The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-09-01

as otner Things, ana l Snould tnnk
you'd want us to cat all we can. |
White bread isn't nearly as expen-
siye as rye bread either, but still
that woman that came around here
yesterday said. Use brown bread,
and use rye bread An, why
mother, you know that little runty
loaf of rye bread down at the bak-
cry was fifteen cents. think it's
crazy"
''But Jimmie" said his mother,
you don't understand. Wheat is
one of the very biggest things that
may make us win or lose the war.
Because tired women or old men,
or prisoners who don't care are the
only ones lert in Europe to produce
the crops, and besides so much of
the ground itself is being uprooted
and shot to pieces by the terrible
battles, that the whole world is
looking to America to produce the
food both for the armies and for
those left at home in Europe, as
well as for ourselves. And this will
be even more true after peace is
declared than it is now, because
then we will have our now starving
enemies as we'll as our allies to
feed
"And you see," she continued,
wheat is the main thing that they
need. We always have exported
about three tenths Of what we raise,
but this year we must send four
and one-half tenths, or almost one
half. To be exact, out of the 1,000,-
100000 bushels of wheat which
Canada and the United States raise
together instead of sending $780,
100000 bushels of it as we always
have done before, we must send at
least 450,000,000 bushels, leaving us
only 550,O00,0O0 bushels, where we
really use 700OO0,00O bushels. But
we can manage to do it, If everyone
will do their part by saving as much
white bread as possible, and also
using as many other kinds of food
as they can to take it's place"
well, ii we've got to feed UNI,
why don't we send UNI turnips an
egg plants an these old creamed
carrots that aren't very good any
how Maybe the Belgians might
like it and then we could have all
the bread and pies and cakes an
things that we wanted" This was
Jimmie G.'s opinion
THAT might be all right, Jimmie,
if they would help the people very
much after they got there. But in
the first place vegetables like that
would not be good after they got
across the water, and besides do not
have the food value of wheat. A
sack full of turnips would not be-
gin to keep family from starving
like sack full of flour would And
so that is why we are to eat as
many fresh vegetables now, to save
the wheat and gains for winter and
for our allies"
well, | wouldn't mind doing it if
everybody else would" Jimmie fin
ally admitted, "but | guess Tommy
Harlow's mother doesn't go cutting
the bread on the table, and making
them all eat crusts, an havin' car
rots for dinner, and everything"
ooh yes she WILL" Mrs Gray as
sured him. because Jimmie, Mrs
Harlow was telling me yesterday
afternoon how she had bought a
round bread board just like this of
ours, so that they could begin cut
ting the bread at the table, and she
has signed the cards just as have,
promising to use all the suggestions
we can which the government sends
out to help us"
Well said Jean. looking across
the table at Jimmie with perfect
score. I'm just glad we're doing it.
| think it's nice to cut the bread at
the table, and besides if my country
wants us to eat crusts of bread, and
carrots and everything. | guess I
can do that as easy as | could be a
soldier. And | think anybody that
would be baby about little thing
like this is yellow-streaked slack
err, so there"
who's a Stacker" said Jimmie,
sitting up very straight and chew