Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-04-12
ANOTHER KIND
OF PREPAREDNESS
Ey Cr. w. A. Evans.

the theory that waste is irevitable. In
times of war we justify y authors
ties IN almost amy we'll thought out
effort to prevent waste. even going so
far as to permit the central authorities
TO fix the price of food and to say now
much a man shall be allowed 20 eat and
what sum he shall spend for clothes.
Repeatedly, in the course of the asst
70 months cablegrams have told US
us Of orders issued by the central au-
thoHities of Germany regulating The
amount of butter each man could use.
prescribing y per capita allowance of
brood, giving recipes for the making of
bread, giving recipes for the making OF
and preventing it IN another. SUPPRESS
ing circulars which attacked the med
zeal methods in common use.
a recent cablegram from Germany
said: There has to be some restriction
in the use Of fat and butter. 1t goes
without saying that every one must
practice economy and exercise good
Judgment and even suffer some r%estric-
tions in the use of all kinds of pro-
visions, and there naturally must be a
slight increase in price,
Speaking at Guildhall in London
March l Lord Kitchener appealed for
economy in everything, particularly in
Goals, foodstuffs, Intoxicating liquors,
petroland oils, tea, coffee, and tobacco,
ti1O SiOtiliIlS VI di MINUS, eSUtClallN
WOODEN articles. Both onomy and
productive energy are required of all
workers. as both are equal in import
ance. The war is a struggle for eco
nomlc exhaustion as we'll as a conflict
of armies. If every one works his hard
est and produces everything the army
needs and all ave everything possible
to invest in government securities they
VIII be doing their bit. If they fail in
TINS duty they are injuring their
friends in he trenches and injuring the
national cause"
In every war in history waste at
nome has been a factor i'm determining
the outcome. Not so much a factor as
heavy cannon, p-reponderance of ships.
and seasoned legions, but a factor of
Importance nevertheless. But in this
W':r the importance of waste preven-
ton for the first time has been recog-
nlzed as a factor of the first rank. In
Germany the demand has been met by
governmental decree. In England, by
appeals to the people.
Ihe American mind is upset by the
yellow peril. In the main the yellow
peru is a matter of peace rather thu
war. The yellow races are more eco
nomical. more thrift in their private
!iVes than are our people. When they
come into competition with our people
they Guido them because they live
cl'eaper and save their money. The
amount of work, especially manual
labor, which a yellow man can do and
does do is not equal to that of which
a white man is capable. On this point
men who have worked both white and
coolle labor are agreed. And vet we
have a yellow peril because white labor
cannot hold its own in competition with
yellow labor.
in times of peace. prepare for war"
When 1T is a matter Of preparing for
war by building ships and assembling
armies IT is impossible to get the
country behind a plan. a fair majority
are opposed to such preparations.
There is a program of preparation by
prevention of waste. There is a ma
tional society for the promotion of
thrift. This Organization should have
the support of all supporters of pre-
paredness.
When Bismarck laid his plans for
the building of the German empire
immediately after the Franco-Prussian
war he gave prominent place in those
plans to schemes for promoting the
health and physical welfare of the
German people.
The most important aftermath of the
ooer war was the series of British par
llafnentary measures for conservation
of men. women and children. There are
those who hold, and j am one Of them,
that the most beneficient result of the
Spanish-American war was knowledge
OF now to control yellow fever, typhoid
and malaria.
Not only arc we wasteful in that our
efforts to control disease and to pro
mote health and bodily vigor are no,
compelling enough, but we are waste
full in our methods of handling the sick
Citizens of Duchess county, New
York. proposed to organize a county
health society. In order to find GU,
the need of such a society these citizens
induced the committee on hospitals OF
the State Charities Aid association tC
make a survey The area selected was
one ward in Poughkeepsie and the
towns of Rhinebeck, Milan, Clinton -anG
Sanford. The $1,000 people IN this dis
triCt were mixed in many particulars
some from the city, some from the
country, and some from small towns
Some We're rich and some We're poor
Some were foreign speaking, some were
natives.
What this committee did was to in
vestigate every case of sickness in the
district with a view of finding Out
whether proper care was given
whether The rights of both the com
munlty n the individuals We're cared
for.
The conclusion arrived at was that
in the case of cknes we are a waste
ful people. In 16 months time 1906
cases of illness develoeed among these
II, 900 people.
Sickness itself is wasteful. sait
Secretary Redfield to the American
Public Health association: yet one
need hardly say here that our needless
death roll in peace exhibits a burden OF
human pain n economic loss that is
as frightful a waste as it is an econom
lie one. We spend and, in rly judgment
spend wisely, millions for a battleshiI
against the possible coming of a we
do not spend, and, in my judgment
most unwisely fail to spend, sufficient
sums to meet the certain coming ane