Food in War. By Herbert Hoover. (W. H. Smith and
Son. 3d.) —Mr. Clynes in an Introduction rightly describes Mr. Hoover's recent speech, now reprinted, as "a remarkable contribution towards a better understanding of the international food situation," and as a proof of America's ardent desire to help in winning the war. We should emphasize especially the fact that the American people has voluntarily reduced its consumption of flour and meat in order to supply the Allies. Such self-denial on the part of a whole nation is without precedent and beyond praise. We can best show our gratitude by practising the strictest economy in the use of the American foodstuffs. "Apart from the prime necessity of protecting our independence and our institutions," said Mr. Hoover, "there is but one possible benefit from the war, and that in the stimulation of self-sacrifice in the people, the lifting of its ideals, and the diver- sion of its concentration upon the purely material things in life to a strengthening of its higher purposes."
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