Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-08-31

~ dear TO our Lord, and women as
faithful to Him, are hungry and sick?
IL is mockery and in some way or other
the pinch will come to us.
Mr. Hoover has given us a detailed
account CT food supplies, how much we
nave consumed. and wasted, annually.
and how much il is necessary Tor US
% do without If we are to let the peo-
plies abroad have even a meager supply.
There are some who say that they can
not see now IL will affect the amount
II wheat in the western granaries for
chem to have all the wheat that they
make. / will tell you one concrete in
stance. Ii was not practicable for
The Farmer 20 plant any wheat last
winter.
You remember that all he had was
spoiled by the rains of last summer.
Well, We have bought some wheat rails
ed in this county and that we sent to
the mill. 1t costs us about as much
per barrel as that We got from the
merchant. but it makes one barrel less
to be shipped into Alabama. Now sup
pose each family in the south does as
much. You will see what large
amount IL will make. But If the people
in the south who raise wheat should say.
mo. we like wheat bread better than
corn bread and we shall not sell any
wheat" you see that would compel
great many people who cannot grow the
grain to buy the shipped-in flour or do
without any. An old college Jingle says:
'He that hath peanuts and giveth his
neighbor none,
The same shall have no peanuts when
his peanuts are gone"
And the Bible says There is that
scattereth and yet increaseth; and there
is that withholdeth more than is meet,
but ii tendeth to poverty" HE that
withholdeth corn, the people shall curse
him; but blessing shall be upon the head
of him that selleth it,"
Again. there are some who ask why
corn cannot be shipped to those in Bel
GUM and France. There are several
good reasons. but the best one is because
corn bread will not keep. Wheat, rye
and barley can be made into loaves and
kept for months. Don't look incredu-
lous, IL is not our way of making bread,
but the peasants of those countries know
how to fix IT. If you can plant wheat
this winter. won't you please try to-
plant enough for your own family to be
moderately supplied and have at least
six bushels to sell to a family in town?
that much makes a barrel OF flour. some
bran and shorts. And both make n.
full, palatable food. Look in any paper
and you see bran advertised as a break
fast food. Save your own bran and
make mullins. Save your shorts and
to two cups of shorts put one of corn
meal. make as you would any stiff bat
ter. using an egg. some sour milk and
soda, and you will have the sort of pan
cake that we have for our supper every
night. Don't fry them; use just
enough grease to keep them from stick
ing to hot griddle.
Think OF the twenty thousand kitch-
ems. that our own paper goes to; let
each home that this paper goes to be
one of the number to volunteer to keep
down waste and help by using more
corn meal Shorts is about three and
a half dollars a hundred pounds: go in
with a neighbor or two and get sack
and cut your consumption of white
flour; biscuits made out of shorts are
a pleasant change. and the pancakes are
fine. Twenty million supper tables in
the United States without the flour bread
would soon put this country where II
should be. AS Mr.. Hoover gays, There
is no royal road to food conservation"
We can only accomplish this by the vol
untary action of our people, each in
proportion to its means. 1t is a matter
of equality of burden, OF minute saw
ings and substitution at every point in
the twenty million kitchens. The task
is thus I'm it's essence the daily indiyid-
ual service Of all the people.
The final result of substituting other
products and saving one pound of wheat
flour. two ounces of fats, seven ounces
of sugar and seven ounces of meat
weekly by each person, will, when we
have multiplied this by one hundred
million Cthe population of the United
StatesD have increased our exports to
the amounts absolutely required by our
allies. This means no more than that
We should eat plenty, but eat wisely
and without waste.
our hundred thousand subscribers
means at least twenty thousand homes
The Farmer and 1 have pledged our
selves the amount asked. We have been
averaging A hundred and twenty pounds
of sugar a year. l told you how we
have cut in half the amount for coffee.
\ certain amount of sweets is needed
for the balanced ration" and one way
TO get it is to have it with those PAN
cakes But do not float them in syrup;
pour out just enough to sweten them.
Next week / shall tell you more on
this subject. and l truly hope that all
of you will give your pound of flour.
two ounces of fats and seven Of meat
each week. by saving at every meal. AS
Mr.. Hoover says, Eat wisely and with
out waste"
Faithfully yours.
LIZZIE o. THOMAS.
Tuscumbia. Ala