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Show PRESIDENT IN A FOODAPPEAL Every Family Called on to Save in Order to Help in the War. WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 President Wilson, in a statoment issued today, urged ever' homo and public eating place In the United States to pledge its support to tho food administration and to comply with ita requests. His appeal marked tho inauguration of family-enrollment-work, during which everybody in the country will bo asked ask-ed to become a member of tho food administration ad-ministration in order to secure nationwide nation-wide co-operation in food conservation. The president said that in no other way than through this co-oporatlon of tho people can the nation accomplish its object in the war. The statement follows : "The chief part of the burden of finding food supplies for the peoples associated with us in war falls for the present upon 'the American people, and tho drain upon supplies on such a scale unnecessarily affects the price of our necessaries of life. "Our country, however, Is blessed with an abundance of foodstuffs and, if our people will economize in their use of food, providently conGning themselves them-selves to the quantities required for tho maintenance of health and strength; if they will eliminate waste; and If they will make use of those commodities com-modities of which we havo a surplus and thus free for export larger proportion pro-portion of th030 required by the world now dependent upon us, wo shall not only be able to accomplish our obligations obli-gations to them, "but wo shall obtain and establish reasonable prices at home. To provide an adequate supply sup-ply 'of food both for our own soldiers on the other sido of the seas and for the civil populations and the armies of tho allies is one of our first and foremost obligations; for if we are to maintain their constancy in this struggle for the independence of all nations, na-tions, we must first maintain their health and strength. Tho solution of our food problems, therefore, is independent inde-pendent upon the individual service of every man, women and child in tho United States. Tho great opportunity of service in tho war under my direction direc-tion offers of an opportunity of service serv-ice In the war which was open to every ev-ery individual, and by which every individual may serve both his own people peo-ple and tho peoples of the world. "We cannot accomplish our objects In this great war without sacrifice and devotion, and in no direction can that sacrifice and devotion be shown moro than by each home and public eating place in the country pledging its support sup-port to the food administration and complying with its requests. (Signed) Woodrow Wilson. . 00 |