Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-11-25
WHEAT SAVING.
URGED BY ALL
IDAHO PEOPLE
Food Administrator Bick-
nell Declares Saving Must
Be Made if Nation Is to
Be Helped.
Aims of Conservation Are
Missed by Many-Food
Stuffs Saved Will Be
Shipped Abroad to Allies
Fighting for Democracy.

It is necessary that 100,000,000
bushels of wheat be released for ex-
port within period of 80 days. said
Herbert Hoover the other day and the
necessary substitution by the people
of this country so that this wheat can
be released, resulted In a strong ap-
peal Saturday by r. F. Bicknell. food
administrator for Idaho, to the peo-
Pile of Idaho to accept their full share
of the burden.
mo matter what the cost said
Mr.. Bicknell Saturday, people must
conserve the wheat" and he expressed
his belief that the best way to assure
1t was for Idaho families to adopt two
wheatless days each week.
PEOPLE MISS Aims.
Many people," said Mr.. Bicknell
have evidently entirely missed the
Idea OF food conservation aims and the
necessity thereof and this Is surpris
Ing to me in view of the literally of
the papers in according me space for
food conservation messages and the
great lengths to which 1 have gone to
have personal appeals made concern
ing all matters in relation thereto.
Nevertheless, l am continually be-
sieged with complaints about the price
Of corn meal as compared with the
price of flour. The food administra-
ton is not concerned iD the first in
stance with the price q substitutes
suggested by it, although in due course
1t will see to it that such prices are
reasonable.
MEAL PRICE TO COME DOWN.
mo matter what the cost, corn
meals must be substituted have
been wondering what prices some peo-
pie would put upon human life and
boiled down, any woman who refuses
20 obey her country's injunction be-
cause she cannot do it without some
expense, would, it seems to me, put
her pocketbook before her love of
country, it's men and the men of her
allies who are fighting it's battles.
TOO many people fail to get the
spirit of food conservation. We must
conserve those foods that the experts
say must be shipped abroad, that the
allies soldiers. our own boys and the
people of the allied countries might
have sufficient food to sustain life.
Its not for us to question. Its. our
part to do and do ungrudgingly, or
else we may be forced to do the things
through official governmental p,an-
date that our country nov asks us to
do voluntarily through appeals to our
Individual consciences.
APPEAL TO REDUCE.
The corn meal now on the market
Is largely from the old crop and when
the new Nebraska crop reaches the
market I look for a drop in the pre-
vailing prices of about one third. The
price will not seem as much less as
would appear, on account of the ex-
cessive moisture in this years corn,
but be that as 1t may l want to en-
phasize that no matter what the cost,
we must substitute for flour.
People will do well to eat a little
less anyway and meal is more health
full than wheat. Why a man told me
the other day he is the head of a
family of six and they do with one
sack of flour a month, one pound of
butter a week, and still manage to live
pretty we'll. He said he has gained
10 pounds since the change in the
style of living at home and for the
past 60 days since Hooverizing, he and
the rest of his family never felt bet
ter.
Please, people of IDAHO, get be-
hind your country and stop counting
the financial end of your loyalty"