Show FOOD OO CO l MEANS VICTORY European Shortage Pl Places ces Problem Problem Problem lem Before American Govern Govern- Government ment Farsighted ment Farsighted Policy Adopted i t r WEED EED BU WHEAT Food Administration Administration Asks Aid of ot Every American in Gigantic Task of Feeding Millions I It Is the thc food problem over there t that hn t makes Ics a food problem over o here If lr we wished to he supremely selfish selfish- sell selfish sh- sh JI and supremely shortsighted we te we we could go 0 on eating as much ns as we like and whatever no wo like without much difficulty culty cult or ut Interruption interruption-at at least until I the Germans came But ut we are aro not doing things In that selfish and suicidal way We Ve are arc try I Ing to make a great gleat common pool of all nil of our Out food nn and all nil of the food of the a allies Illes and nil all of the food we can get from South American and other neutrals and dividing It up fairly among America England France Belgium Belgium Bel Bel- gium glum and Italy This does not mean menn that all of the I people In the great pool fire are going to I have ha the same ration but means that I we are tr trying to arrange arrange ft fo have enough for ever everybody bod so that the thc soldiers sol sol sol- diers our dIers-our our soldiers and their soldiers soldiers- will be well fed as they ha have hae e to be beto beto beto to fight hard and continuously and that the munitions workers and the workers ers in all the other necessary Industries in in- industrIes industries I and the men and women at home will all ha have C enough to keep I alive and well It Is absolutely necessary necessary sary to do this If the war Is to be won and are we-are going to do it It but It means planning working ln arranging cooperating cooperating oper co being careful not wasting sav saw ing lag And It means that each and every everyone everyone one of us has got to help I Now we have enough and more than I enough food for ourselves and the tho Government is going to see to It that we keep here at home a sufficient supply sup ply of every essential kind of food t to support our people But over thero they simply have not enough Lord Rhondda the English food controller recently cabled th the Americas America food administrator administrator ad ad- that tat unless we can send the allies before the next harvest bushels of wheat in addition to what had been sent up tl to January 1 of this year he could not assure the people eople of the allies that they would have a sufficient supply o of food to tc carry carryon on the war He did not sa say nn anything In this about the other food necessary hut but buthe he he has told of these needs In other oilier cables cables and b by his actions in En England hind For example his latest re regulation compels a reduction of meat eating easing Inthe in inthe inthe the United Kingdom to a maximum of one pound per por week wk per person this tills pound Including the tIle hone bone anti oh oher r waste parts In the meat a as bought nought Inthe Inthe in inthe the shop The rue must hn have hate more 11 wheat at I more mare mca meat t more mOl fats more moie dairy h prod II more su sugar u al' Their harvests wore were ver very ery short short France France had I ie less s than In IIII If her normal crop nop of or wheat t I he Ilie hea a available sh shipping i is small II In III and constantly being le Il lessened ened h by s' s h b- b marines so that flint It 1 I Is un now nov v impossible to use an am any ships for the bing o voyage necessary to brin bring fend Trani Australia and other remote markes IS The Tile food must ome c-ome chlell from from romI rom I America In specific fl figures lIles it It Is mice mice- j 1 essary for us to send send to the time allies tons of foodstuffs a month mantis i This rills is a n great glent nl ll a great problem pu Till The food In muse inns liS he ho I found Cound anti and also the ships to in tarry It It Is being done one but hut can only to he lie done b by the thc help noel and full fall en- en C operation opera of nil all of 11 us o er our broad broadland land We Ve must produce and save HIl more To supply the wheat heat nl necessary SHY until the thc next nett harvest we wc must i educe our consumption by hy from one mirth to third one we must cut rut dun n dm n our 11 usual suil i fi average e consumption of ts nod J fats by from 10 to 15 per Der c cent nt mill and dairy products product about 10 to per cent rent 11 Over Oer there i m e. e ire are I heir r belts they t and nI can o They m are eating war bread they are tire cutting g down dotty their sugar II In to F Fl tp two t o pounds s pe per person perms per lIeI month U and In hl n France am tl ly to on one pound pound- I how l much ore re you you ou eating nod eating th they are r wing nation Uon cards cm s for most of the Staples Maples t We Vc Y must meet meet sacrifice with th sacrifice If Ife we vve dont don't we vice we are helping tP t lose the war Instead of helping to toU to tola Win la it j f. f i iI ii ii i iI U d dYr I I Yr I t F F I Buy Local Food Food Food- I i |