Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-19
Saping Food in Georgia
To Help Win the War.

The call for half a million Georgia householders
to volunteer in the cause of food economy and
conservation receives particular emphasis from the
latest figures the wheat supply and demand
OF this years crop, only seventy-seven million, six
hundred and ninety-six thousand bushels will be
left for export after the needs of the United States
filled, unless" the Washington authorities
declare, Americans heed the call of the Food Ad-
ministration and curtail their consumption" How
far short of meeting the urgent requirements of our
Allies our prospective export surplus will be is in
Dictated by the fact that their deficiency in wheat
will amount to upwards of four hundred million
bushels Evidently there must be economy and
retrenchment in the American flour bin, if we are
to be of due service to our comrades across the
ocean in their dire extremity.
England France and Italy are outstanding
their supplies and resources with the utmost frugal
ity. The civilian population is sacrificing, in some
instances to the point of hardship, in order that
the at the front may have the full ration need
ed for endurance and efficient fighting. But no
extreme of sacrifice will avail those brave and
loyal people unless to their help with
portion of food stores. They normally
depend on the outside world for a large par. of
their wheat Their dependence is naturally far
greater at the end of three years of bitter fighting
which has diverted to the trenches and to war
industries much of the labor that formerly went to
agriculture.
Military considerations and self-interest alone
would be enough to any thoughtful Ameri-
for saving all the food possible to export to our
Allies 1t is just important, far military
results concerned, to keep their soldiers prop
erly ratoned it is to keep our own properly
rationed, because the major interests of our SOL
diers and their soldiers on the western front are
now virtually identical. Their strength is our
strength, and their weakness is our weakness. 1t
is less important to keep them well supplied
with food than it is to keep them we'll munitioned
and we'll financed Every bushel of wheat we ship
to France and England and Italy is a telling shot
against the Kaiser.
Not only self-interest but loyalty and humanity
bid us think of the needs of our Allies and do our
best to supply them. For more than three years
they have fought and sacrificed and suffered I'M
speakably in defending freedom and civilization
against the Hun. Surely out of our plenty we
shall spare them enough for their necessities. We
say our plenty" because while the American
wheat supply itself is short we have an abundance
of corn and other cereals which can substitute
for wheat, at least once or twice week There are
divers other ways and means by which we can con-
serve the food essentials so that suffciency for
export to our Allies will be available. This is
work in which every loyal Georgian should cheer
fully enlist. The State Food Administration
should have no difficulty or delay in securing at
least half million volunteer householders for this
patriotic cause. = o.
General Haig continues to present his practical
peace plan. ... e -.