Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 191, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1918 — ONE-MINUTE FOOD TALKS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ONE-MINUTE FOOD TALKS

They say that American soldiers are the fastest soldiers in this war. It is probably true, too, that American home folks are the fastest home folks in this war. Tn the army they talk about orders being obeyed with a “click.” This means with lots of snap, like the click of a good revolver. Now one of the necessities of wartime is that the home folks also do things with a "click” when the word is given. And that is just what the United States home folks have learned to do pretty well, in an amazingly short time. The food administration, especially, is needful of a “clicking” response from the public when a new food request is Issued. For a food order, like food, soon goes out of date unless it is used. It Is necessary for the food administration to change its rulings often. A frost, a freeze, a flood, a drought; a railroad tleup or any of a hundred other unforeseen circumstances may affect some phase of the world’s food supply, and necessitate a change in the program of the food administration. At first, when the rales were

By Don Herold

changed we thought maybe the food administration didn’t know its business. But now we know that, the very fact that the rales are changed Is evidence that the food administration does know Its business. Mr. Hoover has over 400 experts and clerks In the statistical depart--ment of the food administration, adding figures and getting in facts all day long to find out just how much or how little of this food or that there is or Isn’t in the world. They keep an accurate watch on the ebb and flow of food supply and demand, and when there Is a rise or drop they know It. And the food admlidstratlon makes its rulings accordingly. Some of the rulings are made pretty quickly, and the quicker they are made the more serious they are apt to be. . , . The less time that Intervenes between the issuance of a new food rale and the complete compliance of 100 people out of 100 to the rale the more good the rale or “request” does. A part of food patriotism Is speed. It’s not only what you save, but how SOON you save it.

HOW FAST DO YOU TAKE TO NEW FOOD RULES?