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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

August 20, 1940.

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THINGS

WE CAN DO

How shall

WITHOUT the nation eat?

by-

ROBERT LYND

Feel rather a hypocrite as, with a cigarette in my lips, I sit down to write an article on "things we can do without." I know, of course, that smoking is only a habit, and that cigarettes are essential to my efficiency only beenuse I think them so. As a matter of fact, I have given them up again and again. One can do this fairly cheerfully if, All units of $1800 and over in value on rising in the morning, one re- the Hongkong Hotel Garage, peats to oneself twenty times guarantee for three months.

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Not that I would advise everybody to choose tobacco as the thing on which to economise during wartime. Many men, I am sure, especially Stubbs Road,soldiers, endure the strain of war

Thongkong Telegraph.

Tuesday, August 20, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 26015

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O matter how the batties sway, or where we finally check the Butzkrieg, the weapon that will prob- ably win this war in the end is

Food-how much nourishment dither side can put into the atomachs of ita soldiers and civilians alike.

How, then, are we armed with this vital weapon?

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 reat 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 of private famlites, we could eat * 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

better becouse of an occasional smoke. If you asked the ordinary | British working man whether be would rather be deprived of his beerou may remember that we ex- or his "boccy," he would, I believe, in more thur, nine,cases out of ten vote for the surrender of his beer. Hence

I doubt whether England would be a more eficient nation she became a nation of non-sinokers, Men cannot live surely, either in pence or in war, without

* few pleasures.

THE prens "Special to the Telegraph" is used by the "Hongkong Telegraph" to Indicate now which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni- At the same time, it is obvious that, cation Ordinance, 1938. Bitch news

either voluntarily or under compul- bears the infication "V" l received la Hongkong on the date of publication by sion, we shall all have to give up the United Press Associations, who re-something, The question that faces varve all rights and forbid republication, cach of as is: "What shall it be?" either wholly or in part without previous There has been an appeal to us, 1 arrangement.

see, during the week, to give up wearing starched shirts because of the scarcity of starch. Well, most of us will and le dieulty in that. I 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-till

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The Rotary movement has come unkler

suspicion in Japan, beenuse necording to recent Japanese state- ments it is used by foreigners to obtain information that is of materiai value from a naval and military point of view,

Tea is another thing that we are asked, if not entirely to give up, to drink more seldom or in smaller

quantities. Hete, again, is something

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perimented with it in 1918, call- ing it National Kitchens. You may not know that Germany is now using it widely, getting full value from her limited food supplies, whilc we waste thousands of tons day.

National Germany already has 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. They call it the campaign against the sandwich,"

We, too, by normal pencetime pro- gress, have developed communal feeding since the inst war. Most factories of more than 1,000 workers have canteens. Throughout the country are dotted the chain restaurants.

to London, for example, is the Log ton County Council organliation, which feeds the hospital patients, the school children, the A.R.P. workers.

There are two mula methods of cor- munal feeding, but the principle is tho sanie, and quite simple.

Saving one-third of

Nation's food INSTEAD of innumerable families

:

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

Germany of course closed down all her rotary clubs, not because she feared any leakage of valuable in- formation, but because she wanted to Gernunise every organisation and

fram which I can at a pinch plastoin. 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 nftillations there-Dominions now in this country, to fore eume under the ban, sa Rotary whom ten hng

bulk become almost a shares the fate of the church, and necessary of normal existence. the League of Nations. Germany might be a good thing if those of us fears the infiltration of Ideas that who are comparatively different to run counter to totalitarianism and tea took to some of those herbal sub- which weaken the loyalty to the stitutes, made from such things as

·Nazi-regime.

· lime-flowers--und-raspberry-leaves, and left the tea to be drunk by those who really need it.

Tung

Now Rotury springs from the Ideal of international co-operation bused on an Intelligent and nutual under- standing among the different nations which make up the membership,

Obviously it cannot exist in a country which regards itself us self- sufficient from every point of view, and which proctulins the superiority of its people over every other race. In Rotary there is neither bond nor free, and neither black nor white,

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After all, most of those things that through habit we have grown to think almost as necessary as our daily bread were utterly unknown in the civilised world till a few cen- tuila ugo. All through the Cartha- ginum wars there was not a single,

cup of tea or drunk, by Roman soldier or The principles of Rotary are there- civilian.

n. I doubt whether during the fore repugnant to the German con- ten years siege of Troy King Priam

L if not the fatherhood of God.

aince etcepts the brotherhood smoked ar

man,

By one method it is prepared and served in a big communal restaurant. By the other it to cooked in a communal kitchen and taken in heat-containing boxes to many smaller restauranta.

