Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-07-04
Editorial Comment
Five Million Losves.

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After these things Jesus went
away TO the other side Of the sea OF
Galilee.
And a great multitude followed
him
Anc Jesus went up into the noun
tain. and there he sat with his DIS
ciples.
Now the passover, the ieast Oh TIC
Jews, was at hand.
Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes,
and seeing that great multitude
cometh unto him. saith unto Phllip.
Whence are we 10 puS pTedu- Una
these may eat?
And this he said TO prove him: for
he himself knew what he would DO:
Philip answered him two hundred
shillings worth Of bread is not sutti-
cient for them, that every one may
take a little.
One of his disciples. Andrew. 81
mon Peters brother. saith unto him.
There is a lad here. who hath nve
barley loaves, and two fishes. but
what are these among so many?
Jesus said. Make the people sit
down. Now there was much grass
in the place. So the men sat down,
in number about five thousand.
Jesus therefore took the loaves:
and having given thanks, he distrib-
uted TO them that were sat down
likewise also of the fishes as much
as they would
saith unto his disciples. Gather up
the broken pieces which remain over
that nothing be lost.
SO they gathered them up. and
filled twelve baskets with broken
pieces from the Ave barley leaves,
which remained over unto them that
had eaten-The Gospel according &c
St John.
Five barley leaves and two fishes
but what are these among so many" -
1t was in the vein of doubling An
drew that National Food Director
Herber c. Hoover. wrote to Senator
Sheppard calling his attention to the
relatively small amount OF food
grains now being used for the brew
ing OF beer:
The actual amount Of grain being
used in the brewing of beers is at tn
present time approximately $500. oot
bushels a month. the era rs
used being barley, corn and broken
rice.
Fifty four million bushels OF food
grains a year But what are these
so many" Their bread equiv
alent. according to the best and most
reliable economists in the country. is
like five million leaves OF
bread q day. S25 900 leaves in one
Near--cnough to feed with bread Ia :
ton more soldiers than we can put
into the field in two years, enough to
feed with bread ration all the people
of the state Of Ohio, the fourtl. state
in population in the Union. every jay
Of every week in every wear.
And this refers only to grains 1t
does not take into consideration other
foodstuffs and materials used in the
of beer.
There is no hotel o. eating house
in the country where q man. however
hungry he may he. can obtain at any
one meal more than two ounces Of
bread Of any kind, whether OF corn,
rye, barley or rice.
i:y simple ed.ct Mr.. Hoover could
md the waste and transfer from The
brewery watts where they are now
rotting. food values sufficient each
year to give to every man. woman
and child in all the pop llations OF the
cities Of Chicago, Cleveland, Phla :
lelphia and Pittsburg the equivalent
Of a LOAF of bread each Gay of every
week of every month Of every year
for the duration Of the war.
But Nh Hoover does rot look with
upon his short allow
anccd countrymen. He docs not even
lift up his eyes that he may sec.
To him this enormous loss of food
values is "entirely secondary to the
moral and physical dangers" that he
thinks would follow from the suspen-
sion of brewing through the in
creased use of distilled liquors,
though the President, whom he repre-
sents. holds in his keeping the power
to commander and redistill every
drop of spirituous liquors in the land.
Men have long looked upon the
feeding of the five thousand by the
Savior as one OF the great miracles of
his ministry. and it was: but Mr..
Hoover could. if he would. add not
five thousand loaveS of bread to the
food supply of his countrymen for a
single day. BUT FIVE MILLION
LOANES. FOR EVERY DAY. But
instead of doing it we have him cry
ing, but what are they among so
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