The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-03-30
WHEAT DROPPED
FROM MENUS TO
HELP WIN WAR |
Hoover's Request for Abstinence
to BE Assisted by Eat.
l.. ing Places
HARVESTUNDER ESTIMATE

"ASINu8IOu, ~. ", NdI. oO.~- " uodl
and wheat products were wiped of
the menus of several hundred of the
country's leading hotels today in re-
sponse to the food administration s
request that every independent, ev
cry wellto-do person in the United
States" should pledge complete ab
stinence from wheat until the next
harvest in order to supply the impera
tive needs of the allies. y
Hotel managers assembled here
from every state were told by Food
Administrator Hoover that the need
Tor wheat is even greater now than
when the new regulations We're prom
llgated, and. that a census revealed
that the harvest had been less than
was estimated, that shipping difficult
ties made it imperative to feed the
allies from here instead Of: from the
Argentine. It Is impossible to send
corn, SO that wheat must be Americas
chief contribution to the rations OF
the allied peoples abroad. &" 3D. :
Must Begin With Social Leaders.
Mr.. Hoover said the ,renunciation OF
luxurious foods must begin at the top
socially, to. set an example, and be
cause the industrial population Is de-
pendent largely ON bakers bread,
which must have a considerable pro-
porto nof wheat TO We durable. There
lore, the asked the hotels which have
as patrons people Of wealth to set an
example by refusing to serve any
wheat whatever until the new crop
comes in, using other cereals and pota'
taes instead u g {
I'VE stand at the most critical per.
iod OF our national history since the
battle of Gettysburg" Mr.. Hoover de-
clared. I'VE may have to cut our
wheat consumption more than one
half, but the sacrifice must come
from those who have the most, not
from those who have thesleast.
4 Plenty by Sept. I. He Saya
"Our wheat acreage this year will
be greater than ever before and II the
lord is good to us in the matter OF
weather.: our difficulties will be at
an end by September 1-that.is not a
.ong period of sacrifice" a]F
The reply was an Outburst OF ap-
,lause; -, - - ~ .a' ...-
"We have pladged ourselves to save
wheat. for victory, John Bowman OF
New York, head of the food admins
.ration's hotel division, announced.
DR.. Alonzo Taylor, the food admins.
ration's representative on the war
trade board, told the hotel men wheat
NOT necessary element OF diet, but
a luxury. ]. ="
slackers, cranks Not to be humored.
Wheat has no advantage in nutri-
ton or taste over corn. harley. riceor
other cereals" - DR.. Talyor declared,
land the patron who comes to you
with the. demand that he must have
wheat and can't eat substitutes IS
either a Stacker or 'crank-and we
must not humor either. .
1.-THE break down N the German
food 7 distribution system. l discov-
cred when in Germany for the depart
ment Of agriculture, was due! to the
fact that the system was administered
for the upper classes, who could get
hams at $50 each, butter at IS pound
and other delicacfes at the best hotels
/ fthey had the money to pay. The
poor people could not pay and were
forced toN suffer. There was q great
contrast in England where the lead
ing hotels were the first to cut off
their menus the food needed for the
soldiers and the industrial workers In
war factories"
Mr.. Hoover made it clear that sue.
cess in rationing the. allies could not
be expected without sacrifice in the
United States.