 Swan visited the United States in January 1918 and again after the armistice at the end of the year.She met Herbert Hoover, then head of the U.S. Food Administration and lectured on the need to conserve food on the American home front and informed the American public of Britain's wartime contributions.Two successful plays, "Getting Together" by John Hay Beith and "The Better 'Ole" by Bruce Bairnsfather, were written for the occasion.