Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-19

the people get just as much food and the
SIX loaves are not missed, because the peo-
PIE eat the whole thirty ioaves instead of
catlng Just thIrty and wasting the six"
Doctor Taylor said the same thing Is true
IN this country. lie says the matter of re-
ducing the cost of living Is one education and
the nation cannot expect to do 1t in a day.
Harvey M. Watts. of the PUBLIC LEDGER,
to'o US similar thing. He told how cam
vass of the garbage OF the city Of New
YORK showed that the people of the poorer
districts had much more garbage than other
sections Of the city had In comparison.
The frugal peasant who comes to this
country loses his habits of thrift" said Mr..
watts He hears he Is In a land OF plenty,
and of course. is earning more money than
ne ever did before In his life. so he thinks II
is not necessary to save. and he does not"
lie said. too, that In this country. we have
tradition that teaches, "If you would
live well, live extravagantly."
The diet squad Is aiming not TO teach
thst family can live on just twenty five
cents day and no more, but that It can
live and get enough nourishment TO carry
on daily tasks and rebuild body tissues on
much less than is being. spent today 10 the
wife but knows how to buy foods and pre-
pare them so that the maximum nourish-
| ment is obtained
c. s. Rates. chairman of the food values
| committee of the Mayors food investigation
commission, told me that he knew that n
diet squad had passed the experimental
| stage and that It had reached the demon.
strstion period
1T Is now a question Of how we can
teach the American housewife how she can
buy and prepare nourishing food for her
family" he said, land for that reason
our committee. consisting of some of the
leading food value experts in the United
States. has recommended to the Mayor that
we have a great demonstration and let the
n laI 1pti hnxry ~
done. We suggest that Horticultural Hall
be used for two weeks, starting the last
week in April, and that we make meals for
| five. six, eight and twelve cents, as they
| have been done on the diet squad at the
| Lighthouse.
This diet squad movement must not stop
when the two weeks are over. We must
| get the message over to the American
| housewife. And we hope to do IL in Phila-
| delphia with the aid of from 5000 to 10000
| social workers and dietitians and nurses
| all aiding in the education of the Amer
| lean housewife"
Another man told me that he knew II
| was impossible for women to learn these
| things Immediately. and he thought 1t a
| shame that some of the Philadelphia hus.
| bands should blame their wives and threat.
| en- to reduce the housekeeping budget be.
| cause the diet squad could live on twenty
| five cents a day per person and his wife
| couldn't
| "1t is a matter of education" that Is
| what we have heard every day from the
eminent speakers who have been with us.
From DR.. Eugene Lyman Fisk, the
director of the Life Extension Institute
down on through all the speakers it ha.
1 been the same story.
Taking the consensus of opinion. mos
| of the women are not to blame. All the!
| need is chance. They are just a,
| anxious to reduce the cost of living al
| their husbands.
| We eight members of the squad hop,
| we have helped blaze a trail and that tn,
work will go on and that we have no
| "dieted in vain"