The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-31
Plans Include the Contribution
of One-third Of a Pound Per
Day for the Next 6 Months
by Every American

the next SIX months to make up the
tremendous total needed.
1t is PRODUCE or REDUCE.
It must be saved out of consump
ton.
It must be raised by the farmers
and by the pig clubs.
One or the other must be done
for the war must be won. The quick
er the victory the less the cost in
lives more precious because Of their
willingness to fight and die for our
freedom. We cannot be disloyal to
them or the Allies fighting with them
for us.
The United States has booked an
order to supply 100000 tons of
meat and fats during the current
year to be charged to the account of
freedom.
| It is large order-a larger order
than the undertaking to send ten
million tons of breadstuffs.
In one way it comes to about the
same thing as doubling the order for
bread and sending half of it in the
form Of meat-for meats and fats
are concentrated from food. But
that is not the biggest feature of it.
1t is this: When we send grain we
use the entire crop, except enough
for seed and a respectable reserve
there will be another harvest next
wear But meat is different. All
this meat must be sent-four times
as much as we ever used to export
and million tons more than last
year-and yet we ought to have at
the end Of the year f1ocks and herds
as large as now-larger if we work
it right.
That is where the United States
beats Germany again. Germany has
been going into conquered country
and requisitioning its meat-not tax
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 |
opposite. The United States must |
SO manage that its own people will !
be kept in health and strength; the |
victories of freedom mean there are
more people to be nurtured and fos-
tered. This large order the United |
States is to fill and yet be able to
supply twice as many people another
year and still keep it's herds intact.
If this large order was filled the
German way, an edict would be is
sued and soldiers would go about in
squads driving away perhaps one
fifth of all the cattle and hogs, to be
paid for in "scraps Of paper" if at
all.
That is not our way. There will
be no requisitioning by the United
States, no swooping down on COM
and driving all the cattle l..
% the pen, looting Of market places :
If the peoples subsistence, no strip
hing of civil population till their ribs :.
how through, no slaughter of dairy
'attle till children's legs and arms :
re pipestems. {
The United States food army beats ,
Germany as the allies beat Germany. :
The meats and fats will be supplied /,
" volunteers. The food will be
ound by saving.
This vast stock will not be made
lp of cattle and hogs alone. The
aeats include all kinds that can be
ent across the ocean. Fats include
ork and butter and other dairy pro-
ucts and some vegetable oils. The
mount of each will be the amount
hat can best be spared.
Nobody knows yet how much Of
ach will be sent, for the meat and
airy harvest is made the year round.
ONE of the work that will go is still
. the corncrib awaiting to be turned
ITO meat, some Of the butter is in
ne pasture and haystack.
AS fast as these meats and fats
re produced, the American people
I'll determine how much can be
pared by their indulgence and care
illness at the table three times a
~. According to the way of free
5m, the meats and fats are obtained
I'd paid for by voluntary saving and
icy will be portioned out where and
w they will give life and strength
the greatest number and the most
,edy.
This is one of the elements of the
w food program which will soon
issued in the new home card to |
e American people. 1t is an enor- ~