Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1918 — SHIP MORE FOOD OR WAR IS LOST [ARTICLE]

SHIP MORE FOOD OR WAR IS LOST

SEND IMMEDIATELY ELSE CATASTROPHE AWAITS, FOOD BOSS DECLARES. Philadelphia, Feb. 22.—As a war necessity the people must largely refrain from eating wheat flour for the next sixty days, possibly for a longer period. This statement was made today on the authority of H. C. • Hoover, federal food administrator, by Howard Heinz, administrator for Pennsylvania, speaking before an audience of newspaper managers. A telegram was read from Mr. Hoover which made it plain that this country must immediately send food to the allies or lose the war. If is is not sent, “it means but one thing—catastrophe," declared Mr. Hoover. The telegram from the food administrator follows: “The food situation of the allies grows .more critical evefy week. Their own short crops coupled with ever increasing shortage of shipping, which limits the importations more and more to food from the nearest markets, make the responsibility of America in the providing of food for the allies even greater. All our efforts must be redoubled to meet the absolute necessities of our associates in the war during the months to pass before the next harvest. ‘ “Unless we do meet them the war cannot go on. I appeal therefore with renewed earnestness to the people of Pennsylvania, ancLto our people all over the land to give their support to the attempts of the food administration to solve this food

problem. Every measure adopted has for its first aim the winning of the war. The latest measure restricting the purchase and use of wheat flour for food manufacturers, bakers, wholesalers and retailers has been adopted only after much thought and because it is the only way by jyhich the necessary wheat saving can be effected. It is only by the help of all the people and their whole hearted acceptance and support of the measures adopted by the food administration that the situation can be met. Without this help the food cannot be sent. “If it is not sent it means but one thing, .catastrophe.”