The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-06-11
AMERICA WILL
/ Be HUNGRY,
NOTED EXPLORER
Sir Ernest Shackleton Sends
Note of Warning to Peo-
pie of United States.
BY Sir Ernest shackIeton.

BY Sir Ernest ShackIeton.
"You are going to feel hunger.
you will feel 1t to such an extent
that it will sap the strength out of
your men and women and Of your arm
les in the field, if you do not econo
mize.
Il do not mean that America could
ever starve, but the world must be fed
by her today. Millions of men have
been called from the producing Of food
to the consumption or destruction of
it, and millions more are on the point
of plunging into the fight. The u
boats will not win the war, but they
are making it hard for us to win.
Before England learned the lesson
of food economy, the wastage was
great. I believe that in the United
States it is worse. 1t must stop.
Waste of Food Must Stop.
"They talk about the shortage in
crops in terms of millions of bushels
America can go a long way toward
making up for this shortage by stopp-
ing the waste of food.
81 do not suppose such statistics
would be practical, but it would be in
teresting to compare the shortage in
bushels of wheat to the number of
bushels of bread wasted in one year
in four great American cities, say Chi
cago, New York, Boston and Philadel-
phia
II would like to see comparison in
bulk of the shortage of beef and the
wastage in meat for the same period
III the same cities.
Speaks as Individual.
you must remember that l am
speaking as an individual. 1t would
not be right for an individual to try
to dictate to any government, much
less for Britisher to suggest course
to the United States, but I cannot ex-
express too strongly my opinion as an
individual that first of all America
should send more guns and supplies
to Europe and simultaneously econo
mize in foodstuffs and eradicate all
wastage.
Nothing should be thrown away,
especially fats Save everything.
Don't throw away bits of linen or
other cloth Hoard scrap metal such
as copper, brass, lead and other basic
meals.
Don't wait until you feel the pinch
as Great Britain did.
Some Eat One Meal.
Some get along nicely on one meal
day Others feel that they require
three with four or five courses to one
of them.
LET each man go ahead as nearly
as possible as he is accustomed to
doing, so that he gets the most out
of himself--or rather the nation gets
the most out of him.
Don't eat more than you really
need, and use what isn't eaten in some
form for another meal.
Most Critical Hour at Hand.
"The most critical hour of the war
is at hand There is a long uphill
fight ahead Remember l know what
hunger means and 1 say that men
cannot fight long when they are hun
cry. You must fight against hunger
as relentlessly and as fercely as you
fight against the Germans"
"All the allies are heartened by Am
erica's entry into the war. The United
States is sending guns, ships, feed and
men But quite as important, some
might say even more important, is the
knowledge that America is with us.
We will fight harder and win sooner
because of that"
After the war, you ask" mo man
cor COW what will he after the war
but this know: That English speak
ing people will be closer together than
ever before. There has always been
a bond between us that German machi-
nations could not even strain, but from
now on it will be unbreakable. France
will be with us. AS l said before, Am
erica is the keystone of all that the
allies stand for"