Food and freedom

By studying organized and economical living, food values, scientific feeding, proper cook- ing. Get in touch with the United States Food Administration Board, the United States Department of Agriculture, or with your state college of agriculture, and take advantage of all the available free information that is printed and so generously distributed by i6 FOOD AND FREEDOM these agencies. Take every opportunity that may come to you, or, better, create the op- portunity, to become acquainted with au- thentic food facts. Study reliable books, bul- letins, and magazine articles on the subject of food and housekeeping. Learn to plan meals, buy, cook, and serve without waste. By serving and eating only what is needed; let that be enough, however, to maintain health and the full working efficiency of the body. By eliminating all wasteful methods of living, false standards, and household food waste. By properly preserving and storing food, when advisable and practical, against future need. If, in otir efforts along these lines, we shall ultimately succeed in establishing a closer union between the government and the people than our political history has ever recorded, in acquiring that scientific knowledge of foodstuffs now recog- nized as so vital, in improving food distribution and marketing conditions so that our vast possi- bilities in food production can materialize and become available without waste and undue cost, and in so organizing our daily living that the sum total of drudgery and friction is lessened, we shall perform a service to this country far greater than we can perhaps visualize at once. To consum- WHAT YOU CAN DO 17 mate such a service, however — although we have been placing the burden of our troubles on the American housekeeper — the unselfish co-opera- tion of all interests in the country — individual, business, professional, political — is required. Are we ready to give "for our flag and for our free- dom" and for our homes, now and for all time, that co-operation? "It will not be a creed, but a crusade, that will unite Christendom" and save democracy the spirit of the present adds. Those who have their fingers on the pulse of the world will tell you that our crusade has come. And the specific nature of that crusade — so far as America, at least, is concerned — must be a crusade for carrying food knowledge and a deeper appreciation of the far-reaching value of that knowledge, properly understood and applied, into every home in this great country. For the waste and the fire which have bled and scorched our world we must at least in one particular show gratitude. What the American women have not known about the dull routine of food and feeding, the great conflict has disclosed; what power for good lies in the light now shed on that routine it has brought forth. As sisters, as wives, as mothers, as friends, as helpers to all that is noble, you, the educated women of this generation, have a responsibility and an influence that should make you at once i8 FOOD AND FREEDOM