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THINGS
WE CAN DO
How shall
WITHOUT the nation eat?
by
ROBERT LYND
SILID 2104 $1200 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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are essential to my efficiericy only because I think them so. 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- carry the Hongkong Hotel Garage, peats to oneself twenty times the Coue. formula: "I enjoy giving up tobacco." I tried this once, and it worked.
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Not that I would advise everybody to choose tobacco as the thing on which to economise during wartime. Mony men, I asure, especially Stubba Rond, soldiers, endure the strain of wor
belter because of
occasional smoke, if you asked the ordinary British working mon whether he would rather be deprived of his beer of his "baccy," he would, I believe,
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in more on nine cases out of ten vote for the surrender of his beer, Flence I doubt whether England would be a more efficient nation if she became a nation of non-smokers. Men cannot live sanely, either in peace or in war, without a Jew pleasures.
THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph" is used by the "Hongkong Telegraph" to Indicate news which is strleily copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni- At the same time, It is obvious that, cations Ordinance. 1936. Such news suither voluntarily or under compul- bears the indication "13" in received insion, we shall all have to give up Jongkong on the date of pubileation by the United Press Associations, where serve all rights and forbid republication, rither wholly or la part without previous arrangement,
Japan And Rotary
something. The question that faces each of us is: "What shall it be?"; There has been on appeal to us, X see, during the week, to give up wearing starched shirts because of the scarcity of starch. Well, most of us will find little dificulty in that The Rotary movement has come I do not think I have worn a starched under suspicion in Japon, because shirt since the beginning of the war according to recent Japanese state- and i do not mind promising not to ments it is used by foreigners to wear one or even a silif collar--till obtain Information that is of material volue from a naval and military peace is signed.
point of view,
Ten is another thing that we are Germany of course closed down all asked, if not entirely to give up. to her rotary clubs, not because she drink more seldom or in sinuller
N
ably
O matter how the battles sway, or where we finally check tho Blitzkrieg, the
weapon that will prob- ywin this war in the end is Food-how much nourishment either sido can put into tho stomachs of its soldiers ond civilians alike.
How, then, aro ́ wo armed with this vital weapon?
We produce at home about 35 per cent, of the food we eat—and wo do Rot 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. Shall we then eat less? Or shall
we ent rationally?
`For if we fed as a nation, by a method known as communal feed- Ing, instead of as a large number of private families, 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
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by DUDLEY
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405 men served with a meal in 17 minutes,
From the kitchen behind the serv- ing counter the food left the tall steamers and roasters, stewpans and
hotplates, and girls handed it out to the waiting men, 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 sd, for the roast lamb, 7d. for the other dishes, and 2d, for each pudding.
What did it cost the caterers? Well, here is their bill:
cost is the amount of food saved. Communal feeding on a big scala. uses about two-thirds of the food necessary to give the same meals to small families.
The fuel used shows a saving of about 80 per cont All the scraps. are instantly, and almost without cost, collected for pig food.
What follows from all this? First, communal feeding must be universal ini wartime industry.
With the long hours of the great armaments drive, and the now fac- tories to which workers must some- times travel far from their homes, every man and woman in the fac- torles must be able to get one good hot meal a day at the place of work
Group canteens for
small factories
10 factories already have can- 'teeria, some of which must be ex- tended. Small factories could be grouped with central cantrena, or 4. central communal kitchens could take the food to them in proper containers.
Konst lamb for 105, chops for
138, totalling t4lb. of lamb.. 2 18 a Souanges for 15 Tripe for 30
Total cost of meet Less 10 pa. discount
You may remember that we ex- perimented with it in 1918, call- ing it National Kitchens. You may, 6th, ontons.... not know that Germany is now licet, polatoes using it widely, getting full valus 301, swedes ..... from her limited food supplies, while 1976. haricot beans we wasic thousands of tons a day.
Germany already has a 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 a factory workers They call the campaign against the Bandwich,"
We, too, ay normal peacetime pro gress, have developed communal feeding since the last war. Most Factories of more than 1,000 workers have canteens. Throughout the country are dotted the chain restaurants.
