Food and freedom

The author acknowledges with gratitude and full credit the help and inspiration received from those who have already written on similar sub- jects, from the work of the United States Food Administration and the Department of Agricult- ure, and from the very practical support of the edi- torial staff of the McClure Publications. The care- ful reading of the manuscript by Miss Gertrude B. Lane, the valuable criticisms given by Dr. Carl L. Alsberg, chief of the Bureau of Chemistry, of the United States Department of Agriculture, in connection with the chapters on nutrition, and the interested artistic assistance of Mr. Herbert Baer, in connection with the planning and draw- ing of details for a helpful and attractive kitchen, are specially acknowledged and appreciated. FOOD AND FREEDOM JOAN OF ARC NEVER DIES ** While it was France whom she served, her in- fluence and lessons are not limited to France. Though she is separated from us by five centuries, and distant some Jour thousand miles across the sea, though entirely isolated in experience, it is fitting that America has erected a statue in her honor.'' If this is so, is it not still more fitting that at this critical thne in our history, as well as in the years of reconstruction that must surely follow, she serve as an exponent of what faith and will can accomplishf What one frail woman did because she ''believed'' others can do also — it matters not what the purpose or ultimate aim may be. Jeanne d'Arc fought for her country and the homes of France; we are fighting for our country and the homes of America — not only to save them at this moment, but to save them for the bigger, happier civilisation that must come! FOOD AND FREEDOM OUR EMERGENCY Every housewife who practises strict economy puts herself in the ranks of those who serve the nation. This is the time for America to correct her unpardonable fault of wastefulness and extravagance. Let every man and every woman assume the duty of careful, provident use and expenditure as a public duty, as a dictate of patriotism which no one can now expect ever to be excused or forgiven for ignoring. — President Wilson. OT only because of the ravages of war, but through many ironies of fate, the world is short of food — really facing food exhaustion. Those who have followed the history of the Great War know that some satisfactory solution of the world's food and feeding problem, in its three great, entangled phases — production, control, conservation — is the trembling issue on which all the hopes of liberty 2 FOOD AND FREEDOM and extended democracy for the world now rests. It is only the combined force of every individual will in an unromantic army of food producers, controllers, and conservers that can mend our broken world and hopefully restore it to a higher plane of civilized order than it ever held before, for — and with apologies to the great Russian banker — food, that is the future of freedom and peace !