Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-02-26

/ present conflict are very low, critical
/ " low, in fact Those which are able
I to feed themselves during the coming
/ months and store up a reserve during
\ the summer for another winter will pos
sess weapons more forceful than the
/ mightiest cannon. America is the one
/ great producing country which by rea-
son of its geographical position and rela-
/ tive nearnesS to the scene of conflict
can turn the food scales in favor Of
I our associates. Therefore, the task OF
I supplying the surplus food needed
/ across the water devOlves on us.
In order that we may better under
stand what is expected of us, the u.
S food administration has prepared a
home-saving program which, if carried
/ into effect, VIII enable US TO feed our
selves adequately and provide the sur
/ plus needed to go abroad. Everyone
therefore can do something to help win
this war. Our problem, of course, is to
feed our associates. The food we ship
/ to them must naturally be concen-
| tTated so as TO save shipping space.
They are chiefly in need of wheat, beef,
pork, butter and sugar. Let US insti-
tute the following program in our
homes and thus meet the wishes of
our government in the matter of food
saving.
First, there shall be two wheatless
Gays in each week; namely, Monday
and Wednesday, and one wheatless
meal each day in the week. BY wheat
less is meant the elimination on that
day OF white bread, crackers, pastry,
macaroni and breakfast foods contain
ing wheat. Biscuits should not be
baked on wheatless days or wheat
flour used in any way. or else pos
sibly il might be to thicken gravies or
as a binder in cornbread. There should
be one meal n day when no wheat
products are eaten. The use of corn
bread at such a meal constitutes an
adequate saving of wheat flour. Ii
bread is used on wheatless days is
should only be as victory or war bread.
This NAV DE made of either whole
wheat flour or at least it should con-
tain 20 per cent of other cereals than
wheat Another thing to bear in mind
is the necessity of saving bread. There
is a wonderful waste in this direction
at the present time, due chiefly to care
lessness and to a failure to realize
how important bread has become. We
can get along with one-tnird 10 one
fourth less bread than we ordinarily
consume and still be hearty and well
nourished.
There should be one meatless day in
each week; namely, Tuesday and one
meltless meal each day. It is essen
tial that there be two porkless days in
each week which shall be Tuesday and
Saturday. A meatless day is one when
we refrain from eating any red meat,
such as that provided by cattle, hogs
ana sheep. On other than meatless
DAYS we are expected TO use mutton or
lamb in preference to beef or pork. n
porkless day means that we shall not
use bacon, ham, lard or fresh or salt
pork products of any character what
soever. The observance of a meatless
day each week and meatless meal
each each day will work no hardship
on our people if they give the subject
little forethOught, for we still have
plenty of FISH, poultry and eggs.
There are some conditions which will
interfere with maximum production in
1918. even If the season be as kind as
that of 1917. The first of these is the
dislocatiOn of labor. In some respects
this is cutie serious; in others, il is not
sa bad as many imagine. 1t is true that
one kind of labor has been taken out of
many communities. There is, however.
a deep well of unused labor which has
been battening. as it were, off the public
and which should now be made to go
TO work and so in a considerable meas
ureure take the place of the labor which
other lines of industry. The problem
now is TO make every one work as eff
fectively as possible and use all the me-
Chanical agencies to supplement our
available supply of labor.
Not only must we produce but we
must save. In fact saving has now be-
come a fundamental matter. Many
think that saving means that part of
our population is expected to starve or
live on inadequate or unsatisfyins ra-
tions. Nothing could be further from the
mark than this statement or conclusion.
We are not asked to starve ourselves.
and it would be mistake for us to do SO
even if we had the disposition and the
self denial to make this practicable on
a national scale 1t means, however,
that we should not eat to excess, that
we should not waste food and that we
should refrain from the consumption of
certain things which are essential to the
welfare of our soldiers and our lighting
associates. We have never realized in
this country where food has been so
cheap and abundant, relatively speak
ing. what a great variety of il we pos
sessed- There are many things which
may be used for instance, in the place
of bread. and we have an abundance of