Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1918 — EUROPE NEEDS FOOD [ARTICLE]

EUROPE NEEDS FOOD

FeW Administration Declares It Is an Absoluts Sin to Waste Food —Food Has Bsooms Sacred. . Europe" is still sending an Insistent call for more food. We must send it if the war Is to go on efficiently. If ws eat it all we cannot ship it, and the food administration has already tried to picture how much that wheat is needed by people who will starve if they do not get It, the food administration states. “For the least bit of heedlessness on your part In food conservation some one somewhere In the world must suffer privation,” an official statement declares. “The food administration has mastered the problem of America’s food In such a way that every ounce of food conserved and kept in the currents of trade goes to an empty stomach In Europe. “It Is an absolute sin to waste food. Food has become sacred. “Food means life; it means somebody’s life, and you cannot escape responsibility. ; “There is no waste of food among the allied nations."