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Show POTATOES FOR WHEAT. Recent figures have shown- that during the war more people have died j oi starvation in Europe than in bat-. bat-. tie. ; America has fallen behind in her i shipments of food .to Europe. W'e . must send more wheat and cut our . consumption of it down more and i more. Eating more potatoes in . place of bread will release it for shipment to our boys and our Allies. The question is asked if farmers and hard working men can work without wheat. Whole nations live without it. Dean Arnold of the Food Administration says it makes no dif-, dif-, ference how we get the starch furnished fur-nished by wheat, just so we get it. It" is just as well to make potatoes, rice, oatmeal,' corn meal and the many vegetables we have furnish it. And why make rice bread when it is easier to boil rice and serve it as a vegetable without bread? Some say it is not good to increase the amount of potatoes eaten; the bent physicians have replied to this, and not one has said that they are harmful. Of course, when it is a question of young children, invalids, and the aged, we must humor them, but for the rest of us, as Dean Arnold Ar-nold says', "any old thing will do." Get the spirit of the brakeman on the train the' other day, who, when white bread was put before him, demanded, de-manded, "Take that Kaiser bread away!" One of the Food Administration Administra-tion who heard him, walked over and holding out his hand said, "Shake, brother." We are all brothers in this. Our nation is just you and you and you -all of us. We've heard people of means remark re-mark that so long as they had the money they were not going to use the substitutes. Is not such a person per-son a friend of the Kaiser? The well-to-do and those living in agricultural districts, where other cereals ce-reals are more abundant, are asked to use less wheat than the great numbers num-bers of poor in the cities, and it behooves be-hooves us to do it, even to the point of using no wheat at all if possible. No able-bodied true American will object to potatoes as a substitute at the noon or evening meal. Substitute now cheerfully, for the time is not far distant when we must sacrifice whether we will or no. This is the message from the Food Administration. Administra-tion. MRS. EDITH R. LEWIS, Emergency Home Demonstration Agent. |