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Show THE 8REAT HE i i The question has changed from "What arc you doing to help tide the allies over the critical wheat short--J age?" to "What are you contributing toward the great wheat reserve?" j Every bit of wheat nnd other staple ! ; foods that the American people do uot j cat will either be shipped at once to ! ; the armies and the allies overseas or j put into tho great reserve which must r ; bo created. Tho world is never more than sixty days ahead of famine be-j' be-j' Iwacn harvests. The drain of men from J food production in Europe has made it : possible that in some countries famine ; will kill more than war. (America and the allies cannot let famine threaten during the period of the war nor the trying days of recon- jstructLon which will follow. A wheat j reserve large enough to carry the 120,-1 120,-1 000,000 people of the allied countries through even a possible crop failuib next year must be created, and like the millions of bushels shipped overseas l last spring, this reserve must come from American tables. Every individual individ-ual in tho country has a right to bo proud of the way in which he answered the call to save wheat. We must be just as proud next spring of the reserve re-serve toward which we have contributed contrib-uted our small share. In common with all the millions of people in the homes of the allies, we nro asked to eat victory bread which is 80 per cent wheat. To those who have been eating the dark- sour war (bread of France this bread must look i luxurious, and even to us' who spent1 IsevcroL months on corn and barley ; bread exclusively, it looks white and delicious. But we must still eat corn bread in order still further to save wheat. Let us make sure that we do not waste one grain of the bread wo are so fortunate to have. Every ounce we save means more wheat for the great reserve. There is plenty of bread for our needs but not one piece to waste. |