Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-01-03
WHEAT AND MEAT
SUGAR AND FAT

"The four things that will win the
war;" declares Golfers of December
20.
We talk of guns and ammunition, of
a%irplanes, of fighting ships, and SO
forth-all essential in their way and
according to their adaptation-but the
things that will win the war are en-
umerated in the caption of this article,
for it is admitted that the allies have
the preponderating man power, are
able to accumulate the necessary guns
and to assemble the required ammuni-
ton but without wheat and meat,
sugar and fat, their war equipment
will avail them nothing in the end.
True, the products of the soil VIII
prove %unavailing without the facilities
for transportation. Hence, there are
vast ramifications involved in the IN
dertaking in which America and its
allies are engaged. Not only must
there be a supply of the four items
mentioned in the heading, but there
must be means for transporting them
to the men who are manning the
guns, manipulating the airplanes, car
rying the rifles, rearing the fortifica-
tons, and so on.
Compared with the American supply
of sugar, as an illustration OF the sit
uation in Europe, Americans know
nothing with respect TO saving, al
though they are beginning to learn.
In England, which was the only coun-
try that, before the war, used more
sugar than the United States, declares
Golfers. continuing the discussion,
the present sugar allowance is half a
pound a person a week. THAT means
a cupful of sugar-thirty Jumps OF
cut sugar-and every sugar require
ment has to come from that ration"
While Great Britain allows its peo-
pie to use half a pound of sugar a
week per person, France permits the
use of only six ounces-three-quarters
of a cupful-as compared with four
ounces, or only a quarter of a pound,
in Italy.
Imagine the average American linn
iting himself, or being limited, to
half a cupful of sugar a week! And
yet, as we have intimated, the Amer
lean is learning to economize-some-
thing that he has not been compelled
to think about, to an ~appreciative e.
tent, for the last twenty years.
Regarding the matter of fats, we re-
produce the entire portion Of Golfers
article dealing in this phase of the
situation to indicate to u people the
Importance of conserving the fats of
the country:
Fats have won the war--if we
hold ont said a man in the Food Ad-
ministration at Washington. We have
a strangle hold on Germany when 1t
comes to fats. Germany won't Etarye;
I think we can't starye her. She can
get grain and meat-enDugh of both.
but she can't get fats. She can't get
the fats that are essential for fighting
men, and she can't get the grease she
must have for lubricants
asFiiatt wasn't always So. Denmark
used 20 consume margarine almost
exclusively and send her butter to
Germany. She got 80 per cent. of the
fats that went into her margarine
from this country. Now her supply
has ben cut off. and she eats her W
butter As recently as July Scandi-
navia, as a whole, was supplying Ger
many with the fats essential to the
maiatenance OF an army of 100000
mea. But not any longeri And out
of Germany figures are leaking that
~ lIiI. c0ItGlltii SQfISs lleblS I'll CIfIidAlC6
into the war and our restrictions
mean In Berlin, In August, soap, OF
the eoiamonest and cheapest kind,
So cents at3poind. Goose fat was
selling for S. 36, duck fat for $4.52 a
poaNti. The eheapest fat for frying
c6 d ponad. was no
eli sFor y geese, In August $19.06
N sssegsaaer arsnat conditions IN Ger
fns rs3as bid ass portrayed by Col,
1i s Mgea froIn tue
fact that The soeialistic ORGAN, Nor-
M saspanaed by the gov
raaessaY for a period Of three
III sar declaring that the German
u Exaspair chose OF the wealthy
cIlas. are On the Verge OF starvation,
I'M e3ast suc be Ell.
1shlnse Americans who are not help,
ins aa la fpodstiffs are not evinc,
Ing special interest In the outcome Of
1.-THE wal. Wheat and meat, & and
most important factors Ia
1.-THE at CONFLICT,
SHOULD always think before
me sneakss
.I'm mo sufe replied Senator
sssHsfss ssI me some o
asl uB BE- better of live didns
lFsS1 speeelffeg bit just ii
ind rectted EOcd piece Of poetry
vIaasaingt tar
AIMS
lsSSs SssfdTN n ecoNrae ronverss&taonwit
&ss.Isy