PRESIDENT WILSON'S FOOD CARD.
The fact that King George had to send the master of the household to get President Wilson's emergency ration card filled with the necessary butter, jam, sugar and other supplies helps to explain why the President wos able truthfully to greet the King as "head of the democracy of Great Britain," (states the New York World). The strength of Great Britain lies partly m the fact that when a law is passed it is enforced upon high and ls>w alike. Whatever blunders the Food Administraton may have made, it was democratic m its operation. Rich and poor fared alike as to all the more essential food supplies. It would not have been possible for King Geovge,, as it was possible for the German Kaiser, to carry with him into the flight of defeat a rich supply of table luxuries. Ration cards go with the golden plate salvaged from the Spanish Armada and other costly tableware accumulated m the royal palaces through centuries of rule as strictly as they do m the munition maker's temporary lodging. That is one reason why the British people have accepted their war privations so philosophically. _
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14847, 26 February 1919, Page 3
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194PRESIDENT WILSON'S FOOD CARD. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14847, 26 February 1919, Page 3
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