The Monticellonian., 1917-11-09
MEAT AND WHEAT
 SHOULD BE SAVED
ONE DAY EACH WEEK WITHOUT THESE IS URGED ON THE
 AMERICAN PEOPLE.
NEEDED FOR THE FIGHTERS
British and French Know Little About Corn, of Which We Have Plenty Washington Is Now a Crowded and Bustiing City.
By EDWARD B. CLARK.

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 Washington. - Washington hotels and to q considerable extent it's board ing houses have adopted meatless Tuesdays and wheatless Wednesdays Tn an effort to economize in those food products which are most necessary for our soldiers and our allies in the war.
 It apparently is the hope of the food administrator that if meatless Tues day and wheatless Wednesday be adopted generally throughout the Uni ted States, that the amount of sub stantial necessaries which will be saved will be sufficient to keep our allies going and to keep our men strong in the field.
 1t is understood by the officials in Washington charged with the work Of food conservation that with appa- rent plenty on every hand in the coun- try districts of the land, it is difficult for people to realize that it is neces- sary to save in such things as bread, beef and pork. The desire is that in every household, on one day in week at least, no meat shall be eaten and no wheat bread shall appear on the table.
 Poultry is not counted as meat in the plan of conservation and curious ly enough neither is hash provided it be made of leftovers, but it earnestly Is urged that there be no attempt to cook so much meat on one day that there will be enough left over for hash on the next day. This is no sav- ing operation at all.
 French Do Not Know Corn.
 Why is it that wheat is so absolute ly necessary to the French and Brit iSh? Why is it that we cannot send great quantities of corn to them and let their soldiers and their people eat Johnny cake, plain corn bread and corn mullins? Well, there is reason and good one. Many of the British people and virtually all of the French people know very little about corn To start the French eating coln to the exclusion of wheat would be to some extent like trying to make people stop eating peaches and take up a diet of olives Experience has shown that in some of the countries of Europe peo- pie have to be educated to eat corn"
 The French will eat rye bread with out much of demur, but wheat is their staple. They love it and it has been the principle food of the peas ants for centuries. Their systems are accustomed to it and the French sol dier will go a long ways on q half loaf of wonderful French bread made from wheat.
 In Italy the people have been taught the value of corn and it's delights as Il food It took long while to do it. Not many years ago persons interest ed in the spreading of the doctrine of corn" went to Italy and began an educational campaign in its behalf. Italian peasants turned up their noses Ut the food for a long time, but finally they were induced to give it trials and now cornmeal mush and corn bread are eaten with avidity in many parts of the Italian peninsula.
 Capital City Is Crowded
 Washington has changed overnight from Il sedate, quiet residential town into a whrlin& bustling, feverish city. Men who were here four years ago and who come again today do not know the place.
 There was time when the capital of the nation was in all respects staid | nnl Inn InthorOir ENNDn tho DIItD- mobiles rolled along their leisurely way with no speed demon at the wheel Now within twenty-four hours 5s chauffeurs or owners have been ar rested for exceeding the speed limit, or cutting corners at rapid gait on two wheels, or doing other things in decorous in persons of supposedly steady habits.
 The last census gave Washington about 346,000 as the mark of it's popu- lation Today there are more than 400 900 people in the place and more coming hour by hour. The capital does not know itself.
 The government has brought into the city thousands upon thousands of clerks and hundreds upon hundreds of men newly entered into the army and navy, men who are needed here, be- cause of their peculiar business train ing, as workers in the staff depart ments of Uncle Sam. The visitor who |. arrives in the afternoon without hay ing heralded his approach with re- quest to q friend to get place for him to sleep is likely to be compelled to knock at strangers door and to ask to be taken in for the night.
 Beds Put Up Everywhere.
 All the "Rooms to Let" signs in the District have been taken down. Gar rets in the boarding houses have been subdivided and the waste space, or at best the storeroom space, has been turned into bedrooms. Standing Room Only" Is proper sign to be hung in the Hobbies of the hotels and railways of the boarding houses.
 Some of the men who have volun- teered to work in the advisory com mittee of the council of national de-
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