Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-11-23
WASTE FOOD,
PLEASE KAISER
Food That is Thrown Away In
America Would Feed Hinden-
berg's Men For Long Per-
iOd-Save and Help Win
War for Democracy.

iHc NrSlnEt DIVISION OIL the Ma
tional Food Administration sends out
the following:
What do the hotel men in Vir-
ginia think of the plan to do away
with the old-time custom of serv-
ing food "on the American plan"
Mr.. Hoover is trying his level best
to check some of that hospitality
that we "find at an inn." Hotels, in
large as we'll us small cities, and
towns, are asked to give up their old
fashioned way of serving "table d.
hote" meals, or, as we say. meals on
the American plan.
"The American plan" of serving
food is declared to be one of the
most wasteful plans in the world and
hotel-keepers are pretty apt to agree
with this view of it. A man who sits
down to an american plan" dinner
in small hotel is likely to feel ag-
grieved if he doesn't get soup, two
kinds of meat. four or five vegeta-
bles and at least two kinds of des-
sert, with bread and butter, tea, cof-
fee, or milk thrown in.
Much of this food must go to waste
for not even the hcartiest eater could
consume it all. We people in Virginia
are not the heartiest eaters in the
world, but we are accustomed to sec
ing "a good meaP set before us, and
to hear the table groan has always
been Il sweet sound in our cars.
For the duration of the war at
least, Mr.. Hoover is asking all the
hotel men to run their hotels on the
European plan; that is. to have set
price for each dish served. This plan
he expects will eliminate much of the
waste. He also asks that
each hotel and restaurant, not only in
the alrgcr cities, but the smaller
towns, as well. set aside one day each
week on WHICH no meat will be serv-
cd to their patrons, and one day on
which no wheat flour will be used. A
"Beeffless Tuesday," and Il "Wheat-
less Wednesday," he says, may have
to be proclaimed sooner or later as
national fast days, so far as these
two articles of food are concerned;
and he begs that the hotels and their
patrons will cooperate with him now
in order to obviate the necessity for
such a national proclamation.
There is matter of especial inter
est to hotel people to which the Food
Administration calls attention II has
been demonstrated that the waste
food from Il table feeding ten people
will grow one hog; and, by the same
token, the waste foods from n table
serving 100 people will feed ten head
of hogs. For this purpose two galvan-
lied cans with tops are urged; one to
contain the waste for the hogs, the
other to contain empty cans, bottles
and other waste which is of no value
as food product.
"Why not secure sufficient pigs to
consume this waste food?" suggests
the Food Administrator; "and if ne
cessary keep them in place outside
of the corporate limits to which the
waste food can be hauled to them
daily. By doing this you will produce
one of the most necessary products
and will release just that much more
of this necessary product to our ever
growing army in Europe and to the
armies of our allies"
hilllOSl tcil anu d quarter HlullOIl
American women have signed the card
pledging themselves to follow out
the program of food conservation
If these women keep their promise
and the promise of an American wo-
man is no scrap of paper-it means
that ten and Il quarter million ounc-
es of flour, sugar and meat will be
saved in ten and quarter million
households each day for the next 365
days at least. There is food for the
allies-and food for reflection as we'll.
Tazcwell county is coming finely
to the front as n food conservation
county. The editor of the Clinch Val
ley News. printed in Tazewell, brings
the matter before his readers in this
way:
"Thcre are 5000 homes in Tazewell
county. If each family wastes only
one ounce OF flour Zone small biscuit)
per day, it amounts to wastagc of
684 barrels of flour per year. To
waste one ounce of meat day means
in the course of the year eightyfour
200 pound hogs and 70-pound shoat
over. These figures are startling, but
absolutely correct. Not family in
this county but wastes in one way
or another twice as much meat and
-four as is stated here. To continue,
one ounce of sugar, or about table
spoonful, wasted each day in each
home in Tazcwell county amounts to
siXty-fvc barrels of wasted sugar a
year. And remember this, that scraps
fed to chickens and pigs are not
wasted; but fed to dogs and cats OF
thrown into the sink, or allowed to be
wasted by the children, is clear loss
CALLY RYLAND,
Associate Director.
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