Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-12-04
A. Hebard Case Tells Garden
Islanders Something About
National Conservation
Paper presented to the WaImea, Kauai
Literary Club by A. Hebard Case
County AGENT for Kauai.

Literary Club by n. HeoaIo SaSe'
County Agent for Kauai.
The slogan Of the food administra'
ton which has been used since the be-
ginning Of this work and to which we
will march to victory Is, Food Will
win the war-Don't waste II" To stop
wasting food is, Of course, cardinal
point in food conservation. II Is con-
servation. But to insist on that
strongly. as strongly as we are going
to have to insist upon 1t before the ne
cessity for it is driven home, and not
offset by the counterbalancing fact
that there is something which We can
eat instead of that which we save, and
the disagreeable impression Is ere
ated in the minds Of the people that
they are being asked to half-ration
themselves while we are carrying on
this great war against Prussianism.
This impression has already been
created, to. some extent. To correct
this misconception-tot tell the story OF
the part food plays in war, how bread
and bullets will put down autocracy
and make the world safe for democ'
racy, how we must conserve our food
supply in order that share and an
ungrudging share, may be spared to
our allies, is, If not the most impor-
tant, at least the immediate and first
task of the food administration or any
other such body. From this important
task is brought to light a new slogan
which will answer the needs Of the
administration and create no such
feeling of fear in the minds Of the peo-
pie, that Eat and win the war"
One OF the first things to be done is
to remove from the minds the fear that
this country is entering upon cam
paign of starvation. We are going to
send great quantities of food abroad,
in order that our allies may keep on
fighting and win the war, for US as
we'll as themselves. The more we
send, the further we will keep the first
line trenches from our shores. We
will send food, then, send it abundant
ly, but that does not mean that the
American people are going hungry. 1t
does not mean that they are going to
eat less than they have been accus.
toned to; they may, in fact, eat, more.
The time may come possibly, should
the war continue for years, when they
will have to eat less, but for the pres.
ent all they are asked to do Is to use
sparingly the foods that can be con-
veniently exported to our allies.
There are some things, perishablet
stuff and bulky foods, which cannot so
well be shipped abroad. They are
wholesome foods Of which the Ameri-
can people for their health's sake
ought to eat more. Cornbread, rye.
potatoes and home products, of which'
all are good So that all We ask the
people is to change their habits a lit.
tie, to eat all they want Of any num-.
Der of foods wholesome and pleasing
to the taste, but to cut down their
consumption of certain things Of
which our allies stand in crying need
I've are actually counseling the peo-
pie, when we ask them to save, to 10
something which is good for them.
Food conservation Is not going to be
ahardship for us IL we look at it-in1
the lright way. At most It VIII mean
the substitution of one thing for an
other. The MAJ who eats less wheat
bread and more corn bread may find,
as thousands have found, that they
like corn bread better. Be willing to-
try new foods.
Conservation Is not even going to
mean that we are to be unduly lin.
tied IN our choice OF dishes. Think
Of q chart. On this side are the
things Of which We can eat more, on
the other side those We ought to eat
more sparingly. You will see that
the .eat-mores outbalances heavily
the aeatless." On the food admins
tration home card there is only six
articles which Hoover has asked the
housewife to save, VIZ: Save the