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j?Ti<iay, -\ovemDer zv, xvlq !L Know No Armistice America is Pledged, War or Peace, to Furnish Food to'Millions ot Aiuea Peoples Now in Misery, and the Only Way to Send it is to Save it. L America is Still to Feed Hungry f World. A hundred and eighty million people ? in hungry lands are looking to America for food which no other people except the American people can give them. In their misery and famnie, Bel gium, Northern Prance, Central KU3 Bia, Serbia, Montenegro, Poland, Ru? mania and Armenia are already crying \ ftloud to America. L From America food must go. What W is sent must be saved. Perhaps that is America's mission. Peace or no peace, war or no war, . the American people must keep on saving food. ' B This is the message of the United W States Food' Administration, whose Seaders realize that the outcome of the present situation will only increase the responsibilities of the United States, no matter how events in Europe turn. Millions of people in territory that has been occupied by the enemy are L in misery. ' Famine stalks abroad. ^ " A V. "iney xuusl ue icu. ^ Under any cirCcmstances, th? " American nation is bound by the food pledge of August, 1918. The Allies were told: "Make your plana i for Victory." f To this victory, America's contri* butkvn, among other things, will be seventeen and one-half million tons of food. America is bound. The pledge is not broken by the signing of the . armistice. The change that has come m the ' " * - - * - a xt situation lias ratr.er increased me \ Jburden on American resources because the burden of feeding millions I; of hungry peoples who could not be BL TeatfheS before now becomes the ^fccommon burdea of the Allies; and j^Pthat obligation can be lessened only ^by living up to it * There Is but one way in which sevK teen and <*ne-half million 4tons of Hood can "he got to send to Europe to I care the lives of hundreds of thxwsV ends who will die from hunger in a r famine land unless they get it. That vay is to save it. It means intensive saving of all fbod, just as -wheat was saved in the -wheat emergency, just as sugar was saved in the sus^ir emergency. There can be no greater folly Indulged by the American peonle than the idea Chat because the fighting has ceased in Europe there is no longer any need L cf savin? food. ; America is pledged. L The nation's pledge must be re| deemed, war or no war, peace or no P pecae. Suffering humanity and national > iwuux ucuiauu n. NO MORE SUBSTITUTES REQUIRED WITH FLOU& 1? Columbia.?The Food Administration rule, requiring the purchase, of one pound of wheat substitutes with every four pounds of wheat flour, has Mfceen rescinded. |B Wheat flour may now be used withnnVnfUiif ao R^HUUt OttUOUVUb^ This announcement "wa3 made by pjfee Food Administration, and fhe Vorder is effective immediately. B Until a short time ago purchases of wheat flour could be made only on the V*feasis of pound for pound of substi tutes and wheat fiour. This was known as the "fifty-fifty" rule. It was superceded by the 'eighty-twenty" rule, requiring that one pound of ^ wiheat substitutes be bought with IBsvery four pounds of wheat flour. Bjignty-rwenty" ruie is now reI, and wheat flour may be purwithont any substitutes whatHANTS ARE ASKED TO ICTURE WORLD'S HUNGER mbia.?Thanksgiving week this 3 set aside for food conserva-4. * ~ rpi,/, TXaaJ A A I, UUl iUf lCOOUUg. 1UC ?UUU XVU" istration is asking the stores on ry business street in every city town in the United States to pici m their display windows, the iigious task of feeding the Allied Id through the coming year, if that lid he necessary. Posters and wincards of special design have % issued by the Food Administralat Washington. These are availI to every retailer through the k Food Administrations. It is med to make the picture of the Rsity so real that nobody can esi it, and to this end the co-operaOff patriotic merchants through the nation is asked during Thankspg week. It will be a message ol ifice and service. Merchants in Ii Carolina who desire to aid ia Hrection should immediately comcate with E. H. Noroom, State hants Representative of the Administration, Columbia, S. C., (he material for decorating their dws "will be sent free on reL3 ARE CHEAPER; MEAL PRICE INCREASED tanWa.?On account of the armi and the consequent cessation oi ad for hull fibre by munitions I'acturers, the price of hulls has reduced by the Pood Adminisi to $16 f. o. b. mills or $18 de!. and in order to equalize -this Hoc. in price of hulls the price oi to increased to $55. The price | will remain unchanged. PeEce Brings Us Ne jjjj j ALLIES ARE FED BY SELF DENIAL Generous Doing Without in Amaplno CilhnlioH FrtflH