Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1918 — ONE-MINUTE FOOD TALKS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ONE-MINUTE FOOD TALKS

By Don Herold

Let’s just take it for granted that everybody Is obeying the 80-20 rule, in regard to wheat flour and substitutes, in every way. Well, that’s nice, but there isn’t a whole lot of patriotism in that. These rules, all of them, we really might to take for granted amd as a matter of course—as something that we do with our left hand without thinking. Real patriotism is something additional. Patriotism should have originality in it. It should be full of fire, full of spirit. It should move us to do things on our own accord, things that nobody has thought to TELL us to do. It should be our own stuff through and through. Discipline is absolutely necessary—but patriotism goes leagues farther than discipline dictates. Why, every man is simply SUP’POSBD to buy a certain amount of Liberty Bonds and everybody is simply SUPPOSED to live up to certain regulations. It is not until we

have bought bonds we can’t afford and eaten food that we HATE that we really start to be patriotic. The food administration has asked that if you make corn bread you make \it out of corn( meal not purchased under the 80-20 rule. Corn meal bought as a substitute should be used in wheat flour. Here’s a chance to be patriotic. Have com bread several times a week at your house. There aren’t any rules that require it, so if you do it, it’s patriotic. Don’t use any of your 80-20 com meal for this. Get some com meal extra, just for this purpose. Make corn bread a patriotic CEREMONY at your house. bread. Eat it as a ritual. Eat it extra. Eat it until it hurts, as they say of buying Liberty bonds. Eat it until the Kaiser is bjflck in the face. Eat it as you would wear sackcloth and ashes—patriotic sackcloth and ashes. Mighty darn pleasant sackcloth and ashes. Pass the corn bread.

CORN BREAD—EXTRA.