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Title: What to do for Uncle Sam; a first book of citizenship
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin, 1875-1961
Subjects: Citizenship
Publisher: Chicago, A. Flanagan company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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see what was becoming of the citys hugesupply of food. There was a great deal of everykind sold, enough to keep a city and a half ofthat size from being hungry. Yet the farmerswho brought in the produce, and the dealers whosold it said that there wouldnt be enough foodto go around soon if it were used up so fast. No one knew that these officials were goingabout. They started early in the morning andpeeped into the back yards and looked at theback doorsteps where the garbage cans waited forthe city teams. Then they .made a discovery. Therewas a great amount of good food thrown away.When these men went back to their offices and didsome figuring, they found out that several thousanddollars worth of food was being wasted every day.One strange thing about it was that the greatestwaste was where it could least be afforded: it wasin families where there were children. Uncle Sam is asking us to be very economicalso that the remains of last years harvest and the 37 38 WHAT TO DO FOR UNCLE SAM
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Copyright, Underwood and Underwood, N. Y. the; best school lunch of all fruits of this fall may last for tlie time that weshall need them. Every boy and girl in the UnitedStates can help in this saving. Who will beginto-day, this very hour? Saving for Uncle Sam begins at meal time.Leaving bits of nourishing food at table is a habitcommon to a great many boys and girls. It is verymuch better to turn good food into red blood andstrong muscles than to throw it away. That isthe first saving you can do. Perhaps you are in the habit of cutting the HELPING TO SAVE FOR HIM 39 skin from your apple before you eat it. TheGovernment says that you will be helping to growinto strong, useful citizens if you can learn toeat some of the things like the skin of an apple,that you always used to throw away. There arechemical properties, especially iron, in the skinof fruits that your bodies need. Try to eat atleast one apple with its skin every day, drink aglass of milk; eatgreen foods in theirseason suc

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