Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1917 — Eat a Banana and Save Bread. [ARTICLE]

Eat a Banana and Save Bread.

The best way to save flour is to stop the eating of bread. But such advice is worthless unless we know what to eat instead of bread . During these summer months our gardens and the cheap vegetables that flood the markets furnish the answer. But all the year around the banana, a tropical fruit, which is easily and cheaply grown, can be depended upon very largely to furnish starch and sugar and a good supply of mineral salts at a price which under ordinary conditions is no greater than wheat flour. Bananas are brought to our markets while they are still green, in specially fitted boats which touch the ports of the West Indies and Central and South America. Our ability to get bananas at ten to twenty-five cents a dozen, depending upon their size and condition, is regulated by the carrying capacity of the banana fleet. Any readjustment of our ship-ping-±o meet the needs of freighters Tor carrying munitions and supplies across the Atlantic which withdraws these banana boats from service cuts of a very important food Supply. It is foolish to urge people to save wheat by consuming less bread if at the same time we make it impossible for them to get the cheap food from the tropics.