Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-07-10
STATE IS PLAYING ~
FOOD GAME WELL
Federal Administrator Brooks Com
mends People and Urges Them
to Renewed Efforts

Montpelier, July-United States
| Food Administrator Frank H. Brooks
who has just completed series OF
conferences with local and county ad-
MlnlstratOrs, hotel men, grOcers and
the other types Of business under
control of the administration, is
| much gratified at the way Vermont is
meeting the war test represented by
| the observing of the adminiStra ton S
| rulings and restrictions. In state
| ment, issued at his office today, Mr.
| Brooks reviews the state situation as
| follows:
Your Vermont Food Administrator
returns from two weeks tour of the
State, confident that Vermont on the
whole is standing the test Of the time
well and is not only in spirit, but in
fact, living up to the regulations of the
Food Administration.
with regulations constantly
changing, necessarily so because Of
changing conditions in markets caused
by acts of the enemy. by submarine,
transportation problems, ETC., 1t Is a
difficult task to conform to the latest
rules. This unsettled condition calls
for quick adjustment. not for real sac
rifice Families giving up boys saori-
fee; this is merely adjustment to
new conditions, and for the most, is
cheerfully DONE The latest sugar
rules are an illustration.
while we were boasting that the
German submarine could never strike
our shores, it has upset that futile,
easy going claim of ours and has
struck a blow that is felt in every
last home in our broad country. AS
a result, it is absolutely required, not
that we should rush to buy sugar be-
yond our immediate requirements, but
that we should all accept the rule now
in force that only two pounds of SUI
gar be bought at time on the basis
of three pounds per person per month,
or thirty-six pounds a year; that two
pounds should be so used as to last as
long a time as possible. In France
and italy the allowance is but thirteen
pounds and in England, twenty-six
pounds year person.
81 am confident that the people OF
Vermont need only to be shown facts
and the necessity for saving food to
secure their quick and ready adjust
ment to the situation and sincere CO.
operation with the administration.
"The farmer for his produce gets 81
per cent more today than that last
summer and the housewife buying In
a market pays 10 per cent less. Flour
in Minneapolis sold for $16.75 a year
ago; today it sells for $9.88 to $1,000
a barrel Bear in mind that -four and
sugar scared in the Civil War to
$4,000 a barrel and twenty-five and
thirty-five cents a pound. This COM
parison Of quotations is the keynote to
food control.
1.-The conditions stated existed in
the Civil War, comparatively little
national war in which only the mar
kets of this country were greatly up
set. 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 con-
troll 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
-FOUR local food administrator, stand
back of the hotel and restaurant men,
the wholesalers and jobbers, the gro
GERS and dealers, who are all playing
the game fair and open. Back the
dealer who stands true to the regula-
tons even at the risk Of possible
harm to his trade. The people who
are so misguided as to fail to back a
man of this sort can readily be sorted |
into two classes:
"Class 1. Those persons, who, be-
cause of some good cause are misin-
formed as to the rules, but who are
willing, when shown what is required
and the reasons why they should do
the right thing.
"Class 2. Slackers, in spirit and ac-
ton. They should be treated as such
"Some people in Vermont have said
TO hell with the Food Administra-
ton That is seditious statement
and, if stated in ignorance, can be
forgiven. If it is stated knowingly,
from now on such utterances should
be treated as similar cases have been.
The Food Administration is today one
Of the strong arms of the Government
and one might as we'll make remarks
like the above concerning the Presi-
dent or the Army and Navy.
"Your Food Administrator is proud
er Of Vermont every day and fully ap-
preciates the way in which the ma
jority of Vermonters have complied
with the changing conditions Of the
Food Regulations. Vermont will,
know, continue to hold her place near
the head of the line among her sis
ter states in the nation wide effort
for conservation.
"In closing, I can only express my
appreciation of the County and Local
Administrators, who have done their