Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-23
How Food VIII Win the War.

One of the surest war strokes the United
States can make is to send as much food posi-
BILE to allies and to keep as much possible
from the enemy This calls for earnest economy
in American kitchens and for continual tighten
ing of the embargo exports to neutras that
traffic with the Central Powers.
Just how effective this latter practice will
prove is apparent from the latest estimate OF Ger
many's crops In wheat there is a decline of forty
per cent below the normal yield; and in rye oats
and barley, forty-fve per cent. Even when her
farm labor is plentiful and her harvests most
bountiful, Germany looks to other lands for
large portion of her food staples What, then,
must be her plight in the present dearth? In Aus
tria and Hungary conditions still worse. Thus
without material relief from foreign sources the
Kaiser's food problem will become desperate in
deed winter deepens and the gaunt eyes of his
army are fixed upon him. He receive no con-
siderable relief except from Scandinavia or Hol-
land, and their crops much below normal.
They cannot spare any appreciable quantity of
food out of their own lean store. The only way
they can help the Kaiser is by importing food
stufs and then re-shipping it into Germany; and
in doing they in effect his agents. The
United States purposes to 1t that of its
own products reach Germany by that channel, and
England is vigorously cooperating to the same
end. The embargo thus instituted is already prov
ing of pronounced military value, and 1t con-
tinues tighten the effect Germany's endurance
and morale will become more and more manifest
1t must be remembered, however that Germany's
food problem, in far it is due to decreased
production at home, is paralleled in France, and
that both Italy and England short rations
1t is mainly to America that these, allies look
for support in the supremacy vital need of keeping
their armies properly nourished and their people
from suffering For than three years now
France has borne the brunt of the German raid on
civilization Much of her richest land is still in
the grasp of the Hun, and the major part of her
productive energy is absorbed in the grim bust
heroic troops and heroic people shall suffer
force England, whom the Kaiser is bent upon
starving into submission by U-boat ruthessness,
and to give sustenance to Italy whose strokes if
duly supported will play big part in winning and
the
The interests of these valiant and sacrifcial ma
lions are our interests we should make their needs
our earnest concern. Every of food that is
wasted in this country is so much taken from the
mouths of our allies; and every ounce that is saved
in this country is much added to their subsist-
ence Extravaganza wastefulness in food
supply is at this juncture not only unwise but
highly unpatriotic 1t is the duty of every Geor-
gia community and every Georgia household to
join intellectually in the nationwide campaign
to save wheat and fats and sugar and other food
commodities of which there is so great shortage
that only thoroughgong economy on the part of
Americans will leave surplus for export to our
allies.