The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-12-18
BREADRATON|NG
CONFR0NTSHAWA|L,
SAYSL. I. CHILD
Use Of Home Products Is Only
Way To Avoid Serious Short
age, Administrator Asserts 4
TWO WHEATLESS DAYS
A WEEK ARE NEEDED
Expects Flour Allowance To Be
Cut Down twenty-five Percent !
When LICENSING Is Effective

B. . g.
Hawaii may yet come TO bread ra.
tioning, according to q statement made
yesterday by J. F. Child, federal food
administrator, unless even greater
wheat saving than at present is put
into practise. Child recommends two
wheatless days weekly on the part Of
everyone. 70
Wheat Is not the only commodity in
which we may face serious shortage
within the next few months, says
Child. The taking by the government
Of large amount Of the shipping
which formerly served this port will
cut down all imports until It may be.
come a question to get enough food
to 60 around, the food administrator
thinks. tE.. lE%f -.
"The use of home products is the
only way to avoid this shortage said
Child. People should cat more island
grown foods, more Maui beans, more
island cabbage, more sweet potatoes,
more bananas, and more island beef
These things should take the place of
imported articles Of food of the same
nature-beans, California vegetables
and fruits, and imported mutton and
beef. ~ tt.
Housewives should make II q point
/ in buying vegetables, fruits, and meats
to ask IL this island grownf, and
make plain that their preference is for
Hawaiian products. The retailer only
on their part for island products will
lead to his buying them in preference
to imported food stufs.D ..A
Flour Situation Grave s.. - .
, There is no danger of sugar short.
age here at any time, Child thinks, but
the wheat flour situation he states
Is growing grayer daily. The licensing
OF bakers will make a big decrease in
the use of sugar and fats In bread max.
ing, and will likewise make a definite
saving Of -four in quantities that can
be easily computed. a'#F s..E't &E4
The day of the bread ration will
come" said Child yesterday, 'fand IL
will not be SO far of as people think.
II is my opinion that we win be cut
down twenty-five percent in our al.
lowance of -four when the bakers, Ii.
censing goes into effect. There will
be no please or by your leave about Il.
The government will simply take our
usual -four orders and cut them down
one-quarter, and we will be left 10
get along as best we many by filing
in with cornmeal and graham -four.
THE saving that will be made by
the bakers license equations can cas-
lily be figured, as they know what they
are using now and can calculate how
much less they will use under the regu
lations, which call for less sugar and
fats and only skinned milk Some
Of the bakers now are using as high
as six pounds Of sugar to barrel 81
Hour, and under the regulations they
will be allowed only two pounds. There
will be no more cream bread with the
skinned milk the only milk allowed.
Need Two Wheatless Days
"The only remedy or preventative
against bread rationing is the greater
saving of white -four, VChild Continued
one wheatiess day is good but we
should have two wheatless days a week
in order to stave of the scarcity. Many
people now are having only ono wheat.
less meal instead of the full day, and
even though the observance of the
wheatless day is quite general in Ha.
wall one day is not enough. ~.
This is n matter for Individual dc.
elslon and effort, and all those who
want to avoid the issuance of bread
cards and strict limitation on the use
Of white -four will do. their part by
setting, their own wheatless days and
observing them faithfully.
More Hawaiian rice should also he
used locally, The entire crop should
pe absorbed in the Territory thereby
saving the cargo space on vessels t.
the Coast for more sugar. There are
about 10000 bags of rice grown year,
" in Hawaii. Importations of rice
from Japan reach 100000 sacks. II
would be an easy matter to use the
whole output of Hawaiian rice locally,
and the saving would fulfil two objects
OF the food conservation program~-us.
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