The courier-index., 1918-08-09
WHAT our FOOD SAVING HAS DONE
LiterarY Digestl

WHAT OUR FOOD SAVING HAS DONE
Literary Digest)
n We are eating at the table, with the
people of the allied nations to President Wilson's
apt phrase assured by those who can speak
with the authority certain knowledge that by dividing
our abundance with friends have kept them in
fight undsmayed willie hunger stalks abroad in
the lands of foes When the late Lord Rhondda,
British Food Controller early winter that the
American wheat surplus had been used he cabled
despondently to Mr. Hoover: I'VE are beaten; the war
Is over But wheatlcss days and breads enabled us
to send promptly Atlantic 100000 bushels
0fi917 wheat the stock held for our own needs
BY September estimated we shall have sent abroad
1S00O00oO obtained from the voluntary savings
Of our people Similarly meatess days have kept
cur allies supplied with beef and pork Now we look
ahead to bumper crops huge increase in the num-
of that useful animal. the pig So taat the
New York Times would paraphrase the Rhondda
message to read: 1.-The war is over; it has been won
by victory crops
1T is very remarkable, Sir Guy of the Allied
Food Commission tells Ito whole nation deny
ing all wheaton products not because it is short,
it to assist Never before, says the
New York World, has any nation put itself ratons
large scale for the benefit OF others and with
so little exercise authority Each small family in
country, remarks the Chicago Daily News, loyalty
contributed its might the great of justice and
human and these mites were numberless and
the aggregate astonishing the allies Thus it
as possible the united armies of the western de-
uocraces onsaoghts of the hordes of
Germany and AustraHungary" There is question in
the editor of the Boston News Bureau that
in the past year saved many of allies from the
peril of famine defeat"
And, yet while done this nobody has gone
hungry comments the New York Sun. continuing:
AT times of not able to get the kind
of bread cut OF meat particularly fancied Bread
has taken darker hue and few fine souls do not
find it as attractive as white fathers
substitution taught the bakers and cooks how to
prepare only nourishing and edible, but most
palatabe
The bakers who do great wholesale business have
displayed remarkable ingenuity providing biscuits
and crackers that all the requirements of the
public
In the case Of meats have been called
give up some kinds and this has entaled certain
Of inconvenience; nobody that have heard Of
gone hungry, and many householders have
discovered the virtues OF dishes that entirely
unknown to them before"
In recent letter to President Wilson, Mr. Hoover
pointed out total value of food shipments to
allied for their and armies, the civilian
population Belgian relief and the Red Cross amounted
to about 100000, for fiscal year Ship
fats dairy products at follows:
Pounds
Fiscal year -2lss5ooOOO
Fiscal year 1sl7lS-------------- 100000
Increase -------------- S4460oO00
Our slaugnterabe animals at the oeginning OF the
fiscal year apprecably larger in number
the year before, and particularly in hogs they
probably less Mr. Hoover points the
in shipments is due conservation and the
extra weight OF animals added by farmers" Our
shipments Of cereal and cereal products have been;
Bushels
Fiscal year ls1s-l7----------------25s.sO 100000
Fiscal year l917-lS----------------340 100000
Increase ------------------------ 80 100000
The total shipment OF wheat from our last harvest
about 14l000O00 bushels. with 13s0O000 OF rye a
total Of l54sOO0o0 bushels of prime breadstufs Mr..
Hoover a remarkable achievement in connection
with the wheat shipments:
"Snce the urgent request of the Allied Food Conroll-
early the year for further shipment OF 100000
bushels 1917 wheat than originally planned
shan shipped TO- Europe or have route. nearly
s6c00ee0 bushels at time OF this request
slas was already more than exhausted.
This accomplishment OF our people In this matter
stands out clearly bear in mind that We
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