Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-06-21
FOOD CONTROL
MEANS VICTORY
European Shortage Places Prob
lem Before American Govern
ment-Farsighted Policy
Adopted.
NEED 100000 Blu. WHEAT.
Food Administration Asks Aid Of
Every American in Gigantic
Task of Feeding Millions


that makes food problem over here.
If we wished to be supremely selfish
and supremacy shOrtsighted-we could
60 on eating as much as we like and
whatever we like, without much diff
Guilty or interruption-at least, until
the Germans came!
But we are not doing things in that
selfish and suicidal way. We are try
| ing to make great common pool Of
all Of our food and all of the food Of
the allies, and all of the food we can
get from South American and other
neutrals, and dividing it up fairly
among America, England, France, Bel
GUM and Italy.
This does not mean that all of the
people in the great pool are going to
have the same ration, but means that
we are trying to arrange to have
enough for everybody. so that the sol
diers-our soldiers and their soldiers
will be well fed, as they have to be
| to fight hard and continuously, and
that the munitions workers and the
| workers in all the other necessary in
dustries, and the men and women at
home will all have enough to keep
alive and we'll. 1t is absolutely neces-
sary to do this if the war is to be won,
and we are going to do it, but it means
planning, working. arranging, cooper.
atng, being careful, not wasting, saw
| ing
And it means that each and every
one of us has got to help.
Now, we have enough and more than
enough food for ourselves, and the
Government is going to see to it that
we keep here at home sufficient sup
ply Of every essential kind of food to
support our people. But over there
they simply have not enough. Lord
Rhondda, the English food controller,
recently cabIed the American. food ad-
mnistrator, that unless we can send
| the allies before the next uropean
| harvest 10000 bushels of wheat in
addition to what had been sent up to
| January 1 of this year he could not
assure the people of the allies that
| they would have sufficient supply OF
1000 TO Carry OF the WdT.
He did not say anything in this cable
about the other food necessary, but
| he has told of these needs in other
cabes-and by his actions in England.
For example, his latest regulation
| cOmpels reduction of meat eating in
| the United Kingdom to a maximum Of
| one pound per week per person, this
| pound including the bone and other
waste parts in the meat as bought in
| the shop.
The allies must have more wheat,
| more meat, more fats, more dairy prod
ucts, more sugar. Their harvests were
| very short-France had less than half
| her normal crop of wheat-and the
| available shipping is small in amount
and constantly being lessened by sub
marines, so that it Is now practically
| impossible to use any ships for the long
| voyage necessary to bring food from
Australia and other remote markets.
| The food must come chiefly from
| America. In specific figures it is nee
essary for us to send to the allies
| 100000 tons of foodstuffs month.
| This is a great responsibility and q
| great problem. The food must be
| found, and also the ships to carry it.
1t is being done, but can only continue
| to be done by the help and full CO.
| operation of all of US over our broad
land We must produce and save
| more.
To supply the wheat necessary until
| the next harvest, we must reduce our
| consumption by from one-fourth to
| one third; we must cut down our usual
average consumption of meats and
| fats by from 10 to Is per cent. and
dairy products by about 10 per cent.
Over there they are Tightening their
| belts and doing everything they can.
| They are eating war bread; they are
| cutting down their sugar in England
| to two pounds per person per month.
and in France and Italy to one pound
| how much are you eating ?-and they
are using ration cards for most of the
staples. We must meet sacrifice with
| sacrifice If we don't, we are helping
| to lose the war instead of helping to
win it.