Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-08
Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread" Now WorldWic

need. you will some day receive only
Take care. Waste of food helps the
enemy"
The wolf is at the door, Don't waste
bread. A loaf is life
Everybody can do bit more by eat
ing less"
Jones put out millions OF leaflets ask
ing:
will you be a food controller Forty,
million food controllers wanted at once
to help the food controller make tho
bread last out"
One OF the most picturesque pieces OF
publicity that went to every British
home was the autobiography entitled.
Mr.. Slice o Bread"
Il am a slice of bread
II measure three inches by two-and-
a-half, and my thickness is half-an-
inch.
My weight is exactly an ounce.
II am wasted once a day by 4s.ooo.oo0
people of Britain.
II am the bit left over: the slice
eaten absent mindedly when really 1
wasn't needed. l am the waste crust.
IF you collect me and my compa Mons
for whole week. you would md that
We amounted to 1850 tons OF gooo
bread-wasted!
two shiploads of good bread.
Almost as much--striking an aver
age-as twenty German submarines
could sink. even II they had good luck.
When you throw me away or waste
me, you are adding twenty submarines
to the German navy"
One day Jones read in magazine
that a food proclamation had been is
sued by one of the early Georges. He
got the writer of the article to bring
1t up to date. and King George did the
rest. The appeal for food conservation
now became a royal edict.
Jones knew that the blue ribbon was
the symbol of temperance. so he made
the purple ribbon the sign of bread
honor. Today hundreds of thousands
their coats, while women and children
pin a small rosette on the bosoms of
their dresses. He invented the family
food pledge card, which is framed and
hung up in countless dining rooms.
The director of food economy saw
that the meatless day did everything
but conserve food. 1t showed that il
an embargo Is put on one form of food.
quantities to fill the vacancy. So the
meatless day was abolished.
Food control has gone to such an
extent that before 1 left England tho
new grace before meals had become:
For what we are about to receive.
. may the Lord Davenport make us truly
> thankful"
Lord Rhondda, who has just succeeded
him. Is of the same virile type-a Briton
with a punch. He is the Welsh coal
king, controller or director of forty
two commercial corporations and one
of the first to be Communicated by
Lloyd George for his business cabinet.
He gave hint Of what England could
expect Of his food control when he said.
in outlining his policy:
The man who profits in the hour OF
hfR Cnnnfrvsa r,Ari1 fS nnfhinQ Ghnrf nf
a blackmailer. and must be treated as
SUCH"
AS food consumption grows less. the
food production Of Great Britain in
creases. Hunger has done more to drive
people back to the land" than all Of
Lloyd Georges duke-baiting. The great
: estates are being cut. up into farms.
Every tennis court is becoming potato
+ patch.
Great Britain has weathered the food
. crisis. Control has become the law Of
: day is one controller after another:
4 In addition to the supervision of all
y food. there is control of drink. coal.
RRa is tSe sr aaa iesse1 of
I ropes food pinch? The case of Eng
. land will answer.
Saving OF food has become ma.
E tional habit. and with 1t the employ
! ment Of surplus money in the various
!. war loans. John Bull is small in
4 vestor-a real partner in the nations
0 war. II these twin agencies Of thrift
become permanent, then the war will
= almost have been worth its cost in
c blood and treasure.
{ But they were only achieved
e through drastic supervision of money
z and market. Something that Lord
8 Northcliffe said to me during the days
e when the food shortage pinched is well
z worth repeating here.
IF England had created a food con-
k troller with her first army we would
!" be nearer to victory now" he declared
~ Wars are still waged on stomachs
v A nation going to war must enlist food
I with men, 1t is true of productive as
d well as reproductive countries"
: In food control is the first law OF
national defense.
u Copyright, 1917. by the Bell Syndicate. Incl