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Show WAR OF ATTRITION. While food conditions are doubtless very bad in Germany and Austria, it is none the less true that the people of Great Britain, France and Italy also lack the necessaries of life. Lord Rhondda, the British food controller, declares that the Uuited States must furnish an additional 75,000,000 bushels of wheat if the wolf is to be kept from the .door in England and the army maintained at the front. The meat situation is equally as bad if not j worse, and the butchers are now slaughtering horses for the consumption consump-tion of the poorer classes and the Belgian Bel-gian refugees. It is obvious, therefore, there-fore, that the fervent appeals to Herbert Her-bert C. Hoover were based upon a keen iusight into the future or upon actual knowledge of what was to come. Now is tho time for the American people to practice elf-denial and share their food with the entente allies, al-lies, who have borne the brunt of battle bat-tle for three and a half years and whose remaining sons are still facing the foe. There is only one way to supply the food needed to win the war, and that is by stinting ourselves to the utmost. If it is necessary, there should be more wheatless and meatless days, and even fast days. It would be hypocrisy in a superlative superla-tive degree for a Christian American to sit down to a table loaded with ov-er3'thing ov-er3'thing the market affords every day in the week and ask the Lord to "bless this food unto us," when the people of the countries with which we are allied in the battle for humanity are praying to the same Lord to fill their empty stomachs. The time has passed when wo can fare sumptuously every day and flatter ourselves that the allies are going to walk over the Huns in the spring and that our own army will go in in time to give the finishing stroke. The stern reality of war is upon us and has been for some time, but so far we have utterly failed to realize the dread import of the news regarding the food situation in Great Britain, France and Italy. Unless Un-less we can feed these suffering people peo-ple there is no hope of humbling the kaiser. |