Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1918 — THE TEST NOW FULFILLED. [ARTICLE]

THE TEST NOW FULFILLED.

This government Is nothing more than the expression of the people, and If we are to win the war It will be only because every man, woman and child charges himself dally and hourly with the test, Does this or that contribute to win the war? —Herbert Hoover, April 18, 1918. With the solemn obligation of providing that “margin” of food that would safeguard against starvation our friends in Europe the housewife and the consumer have learned hitherto Ignored and unsuspected things about food, have absorbed a whole “college education” in food values, food handling, buying and substituting that they will not want to forget. Our voluntary food-saving not only saved the Allies and made vital contribution to the winning of the war, but saved to ourselves in administration expenses the outlay out of our own pockets that any effective system of rationing would have extracted. It -would have cost us about $45,000,000 to have policed ourselves as against the 2 cents per capita for co-operating. By saving and sharing America kept the world together during the war crisis. By saving and sharing America will help to bring the healing of nations.

Women are employed as grain shovelers by some of the elevators in the northwest.