The Alaska daily empire., 1917-01-19
ECONOMY BEGINS AT HOME

"Ecouomize" says the Federal Government or somebody representing the Federal Government to be more exact when asked whats to be done about household expenses. "EcOnOmize. says the Louisville Suffrage Association the end Of a campaign against buuering the toast or looking upon the egg when i, is poached Economze," says the St. Louis Board Of Trade-to the old Business Mems Associations brand name-"when food embargo is talked"
 Obviously but will the advice be adopted?
 In ancient Rome the law irobade woman to wear clothes which cost more than was warranted by her husbands income. There were no seIcsupport. ing business women in Rome who could exercise @ choice between wearing silk stockings on eight dol, lars week enjoying Barmecide's feast at the dairy lunch counter and cutting down the clothes all lOwance without asking questions of a husband In England it proposed when carriages were intro duced from France that Parliament pass law to prohibit their use by persons below certaja sJa- tiOn, lest plaGVs Ct debt Overtake tae country be- cause of pOpuhc indulgence in the luxury Of being jolted in sprngess vehicles t isn't up0n record that the Romans made Rome howl the less because of the law regulating womens dressing. he decline and fall of the empire amid scenes of riotous waste is history Parliament didn't pass the carriage limitI ton law and the descendants of persons who drove carriages they could i'll afford driving automobiles and buying gasoline at war prices.
 The argument Of the Louisville suIrragettes that economy in the kitchen exercises considerable e. leCL upon lle conservation or the kOOI supply un answerable. There are a few, perhaps who for the general good. will economize in their purchase or use of edibles. The statement that if peel pota- toes with the pairing knife held at such an angle that the peeling thick the worlds supply of potatoes will be to that extent down is true but there are many persons who will reply that by making the peel ing thick We shall encourage the planting of potatoes and give employment to truck farmers An argument which has stronger appeal is that the French house wife is, among women Of the western world excep. tionaly economical, and that there are. in normal times, more savings bank accounts in France than elsewhere; more small investors in government se- curities; more persons who have achieved financial independence by making good of moderate in- comes.
 traveller from India told New Workers the other day that America is the only country the world in which persons cut the crust away from the bread and throw it away. The Hindu added" said New York paper. that the MOhammedan regards bread as sac red and he sees bit of in the street he puts it where it will not be destroyed and where the birds can ge, it."
 America is ex,ravagant when compared with France and utterly. nsanely crminaIly when compared with Japan. China, or India. Nowhere is American eXtrayangance more fragrant than in the 1 kitchen. The bearing of kitchen economy upon family welfare is plain the nose on Cyranos iace If ! the conservation Of food for the increase of the worlds supply is ideal too high and pure for the average mOralst actually seek to realize anyone sees the practical advantage o saving in the household by elm mating waste; by eating cheese from Wisconsin or New York when France is making more war than cheese; by saving the crust Of the bread.
 Outcray against extravaganza is as old as ciyiliza- .ion It does not stop extravagance but. no doubt t lessens it measurably and by so doing vndicates It's nsstency.