MNl^l IV/U VUJJJJIIWVI vv%a to Europe. Exports from this country since ft entered the war have kept starvation from Allied Europe and have main- ? tained the health and strength of those who have been bearing the brunt of our battles, so that they could hold out to victory. Now that hostilities have ceased we must assume the add ed burden of keeping starvation fi;om ! increasing its toll upon the millions who have been liberated from the j Prussian yoke. Famine would undo the work which has been accomplished in freeing the world for democracy." No stable government can be established and maintained by a nation harassed ! by hunger. A starving people turns j to rioting and anarchy. Food has i given strength and courage to the nations fighting for democracy; it must now give the nations strength and tranquillity to re-establish themselves in freedom and democracy. , Without our help it -would have been absolutely impossible for the Allies to maintain a living ration. Since our entry into the war we have been contributing largely to the support of one hundred and twenty million people : whose normal food supplies have been ? - -*? <-?? i cut OH, wnose proUUCUUU una xaucu almost to the vanishing point, whose fields have been devastated by Germany. The food exported from the United- States in the past year has been sufficient to supply the complete ; ration of twenty-two million people. It is hard to grasp the magnitude and significance of the assistance which has been lent the Allies by the patriotic, voluntary service of the i American people. The <rooa we seni : abroad last year would have been suf! ficient to feed one-fifth of our popula\ tion. And this was done in spite of ! the fact that we entered the year with short crops. Our surplus was practically nothing. An overwhelming proportion of the food that left this country last year was saved out of the nori mal home consumption of our own 'people. | In spite of difficulties met in inter! nal transportation and shortage of ocean tonnage our food exports last year amounted to a figure that a few years ago would have been unbelieva ble. Even the most optimistic eiemeni of our population faced with anxioua consternation the prospect which opened before us with the beginning , of the 1917 harvest year. I The American people have no? been ! compelled to save. They hav$ been appealed to on the basis of humanity and of patriotism. They have responded voluntarily. .' ? I ! cnnVi hpnpfltq Ifl ' j OCOIUCO ouvii , ; the improvement In figure and health that we've reaped from our meatless, 1, wheatless days, think of the fun we've had out of them?the new crop of jokes, jibes, topical songs and carj toons to replace the mother-in-law j joke and the boost to our reputation | for ready humor 1 ' j ******************** . * * ; Eighty millions of men can- * j * not be taken out of production for four years without lasting * losses of yield. It will be years * . before their fields recuperate, , * farms are restored and herds reI ??? stocked. Save food. : * ' ^ ^ Feed j t PURPOSES OF FOOD fc ADMINISTRATION THE t DAY OF ITS SEGINNING. * b > ?S? J( The hopes of the Food Admin- t istration are threefold: So to e guide the trade in fundamental > food commodities as to elimi- t nate vicious speculation, extor- c tion ana wasteful practices and >. t > to stabilize prices in essential * t staples.?Herbert Hoover, Au- * t A ^ * gust 10, 1917. V ? ?$?... <$ ^ % x SEVEN LOAVES -OF BREAD . I FOR EVERY PERSON MN ] U. S. SAVED FROM WASTE ' t Farmers and Threshermen Patriot!- s callv Respond to Call of Food ^ t Administration. . i From information received by the \ U. S. Food Administration from the t principal grain growing states, it is 1 now possible to announce with fair ac- t curacy the amount of wheat saved last : harvest by improved methods of handling. According to official calculations, efforts toward cleaner threshing ( saved fully 16,000,000 bushels of wheat ( with corresponding savings of other, ( small ^rain-harvested' and threshed in j a similar manner. In addition, other t states, though unable to furnish fig- c ures, reported greatly reduced harvest { 'losses. , The figure for wheat alone is equiv alent to seven one-pound loaves of bread for every person in the United ' States and represents food that formerly was either an absolute loss or .. was recovered to only a slight extent by poultry and livestock. While opportunities in this branch of conservaI tion were large, the quantity of grain recovered surpasses early expecta tions. It is noteworthy also that re IX? TMt?nr?mo IITT fhmjlffh SUI IS W ei e SCV.UICU [ILIUU^UHJ voluntary co-operation. No conservation measure of the Food Administration, it is declared, has received