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...article by ex-President Taft in another column on this page states in a most convincing way the reasons which exist for backing up the work of Mr. Hoover as food conservator. We have in Mr. Hoover a man of most valuable experience abroad in a particular and most unusual kind of work which someone had to do here. We had in him a man not only of experience and ability, but one of the highest and most patriotic motives--a man above party animus or bias, above private interest, without concealments or prejudices. He patriotically assumed a most ungrateful...
...under his command this little fight of ours with wheat and corn and meat and sugar, the senators are in simple fact weakening our allies and helping the Germans. What will the people do and think about that? We believe that they will rally heartily to Mr. Hoover's support, and that the attack upon him will serve to strengthen his hands. --Boston Transcript...
...Hoover asks for voluntary rationing in the nation's households, with a maximum allowance of three pounds a person a month. This, applied to every individual, would cut our year's consumption in two. There is no difficulty in getting along in the home on the amount the Food Administration specifies. Thousands do regularly with much less per capita. New York...
...believe Mr. Hoover will find that the comic results justify the movie men's wastefulness. --New York...
...question of food, once academic and distant, has become intensely acute. Through the warning voice of Mr. Hoover, pronouncing the doom of starvation for the world, the people have come to understand that abundant sustenance for life is not a purely natural good, springing without labor from the ground. Such understanding was necessary to check the wastefulness and the shortsightedness which have gone with our opulence. We have, as is clearly shown, profited by the understanding...