Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1918-04-17

Washington, is called to the atten-
ton of our readers.
We have got to reach the place,
each one of US, where we define
every decision in our lives as an
act of war policy. Everything that
we do, plan, eat, wear, must be
analysed and measured from one
single point of view-will it con-
tribute to the carrying on of the
war, or will it contribute to its
prolongation. There is no other
thing in the world for us but to
define everything in our lives as
acts of military necessity or
policy.
The first necessity for us is to
get a clear conception of the re-
lation of wheat in the human diet
and to divest ourselves of all pre-
conceptions that a life of genera
lions of ease, Incidence and luxury
has bred in us.
We are accustomed to regard
wheat as more or less indespens-
able article of diet. 1t isn't. 1t is
an article of luxury, and absolutely
nothing else. Wheat possesses
over oats, corn and rice absolutely
no nutritional quality for man or
beast. 1t has no more protein, and
no better protein. 1t has no more
fat and no different fat. 1t has no
mineral salt better or in larger
amounts. 1t has no more fuel or
better fuel. 1t is just one of the
cereals, and there isn't the slight
est evidence that it IS the best one,
because so far as comparative tests
are concerned in animals, it isn't
the best one, it is very far from the
best one.
Our prediction for wheat is
solely question of taste, comfort
and convenience; it is absolutely
nothing else. Wheat makes the
incest bread, the lightest bread.
the bread that is transported best,
the bread that keeps moist and
sweet longest. 1t lends itself to
the habits of ease and convenience
of people; and because it lends
itself to the convenience of a peo-
pie, we want it sent to Europe and
not kept here, and we ask and ex-
pect the American man and wo-
man in judging Of every situation
as contrasted with mat of our AL
lies, men and women, to ask who
has the largest burden to bear,
who has borne it the longest, who
has wasted in resources the most,
who has lost the most by sacrifice,
who has suffered the most in death
and destruction, we or our Allies?
And when we have choice to de-
eide as to whether we or they
should increase or decrease our
burden, it ought to be not the duty,
but the joyful privilege of every
American to lessen the burden of
every man, woman and child in the
Allied countries of Europe, by &C
cepting the heavier burden on this
side. And because wheat is easier
to prepare then oats and rice and
barley-that is the very best rea-
son in the world why we ought to
accept the oats and the rice and
barley and to give them the wheat
that is necessary to maintain a
normal ration.
You gentlemen serve a great
many food faddists and cranks,
and you will hear a great many ex-
pressions that your patrons cannot
eat this or that, merely because
they are accustomed to this or that
other thing, or because they have
had idiosyncrasies bred in them or
developed by luxury.
Now, gentlemen, whenever any
one of your patrons tells you that
he or she can't eat oats, or rice, or
corn, but must have wheat, that in
dividual is either a crank or
Stacker and deserves from your
hand only the consideration proper
to the one or the other.
We have all to decide whether
we will serve the Allies, who need
help the most, or whether we will
serve ourselves, who need it less.
We had better begin serving the
Allies now.
The second point that l wish to
emphasize, and this is based upon
European experience in the art of
rationing, is the enormous positive
example, the worth of the example,
of the highest grade hotels and
restaurants. Gentlemen, there is
no such thing as enforcing a food