The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-22
FOOD PROGRAM
NOT DECIDED
Many Suggestions, But no
Concerted Action by Peo-
pie of Nation to Con-
serve Supplies.
MUST CUT ON MEA,SS:
MeatIess Days at the Table and More
Stock Raised Would Give
Soldiers What
They Need.
MUST CUT ON MEA:=

L United TIoSS LcdScQ WLe ooIVlSC.J
CHICAGO, Aug. 22.-Eat less meat
Mrs. H. H. Harrison, organizer of
the Chicago housewives league.
More breeding and less killing
V. D. Skipworth, vice president Of VIII
son and company. meat packers.
'fEat vegetables s"-Theo. Rooms,
head chef at the Blackstone hotel.
Boost vegetables, A. ]. Frank,
secretary Of Chicago Retail Grocers
association.
Above are some Of the solutions sug-
gested TO the United Press today to
remedy the threatened meat famine.
which Herbert Hoover predicted.
Educate the farmer to know there
Is more financial profit in breeding
ewes and calves and prevent the kill
ing Of them for year and the sftua-
tion will be remedied," said Skip
worth.
I'VE have to depend on concerted
farming and until the farmer can be
educated to knowing he can get as
much for corn put into cattle as he
can by placing corn on the market,
the shortage will continue.
More breeding is the only answer.
women are knitting and doing a
WuOl6 lOL VI SSou Uu1 IlACy ~h0 AA~S
impressed with the seriousness Of the
war;" said Mrs. Harrison.
"If they would eat less meat and
not buy so much Of it, the soldiers
would be assured Of at least enough. ;"
Mrs. Harrison suggested that girl
stenographers and clerks and men en-
ployed in light physical occupations
eat meat but once a week. As a sub
stitute for meat, Mrs. Harrison sug-
gests beans, macaroni, spaghetti and
vegetables.
"Eat vegetables instead" suggested
Chef Rooms, Of the Blackstone hotel.
Rooms as yet has not had meatless
bill Of fare at the Blackstone, but he
is expected to put on two meatless
days a week very shortly. Tracey
Drake, owner of the hotel, has already
announced he would put on at least
one meatIess day. The only solution
is to cut out eating meat" said Frank
Women employed in light occupa-
tions ought to eliminate it altogether
Grocers should boost the sale of veg
etables until the present crisis has
passed"
Market Machinery Undisturbed.
CHICAGO, Aug. 22.-Market ma
chinery will not be disturbed by gov
ernment control of wheat and rye,
for which Chicago will be one OF the
big operating centers. This state
ment comes from Howard B. Jackson,
repres entative Of Herbert Hoover
who was assembling an organization
today. to be ready to execute govern
ment grain orders after September 1.
Wheat and rye will be bought at
terminals at prices to be fixed in
Washington.
Wool Is Going up.
CHICAGO. Aug 22.-The clothing
salesman who last fall, winter and
spring said "buy now and lay 'em
away for next season." was right
Wool today was between rs and so
cents a pound, wholesale, and be-
fore January it will be one dollar
a pound. according to wv. P. Birch,
editor of the American Sheep Breed
er, today. ,...-
These prices compare with 1S to
3S cents from 1912 to 1915.
Thirty weight cents prevailed until
early in 1915, when the price began
to climb. Late last year it began
CTecU ShO ~ SSShc AS'SAS'
Wool production this year will be
but 100000 pounds short Of 1916,
when the total supply was 2SS,700,O00
pounds, according to Clyde Mann, ed
itor of Sheep Breeders Journal. I'M
ports in 1916 were 534 4,S2S,O00 pounds
additional. They are expected to be
as large this year, despite scarcity Of
shipping facilities, Mann says. But
the demand has shown marked in
crease and is factor in sending the
price up. Scarcity of sheep. due to
homesteading and other grazing re-
strictions was given by Chicago wool
men today as the chief reason for
the advancing prices. The solution
of lower prices, Birch declares, will
be found in utilizing ten million acres
of cutover lands in Michigan and
Wisconsin this year for a vigorously
prosecuted sheep raising campaign.
Mutton selling today for S16.75 a
hundred pounds, he says, will be s21
before January l.