The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-10-23
COMMITTEES IN TOWN AND
COUNTRY WORK FOR CON
SERVATION
Meat, Wheat and Sugar
Are to be Saved
Need of Sugar in France Is Press
ing-French Have Plenty of
Other England De
pends on Us.

The food conservation campaign has
started in earnest in this county, and
although overlapping the liberty bond
work Is active at all points There
are now eight committees at work in
this city, under the leadership OF j.
Mcmillan getting pledges and country
workers are doing the best that they
can during a very busy season Meat
less days, eliminating fish and fowl
from the category of meats, the con-
servation of wheat, and above all, at
this time, the cutting down on the use
of sugar, are pledged
The need for sugar in France is
urged in order to secure efficiency
among the French sOldiery, who are
holding the greater part of the west
front and gradually forcing back the
German lines While England needs
wheat and meat, there seems to be no
real scarcity of food in France In an
exhaustive review of the food situation
in France received today by the
TIMES, Robert J. Prev, international
News Service correspondent at Parls,
while pointing out that England must,
to a great extent, depend on shipping
from the United States, says regarding &
conditions in France:
Whatever causes may tend TO force
an end to the war, it will not be either
starvation or coal famine, as far as
France is concerned. While the har-
vest of the most important item or all,
wheat has not yet been completed, in
eications are that it will at least equal
last years and preparations have al
ready been made to remedy the det1clt
between the crop and the average con-
sumption. Coal has been received SUI
ficient to insure the needs of the popu-
lation and the industries for the win
ter while the herds of livestock have
never been in better condition since
the outbreak OF hOStiliteS-
ssThe scheme of bread and coal ra-
tioning instituted for the first time IN
France, and which has been in force
in Germany since the inception OF the
fa
hhat the economic conditions of the
country were far from satisfactory
but such is far from being the case
and only prudence is behind the mea
sures that stern necessity imposed up
ON the Teutonic Empire three years
ago
''There is one article which France
does stand in need OF and Whlci
threatens to disappear entirely th'
coming winter That is sugar Be
fore the war the country consumed
100000 tons of sugar per annum- Tha
IS approximately "a pounds per person
With the sugar card this consumption
has been reduced by fully SO per cent
At present the food minister figure
that 100000 tons are necessary to sup
ply the most urgent needs OF the Fl
sugar refining plants that we're Op
erative in France before the war onl
sixty-five are working at the presen
time, a large number having been des
troyed by the invading Germans,
fully so per cent are in the north O
the country. The remaining sixty
five are capable of turning out 10000
TONS only half of what is absolutel
necessary
In order that there shall be mea
enough for the proverbial beef eat
ing EngliShman" to keep him prOduc
ing things needed to carry on the wa
and in order the army of France sha
have enough sugar to keep the bod
performing it's normal functions, til
food conservation campaign is now III
der way The general staff of til
army as well as the food conservatio
department believes that it is necei
sary in order to win the war quickl