New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-15

, for the automatically to have him,
IN addition to his numerous other du-
ties, prepare as well as supervise
the production and distribution Of the
food of the nation.
Away with the present system Of
one cook and one kitchen 10 n fam
n.y. she said.
Mrs. Gilman proposed Tie establish
ment of national food Laboratories, d.
rected and manned by experts in the
, employ OF the government, to teach
the profession of kitchen science to
mass Of more or less ignorant wom
en-. The laboratories would pay for
themselves. she asserted, and the
wealth producing power of the country
| would be increased by about $4,000
900 a year.
The war, Mrs. Gilman went on, has
brought 10 the United States the
splendid burden OF feeding the world,
but she added, the food administra-
ton, IN bidding the housewives save,
was asking economy of the most waste
full OF our industrial processes.
THE drained nations" she said. ARE
beginning to count their women
power to see that where men must
die women must take their places as
workers. They are doing this the
I world over with such unexpected abil-
ity and success as TO give rev
status to womanhood The women of
America share with the men the high
. honor of such a call to world service
as never came TO any nation before
1t is possible that bitter necessity may
be added to the call Of honor before
our work is done
With what conscience, then, can we
persist in a method which in kitchen
service alone wastes the labor OF nine
out Of every ten women? II all house
service was professionalism, done by
trained specialists. with proper organi-
ration and mechanical conveniences. we
could release the labor of so per cent of
our women.
Counting that labor at charwomen's
wages, say $500 a year. and allowing
fifteen out Of twenty million women as
working housewives. the released labor
would be worth $4,000, 000,O 900 year.
Product Equals Wages
Their product would at least equal
their wages another $4,000, 900, 000.
[ The saving in cost of food materials. by
eliminating the whole retail expense.
would be fully 90 per cent. This gives
pleasing total of sl6,000,000,00 we
might save each year"
No such sudden change Of system
! could be expected, Mrs. Gilman ad-
mitted. She also said the extinction of
| the entire retail on such short notice
would not be desirable, but she de-
| clared, the establishment of domestic
| science laboratories, under govern
ment supervision, like farm experiment
stations. would help greatly TO reduce
, the appalling wastes due to the print
' tive methods now in vogue of handling
the material interests of American fam
lilies.
1.-THE United States will win the war
! by fighting il with food" said Mr. Pack,
who declared that Germany's kitchen
gardens, maintained at the usual Prus-
sian degree of efficiency. would save
the Central powers from collapse
through actual starvation.
On the topic of high prices and
schemes for reducing them. Mr.. Hamil-
ton spoke at length on the Rochdale
cooperative plan.
Mrs. Helen w. Atwater explained the
current Federal food survey, and de-
clared that if the Department Of Agri-
culture disclosed that large sections Of
the population were eating too much,
/ the government would be more than
ever justified in urging curtailment for
the benefit of our Allies.