THE Wall Street Journal makes the observation that “after peace has been declared, and sufficient time has elapsed to take count of the cost, it will be found that the loss of live stock will be one of the wastes most difficult to mend, while the world-wide shortage makes the question one of international importance.” The Journal further asserts that the area of the fiercest fighting is also the locality of the greatest density of stock-raising.
Underwood and Underwood
PHILIP SCHEIDEMAN
Not only is the meat supply jeopardized, but domestic animals with which to till the soil will be almost wholly destroyed. The rapidity with which the engines of destruction can be moved from place to place makes it possible to spread ruin and death as never before.
Following this war, we will see conditions that beggar description; and persons who have cultivated a taste for a good, wholesome, vegetarian diet will by no means be in such a straitened condition as those who contend that they must have a certain amount of meat every day in order to get along.
