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Show uu MISSJHIMS H WMSM SALT LAKE. April 2-That the proper rationing of the allied armies and the feeding of starving European) nations can only be adequately accom-pllahed accom-pllahed through a league of nations. Is the opinion expressed by Miss Jane, Addams, social worker of Chicago, in an addreia delivered before the members mem-bers of the Bonneville club and their ladle- at the Hotel Utah last night. Miss Addams was the especial euest of the club as she passed eastward from a tour of the coast In the interest inter-est of food conservation. Miss Addams. especially delegated to represent in United States food administration on this western trip, declared that only through the internationalization inter-nationalization of the distribution of the world's food supplies could , the food problem of the world be solved, and In thus philosophising gave support sup-port to a plan fostered and furthered by President Wilson in rounding out the league of nations to control the world's supplies of food stocks without with-out profiteering President Wi'son. months ago Bbfl said, recommended the internationalizing internationaliz-ing of oil foodstuffs which vot'ld naturally nat-urally pass Into the hands of the distributors dis-tributors to the allied armies and the nations dependenf upon these stocks for sustenance Miss Addams explained ex-plained that America, Great Britain and France, following th1 suggestion, are controIMnc th food supplies which come Into these countries, with the United States government wild nc most carefully the exports, w.iile the English government is keepinc a sharp eye to the imports, which the latter country is distributing where they will do the battling allies and their armies most good. League of Nations. Miss Addams declares that very' soon the distribution of all tho food stocks would be In the bands of a committee representing the league of nations, and that the duties of this i.uuiuimcp vsouia e.xicnu lur aner tne close of the war. The message Miss Addams conveyed last night was neither hackneyed nor stale. The speaker offered many new, points for consideration, addressing herself to the men members of her audlenee equally with the women. She told the latter that one of the prime means of solving the food supply question ques-tion in this country was through the kitchen. She congratulated housewives house-wives of America upon their readiness to adopt recommendations sent out by the administration for kitchen savings, and explained that through this medium me-dium thousands of pounds of fats alone were weekly being saved. Famine in Europe. The speaker prefaced her address with a few remarks concerning living condition in several famished coun-trie, coun-trie, of Europe making these remarks the basis for the larger thought which followed. She urged throughout the necessity of saving more and raising more She said that famine, like a black specter, stalked In Russia, Rumania. Ru-mania. Serbia. Italy, Holland. Denmark, Den-mark, Switzerland and Scandinavia. Sin.' pointed to the extraordinary drain that had been made upon many of the war-stricken countries through the assembling as-sembling of war refugees, Miss Addams said the question of food tor Europe was rapidly becoming a greater question than the quebtion of the reat war. She explained that one of the basic principles of President Wilson's league of nations was to eliminate profiteering in the handlinc oi food Stocks She urged more and more intensive in-tensive raising of vegetable crops, chiefly potatoes, and explained that ii By ol be bust ndant upo;i th handling of last year's crops would bo eilmlnated this fall. |