PROPAGANDA

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 158, 22 September 1941, Page 5

PROPAGANDA

-ITS value; and misuse.

Lord Harder, writing in the Quarterly Review on the subject of "Food an War-time" says:'—

"Government propaganda through the Ministry of Food is already active. Such leaflets as 'Our Food To--day: How to Eat Wisely in War--time,' are excellent. We must encourage such voluntary bodies as the Food Education Society and the -Children's Nutrition Council. We i must use existing advertisement methods under the direction of their ■best exponents.

"We have splendid opportunities of weaning the housewife from her -eternal 'sausage and mashed' and canned foods, both by cultivating healthier tastes and by making her more kitchen-conscious, thus going far to check what Professor Palmer calls 'the food annihilation which passes for cooking in most Knglish

"Through these services, too, we can popularise such meals as the Oslo breakfast. We can, if we plan wisely, within tjuite a short period during the present speed-up of life, enable the town worker to retrace !his steps in the matter of diet, making more accessible the wholesome foods that his ancestors ate, and -•which, when he became urbanised, $ie unfortunately discarded.