Famine Conditions*
Food Shortage approchmgf Famine Point •
Serious1 Food Portage
Sufficient Present Food Supply
Bui future Senous*
Rm People? already receiving,
e2Im American aid
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OttiMBEB, >. 1918
A food map of Europe today show*
not a single country In which the fu
ture does not hold threat of serious
difficulties and only a small part whlcl
Is not rapidly approaching the fanilm
point. With the exception of tht
Ukraine only those countries whlcl
have maintained marine commera
have sufficient food supplies to rneei
uctunl needs until next harvest, am
e\on In the Ukraine, with stores accu
mil la ted on the farms, there Is fanilm
In the large centers of population.
Belgium and northern France, ai
well us Serbia, appeur on the hungei
map distinct from the rest of Europi
because they stund in a different rein
tlon from the other nations to the peo
pie of the United States. America ha:
for four years maintained the smal
war rations of Belgium and northeri
France and Is already making specla
efforts to care for their increase*
nfter-the-war needs, which, with thos<
of Serbia, must be Included In thl:
plan, are urgent In the extreme am
must have immediate relief.
The gratitude of the Belgian natloi
for the help America has extended ti
her during the war constitutes tin
strongest appeal for us to continue ou
work there. The moment the Gerinai
armies withdrew from her soli and sin
vaa established once more In her owi
sent of government the little nation s
tir.st thought was to express her grati
tude to the Commission for Relief in
Belgium for preserving the lives of
millions of her citizens.
Germany, on the other hand, need
not figure in such a map for Ameri
cans because there is no present indi
cation that we shall be called on at uil
to take thought for the food needs of
Germany. Germany probably can care
for her own food problem If she Is
given access to shipping and is enabled
i to distribute food to the cities with
dens£ populations, which are the trou
ble centers.
England, France, the Netherlands
and Portugal, all of which have been
: maintained from American supplies,
have sufficient food to meet Immediate
needs, but their future presents seri
[ ous difficulties. The same is true of
I Spain and the northern neutral coun
■ tries—Norway, Sweden and Denmark
i —whose ports have been open and who
I have been able to draw to some degree
upon foreign supplies,
i Most of Russia is already In the
) throes of famine, and -10.000.000 people
■ there are beyond the possibility of
• help. Before another spring thou
sands of them inevitably must die.
■ This applies as well to Poland and
practically throughout the Baltic re
glons, with conditions most serious in
Finland.
Bohemia, Serbia, Roumania asd
Montenegro have already readied the
famine point and are suffering a heavy
toll of death. The Armenian popula
tion is falling each week as hunger
takes its toll, rind in Greece, Albania
and ltoumania so serious are the food
shortages that famine Is near. Al
though starvation Is not yet imminent,
i Italy, Switzerland, Bulgaria and Tur
key are in the throes of serious strin
gencies.
In order to fulfill America's pledge
in world relief we will have to export
every ton of fowl which ean be han
dled through our ports. This means at
the very least a minimum of 20,000,00)
tons compared with 0,000.000 tons pre
war exports and 11,820,000 tons ex
ported last year, when we were bound
by the ties of war to the European
allies.
If we fail to lighten the hiack spots
on the hunger map or If we allow ap
portions to become darker the very
pence for which we fought and bled
will be threatened. Revolt and anarchy
Inevitably follow famine. Should this
happen we will see in other parts of
Europe a repetition of the Russian de
bacle and our tight for world peace
will have been In vain.
U. S. HcALTH SERVICE
ISSUES WARNING
Increase in All Respiratory Dis
eases After the Influenza
Epidemic Probable.
Influenza Expected to Lurk for Month*.
How to Guard Against Pneumonia.
Common Cold* Highly Catching—Im
portance of Suitable Clothing—Could
Save 100,000 Live*.
Washington, I>, C.-—thesubsld
euee of the epidemic of Inllueiizu lit*
attention of heulth officers Is directed
to pneumonia, bronchitis and other
diseases of the respiratory system
which regularly cause a large number
of deaths, especially during the winter
season. According to Rupert Blue.
Surgeon General of the United States
Public Heulth Service, these diseases
will be especially prevalent this win
ter unless the people are particularly
careful to obey health Instructions
“The present epidemic," said Sur
geon General Blue, “has taught by hit
ter experience how readily a conditio*
beginning apparently as a slight cold
may go on to pneumonia and death.
