The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-18
HOW PEOPLE MUST
CONSERVE FOOD
Miss Terrill Gives Woman's
Club Administrations
Point of View
FIRST ADDRESS IN
STATE CAMPAIGN
Describes Various Substitutes for
Wheat Flour, Meat, Sugar and Fats
Club Adopts Resolution Supporting
Conservation Movement.

Club Adopts Resolution Supporting
Conservation Movement.
Miss Bertha NJ TerriII, head of the
economics department of the Univer
sity of Vermont. whose services were |
recently eommandeered by the United |
States food commission of which Her |
/ bert Hoover is chairman, held the close
/ attention of large gathering of the |
Brattleboro Woman 5 club members in
the Unitarian parish house Yesterday
afternoon while she explained how peo-
Iple OF this country are expected to con
serve' food in order that the Ewes of
starving Europeans may be saved.
1t was the second meeting of the
Woman S club this year and Miss Ter
|rill's first address in what is to he
statewide campaign. Her subject was
What Mr. Hoover Wishes Is to DO.
At the outset Miss Tcrrin empha
sized the opportunity now presented
for women to retrieve the reputation
OF Vermont. at which many sluIs were
hurled during the earlier months of the
war, and expressed delight in the re-
Ieeut statement from Washington that
this state was leading the nation in the
big campaign for food conservation.
One Of the first essentials. she said, is
10 gat the situation fairly before the
people by explaining the point Of view
of the administration.
d" Mr. Hoover. She continued.
.'makes it clear that he is not food
dictator To the contrary this Is
. great test Of the methods of democracy.
, What he seeks is an educational cam
raign with four important objects in
$ view:
First, to contribute to the exports
i OF food and affect if in such way as
t TO conserve enough for CUR own use.
r Second, to check speculation and
S stabilize prices.
4 Third, the mobilization Of people
q who can give the greatest aid.
- Fourth. the appointment of admin
q istrators and food economic directors
5 fer each state.
/ Under the latter comes the purpose
of Mr.. Hardness and myself Mr.
= Harkness is the food administrator for
: Vermont
signed during the week of Oct. 2S we
must enter definite campaign along
lines suggested by the administration.
! - Here the question arises in the
minds of many WHY do the Allies look
t. US and why are we compelled to
Il bear this burden p -
81 Replying to this Miss TerriIl ex-
d planned clearly conditions in ENGLAND
il and France, which up to the present
n have been drawing heavily upon Aus
ID tralia and South American countries.
OF During the past season they have had
4 an unusual amount of Kaiser weather
so that they now have hardly enough to
supply their own people While their
productivity has been reduced shipping
facilities have been lessencd. Through
{ out Europe the tilIage and crops have
been reduced by lack OF labor. Snip
N loads of fertilizer have been sunk
Or while stirred conditions in Russia ana
to demoralized railroads have checked the
Iv resources of that country.
Id The speaker then declared. Ne
must eat without waste and with dis
elimination. This can be done by max
ing use of substitutes in many ways
The question of the shortage of fooC
ng and going without for others has he
come one Of saving every crumb for tLt
IN safety of the nation and not for tht
lie pocketbool of the consumer.
de Miss Terill then took up in turu tht
as conservation Of wheat flour the mea
.er supply sugar and fats, describing th
let various substitutes which are being
advocated throughout the country il
. magazines and newspapers and pam
- phletS from the food administration a
= Washington, concluding with the as
sertion that the manner in which peopl
4 followed adyices from now on wou
be a supreme test Of character.
Miss TerrilI Is thoroughly coryersan
with the work outlined before her an
n IeXpresSes very enthusiastically her conf
dence in the women of Vermont to
\ their part aud show he rest Of the cOu
try that they are not slackers in an
sense of IT, word Whole wheat. graham
corn and cereals as substitutes for pateI
white flour; more milk and dairy pro,
uct~ and other protein foods in place
50 much meat; a curtailment in the III
of sugar by use of other sweets in i
place, such as honey molasses and COZ
syrup; more generous use Of fruits M
n the employment Of vegetable oils al
oleomargariue in order to save fats W;
the gist of her suggestions to housewife
upon whom she says rests the who
Mlquestion of food control During her I
marks Miss Terrill pronounced the habi
q Of the American people regarding food
. pernicious and declared that the war W