The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-06-01
What Difference Does 1t Maker

What difference does it makeg
Sooner or later this reiterated question
threatens to discourage our efforts az
loyal members of the food administrs
tion.
What difference does it make2
The words taunt us as we rise half an
hour earlier to make corn bread for
breakfast instead of having the toast
we used to have. They hum through
our brains as we mechanically cut the
fat off the mornings order of meat and
save it to render for cooking and use in
place of butter. They whisper insidious-
| ly in our ears as we take the time to
look up the recipe of the meat substitute
dish we saw in the paper and make il
for dinner in place of meat. They mock
us as we refuse the sugar for our coffee
Such little-only a teaspoonful. What
difference does it make?
Yes, these moments of doubt occur to
all Of us. But certainly they would oc.
cur less frequently il every woman in
America could have been AT the confer
ence recently held in Washington, ID. g.,
of the home economic directors of the
food administration in every state in the
union and in Alaska and Porto Rico as
well
A glorious army of women drawn to-
gether in common cause these home
economic directors represented. Each
has rallied the women of her state to the
country's call TO service. Preached in
churches. taught in schools, explained in
lecture halls and propagated by house
canvass, no pains have been spared TO
bring the gospel of food conservation to
every womans doorstep, whether she |
lives in the little white cottage of New |
England town, in the brownstone city |
house, or on the cattle ranch 80 miles /
from railway
Even the women of Alaska have heard I
the call. Hampered by having only six
home economic teachers in the whole ter
ritory against 1000 or more teachers
that some states have had to send as
food conservation missionaries from
town to town to help encourage the
the Alaskan women have,
nevertheless, bravely pushed aside the
odds against them and have accomplished
miracles in food conservation. In the
:old SHOWS of winter they have travelled
many miles to the nearest town, often
making their journey on dog sleds in or
Ter to learn from an experienced teacher
low they could best save wheat and
neat, and be more economical in their
Use of fats and sugar.
Nor has the country's call to conserve
God been unheard in Porto Rico. Ham
ered, as in Alaska, by the lack of skilled
eachers in home economics to help the
women over difficulties in the way of
aving food, the women of Porto Rico are
evertheless loyal soldiers in the food adj
army. In nearly every
itchen on the island the food admins
ration home card and insignia hang as
roud proof of the willingness of these
'omen to do their part. |
Women of the north. women of the
outh, women of the East and of the 7
Vest, women of Alaska and of Porto \
leo! Was there ever more glorious
rmy of womanhood brought together in
common cause, than this army fighting
save food and so to save human lives
And what difference does it make
neither you do your shsreG Whether
on save the cupful of wheat, the spoon e
Il of fats; the pound of meat, the few I
lnces of sugar? :
MY part is so little" you say. What &
ference does il maker" j
But how can food be saved in the ag- G
egate without individual savingl And -
w can YOU expect your neighbor to i.
We, if YOU. yourself, are careless in do :!
g your sharel v
Fall in step then. women of America.
, one is alone in this work of conserv-
o food You are marching shoulder to
oulder with the woman in Alaska, the
oman in Porto Rico. the woman on the ha
tile ranges of the west, the woman in an
e big metropolis of the east. ti'
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