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Show FOOD CONSERVATION ASSURESVICTORV AM ER I CA WILL WIN WA D& CLARES HOOVER. BECAUSE OF SUPERIOR RESOURCES. Voluntary Household, Economy and Organization in Advance of of Leg islation Insures Final Success for the Allies. Washington.o "'in war, Herbert Hoover declared u a statement Saturday, boc ' 8 perior resources and through t he i nb.l tyof the Anierican people to o,g n zc The success, already evident, of hi ,'ation " voluntary food conservaUo effort, Mr. Hoover said, points to a final victory. . . "Germany accomplished less m til a direction in twelve months.' said M ; Hoover, "than our people have in fo. . . The only need of legislation nnd authority au-thority is to curb those who would profit' by this voluntary movement. More than two million women, Mr Hoover announced, have enrol ed a members of the food admi.itstiation and' pledged themselves to fo ow t. directions as to saving food within the household. Within sixty days, he said, many more millions will have become members. Success Question of Resources. "No one can rightly be gloomy over the outcome for the American people in this war," said Mr. Hoover. Success Suc-cess in .this war is a question of re sources and the will and ability of the people to organize themselves to use them rightly and to endure. Many thinking Americans and the whole world has been watching anxiously the last four months in the fear that democratic dem-ocratic America could not organize to meet autocratic Germany. Germany has been confident that it could not be done. "Contrary proof is immeuiaieij' our door and our people have already-demonstrated already-demonstrated their ability to mobilize, organize, endure and prepare voluntarily voluntar-ily and efficiently in many directions and upon a mere word of inspiration, aside from the remarkable assemblage of our army and finances. "We entered the war four months ago and it was announced by the president pres-ident that one of the great problems of the war would be food. There has been no consequential national or local lo-cal legislation, yet the greatest spontaneous spon-taneous volunteer effort ever made in history has not only provided us with a larger stock of food supply as a result re-sult of patriotic planting in every quarter, but waste is being eliminated out of every crack and cranny of our homes and of our industries, and this is being done without compulsion of the law, but by spontaneous effort and self-denial of the people. "Our present prospects indicate an increase of production of cereals by 850,000,000 bushels. Literally millions of new gardens have been planted or extended everywhere. We have the largest supply of vegetables ever in our history." |