more wholehearted support than that pledged and rendered by farmers and threshermen toward reducing grain wast? at its source. ; , The benefits of our food-saving campaign that was a vital factor in the winning of the war were not all to these we fed. We have at home a new appreciation of food that will prevent it ever being wasted again by those that have come to understand the re j ligion of saving ana tne piace mat, > food occupies in our new, world-wide i human relations. ^ i Out of empty granaries to draw 141,- 1 000,000 buslieis for export?the will of a free people accomplished that mar- 1 veL I _____________ Do you remember when food control by voluntary action was deemed , a daring adventure in democracy 2 i t i . .. >EACE ADOS TO U. S. FOOD TASK iurope Needs Nearly Double Last Year's Supplies From America. [CONOMY MUST CONTINUE. t /orld Survey Shows Sufficient Wheat, But Shortage of Fats?Govern liiwii k k? wwnnviiMhi tv w gram Justified. ' <. With the return of peace America Is onfronted by a food problem even arder of solution than that with ,-hich we coped in time of war. We ave an entirely new world situation 3 food. It will mean essential changes 3 our domestic program. But more mportant than this, it must of necesity require increased export. Last year we shipptwi 11,820,000 tons f foodstuffs to the European Allies, lad the war continued we would have acreased this enormous figure to 17,50,000 tons in the present year. Now, rith the responsibility of feeding mil>ns of people liberated from the German yoke, our exports must be brought p to at least 20,000.000 tons?pracIcally the limit of loading capacity at ur ports. World Food Demand Increased. The end of the war will create an normously increased demand for food, lumanity demands that the starving aillions freed from Prussian oppresion shall have sufficient supplies to ssure their return to health and prosiprifv it' thesp liberated nations are aced with starvation they cannot esablish orderly governments. Hunger reeds anarchy in a people. The war o. free the world for democracy will ie lost after it has been won. Amjer?a must continue its work to liberaion and by sharing its food make deoocracy safe in the world. In order to meet this new situation be Food Administration has made a areful survey of the food resources of he whole world in relation to the toal demands. Computing supplies on he basis of the avoidance of waste' nd war consumption, it is found that rheat and rye m^y be obtained in sufIcient quantities to meet economical vorld consumption; high protein feed or dairy animals will show a shortage >f about 3.000.000 tons, while there rill be sufficient supplies of other eeds to allow economical-consumpion; beans, peas and rice will also be ound in sufficient quantities to mainain economy in consumption; there ire sufficient supplies of beef to keep with the caDacity of refrigerating pace. Great Fat Shortage. The most distinct reversal of policy vill come with pork and dairy predicts, vegetable oils, sugar and coffee. Jtmost economy will be required in lie use of fats and oils, in which there s a world shortage of about 3,000,000,>00 pounds. Inere are sufficient supHies for us to return to our normal lugar consumption if other nations rontinue their present short rations, >r even if their rations are slightly inrreased. If the European countries, lowever, are to resume their normal sugar consumption it will be through >ur continued conservation in order 0 share with them. There is a sur>lus of coffee. Of the world total required to proluce these results North America will !urnlsh more than 60 per cent. The Jnited States, including the West Iniies, will be in a position to furnish 1 total of about 20,000,000 tons? igainst our pre-war exports of about >,000,000 tons. The bread grains situation allows ;he world to abandon the use of sub{titutes in wheat bread. Large sup)lies have accumulated in the Argen:ine, Australia and other hitherto iniccessible markets. A continued high Billing percentage, economy of consumption and elimination of waste nake it possible for the world to re :urn to a white wneat loar. Of all our export possibilities in fats, the largest and most important tern is pork. While we cannot supply the world deficiency, we will be able jo help it enormously because of the past policies of stimulating production ind restraining consumption. The government's policy with regard to jtimulating the production of wheat md of pork, the readiest source of fats, is thus amply justified by the situation upon the return of peace. Famine Specter Still Stalks. The people of the United States mnst continue care and wise economy in the use of food in order to complete the work of