The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-05-23
minds GOVERN Bodice"
Distinguished Writer and Lecturer Says
That Among Benefits of War Will
Be Development of Excellent Cooks
Who viii Do Less Grumbling.

Mrs. Alice Dynes Feuling, former
Wisconsin woman who has had wide
experience in educational work gave a
splendid talk on "Food Conservation "
at the High School building yesterday
afternoon.
Mrs. Feuling is a graduate of Osh-
kosh Normal and was head of the
Domestic Science department. of State
Agricultural College at Ames, Iowa
when war was declared. Her only son
is with General Pershing in France and
as she was anxious to serve her country
too, she offered her services, without
pay, to the Federal Food Admins
TRAITOR. At present she is employed by
Armour Company as their contribution
to war work and is lecturing in schools
and colleges in order to spread the Cos
pei of conservation among these young
girls so that they will have some con-
crete knowledge of this great work.
Mrs. Feuling said that every per-
son in the United States is allowed
thirty-six pounds Of sugar per year.
We have formerly averaged from 80 to
90 pounds per person and with popu-
lation of 1OO,OO0,o00 one can readily
estimate the saving. Every mother
who signed a food pledge card acted
for the whole family and thus enlisted
every members as a soldier in conser-
walton. The first duty of soldier is
tC obey and when commands are given
he obeys the letter of the law as well
as the spirit Monday and Wednesday
are wheatless days for the next two
months and we are slackers if we
don't keep these days. These certain
days are designated so that we won It
forget and it is matter of conven-
fence for the retailer also.
Last January, England asked for
100000 more bushels of wheat and
Hoover said, Gwen send it; but it
must come out of the savings in the
home" Later it was found that the
crop had been overestimated and we
had to save 500 more. Before this
new demand we had saved the amount
required by the Food Administrator.
Now we are facing in the next sixty
days the real problem of wheat conser-
walton. The situation can be met if
we viii use substitutes There are
plenty of potatoes on the market and
plenty of meat due to the efforts of
those people who have conserved meat
the last few months; SO that we can
eat for the present, meat and potatoes
III Wisconsin, dairy products, milk,
butter and cheese are plentiful We
have greater supply than we can dis
tribute and these are excellent substi-
tutes.
If we had followed the instruction of
the Food dictator and used 209o of
substitutes carefully from the begin
ming, we would have wheat enough
now, The speaker declared that there
is no penalty attached to food conser-
walton; that we are democracy and
should be willing to save voluntarily
as most of us have someone very near
and very dear to us at the front and
the boys can It fight without food.
The elements of conservation are
production, distribution and care Of
the food. Women have cared for the
food, but in many places it will be
necessary for them, to assist this year
in production. Here is where the city
high school girl can do her "bit" by
going on the farms to care for the
children and cook the meals, SO that
the farm woman who knows how to do
this work, may help in the fields.
The fact that the United States
wasted $700,000,OoO worth of food the
year before the war and that this
amount would feed Belgium for over
eleven years should help, US to realize
the waste that has been going on in
this country Garbage collectors We'd
with each other to get bids for collect
ing garbage because of the large pro-
fits realized from the 2409o of wasted
fats found in the garbage cans.
Mrs. Feuling said that our minds
govern our appetites and that we could
live very comfortably without any
wheat flour. Our forefathers did and
the south still uses corn bread.
The speaker feels that among the