The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1917-12-27
WAR TO LAST FIVE YEARS!
Is WARNING OF MISS KELLY

Santa Fe, y. NJ, Dec. %, l9l7-The
war is going to last for five more years
Germany is waging it with resources
she had been marshalling and develop
ing for forty years; America hasn't
even learned what resources she has.
These statements were made with
driving emphasis at the Museum Au-
ditorum by Miss Elizabeth Kelly of
the University of Wisconsin, now talk
ing for the government on food con-
servation all over the United States.
Her talk made the fifty or sixty peo-
pie present sit up and take notice.; she
was ruthless in her scoring of the
apathy which exists in the west in the
face of Americas war for existence,
in the face Of the vital necessity Of
feeding the fighters and the people of
the Allies ard as only woman can do
it, armed with expert knowledge OF
foods and food values, she put the
crisis directly up to the housewives OF
Santa Fe, and the men without whose
operation the housewives cannot make
effective food saving campaign that
saves.
"Be a war-worker," was her slogan;
and she showed that it means and will
mean something more than knitting
and making Christmas presents for
soldiers. Miss Kelly will speak again
on another subject.
Miss Kelly's address of last night
follows in part:
Signs of the war decrease as you
20 west. The east fairly bristles with
war. For three months hadn't seen
a sugar bowl until ] came west. They
dole it out to you by the lump. No
decrease in sugar whatever is notice
able out here The bowls are on the
table and you can take all you want.
What will awaken our people, /
was asked the other day. Will they
have to wait until they get the news
of the killing of thousands of our own
.boys?' 1t is too bad that we are so
stepped in our own ease and comfort,
in material things, that we have TO
wait until our boys wade ankle deep
in their own blood to realize our pat
in The war. Every one Of us can he of
some use. Let those of US who are
awake determine each to be n mission
airy and wake up those who are asleep.
"The eastern cities blaze with food
saving appeals; great posters every-
where. In PARTS of Louisiana, in Texas
and New Mexico you don't see them -
merely few window cards. The west
must learn that war is not won hy
armies on the field but by armies pit
ting resources against resources,
Germany for 40 years marshallcd
her resources and when the war COM
menced in 1914 she knew to the dot
exactly what she had to fight with.
The allies have done well in mobilizing
their resources; here in America we
don't even know our resources.
"The allies have asked us for food
in order that they may win our war
Germany has commanded her peo-
pie to save food, to eat this and leave
that, Food cards are issued and ra-
tions prescribed. We are trying to do
Ivy persuasion what Germany is doing
by force; to do voluntarily what Ger
many had to do.
"For four months we have been ask
ed daily to save meat, wheat, fats and
sugar.
"For three years oar allies have been
fghting our battles. They want wheat
We can't ask them to take corn, to
Irevolutiouize their baking and eating
methods; they eat stale bread and stale
corn bread is unpalatable. We can use
! il: they cannot. So we must use the
corn hread and let them have the wheat
Indian corn sav.l this nation in it's
infancy; we can use it and must use
it; it has the same food value as wheat
when properly cooked.
"We are not asked to starve. Every
American must have his body up to
full working capacity. But we are
asked to use substitutes. Eggs, cheese
fish and milk are complete substitutes
for meat. Pod vegetables are partial
substitutes; they are complete substi-
tutes with milk or butter.
1--WE must save sugar. We are eat