The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-27
America, in Keeping Allies in Fight
ing Efficiency, Must Do 1t
Out of Conservation
GREAT DUTY RESTS ON PUBLIC
Food Administrator HartBess Says
Every Ounce Of Wheat Saved is
an Ounce Released.to Allies II

ADMINISTRATORS OF The SeVefAl, STATES,
declared today that the country Is FAR
from being awakened TO the serious
ness of the food situation in the Al
lied world and consequently Is not in
a position to realize the responsibility
that is placed npon every individual
10 help in solving the great problem
Of keeping our fighting allies supplied
with food
THE problem OF feeding The Allies
is more serious than The food admin
istration thought last summer IL would
become. Mr. HARNESS said The
continuance OF the war from the Al
lied side. depends on the daily and
monthly arrival over there of given
ships which leave our shores laden
with The food supplies for which there
Is such AN imperative demand il o,ir
allies are 10 maintain their fighting
efficiency
The general food situation Is made
douby complex by the shortage or
ships, and il Is not too much. IN say
that II defeat comes TO the Allies II
will be because the problem ~ food.
and ships was not solved The great
handicap imposed hy he shipping
shortage is shown BY the facf that I
while there is not left innt.ie United
States "a single exportable hushel' of
wheat Chat Is, not hushel now re-
mains over our normal requirements)
the Australian crop nf 1915 has only
half heen moved, the 1916 export crop
has not been touched al all, and now
Australia is coming in with It's 1917
WELD none of which, can not yet he
tapped because we can not deiach
ships for such a long voyage.
The Argentine has big wheat
crop hut carrying that to Europe au-
tomatically lessons tho tonnage as n
consequence Of lengthening ihn vow
age, and. moreover, Argentihe wheat
can not become a factor before fha 4
middle Of january This means thar
supplying The Allies with wheat, be- ,
comes purely a question Of coriserya-.
zion The United States and Canada |
must carry the load until, The middle /
OF January. and he Upited States |
. must do il out OF conservation entire /
llyl This means that when an iipiivid-
aal refraips from eating sece of
bread or any other foot containing 4
wheat, he is releasing iusssxnhsdnc h ifor
war purposes. - gsNi
I 1.-THE individual may be certain that 4
tlHs means exactly what il saSs,
every ounce OF wheat saved Is an
ounce more for our lighting allies. To
this narrow margin has ,fhe wotf5's
available wheat supply, come This
situation places a great srespensibns |
jty on the individual American, Can,
there he normal consumption ~ wheat
foods when il is realized that the
fighting nations stand In such need
of that commodity? Shall insist
upon bread and cake and pie when I
know that nv so doing / am depriving
fighting agency of imperatively
needed food That is the question the
American people must ask themselves
continually now
We must realize that consump-
ton has been reduced 10 the very
margin of safety in European coun-
tries, so that our Allies are not ask
ing us for anything they do not actual |
~ need, and we must remember that |
they are asking ii with a right and |
an insistence that must he Needed |
A meriCa must follow in the same path. |
Conservation is now on a voluntary !
basis but how long It can remain |
there depends upon the extent Of the /
vn On M and xyl al A |
general situation improves or becomes
worse. But the American people
should realize that they have come
to the parting OF the ways. Waste
and unnecessary consumption Of GER
tain foods must come to an end either
voluntarily or by some measure of re-
preston.
ITO obtain picture of what food
shortage means let il be said that the
recent Russian revolution was nothing
but a monster food riot. which will
he followed by others because the
transport situation is such in that
unhappy country that supplies cannot
be distributed There will be more
suffering and revolt in the cen.ers Of
HupulttlOu 'Dt COMING WiHLtI. III
Italy the food situation brought
about riots and weakened the morale
front lost their war enthusiasm
when they learn that dear ones at
home are going hungry
81 hope The sixty!hve thousand odd
patriotic Vermont families who signed
the food conservation pledge card will
realize that their call to the colors has
been sounded and that they will re-
double their efforts along lines of sub
stitution and conservation suggested
In the Kitchen card. | also hope that
those who did not sign The card for
any reason will reconsider their ac
ton in view Of the increased serious
ness OF the situation. There Is a defin-
lite war service of unreasonable val
ne in this conservation work. Sure I,
ly we at home will not fail TO make
the lesser sacrifice entailed in food
when we are sending our
boys so freely to make the supreme
sacrifice that we may continue to liYe
free people in free land" :,