Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-06-04
LOAF OF BREAD
WILL WIN THE WAR
So Mrs. Charles Lea Tells Penn
sylvania Railroad Womcn's
War Relief.

To ration gloriously, and not a. though
! il is something 10 be dreaded, is what
! Mrs Charles Lea of Philadelphia asked
| tho Pennsylvania Railroads Women
| War Relief, vest erdny, to do, Mrs Lea
| is assistant to Food Dictator Heinz OF
| Pennsylvania. and is in close touch with
| Mr.. Hoover. and what she had to say
| about food conservation was the most
| interesting talk this organization has yet
| heard Napoleon AT st. Helena said
| that in the next war, the nation with the
| Iast loaf Of bread would win, Ours IS
the last loaf Of broad, Mrs. Lea re-
! minded her audience. As she quoted the
/ great soldier and she added that our
! loaf must feed ourselves and 100 millions
| of people besides England and France
! have suffered for four years; we have not
/ suffered at all Frances young manhood
| is wiped out, England's is almost gone,
and now ours is gong TO the rescue On
us falls the weight of the war.
Mr. Hoover SAYS that on the house
wife depends the saving of meat, sugar
and wheat, and the conservation of our
foods 70 help on with another year, be-
cause we NAV not have two abundant
wears in succession Mrs Lea advised her
hearers to put up twice the usual amount
of fruit and vcgct ables # possible, and
then use only half this wear and save
the rest for the next wear They were
8 so asked 10 put up for the hospitals.
Substitutes for wheat, she talked about.
and stated absolutely that they arc whole
some, and that reports 70 the ctfect that
wheat substitutes are causing intestinal
trouble are German propaganda. Sugar
is especially needed in our hospitals. and
is one Of the cures for shell shock.
Mrs Lea says that the setback in
italy was due to lack of food for the CIV
population They had not sufficient Ia
eat and although the soldiers had, they
heard about their suffering families and
their morale was reduced In addition
German propaganda made them think
that thev could get wheat from the
Crimea, if the Austrlans opened the
Dardanelles. And this caused the awful
slaughter of the Italians
Ration so that we will not have food
cards was Mrs. Leas parting request TO
her audience. who had applauded her
many times as she made telling argu
ments
Once during her address Mr Lea
diverted to speak of her hatred Of every
thing German and when she added, = d
like to kill the kaiser myself there was
succession nf so would | No would |
from all over the room 1t looked rs If
his imperial and satanic majesty would
not have stood much chance had he been
present
MEETING WELL ATTENDED.
Miss Ellen Buckalew presided over the
meeting in the absence of Mrs. Gamble
I.atrohe division superintendent. and
in her opening remarks. she asked the
members to do three things during the
summer TO be more active in the work,
"a bring IN more members and to give
two half DAYS week 10 visiting more
railroad men wives. and asking them
to belong The total membership Is now
2.73l. Of whom 90 are associate. one
sustaining, % transferred and l3l hon.
orary.
A letter from Mrs George Dallas Dixon
of Philadelphia who started the or
ganization, complimented the organiza-
non on is success. There also was
letter from a man over there. thanking
the organ zation for socks, sweater and
comfort bag
Mrs Charles l. Thompson. whose son,
Leonard Thompson. Is with the 21st
Engineers in France, read an article from
The Stars and Stripes that was a letter
TO Mother written ON May y BY
John Doughbov
A meeting Of the Maryland and Del