What is saved is the scrups of food "that"are"ngl ̋eaten by ̋the numeroun separate familles and the extra flour needed to make so many tiny bits of pastry.

That saving could total, it is esti mated, up to one-third of all we eat.

Let me give you an netual examplo. The largest communal feeding organ). sation we have a private catering firm 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 canteens in an sircraft factory, and saw

ception of citizenship and quite and his subjects tasted any luxury Detained As Fascist

logically it prohibits the movement, except wine, and in those days of

The German clubs are a loss to infected water wine was probably Walter Percy Berles Milligdry Rotary, but Rotary is a greater loss

necessary to the maintenance of forty-two, an LC.C. education Ticlat to Germany.

health.

living at St. James's-road, police officer.

If this is the case in Germany I

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15 cimphatically more so for Japan. Most of us, indeed, can more easily vesened, Kent, was detained by a The idea that the Japanese clubs ive up then of things that we our-moved from his house. He is alleged think of things that other people con A quantity of Iterature was re-

Sons or

of wearing old clothes is scarcely less 30.

can be organised on a purely na- national basis destroys the funda-lves can give up. Most men, for to be a member of the British Union mental principles of the institution, example, could tell their wives or of Fascists. and the name could no longer be daughters or sisters a score of things used. (Rotarians need not be in which women could give up unt 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 could luxury their membership of the internationa: tell their husbands, or club.)

brothers-not a score, perhaps but Again, I do not mind eating less at least a dozen things which men butter or less meat or less bacon. could give up with equally good I know that butter, or something

containing the same vitamins, is es sential to health; but, if the worst! Silk stockings and cosmeties seem comes to worst, I shall think myself to me wholly superfluous luxuries in lucky if 1 can obtain the substitute. the present situation. Many women, As for bacon, I am not above enjoy- on the other hand, say the same thing ing a dish of calves' liver and bacon, of beer, whisky and tobacco..

but I should not be greatly distressed

Japan cannot afford to cut adrift

from these International affilations not if she intends to remain in touch with Western thought. Clearly this is more important for Japan than for Rotary since Japan gains more from such contacts than she con- tributes.

results.

if I were ordered by a doctor to give

about Of all the luxuries I find it easy

to abandon I should put first the up bacons for the rest of my life." luxury of buying new clothes. This Is a real luxury, as refreshing as a warm bath in the morning; but the

The argument that foreigners are

information provided with Japanese affairs is balanced by the fact that the Japanese members get a great deal of information from for-

Even beel is not the essential of a eigners.

healthy meal that many Englishmen The proposal to exclude Rotory

thought it in the nineteenth century. from

Japan is in keeping with the already 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 Ict 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 fand let anyone who peels potatoes revert to that isolationist position both countries are parallel and in before boiling them bo branded as a she held before 1868. Were it not this case they obviously are not. Fifth Columnist-a destroyer of the that her status in the world as a 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 wouldo so..

phone, telegraph, steamships and the things that many people find it Japan's

however is the seroplanes there should be a dis most difficult to give up is waste. In result of departing from that policy inclination to accept the benefits the wealthy England of the decent

habit as enslav

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to Western people. She has there should spring up a strong de- as smoking—a

Ing. raided the civilised world for Ideassire to remain aloof. It may be that from the rich to the poor-and in and incorporated thein Into her in- the nations which are doing that, are nothing were the English more waste- dustiil, commercial, and social sys-not very sure of themselves, and ful than in food. Half the virtue of tem::: Such ideas come in a variety therefore fear that their culture will potatoes and other vegetables was of ways, but, thay, cannöt get access be submerged in the struggle for wasted in the cooking, and the virtue if Japan, hopies "Germany""in "her survival," but "that "If a "very Larrow of wheat was similarly waited in the policy nor will the strength of those view.

preparation of four,

cost is the amount of food naved www.......... Communal feeding on a big scale uses about two-thirds of the food necessary to give the same meals to small families.

by DUDLEY BARKER

403 men served with a meal in 17 minutes.

