The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1917-10-25

tralia. There is food in South Amer
lea, but ships are scarce. Time 10 .
vital factor. The voyage to Austral-
in and the South America takes too
long. II the needs of those Who are
to fight for US across the sea are to
be met, the food that sustains those
fighters must come from this country.
If the laborer is worthy of his hire,
surely the fighter is worthy of his
food. That is a principle universally
accepted by the American people.
However, warns the United States
Food Administration, it is not every
product that can be sent across the
sea. Corn will not serve the need; our
allies have never used it rs 4 food;
they have no mills to grind it; turn it
into meal in this country and it would
spoil before it could reach a Europ-
can port.
There are just four classes of pro-
ducts, the experts say, that we must
send to our allies if our duty to them
is to be discharged; they need meat.
wheat, sugar and dairy products. But
say the experts, who have gathered
the figures, unless American consump-
tion of those foodstuffs are reduced be-
low the normal consumption our re-
serves will not be large enough to
meet the need. And so the problem
becomes simple one-at least when
studied. We can conserve our wheat
by increasing our consumption of
other grains. We can conserve our
meat by making great demand upon
the resources of the fish market.
All of these are expedients known to
the American housewife.
If the United States were an auto
cratic country there would be no pop
ular appeal for the conservation of
food. There would be an autocratic
food control. The mailed fist would
rule in the kitchen. Imperial food de-
crees would be enforced at the point
of the bayonet. But ours is not an
autocratic country. Food control is
in the hands of the people themselves
and it is to the people that the Food
Administration has Appealed in The
Food Pledge Card Campaign.
Unprecedented Adventure
Herbert Hoover has termed this ap-
peal an unprecedented adventure in
democracy"-an adventure that will
determine whether or not democratic
form of government is, after all, fit
tee to engage in death graprle with
an autocracy.
The appeal in the Food Pledge
Week Campaign is that the no mes of
this country be enrolled as members
of the United States Food Administra-
tion. Broadly speaking the United
States Food Administration includes
every man, woman and child in the
United States, because food control is
in the hands of the people.
The Food Pledge Week Campaign,
therefore, resolves itself into an eff
fort to secure as result or vo,un-
tary agreement pledges insuring the
general support for well defined pro-
gram of food conservation. The Food
Pledge Week Campaign represents an
effort to induce as many of the Amer
ican homes as possible to unite in a
common policy. Our wheat reserves
can be conserved if everybody helps.
Our meat reserves can be conserved
if the whole public co-operates.
The Food Pledge Week Campaign,
therefore, turns out to be simple
enough in its outlines. The American
people are asked to join together in
a common conservation policy. As
evidence that they are supporting this
policy they are asked to hang card
denoting membership in the United
States Food Administration in their
window. In order that the conserva-
tion policy will be understood the rea-
sons for it made plain, and the man
ner of observing it rendered certain,
instructlc ar s-"The War Greed OF
the Kitchen"-are to be hung in the
home.
Food will win the war-the more
you save, the more your country can
send to our boys and our allies at the
front. Our allies are fighting our bat
tie. They need sugar, meat and wheat.
That is what the National Food Pledge
Week Campaign, Colorado, October
18th to November 4th, is all about.