Connecticut western news., 1917-12-13
CAREFUL EATING
Food Conservation Means Econ ony, Not Hoarding or Hunger.
Enough For Every One in This coun- try and For the Allies, Too, if WastefuI Practices Are
 Abolished.

Food conservation is an expression which has recently come into general use. It is only natural that people should ask what is meant by food conservation. It carries with 1t two very definite ideas. In the first place, it means that no one shall waste any food of any kind. Dwellers in cities and towns who must buy most of their food should waste nothing. Doubtless high prices will prevent much cause for complaint here. The farmer and the handler of food from the moment it is produced until it is placed in the kitchen of the consumer must not allow an ounce to be wasted if they are to follow out the proper meaning of food conservation.
 Secondly, it means that Americans must save for the nations allies those foodstuffs which can be most easily shipped and for which they have the greatest need. Experience has shown that the foods which are most needed by the allied armies and the people of allied countries are wheat, meat in the form of beef, pork and nut ton; fats, dairy products and sugar. The true conserver of food will elim- mate or at least cut down the use of these foods in his diet in order that the allies may receive their full share of them.
 Food conservation does not mean that Americans shall go hungry. A nations courage is at its highest when it's people are we'll fed on wholesome foods. America has more than enough for its own people and can send some away.
 Food conservation does not mean that Americans are to hoard food stuffs for fear they shall not have enough at some unknown time in the future. Such policy would be the direct reverse of what is desired. For the farmers to hold back the supplies with which their barns and larders are filled and the city people, who have money to buy up and lay away vast stores of food which they do not need at the present time would be to defeat the very thing at which the government is aiming. There is no probability of greater scarcity in the future for us Americans than is now upon us. Don't hoard. "Hoarding withholds food from our allies and boosts the cost of living for our selves," according to the food admin istration.
 Save Sugar-Don't Eat Candy.
 "No more candy while our allies are suffering for the lack of sugar." is the slogan of the United States food administration. It will be of no great hardship to give up this lux ury, and the men and women across the water must have this food.
 The sugar used for making candy in the United States, according to the best information that can be obtained by the United States food admins tration, is sufficient to meet all the sugar requirements of England under the rationing standard adopted there.
 If the people of the United States would eliminate candy from the diet sugar so saved would be more than sufficient to meet all the sugar re- quirements of France.
 II one-nalI the sugar used Tn the making of candy in this country in 1917 could have been saved it would have been sufficient to meet the sugar requirements of Italy for year un- der that country's present sugar standard.
 The money spent for candy in the United States in the past year is nearly double the amount of money needed to keep Belgium supplied with food for year.
 Of the total sugar consumption of the United States, according to the best estimates obtainable, about one third goes into the manufacturing of :arious foodstuffs, including confec- tionery, while the remainder is con- sumed as sugar.