The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-06-01
SAVING OF WHEAT
IS FASHIONABLE
Hotels at Shore Resorts and Else.
where in State Lead in Food
Conservation.
TOTAL ABSTENTl0N URGED.
Women Must Help at Home to Re-
lieve Their Sisters in france
of Wars Burdens.
TOTAL ABSTENTION URGED.

Hotels in all parts of the state, with
those at the shore resorts taking an
especially prominent part, have joined
whole-heartedly in the movement to
make the nation a non-wheat-consum-
ing n until the next harvest. The
largest hotels have eliminated wheat
breads and products from their menus
except for the use of invalids. The
same thing is being done on railroad
dining cars.
The example set by the leaders in
the hotel business has had h effect
of encouraging hotel men who operate
on a smaller scale to the same kind of
patriotic endeavor. The result has
been that New Jersey is showing the
spirit of sacrifice that brought renown
to her during the Revolution. In all
parts of the state, rural and urban,
in private homes as well as public
carayansaries, "wheatlessness' is be-
coming periodically fashionable.
The saving of every unc of wheat
possible is gradually becoming a neces-
sity of the first importance, if our
soldiers in Europe are to be main
tanned in fit condition. The same
statement applies to the consumption
of meat and neither should be eaten If
other edibles are available-and at
this season there are plenty. Pleas
already made for the conservation of
meat and wheat will have to De re-
inforced in all probability. While the
people have conformed quite widely to
II 1T r IL TT-.Ln1 CVaFa1 hood
Commission, additional curtailment of
consumption becomes growingly neces-
sary With the increase in the number
of our troops abroad.
For that reason the government is
keeping the closest kind of a watch on
flour and meats and it is asking every
homekeeper to subsist as far as posi-
bic on its w products, and to alb
stain to the limit from using the stocks
of stores. Hence the home garden
campaigns in the cities and the urgent
requests to farmers to not let a square
rod of ground go unused if it can be
made productive.
To make the home as Independent
as possible of the common food pool
from which the hungry world must be
fed is woman's great task.
Going without wheat is an incon-
Notwithstanding worse-for homes in
comfortable circumstances. 1t is no
hardship-no danger. Psychologists
all agree that wholesome diet need not
include wheat.
ne South fought the Civil War
three years on corn. Early New Eng
land did without wheat five years at
a time with no i'll effects.
Going without wheat sometimes,
perhaps, may entail more expense and
possibly at times some extra work, but
who shall bear the burden? Shall we
ask the women of France to do it?
Do you know what it means to them?
The women of France are doing
their own work, doing the nations
work, even doing the work of teams in
the field. The men are gone-all but
the younger boys, the aged and the in
valids. In almost every home is a
cripple or one dying of tuberculosis
an added care.
French homes have not baked bread
for hundreds of years. They have not
even ovens nor baking tins in their
kitchens. They rely on the bakery.
If you ask them to bake their own
bread-for the bakery cannot supply
quick breads-the women of France
must add another hour to their long
day'Of toll.
Will you ask them to do that, or
shall our homes carry the extra burden
of doing without wheat so that liberty
shall not perish from the face of the
earth?