The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-01
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Be WASTED
Warning to 4 as That
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BY HE HOOVER
Every AZ spot Should be Used
as Gardenin Order to Pre-
vent Threatened
Famine.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service]
NEW YORK. May 1.-American
women can maintain the allied armies
on the firing line by eliminating waste
In the home, in the opinion OF Herbert
Hoover, who Is to be American food
controller. in copyrighted article in
Today's Housewife.
"If we are to pull our allies through
with sufficient foodstuffs to maintain
their men at the front and their wom-
en- and children at home, we have
simply got to reduce waste and con-
sumption of foodstuffs to the mini
mum upon which we can maintain
good health" Hoover warns.
This can be done If we have the
united good will and devotion OF the
American women. They control d.
rectly eighAy-fve per cent Of the total
food, being that part consumed in the
home and they Indirectly control q
large part of the food consumed in
public places
Hover advises the wealthy to eat
luxries exclusively and thus conserve
the staples for expectation.
'Erom the point Of view OF our all
ii.ss and cur own poor In these tunes
OF high prices" he said. ''the ideal
meat of the well-to-do should be ter
rapin, turkey and tenderloin.''
Urging every housewife to study
scientific food values, Hoover sug-
gested that Americans so far as pos
stble eat fish, fruit, potatoes, vege-
tables. poultry and dairy products,
which cannot be exported and save
the exportable grains and staples
such as sugar, lard and cured meats.
Each housewife outside the c1ties,'
Hoover declared, SHOULD use every
spare hour of each member of her
household to enlarge her garden or
plant one where none existed before,
or to install chickens or rabbits and
every household that adds a pig to
the encourage to eat the slops is saw
ing waste"
Hoover sees black prospects unless
every food precaution is taken imme-
diately.
1.-THE day will never come when
food inspectors will enter the Ameri-
can home as they do in Germany"
declared Hoover. ITO Americans if
our faith in self government is right,
this can be done as a matter Of
honor. The ability of democracy to
do this thing by individual effort of
our people is the test Of. our faith.
First of all, every American woman
should, if she has not already done
so, get a good primer on human
feeding. Make protein, fat, carbohy-
drates and calories household words.
The man of the house will sooner or
later absorb the fact that he con-
sumes twenty-five percent more food
than he needs and that one-third Of
American households waste another
twenty-five percent.
1--WE can without Inconvenience
substitute corn bread for wheat
bread. We can give up cakes and
confectionery. We can eat more
moderate amount Of meat If our
allies can get the bare staples of life,
they will fight and die cheerfully in
our common cause.
"It is not too late to plant most
and above all beans, for
beans are the richest of all vege-
tables in protein and fats and our
allies must have three times as much
as we ever shipped them before
Every extra chicken, egg or pound
of butter, every extra pig, is con-
tribution to the common cause.
lO loWH uWelleTS, IL Is We'll TO
remember that everybody who is not
should eat at home. A large
part of the food consumed in public |
places is superlative Three meals |
a day are enough-every person who |
goes out to a night supper is vast !
ing just that much food.
"The government can and will do |
a great deal indirectly, such as the |
Standardization of flour, the elm ina
ton of speculation or boarding, but |
when all is said and done, it is the !
housewife who must solve this great |
problem.
Even if we have the greatest
harvest on record in 1917, we shall |
no more than carry through.
''In these five months, we must |
provide our allies with double the |
quantity of food which our apparent |
surplus permits. We can do this |
only by the most absolute. stringent |
of waste and consump- |