Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-19

nnSF GOD is now the worlds great
w Ia est need. The fields Of Eu-
rope are devastated. Crops
are short in the southern
hemisphere and some of our own farm
ers must enlist for military service Our
food reserves are limited and we must
not only feed our soldiers at the front.
but also the army that remains at
home to fight for the worlds susie
nance"
So did Miss Catharine J. MacKay.
president Of the American Home Eco
monies Association, begin her plea for
hQusehold conservation at the recent
meeting of presidents of women's ma
tonal organizations, called to Wash
ington by the womans committee of
the council of national defense, to dis
cuss women's war work
We must keep only what we need
and send all we can spare to help feed
our hungry neighbors." said Miss Mac
Kay. wv omen may not be able to fight
at the front, but they can and should
lend their aid to meet this crisis in the
best possible way Let every one iofn
ir this campaign for conserving our re-
sources. A teaspoonful of butter and
slice of bread saved every day seems a
mere trifie, but it means four pounds of
butter and two dozen loaveS of bread a
year VIII the women of America save
this trifie?'
MISS Mackay is dean of the division
OF nome economies of the Iowa state
college of Agriculture, and she is a
member of the advisory committee on
home economics in Herbert c. Hoover's
food administration. In personal in
terview, after her public talk, she had
many practical facts to present for the
benefit of the American housewife dur
ing the war emergency.
Since the war h~s made it necessary
Tor the whole country to conserve re-
sources of all kinds, it becomes the
privilege of the women to plan the
shall not be the waste for which they
have been criticised in the past by the
more thrifty Europeans" said Miss
Mackay- American women now have
the opportunity to prove that they are
just as capable managers as the women
of these countries.
Women can do their best to make
each pound of food materials feed the
greatest number possible. They can
avoid waste of every kind. They can
substitute less expensive materials for
those which cost more. They can guard
the spending of incomes so that there
will be reserve for emergencies. Amer
lean women can establish thrift pro-
gram for the country now which will
be of value after peace is restored as
well as during the war.
X
Guard the food supply. is the house
keepers watchword today. Save it by
careful buying, by careful storing and
handling. by proper cooking and serv-
ing and also by sane eating. Food
money is wasted in many ways. One
of the most common is through order
ing by telephone. which leaves the
whole responsibility in the hands of the
dealer. Food is wasted by buying per
ishables in too large quantities and by
ordering indefinitely. by price rather
than by weight. Out-of season foods
spell waste at all times, but especially
now, and there is frequent waste In
buying ready to -eat foods, as there is
in living out of paper bags
THE buying OF foods high In price
and low IN food value is waste-as-
paragus tips. pimentos and mushrooms
are examples-and the buying OF foods
for wants rather than for needs comes
under the class of waste as it is APP
piled today. Breadstuffs are wasted
by careless storing of cereals, which