The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-01-31
President Wilson Issues Proclamation
Calling on People of Country
for Greater Saving.
New Regulations Go Into Effect Mon
day, February A., and Should
be Compiled With.

tetic point of view, improve it. No
person in the United States should
raise any objection to either the pres
ident's command or request, but adhere
closely to the regulations laid down by
him. Every true American citizen
will, we feel certain, do this. The
presidents proclamation is hereunder
reproduced:
t'Many causes have contributed to
create the necessity for more inten-
sive effort on the part Of our people to
save food in order that we may supply
our associates in the war with susie
nance vitality necessary to them in
these days Of privation and stress. The
reduced productivity of Europe be-
cause of the large diversion of man
power to the war, the partial failure
of harvests and the elimination Of
the more distant markets for food
stuffs through the destruction Of ship
ping places the burden of it's subsist-
ence very largely on our shoulders.
lated suggestions which, if followed,
will enable US to meet this great re-
=, sponsibility without any real inconven-
fence on our part.
Supply for Overseas.
Sin order that we may reduce our
consumption of wheat and wheat
products by 80 per cent, a reduction
imperatively necessary to provide the
supply for overseas, wholesalers, job
bers and retailers should purchase and
resell to their customers only 70 per
cent of the amounts used in 1917. All
manufacturers of elementary pastes,
biscuits, crackers, pastry and break
fast cereals should reduce their pur-
chases and consumption of wheat flour
to 70 per cent of the 1917 require
ments, and all bakers of bread and
rolls to 80 per cent Of their current re-
quirements. Consumers should re-
duce their purchases Of wheat prod
ucts for home preparation to at most
70 per cent of those Of last year, or
when buying bread, should purchase
mixed cereal bread from the bakers.
"To provide sufficient cereal food,
homes, public eating places, dealers
= end manufacturers should substitute
potatoes, vegetables, corn, barley, oats
and rice products and the mixed cereal
bread and other products of the bak-
ers which contain an admixture of
other cereals.
Consumption Restricted.
Gin order that consumption may be
restricted to this extent, Mondays and
Wednesdays should be observed as
wheatless days each week, and one
meal each day should be observed as
a wheatless meal.
Gin both homes and public eating
places, in order to reduce the consump-
ton Of beef, pork and sheep products,
Tuesday should be observed as meat
less day in each week, one meatless
meal should be observed each day,
while in addition, Saturday, in each
week, should further be observed as
day upon which there should be no con-
sumption of pork products.
"a continued economy in the use of
sugar will be necessary until the end
Of the war.
"It is important that all unnecessary
consumption of all sorts of foodstuffs
should be rigidly eliminated.
No Dangerous Saving.
"The maintenance of the health and
strength of our own people is vitality
necessary at this time, and there
should be no dangerous restrictions of
the food supply; but the elimination of
every part of waste and the substitu-
ton of other commodities of which we
have more abundant supplies for those
which we need to save, will in no way
impair the strength of our people and
will enable us to meet one of the most
pressing obligations of the war.
III, therefore, in the national inter-
est, take the liberty of calling upon
every loyal American to take fully to
heart the suggestions which are being
circulated by the food administration
and of begging that they be followed.
I am confident that the great body of
our women who have labored so loyalty
,~in cooperation with the food admins
tration for the success of food con-
servation will strengthen their efforts
and will take it as part of their bur-
den in this period of national service