Judsonia weekly advance., 1917-08-22

| adopt such measures as will ameliO. | rate, so far as may be, the price condi- tions of our less fortunate. We might | so drain the supplies from the country to Europe as by the high prices that would follow to force our people to shorten their consumption. This oper- ation of normal economic forces would starve that element of the com munity to whom we owe the most pro- lection. We must try to impose the burden equally upon all.
 Action Must Be Voluntary,
 There is no royal road to food con- servation. We can only accomplish this by the voluntary action of our whole people, each element in propor- tion to it's means. It is a matter of equality of burden; matter of min ute saving and substitution at every point in the 20,000000 kitchens, on the 20,000,000 dinner tables and in the 100000 manufacturing, wholesale and retail establishments of the country. The task is thus in it's essence the daily individual service of all the people. Every group can substitute and even the great majority of thrifty people can save little-and the more luxuri- ous elements of the population can by reduction to simple living save much. The final result of substituting other products and saving one pound of wheat flour, two ounces of fats, seven ounces of sugar and seven ounces of meat weekly, by each person, will, when we have multiplied this by one hundred million, have increased our exports to the amounts absolutely re- quired by our allies. This means no more than that we should eat plenty, but eat wisely and without waste.
 Food conservation has other expects of utmost importance. Wars must be paid for by savings. We must save in the consumption in commodities and the consumption of unproductive ia- Dor in order that we may divert our manhood to the army and to the shops.
 The whole of Europe has been en- gagged ever since the war began in the elimination of waste, the simplification
  trial capacity. When the war is over the consuming power of the world will be reduced by the loss of prosperity and man power, and we shall enter period of competition without parallel in ferocity. After the war, we must maintain our foreign markets if our working people are to be employed. We shall be in no position to compete if we continue to live on the same basis of waste and extravaganza on which we have lived hitherto. Simple, temperate living is moral issue of the first order at any time, and any other basis of conduct during the war be- comes a wrong against the interest of the country and the interest of democracy
 The impact of the food shortage of Europe has knocked at every door of the United States during the past three years. The prices of foodstuffs have nearly doubled, and the reverberations of Europe's increasing shortage would have thundered twice as loudly dur ing the coming year even had we not entered the war.
 We are today in an era of high prices. We must maintain prices at such level as will stimulate produc- tion, for we are faced by starving world and the value of commodity to the hungry is greater than it's price.
 AS a result of the world shortage or supplies, our consumers have suffered from speculation and extortion. While increased with the rise in food prices, in others, it has been difficult to main- tain our high standard of nutrition.
 By the elimination of waste in all classes, by the reduction in the con- sumption of foodstuffs by the more for tunate, we shall increase our supplies not only for export but for home, and by increased supplies we can help in the amelioration of prices
 For Better Distribution.
 Beyond this the duty has been laid upon the food administration to coop crate with the patriotic men in trades and commerce, that we may eliminate the evils which have grown into our system of distribution, that the bur- den may fall equitably upon all by res tOration, so far as may be, of the nor maj course of trade. It is the purpose of the food administration to use its utmost power and the utmost ability that patriotism can assemble to ameli- crate this situation to such degree as may be possible.
 The food administration is assem- bling the best expert advice in the country on home economies, on food utilization, on trade practices and trade wastes, and on the conduct of