The fuel used shows a mving of about 80 per cent. All the scraps aro instantly, and almost without cost, collected for plg food.

What follows trom all this?

be universal in wartime industry.

First, communal feeding - must

From the kitchen behind the serv-

With the long hours of the great ing counter the food left the tall-Armaments drive, and the new fac- steamers and roasters, stewpans and tories to which workers must some- hotplates, and girls handed it out to times travel far from their homes. the waiting mon, who paid by ticket. every man and woman in the fac

They had a choice of roast leg of tories must be able to get one good hot meal a day at the place of work, lamb and two vegetablės, lamb chop toad-in-the-hole, anurages, or tripe and onions, followed by steamed

chocolate pudding, marmalade tart or macaroni pudding.

That coat each man 8d. for the

and 2d. for each pudding,

What did it cost the caterers? Well, here is their bill:

Group canteens for small factories

roast lamb, td. for the other dishes, RIG factories already have can- ♫ teens, some of which must be ex- tended. Small factories could be grouped with central canteens, or central communal kitchens could take the food to them in proper

Roast lamb for 105, chops for

C e d

138, totalling Gelb. of lamb.. 2 18 8 containers.

Sausages for 45 Tripe for 30

Total cost of meat Less 10 pc, discount

did, onions

jet potatoes 3 swedes..... Hib, haricot beans

S 0

7

6

The meals would be cheaper than any that could to provided at home. 3110 cheaper and more nourishing than 70 any snacks the workers could take

with them in their boxes. 3 4 0

1.0

Then the children. As more women go into industry, there is the 29 old wartime problem of the mother 3 returning home after a long shift to 70 face the kitchen stove for her

family.

Total for vegetables...... 1 14 £ 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. fed at school. Why not all school. Already some schoolchildren are

children?

The cost of the meat dishes, then, for 270 people, 40 of whom had only chip potatoes at 24. each, was £4 185. 6d. n traction of a penny more than 2d. per

rud

Fivepenny hot meal shows profit

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ET the housewife tell me could you produce any of those dishes for a family of four at a total cost of just over 18 for the food? The ment stone would cost more than that, even if you could carve it exactly into 4oz portions, as the caterers

The 127 chocolate puddings cost the caterera 6s. 31d. The 120 portions of marmalade tart cost them 10s od., and 30 macaroni puddings da. 3d,

Jin fact, they provided 327 people with puddings at n cost of roughly two-thirds of a penny each

Could any housewife give a family of four puddings like that for just under 3. It would be nearer 9d, or 10d.

The caterera obviously make a good profit. They told me that, if they do not have to pay for the actual building, they can, as experts, cover all costs and overticads by charging between tid. and 5d. for a full meal.

Already some working mothers leave 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 aro cui millions of people ich The housewives, the office workera and so on. Why not tead them com- munally, too, in the districts where they live and work?

National restaurants in parish halls

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VERY parish hall could become a

• National Restaurant, every exist- ing private restaurant could be taken over, with its slaft and equipment. by the Government for the duration

But the first cost of equipment, you say, would be colossal. Not at all. The firm of experts tells me that, given the If, therefore, canteens were centrally building, the complete cost of equipping rin on a non-profit basis, millions of it as a communal restaurant works out workers could be given a hot ment every at £3 10s, per seat. day of the week at a total cost to them of Ja nach. What housewife could do the same thing for a family of four for a total cost of 128.7

scat

By varyry eating nous each could accommodate four people daily, so the total cost of equipping National Restaurants for the whole country could Even more striking are the figures for not be, at most. greater than £35,000,000 schoolchildren. In peacetime the 1.0.0.-oqual at present. I suppose, to three fed about 10,000 children a day at a cost or four days' cost of war. of about 21d per chiki for food. Four- pence covered all overheado na well ex- cept the buildinga.

This is total war. to be won only by total methods. If we standardise' other things, why not food?

When war broke out, the Women B There would, naturally, be individual Voluntary Services started communal objectors. But I doubt if there would be feeding for evacuees all over the coun- many who would not willingly sacrifice try. They found the food costs were the pleasures of their own kitchens and rarely more than 40, per child, and often tables, and cat in common with their just over 34. for each meal. scientifically neighbours to help so greatly to plarmed and cooked.

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