Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 153, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1918 — Bet Limit to Luxuries. [ARTICLE]

Bet Limit to Luxuries.

“Don’t try to sell luxuries to NewZealand.” This is the advice United States Consul General Winslow gives American merchants in a commerce report. No; New Zealand is not pinched for money. Its wallet is well filled. “There Is no particular necessity for retrenchment,” as the consul puts it, but the public is opposed to the purchase of luxuries, especially luxuries that have to be imported, thereby using tonnage needed to head off the U-boats. Trinidad, too, and the whole of the British West Indies, is abstaining from use of imported goods. This has caused the population to change its whole menu, for many foodstuffs were formerly imported. Now the people eat home-grown plants that only the animals ate before. They like the new diet so well they say they will never again Import any staple food except cornmeal.