OCR Text |
Show SERIOUS TIMES ARE COMING An optimist is always more welcome wel-come than a pessimist but at this particular time it Is well to sound a note of warning and draw from the experience of others to enable one to avoid some of the sorrows which are sure to come If we do not mend our vwys as a people. - War is here. On that the American Ameri-can people can no longer deceive themselves. The hosts of the hun aro not only holding their foes in check, but are blasting their way through the Italian and Russian lines so that It Is absolutely essential essen-tial that those countries be given help. That means that the American Ameri-can soldiers must get .Into the trenches trench-es at once the press dispatches tell us that they are already there. Our boys will be wounded and killed and soon the death lists will be coming back home. This will bring sorrow Into the homes of the people. But that Is not all. The food crop Is way below the amount needed to meet the requirements in our own country and those of our suffering and fighting allies. This situation entails a responsibility upon every Individual that he cannot escape. Wheatmeat and sugar, are the three essential products in sustaining sustain-ing life in man and of these three articles ar-ticles of food not a single kernel or ounce must be wasted by the American Amer-ican people, the roost profligate wasters in the world. We not only waste by throwing good food Into the garbage can, but we waste by eating more than we need to sustain onr energy. This must all be.stopped an deBpeclallymust we cut down on our consumption of bread, meat and sugar. Tho National Food Administration Is working out this problem as fast as possible, and the propUse Is made that It wjil not hejoa Jefor, the people everywhere throughout" thV exjuntry wy,L p ..brought too .toUcS with the actual situation and confronted con-fronted with their responsibilities in the matter. It Is a good time to begin to anticipate an-ticipate -these things and begin right now to retrench. Eliminate wast e in purchasing expensive wearing apparel, ap-parel, eating costly foods, Indulging In pleasures that can be foregone and In every other way possible 'for we will need every resource to meet the strenuous experience that is awaiting await-ing us. Box Elder News. |