Our Chances of Winning World War Are Slim, 8ays Sir William Goode. London. Sir William Goode, who, since the entry of the United States Into the war has occupied the important impor-tant post of liaison officer between the British food ministry and the United States food administration, discussed the present' food situation in an address ad-dress on February 13, to the Loudon Rotary club; "Few people," said Sir William, "have yet grasped the fundamental fact that Great Britain still relies on the United States and Canada for 65 pvt cent of her essential foodstuffs. Unless we can get this food, or nearly oil of it, we shall peter out. As to how we get it, the popular Idea seems to be that the United States is an up-to-date-combination of miracle loaves and fishes and the widow's crust. "Wh want you to realize Is the amazing", way In which the energies arid sentiments of the American people have beea harnessed to a great na-fionaj na-fionaj njQveaient of organized self-sacrifice., so tfcat the allies can have food Enough, to carry on." He proceeded to give a detailed account of the steps taken by the United States toward food production and conservation. "The cynic will tell you," he said tirat It U. ridiculous to Imagine that the- American people, living In ihe syJdst of plenty, will make sue!) sacrifices sacri-fices gs these fox le, sake of their allies al-lies (housands of miles .-away. The irynlc will relegate. President Wilson 9,ud Herbert C. Hoover to the category cate-gory of well-meaning Idealists. But these voluntary measures can. be tested test-ed by results. "Early la,st month we received from Mr. Hoover a cablegram saying he found that, as a result of the American Ameri-can conservation campaign, he had 150,000,000 pounds of bacon and 25,-000,000 25,-000,000 pounds of frozen meat more than the British representatives In the United States had estimated as likely to be available. His offer was so unexpected un-expected that we had to hustle to get the finance and shipping for this winter win-ter and fall. Later on It turned out that the amount of frozen meat avall-uble avall-uble was thousands of tons above the Hoover estimate. Except for the holdup hold-up of shipping In American ports due to congestion on the railways and blizzards, bliz-zards, our bacon and meat shortage would long since have been eased by these shipments, which represent only a small percentage of the total sacrifice sacri-fice of the American people. 'It is lucky for us that a man like Mr. Hoover1 is at the helm of the allied food suppljv and that behind him is a people wilting to deny themselves so we may live to fight." |