Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1918 — NO WORK AS IMPORTANT AS CONSERVING FOOD [ARTICLE]

NO WORK AS IMPORTANT AS CONSERVING FOOD

(By C. V. Stainsby, Assistant to Dr. Harry E. Barnard,. Federal Food Administrator for Indiana.) The tendency is apparent in some communities to regard the U. S. Food Clubs as of small importance. Some women say they are too busy doing other kinds of war work to bother with food clubs. This is the wrong idea. There is no other work so important as the food work. Let’s consider it for a moment. Suppose the Food Administration should fail to secure the necessary distribution of food. What would happen? Disaster would be the result. The armies of America, Britain, France, Italy and Belgium would collapse. The munition workers in the same countries would be unable to produce the machinery of war. The and nurses would be unable to care for the sick and wounded. The wounded themselves would have less chance of recovery. The tragedy of the Russian collapse might easily happen in any other land if the same conditions weye to prevail. Any ond of these conditions would be sufficient to lose the war. Any of them or all of them could easily happen if the U. S. Food Administration fell short of its task. Can you see now the relationship between the U. S. Food Clubs ana the war? Look at it from another point of view. You are knitting a sweater for your son, your brother, your husband, your lover. How would that sweater feel over an, empty stomach? You are knitting socks for the soldiers. Socks protect only the feet; food strengthens and warms the whole body. You are spending three or four afternoons a week’making clothes for the children of France and Belgium. Which would make them happier, those new clothes or three good meals a day? .The* sewing and knitting are important. Go to it—but don’t get such a false sense of proportion that you give all your time and attention to one branch of work and neglect that which is more important. The U. S. Food Clubs are the approved means through which the Food Administration for Indiana is trying to.meet its share of a tremendous responsibility. Join a U. S. Food Club in your neighborhood.