Smyrna times., 1918-11-06

our fast gathering 1Orces III
supplying and maintaining then', cans
FOR more than a million tons addltioh-
al shipping The reports snow no"
we are running behind or gaining on
the need of tonnage.
War Effects the Plans.
shifts Of war affect the plans. we
have taken 25O,OO0 German prisoners
who must also be fed. But what Is
+bo+ whom we are sharing our re-
sources with 220OOO,O00 people OF the
allies?
Though details of the program
change every day, almost every hour'
the main outline is not altered, since
tbe inter-aIIied food council agreed
that America should provide this year
II 55O 600 tons of food, an increase
of 10 ner cent over last years pro-
| digiOus achievement.
This vast program of tood eApor"
is TO be met by home conservation
| We can send half as much food again
1 as before. only as we save II. we
| have nowhere near that much as III
sight surplus.
The largest item in the program OF
food exports is 1O,400.OOO tons OF
bread-making -four and grains-more
than 4OOOO0,OO0 bushels. Part OF that
Is the surplus of one of the largest
wheat crops ever harvested IN TINS
/ countrv-reduced again by a shortage
| of corn. A substantial part of this
/ saving will come from the conscious,
| deliberate saving of one hundred mil
| lion American citizens, male and re-
/ male, big and little.
Sunnose that Of the 4OOO0O,O0O
| bushels and over that we ship, lOO,'
! 100000 is to be accomplished by saw
ing So far as this account is con-
l cerned. the actual amount to be saved
is not essential, an imaginary figure
will do. For the total shipment will
include breadgrains all Jumped to-
gether. wheat, rye, barley, and to
| some extent corn, and the proper
tiOns will vary as the problem works
out. Say, for the present we are to
find 1OO,OOO,OOO bushels by saving.
Put that in terms of the individual
1t is the same as though each one al
lowed himself four bushels of grail
in his bread for the year in place OF
five bushels, which was the Ordinar!
calculation in the good old wastefu
days
All, YES, Victory bread, four pounds
of wheat and one of substitute. Easy
On Equality With Allies.
Not at all. The Victory bread rub
does two things it puts the American
home on the same basis as all th'
allies and it spreads the saving o
/ -four among the several bread max
! ing grains. But it does not in itsel
save anything. Eating corn instead o
wheat saves wheat, but it does no
save grain.
This saving of a bushel of grail
for each of us-actually will he NOR
than that's to be gained only b
cutting down consumption of food a
far as can be done without impairin
health or strength. The food cOnsel
walton campaign this year means tn
saving of all food. Every ounce save
sets free an equivalent proportion {
staples to carry out the victory pre-
gram.
At one end of the scale is the ceast
less stream of reports coming
Washington from all over the wOrl
showing the needs to be met. At tn
other, is the effort of twenty milliO
homes to save so much that the pr,
gram can be fulfilled.
Every table should be spread an
every meal should be eaten with I'll
wants of all the world in mind, cate
with war conscience to guide. Tn
campaign is to be placed before Il
20,OO0000 homes by the new Hon
Card soon to be issued. But puttiI
1t into effect does not wait for spec
fc instructions. 1t goes into effe
so far as possible now. 1t is to
carried out by an intensive progra
of saving food In each family as
separate unit in the invincible Amer
can food army.