Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1918-04-17

houses has positive influence and
example that cannot be measured,
as judged by European experience.
Each one of you has the chance to
be big brother to a Boy Scout,
and how the boy scouts acts will
depend very largely upon not only
your example but your positive
working influence with the institu-
lions and establishments that are
smaller, simpler and in no way as
influential as your own.
We have just sent over two of
the best food experts of the United
States to Europe, and what is the
striking thing contained in their
letters from London and Paris :?
The thing that struck them the
most was the scarcity of food in
the best hotels of those two cities.
Thirdly and lastly, you have a
very important field of negative
example. 1t isn't possible to main
tain a conservation program in the
home, if the husband can leave and
go to hotel and escape it. Is this
impossible for home program to
be successful, so long as hotels,
restaurants, public eating houses
and clubs will give the spoiled man
those things to eat which the
housewife is trying to keep him
from having.
Now, this is not theory, gentle
men; it is an absolute fact. We
hear it from every state, we hear
it from all classes, we hear it from
women of larger means and from
women of little means, that they
who are trying to play the game,
who are conscientious, are frus-
trated in their efforts at conserva-
ton by the selfishness of men who
will not play the game with them,
because they know that they can
find some public eating places in
which the policy of conservation is
violated. In this negative manner,
by making it impossible for selfish
men to break the rules which their
wives are trying to follow, you can
contribute enormously to the effec-
tiveness of a food conservation
program.
Go to England today and COM
pare it with England of a year or
two years ago, and what is the
striking conviction that comes
home? That the intensity with
which England is fighting this war
is due as much as anything else
to the example, force and ability
of her upper classes, so-called, the
classes of means. They deny them
selves the most, they take the
heaviest burdens, they reduce the
most from their accustomed stand
ards; and the poorer classes, the
working classes and the union
labor groups of England have be-
come convinced that the British
classes of wealth and station are
absolutely in this war to the end,
are willing to risk everything and
will stand every deprivation that
they ask everybody else to stand,
and more. And when this spirit
comes over this country, we will
all have much greater intensity
in the carrying on of the war than
we at present possess.
] wish every man in this room
could go to the battlefield of
France, could go to the front. not
merely to see what a front looks
like, with its trenches. it's men and
all of the paraphernalia, but to get
the reaction of the French common
soldier toward the American WISH
tor. These men who have faced
death for three and a half years
for you and me, fighting a battle
in which we have just as much at
stake as they have-these men sa-
lutte an American civilian with an
expression of respect, reverence
and trust that is absolutely past
description by human words.
Why do these French soldiers
who have struggled with death for
freedom for three and a half years
salute the American? Because in
that salute they express their trust
in America in the war; they ex-
press the trust in our assuming
our share of this struggle from
every point of view, not merely by
governmental participation in
military program, but also by the
reconstruction of our entire lives
from the point of view of saving
and sacrifice, by supporting them
in the same sense that the Amer
lean boy who fights beside them,
supports them, and is supported by