In London, for example, is the Lon- feeds the hospital patients, the school don County Council organisation, which children, the A.R.P. workers.
There are two main methods of com- munal feeding, but the principle is the same, and quite simple.
Saving one-third of Nation's food
feure any leakage of valuable In-puaniliics. Here, again, Is something NSTEAD of innumerable familles
formation, but because she wanted to Germanise every
organisation and from which I can at a pinch obalain. eliminate all others which directed there are other people, however, thought to matters outside the coun- including most of the troops from the try, International affiliations there- Dominions now in this country, to fore came under the bar, so Rotary whom tea has become almost shares the fate of the church, and necessary of normal existence. It League of Nations. Germany might be a good thing if those of us fears the infiltration of ideas that took to some of those herbal sub- who are comparatively different to run counter to totalitarianism and tea which weaken the loyalty to the Nazi regime.
the
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Now Rotary springs from the ideal International co-operation based on an intelligent and mutual under- standing among the different nations which make up the membership.
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stitutes, made from such things as lime-flowers and raspberry leaves, and left the tea to be drunk by those who really need it.
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Obviously it cannot exlat in After all, most of those things that country which regards itself as self through habit we have
grown to sufficient from every point of view, think almost as necessary as cur and which proclaims the superiority daily bread were utterly unknown in ut its people over every other race. the civilised world tili a few cen- In Rotary there is neither bond nor tuiles ago. All through the Cartha- free, and neither black nor white,pinion wars there was not a single since it accepts the brotherhood of cigarette smoked or a cup of tea or man, if not the fatherhood of God. coffee drunk, by a Roman saldier or
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 naa. served in a big communal restaurant. By the other it is cooked in a communal kitchen and taken in heat-containing boxes to many smaller restaurants.
-What is anved is tho ́scraps'of'food" that are not enten by the numerous separate familles and the extra four needed to make so many tiny blis of pastry.
That saving could total, it is est! mated, up to one-third of all we eat.
Let me give you an actual example. · The largest communal feeding organi- sation we have is a private catering Urm which runs canteens in numerous big factories, providing everything ex- cept the building, and serving 2,000,000 workers with a meal every day.
i went at mealtime to one of their contcens in an aircraft factory, and saw
Total for vegetables
& 0
6
The meals would be cheaper than any that could be provided at home. 3110 cheaper and more nourishing than any snacks the workers could take with them in their boxes.'
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34 0
Then the chlidren, As more 10 women go into industry, there is the 29 old wartime problem of the mother 39 returning home after à long stifft to 70 face the kitchen stove for her
family.
1 14 0
The cast of the neat dishes, then, for 370 people, 60 of whom had only chip potatoes at 3d. each, was LA 103, 84, A fraction of a penny more than 38, per head.
Fivepenny hot meal shows profit
ET the housewife tell me-could you produce any of those dishes for a family of four at a total cost of alone would cost more than that, even just over 16 for the food? The ment
if you could carve it exactly into foż. portions, ne the caterers do..
The 127 chocolate puddings cost the caterers sa 354. The 120 portions of marmalade tart cost them 10s. 01. and 80 macaroni puddinga 46, 30.
In fact, they provided 327 people with puddings at a cost of roughly two-thirds of a penny cach.
Could any housewife give a family of four puddings like that for just under 3d.? It would be nearer ød. or 10d.
In the last war the solution was often fish and chips. This time it looks like being the tin opener and a bad, unsatisfactory solution too. Already some schoolchildren are fed at school. Why not all school- children?
Already some working mothers leave their babies in daytime creches. Why not all bables where mothers are at work?
Imagine, then, a country at war that is assured that every factory worker and every child receives one good hot ment every day.
There are still millions of people eft the housewives, the office workera and so on. Why not feed them .com. munally, too, in the districts where illey live and work?
