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Show Bacon and Bullets Are you a soldier clad in khaki? If you answer no, then you are not worth your bacon. This is not meant to dlsparago you. but it does mean that our soldiers must havo bacon. Fats aro quite as important in fighting this war as guns or ammunition, and bacon is one of the chief sources of fat. Fats supply energy to the body, and pork fat io" more used in the army than any other, becauso it is more readily shipped and it is tho meat best liked by the men working at hard manual labor. Without fats, people weakon and waste away. Tho armies must have fats to keep up the fight. But tho American people as a nation na-tion need not worry about their own lack of fats, for tho average consump' tlon per person In this country is 3 1-2 ounces a day, while 2 ounces is quite adequate to sustain health and vigor, and in all probability better health and more vigor will result from a diminished use of fats. It is our soldiers, sailors and tho Allies about whom we need worry. Franco and England aro short of fata, terribly short, and America muse mako up that shortage, cut off her own over-abundanco. If every person in America saves ono ounce of fat a day wo can ship fats enough for our BOldiors, sailors and Allies. One-third of an ounco of fats measured meas-ured in bacon amounts to just about two thin slices of bacon. Giving up two slices of bacon a morning does not seem much of a hardship when wo realize what a vital necessity it is to keep up the hoallh and vigor of the men behind tho guns, yet that two slices of bacon is one-third of the ounce you aro trying to save. But don't mako the mistake of thinking you aro saving animal fats for tho soldiers when you don't have bacon for breakfast, if you would not havo had it anyway. Saving means actual giving up of something you aro actually In the habit of using. Bullets and bacon! If you are not using bullets and send your bacon to someone who is using them. 00 Complete control of tho fishing and fish canning industries 011 tho Pacific "coast has been Invested by the Federal Food Administrator in the State ad-mniistrators ad-mniistrators of Washington, Oregon, California and Alaska. |