New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-22
CARTOONS URGING SAVING OF FOOD
STARE AT BRITISH ON EVERY HAND
Every Available Means
Used in Nationwide
Campaign to Offset
U-Boats' Work
Children Hit
Along with
Adults

London, July 12.-Bread and treacle
and bread and jam, the roast beef and
plum pudding Of youthful Britain,
have been jettisoned in the face Of the
submarine menace. The blissful,
smeary faces that obtruded themselves
into landscapes much the same fash
ion as the Cheshire Cat Of blessed
memory have faded out for the last
time. unless, indeed, peace should come
before lentil or sheepshead soup has
utterly perverted young appetites, when
one can imagine a sticky orgy whose
duration will be limited only by the
supply OF the sweetshops.
That is the Juvenile aspect Of wheat
saving measures that are being en-
forced upon all ages and conditions.
Mufets, pikelets, crumpets and
dropped scenes have gone the way Of
the bread and treacle. In the words
of the bulletin issued by the Ministry
of Food, they are absolutely prohib-
tied" So. too, are light and fancy
pastries Of all kinds, any cakes with
filings. frostings. composite cakes. or
these requiring Is per cent or more
of sugar. Plain scenes or buns are
about the only remaining bread dain-
ties.
That knave OF hearts. the U-boat, Is
responsible. and what physiological
changes may be wrought through its
knavery with the tarts only the future
can show. The millions who are now
under arms or toiling in munition
shops were raised on bread and treacle,
On pasties, maids of honor, crumpets,
pikelets and all the indigestihie, doughty
masses that boy or man will stuff
away while lettering reluctantly to
school or amid the shrubbery Of a
garden tea.
Shortage Of Food Serious
Il is not with any regard for the
digestions of future generations, how
ever, that the Ministry Of Food is dell
uging the land with tracts and pasting
food saving posters in every available
place. It's purpose is set forth clearly
in one Of these and is as follows:
"The shortage Of breadstutfs is very
serious indeed.
at is so serious that if we do not
save the quantity Of bread required by
the Food Controller We shall not have
enough to carry US through until the
harvest.
"If we can save the proportion OF
bread required we can defy the Ger
man submarines.
"The first thing to do is to stop all
waste of bread"
The Ministry Of Food goes on 10
saw that careful examination has con-
WINGED IL that under normal conditions
per cent of bread is wasted. In
week the wasted bread amounts TO
5000 tons, or about the burden OF two
"The Food Controller" the pamphlet
continues, tasks the public TO stop
this waste of per cent and, in addl..
ton, to save at least one-quarter Oh
the bread hitherto eaten.
eve must economic from now on
nearly twice as much as we have
hitherto wasted.
ave have to save the equivalent OF
nearly four shiploads week, when
would spoil the game OF large num-
Der of German submarines.
avery one must eat less bread, and
not a crust or a trumb must be
thrown away. Begin to-day TO eat Two
slices of bread less every day. save
bread and the bread will save YOU"
Physicians Aid in Saving
phvsicians have been enrolled in the
bread saving, and if Britain takes 20
heart the advice so freely profered by
the Ministry of Food the entire ma
ton will be eating not Only, irugaIy
but hygienically, and soon there VII
be the spectacle of nation on oleI,
and centuries hence savants Will polh'
to this or that quality Of she race say
ing, "Ah, but if they had Kept on WIN
the treaele and the boItihg u
meals
With all this advice and warning
Isvished on adults, it would not have
been strange had the smeary-fsced
Youngsters been left TO the tutelage OF
their instructed elders, but, stun IN
Grim pursuit of that 8 per cent OF
Wasted bread. the National War Saw
ings Committee ruthlessly puts treacie
and jam, too, on the highest shei'
of all.
Cannily surmising that the advice OF
phvsicians, no matter how many cap.
ital letters follow their names, Will
have little weight with youthful Brit-
ons. the committee has started a cam
paign to provide luncheons at schools
FOR pupils who ordinarily would bring
their sustenance with them. There 49,
no treacle. no jam and mighty little
bread on the menus.
The following royal proclamation,
issued by the National War Savings
Committee, under authority If the MIN.
lister Of Food, shows another method OF
driving home national necessity 70 the
householder:
BY THE KING
A PROCLAMATION
GEORGE RI.
We, being persuaded that the alb
stention from all unnecessary con-
sumption Of grain will furnish the
surest and most effectual means Of