Herbert Hoover message, USFA book

Unknown. 1918. “Herbert Hoover message, USFA book.” Special Collections, USDA National Agricultural Library. Accessed April 19, 2024, https://www.nal.usda.gov/exhibits/speccoll/items/show/1185.

To the Girls and Boys of America: Now that the terrible war is over, you must be glad that you helped to win it by saving food for our soldiers and our unhappy friends across the sea. But our work of feeding hungry people is now to be greater than it has ever been. Many millions of people have been made free by our victory, but they are in the greatest danger of death from starvation. They look to America for food until the next harvest. We must go on saving and sharing with them as faithfully as ever. And of course you will want to do your part as you have been doing it. To save the world from famine will be a greater task than any of us can imagine, but we can do it if each of us does all he can. I am counting on you. Faithfully yours, Herbert Hoover.