liberating the world. But aven with the utmost conservation and production In this country there will De in Europe for the next year or more itarvation beyond all human power to illay. In North Russia there are 40,XX),000 people to whom food cannot be made accessible this winter. Their transportation is demoralized in comnipfp anarchy. And even if internal transport can be assured their ports of entry would soon be frozen. Millions more who have felt keenly the oppression of war will be beyond reach of assistance. We must realize that upon our Bhoulders rests a greater responsibili ty than we have ever before been asked to. assume. We must realize that millions of lives depend absolutely upon the continued service and sacrifice of the American people. Wa JE'tist realize that the specter ot famine abroad pow haunts the abundance of our table at home. r WHEAT SHOWED i SPIRIT0F U. S, Sacrifice to Ensure Allied Loaf fipflofflel C innlrt Cnnr) UIGCU^Ol Olliyic I UUU Achievement. SUFFICIENT SUPPLY NOW. Ail the Nations Will Be Able to Return tft Th^tr Normal Ann. ply of White Bread. ??y Overshadowing all other accomplishments of the Ainericap people under the leadership of Food Administration is the history of wheat exports in the past sixteen months. Our wheat export program proved conclusively to the world that America was in this war from start to finish and willing to make any sacrifice that will hasten victory or maintain the health and strength of people overseas, upon whom rested the heaviest weight of our war. Now that pressure on ocean tonnage is eased by the stopping of large movements of troops to Europe, we may relax our efforts to save wheat. The accumulated surplus in Australia, Argentine and other hitherto inaccessible rnQptoto Trill Kannmo airndoKIa am! uiuiuvtu it in i/^vvui^ a uiiauiV/f auu probably no more than our normal surplus will have to leave this country. We in America and the nations which have won the world for freedom will be enabled to eat their normal wheat loaf at the conmion table of the peoples of democracy. We entered the past crop year with a wheat supply which gave us only 20,000,000 bushels available for export When the crop year ended, we had sent 141,000,000 bushels of wheat to Europe. The American people had saved out of their normal consumption 121,000,000 bushels. A survey of export figures shows that the conservation of floUr brought about by the wheatless meals, wheatless days, substitution in our kitchens and bakeries, enabled us to send to our armies ana tne aines i?,uw,uuu barrels of white flour?wheat figured as flour. Had we exported only our visible surplus, we would have been able to ship less than 4,500,000 barrels. Before the 1st of December our surplus had gone overseas, and an additional 36,000,000 bushels had been taken from the stock reserved for home consumption and added to'the surplus already shipped to the allies. It seemed haidly possible that we could bring our total exports above 100,000,000 bushels by July X. But in January the late Lord Rhondda, then British Food Controller, cabled that unless we could send an additional 75,000,000 bushels he could not take responsibility for assuring his people that they would be fed. The American people responded by sending 85,000,000 bushels of wheat, saved from their home consumption, between the first of the year and the advent of the new crop. By October 10, 1918, we had already shipped 65,960,305 bushels since July 1. Absolutely tne omy limitation upou our wheat exports since the latest .harvest has been the scarcity of ocean tonnage. If exports continue at the present rate, by July 1 of next yenr we will have sent more than 237,500,- j 000 bushels to Europe. Thus are we making good America's pledge that the bread rations of Allied ( Europe shall be maintained. ' 4 I A Memorable Achievement of the Titanic Struggle . i America saved and sent to Europe In a year of crop failure 141.000,000 bushels of wheat, which saved Europe. I I*v vvv v v i ? *1* j 1 T I * A GERMAN HOPE DISPROVED * * AND + * A GERMAN FEAR CONFIRMED *j * f i + A statement made by a promi- 1 4-' nent German official soon after * ! + this country was declared in a ^ * state of war with Germany 4* shows that even in the enemy 4* 4- country clear thinking students did not undervalue the strength 4* of the American republic. Only 4* 4- in his confidence that we could * not land in Europe sufficient + * troops to affect the final decision * ? was this German mistaken. + Jr "I do not fear the American 4* * soldiers," he told a high official ? ? of our government, "because * 4* they cannot arrive in time. What I fear is the intelligence and de- * * votion of one hundred million 4* original minds and