Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-11-02


Atlanta Journal for years. I've a let
ter before me telling me of the stress
put on this matter of food waste six
years ago. and when I've seen food
thrown in the Stops or to the chickens
I've felt sure that some day there
would come a punishment to US for the
waste.
Do you remember Gods explicit in
structions to the Jews concerning their
food and gathering their crops? Do
you remember that our. Saviour gath
cred up the fragments? When you go
to a picnic or have box supper, what
becomes of the fragments?
The Farmer came In a few days ago
and said that he passed some school
children on their way home, several
families were represented, and that they
had emptied their lunch boxes and left
enough food to make a meal for pig.
Some of us said ii would be well to have
a school pig and he said Yes, but there
should be more judgment used In pack
ing those baskets"
Certainly, nobody wants the children
to get hungry, but to allow them to have
such an example of prodigality and to
then waste the left-overs is a positive
sin. ..f.
Put in what you think your childreI
will eat and see to it that they bring
home their left-overs Open their bas
ket, or lunch box, yourself anc judge
from that left what they really need.
Sometimes you will learn lot about
your childs physical condition, the lunch
NAV be almost untouched. some may
simply "nibble," and some may eat only
one sort of food. l told you OF the boy
who had broken his arm twice and col
larbone once, before his mother learned
that toast and tea for his breakfast did
not give his body the material to add
strength to his bones, nor put red cor
puscles in his blood.
Of they just won't eat, what are you
going to do about it?' / am often asked. |
Don't let little children hear you say, II
can't make her Cor him) do that" 1t
strengthens their determination to have
their own way and adds a sort of luste"
to rebellion
In our home we could not so to play
until we had eaten breakfast, and we
were helped to a moderate amount of
some sort of cerealS with butter or
gravy, and then whatever else we want
ed But the grits hominy or whatever
it was. and the cream gravy supplied
enough starch, sugar and protein for us
to begin the day. We didn't whine,
either.
l know a mother who gives her four
teen year old son castor oil instead of
any other punishment, by the time he
is over half a cupful he has repented
and resolved to obey her He would
rather drink the oil for her than have
her call in his father
So you see our part of this worlds
work must be performed from prenatal
existence until Our hands are folded,
and even then our precepts and exam
pies go on and on. My grandmother
Warning was in our home until we were
almost grown and often think, of the
lessons she taught us, and when / see
children who have no grandparents liv-
ing / really feel sorry for them. Some
families seem to think that all they
can get out of their parents is to their
credit, but that is wrong. A father
and mother spend their best years
working for their children, and be-
lieve that the reason some old fathers
are so imposed on~is because they do
not divide the labor equally and the
children are not taught the blessedness
of giving. Have your children worked
hard this year? God has blessed their
labor as we'll as yours, give God his
tenth and then give the children some
thing over what it will cost to clothe
them. Inculcate thrift that way, Then
notice next year that some of them will
take better care of their possessions
some will be careless and trihlng as long
as the world lasts Then if the moth
er is always looking after the fathers
welfare and he considering her comfort
the children will rise up and be COM
fort for each A selfish man or wom-
an in a home makes it hard for all of
the others. .r
And right here is where want to call
your attention to our duty to those
across the water. Just as the selfish
one in the home makes it hard on the
others the slackers, the MASTERS and
those whose motto is II never expect
to die in debt to my stomach" causes
starvation across the water. This class
often die in debt to the minister who
has preached to them, and many have
died in debt to the merchant who let
them have things on a credit. They are
the ones who are going to make us, as |
a nation, fail to supply food to the |
starving women and children in the J
lands spoiled by war.
Take this state of Alabama 1t takes,
am told ten thousand barrels of flour
a day. Suppose every one is honest
and does without flour just one day in
every week. 1t would not hurt us, and
in the hereafter. when our record is
spread before us that one day of self
denial will cover many a sin. Be
cause, "Inasmuch as we did it for those
perishing brothers and sisters, we did 1t
for Christ Had you JnOuBnI OF lnaI
am going to ask The Journal to
print the card Mr.. Hoover sent me. L
signed one months ago, and want you
to sign this one and send it to me. !
No matter where you live, nor how
many cards you have signed, I'd like
to know that my folk" the readers
of this column, are willing to do with
out flour, sugar and meat occasionally |
so that there may be food for all.
There are more than hundred mill |
lion people in the United States, but |
we will put it at that, and the bis
cult scraps, the waste of one day, |
would feed the army a week-just one |
days waste. Personally, 1 do not en-
joy cornbread. 1 prefer flour bread
even with my vegetables. but 1 gave
my share of wheat to the allies and /
eat my cornbread with the others. L
make up half the quantity Of flour |
that we used last year and that is at
breakfast.
do not care for the half and half |
dishes, the meal spoils the -four for me. |
so ] have biscuits once day and corn /
bread twice. Sweet potatoes and Irish |
nOtatOeS- ran no uSed in variety of |