The Nome daily nugget., 1918-02-07

--ss- people, are called upon to defend the
 nation against the encroachments of this implacablc, inhuman and power
 full enemy and in so doing preserve not
 only the safety of our own lands and
 homes, the sanctity of our Womaulliud 1 and the future liberty of our children, i but also the freedom and liberty of
 all mankind.
 Somc of us can go forth in arms to meet the barbarous enemy face to face
 but by far the greater number of us
 must stay at home to carry on the vast work of supporting those who will grap- | pie with the foe on the blood stained
 fields of war. And tho we may realize it not, the work of those who stay at
 home is equally as important as that of i those who valorously man the guns
 and fill the battle trenches
 One of the most important lessons we f have learned from the experiences of
 our allies is that the battles of this war will be won in a large degree behind the battle lines. Regardless of how
 well trained may be the army on the
 firing line, it's effectiveness is depend
 ant on the support it receives at homo 1 Those who stay at home arc called
 upon to supply all the army rcquircos. | If they fail in that duty. the arm> win dissolve or perish
 ] In the present case. We of America | are through peculiar combination of
 circumstances, called upon to not only
 sustain our own fighting forces, but
 must also help support the armies md
 peoples of our alhes, without whose assistance in combating tho common
 enemy We can hardly hope to win
 victory, save at a cost too fearful to
 contemplate except as a last resort
 To accomplish this double duty of supporting both our own people and l those of our allies. we must. first of
 an, increase the food supply of the
 nation to the degree that there shall be enough for ourselves and surplus ! large enough to meet the requirements
 of those who are helping to put down
 the foe Owing to the fact that our
 wheat production last year was not equal to this double demand we are called upon to provide the required needs of our allies in this direction by reducing our own consumption suf- ficimtly to save the desired surplus
 We are also called upon to provide our allies with other food commodities, but
 as their principal demand is for wheat the natural tendency of our conscrva- tion endeavors must be directed to prod ucing as large surplus of that commodity as possible. That is why the government of the United States is calling upon it's people to observe 'wheatless" and 'meatlcss" days and "wheatless" and "meatless" meals. 1 "Wheatless" days arc days on which ! no product containing wheat flour may l properly be consumed and "mcatlcss" 1 days arc days in which we should re- l frain from eating meat products. This does not mean that we need deprive ourselves of one single ounce of bread food. however for there are dozen C f1 healthy and palatahle. which wc may employ either wholly or in part in the making of our bread supplies The ad- dition of ten. fifteen, of twenty per cent of potato flour, oatmeal, rye cor barley flour and corn meal to the wheat flour used in making our bread will not only effect a substantial decrease in the national wheat consumption but will also be physically beneficial to the in- dividual. If every person in the Jni- ted States saves one pound of wheat flour per week in this manner, the say
 ing at the end of the year will amount i to the enormous total of 1500o0 GOO bushels of approximately one
 third of the entire surplus required
 to sustain our allies while they help us win the war. We are not asked to cur
 tail our consumption of bread, mind
 you We are asked 10 give up a cor
 ain quantity of mcat--of which We con-
 sumc more per capita than any other
 pcople-but We are not asked to give
 up one single mouthfuI of bread. What
 we are asked to do is to consume on
 "whcatless" days bread made from
 some variety of grain other than
 wheat. Of this substitute bread we