Mr. Hoover Has Promised Europe 
20,000,000 Tons of Food 
"BACK HIM UP WITH A GARDEN" 
UNITED STATES POOD ADMINISTRATION 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 
December 1, 1918 
Last summer, when the military situation was acute, we assured the Inter-Allied Pood 
Conference in London, that whatever the war-food program of the Allies required we were 
prepared to meet; that the Conference need not consider whether or not we had the supplies, 
we were prepared to find them; we pledged ourselves, by the voluntary economy of our people, 
to have reserves in food to supply all necessities. The ending of the war does not release 
us from the pledge. The same populations must be fed, and until another season has passed 
they cannot feed themselves. 
In addition to the supplying of those to whom we are already pledged, we now have the 
splendid opportunity and obligation of meeting the needs of those millions of people, in the 
hitherto occupied territories, who are facing actual starvation. The people of Belgium, 
Northern France, Serbia, Roumania, Montenegro, Poland, Russia and Armenia rely upon 
America for immediate help. 
No government nor nation can stand if its people are starving. We must do our part if the 
world be not consumed in a flame of anarchy. 
^ The American people in this most critical period of their history, have 
j^^^^^^^k. the opportunity to demonstrate not only their ability to assist in establish- 
J ^ P ^ I B h ^ ^Bi ing peace on earth, but also their consecration, by self-denial, to the cause 
oi suffering humanity, 
^^^MB^ HERBERT HOOVER. 
^IfiP^ EVERY GARDEN AND EVERY FARM MUST DO ITS SHARE 
