The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-12-18
ALL HOUSEHOLDS
ASKED TO SAVE FOOD
New Home Card Providing for a Def
mite Program Of Wheatless and
Meatless Days

SPRINGFIELD, Vt, Dec 1.-THE fed
eral food administration is about TO issue
new home card with many important
directions additional to those contained i'll
the first home card which was distributed
nj the time OF the pledge card campaign,
few weeks ago. A definite program of
wheatless and meatless days is provided
The food situation in Europe is very
grave. even graver than it was thought to
be at first The harvest of our allies has
proven less than had been expected and
submarine activity has for the present
prevented them access to more remote
markets.
Food has taken dominant position III
the war and the American people must
now be asked to sacrifice far more than
was at first thought necessary. Carrying
our allies depends in large measures on
the actual savings of food in America.
The public should be impressed with the
| truth Of the statement that every grain
Of wheat or its products that the allies
receive from the United States from now
on will be exactly the amount which our
people have saved each month on their
behalf.
Every particle Of diminished consulnp-
ton by the American people is one partl-
Gle more for the soldiers. men, women.
and children Of our allies and for the
starving people IN other countries.
The new home card says that con
| servation is a personal obligation Of every
one OF us toward some individual abroad,
who will suffer privation 10 the extent OF
our own individual negligence"
That the American people may be able
| to perform their duty to their allies the
| food administration, aside from the gen
eral directions contained in the original
| home card, which il asks housewives TO
re-read, asks everyone TO maintain rigdly
| a minimum Of al least:
| One wheatlcss day each week and one
whcatless meal each day: The wheatlcs5
| day 70 be Wednesday By wheatIes-5 l.
meant 10 cat no wheat products.
One mcaticss day each week, which
shah be Tuesday and one meatless inca
each day. BY meatless IS meant to eat
no red meat beef, pork. mutton, veal
| lamb, no preserved meat, beef, bacon
ham, ham, or lard
One porkless day each week in addition
to Tuesday. which shall be Saturday. ~
porklcss is meant no fresh or sailed pork
bacon. lard, or ham.
ton can be materially effected by reduo
ing the use Of candy and sweet drinks
The food administration will make ever.
endcavor to see that the country is prs
vided with a supply OF household suga
on the basis Of three pounds Of sugar 70
each person per month and each indlvIC
ual is requested to consume no more.
The new home card takes the ban o.
, from the use of table butter Do no
limit your supplies OF milk and tabl
butter but consume it all. Don't vast
any. You can reduce the consumption
, fats by reducing pastry and fried foods
; is the way the new home card states it.
: The new home card pays its respect I
boarding and says that any person VIII
1 keeps at home more foodstuffs than /
r customarily keeps III peace times is defea
!, ing the food administration; in his sells
ness is contributing TO high prices and
. points out that such actions multiplied
F, thousands increase the demands upon o,
o railways for cars when already. because
a our military demands, it is with extrcn
), difficulty we can now move the vital
necessary food 10 markets
!. There is much insidious propaganda
:, the country against conservation and i
creased production All opposition
- these services is direc; assistance to T.
enemy, the card states