The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-11-06
SAVE FOOD AS
NEVER BEFORE
Thls Is Call Of Food Administra-
tion TO Public for Com
Ing Year.
INCREASE OF FIFTY
PER CENT Is NEEDED
aAst Year 11,s2o,oo0 Tons Sent Army
and Aliies--This Year IL
$4,000 Must GO.

I=.Esa s-r' ooV,Oou MUSK NO.
The people of the United States
are right bang up against the stiffest
food saving they have known, at least
since Civil War times" says A. D. VIII
son, federal food administrator for
Minnesota. They must realize this
Fact right now and be prepared to
make sacrifices in order that the fight
ing forces of the Allies in Europe and
the civilian population Of the Allies
In Europe, who have endured the bur
den of history's most terrible war for
more than four years, may be sus-
tanned in the trying period which we
believe will mark the finish OF th8
great conflict.
THE cold, hard facts of the situation
are just these: Last year with not
little effort, the United States shipped
to its armies and Allies 1880 900 tons
of food. This year, with no larger re-
sources upon which to draw, they must
ship 17,55G,000 tons. This is an In
crease Of 6,730,000. tons, or practically
30 per cent. s
must save so per cent more food than
Shey saved a year ago.
3 How is this to be done?
THE rigid rules which have been
laid down for public eating places and
which were outlined In these columns
week ago, show what the food ad-
1ninistration believes 1t is necessary
TOR hotels, restaurants, boarding houses
. and other places where ready food
is sold, to do, and the food admins.
tration intends to see that this is done.
II public eating places do not Loyalty
and periodically cooperate, the food
administration will not hesitate to SO.
cure compliance through its control OF
the distribution Of sugar. -four, and
other food supplies. BAL .g
But, this affects only about 10 per
cent of the people of the United States.
What about the other 80 per cent or
more than 90,OO0,0O0 people? In other
words. what about saving in the Amer.
ican home?
This is the answer The American
housewife must put herself into inten.
Z sive training so as to learn to Manages
her resources as effectively as the SOL
der is compelled to save his strength
and use II with the most telling force.
she must conserve scientifically and
ali the other members of the family
must support her loyalty in doing this.
All must conserve In the use of every
kind OF food. To eat merely for the
pleasure Of eating, after enough has
beenS consumed to sustain health and
strength, Is to waste Just as surely as
to throw good food into the garbage
can
Here Is a typical illustration: A
small boy in Minnesota household,
the other day, within an hour after q
hearty dinner, asked for something to
eat. His father knew that he could
not be hungry. that he was merely
asking for food to satisfy his appetite
for goodies His father met his re-
quest with the figures which are given
above ard followed that with this
statement: Every mouthful you eat
which is unnecessary for the main.
tenance OF your health and strength is
q mouthful taken from someone in
Europe who needs 1t a thousand times
more than you do. Now, II as loyal
young American you feel yea can EFT
food within an hour after having full
meal, it is up to YOU The boy was
game and refused the food.
But it is just that kind Of thing
that American families have got to
face this year. Eating merely for the
pleasure of eating must stop il we
are going to do the right thing by our
sons and other relatives, and our
friends, who have gone overseas to
wipe out one of the cruaIest and vilest
groups of self-eonssituted tyrants that
the world has ever known, and to make
the world a free and decent place to
live in. 4s-. a... !. a
I'VE have subscribed for liberty loan
bonds. We have given to the Belgian
relief, to the Red Cross, to the Y. M.
G. A., Y. w. G. A.. and similar organ
fZations. We have contributed loyalty
in order to make the leavetaking of
- our home boys express our determine
tion to support them here at home
while they fight our battles abroad.
All this is good. but we undo all OF
this kind of thing, In measure at
least, If we do not conserve food.
THE phrase, food Stacker will be-
come term of reproach as bitter as
any other to the conscience Of the
American who does not cooperate in
the home food drive that Is now before
us.
81 believe, however that there will
- H.. A 4.
this winter concluded Mr.. Wilson.
Americans are too wide awake to
the necessity Of saving the lives of
their soldiers by saving food. They
are too loyal to be careless or indif
ferent in the food campaign that is
ahead But 1t should be remembered
that
by saving food we save soldiers