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THINGS
WE CAN DO
How shall
WITHOUT the nation eat?
by ROBERT LYND
31819- 2104 $1200. I Feel rather a hypocrite as, with a cigarette in my lips, I 20541 4512 $2000) sit down to write an article on Humber 12 Saloon
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O matter how the battles sway, or where we finally check the Blitzkrieg, tho
weapon that will prob-
ably win this war in the end is either side can put into the
Food-how much nourishment
stomachs of its soldiers and civilians alike.
$1900 only a habit, and that cigarettes this vital weapon? 15352 4240 $1800 are essential, to my efficiency
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only because I think them. 8o. As a matter of fact, I have given them up again and again. One can do this fairly cheerfully, if, on rising in the morning, one re- peats to oneself twenty times the Coue formula: "I enjoy giving up tobacco." I tried this once, and it worked.
an
Not that I would advise everybody to choose tobacco as the thing on which to economise during wartime. Many men, 1 sure, especially Stubbs Road.soldiers, endure the strain of war
better because rf
occasional smoke. If you asked the ordinary British working mon whether he would rather be deprived of his beer or his "bacey," he would, I believe, in more than nine cases out at len vole for the surrender of his beer.
Hongkong Telegraph.
Tuesday, August 20, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20015
Hence 1 doubt whether England
would be a more efficient nution if she became a nation of non-sinokers, Men cannot live sanely, either in few
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THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph" peace or la war, without In used by the "Hongkong Telegraph" topleasures. indicate news which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni. At the same time, it is obvious that, callens Ordinance, 1034. Buch news as either voluntarily or under compul-
How, then, are we armed with
We produce at home about 35 per cent. of the food we eat-and we do not expect the new agricultural drive to show too large an increase. Every year 20,000,000 tons of ship ping bring us the rest of the food for ourselves and our animals.
More and more, those ships are required for other materials of war. Or shall Shall we then eat less? we eat rationally?
For if we fed as a nation, by a method known as communal feed- ink. Instead of as a large number af private familles, we could eat as much food of as good quality · as we do now, at a cheaper price. and with a saving of up to one- third of the total food consumed.
Berlin already has communal kitchen
You may remember that we ex- perimented with it'in 1918, coll-
We
by DUDLEY
BARKER
cost is the amount of food gaved. Communal feeding on a big scale uses about two-thirds of the food necessary to give the same meals to small families.
The fuel used showa a saying of about 80 per cent. All the scraps are instantly, and almost without suuć cost, collected for pig food.
465 men served with a meal in 17 minutes,
From the kitchen behind the serv- ing counter the food left the tall steamers and ronsters, stewpans and hotplates, and girls landed it out to the waiting man, who paid by ticket, They had a choice of roast leg of lamb and two vegetables, lamb chop toad-in-the-hole, sausages, or tripe and onions, followed by steamed chocolate pudding, marmalade tart or macaroni pudding.
That cost each man Bd. for the roast lamb. 7d. for the other dishes. and 2d. for each pudding.
What did it cost the caterers? Well, here is their bull:
4.
Ronst lamb for 105, chops for
138, totalling Gelb, of lamb.. 2 18 Sausages for 45 Tripe for 30
Total cost of meut Less 10 pc.
count
tib, haricot beans
ing It National Kilchens. You may ob, outons 7. not know that Germany is now 31 mul, potatoes using it widely, getting full value 301 sweder
supplies, from her limited food supp white
waste thousands of tons a day. Germany already has a
n National Association for communal feeding." on which are represented her food industries, army, and labour.
Berlin claims the largest communal kitchen in the world, with 115 supply centres to feed its factory workers. sandwich."
bears this indication "Up is received in slun, we shall all have to give up/ They call it "the campaign against the
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Japan And Rotary
something. The question that faces euch of us is: "What shall it be?" There has been an appeal to us, I see, during the week, to give up wearing storched shirts because of the scarcity of starch. Well, most of us will find little diflculty in that. do not think I have worn a starched shirt since the beginning of the war and I do not mind, promising not to wear one-or even a stiff collar-1131 peuce is signed.
The Rotary movement has come under suspicion in Japan, because according to recent Japanese atate ments is used by. foreigners to obtain information that is of material value from
naval and military point of view.
Tea is another thing that we are) Germany of course closed down all asked, if not entirely to give up, le her rotary clubs, not because she drink more seldom or in smaller feared any leakage of valuable in formation, but because she wanted to quantities. Here, again, is something Germanise every organisation and from while I can at a pinch abstain. eliminate all others which directed There are other people, however, thought to matters outside the coun- including most of the troops from the
coun-heru try. International affliations there-Dominions now in this country, to has become almost a fore caine under the ban, so Rotury whoin shares the fate of the church, and necessary of normal existence. It the League of Nations, Germany might be a good thing if these of us -fears-the-infiltration-of-Ideas-thất | who-are-comparulively-different-to run counter to totalitarianism and ten took to some of those herbal sub- which weaken the loyalty to the stitutes, made from such things as Nazi regime.
lime-flowers and ruspberry leaves, and left the tea to be drunk by those who really need II.
a
ten
Now Rotary springs from the ideal of International co-operation based on an intelligent and mutual under- standing among the different nations which make up the membership.
