French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-05-03
ANOTHER WAY TO Do 1T,

Plans galore have been
looking to an increase in the produc-
ton of food stufs in the United States
this year. The relation of bread and
bullets to each other in the discussion
of war necessities is now an import-
ant topic and the national slogan has
come to be grow more foodstufs. u
As n writer puts it, the appeal sis
hera1ded by men of influence. power
and authority, from the President
down." and receives emphasis in
spoken words, written language and
in almost every, conceivable way that
may impress upon the people the i'm
portance of raising their own hog and
nomlny. So important is the food
problem, in fact, that the subject has
precedence at the meetings of the
president and his cabinet called to
scuss important war questions be-
ore the government. The effective
blockade caused by the ravages of
Ge-man submarines makes necessary
prompt action of the United States in
the effort to provide food for her allies
beyond the Atlantic and President !
Wilson is loosing no time in apprising |
the people Of the dangers Confronting !
them in the event of a failure to pro- |
duce an adequate supply of foodstuffs
during the approaching season. There
is no doubt of the approach oflthe |
greatest food shortage since the civil
war, and unless something transpires !
to prevent hunger will overtake a lot
OF folks next year.
conserve the food supply by pro-
h1biting the manufacture of LIQUORS
Tor beverage purposes" is the advice |,
OF temperance leaders, which has late
ly grown into an insistent demand
coming from every section of the
Union. 1t is pointed out that this
country has entered a wal witho~,
reserve food, while Germany has been
preparing for years by accommodating
food reserve supply; that the grain
cries of u nation were never more
nearly empty than now, with grave
dangers attending the prospects of a
heavy shortage in the wheat cror
on to be harvested. Therefore
another way to handle the situation
would be for the government to de-
mand that the grain now being con-
Verted into alcoholic liquors be saved
Tor f~oodstufs. The country is adj 2
mon1shed by public men of national
reputation that the criminal waste of {
grain in making poison to be drunk as I
a beverage should be prohibited. Ad-
Terting to the enormous amount If !
grain used in the manufacture of al {
cohoIc drinks last year, the New York
tribune phylosophies thusly: four mil S
hon people could have been supplied '
With rye bread for one hundred DAVIS. c
ffty-sfx million people could have
been supplied with corn meal for one
hundred days; sixteen million peonIe t
could have been supplied with rice for T
one hundred days; one hundred mill t
non people could have been sun q
pled with eighteen pounds of rice c
each; one hundred million people 2
could v been supplied with n p
gallon OF molasses each, and 2O8, 2OO,- f
uOo loayes of bread could have been t
maze from the rye. Rather formida-
Die array of testimony, just at the =
present time, against the use of food
product in the manufacture of arti-
which cannot be considered me- =
cesslties in any sense of the word -
Tribune says: s
wa are the disttllers in the Uni i
eeo states turning into spirits every r