Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1915-12-05
Sunday, December 5, 1918
The TRlUMPH OF SUBSTITUTES

THE TRIUMPH OF SUBSTITUTES
We are urged in America to accept no substitutes "
AS trade motto meant for the protection of msnufac.
urers rights that is well enough. But there's another
side the substitution business which makes for thrift
and efnci ency and Germany has given remarkable
DEMONSTRATION of it..
When the war began Germany at once turned its Ell
forts the food supply The government modified its
scientists and put them to work figuring out ways and
means of making Germany economically independent OF
the outside world The people entered into the plan
with hearty cooperation. The women of Germany un-
dertook to apply in their homes what the scientists
learned in their laboratories.
The felt feared was the lac of wheat I'M
mediatey the and famous substitute appeared
flour was made from potatoes 1t looks whittier and is
nutritious wheat flour but it serves the pus
pose. And there are plenty of potatoes.
When the lack of animal fats became serious Ger.
many turned to raising sunfowers and using the oil
made from them as a substitute for alive OIL The
seeds too, serve chicken and cattle food Nuts arr
another source of supply schooboys in country dis.
ticts have been given holidays just to gather nuts
Acoros, beechnuts maple seeds, linden seeds all az,
made to take the place of OIL butter lard and grain
for cattle.
For butter the Germans are using jam. German hous,
wives have put up more jam and preserves this year
than before Chocolate has taken the place of col
fee and tea.
The lack Of rubber has been met partly by maxine
of,
synthetic rubber which isn't rubber at all
Gasolent has become scarce and so automobiles ar.
operated with wood alcohol and with benzoI an inez
pensiye fuel made from coke and petroleum
The freless become the substitute fo
fuel in The home Nearly every house has The
government told the housewives to make them from
newspapers old cloth AND they work nearly vel
as our costly ones.
Newspapers, by the way, the great, general all
round substitute material With the stiffness rbbe,
or wriukled out of them they used to line cothu
and 10 i'm "comforters" and shredded to fill pillow
and bed ticks instead of feathers Specially made pape
serves innumerable uses. One sort, made waterproof
is used instead of cotton sheets sick beds and cost
less than the soap that would be needed to wash ord
nary sheets Soda, by the way is the common subst
tute for soap.
The drug stores are crammed with substitutes AM
druggists print lists to inform public regarding thei
uses.
An these things are merely slight hint Of the tran.
formation of the economic life of Germany. The thr
e. of nations today ncomparsbly more thrifty tina
ever and the United States, the most waseful OF NJ
lions. Is today more wastefu than
1t is easy enough to say that Germany has to ecor
omize" and then rejoice because don't have to- an
20 straight out and spend extrayaganty all the none
we've got just TO celebrate good fortune But Anne
lea needs nothing more this time than to take +
heart the lesson taught by Germany.
Lean years win come NIX
Lean years may come after our fat years. In pro
perity or adverslts shat Americans need most
thrift We need TO utilize the full the forces Of natur
10 apply scientific knowledge and effort TO the erearo
of wealth in an forms, develop every possible pro-
uct for human use. and then use it without waste.
Germany wiz not forget after he war what she ha
earned And if we want to compete with the German
o- SHAH have to follow their example. England toda
is using the war cook book that the women of &c
many got out year ago. A time may come when We
be glad 20 use IT,