Obviously it cannot exist 112
After nil, most of those things that country which regards itself
self- N
through habit we have grown to sullicient from every point of view, think almost as necessary us Cur and which
the superiority prociatius
daily bread were utterly unknawn in of its people over every other race. the civilised world till a few eco- In Rotary there is neither bond nor tuules ago. All through the Cartha- free,
and neither black пог white, ghan wars there was not single since it accepts the brotherhood of etgarette smoked or cup of tea or
man,
If not the fatherhood of God. coffee drunk, by a Roman soldier or The principles of Rotary are there- civilian. I doubt whether during the fore repugnant to the German con- ten years' siege of Troy King Priam ception of citizenship and
We, too, by normal peacetime pro- gress, have developed communal feeding since the inst wär. Most factories of more than 1,000 workers have canteens. Throughout the country are dotted the
chain restàumnia
In London, for example, is the Lon- don County Council organisation, which feeds the hospital patients, the school
children, the A.R.P. workers,
There are two main methods of com-
same. and quite simple. munal feeding, but the principle is the
Saving one-third of
Nation's food
'NSTEAD of innumerable familles buying food separately for the main daily meal, preparing it in thou sands of kitchens, and eating it at household tables, the food is bought cooked and served scientifically and in
bulk.
By one method it is prepared and served in a big communal restaurant. By the other it is cooked in a communal kitchen and taken in iicat-containing boxes to many smaller restaurants
What is saved is the straps of food that are not eaten by the numerous separate families and the extra Roos needed to make so many tiny 'blis of pastry.
That sing could total, it is ekti- mated, up to one-third of all we eat
Let me give yuu an actual example. The largest communal feeding organi- sation we have is a private catering firm which runs canteens numerous big factories, providing everything ex- cept the building, and serving 2.000.000 workers with a'meat every day.
I went at mealtime to one of their canteens in an aircraft factory, and BAW
Total for vegetables
What follows from all this? be universal in wartime industry.
First, communal feeding mut
With the long hours of the great armaments drive, and the new fac- tories to which workers must some- times travel far from their homes, every man and woman in the fac- tories must be able to get one good hot meal a day at the place of work.
Group canteens for
small factories
I factories already have can- teens, some of which must be ex- lended. Small factories could be grouped with central canteens, or d. contral communal kitchens could take the food to them in proper 8 containers.
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7
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7
The meals would be cheaper that
any that could be provided at home.
3 cheaper and more nourishing than any snacks the workers could take with them in their boxes. ·
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10
1 14 6
The cost of the meat dishes, then, for 370 people, 60 of whom had only chip potatoes at 2d, each, was £4 194. 64. n fraction of a penny more than 3d. per
hend.
Fivepenny hot meal
shows profit
IET the housewife tell me could
you produce any of those dishes for a family of four nt a total cost of Jual over 18 for the food? The meat atone would cost more than that, even if you could carve it exactly into 4oz. portions, as tho enterers do.
The 121 chocolate puddings cant the enterers da. 31d. The 120 portions of marmalade tart cost them 108. Od, and 20 macaroni puddings 45. Id.
Jin fact, they provided 327 people with puddings at a cost of roughly two-thirds of a penny each.
Could any housewife give a family of four puddings like that for just under 34.? It would be nearer Ed. or 10
The caterers obviously make a good prot. They told me that, if they do not have to pay for the actual buliding, they can, as experts, cover all costs and overheads by charging between 41d. and Ed. for a full meal.
It, therefore, canteens were centrally run on a non-profit basis, millions of workers could be given a hot meal every day of the week at a total cost to them of 3a each. What housewife could do the same thing for a family of four for a total cost 125.7
Even more striking are the figures for schoolchildren. In peacetime the LO.O. fed about 10,000 children a day at a cost of about 21d. per child for food. Four- pence covered all overbends as well ex cept the buildings.
Then the children, As more women go into industry, there is the old wartime problem of the mother returning home after a long shift to face the kitchen stove for her family.
If the last war the solution was often fish and chips. This time it looks like being the tin opener aud a bad, unsatisfactory solution Los.
red at school. Why not alt school," Already some schoolchildren are
children?
Already some working mothers Jeave their bables in daytime creches. Why not all babies whose mothers are at work?
Imagine, then, a country at war
that is assured that every factory worker and every child receives one good hot meal every day.
There are still millions of people jeft the housewives. the office workers and so on Why not feed them cam- munally, too, in the districts where they live and work?
National restaurants in parish halls
VERY parish hail could become a National Restaurant, every exist- ng private restaurant could be taken over, with its staff and equipment, by the Government for the duration.