people train- * * ed to a faith in individual initia- + J* tive. The day that these peo- *fr * pie, now so materialistic in out- + ward appearance, are surrea v * spiritually, that day Is the day i* of Germany's doom." ^ ^ *i* | | J Save food I I Who shares | I in the struggle 1 | Will share | 1 ft,*, fritimoh 1 I I SUGAR TESTED MORAL FIBER Doubters Declared Saving Staples Would Be Easy Compared > r * ? ! a _ ? i Wild sacrificing Luxuries FIGURES SHOW RESULTS^ Americans Demonstrated Sturdy Su^> port of War by Conserving for ; the Benefit of the Allies. When figures began to show ddk fnltplv lhnt the! Deonle of the UnHeft States were actually reducing their consumption of foods needed abroad^, the United States Food Administration was told that It was comparatively easy to bring about conservation of staple necessities, but that would he far more difficult to accuiaplisb an actual decrease in the use af luxuries. The doubters took sugar Mian example, and declared that it wovridl be practically impossible to bring ourconsumption of sugar down to a point, that would meet only the food needs* of the people. Now that demands upon,ocean taanage will be lightened, European tions will be able to go farther afieHft for foodstuffs, and will no longer entirely dependent for sugar upon; North American supplies. Wi^h th?> ot/vnljo nAftr In nrncno^t' wa Will OIUV.HO uun iu jk/x v^vv,vf ft w ... .?? sufficient sugar to place this country back upon normal consumption.If thepresent short rations in Europe aimr not materially increased. .If the European ration is to be materially increased over the present low amonnt: It can be only through the America*, people's making it p^spible by coatinued restriction to ^'greater or 3es? extent here. The fact that the Food Administration has been able to relax the voluatary sugar ration is in itself proof that; the ration of two pounds per person, per month was generally observed; tVin / rtiintrv This UliWUjJUVUl vation allowed the Food Administi*tion to build up a reserve, and to over the period of scarcity, until th* the new crops of Louisiana cane and: beet sugar were ready for distribution^. The records of the Food Administration show that in July, August, SejK tember and October 995,000 tons wer* distributed. Normal consumption forthat period is 1,600,000 tons. Thfa* shows a definite, concrete saving of" over 500,000 tons. These figures apply to sugar consumed on the table, the kitchen and in the various indro tries, and show conclusively that ia the homes and public eating places at America, where 70 per cent of all our sugar is consumed, the sugar consume tion has been reduced by more tiuufe one-third. In the four-month period beginning with -Tilly, this country normallyuses 400,000 tons of sugar per moath.. Last July 200,000 tons entered into* distribution. In August only 225,Q0Q?' tons were distributed. In September* the figures showed 279,000 tons* an& then fell to 230,000 tons in October. There could be no more tfefmStfe proo? that the American people hav*? given their loyal co-operation and sn|>? port of the war. AN AMERICAN HABIT THAT WAS EXPANDED^ Coming to the relief of the dis?> tressed is not a new sensation to ua Having sent shiploads of food to tbe famine sufferers of India as offhandedly as the housewife hands out a c?t of the loaf to the wayfarer, it seemed the most natural thing in the world ttt succor Belgium, to take on the feeding of a nation quite informally. The test of peace is to summon for the healiug of nations devotion equal to that given the tasks of wa^-. Save ylP that we may share |>- ^ _ J OfWe ioou J t - if+ 4* 4* 4* 4* 4r4r4*-P4? ?!?? ' 4* 4*" 4* METHODS OF DEMOCRACY. * 4* 4? 4? The extent to which the United 4? 4* States Food Administrator has- 4^ 4* relied on the voluntary support 4> 4* of the American people is shown 4 by a statement made by the 4* 4 United States Food Administra^ 4 tor speaking before the Senate 4 4 Agricultural Committee less 4 + than three months after this 4 ^ country entered the war. That 4 4 he was justified in his implicit 4 4 confidence in the strength of de- 4 4 mocracyhas been clearly reflect- 4 4 ed by the measure of support we 4 4 nave lent tne Aiues. ?? 4 "If democracy is worth any- 44 thing," Mr. Hoover declared, "we 44 can do these things by co-opera- 44 tlon, by stimulation, by self-sae- 44 rifice, by the patriotic mobiliza- 4 4 tion of the brains of this conn- i 4 try. If it cannot be done in this 4* 4 manner it is better that we ao- 4:4 cept German domination and 4f 4 confess to failure of our political i 4- Ideals, acquiesce in the superior- i 4- ity of the German conception 4. 4 and send for the Germans to in- 4 4 street ub In its use." 4 4 4 *******$***** Hi