The Rice belt journal., 1916-09-01
RICE INTERESTS CONDUCT
CAMPAIGN OF EDUCATION


Beaumont, Texas, August 29.-How
to cook and eat rice as a vegetable, as
a substitute for navy beans and po-
tatoes, which are more expensive,
less nutritious, less palatable and
harder to digest, is the object of
campaign just launched by the
Southern Rice Growers association in
conjunction with number of Texas,
Louisiana and Arkansas rice millers.
For the first time in history, expert
enced chefs are going into the United
States army camps to demonstrate
the food value of rice.
j. r. Leguenec, secretary of the
Rec Millers' association, with a corps
of fifteen chefs, is now enroute to
Fort Sam Houston, where he will be-
gin a series of demonstrations. DR..
W. W. Duson, vice president for Texas
of the Southern Rice Growers asso-
citation will reach San Antonio Thurs
day and under his personal super
vision these demonstrations will be
carried through every camp on the
Texas camp.
Formal permission to conduct this
campaign of education has been re-
ceived from General Funston, and the
work will continue for at least two
months.
About six weeks ago the Southern
Rice Growers association sent Mrs
M. A. Hayes Of Houston, to San An
tonic to confer with army officers
with view of inducing them to add
more rice to the soldiers rations.
Since then the governments rice or
ders have doubled. But even now
there sfe few troopers, either regu-
lars or militiamen, who have ever
eaten rice in any other form than
rice pudding.
'Being a strength, vitality and en-
ergy producing food, possessing heal
ing and curative properties and being
more nearly a perfectly balanced
food for the body then any other ce-
real or vegetable, rice is a natural
ration for the soldier" explained E.
A. Eignus, general manager of the
Southern Rice Growers association.
"We believe that soldiers ought to be
fed more rice, and for that reason we
are going to create an appetite among
them for this cereal"
He pointed out that approximately
fifty per cent of the worlds popula-
tion use rice as a staple food and mil
lions of people in the Orient and
other hot countries eat rice alomst
exclusively. One Of the most amaz-
ing revelations of the Russo-Japanese
war, he recalled, was the almost per.
feet health of the Japanese soldiery,
whose chief diet had always been
rice.
! Scientific test have proven that
boiled rice digests one hour after
eating, while wheat bread requires
three hours and a half; corn meal
three hours, Irish potatoes three
hours and half, roast beef three
hours, stewed oysters two to five
hours, fish an hour and forty-five
minutes, fried eggs three hours, oat
meal three hours, etc.
DR.. Duson and his corps of chefs
will teach the soldiers how to eat
rice and the army cooks how to pre-
pare it, placing especial emphasis on
the use of rice as a vegetable with
gravy in the MONDAY meal.
| The result Of these demonstrations
will be two-fold. They will not only
cause the government to increase Its
.triee orders. for army commissaries
but will put taste for rice in the
mouths Of the militiamen from the
north. who, when they return home
will add rice to their daily grocer!
orders. The general consumption o.
the cereal, therefore, will be materi
ally increased, if the predictions o
the rice men are anyways near cor
rect.
For Rice Insurance Sc
E G. Willard.