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National restaurants in parish halls
VERY parish haß could recome a National Restaurant, every exist. The caterers obviously make a good ing private restaurant could be taken profit. They told me that, if they do over, with its staff and equipment. by not have to pay for the actual building, the Government for the duration. they can, as experts, cover all costs and But the first cost of equipment. you overheads by charging between 4id, and say, would be colossal. Not at all. The Od. for a full men.
tem of experts telis me that, given the
If, therefore, canteens were centrally bullding, the complete cost of equipping run on a non-profit basis, millions of it as a communal restaurant works out workers could be given a hot meal every at £3 10s. per sent. day of the week at a total cost to them -of-Ja-each--What-housewife could do the same thing for a family of four for a total cost of 128.?
Even more striking are the figures for schoolchildren. In peacetime the Lao. fed about 10,000 children a day at a cost of about 21d. per child for food. Four- penco covered all overheads as well. ex- fept the buildings.
By varying rating hours each seat could.accommodate four people daily.ao. the total cost of equipping National Restaurants for the whole country could not be, at most, greater than £35,000,000 -equal' at present. 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 objectors But I doubt if there would be many who would not willingly sacrifice the pleasures of their own kitchens and tables, and eat in common with their neighbours to help so greally to strengthen our greatest weapon of food, even than the to assist so much in winning the war,
When war broke out, the Women's Voluntary Services, started communal feeding for oracuces all over the coun try. They found the food coste, were rarely more than id, per child, and often just over 20. for each meal scientifically planned and cooked.. More Important
The principles of Itotary are there- civilian. I doubt whether during the tore repugnant to the German con- ten years' slege of Troy King
Priam eeption of citizenship and legically
# prohibita the movement, except wine, and in those days of The German clubs are a loss to infected water wine Rotary, but Rotary is a greater loss necessary to Germany.
health. If this is the case in Germany it
quite and his subjects tasted any luxury Detained As Fascist ANOTHER
10
was probably Walter Percy Berles Milligan
the maintenance of forty-two, an L.C.C. education official
living at St. James's-rood, Gra
vesened, Kent, was detained by u
police officer.
is emphatically more so for Japan. think of things that other people can Most of us, indeed, can more easily The idea that the Japanese clubs give up than of things that we our-
A quantity of Ilterature was re- can be organised on a purely felves can give up. Most men, for
moved from his house. He is alleged national basis destroys the funds example, could tell their wives or
to be a member of the British Union mental principles of the institution,
of Fascists. and the name could no longer be daughters ur sisters a score of things used. (Rotarlans need not be in-which they would be all the better which wonten could give up and vited to visit foreign clubs, they have the right to attend by virtue of for giving up. Most women could luxury of wearing old clothes is
their membership of the international club.)
tell their husbands, brothers-not
or БОПЅ or scarcely less so.
a score, perhaps but Again, I do not mind eating less Japan cannot afford to cut adrift could give up
at least a dozen things which men butter or less meat or less bacon. from these international aflations results.
with equally good I know that butter, or something not if she intends to remain in touch
containing the same vitamins, in cs- with Western thought. Clearly this
to health; but, if the woral Silk stockings and cosmeties seem comes to worst, I shall think myself
sential is more important for Japan than to me wholly superduous 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, tributes.
of beer, whisky and tobacco.
but I should not be greatly distressed
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The argument that foreigners are
up bacon for the rest of my life,
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provided with information about Of all the luxurles I find it easy if I were ordered by a doctor to give Japanese affairs is balanced by the to abandon I should put first the fact that the Japanese members. get luxury of buying new clothes. This, great denl of information from for a real luxury, as refreshing as a eigners.
warm bath in the morning; but the
Even beef is not the essential of a healthy meal that many Englishmen The proposal to exclude Rotary from Japan is in keeping with the already appropriated remain as great The doctor themselves tell us nowa- thought it in the nineteenth century, centripetal trend noticeable in recent an 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 thought and enquiring whether the conditions in and let anyone who peels potatoes revert to that isolationist position both countries are parallel and in before bolling them be branded us she held before 1860. Were It not this case they obviously are not. Fifth Columnista destroyer of the
as a It is strange that in this world of nation's food. power would, thereby be
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 dificult to give up is waste. In result of departing from that polley inclination to accept the benefits the wealthy England of the decent of closed doors, and of giving a wel- such communications confer and
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