The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-09-13
DAHO's FOOD CONTROLLER

The best of people will sometimes
forget. While Idaho's citizens as a ma
jority are earnestly in favor of food
conservation during these times of
war and crisis, but comparatively few
really know how to conserve. We are
used to having all we want and lit
tie besides in the food and clothing
line, and our abundance has in no
small degree caused us to form care
less habits of waste.
1t is not that we are not willing to
save and to even slight ourselves if
need be for the sake of the cause, but
rather that the best of us are liable
to think we are saving when in reality
we are not. Hence the need of a man
who will devote his entire time study
ing the problem of food conservation
and elimination of waste in our state
This man will make it his business o
direct our good wills along a bene-
ficial line. He Will take into consider
alton the average consumption and
compare it with what will really be
the average need of the individual,
and the result of his experiments and
observations will be made known to
us that we might cooperate with the
<scheme of our nation to feed a world
In the matter of food conservation
and control, the question of success
depends not so much upon the con
troller, as upon the controlled. 1t is
sincerely hoped that the general pub
lie will submit voluntarily to the di-
rections of the controller and to the
= demands of the nation, and that this
Ihase of our conflict with militarisn
will be more cooperative than com
pulsive. Undoubtedly though, if out
of pure selfishness and meaness there
should be those who would resist anc
disobey the wishes of the government
in these important matters, the loya
public should cooperate in showing t
those in question that in the matter
of food control and conservation VIZ
mean business.
There is a general outcome that W.
look forward to in the future, of thi
discipline now required of us. W.
hope to see grow out of these require
ments a national race who are capable
of recognizing the value of conserva
ton, not only in food and clothing, blu
in all natural and manufactured re
sources of the nation. 1t is hope
that the prosperous will learn self-de
NAL in some measure for the sak'
of the comfort of those who are &C
tually in need in our own land.
Undoubtedly there is a great plent
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not demand so much more than the
need. Let us look forward to Uni
ted States in which there will be NOR
mutual regard for the welfare of a
concerned, and less grab and take VI
on the part of the few more fortunate
Undoubtedly one man has more abilit
to accomplish than another, and
would be contrary to human nature
insist that all men should be brougl
down to a common level of accom-
plishments. But nevertheless, til
place of this superman should
rather to render more service to maj
kind in general, because of his create
ability, than to hoard his gold whel
it will do nobody any good. At lea
we trust that after this great worl
war, it will be so great a shame
hoard the necessities OF life, to COZ
sumo more than is necessary for oil
own good, to wilfully waste while oil
srs want, that society will not tolera
il