Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-09-19
P|ELESS DAYS AHEAD;
j. S. DISH AWAITS PEACE
Dry Law Threatens Mince; Ger
man Cheese Cake Not AT
fccted by Food Rules.


| rup.ed by the war is that distinctive
| American dish, the pie. Apple, mlnce
and pumpkin all have vanished before
the demands of the Federal Food Board
and the neutral Dansih pastry, so that
a lover of democracy can find no fitting
! example of that great American rnsti-
| tuition that held autocratic but bcnevo-
lent sway over So many tables and so
many strong stomachs since the DAYS Of
| Cotton Mather
In many places ono variety of pie,
| more hardy than the rest, tights for
| survival among cardful of foreign
| foods Camoutlaged with spices, machine
| made cream that would shame cow,
| and other cdible-lookine substances cover
ing gastronomc disappointment and
| stomach disorders. II is the apple
| that survives. alone and with paper-
machc crust the hardy apple PIE makes
| a brave stand against the autocratic
| stand of democracy. hoping that IT VIII
| survive until victorious peace bring
| ing back an army of boys with appetites
| and stomachs made strong by Salvation
| Army pies and doughnuts will restore 1T
| TO power in all its multiiarIoe varieties.
HucKrnBEHRy has VANISHED.
In this last Summer. now waning into
| Fall darkeued bv the prospect of PIE
less Winter. the huckleberry found it's
way for q short period between two un-
palatahlc LAYERS Of war crust to the loss
of much of its luscious fame Com
hincd with the apple, sometimes under
the same paper machc, Il fought on
| against the alliad French pastry, the
Neapoltan ice cream, and maintained
proper International respect tor the
natlt raj Danish uaStry
Now the huekleberry has gone. leaving
the apple to fight on 10 pumpkin time
with the crratlc peach Pumpkins will
be plentiful. the food statistics say. but
the crisp foundation that invited third
piece will now invite the payment uf
ilnc 10 the Red Cross for failure 10 ob-
serve the rules ot conservation.
The fate of mincc PIC that, with COW
ering as brown as the rocks of tho Pali-
sades tempted an expansion OF capacity
IN So many American stomachs will pass
with ali tho other dcspots unless some
Senator with memory as elastic as
Youthful stomachs will agree 10 put
rider on an inevitable Prohibition hill
providing that the Indispensable flavor
for thelgreat American mlnoe shall never
be withheld from democracy
Those who ought 10 know all about
when it was popular before the worlds
series was ever thought Of, put the blame
for its disappearance on the conservation
program and not upon a 'hckle public
stomach
we used to have SIX or eight different
kinds OF pie for ten cents a cut on our
bill. every day. said one restaurateur
but We have only one kind now at
twenty-five cents. and sometimes not
even that one kind There are many
reasons. One is the demand for the
conservation of sugar and -four In
sweetened pie is not pic and PIE without
a crisp, brown crust Is not pie 1t is
difficult to make good pie crust with
adulterated -four 1T becomes soggs-quickly, |
SO that there is loss of needed materials
and dissatisfaction among our patrons
DoUGHNUTs AIDED THE DRIVE.
'.You have read in the papers how
the Salvation Army cheered the Ameri-
can Army abroad by serving doughnuts
and PIE real old pie like we used To serve
in the DAYS before there were food re-
strictlons. Why, YOU remember how
truckload OF pies and doughnuts got
stuck somewhere under shell FIRE and the |
whole army volunteered to go out 10 get |
them Some casualties among the pies' |
And MIR Grasty, the New York Times |
correspondent, wrote the other day that |
he had breakfast with American soldiers |
lust before they took Juvigny Do YOU |
remember what they had? They had |
fresh-fried doughnuts with sorghum, and |
then they went right up To the front |
lines and took thirty towns and thou |
sands of prisoners before dinner. all on |
a breakfast of doughnuts All We have |
TO do to get to Berlin is feed the American |
soldiers pie; that's enough argument |
that the pie Is not an unhealthful dish |
THE PIE MUST NOT 90.
at seems TO me, after seeing all the |
fighting the American soldiers do on a /
low on pie now To awaken the public |
appetite To have pie take the place of a /
stimulant after prohibition goes in. Beer |
is a Ger aan drink and can go, but the |
pie is an American dish with great tra- !
ditlons and history. Emerson and Mark (
Twain and Daniel Webster and many
other great men became famous on pie
and America cant let it be crowded |
out of existence.
pie may still lurk in some sections
of the country as it holrished wears ago,
and in some households where stron,
stomachs remain the pie NAV hourisg
yet hear that New England has beeh
the hardest hit. They are compelIen
now TO eat pork and beans and fried
pork and scrapple or griddle cakes for
breakfast. Certainly the pie has vanished
from the beaten paths, as the dough
nut went a long time ago. We allow the
a German invention, to re-
main: we tolerate it and we eat it, but
can you imagine any New Englander
eating cheesecake or French pastry for
breakfast?
Il hope that the returning American
armies will demand the revival of PIE as
an American institution and make it as
sacred as the Capitol and the Constitl-
ton. ! would hate to see the pie stuffed
with excelsior and put away in a museum
with the buffalo and the stage coach
- a.,u Nnrk Tines