Show W waste aste in the kitchen not responsible for shortage in food supplies by mrs henry hemy wade rogers it lids lias become the popular thing to scold women and threaten them with the bogey of possible starvation unless they put their families on a brealand bread and water diet from a dutiful inoffensive soul striving to stretch last years income over this years inflated cost of living tho the housekeeper that hapless creature of masculine condemnation has been dragged from behind the shelter of the cook stove and thrust into the limelight as a reckless kless spendthrift who wastes as she g goes oes 4 masculine psychology is getting all out of joint on the subject of waste there are other avenues of waste besides the home yet a all li the hue and cry continues along one line rf of course there is need for economy this is no news to women they have been struggling with the food problem ever since the war started bu but t they have leave been unable to get any action on it because they are without power of legislation in the matter of economy the government might possibly learn from the housewives some recently let government contracts show a lack of knowledge of market conditions which would shame an amateur home mak maker L it has been said that in the united states only 20 per cent of the food crop ultimately reaches the kitchen by far the greater amount is ia diverted to other uses wastes in gardens and orchards or is lost through speculation and inequitable distribution even if women saved every potato peeling and utilized every leftover this addition would not have any fundamental effect on the food situation whereas by a far reaching invests investigation into the ways of the food manipulator I 1 aud and a reorganization of food distribution n me methods ghods a vast va st saving C could be accomplished |