Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-02-01

Raleigh.-"How will the meat
save reach soldier or q needy per-
! son In Europe?"
This inquiry has been received by
the Food Administration from scores
OF patriotic country people in North
Carolina who have not been able to
figure out Just how pork which they
save can be made to do war service
or prevent death from starvation In
the allied or neutral countries Of Eu.
rope.
The people who have been making
this inquiry can use poultry, rabbits
and other substitutes for meat and
are in better position to swell the
supply of pork available for export
than any other class OF people In the
State, because the substitutes for pork
and beef on the market cost more In
most instances than these products do
themselves.
In the course of a letter to Mr.. =.
N. Lindsay, a Wayne county farmer,
Mr.. John Paul Lucas, Of the FOOD
Administration stated emphatically
that: Every hog marketed by the
farmers OF North Carolina finds Ito
way by proxy to Europe where 1t aids
in sustaining q soldier or saves from
starvation a woman, child or man, be.
cause the marketing Of Q hog In our
towns and cities releases for export
the Central Western hog which would
have been imported by the town In
which the local hog was sold.
THE cities and towns OF North Car.
olina have to depend for their pork
and beef supplies largely upon the
Central West In stead Of upon the
farmers In their own State. The Food
Administration. Of course, IL going to
see that all Of the people at homo
are supplied with food products be-
fore any is exported. and this means
that solid cars OF meat which might
be saving innocent people In Europe
from actual starvation are being
brought into North Carolina and other
Southern States to supply the mar.
kets which should be supplied by our
own farmers.
mot one per cent Of the people of
America have any conception Of the
horror OF the situation that confronts
the civilian population Of England,
France and Italy, and the still more
pitiful plight Of the people Of Fin
land. Switzerland and other neutral
countries Of Europe. Any surplus that
we have is first divided with our Allies
and the neutrals can get only what Is
left. Whether they get any at all
depends upon the degree in which our
people substitute other products which
we have for the products which, be-
cause OF their concentrates nature and
keeping qualities are best adapted for
export.
"Our normal surplus OF wheat and
meat has already been exported. What
the people Of Europe get from now on
can come only from what we save out
Of our normal consumption Of food
products. Even at the best, tens OF
thousands Of men, women and chill
dren will starve during the next four
months; but every particle OF food
that is saved or marketed by any
American will find its way over &C.
tually or by proxy to feed some SOL
der or to help save the life Of some
child, some woman, or some man In
Europe.
Facing these facts, can any nor
NAL human being, blessed as we In
America are blessed, refuse to econo.
mize in the use Of all foodstuffs and
to substitute for wheat beef and pork
products other things that we have in
abundance? We are sure that no
North Carolina family which is &C.
quainted with these facts will refrain
from doing its utmost to save life and
aufferinq IN the other side"