Food Administration Secretary to Woodrow Wilson
Title
Food Administration Secretary to Woodrow Wilson
Creator
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
Identifier
WWP19308
Date
1917 December 31
Description
The Food Administration Secretary asks for an additional allottment of $30,000 for use by the Bureau of Fisheries.
Source
Hoover-Wilson Correspondence, Hoover Institution, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford, California
Publisher
Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum
Subject
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924--Correspondence
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964--Correspondence
Language
English
Text
My dear Mr. President
I beg respectfully to ask that the sum of $30,000. be allotted from the fund for the National Security and Defense for use by the Bureau of Fisheries for the purpose of immediately adding to the food supply of the country as explained below.
Within the last two years the work of the Bureau of Fisheries in the single, special function of developing unused fish foods has resulted in making available to the markets not less than twenty-five thousand tons of wholesome food theretofore unused.
This process is continuous and increasing. It is, however, capable of rapid and indefinite extension. The Bureau of Fisheries has reached the limit of its capacity with present limited force and funds.
It is proposed with the fund now asked to secure an immediate increase in the production of aquatic foods on all portions of the United States coast, including Alaska, through such educational and publicity methods as have proved so successful heretofore. This involves the sending into all parts of our coasts experienced men who will show the fishermen what neglected products have a market and food value and how those foods may be obtained and sold.
Yours very truly,
[U.S. Food Administration]
Secretary
Recommended:
Commissioner of Fisheries
Food Administrator.
I beg respectfully to ask that the sum of $30,000. be allotted from the fund for the National Security and Defense for use by the Bureau of Fisheries for the purpose of immediately adding to the food supply of the country as explained below.
Within the last two years the work of the Bureau of Fisheries in the single, special function of developing unused fish foods has resulted in making available to the markets not less than twenty-five thousand tons of wholesome food theretofore unused.
This process is continuous and increasing. It is, however, capable of rapid and indefinite extension. The Bureau of Fisheries has reached the limit of its capacity with present limited force and funds.
It is proposed with the fund now asked to secure an immediate increase in the production of aquatic foods on all portions of the United States coast, including Alaska, through such educational and publicity methods as have proved so successful heretofore. This involves the sending into all parts of our coasts experienced men who will show the fishermen what neglected products have a market and food value and how those foods may be obtained and sold.
Yours very truly,
[U.S. Food Administration]
Secretary
Recommended:
Commissioner of Fisheries
Food Administrator.
Original Format
Letter
To
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
Files
Citation
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964, “Food Administration Secretary to Woodrow Wilson,” 1917 December 31, WWP19308, Hoover Institute at Stanford University Collection, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.