Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-10-23
FOOD CONTROL AND
POSSIBLE PEACE
Federal Food Commissioner Brooks
Makes Statement Which
All Should Read.

Frank Fl. Brooks, Federal Food Ad
ministrator for Vermont, confronted
with the idea that now that Peace is
near everyone can ''let up" and "eat
their fll," states emphatically and
officially what the future has in store
for Vermonters as well as all Ameri-
cans in Food Control. Carelessness
and waste must be cut out. We have
got to save more, not less. More
starving people will have to be fed.
Food is Life Do not destroy Life
| by excessive or wasteful use of COM
modities that give life.
Mr.. Brooks statement follows:--
We are in the midst, possibly
| toward the end, of a titanic struggle
| for world freedom and justice.
SOME, YES MANY, PEOPLE
HAVE AN IDEA THAT IF THE
WAR SHOULD END TO-DAY OR
TOMORROW, FOOD CONTROL
WOULD IMMEDIATELY CEASE.
WISH, IN THE STRONGEST
TERMS POSSIBLE, TO GET
THIS IDEA SHOT TO PIECES
AND PUT ENTIRELY OUT OF
THE MINDS OF EVERYBODY.
A person came to one of our Ad
ministrators and made the following
statement
'THE KAISER IS WHIPPED
TO A FRAGILE ANY WAY.
WHY NOT LET UP ON SUGAR
AND LET US HAVE OUR GEL
EBRATION BY DRINKING OUR
COFFEE AS WE USED TO"
Now that is the worst kind Of
propaganda.
many are not yet beaten.
Number Two:--If they were and
peace Immediately came, which
pray God it may, Food Control
will go on for long while
Number Three:-This means that
instead Of eating at Common
Table" with 120 million of the
Allied Peoples, that table would
have around it's poorly supplied
board 200 million starving
literally starving-people.
Number Four:-Does the coffee
sugar man" and those like him,
suppose for minute that We are
Immediately going to fill up
with all the good and sweet
things, while distress, poverty,
starvation have entered the
homes of 200 million people out
side of Germany, people cruelty
treated and hunger mad"
brought there not through fault
Of theirs, but by the action of a
would-be Ruler of the World, and
now recognized as a World AS
sassin.'
am not referring now to the peo-
pie of Germany. They will have
their troubles and starvation likewise,
but these other peoples, in Russia,
Roumania, Serbia, Armenia and 9TH
ers, these will soon be OUR ALLIES
OUR NEIGHBORS. The coffee
sugar fiend above referred to, would
not deny his next door neighbor
sugar or wheat if that friend were
starving. The world has been made
small. We are all '"in the same
boat" We must help feed one an
other when the wolf is not only at
the door, but has entered. In all this
peace talk, be not careless. Do not
let up on food saving. TREAT PEACE
AS A PREPARATION AND CON-
MAND FOR MORE SACRIFICE FOR
THE LARGER NUMBER WE WILL
HAVE TO FEED. Do not let up for
one second on ."FOOD PRODUC-
TIoN," "FooD sAVING."
EAT FOOD IN TERMS OF LIFE.
REALIZE WHEN YOU EAT MORE
THAN IS ABSOLUTELY NECES-
SARY, TO SUSTAIN HEALTH AND
STRENGTH, THAT YOU ROB THOSE
WHO ARE STARVING. YOU CON-
TRIBUTE TO LOSS OF LIFE. YOU
DESTROY LIFE.
I appeal to you all to combat Wig
orously the idea that We are soon to
be given any respite. Instead Of
more, it may be less. Treat our
abundance as a God given opportun-
ity to relieve the frightful conditions
of distress of our STARVING NEIGH
BoRs. DO NOT "PAsS BY ON THE
OTHER SIDE," but Samaritan like,
have the COMPASSION, THE COUR-
AGE, THE ETERMINATION TO
HELP. Fight the propaganda that
desires everything for self. Substi-
tute the "CHARITY THAT BEGINS
AT HOME" AND REACHES OUT TO
THE ENDS OF THE WORLD TO-