Arizona republican., 1917-04-28

wastes.
 fooG Controller Work
 "The food controller has appealed to the people through the press and pull pit, to restrict their personal diet to not more than two and one-half pounds of meat and four pounds of bread per week. This quantity is less than all lowed in the army, but is sufficient for the average person. At. restaurants, onl ytwo courses are allowed to be served at the midday meal, which to the majority of English people is the most important meal of the day.
 Then the food controller every few days issues to the press a list of com mon foodstuffs and what their retail prices should be This prevents mer- chants from unfairly taking advantage of war times to charge still higher prices or from boarding up their goods, knowing that naturally in a few months everything will be dearer. They can he forced to sell their stocks at the food controllers price, which is a fair one to both the public and the mer- chant.
 There is a tendency for the better off people to provide for the future by laying in stocks of all necessities. This is very selfish practice, making foods still scarcer for the poor to bay. Now, however. food hoarding is forbidden and the police have a right to search any house where they think there is food | hidden, which, when found. is confis- cated, and the offender punished.
 Regarding Production The public is cultivating all the spare ground available. In all towns and cities. public parks and private grounds have been plowed up and di- vided up into lots, which are given to the people. Some of the famous golf courses in Scotland are now growing potatoes.
 Each town has at least one expert gardner, who advises the best means Of growing these different crops and vegetables. This is very necessary, otherwise labor, seed and time are lost. This expert, through the public press also publishes charts and data showing the time to plant and what to plant the seed to use and many useful sug- gestions.
 The British government has recog- nized what an important position the farmer has assumed in the country's welfare, and has extended to him ev- cry encouragement to increase his crops.
 He is now guaranteed a minimum price for all the grain, hay, and pota- toes which he can grow. These mini mum prices are at least twice as nigh as the normal price.
 What is more important, he gets as sistance in the cultivation in the har- vesting of his crops. This is provided for in several ways. by men who have been conscriDted hut are found to have some minor physical disability, which flpr cf,q. are hired out to the service At the hay and harvest time. it has been the practice iN England tn allow those sol diers with agricultural experience, one months leave. This applies to men who have had several months training and only to soldiers stationed in Eng land. German prisoners are now also employed on the land, batches of ten with one guard can be hired by farm CTS living within 5G miles of prison camp.
 There has also been a great number of volunteers and men over military age who have offered their services and are now working on the land. Hun dreds of women are also employed, many of whom are of independent means. but they have gone in for this arduOus life simply because of their love of country and believing they can help more by this than by anything else.
 School Boys Help
 school boys, especially those con- nected with the boy scout movement, are doing excellent work. School boy labor is very useful but it requires to he organized and boy leaders appointed. Lately MT. Lloyd George appealed to the farmers to work on Sundays, point ing out that Sunday Was no vacation for the boys in the trenches. nor yet for those in the navy, both having to be ever watching and ready.
 l..l