Milford chronicle., 1947-09-26
SWIFTLY ELIMINATING EFFECTS Q

SWIFTLY CULM1NA11NG Gr = 1OAO "
food in short supply in war-depleted world
have walked the American people to the need
for action. The season is past when much
can be done about producing more food. Con-
servation. coupled with measures for eqult-
able distribution, there can and must be- "A
dictatoriaI government would clap on wage
and price controls, reimpose compulsory ra-
tioning and would do it swiftly. Happily, ours
is not dictatorial government
But voluntary conservation can be IN
voked-now Voluntary food conservation
was enormously successful under Mr. Hoover
in World War /. And when prices rose out
of reason at the end of that war consumers,
led bv women's organizations, engineered
buyers strikes that brought prompt reduc-
tiOns
Soaring food prices present problem that
hits every single individuals pOcketbook,
that threatens the well being OF countless
families. that rouses protest from every per-
son responsible for child health. Who doubts
that the whole people can be enlisted to solve
it? We believe that the American people
stand ready to make the sacrifices required TO
save food and to enlist in great patrlotic ana
humanitarian crusade to that end.
A voluntary campaign must, OF course, be
national in scale; inspired and informed lead
is s,reouired to launch it. The call for such
leadership is insistent, starting from what
corresponds to grass roots in the cities. FL
forts are now being made to attack food
prices through meatless days, through exact
information on prices, through publication OF
low-cost menus and similar measures. Local
response to the popular demand for action
must be quick if results are to follow. These
efforts can be really effective only through
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Washington authorities are said to have
agreed upon plans for voluntary food con-
servation campaign, and already the prospect
is having salutary effect upon food prices
THERE is A PREJUDICE among wea-
therrnen against speaking of storms which
come at this season of the year as equinoctla
storms. Their reasoning is simple The
equinox is matter of astronomical move
ments, the relative positions of the earth ant
the sun. Storms are the result of atmospher
ic conditions, not of astronomical relation
ships. Therefore, the name "equinoctla
storm" is ruled out.
But it just happens that weather disturb
ances are the rule rather than the exception
at this time of year. Things are happening
to the atmosphere Summer is ending; au
tumn is beginning. Long, hot days are ended
in our northern hemisphere. The earth i
beginning to cool off, up here, and there j
new movement of the air. 1t also happens
that these changes are related to the move
ment of the sun and the position of the earth
for if the sun were not moving sOuthward, a
we say, across the celestial equator, ther
would not be these changes in the tempera
ture and movement of the air currents.
Those factors which make the autumn
equinox also breed the stormy conditions.
is a period of change and often that chang
is violent in its stormy nature The weather
men are willing to call them autumn storms
1t is the equinoctial tag which they reject
And that seems to be in the nature of split
ting hair, for the equinox is the time o
seasonal change Technically it is an astrOn
omical phenomenon; practically it is date,
particular time of the year. The weather q
the time of the equinox tends to be uncertai
and often is stormy. In fact, 1t often e2
presses itself in an equinoctial storm-and
that be heresy, look at the weather repor
then look at the calendar.