Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-02-06
ARE YOU PATRIOTIC?
The Triton Gazette says:

proportion of the farmers of the
country had all the corn they
could use and therefore should
not be required to buy more in or
! der to obtain -four did not occur
| to the president or his advisors;
else perhaps an exception would
have been made in their case.
Perhaps this will be done when
sttention of the proper authorities
| is called to the matter.
Until this is done, the farmer,
with an ample supply Of corn, will
reduce his consumption of -four.
With the genu ne Georgia Cracker
this will be no hardship, for he
| likes corn bread.
1t is really remarkable fact that
the largest -four eaters. comparatively.
are negroes.
The editor of The Times Recorder,
happening to be food administrator for
this county, has very recently had
! considerable contact with the poorer
class of negroes, the farm hands, ard
was amazed to learn directly from
them that they esteemed corn bread
! chiefly as feed for their dogs.
Why don't you eat corn bread?"
they have been asked.
BOSS, my chillun eats that, and
my dawgs. l wants white bread"
The order, put into effect yester-
day by the president, at the instance
of the food administration, requiring
restaurants, hotels, and dining cars
to serve not more than two ounces
o. white bread to each patron at q
meal and not more than four ounces
of all breadstuffs combined at 9
single meal, is the very next thing to.
card ration system, and Is the most
drastic food regulation yet enacted.
It simply indicates the stringency of
the times in the matter of food.
Another interesting feature that has
developed is that negroes are very
small rice eaters, and really do not
care for grits. They nave cultivated,
largely in recent years, a taste and a.
preference for white -four, and now
they insist on having it. When this
class is taught the necessity of re-
ducing their -four consumption, and
are made to reduce 1t, then there will
be a genuine saving in flour.
For that matter, we all might as
well make up our minds 10 eat less
flour, and to eat more corn products,
and more rice, and more grits. There
is going to be a shortage of -four, even
more so than there is now; there are
going to be more rigid restrictions
governing the sale and the use Of
flour, and the public should be pre-
pared therefor.
The truth is, we folks had better
satisfy ourselves that our country is
at war Just because we cannot hear
the guns ADJOINING and because we
do not see the soldiers marching off,
with flags flying and drums beating,
and because the conflict is not on our
own soil, we should not get the idea
that the war doesn't amount to much.
There is a war, the greatest in the
history of the world, the most vital
| " LILO luIu1S VI IllAS IoI1Oll IhdJ NhO
United States has ever engaged in.
and it is going to be won by a dozen
different factors. Heretofore wars
have been won by bullets and men.
! This time it takes the energy, the pri-
vations, the contributions in many
+, ways, of every man and woman in ev-
cry walk of life. 1t takes food and
money as we'll as men and munitions,
and il the matter of food those of us
at home can help by eating less of
that which the soldiers and our asso-
ciates at war must have and need the
most