The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-09-11
' After Mar
Years
Unhappy Day,
Coming Again
ut They Won't
Be So Bad
eesuse Everybody
VIII Be Doing II
'r Many NORTHERN CROSS OVERHEAD
BY y. r. SHORT


sing 70 experience some more
the pinch Of the unhappy.
sil-trying period that came in
vth 1880. This time II viii be
nat.
To be sure Of the meat re-
oirements for the United
Sites army and navy. and 10
kep up our contributions to the
sies whose supply sources have
ban cut by the Axis powers,
u ration board has figured
hit Americans will have to get
slng with not to exceed 100
ponds Of meat a year That
isine pound less than the ave-
RAP yearly consumption dur
in. the depression.
The difference viii he
lat under the ration pro-
ram everybody will get the
sme kind Of a deal. The
10 pounds will be divided
ito fifty-two portions Of
TN and a half pounds.
Terybody will he entitled
tathe same-no more, no
les. just like sugar.
A lot of us still remember
how t was beginning In 1881.
Many persons went without
while others had plenty. Some
bough a pound of hamburger
or a billing piece once a week.
Others reveled In prime RID,
thick and tender steaks and
CHOPS. Now, beginning probably
neal tie end of the year, all
will get cur two and a hat
ponds AID be through for the
wea.
Tough the per capita ration
ma, hit some consumers pref
~ hrd. on the whole we will be
infiitely better off than any OF
theother nations and will have
nee than twice as much as
thepeople in England have been
haing for more than two years.
j italy the average meat AL
meaning beef, pork
vel or mutton-is three and
hi TO four ounces a week; IN
Bgium it is five ounces a week
an in Holland nine. Germanys
Gillian population is getting
tvlve and half ounces ana
Cat Britain sixteen ounces.
The United states allow
.nce Of forty ounces
week is more than that OF
Holland, Belgium and Great
Britain combined. IL II
within six ounces Of the
rationed average for the
pther five nations.
Some persons. recalling vari'
os figures concerning the meat
spply of the United States VIII
b as skeptieal about TINS AZ
thv were about tires and sugar
lie answer will be that great
nny persons who have been on
sprt meat rations for four or
fie years or perhaps longer
se now earning good wages
sd eating plenty of meat
bder the new ration program
tev and the rest of us VIII
cnsume a total of 24,oOo'ooo'-
o. pounds of this red meat
mkt year.
Along with this figure comes
calculated demand of 27'ooo'-
90, 900 pounds to meet the re-
oirements OF the army ana
nvv and to continue providing
&c the needs of the allies.
These needs tip the balance
beween bountiful supply ana
shortage Of an essential 1000
ppduct.
Jnder the rationing program
ar in the interim period wheh
vulntary curtailment oil msa'
resumption is asked, the feo'
era food requirements commit
te. suggests that civilians sup
plaent their diet with great
cruise of cheese. poultry FISH
ans beans. Such items Wi,
kee the diet up 10 sianosfu
requirements.
Tough it is believed thAs
AMERICANS will never be calieo
upol To cut their meat require
mems to the same extent a.
most of the other nations iso-
eral officials intimate that the
suppy is likely to get usnssl
as TN war progresses. 50. 'hiS
isa GOD time 10 practice tighl'
,ning the belt little.
Coming and Going;