Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1918 — NO GRUMBLING AT PRIVATION [ARTICLE]

NO GRUMBLING AT PRIVATION

Britishers Willing to Subsist on Short Rations if That Will Help Win the War for Liberty. It really isn’t necessary to t«»ll the British people not to waste food. There is nothing eatable left on the average plate when the meal la finished. Meals are' one IftterminaL’e round of fish and eggs, ribh and eggs. Eggs are found disguised under all manner of names, but always there are eggs, not seven times a week, but almost 21 times a week, writes Chester M. Wright, member of the American Federation of Labor ’mission to England. Meat is rationed by a card system. So is sugar, of which you may have six ounces a week and no more. One of the best hotels in London is serving butter or margarine only once dally. Many hotels have none for days at a time. Desserts are a thing of the past, recorded in history but not among the things extant. Milk is rationed. Tea- soon will be. Bread is rationed. Hotels will serve you with -one brown roll per meal. The average man would be amazed at the British menu today, but the British do not grumble. They go on short rations knowing that it must be done, and accept it as part of the war that must be carried victorywards. Even if it were possible to break the food restrictions the average Britisher has not the slightest desire to get more to eat than his neighbors. Especially among the British workers is there an obvious grim satisfaction when members of the American labor mission and speakers tell how ships are being rushed to completion in 26 states, and how self-denial by the British people in matters of food and luxuries make each ton of maximum value and effect in prosecuting the war to a finish. The British workers realize that more, than half their food comes from the United States. “The less food the more troops,” is the slogan which appeals especially to the Clyde ship builders, one of whom said: “If ships from the United States are laden as far as possible with soldiers and ammunition, then every bolt we drive is as good as a rifle shot against the Germans.”