Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-30
of sugar and of butter, to bring about the result.
 Diminish Use of Wheat Floor.

D lmInIsh Use of Wheat FIoor.
 He is not asking Us to pursue a {, plan of starvation. Corn, rye and breads. and diminish the use of wheat flour. Vegetable oils may be useS where now we use animal fats. Sugar may be restricted unM there is a great supply, and we have vegetables fruit, so that we can have an elaborate bill of fare without any real deprfva- tion of either nutrition or c3 comfort able living.
 Congress has not given authority to MT. Hoover to restrict by law the consumption of food The government can compel and has adopted a system of control, by draft, military service. It compels the payment of taxes. but it relies upon the patriotic and vol untary action of the citizens to help In this great war in two most inn portant respects. By taxation it can only raise one seventh or one eighth of the money which it needs. It must depend upon borrowing the money from the people, and that means by voluntary loans. The success of the first Liberty loan and the success of the second Liberty loan indicates that this trust of the people has not been in vain. We have never in our his- That is what Germany is doing today. in a very considerable part of the loan she is now making.
 Avoidance of Waste.
 This conservation of food by re- duction in it's consumption and avoid ance of waste, congress has not yet made compulsory in the individual. official of the government to limit what you and eat. but in the exigen- cy of war this may become necessary. It has become necessary in Germany. trn L-rov1 nd in countries. Our government trusts to the patriotic, voluntary action of the people in securing the necessary econ cmy in the consumption of food. May If we respond and act upon sugges- tions and follow the lead of MT. Hoo- yer as the great food conservator, with his wide experience in Belgium and France. then no such compulsory measures need be adopted There is ample food for us all in this country to serve our armies and to aid our all lies If we consume only that which is not useful for our army and cannot aid our allies.
 Very Little is Asked of Us.
 Tt is very little that Is asked of us. We are not. requested to get down in the trenches and expose our lives. We are not subjected to the privations that the boys who are being sent over must endure. It does not take physi- cal courage 10 WllnnOlQ one s SCH from the consumption of butter or wheat bread or meat or sugar. It takes a little moral strength, that's all and it is a moral strength that if exercised once. twice or three times will create a habit and then it will be no sacrifice at all It needs not only the will but the attention and the in- dustrious following of the rules sug- gested by MT. Hoover. It needs. a pa triotic alertness to the object to be attained and a clear intelligent appre- citation of the necessity for that ob- ject. Our imaginations must be fired to sppr us to the required resolution.
 Economy in Use of Butter.
 We must feel that every pound of butter that we eat is taken out of th: of our brave boys at the front, out of our brave allies in a nearly starved condition in France,- in Italy and England. We must get over our sense of the remoteness of the war. We must feel in touch with the suf- fering of those who have been fight ing for us for three years. We must feel their necessities. We must real ize that gaunt hunger stares them in their faces and we, must know that