The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-07-03
PASTORS DISCUSS
FOOD CONTROL

/ SerVat1On oil fOOd, the pastors OF VIII
nemucca urged upon their congrega-
tions last Sunday the Importance OF
outstanding the food supply. There
were good-sized congregations present
at all the churches, and all seemed
duly impressed with the Importance of
the subject.
| Rev. Ross Turman, rector of st
Mary's Episcopal church, said in part:
1T is not what we eat that is of so
great concern, it is what we waste.
A level table spoon full of uncooked
rice weighs one ounce and 1t is esti-
mated that the waste of single ounce
of food in each American family
amounts to 500 million pounds of food
year. This is equal to so ship
loads of so cars each per year. Who
does not throw away, on an average OF
at least slice of bread day? Home
made bread weighs nearly two ounces
to the slice and the waste of one each
day If saved, would furnish 2,750 fami-
lies loaf every day for a year. All
along the line we are a wasteful peo-
pie, and I venture to say that every
family in Winnemucca could find some
economy however slight that could be
practiced.
when we are called upon to do our
part toward feeding the world we
face a matter which holds second
place to none in Importance. We have
given to the Red Cross. to care for the
wounded we have purchased liberty
bonds to furnish the sinews of war
our boys and our young men have
given themselves and yet it will all
be in vain if we fail in this. To re
lieve the food situation is as important
as caring for the wounded or sub
scribing to liberty bonds--as essential
as joining the fighting forces-as
needful as munitions-as vital as over
coming the submarine 1t is not a mat
ter of giving a dollar or so. Money can
not place grain in warehouses nor
create food where it does not exist,
but the whole situation and the solu-
tion of the problem is summed up in
the short word thrift getting down to
brass tacks and practicing the most
rigid economy. A word of warning
ought to be inserted here, for we
might in our zeal become ndggardly,
inpecunious, miserly stingy. We are
not called to become so at all. We are
asked to live healthy. normal lives.
The time may come when we shall
have to adopt meatless or wheatless
days and the like, but with all con-
fidence in the saying, it seems to me
that if we but make the most of what
we have the situation will not reach
that stage of starvation regulation
Such an appeal ought not to go
unheeded. 1t means more to the IN
dividual than anything we have been
called upon to do. 1t means lengthen-
ing the purchasing power of our in
! comes. 1t means the successful ter
mination of the war and the preserva-
ton to us of our traditional liberties.
1t means the salvation of the world
and the end forever of the policy
made in Germany that might makes
, right"
Rev. P. H. Willis. the pastor
of the Methodist church, chose for his
text: Isaiah 55th Chapt- End verse:
Wherefore do We spend money for
that which is not bread? And your
labor for that which satisfieth not"
| Inc speaker Sdlu III part.
I'VE find ourselves in one of those
, revolutionary, transitional perioes,
, in which the old order "hangeth.
Human history records = number of
these periods. and yet this present
crisis i, doubtless the most tremen-
dous. the most cataclysmic of all, due
to the unprecedented destructiveness
D; /. r II. ans and method employed,
o. less than to the nations and nuI'.-
hers cueaged.
"No other war or vars has even
even approached the present in de-
strastNencss of material resour es-
u is this which is forcing upon - fe-
lrn'ant world. the iuunrtauee of "a
rigid economy. Mr.. Herbert C. Hoover.
the efficient head of the government
food commission, has called upon the
100000 clergymen of all denomina-
tions in the United States to speak to-
day upon this important question. Mr..
Hoover states that the waste of sin
gle ounce of food each day in every
home means a yearly waste of nearly
500.000.000 pounds of food. The waste
of single slice of bread each day in
every home means the daily waste of
million loaves of bread. These are
| startling figures, which bring to us a
sense of personal responsibility.
America is still the most wasteful
nation in the world. The old adage,
'Wilful waste brings woeful want has
seemingly failed to apply in our case,
but its truth will in time be evident to
us
"It is none too early for us to begin
the cultivation to a national thrift by
popularizing the practice Of domestic
economy.
"But why emphasize the ounce of
food and slice of bread with no word
af All about the in1lnifalx greater