Show mv rae civilians aid war effort k conserving meat heat r be being 69 i frugal with coal and oil for home i heating and also not buying more than your weekly meat allotment Allet ment helps by news analyst and commentator service 1343 11 street N W washington Washl neton D 0 you have hoard heard before that the one I 1 question ton repeated most often in mj letters te which come into the office of civilian defense in washington Is s what can I 1 do to help win the W war I 1 receive a great proportion of such letters many of you have isaid this question yourselves some of you been able to get a satisfactory answer beginning this month there are two things you can do if you yon really want to help win the war they are these conserve heat beat and meat V we have plenty of meat in the country C we have plenty of coal and 1 oil U but some of the meat about a fourth of it has to go to our own fighting men and those of our allies and much of the coal and a great dealoe deal of the oil cant get to us because of a shortage of transportation look at the heat situation first the war has depleted our coastal tankers tanke r s which furnished 95 per cent of our means of transportation to the cas eastern tern states many of these tankers were needed by our fighting forc forces forchand sand and our allies many went to the bottom as a result of the U boats many that once plied the eastern seaboard go to melbourne or mur mansk some have already gone to davy jones locker last november the railroads were hauling barrels of 0 oila 11 i day now they are carrying barrels a day but gui remember it takes tour four or five rh e trains of lof some 70 cars each e ac h to haul as much as one tanker and there Is of course a tremendous increase inthe in the amount of oil and gas consumed by war activities civilian and military fuel oil Is already rationed gasoline will be rationed nationwide nation wide soon coon that process Is automatic but there are other things you can do to help you yon can make your house heat tight with weather stripping you can convert from oil to coal it if you coin can get coal in your locality you can be frugal according to estimates given out by the war information office you can save the nation by reasonable conservation 25 atsa MILLION tons of coal this winter you can save over 18 19 million barrels of oil between october 1 1942 and may 1 1943 conserve your beat now what about your meat beginning this month there is one thing that you can do it Is easy to check up on yourself as to whether you really want to help in this respect all you need to be able to do Is to count up to three not even that tar far just two and one half fht t as Ss the number of pounds of W afu you ought h I 1 to eat each week m now on more than that will rob somebody else less than that ant enough to keep you going you will have no choice cho B have a ration book and get the amount the government says you can have mean is s your patriotic duty to yourself this Is the reason one fourth of the meat supply of the country has a to be turned over to the fighting aru i oce ol of the united nations if the american people would buy 21 billion pounds of meat in the next 12 months there are about ITA 17 billions available second step rationing the government has taken one step is preparing for another the tto limit the deliveries by the packers to civilian outlets cutlets the see sec the machinery tor for that takes time by february it Is ot 01 rationing system can be in effect gallnow Zall Now this intermediate period although there is a limit to the 10 ati 10 amoUri 6 t of meat the market gets s no limit on an what the individual 10 ad I 1 f can buy as long as the it that is up to you so it becomes a question of sharing ni at committee in washington using the best information available has set wi 2 pounds per person per week as the limit Y 0 o ou it may ay be able to get to the lw illS early many house 41 ye ve out of every hundred q 3 to in britain are working for the government buy war bonds there are some american officials who believe that england made a great mistake in calling off the stat staf ford cripps negotiations in india and there is strong pressure from a number of quarters to hae bae them reopened wives cant A lot of them are work ing in defense industries or have other duties if you overbuy there wont be enough to go around two and a halt half pounds nearly early as much as many people aou would d like but it Is a lot more than most people need or in fact are used to in the we consumed an average of pounds per capita per year but many people are sharing this new big billion dollar national income and one way they are s spending pending spends it Is on meat without gasoline for the car they cant get out to so many shows and other entertainment ment there Is more money left for the dining table we like meat for its flavor a as 11 much as for its nourishment the wealthy and the middle classes have always bought more mere meat than they needed for their health the poorer people frequently had less than they needed now with a shortage and plenty of money the competition pet Is higher it will be easy for the greedy to rob the less fortunate why you may ask dont we establish meatless days for everybody that would not be fair to poorer classes who get so little meat anyhow but some regular limit has to be adopted by eating houses and agreed upon among them otherwise there will be unfair compel campeti tion the place that operates cooperates co and cute cuts down on one day or one dish will simply lose out to the restaurant which serves meat that day at home considerable responsibility rests on the housewife she h hatto adjust her menus to provide a balanced diet meat contains four important nutritive elements protein iron amin vitamin bl BI and niacin As far as the he protein goes it can easily be provided by ingmore milk eggs cheese and legumes A nice steaming pile of pancakes for far instance it they are mide made from milk and eggs will mill give some protein as well as that comfortable feeling of well being within but such foods do not give you the other things that you need which meat offers you will have to have whole grain products and that means when you take them in th the form of bread it must be enriched bread and even then you wont get the iron and niacin contained in whole wheat the dark leafy gr green een vegetables potatoes and legumes peas and beans will help but where really find the pinch is in the flavor that I 1 think is what the germans complained about most in their rations you can get the meat flavor we all crave with meat dishes that are diluted like soups and hash and meat loaf but do it see that you keep within your wi 2 pound limit and be helping win the war to 61 market arket some weeks ago secretary of ag e received a postal card addressed to him at his indiana farm home urging him to get his pig crop to market early he raises quite a lot of pigs and runs his bis farm as best he can while he tries to take care of the needs of several million farmers at the same time he said he felt kind of foolish when the card came but he did what it asked him to do 1 I felt foolish he said because I 1 wrote that post card myself it was a card sent out pretty widely to pig raisers all over the country and when id sent the pigs off I 1 wondered whether I 1 was really patriotic or not because those hogs were a lot lighter th than an they would have been if I 1 marketed thim them so early and right there you have one of the problems that faces a nation trying to feed itself and its lend lease allies under the difficult conditions which the war causes the pig problem As is tied closest to the farmers number two headache distribution trib ution we could get more pounds tatter fatter hogs hogsand and fats are needed if we slaughtered later but the packers and the railroads arent going to be able abla to handle the mammoth hog crop if it all comes at once f BRIEFS B R I 1 E F S by baukhage claf of 0 ob on it Is estimated that of the boys now in uniform are members of the american legion heres some sheer pessimism american civilians men women and children should be taught how to conduct guerrilla warfare in preparation lor for possible invasion of the country says william B the coming battle of germany |