Herbert Hoover to Woodrow Wilson
Title
Herbert Hoover to Woodrow Wilson
Creator
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
Identifier
WWP19191
Date
1917 September 18
Description
Herbert Hoover asks Woodrow Wilson for additional money to finance educational efforts by the Food and Fuel Administration.
Source
Hoover-Wilson Correspondence, Hoover Institution, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford, California
Publisher
Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum
Subject
United States Food Administration
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924--Correspondence
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964--Correspondence
Language
English
Text
COPY
Original sent to Treasury Department.
19-H-1
We have previously taken the liberty to explaining to you the difficulties of conducting an adequate educational campaign with the appropriation made available to us by Congress, to secure the cooperation of the general public with the purposes of the Food and Fuel Administration in reduction of consumption of food and fuel and in order to permit of adequate exports to the Allies.
We have estimated that this work, which is not specifically provided for in the Act of Congress (Public No. 41, Sixty-Fifth Congress) might usefully be enlarged to an extent that would absorb an appropriation of approximately $250,000.00 a month and run to a total of say $2,000.000.00 before the expiration of the present fiscal year.
Understanding it to be in accordance with your wishes that this educational work should be pushed and developed as effectively as possible, we take the liberty of requesting an allotment, for this purpose, of $2,000.000.00 from the funds placed at your disposal under the Deficiency Act of April, 1917, National Security and Defense, this amount to be credited on the books of the Treasury Department under the title of appropriation “National Security and Defense, Food Administration, Educational”.
Yours faithfully,
(Signed) HERBERT HOOVER
HA Garfield
Approved and authorized.
WOODROW WILSON
Original sent to Treasury Department.
19-H-1
We have previously taken the liberty to explaining to you the difficulties of conducting an adequate educational campaign with the appropriation made available to us by Congress, to secure the cooperation of the general public with the purposes of the Food and Fuel Administration in reduction of consumption of food and fuel and in order to permit of adequate exports to the Allies.
We have estimated that this work, which is not specifically provided for in the Act of Congress (Public No. 41, Sixty-Fifth Congress) might usefully be enlarged to an extent that would absorb an appropriation of approximately $250,000.00 a month and run to a total of say $2,000.000.00 before the expiration of the present fiscal year.
Understanding it to be in accordance with your wishes that this educational work should be pushed and developed as effectively as possible, we take the liberty of requesting an allotment, for this purpose, of $2,000.000.00 from the funds placed at your disposal under the Deficiency Act of April, 1917, National Security and Defense, this amount to be credited on the books of the Treasury Department under the title of appropriation “National Security and Defense, Food Administration, Educational”.
Yours faithfully,
(Signed) HERBERT HOOVER
HA Garfield
Approved and authorized.
WOODROW WILSON
Original Format
Letter
To
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
Files
Citation
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964, “Herbert Hoover to Woodrow Wilson,” 1917 September 18, WWP19191, Hoover Institute at Stanford University Collection, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.