The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-10-26
CANNOT EAT OUR FILL"
SAYS FOOD MAN BROOKS
Declares That Though Peace May Seem
Near We Must Continue to Save
to Feed the Starving.

Frank II. Brooks, Federal Food Ad-
ministrator for Vermont, confronted
with the idea that now that Peace is
near everyone can "let UP" and "eat
their fill," states emphatically and
officially what the future has In store
for Vermonters as well as all Ameri-
cans in Food Control. Carelessness
and waste must be cut out We have
got to save more, not less More
starving people will have to be fed.
Food is Life. Do not destroy Life
by excessive or wasteful use of COM
medities that give life.
Mr.. Brooks statement follows:
We are In the midst, possibly
toward the end, of titanic struggle
for world freedom and justice
SOME, Yes MANY, PEOPLE
HAVE AN IDEA THAT IF THE
WAR SHOULD END TODAY OR
TOMORROW, FOOD CONTROL
WOULD IMMEDIATELY CEASE.
WISH, IN THE STRONGEST
TERMS POSSIBLE, TO GET
THIS IDEA SHOT TO PIECES
AND PUT ENTIRELY OUT OF
THE MINDS OF EVERYBODY.
A person came to one of our Ad-
ministrators and made the following
statement
1.-THE KAISER Is WHITFIELD
TO A FRAGILE ANY WAY.
WHY NOT LET UP ON SUGAR
AND LET US HAVE OUR GEL
ITERATION BY DRINKING OUR
COFFEE AS WE USED TO"
New that is the worst kind OF
propaganda.
Number one:-The Kaiser and Ger
many are not yet beaten.
Number Two:-~-If they were and
peace Immediately came, which
pray God 1t may. Food Control
will 90 on for long while.
Number Three:--This means that
instead of eating at Common
Table" with 1870 million of tho
Allied Peoples, that table would
have around It's poorly supplied
board 200 million starving
literally starving people.
Number Four: Does the coffee
sugar man" and those like him.
suppose for a minute that We are
Immediately going to "all up
with all the good and sweet
things, while distress. poverty.
starvation have entered the
homes OF geo million people out
side Of Germany, people cruelty
treated and hunger mad"
brought there not through fault
of theirs, but by the action of a
wouId-he Ruler of the World, and
now recognized as a World AS
sassin."
am not referring now to the peo-
ole OF Germany They will have
their troubles and starvation likewise,
but these other peoples. in Russia,
Reumania, Serbia, Armenia and 9th
ers, these will soon be OUR ALLIES
Our NEiGHBoRsI The csffes
sugar fend above referred to, would
not deny his next door neighher
sugar or wheat II that friend were
starving. The world has been made
small. We are all "in the same
boat" We must help feed one an
ether when the wolf ia not only at
the desr, but has entered. In all this
peace talk. be not careless. Do not
let up on food saving, TREAT PEACE
AS A PREPARATION AND COM.
MANo FOR MORE SACRIFICE FOR
THE LARGER NUMBER WE WILL
HAVE TO FEED. DO not let up for
enc second on FOOD PRo0uc.
TloN,T FOOD SAVING
EAT FOOD In TERMS or LIFE.
REALIZED WHEN YOU EAT MORE
THAN is ABSOLUTELY NECBs-
sARY, TO SUSTAIN HEALTH AND
STRENGTH. THAT YOU ROB THOSE
WHO ARE STARVING. YOU con-
TRIBUTE TO LOSS OF LIFE. YOU
DESTROY LIFE.
appeal to you all to combat Wig
orously the idea that We are soen TO
be given any respite. Instead OF
more. It may be less, Treat our
abundance as God given epportun-
ity to relieve the frightful conditions
Of distress of our STARVING NEIGH.
RoRs. DO NOT "PAss BY ON THE
OTHER SIDE but Samsritan-like.
have the COMPASSION, THE couF.
AGE. THE DETERMINATION TO
HELP. Fight the propaganda that
desires everything for self suhsti-
tute the "cHARiTY THAT sEGIks
AT HOME" AND REACHES OUT TO
THE ENDS or THE WORLD TO
RELIEVE