Show RECORD OF WAR RELIEF The final report of the for Belgian relief Just published is s a cheerful contrast to everything else pertaining to the I history of the great war I Here was a commission which exercised ex ex- exI ex- ex exercised I powers of ot more than sovereignty sovereignty which organized tha thO th world for the support and survival of ot a I whole nation which spent spen more than and and did It all on n business principles as ns accurately carefully efficiently e and wasted un ly as if it were a routine business In time of peace And now It issues its report ac ac- accounting accounting accounting counting for every dollar and every pound of ot food with a precision such euch as no other war agency gov governmental or private can show how There ba baa never been a moro more striking example of practical Ideal Ideal- Idealism ism of ot hard headed inspiration in tho thu history of tho ho world Herbert Hoovers Hoover's recent achieve achieve- achievements achievements ments havo been less spectacular though thou quite as ns efficient and per per- hops heps no less useful But Dut it Is well web to be reminded of tho the time when tho skill and devotion of or an Amer Amer- Amerlean American ican lean engineer and his ability to se secure secure cure and organize the devoted co co- cooperation co- co cooperation operation or of others solved tho mos most difficult problem In Jn the tho world saved swed war its ils worst horror borror an and stirred the hearts of or all of us This is the chief value of this book of dry figures on the bus busness busi busi- ness side of a great greal spiritual ad ad- venture t I I |