Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-07-26
FOOD CONVENTION
EXCELLENT TALK BY JUDGE
FRANK T. WuSON-LARGELY
~; ATTENDED

Approximately 200 people attended
the Morrison county food convention
which was held at the court house Tues
day afternoon. The meeting was called
to orfder at 2 O'Clock by Local Food
Administrator J. K. Martin, and con-
tinued until 4:3O O 'clock.
Judge Frank T. Wilson, field organiz-
er, Minnesota Food Administration, ad-
dressed the convention. He stated that
the food administration is perfecting
county organizations throughout the
state, and he expressed the hope that
Morrison county will soon be thoroughly
and efficiently organized. The idea is
to have local committee in all Of the
school districts, composed Of the local
food administrator, secretary of the
school board and three women; also to
organize county food dealers associa-
tion, which organization should have a
purchasing committee so that the men,
bers can pool their orders and buy stuff
in carload quantities, which indeed
would be an economical advancement
when compared with the present method
of buying goods. The Food Administra-
tion strongly recommends the "cash
and carry" scheme in retailing and also
the cooperative method Of delivery. Mr..
Wilson stated that he believes that
there ought to be one price for goods
that are sold on the cash and carry
method and another for the goods sold
where delivery is made.
''I am not going to make talk on
food conservation, but rather a talk on
war food," Mr.. Wilson said. "Nearly
ten million soldiers are on the battle
line across the seas. What will hold
that line? Courage, hope, spirit and
confidence. And what will remove that
courage, hope, spirit and confidence?
Hunger. Yes, hunger, and that is what
Germany had in mind when it tried
to shut England off from the rest of
the world with her ruthless submarine
warfare. If we fail with food, we lose
the war. We have got to send the kind
and that requires the least shipping
space, to our soldiers and allies.'
In speaking Of wheat substitutes, Mr..
Wilson said cit is the patriotic duty
Of every one to learn how to prepare
and use wheat substitutes; Germany for
the past 40 years has encouraged and
developed the production of potatoes,
hogs, rye and sugar. Fifty years ago,
the people of Norway knew nothing
about wheat flour and used barley ex-
clusively. Products Of oats furnished
the principal food for the Scotch people,
and over one-third of the people of the
world subsists on rice, and all of these
peoples are a powerful build. The bar
ley flour that will be derived from the
coming harvest will be Of a better
getting, as the farmers are giving it
better attention and the -four mills have
adjusted their machinery so that the
grain may be properly ground. Did
you ever stop to consider that if we
were in the habit of using barley flour
and other wheat substitutes, and then
were forced to utilize wheat -four, we
would encounter the same difficulties in
preparing wheat -four that some Of US
are now experiencing in the use of sub
stitutes Of wheat? It is simply mat
ter Of adjusting ourselves to existing
conditions.'
"The question with some people,
Mr.. Wilson said, "is, 'how much flour
and sugar can I get instead of, "how
little can I get along with.' It ism It
playing the game fair, it isn't decent,
Us absolutely disloyal to get more flour
or sugar than you really need and can
get along with. Food conservation is
a question Of division, and we should
get to realize that and put the prin-
ciple into practice.''