Potato
queue at Kingsbury Farm, Church Street, Dunstable in April 1917 [Z50/36/142]
Tuesday
27th November 1917: Mr. T. A. Foster of 12 Cromwell Road, Luton
has written to the Luton News arguing
forcefully that the time has come to introduce food rationing in the face of
the current “miserable scramble for food”. Continuing to appeal to the better
nature of “food hogs” is pointless; meanwhile the responsible members of
society are short of almost all necessary foods. He says:
“The greedy part of the
community care nothing for talk or warnings. Nothing but drastic action will
ever move them. Let us share and share alike, and thus avoid this most
humiliating hunt for food. In the name of common sense, why – if the food
question is a matter of life and death to the nation – is it still being
tampered with? How ludicrous is the position. On the one hand we are being
warned and threatened by the Food Controller that we shall have to have
compulsory rationing all round, if we are not more moderate in the use of
foods. On the other hand we have the great mass of the people everywhere
looking forward to compulsory rationing as a relief. Indecision is, and has
been throughout the war, our greatest enemy. We see it in every conceivable
direction … When, oh when, will our “wobblers cease from wobbling”?
Source:
Luton News, 28th November 1917
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