The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-08-22
TALKS ON THRIFT.
OUR CRIMINAL WASTE OF FO0D

OUR CRIMINAL WASTE OF FOOD. |
When calamity such as the San
Francisco earthquake, the Dayton
flood or the sinking of the Titanic oc-
ours, the world stands aghast at the
frightful waste of life and property as
measured in dollars and cents, and the
whole world pays. the penalty. But
these happininss cannot be avsrtea.
They are costly but infrequent--part
OF the price OF our modern civilization,
and constitute but q small fraction of
The waste cost OF the wsrls.
We wouldn't burn forest moving
ly, but we would would burn the luna
Der that comes out of it. Nations do
| not waste their big things willingly.
Only a great war can ever bring a
nation to the point OF destroying life
and property rsekIsssly, as part Of
| the game But there is a waste that is
| going on constantly that is more cost
| ly even than war, as costly as war
| may be; for war accompanies some
| thinE-2t least ii settles q quarrel.
! The waste We rsfer TO is the waste of
little thinss, for these in the aEsre-
gate prove as costly although less
noticeable, than the waste of large
| ones.
While little indulsenees, such as
drinking, smoking, candy and sodss,
are not particularly waste, they are
not profitable expenditures. They get
us nowhere and do no particular good
But even passing these as permissi-
BILE, the most inexcusable waste is in
the lire OF food. 1t is not what comes
in the front door, particularly, that
counts, but what goes out of the
kitchen.
The total cost of food in this eoun-
try cannot be even Appropriated, but
eminent authorities place a dollar a
day as a fair average for the food
value of the American people. This
means cost of about 5000, 900, 900
each year. So eminent an authority
as Doctor Wiley estimates that at
least one-quarter of this is wasted.
And this is entirely possible Notice
as you dine at restaurants how much
untouched food goes back to the kitch-
en--not to feed some poorer mortal
but to go out in the garbage. 1t seems
. so perfectly natural for some people
to merely play with q dinner, sending
choice cuts of meats and fowls back
to the garbage can. We waste more
than we eat If the doctor is right
. JulS means lOOu WdSIt VI 7l,ooVsVVVf'
. 900 a year and the pity is it does nc
one any good-not even the pigs, fol
they would thrive better on less
costly diet. One large country hote
a few years ago lost most of its hero
of 300 hogs from feeding swell swill.
This food, if conserved, would feed al
the poor. 1t would build ten battle
! ships 1t would buy all the land il
some states. 1t would pay off the Ma
6 tional debt in single year 1t would
run the government for twelve
months.
j The waste of money cures itself. fol
+ soon there is no more to waste. There
comes a time when the bank runs dr.
: and the easy money flows no more
: But this frightful waste of food can e
year in and year out, and yet we won
! der why living costs so high.
: 1t takes four years to raise a por
. terhouse steak, and to send half of !
back to the kitchen is an economi
y crime. If you waste forest, soon tn
last tree will be cut. If you waste lan'
IL will soon be barren. If you vast
time, you will never succeed. If yol
waste money, you will soon have NJ
more to waste, but you can keep NJ
wasting food until you eat no more
and wonder why you are poor Bette
take inventory of what goes out il
the garbage bucket and see how suel
you contribute towards this caermou
suM, SO big in it's proportions that VI
fail To grass it's magnitude.