Middletown transcript., 1918-02-02
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PROCLAMATION ON
FOOD CONSERVATION.

FnONItAMN bb0IN Wv
FOOD CONSERVATION.
Many causes have contributed
to create the necessity for
more intensive effort on the part
Of our people to save food In Or
der that we may supply our as
} eociates in the war with the sus-
tenance vitality necessary to
them in these days Of privation
and stress. The reduced pro-
ductivity of Europe because of :
} the large diversion of manpower
to the war, the partial failure Of
harvests and the elimination OF
the more distant markets for
foodstuffs through the destruc-
ton of shipping places the bur-
den of their subsistence very
largely on our shoulders.
The Food Administration has
formulated suggestions which, if
followed, will enable us to meet
this great responsibility without
) any real inconvenience on our
part.
In order that we may reduce
our consumption of wheat and
wheat products by 80 per cent
) a reduction imperatively neces-
sary to provide the supply for
} Observation-Disclosures, jobbers
and retailers should purchase
and resell to their customers
only 70 per cent. of the amounts
used in 1917. All manufacture
) ers of aline1stary pastes, bis
cults, crackers, pastry and
breakfast cereals should reduce
, their purchases and ccnsump-
ton of wheat and wheat flour to
} 20 per cent. OF their 1917 require
ments, and all bakers OF bread
} and rolls to 80 per ceat. of their
, current requirements.
Consumers should reduce
their purchases Of wheat prod
ucts for home preparation to at
nicst 70 per cent. OF those OF last
year, or, when buying bread,
should purchase mixed cereal
, breads from the bakers.
To provide sufficient cereal
} food homes, public eating places,
dealers and manufacturers
) should substitute potatoes, vege-
tables, corn, barley, oats and rice
products and the mixed cereal
bread and other products of the
bakers which contain an admix-
ture of other cereals.
In order that consumption may
be restricted to this extent Mon
days and Wednesdays should be
observed as wheatless days each
week, and one meal each day
shout be observed as wheatless
meal.
In both homes and public eat
ing places, in order to reduce the
consumption of beef, pork and
;. sheep products, Tuesday should
be observed as meatless day in
each week, one meatless meal
should be observed in each day;
while, in addition, Saturday In
each week should further be OBJ
served as day upon which there
should be no consumption of
pork products.
A continued economy in the
use of sugar will be necessary
until later in the year.
1t is imperative that all waste
and unnecessary consumption OF
all sorts of foodstuffs should be
rigidly eliminated.
The maintenance of the health
and strength of our own people
is vitality necessary at this time,
and there should be no danger
GUS restriction of the food sup
ply: but the elimination of every
sort 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 cur people and will :
enable us to meet one of the .
most pressing obligations of the
war.
l, therefore, in the national in
terest, take the liberty of calling
upon every loyal American to
take fully to heart the sugges-
tons which are being circulated
by the Food Administration and
CT begging that they be followed. :
! am confident that the great
oody Of our women who have Ia I
bored SO Loyalty in cooperation ,
with the food Administration for
the success OF food conservation
will strengthen their efforts and
will take it as a part of their I
burden in this period of national
service to see that the above sug- :
gestions are observed through ,
out the land.
WOODROW WILSON.
The White House, Is Janua.y,
1919