Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1918-11-12

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every household.
each housekeeper is captain OF an
Independent command" says the Food
Administration" and everyone who
eats helps or hinders 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 q household must determine for
herself, by the guidance Of the war
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
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 10
the duty Of every housekeeper.
"This campaign for nearly eighteen
million tons of food goes into effect
ct once. We must pursue 1t with the
Eame 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. It 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-
quired. Nourishment must be
watched intelligently, 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. It IL
the original program or the Food Ad-
ministration in new setting"
Why We Must Save Food
A Grabbed and skeptical citizen with
. naturally bad disposition, or sly
German propaganda may be heard
to ask why does America have to
work so hard to feed Europe? Why
aren't they producing their own food?
Not much Of their land is in the hands
Of the enemy. What 10 England do
ingf"
In the FIRST place America IL not
working hard. We are only learning
to live without wasting. We have no
serious deprivations. And Europe is
producing food. Every bit Of land IN
France and England that is tillable
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 food now than she did two
years ago. There are now about 270,-
900 women In agricultural work In
Great Britain.
The Allied Food Administrator are
in touch with the food situation Of the
whole world, and the program they
have outlined is for the good Of us
all. America 10 not doing more than
her share. In fact. the burden Of
war has fallen most lightly upon as.
We do not expect to be rationed by
compulsion, as the British. French and
the Italians are.
But we are asked, az patriotic cit
izens Of great republic. fshtins
with worthy associates ct 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 win meet this emergency,
rs they have others In the past.
Bringing Life to Belgium.
There are 100000 Belgians and
French caught within the territory 90
cupied by the Germans. These peo-
pie must rely almost absolutely on the
food given them by the Commission
for Relief In Belgium.
This commission buys all the food
stu6s going into Belgium and brings
the supplies to the Belgian frontier.
Here the distribution and rationing
10 taken charge Of by Belgian and
French organizations which were Or
ganised by the Americans IN the early
stages Of the war,
The security Of both imported and
native food production from German
requisition, 10 guaranteed by the
Dutch and. Spanish governments
which maintain agents IN the occu'
pied area to see that the production
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