AMERICA SURE TO WIN THE WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 September 1917, Page 5

AMERICA SURE TO WIN THE WAR.

STATEMENT BY MR. HOOVE®,

Washington. 2Sth July.—America will win the war, Herbert Hoover declared in a statement to-night, because of its superior rcsour.:°s and through the ability of the American people to organise. The success, already evident, of the nation's voluntary food conversation effort, Hoover said, points to a final victory. Germany accomplished less in this direction in twelve months," said Hoover than our people have ,r. four. The only need of legisation and authority is to curb those who would profit by this voluntary movement." More than two million women, Hoover announced, have enrolled as members of the food administration, jind pledged themselves to follow its directions as to saving food within the household. Within sixty days, he said, many more millions will have become members. NO RIGHT TO BE GLOOMY. "No one can rightly be gloomy over the outcome for the American people in this war," said Mr Hoover. "Success in this war is a question of resources, ajid the will and ability of the people to organise 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 America could not organise to meet autocratic Germany. Germanj has been confident that it could not be done.

"Contrary proof is immediately at our door, and onr people have already demonstrated their ability to mobilise, organise, endure, and prepare voluntarily 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 that one of the great problems of the war would (be food. There ha 3 been no consequential national .or local legislation, yet the, greatest spontaneous volunteer effort ever made in history has not only provided us with a larger stock of food supply as a result of patriotic planting in every quarter, but waste is being eliminated out of every crack and cranny of' our homes and of onr industries, and this is being done without compulsion of the law, but by spOfctaneous effort and self-denial" of the people. "The wolf is at the door of Europe, and with all these surpluses out stock of foodstuffs would still have been too little for the demand upon us during the coming year if our people had not responded to tho call for wise use, economy and elimination of waste. The response not only in planting, but also in conservation, has been of such a spontaneous, magnificent order as to give us confident optimism in the ability of our people to prepare and to persevere."