The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-02-21
United States Food Administration.

The ready and effective re-
sponse by the people of Pennsyl-
vania to the appeals of the Food
Administration for the conserva-
tion of our food supply has been
highly commendable and pro-
ductlve of gratifying results.
But the food situation in
Europe proves to be far more
alarming than when the first
survey of the food supply of the
world for this year was made.
narvests in the countries of our
Allies have turned out much less
than contemplated and shortage
of shipping has made it impos-
sible to bring supplies from
countries more distant than the
ODIIeu OJdLSo.
The civilian consumption Of
our Allies has been reduced to
the minimum and still there is
not enough left to sustain the
men on the fighting fronts.
All of our surplus wheat from
the 1917 crop has already gone
to the Allies or to the bottom Of
the sea. And there wasn't
enough to feed them if it had all
reached it's destination. Our
friends are in dire distress. It.
ally is today in a state OF SEMI
starvation and France and Eng
land are undergoing the sevtJest
privations. Italy's defeat :
largely due to lack Of food al
not lack of skill in warfare or
tlghtlng spirit among It's people.
The Russian collapse was chiefly
the result of desperate hunger.
To fail to supply the needed bread
to England, France and Italy
would be to invite more disaster,
and possibly complete defeat and
ruin.
We need to save many things
by seif-denial and substitution.
Meats, fats and sugar, but the
all important thing for the next
few months is wheat and more
wheat.
Our own boys are over there
now. Our own sons and broth
ers-to he number of some
hundreds of thousands, and more
are going every week. A COL
lapse or even serious defeat on
the Allied front, through failure
to sustain the man-power on the
fighting line and behind it with
sufficient food, would involve
our own men in the general loss,
as well as those who have fought
our battles for us so long.
Such a misfortune must nev-
er be allowed to befall US through
the indulgence of those Of US who
are safely comfortable here at
home. We can save enough to
meet the crisis. We must do it
and we will.
To enable US to meet the grave
situation whic h confronts US,
every man, woman and child in
the American nation is asked to
have two wheatless days Monday
and Wednesday, in every week,
and one wheatless meal (the even
ing meal) in every day.
To have one meatless day
(Tuesday) in every week and
one meatless meal every day.
To have one porkless day (Sat-
urday).
To have every day fat-saving
day.
To make every day a sugar
saving day.
These things constitute a n
irreducible minimum o f personal
sacrifice that is expected of ev-
cry patriotic American. Many
of US can and will volunteer even
more.
The American people as indi-
viduals must wake up to the sit
uation as they have not walked up
before. The solution of this food
crisis is not up to the nation, or
the state, or to any official. 1t
is not to be solved by the few,
or by our neighbors. 1t is a
question for each and every one
of US individually. 1t is asking
little when we think of our brave
American boys who have gone