Although the worst of the epidemic Is
over, there will continue to he a large
number of scattered cases, many of
them mild and unrecognized, which
will be danger spots to he guarded
against." The Surgeon General likened
the present situation to that after a
great tire, saying, “No tire chief who
understands his business stops playing
the hose ou the charred debris as soon
us the flames and visible tire have dis
appeared. On the contrary, he con
tinues the water for hours and even
days, for he knows that there is dan
ger of the fire rekindling from smol
dering embers.”
“Then you fear another outbreak of
Influenza ?" he was asked. “Not neces
sarily another large epidemic," said
the Surgeon General, “but unless the
people learn to realize the seriousness
of the danger they will he compelled to
pay a heavy death toll from pneumo
nia and other respiratory diseases.
Common Colds Highly Catching.
“It is encouraging to observe that
people are beginning to learn that or
dinary coughs and colds are highly
catching and are spread from person
to persou by means of droplets of
germ laden mucus. Such droplets are
COLDS, INFLUENZA, PNEUMONIA, AND
TUBERCULOSIS ARE SPREAD THIS WAY
sprayed Into the air when careless or
Ignorant people cough or sneeze with
out covering their mouth and nose. It
is also good to know that people have
learned something about the value of
fresh air. In summer, when people
are largely nut of doors, the respira
tory diseases (coughs, colds, pneumo
nia, etc.) are infrequent; in the fall,
as people begin to remain indoors, the
respiratory diseases increase; in the
winter, when people are prone to stay
In badly ventilated, overheated rooms,
the respiratory diseases become very
prevalent.
Suitable Clothing Important.
“Still another factor in the produc- '
tion of colds, pneumonia and other re
spiratory diseases Is carelessness or ig
norance of the people regarding suit
able clothing during tlie seasons when
the weather suddenly changes, sitting ,
In warm rooms too heavily dressed or,
what is even more common, especially
among women, dressing so lightly that
windows are kept dosed in order to be
comfortably warm. This is a very in
I Jurious practice.
Could Save 100,000 Lives.
"I believe we could easily save one
hundred thousand lives annually in
j the United States if ail the people !
: would adopt the system of fresh air ;
living followed, for example, in tuber- i
| culosis sanatoria. There i* nothing
i mysterious about It—no specific medi
cine, no vaccine. The important thing ■
! is right living, good food and plenty of
; frush air.
Droplet Infection Explained in Pictures.
“The Bureau of Public Health,
j Treusury Department, has just issued
| a striking poster drawn by Berryman,
! the well-known Washington cartoonist.
The poster exemplifies the modern
method of heultli education A few
years ago, under similar circumstances, •
the health authorities would have is- I
sued an official dry but scientifically
accurate bulletin teaching the role of
droplet Infection In the spread of re
spiratory diseases. The only ones who
would have understood the bulletin
would have been those who already
knew all about the subject. The nmu
in the street, the plain citizen and the
many millions who toil for their living
would have had no time and no desire
to wade through the technical phrase
ology.”
SAVE 16,000,000 BUSHELS
OF WHEAT THAT FORMERLY
WAS LOST IN THRESHING
Farmers, Urged by Food Administra
tion, Provide Seven Extra Loaves
of Bread for Every American.
By adopting cleaner threshing meth
ods and by literally combing harvest
fields to gather grain formerly wast
ed, threshertnen -and farmers of the
United States this year saved fully
16,000,000 bushels of wheat, estimated
as equivalent to about seven one-pound
loaves of bread for every person In
the country, 'lids result, accompanied
by corresponding savings of barley,
oats, rye and other grains. Is shown by
reports from 33 gruin states to the U.
S. Food Administration. Other states,
although not prepared to furnish defi
nite figures of conservation In the
grain fields, report greatly reduced
harvest losses.
This rural food saving achievement,
accomplished in scarcely six months'
time, wus In direct response to re
quests by the Food Administration,
which ashed farmers and threshertnen
to reduce harvest losses from about
Hki per cent.—the estimated average
In nonnul times—-to the lowest possi
ble minimum. Country grain thresh
ing committees carried Into every
grain growing community the official
recommendations for accomplishing
the results dealred.
