The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1918-02-15
wAR SERVICE.

What are you doing? Are you really
I making some sacrifice TO help win this
war or acknowledging your conscience
and making yourself believe you are a
real patriot when in reality you have
mot even experienced the beginning OF
: sacrifice. BE not deceived this war will
/ not be won that way. You may have
given son or husband to light: or
your wife or daughter or sister is nurs-
ing at the front; you may have sub
I scribed for the Liberty Loan. y. Nj
iC. A. or Red Cross. given aid to the
orphans and cripples; II doing ali these
things you think you have done your
share, friends, know the grim truth
All the blood, all the heroism, all the
money and munition In this world win
not Win this war. Unless our allies and
the armies behind them are led The
time las passed when we must do our
bit we must do our best, our all
l,And above all we are doing for our
country we must save food Any way
YOU take IL saving food is n sacrifice
for many of US have the habit OF over
eating, why we had meat twice Il day,
wheat bread three times day, sugar
I'm layers on our frhit Your govern
ment does not ask you 10 give up three
square meals day, not even one All
il asks is that YOU eat less of the foods
we reed to keep the armies going, And
to give up to the Pledge Cards we sign
ed and to do without these things real
ly means sacrifice not once, but three
, times day every day as long us this
terrible war lasts. The war situation is
critical Unless the allies fight as they
never have fought defeat threatens
Hungry men can not fight. neither can
hungry nations. We must feed France,
England and Italy. They must have
wheat. II is the best food to fight on.
We can spare II to them by saving a
little less than a quarter OF what we
ate last year. we must support those
who are fighting our battles and we can
without stinting ourselves. simply by
substituting another food just as good
And that food is corn. In one OF the
food conservation papers l found these
facts; prevalence has been generous in
the hour of need, il has given us corn
in such n bounty as was never known
before, Five hundred million bushels
over and above our regular needs.
Was ever patriotic duty made so
clear and easy? plead with you true
Americans TO eat mere corn the true
American food, and help whip Germany
by saving wheat for our allies. Save
one pound a week for every one In the
United States, the thing Is done; YOU
win have saved iss 100000 bushels
more this year for d,;g lies and they
can pun through wa rat. without 1t
they can not. Save i wheat and eat
corn bread. rye ! ia oat meal bread,
barley rice and as.
Four years err government be-
gan great mpaign for more live
stock just to FEED us in peace times
and of course this war has doubled
and trebled the demand for meat. But
If one ounce of meat day is saved by
every one In our country, II means the
meat from 100000 animals a year
Save your part, Eat fish. poultry milk.
eggs and cheese. Old Hindenburg him |
self said unless his troops and muni- |
tion workers got more fats something |
would happen TO Germany. Our nations |
life depends upon raising big crops and
larger supplies of meats, and we must |
conserve their use rigidly in order TO
save our allies first and ourselves sec
ond from starvation.
Save sugar. We Americans eat more |
is good for us and we need 1t to win
this war, save an ounce a day II will
mean l.lS5 900 tons for our army and |
our allies. You should not be called up
on by your government for single |
effort that was not considered OF para
mount Importance. but 1t would be
dreadful thing for our community II we
came up TO the middle OF April or May
Tiafa. ~ s.str
people. But listen, It has been determ-
ined to sustain our armies at any cost,
and it is only by a less use OF the es-
sential foods throughout the next six
months that we can prevent this lack
of food. Are you so comfortably fixed I
that you can afford to eat what you
please2 All, we cannot have our wheat
bread and cake and eat it too. We can
not afford to eat what our country
needs. Please save, save save in or
der to make our supply last until the
next harvest.
Are you willing to do what your gov
eminent asks? Are you willing to fol-
low directions? II so please sign the
Pledge Cards.
wish all VINO have signed the Pledge
Cards and have not returned them
would send them to me and II you have
not had the chance to sign one send
me your name and | Will send you
card. That is one way our Food Ad-
mfnistrator has to get the message 10
you from our government. ! have the
new kitchen cards and am anxious to
get them in the hands of the Lawrence
people. Every one must help If
we are to win. MAUD SMITH,
Chairman Food Administration.
Lawrence county. Kentucky.