The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-08


horrors of four years of
war that we. too, might still hold the
freedom that has been ours SO long.
/ am confident that the people of Ver-
mont need only to be shown facts and the
necessity for saving food to secure their
quick and ready adjustment to the sit
administration.
Remember that New England has been
saved thirty-f five millions in sugar and
twenty-five millions in flour, to mention
only these two commodities. Then APP
ply a proportionate saving to the entire
country and it will be seen what amaz-
ing results have been attained through
food control.
The farmer for his produce gets n per
cent more today than that last sum-
mer and the housewife buying in mar
ket pays l3 per cent less. Flour i'll Min
neapolis sold for $l6.75 a year ago; to-
day it sells for $9SS to $40 a barrel.
Bear in mind that flour and sugar scared
in the Civil war to $40 barrel and %
and 80 cents a pound. This comparison
of quotations is the keynote of food con-
troll.
The conditions stated existed in the
lCiyil war, comparatively little national
war in which only the markets of this
country We're greatly upset. Go back to
Civil war history and look up the wages
of that period Then realize how much
we are being paid for what we do and
how little we are paying for what we
get.
Thank God every day for Mr.. Hoover
and food control. Thank God for the
British navy that has kept our shores
free from the invaders.
This is the program of food control
and results must be obtained. Vermont
is going to live up to the best traditions
and do all and more than is expected of
her. Stand back of your local food adj
ministrator, stand back of the hotel and
restaurant men, the wholesalers and Job
bers, the grocers and the dealers, who are
all playing the game fair and open. Back
the dealer who stands true to the regu-
lations, even at the risk of possible harm
to his trade. The people who are so mis-
guided as to fail to back man of this
sort can readily be sorted into two
lclasses:
Glass l. Those persons, who, because
of some good causes are misinformed az
to the, rules, but-@ho are willing, wher
shown what rs required and the reasons
why they should do the right thing.
Class ?. Slackers in spirit and action
They should be treated az such
Some people in Vermont have said
ITO hell with the food administration
That is seditious statement and, i
stated in ignorance, can be forgiven.
it is stated knowingly, from now on sucl
utterance should be treated as simila
cases have been The food administra
ton is today one of the strong arms o
the government and one might as wei
make remarks like the above concerning
the President or the army and navy.
Your food administrator is prouder o
Vermont every day and fully appreciate
the way in which the majority of Yer
monters have complied with the chang
ing conditions of the food regulation,
Vermont, | know, will continue to hol
her place near the head of the lin
among her sister states in the nation
} wide effort for conservation
| In closing, | can only express my al
.prceiation'ofithee county and 4ocal admir-
} istrators. who have done their utmos
, to carry out our policy and who has
undergone serious loss of time from the
ic'P0N'i'0 p"'iieS9eo as eSht@oi lhe
: sincere and earnest cooperation and d,
: sire to "do their bit"
also wish to thank the public f
taking so kindly to the changing cond
tions that, in common with all life
war times, upset our normal mode of Ii
ing, yet give each and every one of |
the opportunity to prove that we al
: tworthy of bearing in every way Il
= name of an American.