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Show TO YOU, AND YOU, AND YOU. "It is our stern duty to feed the Allies," writes Food Administrator Admin-istrator Hoover, "and to maintain their health and strength at any cost to ourselves ;" which is a hard but a true saying. Although he refers now to sugar, the words apply to many things. In this case sugar serves only for purposes of illustration. Great Britain and France are on rations of less than one-half and one-quarter respectively of the average American consumption. They cannot have even these allowances unless we deny ourselves, and there can be no appreciable denial here that does not express itself in the abstinence of the individual. This, then, is an appeal, to you! We are depending upon the Allies at least to hold their lines until our great man-power can make itself felt in Europe. To feed the armies and the nations supporting them which are fighting fight-ing our battles as truly as their own is with us something more than a duty. It is the highest obligation of honor and self-interest and it ought to be a pleasure. Here is an opportunity for real service on the part of millions of people of all ages and both sexes who cannot bear arms. The appeal is as personal as that which comes to the volunteer or to the selected man. It is to you, and you, and you, everywhere. You are not selfnshly to hoard sugar. You are generously and patriotically to use less sugar in all its forms. If for friends you spare and share, you never will have to do either for the enemy. |