Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-26
PLEDGE CARDS
SIGNED FREELY
over THE STATE
Administrator Bicknell Re
ceives Favorable Reports
FROM Many County Chair
men.
Information Concerning the
Weekly Rations Allowed
German People and Pop
ulation in Occupied Terri
tory Interesting.

The pledge campaign in Idaho I'M
Ger the direction of r. F. Bicknell,
state food administrator and his man
lger M. Nj. Alexander, is meeting with
pronounced success. Both have been
lctive in the drive to bring Idaho into
the front ranks as the best organized
state in the union. They are very well
satisfied with the returns that acre re.
ceived from various ounty chairmen.
From Rexburg, Arr ur Porter, chair
man, telegraphed $50 pledge cards,
which were stoned t. day, making
the grand tC.oI, 976. Geo. sc NJ. Scott
chairman for Bonneville county re-
ported BAT signed. Kinsolving of Ben
ewah county telegraphed he had Sc
cured Sc more cards, bringing the to-
tai of GA r. w. Simmonds of Ne.
Perez county reported Sal pledge:
Thursday making a total for the coun :
ty of 1926. Philip Rand of Salmon said
he had secured "a more pledges Civ
ing the county total of 63S.
RATIONS CUT DOWN.
Information concerning the weekly
rations now being allowed the, German
people and the civilian population OF
France and Belgium has been received
by the United States food administra-
ton. In food value the ration is i
sufficient properly to maintain bodily
health and vigor.
The tsoYman ration is as follow;
The amounts being those allowed pei
person per week:
Flour, 3.45 pounds; potatoes, 7.O5
pounds; cereals Goats, beans and peas
Z ounces; meat S.S ounces; sugar, ;
ounces; butter and margarine, O.
ounces; and other fats, rs ounces.
Stated in terms of American house
keeping these items amount to suf
ficient flour to bake Az pounds of
bread; one half peck of potatoes; a
eupful of beans, peas and oatmeal;
half pound of meat; IL dominoe
Of sugar; individual patties of but
Ter: and an equal amount of other
ATS.
For the population of that portion
Of northern France occupied by TIA
Germans, the allowance, the allow
lnce is as follows
Sufficient flour for five pounds o
bread; one-fifth peck of potatoes; one
cupful of cereals. II Ia ounces OF
bacon and lard; and 10 dominoes o.
sugar.
Here meat. butter and margarine
are all replaced by bacon and lard
The allowance of flour and cereals arc
slightly increased, but the allowance o.
potatoes is less than half the Ger
man ration, while that of sugar is ais
hn
man allowance.
COMPARISON MADE.
The ration for the civilian population
of, the occupied portion of Belgium i.
similar to that of northern France, ex
cept bacon and lard are replaced b,
meat and butter.
The German ration, compared with
the ration used as standard for pur-
poses of comparison by the food ad
ministrator shows that in bodybuild-
ing protein the Germans have Al o
a pound, and the standard ration 10,
poundsf. In fats, the German ration
contains AZ Of a pound, as compared
with standard Z pounds. In carbo-
hydrates, the German ration contains
All pounds, as compared to SO pound.
cries, the German ration aggregate
1852 as compared to $4,000 in the
standard ration.
The standard ration is regarded as
sufficient only for person in a sed
entary occupation, or one involving
relatively slight physical labor; anC
yet it provides "a times as much
body building protein, and nearly twice
as much fat. and nearly "a times al
much carbohydrates as the Germaf
ration.
In the ration for northern France
the substitution of bacon and lard
makes the weekly allowance of pro
TEN equal only three -fourths of the
German ration, and only one third OF
the standard ration.
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