Show HOPE HO P E of 0 F BLUES ALLIES IN III MEM PEOPLE UNITED STAT STATES ES AND CANADA MUST FURNISH ROOD FOOD F FOR OR F ACI ACROSS lOSS SEA unless foad can be saved and sent to 0 places needed our chances of winning Worl dWar are slim says sir Wililam Goode ton bondon flon sir tini goode who since the entry of tile lie united states into the war has occupied tile the imbor tant post of li unison filson officer between the british fo gd foyd ministry und and the united states food administration discussed the present food situation in nn nil 1 ad I dross dress on oil F 11 1 to the london Z rotary club bew 16 w peopled people sir wil william have ve yet v e t grasped the run fundamental dumm till fact that great britain still relies on oil the united states wid and Canad fi for 0 per ceni of her essential foodstuffs effs unless we cangel cun get tills this food or nearly till all of it 11 we shall peter out As to liow low we get it th alip popular idea seems to be that hint the united states is nn nil up to ito date dat combination of miracle loaves find and fishes figlie s and the widows crust what I 1 want you oil to refi realize lize Is the ania amazing zing way in fit which the energies and sentiments of the american people have been harnessed to it a great national movement of organized self sac so that the allies can have food enough to carry on 11 lie he proceeded to give it a detailed account of the steps taken by the he united states toward food production find and conservation the cyrile cynic will tell you lie he said that it is ridiculous to imagine that the american people living in the midst 1 of of plenty ity will make such geesina nee sina tast these liese for the sake of their allies lies thousands allds of miles away tho the cynic cyula will relegate president wilson herbert C hoover to tile the category of well meaning idealists idea lists but these voluntary measures can be tested by results early last month we rec received elved front from mr hoover a cablegram saying lie found that as a result of the american conservation camp campaign algir lie had pounds of bacon and 25 21 pounds of frozen meat more 1 than the british representatives lit in the united states had estimated as likely to be available ills his offer was so unexpected that thai we had bad to hustle to get the finance and shipping for this winter wint ter find and fall later on if turned olit out t that the amount of frozen meat adall able wa was s thousands of tons above the hoover estimate except forthe holdup of shipping in american ports due to congestion on the railways and bliz our bacon and meat would long since have been eased by these shipments which represent only a small percentage of the total sacrifices of the Amerl american can people it ii Is luck lucky forus for us that a man like mr hoover is at the helm of the allied food supply and that thai behind him is a people willing to deny deay themselves so we may live to fight |