The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-27
BY FOOD
ADMINISTRATOR
Frank H. Brooks Speaks on
Conservation in Fes-
tival Hall
GROUP MEETINGS
THIS AFTERNOON
One of Series of Meetings to Direct Pub
lie Attention to Food Conservation
Program-Mr. Brooks Accompanied
by Members of Staff.

State Food Administrator Frank H.
Brooks of st. Johnsbury gave an ad-
dress in Festival hall this forenoon be-
fore a fair sized audience, including
persons from Brattleboro and other
towns in the county. 1t was one of a
series of meetings, held in Vermont with
view to strengthening the co-opera-
tion and directing the energies of the
people in the food conservation pro-
gram, at the head of which stands the
national food administrators, Herbert f.
Hoover. Horton ID. Walker of Brattle-
boro, administrator for Windham coun-
ty, presided.
Mr.. Brooks was accompanied by mem
bers of his staff, who were to speak at
conferences this afternoon, Mr. Brooks
and w. A. Woods of Waterbury, in
| spector, to preside at a men s confer
| ence and James P. TAYLOR, director of
campaign activities, and Miss Bertha
NJ. Terrill of Burlington, home economics
| specialist, to preside at conference
| of women.
MIR. Brooks's address was directed to
| the discussion of the situation as it
concerns wheat and sugar and was a
most startling and Illuminating state
| ment of facts surrounding the situation
as regards these commodities. Starting
with the slogan, Food Will Win the
| War, Mr.. Brooks showed how close the
| United States is to the ragged edge of
failure by the shortage of these
things.
The absolute necessity of shipping
| to this nation S soldiers who .'are
standing between us and the Hum the
food they must have if they carry on
was set before the audience in en-
phatic fashion. That any one in the
audience had realized before the reve-
lation of actual conditions just where
the nation stood in the matter of food
was patiently unlikely, and the ~neces
sity of standing by the administration
Mr.. Brooks characterized every hoard
er of food, every person who buys sugar
from different dealers until they hav,
an abundance as disloyal citizens-a,
certainly traitors to their countr,
as if they were In arms against it. An,
he called upon every person who hat
knowledge of others having suppl,
beyond the legal amount of either suga
, or wHat to report it to the authorities
He stated that the fine for hoardin,
. sugar was $4,000 or two years i'm
prisonment or both. He also stated tha
there was federal inspector in thi
state whose business it is to inspect tn
! premises of dealers and householder
and who will be expected to do his dut
whenever such condition has been dis
: covered.
AS showing that people can saw
wheat if they choose and as shown
what actually has been accomplishe
. in this line Mr. Brooks stated that sine
: April l 130,000,000 bushels of whes
: had been shipped to Europe. On tha
$ date the surplus on hand was yer
small, which shows that practically a
of this amount of wheat was accuml
: lated by the direct saving of the pe
. pie. The normal consumption of whe;
> in this country in April is 100000
= bushels, but last April the consumptiC
4; was only 100000 bushels.