Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-11-06

~ may increase oul
shipments by fifty
per cent. This cam
paign calls for intensive saving III
avery household.
Bach housekeeper is captain of an
Independent command" says the Food
Administration" and everyone who
eats helps or binders the nation
three times day. We must in
crease our exports by one-half. The
increase must be made up of the food
we save.
Some idea of the magnitude OF our
pledge to the Allies must be implanted
in every household. Every manager
of household must determine for
conscience, how she can maintain the
health and strength of her family with
the least possible expenditure of food.
She must reduce her buying TO a
science that will permit not an ounce
of waste.
There Is no scheme Of rations for
this. Every home presents a sepa-
rate problem: no two families are
exactly alike in all their circum-
stances. To solve this problem Is
the duty Of every housekeeper.
This campaign for nearly eighteen
million tons Of food goes into effect
1t once. We must pursue 1t with the
same vigor that we used in our drive
for the six billion dollar Liberty Loan.
The new conservation program is
an appeal to all households to save
food. 1t would be easier. perhaps. to
follow specific directions. but the
new program calls for individual in
itiative and resourcefulness, which is
the spirit Of Democracy. Intelligence
and thoughtful conscience are re-
CURED. Nourishment must be
watched inteliigently. waste must be
avoided intelligently. saving must be
made intelligently. The consumption
Of food must be reduced intelligently.
THE sugar allowance the rule OF
universal Victory bread-these are
but incidents in the program. 1t Is
the original program OF the Food Ad-
ministration in new setting"
Why We Must Save Food
A grabbed and skeptical citizen with
? naturally bad disposition. or a sly
German propaganda may be heard
to ask Why does America have to
work so hard to feed Eu"ope? Why
aren't they producing their own food!
Not much Of their lard is in the hands
Of the enemy. WAT is England do
mgr"
In the first place America is not
working hard. We are only learning
to live without wasting. We have no
SER us deprivations. And Europe is
producing food. Every bit of land IN
France and England that is tiliable
is now used for raising grain or vege-
tables.
But we must remember that we
have taken over the responsibility of
feeding Belgium, which would actual
ly starve without US and that there
are two millions of our own men in
France, England, and Italy. and even
In Russia. to whom supplies must go
from home.
AS to what England is doing we
have only to read in the War Cabinet
Report to Learn that she is producing
much more foo now than she did two
years ago. There are now about 270,-
900 women in agricultural work in
Great Britain.
The Allied Food Admin. -.-ato~s are
in touch with the food situation OF t..e
whole world, and the program they
have outlined is for the good of us
all. America is not doing more than
her share. In fact, the burden OF
war has fallen most lightly upon US.
We do not expect to be rationed by
compulsion, as the British, French ana
the Italians are.
But we are asked, as patriotic cit
izens of a great republic, fighting
with worthy associates at our side,
In the war, to conserve all food BY
eating less. and to waste nothing
And there is no doubt that the Amer
lean people will meet this emergency
Is they have Others n The past.
Bringing Life to Belgium.
There are 100000 Belgians and
French caught within the territory oc.
cupied by the Germans. These peo
pie must rely almost absolutely on tn,
food given them by the Commission
for Relief In Belgium.
This commission buys all the foo,
stuffs going into Belgium and bring
the supplies to the Belgian frontier
Here the distribution and rationinl
h taken charge Of by Belgian an,
French organizations which were or
ganixed by the Americans IN the earl
atages of the war.
The security Of both imported an
native food production from Germa
acquisition. 10 guaranteed by tn
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