The Colorado statesman., 1917-11-10
ONE DAY EACH WEEK WITHOUT
THESE is URGED ON THE
\ AMERICAN PEOPLE.
NEEDED FOR THE FIGHTERS
British and French Know Little About
Corn, of Which We Have Plenty
Washington is Now a Crowded and
Busting City.
BY EDWARD B. CLARK.

and to considerable extent its board
ing houses have adopted meatless
Tuesdays and wheatless Wednesdays
in an effort to economic in those food
products which are most necessary
for our soldiers and our allies in the
war.
1t apparently is the hope of the food
administrator that if meatless Tues
day and wheatless Wednesday be
adopted generally throughout the Uni
ted States, that the amount of sub
stantial necessaries which will be
saved will be sufficient to keep our
allies going, and to keep our men
strong in the field.
1t is understood by the officials in
Washington charged with the work
of food conservation that with appa-
rent plenty on every hand in the coun-
try districts of the land, it is difficult
for people TO realize that it is neces-
sary to save in such things as bread,
beef and pork. The desire is that in
every household, on one day in week
at least, no meat shall be eaten and
no wheat bread shall appear on the
table.
IOullIy lS IOl NOullcu as iiSsNh ~
the plan of conservation and curious
iy enough neither is hash provided it
be made of leftovers, but it earnestly
is urged that there be no attempt to
cook so much meat on one day that
there will be enough left over for
hash on the next day. This is no saw
ing operation at all.
French Do Not Know Corn.
Why is it that wheat is so absolute
ly necessary to the French and Brit
ish? Why is it that we cannot send
great quantities of corn to them and
let their soldiers and their people eat
Johnny cake, plain corn bread and
corn mullins? Well, there is reason
and a good one. Many of the British
people and virtually all of the French
people know very little about corn.
To start the French eating corn to the
exclusion of wheat would be to some
extent like trying to make people stop
eating peaches and take up diet of
olives. Experience has shown that in
some of the countries of Europe peo-
pie have to be educated to eat corn"
The French will eat rye bread with
out much of a demur, but wheat Is
their staple. They love it and 1t has
been the principle food of the peas
ants for centuries. Their systems are
accustomed to it and the French SOL
dior will go long ways on half loaf
of wonderful French bread made from
wheat.
In Italy the people have been taught
the value of corn and its delights as
n food. 1t took long while to do 1t.
Not many years ago persons interest
ed in the spreading of the doctrine
of corn" went to Italy and began an
educational campaign in its behalf.
Italian peasants turned up their noses
at the food for long time, but finally
thew were induced to give 1t trials and
now cornmeal mush and corn bread
are eaten with avidity in many parts
of the Italian peninsula.
Capital City Is Crowded
Washington has changed overnight
from u sedate, quiet residential town
into whirling, bustling, feverish city.
Men who were here four years ago ana
who come again today do not KNOW
the place.
There was a time when the capital
of the nation was in all respects staid
and almost lethargic. Even the auto
mobiles rolled along their leisurely
way with no speed demon at the
wheel. Now within twenty-four hours
5S chauffeurs or owners have been ar
rested for exceeding the speed limit,
or cutting corners at q rapid gait on
two wheels, or doing other things IN
decorous in persons of supposedly
steady habits.
The last census gave Washington
about 346,000 as the mark of its popu-
lation, Today there are more than
100000 people in the place and more
coming hour by hour. The capital does
not know itself.
The government has brought into
the city thousands upon thousands of
clerks and hundreds upon hundreds of
men newly entered into the army and
navy, men who are needed here, be-
cause of their peculiar business train
Ing, as workers in the staff depart
ments of Uncle Sam. The visitor who
arrives in the afternoon without hav-
ing heralded his approach with a re-
quest to a friend TO get place for
him to sleep is likely to be compelled
to knock at a strangers door and to
ask to be taken in for the night.
Beds Put Up Everywhere.
All the "Rooms to Let signs in the
District have been taken down. Gar
rets in the boarding houses have been
subdivided and the waste space, or
at best the storeroom space, has been
turned into bedrooms. standing
Room Only" is a proper sign to be
hung in the lobbies of the hotels and
Railways of the boarding houses.