Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-05

| FORM or the Con1ederacy.
| that this year the United States must
send to her allies 220, 200, 900 bushels
of wheat, an amount which must be
saved out of her own consumption of
wheat.
That does not mean that we must
go without bread" said Dr. Soule, but
| that we must substitute something else
for wheat bread. For instance. a large
milling concern in Knoxville is making
loaves out of corn and wheat together.
If every mill in the United States fol-
lowed suit we could save that 100000
900 bushels Of wheat right there"
The keynote of the meeting was
sounded by r. H. Wiser, campaign d.
lrector from Washington and personal
representative of Mr.. Hoover, and also,
by the way, a first cousin of President
Wilson.
In an hours vivid talk Mr. Wiser
made his hearers feel the full brunt of
the food situation that confronts Ameri-
ca He told them facts, and facts that
did not mince anything, but made them
see clearly that the United States is up
against 1t" unless food is saved and
saved and saved.
"If the war is won" he declared "it
must be won on the basis of food Ger
many at this moment is better prepared
TO wage war than ever before in her
history, despite what she has gone
through. Washington KNOWS this to
be true, for Washington has received
through unquestionable channels reports
that prove this the case absolutely"
Here Mr.. Wiser recited certain statis-
ties which he said could not be publish
ed but which showed Enthusiastically that
ba 10 rfU In ri
is thoroughly prepared to keep up the
war for years.
GERMANY is sYsTEMATIZBD.
Everything In Germany is systema-
tlzed," he continued. "She stands today
the most thorough nation under the sun.
Every man, woman and child in Ger
many is systematized; they are sat
urated with the spirit of winning the
war; all is pushed aside for the army;
and every German lighting today in the
trenches knows that he has behind him
united people, that his own wife. his
own sister, his own mother is Shaving,
shaving, Shaving, all the time to help him
light at the front.
That, gentlemen, is what We want In
America-the spirit at home that will
make every American soldier at the front
realize that back there they are behind
him to the last man and woman"
Mr.. Wiser expressed the honest opln-
ion that he did not think it possible
| for Germany ever to be invaded. No ma
| ton, he declared, can Dust Germany from
it's impregnable Notifications or hope to
ravage Germany as Belgium and north
| ern France were ravaged Only by
starving them to surrender can the war
be won, and while we are starving Ger
many, we must feed our own armies, our
own people, our own allies armies, and
our allies civilian population.
| Mr.. Wiser then told how this was to
be done-simply by a propaganda of ed
uca ton that shall permeate every part
of the country convince all people and
| teach them to eat plenty, but to eat
wisely. He then explained the method
of registering the housewives of the
land.
Chairman Gambler expressed the opin-
| ion that at present the people of Amer
lea. especially the people of the south,
are not awake to the necessity for saw
/ ing food. Once they are aroused to the
seriousness of the situation, they will
do their part he asserted.
He asked DIR. Soule to give The COM
mittee the data that will show how dis
tressful is the worldwide shortage of
food, and DR.. Soule did so. Among
other things. DR.. Soule said that there
| is now in France but half-a-teaspoon-
| full of sugar to every person. that the
kFrench soldiers rations, both of bread
and meat have been cut down greatly
from what they were at the beginning
| of the war.
| DR.. Soule said that wheat. milk and
meat in England today had reached
the low ebb of supply He declared
| that the United States must make up
the deficiency, not only supplying the al
lies, but producing enough over and
above to allow for submarine losses
IF we fail, the allies collapse; and
when they collapse, we must bear the
entire brunt of the war; 1t would be
equivalent to national suicide to fall"
he said
THE United States government does
not want to resort to food cards and
meat cards and force to conserve food"
he ended 1T is asking US to do this
voluntarily, and we must do it,
| Mrs. Inman pledged, the support of all
women in the state to the food conser-
alton campaign and Mrs. Nellie Pc
| tiers Black president of the Georgia Fed
Grafton Of Womens clubs, who was also
/ present, promised to enlist the help of
all womens organizations; Mr.. McAuliffe
declared that all the newspapers in the
state will be unhesitating IN their re-
sponse
At 1 o'clock the committee adjourned
| for luncheon to met again at 2 o'clock
when the subcommittee will be APP
opinted and moresdetails of the campaign
worked out.
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