The Glasgow courier., 1917-12-21
PLAN FOOD RATION
FOR AMERICANS
Three Pounds of Sugar a Month
for Each Person to Be
Put Into Effect.

A sugar ration of three pounds for
each person month, porkless day
and one wheatless and two meatless
meals day will be recommended to
householders in a new kitchen card
soon to be put out by the food ad-
ministration. Observance of wheatless
and meatless days will be asked in
addition to the wheatless and meat
less days called for now The normal
consumption of sugar in the United
States has been more than seven
pounds a month for each person.
The cards will caution against
boarding foodstuffs in homes, point
ing out that the practice not only is
selfish, but that it contributes to high
prices and defeats the purposes of the
food administration in seeking an
equitable distribution.
Makes Appeal to Householders.
The reverse side Of the card carries
a message to householders.
"The fod situation in Europe" it
says, "is far graver than when the
preliminary survey of the food supply
of the world for this year was made.
We have an abundance for ourselves,
and it is the policy of the food admin
istration by the prevention of exports,
to retain for our people an ample
supply of every essential foodstuff.
The harvests of our allies have proved
less than we had contemplated, and the
great curtailment of shipping by the
submarine during the last few months
has further prevented them from ac-
cess to remote markets.
"Beyond the demands of the allies
there is call upon US by the friendly
neutrals for food, and if we can not at
lest in part respond to these neutral
calls, starvation on an unparalleled
scale must ensue.
Food Dominating War Element.
"Food has taken a dominant posi-
tion in the war, and we must ask the
American people to sacrifice far more
than we at first thought necessary.
Je have exported the whole of the
surplus of wheat from this harvest
after reseving to ourselves an amount
sufficient for our normal consumption
of seed and flour until the next har-
vest, and, therefore, the amount of
wheat flour that the United States can
contribute to mix with the war bread
of allies during this winter will be
simply the amount that our people
reduce their consumption month by
month.
"The allies today ask us for 25 per
cent more meats and fats than we con-
slider our monthly production permits
US to send them without entrenching
on our own supplies, or, on the other
hand, unless we consume less. Due
to the shortage in shipping, our avail
able sugar supplies must be less than
normal from the present time forward.
Personal Obligation to Save.
every particle of diminished 80
sumption by the American rcc., II
one particle more for Our s. -.~s
men, women and children Of our allies
and for the starving people in other
countries. This is personal obliga-
tion upon every one of us towards
some individual abroad, who will suf-
fer privation to the extent of our own
negligence.
'If we are to reduce the consump-
tion of the few products which we
should export abroad we will need to
eat larger proportion of many diff
ferent foodstuffs which we can not ex-
port. We must not waste any food
stuffs. In this emergency only the
simplest of living is patriotic.