The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1918-11-02

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ashlngtnu, Nov lsl-The
United States has booked an or
der 10 supply . 100000 tons 81
meat aud fats during the current
year to be charged to the account
of freedom
1t is large order-a larger or
der than the undertaking to send
ten million tons of breadstutfs.
In one way it comes to about
The aame thing as doubling the OF
der for bread and sending half OF
| it in The form of meat-fOr meatH
! and fats are concentrated from
feed. But that is not the biggest
feature OF It. II is this: W hen we
send grain we use the entire crop,
except enough for seed and ie
spectacle reserve-theTe will be
another harvest next year. But
meat Is different All this meat
must be sent-iour times "a much
az we ever used to export and q
million tons more than last year
and yet we ought TO have at the
end of the year Hooks and berde
as large az now larger If we work
1t right.
That is where the United States
q y
been going into conquered country
aud requisitoning it's meat-not talt-
ing the increase but taking the whole
herd. Never mind what becomes of
the people they can starve. Never
mind next year-there were always
more people to be robbed as long as
the army prospered.
The policy Of freedom is exactly op-
posite. The Uuited States must SO
manage that its own people Will be
kept III health and strength, the vie
tories of freed nm mean there are more
people TO be nutured aud iostefed
This large order the United States is
to fill and vet be able to supply twice
as many people another year and still
keep its herds intact.
II this Large order was flied the
German way, an edict would be issued
aud soldiers would go about in squads
driving away perhaps one ftth of all
the cattle and hogs, to be paid for IN
lin scraps of paper" if at.all.
That is not our way. There will he
no requisitioning by the United
states, no swooping down on commu-
mites and driving all the cattle to the
pen, no looting OF market places of
the peoples subsistence, no stripping
the civil population till their ribs
show through, no slaughter of dairy
cattle till children's legs and arms are
pipestems.
The United States food army beats
Germany as the allies beat Germany
The meats and fats will be supplied
by volunteers. The food Will be
found by saving.
This vast stock will not be made up
of cattle and hogs alone. The meats
include all kinds that can be sent
across the ocean. Fats include pork
and butter and other dairy products
and some vegetable oils. The amount
OF each Will be the amount that can
best be spared.
Nobody knows vet how much OF
each will be sent, for the meat and
dairy harvest is made the year round.
Some of the pork that will go is still
in the corncrib awaiting to he turned
into meat, some of the butter is in the
pasture and haystack.
As fast as these meats aud fats are
produced, the American people will
determine how much can be spared
by their indulgence and carefullness
at the table three times day. Ac-
cording to the way of freedom, the
meats and fats are obtained ami paid
for by voluntary saving and they VIII
he portioned out where and how they
will give life and strength to the
greatest number and the most needy
This is one of the elements of The
new food program which will soon be
issued in the new Home Card to the
American people. 1t is nm enormous
program; but it is TO be carried our by
great people with mighty Will