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Show IT WILL BE DONE. It will be necessary for the people of the United States to conserve food during dur-ing the coming year. If wc do as well in the future as we have in the. past rationing will not be necessary nd we shall go through the war with very little inconvenience and no actual suffering. One of the most splendid things ever accomplished in this world was the saving sav-ing of food by the American people in order that their allie might be fed and after it is all over those who practiced self-denial and played fair with their govcrnrrient and their God will be able to look back upon the part they took in the straggle with the keenest satisfaction. satis-faction. Food hog, of course, have not used war bread in their homes during the past year. Neither have they been conservative in their use of other articles ar-ticles so sorely rcerled by the armies in Kurope and the nomen and children of Great Britain, France, Italy and Belgium. Bel-gium. What a mean opinion the food hogs must have of themselves and how they will lie in after years about how they helped v-in 'ho wa-. Happily such men are few in numbers num-bers when compared with the great mass of patriotic American people. Otherwise the government would hnve been rompeMc! to adopt the rationing system long ago instead of depending upon appeals for conservation. According Accord-ing to a stnteme:,'. :.sucd by Food f'um-missioncr f'um-missioncr Honv( r the I'niled Slates is prepared to ship nearly 6, 000, (inn more tons of food to the armies and allies than lust year, and still haie a margin over the amount necissarv to maintain health and strength rt home. In order to do this, however, we must coninne to save. The figures submitted bv the food ndniinistralor show- that the average aver-age conpumption o," bn-adnfuf fs in the I'nited States amounts to about six pounds p-r week, anil of meats and fals to four ounds a week for each person. ''A reduction in consumption of le-s than one half pound per week per per uon in each of these two great groups of food would accomplish our purpose,"' says Mr. Iloovcr. We a e confident the saving will bo effected and that there will be no grumbling except upon the part of those who have not stinted themselves during the past year and have no intention of curtailing their use of breadstuffs. meats and fats in the strenuous days to come. The United States 's a land of plenty and in ordinary times the ptcple of a smaller nation could live upon what we waste, and live well. Scraps of food that Ihh people of other countries carefully care-fully remove from the table for future use are dumped into the swill barrel in America. We have been taught a much-needed much-needed lesson by the war and in future we shall not be so wasteful as wc have been in the past. Bui just now it is necessary to be more than e onomieal. We must live according to the program of the food administration if we arc to increase our food shipments to Europe during the coining year. It wilt not be difficult for ns to do this and thus prove to the world that our patriotism amounts to something more than standing stand-ing up when the band plays the "Star Spangled Banner.'-' |