But the first cost of equipment", you say, would be colossnt Not at all the firm of experts tells me that, given the building, the complete cost of equipping It as a communal restaurant works out at £3.10% per neat.
By varying eating hours each sent could accommodate four people daily, so the total cost of equipping National Restaurants for the whole country could not be, at et greater than £35.000.000 -equal si persent. I suppose, to three or four days cost of war,
This is total war, to be won only by total methods. If we standardise other things, why not food?
There would, naturally, be individual When war broke out, the Womens Voluntary Services started communal objectors. But I doubt if there would be
many who would not willingly sacrico: feeding for evacuees all over the coun try. They found the food costs were this pleasures of their own kitchens and rarely more than 4d. per child, and often tables, and ent in common with their just over 3d, for each meal, scientifically neighbours to help so greatly to planned and cooked.
strengthen our greatest weapon of food, even than the to assist so much in winalng the war,
More Important
quite and his subjects lasted any luxury Detained As Fascist | ANOTHER STRUBE
of
logically it prohibits the movement. except wine, and in those days The German clubs are a loss 10 infected water wine was probably Waller Perey Derles Milligan Rotary, but Rotary is a greater loss necessary to the maintenance to Germany.
If this is the cuse la Germany It
henith.
of forty-two, an LCC. education oficial Gra living at St. James's-road, vesend, Kent, was detained by a
A quantity of literature was re-
Most of us, indeed, can more easily police officer. is emphatically more so for Japan think of things that other people can The idea that the Japanese clubs give up than of things that we our-moved from his house. He is alleged can be organised on a purely na
in-
up and
to be a member of the British Union
national basis destroys the funda-selves can give up. Most men, for nental principles of the Institution,xample, could tell their wives or of Fascists. and the nanse could no longer be daughters or sisters a score of things used. (Rotarians need not be
which women could give vited to visit foreign clubs, they have which they would be all the better the right to attend by virtue of for giving up. Most women tould luxury of wearing old clothes 15
or scarcely less so. their membership of the international tell their husbands, or Bons club.)
brother-not a score, perhaps but Again, I do not mind eating Icss Japan cannot afford to cut adrift at least a dozen things which men butter or less meat or less bacon.
could give up with equally from these international affiliations results.
good I know that butter, or something CS- not if she intends to remain in touch
containing the same vitamins, is sential to health; but, if the worst with Western thought. Clearly this Silk stockings and cosmetics seem comes to worst, I shalt think myself is more important for Japan than to me wholly superfluous luxuries in lucky if I can obtain the substitute. for Rotary since Japan gains more the present situation. Many women, As for bacon, I am not above enjoy- from such contacts than she con- on the other hand, say the same thing ing a dish of calves' liver and bacon,
of beer, whinky and tobacco.
but I should not be greatly distressed
tributes.
The argument that foreigners are provided with information about Of all the luxuries I find it easy I were ordered by a doctor to give Japanese affairs is balanced by the to abanden I should put frst the up bacon for the rest of my life. fact that the Japanese members get luxury of buying new clothes. This a great deal of information from for-la a real luxury, as refreshing as a
warm bath in the moming; but the healthy meal that many Englishmen Even beef is not the essential of a eigners, The
proposal to exclude Rotary
thought it in the nineteenth century. from Japan is in keeping with the falready appropriated remain as great The doctors themselves tell us nowa- centripetal trend noticeable in recent as before. There is always the days that we could live fairly well on years. Japan has periods when she danger of Japan copying the methods a diet of milk and potatoes. But let feels she would like to turn her and the acts of Germany without the potatoes be boiled in their jackets, back on all Western revert to that isolationight and enquiring whether the conditions in and igt anyone who peels potatoes position both countries, are parallel and in before boiling them be branded as o she held before 1889, Were it not this case they obviously are not. Fifth Columnista destroyer of the that her status; in the; world (as is It is strange that in this world of nation's food. power would thereby be jeopardised multiplying contacts through tele- The truth is, however, that one of she would, probably do so.
phone, telegraph, steamships and the things that many people and it Japan's strength however is the aeroplanes there should be a dis-most difficult to give up la warte. In result of departing from that policy Inclination to accept the benefits the wealthy England of the decent of closed doors, and of giving a wel such communications confer and that past waste became a habit as coilav come to Western "people. She has there should spring up a strung, de- ing as smoking-a habit that spread raided the civilised world for ideas sire to remain stoof. It may be that from the rich to the poor and in and incorporated them into her in the notions which are doing that, are nothing were the English more waste- dustrial, commercial and social ar- not very sure of themselves; and ful than in food. Half the virtue of tem Buch Ideas come in variety therefore fear that their culture will potatoes and other vegetables was or Way, but may cannot get hebeas | ba? mibaserged in the struggle for wasted in the cooking, and the virtue part coplesy Germany, fr bor survival, but that is a very narrow of wheat was slavenster in the policy hor will the strength of Mose-view.
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