The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-03-09
MUST USE LESS
!. FLOUR AFTER
NEXT MONDAY
FOOD ADMINISTRATION ORDERS
USE OF AS MUCH SUBSTI-
TUTE AS FLOUR
$3.50 BASIS TO GOVERN
WHEAT SITUATION is GROWING
MORE CRITICAL DAILY; USE
MORE POTATOES


cessity for a further conservation OF
wheat and wheat products and Idaho
along with the rest of the country
must adopt the $3.50 plan, using only
the substitutes officially authorized,
according to telegraphic instructions
ministrator Bicknell from United
States Food Administrator Hoover
Mr. Bicknell Friday said he has no
other alternative but to enforce the
rule and he will make it effective in
Idaho beginning Monday next, March
II. In Mr.. Hoover's wire he states
that he appreciates that some states
will have difficulty to find substitutes
but this simply means that wheat or
products should be sold only to the
extent that there are available sub
stitutes of equal weight, thus result
ing in conservation of wheat for our
allies. The wire emphasizes that our
more abundant meats should be sub
stituted for our less abundant bread
stuffs. In this connection Idaho's food
administrator said that the people of
this state can serve themselves and the
government in three-fold way by
practically ceasing to use both wheat
-four and the cereal substitutes and
instead use potatoes in increased pro-
portions along with meat.
Urges Meat and Potato Diet
CAS- recently suggested" said Mr..
BicknelI, "my personal opinion is. that
if the public at large will stop using
flour and the substitutes for a period
of from 80 to so days and will use
instead potatoes they will not only
conserve, as the necessities of the
case demand, but they will drive down
the price of both flour and substitutes
and at the same time furnish a mar
ket for our large supply of potatoes.
Refusal to use both flour and sub
stitutes would be much reader rem
edy against the high prices concern
ing which so much complaint is made,
than any regulation the food admins
tration could devise. While it would
perhaps be necessary to make excep-
tions to this suggestion in favor of
invalids and children I can see no
reason why our adult population could
not for period go upon a potato and
meat diet and absolutely eliminate
bread stuffs from their meals.
Citizens Asked to Comply
ct regret that a completion of the
wheat census by the national admins
tration renders necessary the revoca-
tion of my ruling of few days ago
permitting flour to be sold in the ratio |
of one part substitutes to three of
wheat flour, this causing the people !
of this state to be put absolutely on
the original $3.50 plan. But circum-
stances over which neither the nation
al administration nor my administra-
ton had any control have decreed
otherwise
"It is therefore incumbent upon me
to call upon all citizens of this state,
both consumers and dealers, to comply
with both the letter and spirit of the
law and that with every purchase of
wheat -four there be purchase of an
equal amount of substitutes, and that
no attempts be made to purchase
flour otherwise. In addition I appeal
again to all our citizens that they con-
fine their consumption of white wheat
flour to the absolute minimum of their
requirements