Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-17
MAYOR CAUTIONS CITIZENS
 AGAINST FOOD WASTE
Proclamation is Being Posted at Va
 rious Points About the City.

Local Bay Scouts at the request of Mayor Allyn l., Brown are posting no- vation of food. There are 200 notices in English, 100 in Polish, 50 in Jewish and 50 in Italian. These are to be posted in places where it is considered that they will be most noticeable. The proclamation follows:
 Proclamation. The president of the United States having declared that the supreme test of our nation has come, and hay ing asked for the earnest support of our people in the prosecution of the war which is now our war, deem it my duty to caution all citizens against the waste of food, and to advise that the utmost economy be exercised in the consumption of products of wheat, and all other foodstuffs.
 The gravity of the situation, which makes imperative a rigid husbandtng of the worlds food supply. is set forth in the following plea of Herbert c. Hoover chairman of the American commission for relief in Belgium, and recently appointed head of the Amer ican Food Board:
 Our allies cannot fight without food. Our enemies are calculating and that they will need to get in.
 The total stock of food today available in the allied world is not sufficient to last until September, if America continues its present rate of consumption. We are now face to face with the result of last years poor harvest, the diversion of manpower for agriculture all over the world, the un- men to plant available fields fully, the isolation of Russia: the sinking of food ships. and many other causes.
 England. France and Italy are re- ducing consumption by drastic steps, put even with all this reduction they must have from during the next three months more than twice as much food as we should have exported consume as usual. The only hope of providing the deficiency is by the elirh- ination of waste and rigorous self-sac- rifice on the part of the American people,"
 Thus by the exercise of patriotic self-restraint and a Judicious selec- tion of only the most plentiful foods for use, every American man, woman and child can do his or her bit to aid America and its allies in this hour of need.
 We are a nation of 1o2, ,S6o, 900 per- sons, of upwards of 20 million fami- lies. If each family will reduce it's consumption of food by but a pound 8 supply of Europe ten thousands tons of foodstuffs a week. or over half million tons a year.
 Such a saving represent but a small part of which may easily be made by the American people, and which 1t will be necessary for them to make in order to bring the war to an early and suc- cessful conclusion.
 Not only must the most rigid econo- my in the consumption of foodstuffs be practiced, but an enormous increase in their production must be made as well.
 Therefore deem 1t my further duty to advise the citizeis of this comnuni- ty to make extraordinary efforts eff forts to increase the cultivation of foodstuffs, and for this purpose to utilize all labor that can be spared from other occupations. and all culti- vatable land that is now idle. The la bor and ground ordinarily given up to ornamental cultivation may we'll be dedicated for the time being to this patriotic and human purpose.
 Let 1t not be said that in the adop- tion of wise and patriotic measures for the successful prosecution of the great struggle for the worlds liberty upon which our nation has enerted this community has not done it's full part.
 ALLYN L.. BROWN,
 Mayor.