The Nevada County picayune., 1917-06-28

infantry
 The appointment of William L. Si- bert as q major general unquestion- ably will be pleasing to the French. General Sibert has been declared by Frenchmen to be probably the worlds greatest engineer In his book on the Panama canal he gave full credit to the work which the French had done on the isthmuS. going into the matter In detail in q way which no other writer on canal subjects has done. The recognition given the French engineers in their work was particularly grate- ful to France. II was deserved rec ognition. but for some reasons Ameri- cans in the main had not given 1t em- phasis. Bunau-Varilla. the great French engineer who was in charge of canal work when construction by the French was under way, called Sibert the en- gineer without fear and without re- proach."
 We Must Feed the World.
 Columbia must play part of Lady Bountiful. She must feed the world.
 The people of the country have been given this message in some such form as this a thousand times hy the off cials of the agricultural department and by Herbert C. Hoover who even tually probably will have almost mas ter control of food supply matters, but officials In Washington still wonder whether or not the average American understands fully that the words mean what they say.
 Every ounce of supplies for the great American army which eventually will be thrown into France will be sent from this country. In addition to this by far the greater part of the supplies for the French. the British and the Italian armies must be furnished by the United States.
 More than this. the countries now warning for democracy as allies of the United States either must see thelr civilian people reduced to starvation rations or must obtain for them from this country the food which will keep them strong and safeguard the health of coming generations.
 The officials of the government are urgent in their desire that the Ameri- can people thoroughly shall know the situati that the press shall accentu- ate the facts and that instantly the campaign against waste and for great er production shall be started.
 Hard Task, but Will Be Done.
 Men here who are charged with the york of preparing the way for the say Ing of food and for an increase in pro- duction, fear pessimism of expression on the one hand. and too much op- timism on the other. They do not want 1t to appear that there is doubt concerning America's ability to carry out her part of the work of feeding the world. Neither do they want f to appear that the work easily is to be done. What they desire is that American people shall fOresee the huge task that Is ahead and hopefully and willingly shall bend themselves to the task of accomplishment.
 The war cannot be won unless the soldiers who are trying to win 1t are fed better than they would be fed at home. They need more substantial food when in active service at the front than they do when engaged In the ordinary work at home. even though such work be the heaviest kind of manual labor.
 The officials in Washington want the people to know that sacrifice IS nec- essary, but that the sacrifice will not be of Il kind to undermine health, or even to produce any physical discom- fort. provided it is made intelligently.
 Beef. wheat. bacon and beans are the essentials for good service on the field of battle. These the soldiers must have. and they are the foods which the American people at home should deny themselves in order that the armies of democracy may win what they are fighting for.
 Wheat is an essential not only for the soldiers but for the civilian popu- lation of France, and in large measure for the civilian population of Italy. and the British isles. The French people hardly know what corn Is, and while in parts of Italy the people have been eating it for years, their main reliance Is wheat, n fact which Is equally true of the people of the British isles.
 No official in Washington whose work concerns itself with the conser- vation of food desires that the Ameri- can people shall go without wheat bread. They do ask, however, that wheat four be saved in every way that is possible, and that cornmeal take its place as a bread maker to as great an extent as possible.
 What does all this leave? It leaves mutton, poultry, fish, eggs, and nearly all the ordinary garden vegetables. It leaves corn bread, and of course cer- tain substantial amount of wheat bread. and fl leaves many other edibles away from which no American of any n. I.