Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-06-04
That Our Allies May Continue to
Endure and to Fight

Who that honors the spirit of heroic devotion
read without deep stirring of the heart the
story of the deprivations our Allies cheerfully
bearing in loyalty to our common cause? We nave
known scarcely more than year of war; and us
rea! fire and blood are still far removed Srom our
shores. How different with the people of England
and France and Belgium and Italy! Ever since the
summer of 1914 they have been in the full shadow
of the conflict, and for the greater part OF that time
in its full agony. Month after month and year
after year they they have suffered the continual
blows of German barbarty. Their unfortihed cities
and homes have been bombed by Prussian air
pirates, and their women and children slain; their
fields have been pillaged, their sanctuaries of re-
lgion and art ruthlessly destroyed and their wives
and mothers and daughters led into unspeaka0Iy
horrible captivity. All this they have borne Win
bleeding but unwavering hearts. The close OF the
first long, grim year of the war found them Just
beginning to be prepared, we are now to cope
with Prussianisms forty years of preparation, YET
determined to fight on. The close of the second
year found them strained in every sinew and nerve
but determined to fight for justice. The thru
burning year found them drained of vast tides Of
treasure and blood, but more than ever resolute TO
fight stanchly on And now the fourth year, the
most crucial of ALL draws to end, these faithful
Allies, bearing heavier burdens than ever and
sharper sacrifices, are fighting on with unwearied
spirits in defense of our common civilization.
No one, say, who honors heroism can think
of those brave peoples without being stirred to the
soul and impeled to do his utmost to support them
in this sorest hour of their trials. This would be
true if America out Of the war; but since
We are in it with liberty and our homes and
orr very existence as a nation all at stake, the sup
porting the peoples we'll the armies of those
heroic lands becomes doubly imperative and doubly
inspiring.
Many are the ways in which we can and sup
porting them. but there is form of service par
ticalarly important because it concerns the Allied
morale so vitality and because too it be engaged
in by every household in land. We the
saving of wheat -four. For more than three years
England, France, Belgium and Italy have been on
frugal ratons and now they are eking out their
hard fare with peculiarly severe economy. Their
only bread is war bread" made of gray wheat -four
that contains much of the outer part of the wheat
grain formerly fed to cattle and mixed with largo
percentage of -four from other cereals. I'm Eng
land" our Food Administration tells us, this war
bread cannot be sold until it is twelve hours old,
so that the people wopt be tempted to eat too much
fresh bread. In France and Italy the bread is
rationed according to the and occupation of each
person; a child has less than an adult, light
worker less than who does heavy labor" AS
for Belgium, more than million of her people set
their daily bread and soup by standing in line long
hours before the relief kitchens" This they have
been doing every day for three and half years,
but: They do complain; they only ask that the
SOUP and bread be there; they depend upon Amer
ica" All these countries have reduced their con-
sumption of wheat to the lowest. possible measure
Beyond certain point they cannot go, because
wheat is the indispensable basis of the durable
raised loaf" which is the only kind Of loaf the
authorities point out that be successfully car
red from bakeries behind the lines to troops IN
the trenches The Allies using literally
wheat substitutes the and other cereals which
we send them Dut III TINS they can go so tar and no
farther Without certain minimum of wheat
they cannot keep health and strength; they cannot
labor and endure; they cannot continue effective in
the vast conflict which involves our common liberty
and civilization. .
No true American who is aware OF these condf-
lions will fail to cooperate with redoubled earnest
ness in the wheat-saving movement. humanity and
patrotism alike enjoin to do our utmost to
strengthen and cheer the brave peoples who are
lighting with us the supreme battle of justice and
freedom We have done we'll in the cause food con-
servation thus far; but we must do better IL the
crucial needs of the time are to be met. Georgia
has saved some fifty thousand barrels OF flour for
shipment to our army and our Allies; this has been
done without apprecable deprivation on any ones
mart A little real sacrifice will enable us to save
great deal more in the months ahead. Let every
household and every citizen in the Commonwealth
take up this duty with renewed devotion.