Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1918 — ONE-MINUTE FOOD TALKS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ONE-MINUTE FOOD TALKS

By Don Herold

Men who know Mr. Herbert Hoover closely say that he is aJwass careful aad cautious and coassrsalir* in every statement that h* aaku. So when Mr. Hoover aa« oat with the remark that Amaaiaaa people can save a million American lives by saving food, every bap aad girl and man and woman in this country ought to stop and listen ami .fttak Mr. Hoover lived fer yearn in Europe. He was in the midfl* es the war for three yeaj-s. Ha taai jpst returned from a trip to Finan. Ha is in as good a position ta'gSs* “war dope” as almost anybody in this country. And he says that tijp wax* can be won next year. But there is a big “If.” “If,” says Mr. Hoover, "if the American people, out of their food economies, will save the food necessary to maintain the strength of the armies and allied civil populations.— “But if,” he says further, “by failure to save food and enable the United States to increase by onethird its food shipments to France, the w;ar is prolonged to 1929, the nation is warned it will cost an add* tional million American liven."

Get that. Get that hard. LACK OF FOOD MIGHT CAUSE THE WAR TO RUN OVER INTO 1929. We have been in the war long enough to know that four-fifths of a war is fought behind the lines. We know enough now to knew that war does hinge on ether things than actual fighting. For the coming year (ending July L 1919) we must ship 5,730,000 tons mere of food to Europe than we sent last year. Here is how. The food administration has figured out that if eats one-half pound less .per week of breadstuffs (anything mad* of cereals of any kind) and onehalf pound less per week of meats and fats (beef, pork, poultry, dairy and vegetable oil 1 products) than he is now eating, it will solve the problem. That is not much for you, but it is. oh, so much for the world as a whole. To stop the war in 1919! To keep our allies strong so that Germany may be whipped decisively in 1919! Or are you going to eat as yon like and drag the war over into 1920? A million American lives —and many other*—are up to you—are in your hand*.

SAVE FOOD—TO SAVE A MILLION AMERICAN LIVES.