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Show HEARING THE FOOD CRY v J A woman living in the Kentucky mountains told a social worker recently: recent-ly: "I hear there is an awful feud going go-ing on somewhere. Is it true?" The fact that thor? is a war is onlv just beginning to penetrate those mountain fastnesses. a woman in one of the rich agricultural agricul-tural districts of an eastern state is still serving meat every day in the week and while bread every meal. Since the "fifty-fifty" order in buying flour was Issued, she was heard to remark: re-mark: "My pantry shelf is getting loaded down with that breakfast food stuff that I have to buy nowadays and the only way I can get rid of it is to feed it to the chickens " The fact of war has not yet penetrated penetrat-ed her fastness. Theer are still too many fastnesses where the seriousness of the food problem has not yet seemed to penetrate. pene-trate. They are found in our big cities cit-ies and In our richest agricultural valleys val-leys just as often as in the mountains of Kentucky. The ignorance of the poor Kentucky woman Is pitiful and forgivable, but the indifference of the other woman is lamentable and unpardonable. Unless Un-less the conservation cry is heard and heeded by all women, the food problem of America will not be solved. |