In numerous Instances drivers of
racks with leaky bottoms were sent
from the fields to repair their equip
ment and frequently bad order thresh
ing machines were stopped until the
a use of waste whs removed. But In
proportion to the number of persons
engaged In gathering the nation's gruin
■rop, eases of compulsion were com
paratively rare. The Food Adminis
tration freely attributes the success of
the grain threshing eampaign to pa
.riotlc service by farmers, thresher
men and their crews. ' ' ' ■
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See The Journal for good printing.
SUGAR SHOWED
OUR BACKBONE
American Willingness to Give Up
Luxury Demonstrated Na
tion's War Conscience.
STAND WITH THE ALLIES.
By Reducing Consumption People of
Vie United States. Averted a
Famine at Home In Spite
of Low Supplies.
The fact that the people of the
United States were able to reduce by
more than one-half million tons their
July, August, September and Detuber
consumption of sugar proves conclu
sively that their war conscience was
thoroughly awakened and that the
country us a whole stood ready to fol
low the Injunctions of the Government.
Our normal consumption of sugar in
the four-month period beginning with
July has been 400.000 tons per month,
a total of 1,600,000 for the quarter
year.
In July, when our sttgur stringency
began to reach Its height, consumption
was reduced to 200,000 tons. In Au
gust only 325.000 tons went Into dls
trlhution and In September only 270,
000 tons. In October the distribution
fell to 230,000 tons.
If the general public had failed to
observe the injunctions of the Food
Administration this country would
have been in tlie'throes of a sugar
famine before the end of August. Our
visible supplies were so low as to bring
great anxiety to those familiar with
the sugar situation. They feared that
It would he absolutely impossible to
reduce consumption to a point where
sugar would no longer lie a mere lux
ury itt the American diet.
Few accomplishments of the Food
Administration will stand forth so pre
dominantly as this reduced consump
tion of sugar. By It we have been able
to bridge over the period of stringency
until the new beet and Louisiana cane
sugar crops w, re In sight.
Now the nation Is In a position so
that if we choose we may return to
our normal hojne use of sugar, and
Europe, with the release of ships to go
fur afield, cun maintain Its recent re
stricted rations. If, however, those
nations are to Increase their use of
sugar very considerably It must he by
our continued sharing with them
through limiting our own consump
tion.
AMERICAN SPIRIT
RELIED ON TO WIN.
In the light of succeeding events It
Is interesting to recall the confidence
with which the United States Food
Administrator viewed the gloomy out
look In July of 1017, when this coun
try had been In the war for less thun
four months and the Germans were
steadily sending the western front
nearer and nearer to P: rls.
“Even though the situation In Eu
rope may be gloomy today," he de
clared In a public statement, “no
American who has knowledge of the
results already obtained In every di
rection need have one atom of feur
that democracy will not defend itself
In these United Stutes.”
LOYALTY IN LITTLE
THINGS LAST PROOF
OF PATRIOTISM
Americans without murmuring cut
their sugar allowance from four
pounds a month to thiee and then as
long as need be to two pounds for loy
alty's sake.
Food Will Win the World.
HOW TO FIGHT
SPANISH INFLUENZA
BY DU. Tj. W. BOWERS.
Avoid crowds, coughs and cowards,
jut fear neither germs nor Germans I
Keep the system in good order, take
plenty of exercise in the fresh air and
practice cleanliness. Iiemember a clean
ruouth, a clean skin, and clean bowels
are a protecting armour against disease.
To keep the liver and bowels regular
and to carry away the poisons within,
it is best to take a vegetable pill every
other day, made up of May-apple, aloes,
jalap, and sugar-coated, to be had at
most drug stores, known as Dr. Pierce’s
Pleasant Pellets. If there is a sudden
onset of what appears like a hard cold,
one should go to bed, wrap warm, take
a hot mustard foot-bath and drink copi
ously of hot lemonade. If pain develops
in head or back, ask the druggist for
Anuric (anti-uric) tablets. These will
flush the bladder and kidneys and carry
off poisonous germs. To control the !
pains and aches take one Anuric tablet
every two hours, with frequent drinks of
lemonade. The pneumonia appears in
a most treacherous way, when the influ
enza victim is apparently recovering and
anxious to leave his bed. In recovering
from a bad attack of influenza or pneu
monia the system should be built up
with a good herbal tonic, such as Dr.
Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery, made
without alcohol from the roots an I barks
of American forest trees, or his Irontic
(iron tonic) tablets, which can be ob
tained at most drug stores, or send 10c.
to Dr. Pierce’s Invalids' Hotel, Buffalo,
N, Y., for trial package.
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