Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-21
GUT OUT SWEETS
AND SAVE BREAD
IOWA FARMER PRESENTS NEW
IDEA IN RELATION TO FOOD
CONSERVATION
HONEY AND JAM CALL e..
FOR TOO MUCH BREAD
Consumption Of Chief Article Of Food
Greatly Increased by Extravasant
Diplomacy in Effort to Sidetrack
Hausens Opposition to Control Bill.

Special to Times Republican.
Washington. June Il. - President
Wilson tore a leaf from Colonel Roose-
velts book when he invited Congress
man Haugen to a private dinner at
the White House in an effort to call
the Iowa congressman off in his fight
on the food control bill.
The dinner was timed for the hours
when the house was in night session
discussing the food bill and when Mr.
Haugen not only was relied upon by
opponents Of the bill to lead the fight,
as ranking republican member of the
agricultural committee. but had
planned to make speech in opposi-
ton to the bill. Mr.. Hoover the food
administrator, was the other guest at
the White House dinner. He Joined
his arguments with those of the presi-
dent in an effort to convert Mr.. Haug-
en-, who has taken the position that
food dictatorship will hit the farmer
the hardest and serve no purpose in
correcting abuses which he believes
can be hit by present laws.
This dinner was pulled off very
quietly Monday night, before the presi-
dent received the Belgian commission.
1t kept Mr.. Haugen away from most
Of the night session, but it did not call
off his fight He was back at it again
when the house recVuveneI and plans
to continue his fight till the end.
While the house is discussing the
bill, the senate is preparing to take it
up and in the senate Mr.. Kenyon is
leading the fight for the bill. Mr..
Hoover has turned TO Senator Kenyon
as his personal champion and the
Iowan has armed himself with mass
of data.
Senator Kenyon has been receiving
floods of letters from all over the
country telling him how the nation can
save its food supply. One letter, from
a farmer at Bacon Hills, Iowa, sug-
gested a saving that will mean the Diff
ference between a surplus and
famine in wheat.
Would Eliminate Sweets.
II refer" the Iowa man wrote. Ito
honey, maple syrup and huckleberry
lam. They are the nations greatest
cause of overeating. Adults and chill
dren eat on an average an ounce more
bread a meal when they have these
sweets.
This causes an extraordinary con-
sumption Of -four. Fifty million people
daily use one Of these de!!cacies. Fifty
million pounds of flour saved at every
meal would soon amount to billions Of
pounds
But this correspondent was not sat
isfied with routing huckieberry jam
from the table. He would rout other
sweets.
Take the item of pies and cakes"
the Iowan wrote. There are twenty
million families in the United States
and they eat an average Of twenty
million pies and twenty million cakes
a week or one pound and a half OF
-four"
The Iowan estimated that Jana on
bread and pies and cakes caused the
unnecessary consumption of three bill
lion pounds of -four annually.
People eat pie and cake after they
are filed up on other grub he add
ed. In the pie belt of Iowa they go
further and put a spoonful of sugar
on rhubarb and gooseberry pie
His remedy was to eat more dande-
lions and abolish rhubarb and goose
berry pie and put ban on all sweets
that increased wheat consumption.