Show SEES NO RESO N to BE 1 may wa herbert hoover says success in this war Is a question of resources FOOD PROBLEM 15 13 SOLVED spontaneous volunteer effort en on part of people provide provides great stock of food american women re pond spond nobly in great crisis by HERBERT HOOVER IN Is hington no one can rightly be gloom over oner the outcome for tilt lean leople in till this ar in this war nar Is a question of resource and the will and of the people to organize them beltes to wt ua rt rightly and to tri dure many thinking thin kini people in america Ani erica and throughout the u whole hole world have blui ll itchIng anxiously the last lust four months in the tile fear that america could not organize to meet autocratic germany Ger ninny a lias ha been confident that it could not be done don el contrary proof I 1 Is at our door aside fro from m the remarkable as flem blage of our army rind financial re sources sour ct our people lave lime already dem 01 stunted their ability to mobilize or gat ilze endure and prepare voluntarily and evidently in many directions and upon upun a mere word of food supply increased we entered the war aar four month months 1190 and it was mas announced by he the president that one of the great problems of the war mould be food that we e must prepare to increase and to sue our foodstuffs for a year in advance not only for ours thel thes but for our allam as well there haa has been no consequential national or local legislation yet the greatest effort made in distor lit stor line pro aided ui Us 1 with I ith a larger stock of food supply as a result of patriotic fant plant ing in every ciery quarter and aaste vaste Is being eliminated out of ciery a cry crack and cranny of our hoheb and of our indus tries trips this Is being done without It hout corn com of the lav lan and by effort and self denial of the people there have hane sprung up ocr night throughout the united statis in cutri city county village ant and state din thil nite and positive organizations practical in their adi nd and rind unflagging in their c forts which have lime the will to solve food supply questions no nu au to cratic hoerni government overn ment nent could accomplish this germany mccomi lashed less in twelve months than our I 1 have done in four the only need of our and authority Is to curb tho those 30 alio ito would profit by this volun tier ter the proof of alt all thin this lies in III the tile filet that our indicate nil of production of ceri ul 1 8 bushels our d mi nil tie 94 of hiat N but t lie tie lather his it is not responded for this product I 1 lt r ally millions of tie new gardina lime hm hen betti planted or tu ft her t awe lial e tilt largist eipl 0 of ae eg 01 tn blea bles in our lilston lil stor women respond nobly the tito bolf Is nt tit the tile door of I 1 drope anti mth alth nil till the thee e surpluses our stock of foodstuff 4 would still lime bein too little for tile lie demand lipon iti dilding tit conille spir ir if our popit had not responded to the call for lt annl nil I 1 ero ml ue of food anti for the allm of ua baite te ahe rt conw not annl in but also in tion lins has bun of such order ns as to justify conal dent 01 01 tim liin tin in the ri billit of pur ur to prepare anti to re in ili ho tile of our art ernnt at surplus of per iq I 1 lica tite of our inability to ahli tairo in if to our allies it call wn uns sent out from ap hington that our people choul I 1 consume the perishables i during tilt i surginer sur niner and full fall month tn ilk ill for lie tile great staples aich i should be held for the 1 antl r und and for tu tit our allies they vero pro naked to substitute corn for baat and to convene the gunste of find fita ly by the tile use of wits that till thlu Is being done la is a nl rendy really by report reports of dea lerat in cirenio and in ments andt cute n most remarkable decre decrease ahe in 10 demand for thise commodities and nn at demand for substitutes A call 10 silao lo l o aai sent out asking nuking it atit tit nl all pc ri that could not IP im 0 ifould lie arc and stored till call nil since the tile arrival of perl pert hables in may ilay lias has hem met by the lie response res ponso of millions nt of omen in the countr not only in the mettr of pre deming in the hou household houe hold but also by the creation of innumerable committed clubs 11 demon stratton trains ani instructors provid ed bv our educational institution making a complete eften ft en throughout the file country although Altho uRh ue e nrc are only half ny through the canning u e can con byln 11 to see in ili results it Is oblong enough that clif kmer american ican woman has not lost the tile household houst hold arts of her pioneer mother will supply the deficiency our american c inners will till this 3 car about I 1 ca of fruit and ant our government and the miles ml require about of these caf alie returns we hae from parlous state b ired upon the tile results obtained tor for the first rot half of tho the benion indicate that lie tile american goinn will present jars and cana of fruit and ege vegetables tables thie this ear car rind aill thus supply appy tiny auld calk d for by tho h armies r rules A ft w days ago ngo we uc bent sent out a call t to 0 the goinn of the country that they 9 stan I 1 agn a to ua us to accept our eug sug gem ce 1 on ns to substitutes s and u aste I 1 in their homes eo so far as their arcu instances permit alread we me line oer home en on route to ashington phil adolphia la lending alth ith st louis for example has hall over mass meetings of momen in lit arrange ing the enrollment there are 2400 in 11 maling n house to house canvass we it liae a ie the millions of homes in ili the united higates enrolled as member members of I 1 the food joining us la in volunteer regulation within sixty days dayo thie this in response to u simple rf quest and nith no extended organization on jur part but in reliance upon the sulk eup port of 0 the women omens s committee of the council of national defence te state councils of deft teft rise nse the of exist ing organization iq and the trong troi iR support port of nil the churches nod and fraternal frn organizations of tit the country As s rn li as N w um tin formulate the iol 01 ol we ahall a ask ak for sli ullar from froin oer public cat ing plot and every trade in ili the tile coun try the of waltr in the countr lins has batu mot most in I 1 st icil II almly il of tills R 1 ing 14 in garbage tr bugi from front our large e titles itle 4 e him linw r returns turns for the thit of or june from cities n of f sh choin oIn a of t their b 12 32 lit r rent helo helim tilt contti of juno june laut thise ili ures are it tribute to the tile eberg of fit ain anit rican women omen not tint in the vork ork n of f thair but in lit the bation of hublit opinion for the dellill of enste spell 11 get Gern I 1 kny MYS doom it if i c inaki it broad pure vure of thu a c e find 1 ei earv t rv sante tnt ousie busl a dill d unite nite unit active food presided oer by anti doted mii and aulen are aery Int inherst Inter erst in this n national ierace hen ice wn wo find a well considered cd anti ut lion tion of on tha curious I 1 hases of food production and con on st ovation lon tion und and we e otee eo rie bated ba li sub ab organizations in and this la Is the or dr of unit this IS 11 positive proof that tit t the call of national duty our people hlll III rise and rise to the tile reni real defense of 0 their faith falth I 1 feel pure that ahn tin eu Intelli intelligence lence of our people thir for self pelf denial nod hplu their will to perm i cre cr III prove a m wall nil that mill III the die best fiorta of he lie germans Op for the nest next five me au if it it be hect alwn though he the situation in europe may be ile gloomy today no american who nho has Ittin nUdge of the results at 1 raudy obtained iti lit er diri need have lime one atom of fear that democracy mill lill not defond itself in these united bt state ittem i I 1 receil that shortly before ft no joined the war ar I 1 had halt a alth a I 1 prominent german who had spent conie some time fline in tho tile united states and mho iho had it much lion than most of what Ani tricas entry in tie te viar mean ills final rei narl to me after a long discussion aas 1 I do not fear the tile american rm hie toy cannot arrhe iti its time little ahat lint I 1 f ar la Is the tile anti deo devotion tion of lo 10 of original minds and trained to a fulth in lit individual live ille day ebur these people now so 0 o materialistic in outward alpiar rince are stirred spiritually that day tiny la Is the tile day of german a doom dooin |