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Show .MAKING COItN TOI'l'liAlt Tho food administration has canvassed can-vassed tho country to secure pledges for obanrvanco of wheatloss days. It oxliorts tho pcopli as a pnlrloilc duty, to cat corn and save, wheat.-Yet wheat.-Yet you can't accomplish an enil merely by urging it as u moral or public duty. Sometimes tho moro you preach to pooplo, the less they want to do n thing. It would bo much more effective to make corn producU so wry attractive at-tractive that people would all rush I to buy thorn. And It seemHa very I j queer thing that In this tlmo when . peoplo nre urged to eat corn foods. Bomo of these staplott on which tho peoplo used to thrive and which thoy used to enjoy and seek after, cannot now be had. For instance, It Is roporled from widely different sources that you cannot get hominy any moro. That has boon a staple breakfast food for a generation In millions of families. X great iuuntlty of corn can be used lu that ny. Hut If the producers aro not makingMt any moro, tho families fam-ilies that aro aceustomod to It will tnko wheat products and Htlll .further .furth-er deplete tho already short stock. Another food which tho old timers tim-ers used to like was hulled corn, usually us-ually eaten with onllk. Tlio old restaurant res-taurant nlwnys used to sero it. Tint who hits been noon eating It since tho' war began? Tho wheat jttnch Is now holng very koonly felt In France. Our allies aro nearly out of 11, nnd haw received unly about two-thirds of what wall piomlsed from this country. Six months must yet pass before any new flour comes In. Tho wheat saving campaign must become moro popular. It would sCom as If the food manufacturers man-ufacturers should put tholr wits to populailze substitutes for wheat. Let thorn put out somo now brands ofi corn cereals and corn flour with attractive at-tractive names, put up prettily and woll advertlaod. Dono In this way a great amount of whoat could be saved. In that way tho food conservation con-servation program would work along tho line of loast resistance. |