Newark post., 1918-11-06
j, S,MUST Save
SO PER CENT
MORE FOOD
IN Order That the Allies This
Year May Have Enough
to Eat.

REPORTS daily at Washington from
all over the world, are giving dehnite
shape to the program of the ohlteu
States Food Administration, for VIC
tualing the armies in Europe, the peo-
ple of the allied countries and the
hungry nations behind the battle llnes'
Early calculations OF harvest are
daily verified or modifled; taily ~
kept on the increase or shrlnKage OF
food stocks. inventory is corrected as
resources of the last harvest are more
quickly or slowly consumed; totals are
revised for new supplies discovered,
or expected supplies cut of.
The shipping situation is reviewed
daily. Ships are sunk, damaged shlps
are repaired; the yards in America
launch new vessels. In month 2oo,-
600 soldiers from America go to swell
our fast gathering forces in France;
supplying and maintaining them, cails
for more than a million tons addition
al shipping. The reports show no"
we are running behind or gaining on
the need of tonnage.
War Effects the Plans.
Shifts of war affect the plans. We
have taken 100000 German prisoners
who must also be fed. But what is
that. when we are sharing our re-
sources with 22O,OOO,000 people OF the
allies?
Though details of the program
change every day, almost every hour'
the main outline is not altered, since
the inter-alied food council agreed,
that America should provide this year
1880 900 tons of food, an increase
of 30 per cent over last years pro-
digiOus achievement.
This vast program of food exports
is 70 be met by home conservation.
We can send half as much food again
as before, only as we save it. we
| have nowhere near that much as In
sight surplus.
The largest item in the program of
food exports is 1O,4O0,OO0 tons of
bread-makfng -four and grains-more
than 4OO.OOO,OOO bushels. Part of that
is the surplus of one of the largest
| wheat crops ever harvested in this
country-reduced again by shortage
| of corn. A substantial part of this
saving will come from the conscious,
deliberate saving of one hundred mil
! lion American citizens, male and fe-
male, big and little.
Suppose that of the 40OOOOOOo
bushels and over that we ship. 1OO,-
| OOO.O 600 is to be accomplished by saw
| ing. So far as this account is con.
cerned, the actual amount to he saved
is not essential, an imaginary figure
will do. For the total shipment Will
include hrpaGgrains all Jumped to-
gether. wheat, rye, barley, and TO
some extent corn, and the proper
tions will vary as the problem works
out. Say, for the present we go to
find 100OOO,00O bushels by saving.
Put that in terms of the individual.
1t is the same as though each one al
lowed himself four bushels Of grain
| in his bread for the year in place of
five bushels. which was the ordinary
calculation in the good old wasteful
! days.
All. yes, Victory bread, four pounds
of wheat and one of substitute. Easy.
! On Equality With Allies.
Not at all The Victory bread rule
| does two things; it puts the American
| home on the same basis as all the
| allies and it spreads the saving of
flour among the several bread max
| ing grains. But it does not in itself
save anything. Eating corn instead of
wheat saves wheat, but it does not
save grain.
This saving of a bushel of grain
| for each of us-actually will be more
than that's to be gained only by
cutting down consumption of food as
far as can be done without impairing
| health or strength. The food cOnser-
! walton campaign this year means the
saving of all food. Every ounce saved
sets free an equivalent proportion of
staples to carry out the victory pro-
| gram.
At one end of the scale is the cease
I less stream of reports coming TO
! Washington from all over the world
showing the needs to be met. At the
other, is the effort of twenty million
homes TO save so much that the pro.
gram can be fulfilled.
Every table should be spread amt