The Nenana daily news., 1918-05-03
WOMEN OF US.
 ARE CONSERVING
 MUCH FOODSTUFF

The United States Food admin station has placed upon American women the supreme responsibility of conserving the food of the country. The great message has gone forth that this war for democracy and liberty will be won by the conser- vation of our foodstuffs that the cause of freedom-not alone for our selves but for the world-can be served by a nationwide plan to pre- vent food shortage.
 whole-heartedly have the women throughout the country responded to this message, acted upon it with mag nificent patriotism, enlisting under the colors with the same spirit that dominated that other. great army which has been and is now marching along the avenues and streets of every town and village in America.
 The United States Food admini- stration does not imply the cutting down of the normal ration of nour- ishing food. But il does ask every woman to exercise care in the use of wheat, meat. butter. fat, sugar. milk. the larger use of fruits, vegetables. and perishable foods. the substitu- ton of foods that are plentiful for the foods that are scarce. and the elimination of waste in cooking and serving.
 And in cooperating with the L. s. Food administration the women of America can render their highest ser vice in patriotism. and by concerted action show that they are standing nobly by their Government at time of it's greatest crisis; that in this epoch-making period of its history their spirit is a symbol of it's heroic destiny.
 We must win a worlds war by eating corn and chicken instead Of wheat and beef" advises Mrs. Agnes Swineford Shattuck. director of Home Economics Division of the Federal Food administration for Alas ka. Seven years ago NJ. Bloch, the great Russian banker. told us: That ! is the future of war-not fighting. but famine" Germany is now fight ing to hold off famine from herself and to assure famine for her enc mics. She has been able to keep 1 herself from defeat as much because of her food organization as her fight ing organization. She has controlled saved and stretched her food as no nation has done before.
 The American housewife mus: take upon herself the burden Of this stretching process. She must re- member that the Allies are less able 10 pay the price than We. that the
 European woman knows nothing ot
 breadmaking and that the I7alisr and French women are already dizzy with the requirements made upor them by the war. Living in an at
 mosphere charged with the exigen
 cies of war, these women are forced
 into the fields and manufacturing plants. and thre is no hour left fol
 them to give study 10 change 0, diet. Bowed down with the grie and burden of war. they must b, furnished with the food they under
 stand, not strange grains from
 foreign land.
 : The question of substitution Is on whi>h requires the attention o every Alaskan housewife. She mus acquaint herself intimately wit i food values that she may not b
 found guilty of improperly nourish ling her family in her zeal to hel s her country save. She must do he
 marketing withinfinite care; econo imically, so that she may be prepare
 to buy the higher priced substitutes
 iintelligently, so that ~she may a