The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1917-08-24


foods. These are wheat -four, beer,
pork and dairy products. We have 9th
err foods in great abundance which we
can use instead of these commodities,
and we can prevent wastes in thou
sand directions, We must guard the
Drainage Of exports from the United
States, that We fetaih n proper supply
for our own country, and Sc must
adopt such measures as will ameit0-
rate, so far as may be, the prize condi-
lions Of our less fortunate. We might
so drain the supplies from the country
10 Europe as by the high prices that
would follow to force our people to
shorten their consumption. This Oper-
alton of normal economic forces"
would stave that element of the COM
munlty to whom we owe the most pro-
lection. We must try to impose the
burden equally upon all.
There Is no royal road to food CON
servatlon. we tah only accomplish
this by the voluntary action Of our
whole people, each element in proper
ton to its means. 1t Is matter of
equality of burden; matter of min
ute saving and substitution AT every
point in the 20,000,000 Kitchens, on the
20,000000 dinner tables and in the
100000 manufacturing, Wholesale and
retail establishments of the country.
The task Is thus in Its essence the daily
individual service of all the people.
Every group can substitute and even
the great majority of thrifty people
an save little-and the more luXuri-
Gus elements of the population can by
"eductiOn to simple living save much.
The final result of substituting other
products and saving one pound Of
wheat flour, two ounces of fats, seven
ounces of sugar and seven ounces of
meat weekly, by each person, WILL
when we have multiplied this by one
hundred million, have increased our
exports to the amounts absolutely re-
quired by our allies. This means no
more than that we should eat plenty,
but eat wisely and without waste.
Food conservation has other aspects
of utmost Importance. Wars must he
paid for by savings. We must save
in the consumption in commodities and
the consumption of unprOductlve Ia
Dor In order that we may divert our
manhood to the army and to the shops.
If by the reduction In consumption of
labor and the commodities that 1t pro-
duces and the diversion of this saving
to that labor and those commodities
demanded by the war, we shall he able
TO fight to eternity. We can mortgage
our future savings for little while,
hut piling up of mortgages is but Il
short step toward bankruptcy. Every
atom that we save is available for sub
scription to Liberty bonds.
The whole of Europe has been en-
gagged ever since the war began in the
elimination Of waste, the smplificatiOn
of life, and the increase of its induS-
trial capacity. When the war is over
the consuming power of the world will
be reduced by the loss Of prosperity
and man power and we shall enter a
period of competition without parallel
in ferOcity. After the war, we must
maintain our foreign markets If our
working people are to be employed
We shall be in no position to compete
If we continue to live on the same
basis of waste and extravaganza on
which we have lived hitherto. Simple
temperate living is moral issue of the
first order at any time, and any other
basis of conduct during the war be-
comes a wrong against The interest Of
the country and the interest Of
democracy.
The impact of the food shortage Of
Europe has Knocked at every door of
the United States during the past three
years. The prices Of foOdstuffs have
nearly doubled, and the reverberations
of Europe's increasing shortage would
have Numbered twice as loudly dur
ing the coming year even had we not